Posted on 02/24/2016 12:09:03 PM PST by Hojczyk
And so we are now being treated to a wave of Donald Trump fatalism. Yes, he's defied expectations in a pretty remarkable way. Yes, he's won three of the first four GOP contests. Yes, he's ahead in the polls in the states coming up. Yes, he has an easier path to victory than any other candidate.
But only four states about 1.2 million people have actually cast ballots. Trump has won about a third of the votes cast; Cruz and Rubio have each won a bit over a fifth. Trump leads in delegates with 79 out of the 110 selected less than seven percent of those he needs to win the nomination. He trails Cruz in the biggest of the Super Tuesday states, Texas, and while Trump will almost certainly take the most delegates on March 1, it's unclear whether he'll win more like half or two-thirds of them. Even if he wins two-thirds, the March 15 winner-take-all states of Ohio, Florida, and Illinois will be fiercely contested.
And this is all before further debates, before any sustained television advertising assault on Trump, while the other candidates are still (foolishly) sniping at each other instead of taking on Trump. And in a circumstance where the frontrunner has unusual vulnerabilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
If Jeb or Rubio had done what Trump has done to date, Kristol would be calling this race over.
So says the delusional William Kristol.
Shut up, Cuck.
Blow it out your ass, Bill Kristol!
They just keep hoping
They were hoping we would never catch on
We keep hoping the GOP would do something
Well we are now hoping Trump will do something
Hell everyone else has failed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS4yZiKYQ8s
This has been posted here but some people may have missed it
Helped convert me to a Trump fan
My first choice is long gone
..we’ll see where Crystal is on March 16th
It’s not just that, it’s that Trump is leading by large margins almost everywhere!
If Trump had ONLY been polling well in the 4 states that have actually voted, and was polling poorly everywhere else... THAT would be a completely different matter.
There is ZERO path to the nomination anymore for Rubio and Cruz and everyone else should have already dropped out by now.
Kristol and his Standard Weakling, along with the National Review, will be scheming and fuming about Trump for several years to come, trying to come up with a plan to defeat him, even as he sits in the White House.
You forgot to mention that everyone despises the GOPe candidates, and doesn’t trust any first gen hispanic to do what we want on immigration.
Give it up.
And to think these guys see the guy they support as being a better challenger to Hillary.
Who appoints these guy as geniuses?
Go away and take the rest of the beltway/northeastern establishment with you.
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But, but wait, Rove and the other “real conservatives” said Trump peaked and has hit his ceiling, so how can his numbers be higher, he’s declining they said it. Lol
The stupidest man in politics speaks yet again!
How did spelling ‘potato’ work out for you, Bill?
He’s only about 1,170 delegates short of the nomination. So that must mean it’s over. Right?
It is doubtful he will be able to overcome it.
The little neo-con Kristol is serving his masters.
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