Sure he does.
If Consevatives split across six or seven or eight or ten candidates, Bush will cruise to the nomination with 20% of the primary vote. Similar to how McCain and Romney did.
Conservatives need to be looking only at Cruz and Walker right now. I like what Trump is doing, and appreciate it, but don’t think he’s going to last except as a spoiler.
If we focus on Walker and Cruz, see how they perform on the ground in Iowa, New Hampshire and most importantly South Carolina, and coalesce around the better overall one right after SC, the GOPe gets to shed tears, but doesn’t get the nomination.
Trump is sucking the oxygen away from Jeb and is essentially in the place the establishment GOP had reserved for jbush. jbush is not “just another” wanabe.
The media is desperate to protect jbush and are journ-o-listing a fake religious controversy talking point. (the rush montage will come forward)
JBush has only 13,000 or so actual money supporters. It is all smoke and establishment mirrors.
Trump knocking out jeb is a net positive to the primary process. We don’t need another McCain candidate. (he did not even understand “joe the plumber”)
There is no way that someone should be able to "win" a primary election with less than 50% of the vote.
In a final election with an office at stake, a first past the post system may be reasonable. But primaries are a system for awarding delegates, they are not dispositive elections at all.
Oh I get it now.
GOP has at least a bakers dozen or more designated losers in their own ranks to propel Bush forward.
And Trump threw a big old spanner into it.