Posted on 05/01/2016 9:58:20 PM PDT by conservativefreak
The United States may soon have its first female president. And it may not be Hillary Clinton.
Over the past few weeks, the best answer to the question of who will emerge as the Republican presidential nominee — businessman Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, some other failed 2016 contender or even House Speaker Paul D. Ryan — has become "none of the above." In each instance, the case for why any one of these candidates probably won't be picked has gotten much stronger than the one for why each of the individual candidates would.
Despite Trump's big victories this week, he's not the "presumptive nominee" he claims to be. He faces much tougher challenges in Indiana and California, where poor showings would likely leave him short of the 1,237 delegates needed to end the upcoming Republican convention chaos with a victory in the first round of voting. Despised and feared by the Republican establishment, Trump almost certainly will do worse with each passing round. A stone's throw is probably as close as he'll ever get to the nomination.
Cruz is on track to succeed as the spoiler of the Trump campaign. But with Trump romping on the East Coast, Cruz will likely finish hundreds of delegates and millions of votes behind. That's too far back. The possibility of allowing a big loser to leapfrog over a clear front-runner has not polled well among the party rank and file. It's a good bet it will flop at the convention, too.
If it could, the Republican establishment would settle for finding its way to Kasich, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, new Cruz running mate Carly Fiorina or another one of the 2016 also-rans. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
No.
haley’s the epitome of a useful idiot.
Ha Ha Ha.
Stock response to these if/and/but articles is: if Jeb Bush had the same totals as Trump at present, the writer would be using temrs like ‘locked up’ and ‘unquestioned’ regarding the nomination.
Not a chance...she chose the wrong team during the primary. I hate these damned trial balloon statements. How about Martha Smithson for president? (She runs a local beauty parlor). A “guess” just as good. Somebody should keep a list of these...remember Oprah was an early choice.
Alice lived in a far saner world than some of us do....
Never - you can bank on it.
Amen.
The paper actually published this tripe.
Void of real facts it piles assumption on delusion onto hope.
Ineligible to the office.
Next.
These trial balloons by the media foisting these ineligible people on us needs to just stop.
Wow...that came out of nowhere. How long before the GOPe starts offering its members Kool-Aid?
Of which country? Not America.
Hahahahahahaha.....thanks for the morning laugh!
I would not like to see her as president, but as an aside, why ineligible? She was born in South Carolina.
She’s an anchor baby, born of two non citizens.
The 14th Amendment does not change the natural born requirement for the office of President.
Haley’s career crashed and burned when she took on Donald Trump and his supporters.
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