Posted on 04/25/2016 6:47:41 AM PDT by Sideshow Bob
In the wake of the New York primary, there is a sense that some of the GOP elites are making their peace with the Trumpocalypse. To be sure, some of the party’s leaders are resisting Trump’s faux charm offensive, but there is also a palpable mood of defeatism among the Invertebrate.
Yet in hallway chatter here, there was a growing sense of resignation about Trump as the nominee
That mood is likely to spread after this week’s expected primary wins for Trump in the northeast. Some party leaders aren’t waiting. Reince Priebus is calling on anti-Trump activists to unite behind him if he is the nominee. Even Marco Rubio , who surely understands the reality of Trumpism as well as anyone in national politics, now suggests he would back him in a general election.
All of this comes amid growing evidence of Trump’s unelectability. Polls shows suggest he trails Hillary Clinton by double digits and analyses of the electoral college put the chances of a Clinton blowout somewhere between likely and “O my God.”
As Tim Carney notes : “Trump would be the least-respected, least-liked major party nominee since polling began.” As a result, anti-Trump groups rejected the call for rallying around a Trumpist GOP...
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Compared to the pictures that were posted on his wife?
Trump has a lock on 21 of 28 CT delegates.
3 possible outcomes for the remaining 7
A. Trump 7
B. Kasich 4 Cruz 3
C. Trump 2 Kasich 5
if Cruz fails to get the 20% threshold, then his votes are a vote for C. The CT Kasich delegates will be scum like Chris Shays, John McKinney etc. Even worse people.
The teaming up IMHO means that Kasich will concede Pennsylvania and Indiana to Cruz, while Cruz will concede Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Delaware to Kasich.
IMHO, Indiana will be the most decisive state.
Cruz is conceding ORegon and New Mexico
It sounds like Kasich won’t campaign in Indiana (though he’s still going there) and Cruz likewise won’t in OR and NM, nothing about any other state. Neither will advocate actually voting for the other man. Half-measure. IN is the important state.
NM? Next to Texas, Hispanics. Seems like a strange state to hand off to Kasich.
OR? I read no candidate has a presence in OR yet.
Kasich has been attacking Cruz, if he was really serious about preventing Trump, he’d drop out.
Trump has that many several times a week all over the nation.
it is an optimization problem.
for Cruz to get delegates, he must get over 20% and Trump must get less than 50%. both events are less than 10% likely.
then again, it seems like over in CT. Trump will get all delegates, so the whole thing today has no uncertainty.
IF CRuz stops campaigning, it opens the door for Kasich to get momentum for his Kristol third party crowd.
Kasich need to be kept down
see 109
the door is now open for Kasich and his run third parties freaks. like George Will and Kristol.
Kasich will get a spotlight now, when yesterday he was in the shadow.
If he wants to do a John Anderson, let him. It took votes from Carter.
#NeverHillary
Another way to look at the numbers...
Approximately 61% don’t want Trump
Approximately 70% don’t want Cruz
Approximately 84% don’t want Kasich
Approximately 85% don’t want Rubio
you were stunned that it ended so quickly ...
this was Pataki’s chance to made a run of it in the final 9 states. His timing was way off.
And Kasich waits a year to get a one-on-one matchup ... and quits on day 1.
I wasn’t surprised Cruz quit after that sh** showing.
But Kasich, he must have made up his mind that next morning, big press conference scheduled and then scrapped. That did surprise me, I thought the SOB would be blustery “I’m the last man standing” or something like that. He was out of money though, yes?
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