Trump: Who Needs the Party?

[Ljube]

Republicans are going to have to realize there is simply no way Trump is going to win the Presidency.

What Republicans have to do is to spend their resources and manpower on salvaging as many down ballot elections and Governor and state house elections as possible.

The Republican campaign as it now stands is in an absolute shambles, thanks to Trump and his yes men and yes women surrogates.

Trump has always ran a one man show, and the Presidential election is no different.

The party is headed for disaster.

That's a losing proposition.

I don't understand why you and the other renegades simply don't get your act together and jump on the Trump train, cause that's the only train in town.

Do you want to lose in a massive wave?

[Ljube]

Again with saying beating 16 candidates is a strength--this wasn't an elimination tournament where you go one on one--you had 16 candidates saying the same thing, gathering a total of 60% of the vote, where Trump running essentially on the outsider platform got 40%. Had this been a two way race it's unlikely he would've been nominated, similarly to how Sanders would've very likely been nominated if he had 16 Dem opponents.

If you add up the votes of all outsiders (Rafael and Ben), it's easily over 50%. What do you think against which candidate TRUMP would have lost a two-way race? Mr. Low Energy? Keep also in mind that Big Don got more votes than anyone else in the GOP primary race. That's stunning for someone who never ran for office, didn't have a strong ground operation and spent almost nothing while others wasted millions of dollars and still got crushed.

I don't understand why you guys keep bringing up Trump's primary performance. Winning a GOP primary is not the same as winning a general election. No matter how many times you guys bring this up, it's never going to be a valid argument for his GE prospects.

So I have to ask, why are you so confident in Trump winning when he has almost always been losing to Clinton in the polls? He only has a few small leads here and there, with quite a bit of his losing polls being large margin losses to Clinton. This is not what a winner's campaign looks like. Do you honestly think Trump's behavior in 2016 is going to help him? It's clearly damaging him badly.

It is possible to support Trump and still be skeptical of his chances in November. There is really no data right now, and never has been enough data to justify such confidence.

Right now I give him even chances in November, for want of any reliable data.

As I said before, my opinion about the election may change if by October Trump is still behind.

I won't stop supporting him, though.