What if it wasn’t the Clintons that persuaded Trump to run but the moderate wing of the Republican party? The idea being to split the conservative vote.
Trump wasn’t supposed to do as well as he is doing and Jeb is doing worse. Sometimes the plans of mice and men......
Why in the world would they have needed Trump to run ? the establishment has, at the very least , 6 estab candidates ... 9 if you count the Dims, which they are also quite content with ... explain your logic
That assumes that the moderate wing--or anyone else, for that matter--could have predicted that Trump would split the conservative vote. With his record, prior to running, that notion would have gotten you laughed out of most conservative circles.