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 has really crosses the line this time!
It’s all over for him now!
#12,324,985
How many days till New York primary where Donald will destroy Cruz. I’m already bored of this “TRUMP CAN’T WIN” garbage.
Trump will bounce back stronger than ever.
Vote Cruz. Hillary thanks you.
Is Wisconsin considered a swing state?
This says Trump grows weaker.
It’s funny how Fox was propping Trump up last night, in the face of the loss, of not getting weaker, having staying power and strength.
Rush pointed out that Bloody Kelly, Tokyo Rove and Charles Krauthamer were all saying such things - nothing about Cruz winning big.
Trumpster Fire Nation likes to believe Fox is not propping Trump up as much as possible.
I’m sorry, I meant is Wisconsin considered a battleground state?
Trump’s bad temperament and lack of preparation are becoming more apparent by the day. Sore loser last night.
Trump has the highest negatives of any of the candidates, Republican OR DemocRat. A LOT of people just don’t like him.
Think they said this after Iowa, then Trump on NH and cleared the south.
Then TX came and the media said the same , then Trump went onto win more states like VA, FL, MO,
Now WI .
sigh
So what is that 4 primary election states he has won?
The Gope and leftist media working their narrative like a crack addict with a new dealer.
And the so-called “true conservatives” are under the table happy to get any powder than falls on the floor.
BETTER TO LOSE WITH CRUZ, the mantra of the establishment.
How does it feel cruzites, to be the tool that keeps the establishment in power?
LETS CELEBRATE!!!!!!
Trump will bounce back stronger than ever.
Trump remains steady and stuck in the mid thirties.
Hasn’t wisconsin voted Democrat in every general election since the 1980s? Hardly a battleground state. But the media will be pounding the anti Trump message for the next two weeks hard, because they know after the northeast states, they will have little hope to stop him.
Even Kasich is leading Cruz in these next states, Cruz is polling last.
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Grows Weaker, Setting Up Further Republican Chaos
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The odds of a brokered convention, massive infighting in the Republican Party, a nominee (not Trump) that pisses off the majority of Repubs, and an eventual win for Hillary is what most FReepers and conservatives thought would happen last June when Donald Trump announced his bid as a Republican.
Turns out they were right.
“Rush pointed out that Bloody Kelly, Tokyo Rove and Charles Krauthamer were all saying such things - nothing about Cruz winning big”
Because Ted is a patsy. A prop.
We have to keep telling his fanboys this now that their supposed hatred of the Gope has now turned into a happy friendship because they patted Ted on the head.
They just vote for him...LOL
Trump loses to Hillary who would clean his clock in a debate.
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