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Donald Trump Shatters His Ceiling (Trump On Way To Nomination)
Slate ^ | 04/26/2016 | Jim Newell

Posted on 04/26/2016 10:50:12 PM PDT by goldstategop

There wasn’t any mystery about how Tuesday night’s five Republican presidential primaries would end up: in Donald Trump’s win column. The only thing to watch were his margins: Could he close out against John Kasich in certain highly educated, suburban congressional districts in Connecticut and Maryland, and could he break a 50 percent statewide winner-take-all threshold in Connecticut?

Yes, he could! He could do all of that, and he did. He won every state by double digits and cruised in every congressional district awarding bound delegates. He made a joke of his competition and the #NeverTrump cause, just as he did last week in New York, and there he was again Tuesday night, addressing supporters in Trump Tower with that same shrugging, blustery triumphalism. Sure, the Northeast is his smoggy backyard, and he won’t see it again until the New Jersey primary in June. But as he wraps up this friendly swing, he showed his close observers that he could do something he hadn’t been able to do much of yet: outperform predictions. If that’s a new trend that he can carry over to Indiana and California, then he’s the nominee.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Delaware; US: Maryland; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; US: Rhode Island; US: Virginia
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Tonight's Trump primary wins were shattering... they were epic and they were Trump-sized.

Jim Newell explains why Trump is going to be the GOP's presumptive nominee.

1 posted on 04/26/2016 10:50:12 PM PDT by goldstategop
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2 posted on 04/26/2016 10:51:19 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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Was such a thing even possible?

Yes it was!

3 posted on 04/26/2016 10:52:40 PM PDT by Ken H
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I heard the uniparty now has plans to wheel out Boehner as a possible nominee


4 posted on 04/26/2016 10:55:09 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

That pooch is smarter than The Annointed One


5 posted on 04/26/2016 10:57:18 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Ken H

LOL


6 posted on 04/26/2016 11:06:16 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: goldstategop
In the next 24 hours, he will:

1. Appear live on several AM shows for a victory lap.

2. Deliver his first major foreign policy speech.

3. Tape a Town-Hall with Greta in Indiana.

4. Conduct a campaign rally in Indiana with Bobby Knight.

I don't think he's taking his foot off the gas.

7 posted on 04/26/2016 11:17:27 PM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: Ken H; Salamander
If you're going to do it.....


8 posted on 04/26/2016 11:19:10 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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Not bad with 988 delegates under his belt.

Now he wants to take IN.


9 posted on 04/26/2016 11:22:19 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

That will be easy, Trump will give him tour to his winery and we will never see sober Boehner again.


10 posted on 04/26/2016 11:26:26 PM PDT by jennychase ( Vote Trump Or get Ready for President Hillary)
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To: TontoKowalski

Demand for tomorrow foreign policy speech was so much , that they have to move to bigger place.


11 posted on 04/26/2016 11:27:26 PM PDT by jennychase ( Vote Trump Or get Ready for President Hillary)
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We need to crush Cruz in Indiana
12 posted on 04/26/2016 11:31:30 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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Pay no attention to any of this! It all depends on what happens in Indiana! .... or so Rush assured us today.


13 posted on 04/26/2016 11:36:49 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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In my home state (CT) Trump ruined the night for every establishment politician, tv station, newspaper, radio station, and virtually all other so-called “public” figures and public policy “experts” as he turned the primary into a winner take all affair by winning well over 50%.

It will be fun to watch the media twist themselves into pretzels while they try to figure out who voted for him and why.

Those who know the answer will refuse to talk to them—all their “sources” on the politically correct approved list will be happy to talk to them and feed them the usual garbage.


14 posted on 04/26/2016 11:38:56 PM PDT by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

April Fool!....right?


15 posted on 04/26/2016 11:47:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: goldstategop
Test! Just made this graphic up.
16 posted on 04/27/2016 12:13:47 AM PDT by Doctor DNA
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Nice, I like it!


17 posted on 04/27/2016 12:45:15 AM PDT by Rufus Shinra (Voting in my first primary in PA on April 26th!)
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Trump statistically will not win 57 percent of the delegates to get to 1237. He’ll be out by the second ballot.


18 posted on 04/27/2016 1:05:13 AM PDT by WilliamRobert (65 percent of Republican voters aren't for Trump)
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Laughter is the best medicine, so thanks for that. Trump *is* the nominee. Deal.


19 posted on 04/27/2016 1:15:47 AM PDT by Rastus (The next president will be Trump or Hillary. Vote accordingly.)
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Ref:”Trump statistically will not win 57 percent of the delegates to get to 1237. He’ll be out by the second ballot.”

You are correct, Sir. The Trump-ets are trying to drown out any reasoned discussion on the on going competition. The NE is Trump’s liberal back yard and he was expected to win it. But he has run a campaign that is all hat & no cattle (in fact, when it time to produce some milk on his actual policies, he keeps putting the bucket under a steer). He will not make his margins in the delegate count and his invested delegates, who are already suffering buyer’s remorse, will start pulling out after the first ballot.


20 posted on 04/27/2016 1:16:18 AM PDT by Bill Russell
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