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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Trump isn’t mathematically eliminated from winning yet. This is just something for the talking heads to discuss endless on the 24 hour news cycle. He is doing fine and still has a legitimately decent chance of hitting the magic number.
An interesting point.
Trump’s ego is beyond comprehension by a normal mind, but would it extend to destroying the country he claims to love by running third party?
I actually think Trump’s blow up last night meant something significant.
He was having fun with his massive rallies and his adoring crowds but when he loses, it’s a whole different thing.
He can’t handle it.
What will he do? Nobody knows the Trump mind.
Will he just pull out now that it’s no longer fun and games or will he go berserk and claim nobody is fair to him and he will run as an independent.
Delegate count tells a different story.
Keep on supporting the GOPe Goldman Sachs Canadian Puppet Teddy Cruz
I would not describe WTA by district as “proportional.” That’s a word people who don’t understand math use to describe WTA by district, e.g. Megyn Kelly.
“Winner-take-most” is a better shorthand for it. It’s very unlikely a state’s districts would be evenly split between two winners. Usually one candidate gets the lion’s share, as Cruz did in Wisconsin. Also often, someone wins them all, as Trump did in S. Carolina.
Trump might not see that as destroying the country, since he’s been favorable to and friendly with Hillary and many other leading Democrats in the past.
That’s another scary thought, isn’t it.
He did say Hillary would make a great president.
“Keep on supporting the GOPe Goldman Sachs Canadian Puppet Teddy Cruz.”
Haven’t you learned by now that posting silly, repetitive insults about Ted Cruz will not get Trump the nomination.
Posting silly, repetitive insults about Donald Trump will not get Ted Cruz the nomination, either.
Some people deserve to be insulted.
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obama pravda machine
you know, the news used be 5 minutes when tv started
and it coverd the news of the day....WITHOUT THE PROPAGANDA
Thanks. Then California should be considered Winner Takes Most, not proportional.
I strongly disagree, altura.
WI was the epicenter of the Cruz/DC Cartel with the Ryan, Priebus & Walker trio of powers working the mechanics of the Establishment, loaning to their mule Teddy their well oiled political machine.
This STOP TRUMP effort was perfect for Wisconsin to showcase the entire force of the Establishment strength there, and it was their show of force coordinated with every well populated regional team given the green light to sell old Ted, and all the state and local media in full hot-to-trot operation 24/7 against TRUMP and for Cruz’, and the globalist funding poured in there, to get it all the balls in the air, for the boob in the race, Cruz.
That set up will not be duplicated. There are no more gift horsies for the Cruzader. He grinds it out on his own more or less, but not with a prize machine afforded to him like Wisconsin.
Wisconsinites by 32% don’t think there is even a problem in Washington. They were voting strategically to stop TRUMP, but Cruz will never be their nominee, as they were voting for a “contested convention”, to dump Cruz on the Third Ballot and get their native son, Paul Ryan, in the big chair. Period.
Sorry, but the Cruz party is over with the people. His clinical ambition has driven him to the reptiles.
He now crawls with the snakes to buy off delegates, stuff delegate positions and cater to the Cartel who owns his @$$.
Do you Cruz guys really think the Trump supporters are going to vote for him after that?
If he can't win outright (which he can't) he needs to step aside.
In a couple of weeks this is going to be made all very clear.
Rita, Rita, Rita.
You have some strange beliefs and I don’t know how to respond to anything so off the wall and odd.
So, I’ll just say,’have a nice day.’
They think Ted is that 12th Imam who's supposed to arise out of a privy pit in Iraqistan or someplace.
Two weeks of bombardment in the GOPe stronghold, and a loss, followed by two weeks of convincing voters that he is done. They certainly had their timing down and now Trump must survive a month of bad press.
He would be well advised to release a new policy paper every other day for the next 12.
Trump will eliminate Cruz on April 19th when he smashes him in New York. After that trump will frame the race as “Me or Mitt Romney” lots of luck refuting that GOPe!
Wasn’t he in some prophecy?
LMAO
Stabby to the rescue...
He of the immeasurable ego may well implode. He has an ugly temperament and is vindictive at perceived wrongs. It is his own fault that he failed to prepare adequately.
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