Trump has shown that he is very adept at riding the wave, but he has never shown that he can recover from adversity.
It could be that he can. He is a clever guy, but it is not necessarily so.
When recovering, often your strengths become you weaknesses, and you have to find new strengths. Does Donald Trump have something we haven’t seen in his bag of tricks?
You mean like losing IA right out of the gate? That kind of adversity?