Posted on 08/03/2015 2:06:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump may seem invincible right now, but his current run can’t last. Even if the belligerent billionaire and current GOP front-runner doesn’t implode on the debate stage next week or on the campaign trail next month, the fundamentals of American politics will still catch up to him: At some point the GOP field will narrow and an establishment favorite will consolidate enough support to knock Trump from his perch. Eventually, that means he will exit a nominating battle he cannot win.
It’s no surprise, then, that the Washington parlor game of predicting how Trump’s campaign will end is now turning into one about what will happen with his supporters when it does.
There is no shortage of possibilities. Writing in the National Journal on Friday, for example, political analyst Charlie Cook pegs Chris Christie and Ted Cruz’s camps as likely homes for Trump’s backers once their first choice is out of the race. In the Washington Post, meanwhile, James Holmann calls it a “jump ball” before ultimately suggesting Trump’s loss could be Mike Huckabee’s gain. While the predictions vary, the rationale behind them is usually the same: Whoever wins the Trump sweepstakes will be someone who shares his anti-establishment anger....
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In one huge change of heart and with full remorse all of.trump support will go to Lindsey Graham
LOL...Maybe Jebbie?
Mr Donut thinks he will bridge his problem
of 0% ratings. ROTFL.
Mike Hucklebuck?
If he did that, which I now seriously doubt, one need only look to 12. They will flock to Jeb bush no matter what because LESSER EVIL !!!
Sure as the sun rises. Winning, not conservative governance is what motivates today’s supposed ‘conservative’.
People pay these jerks for this crap?
Why do they assume Trump’s going to drop out? Perhaps the media and the elite pushed him too far, and now it’s a matter of honor.
This lifelong republican stopped voting establishment republicans last election, and cannot fathom ever voting for another one. I don’t believe I am not alone in this. I’m much too fed up with the lot of them!
Slate the homo side of every story.
Cruz will get between 50-75% of all Trump’s voters. Walker will get a few and that’s it.
Cruz and Trump both share a distaste for the establishment. No Trump voter is going to a RINO.
And Christie is the biggest RINO out there. Yes, pun intended.
They hope that this meme will subliminally sink into the LIV subconscious, and scare undecideds away from supporting Trump.
-PJ
I really don’t know where this “Trump will drop out” idea comes from. People have been stating it from the go, but no evidence to support it has been presented. He didn’t seem to be a quitter before he ran. Why would he change? I think it’s more wishful thinking.
“Donald Trump Can’t Win A Second Term !” — Slate, August 2019
This is what Trump means by the GOP not treating him fairly. They've got ways to cook the books. To make a person who can NEVER win the support of the people who actually vote be the candidate. If Trump is still polling way ahead of everyone else (with real polls and not cooked polls) I would support him as a 3rd party. And he will win because he's going to pick up everyone who is sick and tired of the same old crap.
I expect he’ll throw to Cruz. Maybe part of the reason for the meeting?
Tokyo Rose is speaking.
We’ll vote for Cruz....
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