The only people willing to claim their candidate will do better than Romney - absolutely essential since Romney lost - are the totally delusional Cruzbots who say he can win 47 states.
The realists are realistically conceding defeat. You understand the party has no future under that scenario. None. The demographics will only get worse with future amnesties. Immigrants vote at least 60% leftist Democrat.
The neocon foreign policy is absolutely toxic. Even hinting at more wars for no discernable American interest is damaging. Lindsey "0%" Graham ran on that and look where it got him.
So what have you got? What issues will bring millions of voters to the GOP? Trump has trade and immigration. I'm not ready to give up on winning.
Here's my previous response, again:
We all have our opinions and analysis for what little that’s worth.Trump's wall would only affect roughly half of illegal immigrants; the rest don't come in that way. And then Trump proposes touchback amnesty. He grants them 'legal status' and keeps the door open to citizenship afterward. So I don't seem him as effective on the issue.But, non-subjectively, if we look to what data we have, most indicate that Trump is the worst choice for victory over Hillary, particularly in battleground states.
The real issue isn't immigration. As I said, he's not addressing the real problems, and he his solutions aren't much of a solution.