Posted on 05/04/2016 3:39:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From Day 1 of Donald Trump’s campaign, everything the privileged, exclusive white-wing of the GOP has predicted has been wrong, including that he can’t beat Hillary Clinton.
Trump won the Indiana primary Tuesday night, prompting Sen. Ted Cruz to drop out of the race and leaving the Republican Establishment with egg on their face.
Even Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus begrudgingly conceded that Trump is the “presumptive nominee,” urging party members to put down their swords and unite. Trump has amassed 1,041 delegates, only a few away from the 1,237 delegates needed to officially walk into Cleveland in July as the party’s nominee. He’ll easily do that with the remaining slate of contests.
It’s a scenario that shatters all those predictions about a Trump candidacy from the party establishment elite.
First, they howled that Trump was never gong to win the nomination. As he started winning contests, they scoffed that Trump wasn’t winning the majority of the votes. Then Trump won over 50% and 60% of the votes in five northeastern state primaries and won every county.
This wasn’t convincing enough.
The #NeverTrump gang crowed that Cruz would be their saviour in Indiana. Now, they’re predicting like fortune tellers that Trump is “completely unelectable.” He won’t beat Clinton and “we’ll never vote for him.”
Wishing it won’t make it so. Among the crowded field of 17 contenders that began this GOP presidential primary process, Trump is the only one capable of beating Clinton.
He’s unafraid to stick it to her and confront her with her problematic past. In the 32 years that Clinton has been aiming to be the first female president of the United States, she’s left a lot of baggage in her wake and Trump will be a formidable opponent.
“I haven’t devoted any time, effort, energy to Hillary yet. I haven’t started on that process because I’ve been focused on the nomination, which is probably wise,” remarked Trump. “With Hillary, I will be starting the process as soon as this is over.”
Aside from testing out labels for Clinton like “Crooked Hillary,” Trump will have a wealth of material to work with.
And I posit that Trump will challenge Clinton for the black vote. All he has to do is remind blacks that his Democratic rival will say anything to get elected. She says she’ll end the mass incarceration of blacks while the 1994 crime bill signed by her husband, Bill Clinton, was responsible for massively incarcerating more blacks than any president in history. Black lives don’t seem to matter to Hillary but black votes do.
A Rasmussen poll found that in a hypothetical match up with Clinton, 41% of voters would support Trump compared to 39% for Clinton. According to the poll, this is a complete role reversal. Clinton led Trump 41% to 36% in March. It appears the more voters hear from Trump on his policies and ideas, the more they support him.
This should make Clinton very nervous and Trump is just warming up.
Rasmussen sucks but Trump can beat Hillary. But he won’t do it on the cheap. He will have to spend some money in the swing states.
Glad to see you back to posting a variety of articles again. : )
Pick Kasich as VP to lock in Ohio, then carpet bomb FL and VA?
Just a speculation...
I just watch FNC w/Bret Baur. Chris Wallace had the usual “conservatives” on the panel. What a pathetic group of pointless has-beens!
They babble on as if they mattered.
I just watch FNC w/Bret Baur. Chris Wallace had the usual “conservatives” on the panel. What a pathetic group of pointless has-beens!
They babble on as if they mattered.
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Spoken by a true Trump supporter. Sure makes me want to vote for Trump! /s
Nice pivot, 2DV. I figured you would. You were never one of the nasty trolls being paid by lord knows who to stir up trouble here: just a strong Cruz supporter.
Like a rented mule
Florida is goal 1 I think. He has to win Florida or nothing else matters. I think the Midwest Rust States is better turf for Trump. An Hispanic transgender pol from Florida with conservative credentials and moderate immigration credentials would be perfect. :-)
I thought you’d have jumped by now. Good to see you haven’t done that.
I wish I had been paid, we could use the money. LOL
I am not sure how much longer Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch will allow this to go on.
AB Stoddard , no one will give Trump money
Steve Hayes he won't be able to find a VP , Cruz and Rubio have bright futures and won't accept
Krathammer at least wasn't so negative
I'll be dolars to donuts that Ted Cruz doesn't win another term in the Senate
Rubio is not that liked in Florida , Steve
Didn't win a County above Broward
NeverTrump = always GOPe.
Jump why?
Another soreloserman.
Hope you recover from your terminal butthurt.
I take it you don't live in Texas?
Hey, we got a brand new sleeper troll here who has just started to attack Trump. This one needs to go ASAP.
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Spoken by a true Trump supporter. Sure makes me want to vote for Trump!
I try and I try to think I could POSSIBLY hold my nose and vote for Trump and then I read a reply like yours and realize that Trump’s supporters are just like him. So sad
...and the question is: Why should we vote for someone who has REPEATEDLY said he doesn’t need to unify the party to win? He says he can win without unification.
Also, as for the vitriol, I rarely post, but I READ the posts. Trump followers are as nasty as he!
So, for the first time since 1972, I will not be voting for a Republican.
Oh, my. You sound just like Trump....”He started it first, Mommy.” Get over yourself
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment of FR. I am so disheartened by the vile rhetoric on here. Makes me sad.
I checked the Real Clear Politics averages from Wisconsin to Indiana, and found that Trump out-performed his polling by 7.95 percentage points. He did defeat 16 other candidates while being outspent by all but Kasich.
Now, all he has is the weak, slow, lumbering target named Hillary to hit with his heavy artillery for the next 6 months.
It’s not going to be easy, but he can beat her.
I can't think of a better label.
You were so into Cruz and anti Trump I thought you’d have off’d yourself by now.
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