I don’t think so...this is what the dems would like to happen.
Like CC_guy, I too suspect the appearance of a 3rd party candidate - someone with the appearance of coming from the right, but actually in cahoots with the left. An enabler type.
Trump or similar comes to mind...
That's what happened in the last MA governor race. Deval Patrick is not wildly popular and a lot of people thought that he would lose. Well, his Treasury Secretary, Tim Cahill, entered the race as an Independent. Cahill is a long-time Democrat politician, but he had "seen the light" and tried to run a conservative campaign against Big Government. Cahill and the Republican split the anti-Patrick vote and Patrick won without a lot of fuss.
Tim Cahill then went back to being a loyal member of Deval Patrick's cabinet.
It was pretty slick. You could be it being done, but they still pulled it off.
AH...I’m not saying there will not be; what I am saying it will not be to the extent when clinton won...the right and independents have wised up...what worked before for the dem party will not work again......