President-elect Trump. That, my FRiend, is all that matters.
Santorum was my first choice.
Cruz was my second.
Both of them would have lost decisively against Clinton.
No way Jose.
I was almost a never Trumper. I thought he wasn’t a serious candidate until the last 2 weeks of the campaign.
I don’t think any other candidate would have had as many rallies.
I also think the other candidatests would have used traditional campaign tactics and those would not work.
Trump’s team had to think outside the box because of limited funding and traditional republican support. They were campaign genuses.
I voted for Trump, but more of against Hillary vote.
However, reading about the campaign afterward has made me a fan of him and his team.
I hope they take the same unconventional appeoach to running the government.
Absolutely not. I have said it aloud many times for over a year. He was the only one who could have done it. I felt if Trump became the candidate and then lost, at least we’d know the truth, that hope was gone for the turning of our country.
Hallelujah.
Hell no!
Only Trump -
- Before second debate press conference of Clinton’s sexual assault victims
- Second debate prosecuted Clinton’s sin.
- Trump is an excellent orator.
- He hit 10 times harder
- Hard worker
- King of twitter
- Excellent salesman
- “Clinton is rapist” T-shirt
- Attack, attack, attack 24x7
This has been speculated about at length.
I don’t think any other candidate could have jangled the nerves and sensibilities that Trump did. Rough though the experience may have been, it ultimately led to a general wakeup that HRC was in fact a career criminal and had committed egregious mishandlings of critical intelligence.
Any other Republican in the gaggle would have eventually succumbed to “oh I can’t hit back at her, she’s a woman and I need that vote”, or “Oh, too many Blacks like her and I have to work that crowd” or any one of any other variations.
AND KEEP IN MIND, each and every one of the others would have had some sort of “groping” incident sometime, somewhere, way back in 1978 that would have been brought up and some fraction of traditional Repubs would have abandoned candidate “X” because he broke his neighbor’s window playing sandlot baseball in 1963. And that accusation would have thrown the Repub on the defensive because they are bunch of IDIOTS who can never see this crap coming.
So no. No other candidate could have overcome the dirt and smears. Which is all the Dems have, but for the most part, it happens to be a successful strategy.
No. But who cares? They are losers
Trump was the only one who was willing to play offence rather then defense.
So he broke the "blue wall".
Trump came out of the box with exactly everything that was necessary to win as part of his campaign. NOT ONE of the other Republicans was willing to take on the issues of trade, terrorism, and immigration as forcefully as he did.
I had never seen a Trump TV show or read a book of his, but I heard what he said. I was on board immediately and every other GOP candidate, as well as many others in politics and media insulted Trump, twisted his words, and rejected what I felt was imperative for our candidate to espouse.
Yes, Cruz by ten points, easily.
No.
It took a candidate who wasn’t concerned about losing to beat the leftist machine.
No.
No.
No. There wasn’t a single Republican candidate in the bunch — other than perhaps Chris Christie — who would have approached this election campaign like a street brawl the way Trump did. Christie was flawed for a number of other reasons that made him an unsuitable candidate.
Since they couldn’t even beat Trump i’d say..nopers.