Posted on 04/06/2016 2:26:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Last Friday, four days before Wisconsinites would cast their ballots, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Sarah Palin headlined an event for the Milwaukee County Republican party. Donald Trump, whose unconventional campaign rests almost entirely on his public appearances, had left it to Palin to carry the banner for him while he jetted off to Washington, D.C. There, he would cap a dismal week by sitting down with Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus for a remedial lesson in delegate allocation.
It’s looking as if he will need it. Cruz trounced him in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, 50 to 33 percent, with 73 percent reporting, making a contested convention more likely in July. The results were significant in another way, too. Trump has mostly over-performed, astounding political onlookers at every turn. Wisconsin marks the first contest in which he has, arguably, underperformed, ceding to Cruz what had been an eleven-point lead in late February, as measured by a Marquette University poll, for a 28-point reversal over the course of just five weeks.
“I think Wisconsin is significant because it’s the first state that he was on track to win that he is going to lose as a result of his demeanor, temper, and comportment as a presidential candidate,” says Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Wisconsin was always going to be difficult terrain for Trump. Though the state has plenty of rural areas populated by the sorts of lower middle-class voters who have fueled Trump’s campaign, and hosts an open primary, in which Democrats and independents are free to cast ballots, it also has an unusually unified, politically sophisticated Republican electorate thanks to the bruising battles its governor, Scott Walker, has led it through in recent years.
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Just another version of the sophomoric disapprobation:
"Donald Trump is not suitable to be president because he doesn't play well with others."
Um. No.
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt was a populist from New York whom was a progressive at heart, very similar to Donald Trump actually.
He could not stand the conservative stances of President Taft, so he ran against him in 1912, only as the candidate for a third party, the Progressive Party. The end result was that the Republican vote was split, and the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, won the election. In the end, Roosevelt was not too upset with that outcome, because he had a progressive in the White House in the end, and his conservative nemeses was no longer in power. (Taft)
Both Roosevelt were Progressive leftists and both led to disastrous results for this country.
TR led to Wilson.
FDR led to WWII and perpetuated the depression.
Populist candidates which manage to get elected almost always end in disaster.
Trump would be just as bad of a President, if not worse.
so hillary it is!
WE NEED ANOTHER TEDDY ROOSEVELT. It’s gone that far left!
Trump or bust. YES IT’S THAT FAR GONE!
Can you imagine 4 or 5 SC JUSTICES that will be filled by either hillary clinton or Trump? THAT’S THE CHOICE. YUCK!
The key to survival of the Republic is to have the most incompetent but dangerous idiot and boob to be our leader.
I would rather have the most corrupt and dangerous leader possible, one that had ties to mafia! Trump is ultra successful as he sports between those and people with morals.
I see politics as a cage match. Our leader has to be able to kill any other countries leader in a ring. Trump could do it.
that’s why imam zero sucks moslem’s cock!NO LEADER.
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