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The Stop-Trump fever that gripped the Republican establishment for months has broken.
The walls are closing in around a shrinking band of hard-core opponents of the New York billionaire, who is tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination with big wins in state after state, congressional endorsements, and the acknowledgment from pillars of the GOP elite that Donald Trump will be the partys standard-bearer.
There was grizzled RNC committeeman Ron Kaufman likening Trump to Reagan. There was Indiana Gov. Mike Pences half-hearted endorsement of Ted Cruz. There was former House Speaker John Boehners confession that he and Trump are texting buddies and golfing partners. Theres the slew of endorsements (and a prediction by Trump campaign officials that another wave is coming after Indiana votes next week). Its adding up to a slow but steady coalescing around the man once considered so vile to the GOP base that hed rip the party to shreds.
We've had enough intraparty fighting. Now's the time to stitch together a winning coalition, said Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah. And it's been clear almost from the beginning that Donald Trump has the ability to assemble a nontraditional bloc of supporters.
The ability to cut across traditional party boundaries like '80, '92 and 2008 will be key, and Trump is much better positioned to achieve that.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/gop-stop-trump-breaks-222660#ixzz47Swm0X4O
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tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Trump represents the ideologies of most of the GOP. so why would they shun him. They aren't the brightest bunch anyway because lots of them like Cruz. But that female vote is going to be hard for Trump to win no matter what.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Clinton meth to think otherwise.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Hillary may not be likeable to some folks, but HELL, Trump has lost the women vote, the Asian vote, the latino vote, and the AF vote. The kkk and hillbillies will not be enough for him to clinch the GE. Trump has done a lot of damage to himself.