Posted on 02/27/2016 11:17:14 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Even as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz escalate their attacks on Donald Trump, next week's cascade of Super Tuesday contests offers the GOP front-runner a unique opportunity to simultaneously weaken, and perhaps disable, his principal competitors on separate battlefields of a two-front war.
On one side, Trump could deal a crushing blow to Cruz, the Texas senator, across a series of Southern and Border States, from Alabama and Arkansas to Tennessee and Oklahoma, that are dominated by evangelical and blue-collar voters.
On the other front, polls show Trump leading in mostly white-collar, far less evangelical states including Vermont, Massachusetts, and Virginia that should be crucial building blocks for Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich, the candidates relying most on mainstream conservative voters.
Trump's strength in states that represent such divergent poles of the GOP coalition testifies to his unique assets as a candidate--and the challenge he presents for his rivals. If Trump can beat Cruz next week in heavily blue-collar and evangelical states on one side, and top Kasich and Rubio in white collar, less culturally conservative states on the other, it will grow increasingly daunting for any candidate to coalesce a coalition large enough to stop the front-runner. That prospect may help explain the urgency with which Rubio and Cruz assailed Trump at Thursday night's debate.
"In Trump you've got a candidate who appears to be able to take on Cruz among Cruz' strength voters, who are evangelicals and also to take on Kasich and Marco among more mainstream voters," says Neil Newhouse, the chief pollster in 2012 for Mitt Romney. "That is going to make him tough to beat."
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Like he said the other day ... "I haven't even begun to go after Hillary ..."
The MSM will be so busy fending off Trumps attacks on Hillary that they will loose their own two front war ...
Trump OWNS the MSM ...
All over but the crying, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The LAST person the Clinton's want to run against is Trump. He said that when Hillary makes a point about women's rights, Trump can just put out something on his Instagram, and by the general election, Bill Clinton is synonymous with Bill Cosby.
Chris Matthews (yeah... again, I know...) loves discussing Trump on his show.
I will buy a beer in your name if it happens!
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