Posted on 04/06/2016 10:15:33 AM PDT by Steelfish
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Grows Weaker, Setting Up Further Republican Chaos
By Rick Klein Apr 5, 2016
Wisconsin will go down as the state that turned the tide –- or that turns the minds of anxious Republicans to what might have been.
Donald Trump’s loss proves a point the anti-Trump forces have been making with varying intensity for months. He was blown out, losing broadly and decisively in a big battleground state, in a winnowed field and in a primary that was open to independents as well as GOP regulars.
“Tonight is a turning point. It is a rallying cry,” Ted Cruz said in declaring victory, in words that his erstwhile enemies in the Republican establishment would gladly endorse at this point in the race.
Trump’s support is stalling among Republican voters, and his failure to close out his rivals speaks to his potential weakness in a general election. Tuesday’s results show the GOP frontrunner can be beaten soundly in places where the case against Trump is prosecuted in a sustained way -– and perhaps helped along when Trump himself plays into those arguments with his own behavior.
With a Trump ceiling coming in to focus, his path to a majority of convention delegates has never been narrower. Strikingly, more than a third of Republicans in Wisconsin exit polls say they’d be scared under a Trump presidency, with another two in 10 saying they’d be concerned. Trump was uncharacteristically silent Tuesday night, as if he had nothing good to say. Cruz is by far the biggest beneficiary of the anti-Trump sentiments. Wisconsin delivered the kind of cross-demographic victory that, to date, only Trump has managed in an electorally significant state.
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how many times has Trump’s numbers gone down verses up after each of the debates?
Not according to the polls, it is just the opposite
I’m a Cruz supporter, but I think the exact same case could be made of Hillary.
“Megyn Kelly, Karl Rove, Dana Loesch and Stephen Hayes were all propping up Trump? You’re nuts.”
Rush pointed it out and it was Kelly, Rove and Krauthamer according to Rush.
Trump has torn apart far better and less vulnerable candidates than Hillary.
Ted would be the zombie candidate. He only has Bush's path to victory (if it even still exists), no chance of winning crossover votes and would lose at least 20% of the party if he screws Trump out of the nomination at a contested convention.
Ted is merely a tool for the GOPe to stop Trump. He's too narcissistic to realize he'd be beaten in a landslide.
We have a campaign and it's candidate (s) attempting to portray the Republican party as Conservative. This is called “Campaign Conservatism”, something we've all seen before.
The battle lines have now been completely defined, outsider vs. insider. If one likes the status quo, you have your candidate (s). If one disagrees with the current government power structure, you also have a candidate.
Oh please, don't sell him so short! He has at least until the convention, no matter what the results of primary elections are, and as far as I know, there is no expiration date at all.
Both Melania and Ivanka are telling Trump that he should act more presidential. But he continues to ignore their advice.
Trump is an out of control egoist and listens to no one. As he has stated he consults with himself, has a good brain, says a lot of things. It will be amazing- believe me. Good grief.
He will owe GOPe if he gets elected and he will off.
Of course, all that assumes he was ever principled to begin with and hasn't been a Bush acolyte all along.
No, Wisconsin is a solid blue state. Florida, Ohio, Pa, Virginia ... everywhere Cruz has already gotten smoked ... those are the swing states.
Hillary can spout policy al the live-long day. Trump is ill-prepared.
Wisconsin isn’t a “big battleground state” it has voted democrat during presidential elections since 1988. Cruz won’t win WI in the general if he is the nominee, and neither would Trump.
I don’t see it blind bats. Tell me if Trump is going to lose after the 19th and the 26th you bunch of Maroons.
My addition of the delegates for the 16 remaining state races adds up to 769.
Did I miss something?
The Trump fanboys don’t understand. Trumps constant tweeting insults on woman and their looks have sunk him. They all loved it when he was ripping into Megyn Kelly but everyone else thought it was kind of sick. The GOP has enough problems with woman they will not let Trump exaberate it. He will never be the Republican nominee. Heck he’s not a Republican. If he runs third party he will lose.
That still won’t put him at 1237...
Cruz will be mathematically eliminated on April 19th in NY.
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