Monday, February 22, 2016

Reports of his inevitability are greatly exaggerated.

I actually heard Hugh Hewitt tonight trying to persuade Donald Trump to unify the Party by promising to nominate Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court and Marco Rubio to be his Vice Presidential running mate. So Hewitt appears to have joined the growing ranks of those who feel Trump is inevitable. Trump, by the way, told Hewitt he has heard that suggestion from others, and Trump was noncommittal on the idea.

John Fund is not convinced about Trump's inevitability. He writes at National Review, Trump's
consistent inconsistency helps explain why only four in ten GOP voters in a new Associated Press poll view Trump in a positive light. He will have trouble growing his coalition to win a majority of delegates, even as more candidates drop out.

...So if we are headed for a contested convention, what will happen? I don’t know, but I do know that Republican delegates will be leery of nominating a candidate viewed unfavorably by 60 percent of general-election voters – as is the case with Donald Trump. In the RealClearPolitics average of all polls, Trump is the only major candidate who loses to Hillary Clinton (45.3 percent to 42.5 percent). It’s certainly possible that Trump will try to “cut a deal” with Ted Cruz or John Kasich so he can secure a delegate majority, but there are a lot of obstacles to that.

No one is saying Trump won’t be the nominee. But reports of his inevitability are greatly exaggerated.
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