According to the latest headline in the 31 billion online news articles relating to Donald Trump, Heidi Klum shrugged off his latest insult that she was “no longer a 10,” according to time.com. However, it will take a lot more than a shrug of the shoulders for the GOP or other presidential candidates to quelch Trump’s other radical, widely-publicized opinions.

While Trump stirs debate on issues that Republicans usually avoid like immigration, he alienates the voters that mean the most in the election and distracts from serious candidates that deserve attention.

At a time when the voters are more diverse than ever, Hispanic and female voters, the very people that Trump alienates, are essential for the GOP to win. Republicans need at least 48 percent of the Hispanic vote to win in 2016, about 20 percent more than supported Mitt Romney in 2012, according to RealClearPolitics.

But Trump is far from reaching out to these voters, calling immigrants from Mexico “rapists” and people that bring drugs and crime into the U.S. in his presidential candidacy speech in June, according to CNN.com.

Also frightening for Republicans, Trump has repeatedly slammed and objectified prominent women, including Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, the very woman that spoke up against his previous sexist comments. After Kelly questioned Trump’s practice of calling women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” during the Republican debate earlier this month, Trump evaded the question, called it unfair and later retweeted a tweet calling Kelly a “bimbo,” according to RealClearPolitics.

Only 4 years after Barack Obama won the 2012 election with the largest gender gap in history with a 12 percent lead among women according to Gallup.com and Mitt Romney lost with only 44 percent of the female electorate according to the Huffington Post, the Republican candidate must turn the tide and reel in female voters. Trump’s actions prove that he is not the candidate to do so now, nor will he ever be in his opposition to all political correctness.

Even though he will never appeal to the voters the GOP needs to target, Trump still manages to monopolize the press and hurt other Republican candidates in the process. Despite refusing to promise to support the GOP candidate, even if not himself, at the beginning of the debate, Trump got the most air-time of all the loyal, truly Republican candidates on stage, according to Fox News.

In a crowded sea of candidates, Trump’s radical and, at times, disloyal views receive more press than the similar views of the others. He separates himself by seeking out attention instead of earning press through his ideas.

As a result, voters are forced to sort through heaps of press and gossip on Trump to find the positions of the candidates that expand the GOP. As long as Trump is the frontrunner in the candidacy competition, the face of the future GOP is a racist, offensive press machine, the last thing the party needs. 

Because of his threat to the other candidates, Trump cannot be merely “shrugged off.” If voters look at Trump in the context of the party’s future and voting population needed to win, however, he will slide off the radar with time.