"Why is Trump plan A? We have 16 candidates already who aren't Democrats in and the primary hasn't started yet. Why do we have to let the media dictate this primary before it even started?"
Because you have to get someone into the White House before anything can happen in the first place. That means they must overcome the 250+ electoral vote advantage that the (D)ummycrats have just by showing up in November 2016. None of the others has the "gravitas" to get any more than the 170 to 200 that are automatically in our column.
The rest of your post proves you have no understanding of the electoral map. You must be very young and still under the illusion that each Presidential election is a coin flip and that the demographics of +100 million population increase since 1980 has somehow been a push.
2012
Dumbo == 332 ... 65,915,796 ( 51.1% )
Romney = 206 ... 60,933,500 ( 47.2% )
What do you have to offer as far as changing that most recent result? Which of these purple states can any of the 16 other candidates flip: MI, PA, WI, IN, IA, OH, FL, NC, CO, VA, NM, NV. Those twelve are the entire ballgame. Which ones does your wishful guy put in play? They need at least half of them!
NOTE: Romney only managed to flip TWO of them: IN and NC ( just barely ) for 26 electoral votes. The rest of the electoral difference between McCain ( 173 ) versus Romney ( 206 ) came from redistricting from the 2010 census where "blue" states mostly lost electoral votes and "red" states mostly gained.
Your position is exactly that of a DUmmy troll who is egging on the (R)epublicrats to remain the stupid party and demand establishment defined "electability" and litmus test purity to ensure yet another defeat. And that defeat will likely be in the last fair election we shall ever see.
So which is it Nick? Gargantuan naiveté? Suicide pact purity? Enemy trolling?