Posted on 07/24/2015 11:41:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
About three quarters of Republican early-state insiders say they believe Donald Trump has peaked — but many acknowledge that may also be wishful thinking.
That’s the assessment from this week’s POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top operatives, strategists and activists in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The controversial real estate mogul and GOP presidential candidate provoked some caucus insiders into offering expletives and other colorful language when asked whether Trump has hit his ceiling.
“The McCain smear and giving out Graham’s cellphone? What an asshole,” vented a New Hampshire Republican, who says Trump has peaked. “Trumpism does not represent some deeper sentiment within the party, nor has he tapped into something a more conventional candidate can now co-opt. His candidacy has as much substance and meaning as cotton candy. I didn’t like him before. Now I loathe him.”
An Iowa Republican said, “yes,” when asked whether Trump has hit his zenith, but clarified, “I’d like to think so. But who the hell really knows anymore?”
The insiders weighed in following another week in which Trump dominated political coverage.
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They think if they just wish for it hard enough it will be so.
They said the same BS this time last week. They were wrong.
The insiders would have said Trump would never lead in a poll.
I actually agree with them. 25% is about peak-Trump IMO.
He’ll peak, and peak again, and peak yet again, and...
Really, all he needs to do is keep telling the truths that politicians won’t tell.
Oblomov: Insiders Have Peaked
These are the same insiders telling us to drop social issues....
What a weasel-worded opening sentence.
Hoping if they say it often enough it will come true.
Time will tell who is right and who is wrong.
There are no insiders in that article. Not one mentioned by name, not one...just random caucus candidates from three or four different states. Not one named.
It’s like “ALL the friends of my babysitter’s aunt’s neighborhood said ___________”
Not one source that can be validated.
Trump might be levelling off while he gains more general acceptance as the can-do guy. That’s a much more likely explanation, that people are “wait and see” about Trump until the first debate.
this is an attempt to set the weekend talk show narrative.
his polling AVERAGE is going up.
The other candidates are poaching each other.
The Republican Base likes Trump because a potential Republican Party leader with an actual backbone is such a novelty and breath of fresh air.
Especially when one looks at the current Repub “leadership” of Boner and McSurrender, who based on performance and behavior, should be (are?) paid by the Democrat Party for services rendered.
As far as an objective person can tell, the Repub Party works for Obama.
5.56mm
No names given, just anonymous quotes.
These reporters actually believe their own lies.
GOP insiders also quoted as saying they believe Sasquatch and unicorns are real.
I doubt it. Depends on what happens next, really.
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