Posted on 04/06/2016 2:50:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Tuesday night, Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, won a sweeping victory over 2016 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in Wisconsin. Cruz won virtually every demographic, nearly 50 percent of the vote and the vast bulk of the delegates. It's becoming increasingly clear that Trump could fail to reach the necessary 1,237 delegates in order to win the nomination outright on the first ballot at the convention. If so, there's no way he wins the nomination at all.
That's because Trump has made himself radioactive.
If Trump had disappeared from the American political scene after his big win in Arizona, he'd have wrapped up the nomination by now. Instead, he defended his lying campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, after Lewandowski was charged with battery for allegedly grabbing, yanking and bruising a reporter; tweeted nastily about Heidi Cruz's looks; repeatedly suggested that Cruz had violated federal law without evidence; trotted out surrogates to slander anti-Trump women as Cruz's adulteresses; flipped his abortion position four times in less than three days; found himself on the short end of the interview stick with a Wisconsin radio host; labeled health care, housing and education as key functions of the federal government; accused the Republican National Committee and state delegations of attempting to "steal" the nomination from him by engaging in traditional delegate politics; and stated that he would likely select Supreme Court justices who would investigate Hillary Clinton's email server, for starters.
The more Trump talks, the worse he sounds.
Now, Trump's supporters keep saying he's just learning the ropes. After all, he's never run for political office before, so a few hiccups are to be expected. But Trump continues to demonstrate a complete inability to learn. After losing Wisconsin, did Trump turn down his "Spinal Tap" speakers from volume 11 to 8? Of course not. He turned the volume up to 12 with a campaign statement that bragged that Trump's 13-point blowout at Cruz's hands was actually a big win in which he "withstood the onslaught of the establishment yet again." The statement also stated openly, and without evidence, that Cruz had illegally coordinated with his super PACs, and slammed Cruz as being "worse than a puppet -- he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump."
Trump's campaign is flailing because it's not a campaign; it's a self-produced vanity reality TV special. Trump didn't bother to learn the delegate rules because he couldn't be bothered to do so. He doesn't bother to learn the ins and outs of his own policies because, hey, why bother when people flock to you for shouting slogans about building walls? Last month, he fired his data team manager and elevated the second in command. But the second in command apparently doesn't know politics, or even how to access the data itself.
But don't worry: Trump has a very good brain and hires all the best people.
By the time of the Republican National Convention, Trump will be 70-years-old. Sadly, he has significantly less self-control than my 2-year-old daughter. He's spent his entire life being handed things: money, fame, female companionship. Now he can't understand why he's not being handed the nomination. So, like Veruca Salt in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," he'll scream.
It won't work. Trump joked months ago that his strategy was to "keep whining and whining until I win." But now he's beginning to lose. And the whining won't stop anytime soon.
“Also, Trump likes to say (among other things), “Can I be honest with you?””
Yes, my wife and I have known people over the years who are prone to say, “just to be real honest with you...” And we then have to wonder to ourselves, “OK, so all the other things you’ve told us were NOT “real honest”? Doesn’t really inspire much trust or confidence, does it?
I watched every debate (both parties).
You made something up... tried to pass it off, got caught, squirmed, and then tried to cast it all off as a joke.
Typical.
Flame away in a vain attempt to save your dignity. I'm done with you.
I can’t help it if you want to make a mountain out of a joke.
Good night.
Isn’t Ben Shapiro a Trump hater?
Shapiro has a great sense of humor. Best line of the day...
“it’s a self-produced vanity reality TV special.”
only TV specials make money. DT is $17 million in debt. What’s he waiting for, the RNC to pay it after he gets the nomination or will he write it off as a loss on his taxes (self-funding, right?) it is from january, so maybe he has paid some off by now. No rush, it’s chump change to him but not the people who work for the companies that held his rallies or made his signs.
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