Posted on 08/15/2016 4:56:14 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Take this with a good grain of salt, since Donny Deutsch is a Hillary-supporting Dem, but Donny does run in the same New York circles as Donald Trump, and has called him a friend.
Guest co-hosting on With All Due Respect today, Deutsch said I can actually see Trump bailing. I cant see us ever getting to the point where election night, Trump becomes George McGovern. He is not going to allowits just not in his system . . . I cannot see him the rest of his life with a big L on his face. Mark Halperin called the notion of Trump dropping out of the race a Manhattan fantasy.
View the video here.
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Duncan Hunter's campaign wasn't going anywhere. Neither was Tom Tancredo's, and Tancredo was a much more identified with the immigration issue.
It might look now like immigration amnesty was always the biggest issue, but it wasn't back then. There was a lot of grassroots support for Fred Thompson, but his heart just wasn't in it.
Fred was out pretty early. He gave up in January. McCain had the nomination wrapped up by March (according to Wikipedia). If there was strong opposition to McCain or if immigration had been a big issue, the nomination wouldn't have been settled so early.
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