If (Once) Trump takes Iowa then it’s in the bag for him.
If he does not take Iowa then he waits until NH, SC are won and then it’s in the bag.
At that point he will garner many GOPee supporters who want to be on the winning team and Trump will also start a kiss-and-make-up plan with the other candidates.
I also believe Trump will tell GOPee bigwigs in private that he will ‘play ball’ for their team... it will be a LIE to stave off a 3rd party run by a RINO to deny him enough electoral votes to win outright and send the election to the house. Trump plays a hard game.
The other candidates will be jockeying for a spot in the cabinet or as VP.
I still hope for a Trump/Cruz ticket
Once Trump has the nomination wrapped up he will really start grinding the likely Dem candidates into dust.
No way things go much past March without everyone realizing that Trump will not only win the nomination but also the presidency.
It the dems run Bernie or Biden then you can be certain they have realized they are going to lose and are putting in a Dole as designated loser.
Hillary would do so bad that it would ruin their chance of retaking the Senate so IMO Hillary is out.
I see it pretty much the way you see it. Cruz (my guy) will give Trump a run for his money but Trump will win it hands down.
Half the Dems will either sit home or cross over and vote Trump. This is especially true if Hillary is the nominee. Either way, Trump will walk away with it in a landslide.
He will be strong on the border, trade, military, national sovereignty issues. He will be a pragmatist on everything else, which means he will not be held to anything he has ever said in the past. He is not a social conservative except where it comes to mom and apple pie. The very reasons conservatives like him and dislike him are all true, and we’ll deal with that at length over the next 8 years.
I would like to see Cruz as his VP, which is why I don’t want the campaign to get so ugly that the loser can’t support the winner. I do think he expects that he can buy off the GOPe and the conservatives so that he isn’t worried about uniting the party behind him. I’m not so sure, which is again why I really don’t want this thing to get ugly. One thing, once Trump is sure he has it in the bag, the personal taunts and attacks on Cruz will stop, and he’ll start going after Bernie and Hillary.