2016 Postmortem

brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:20 AM Aug 2016

GOP insiders: Trump can't win

Politico

Republican insiders are more convinced than Democrats that Donald Trump is so far behind Hillary Clinton that he can't win in November.

Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically shut off after another week in which the GOP nominee appears to have ceded ground in national and most battleground state polls.

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While it's true that previous candidates have come back from greater deficits to win, it won't happen in 2016. The electorate is far more base-driven, with fewer persuadables,” said an Iowa Republican. “Trump is underperforming so comprehensively across states and demographics it would take video evidence of a smiling Hillary drowning a litter of puppies while terrorists surrounded her with chants of ‘Death to America!’ But in 2016, stranger things have happened.”

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GOP insiders: Trump can't win (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2016 OP

It ain't over until we vote. C_U_L8R Aug 2016 #1

Exactly no complacency ...GOTV Person 2713 Aug 2016 #2

C_U_L8R

(49,526 posts)

1. It ain't over until we vote.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 08:26 AM

Aug 2016

GOTV is the only way we win.

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)

2. Exactly no complacency ...GOTV

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:25 AM

Aug 2016

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