When Donald Trump entered this election, his candidacy was largely treated as a sideshow, the sort of funny diversion that would die out at the end of summer and result in a book tour or a new television show. This was about Trump’s brand.
Then something happened. Trump’s nationalist appeal to restore the American economy and the nation’s backbone resonated with Americans who were frustrated with the political process. Now, it appears, the political insiders are giving up, and accepting the reality that Trump may be the nominee:
The odds that Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination are going up.
Eighty-one percent of Republican insiders say the likelihood that Trump becomes their party’s nominee is more today than it was a month ago, and 79 percent of Democrats said the same. That’s according to the POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of top strategists, operatives and activists in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.“I can’t even describe the lunacy of him as our nominee. But reason has not applied to date in this race, and my hopes are fleeting that it will ever surface,” lamented an Iowa Republican, who like all participants was granted anonymity in order to speak freely.
Take this with a grain of salt. The political class is miffed at the growing power of grassroots and Tea Party organizations who have gone outside the mainstream and demanded more of their leadership. They’ve been wrong about everything to date, and for all of their millions, they couldn’t invent a market tested, rehearsed bobblehead candidate able to come within single digits of Trump. Still, their tone has the unmistakable reek of defeat. Perhaps they’re thinking about getting out of the way.
AAN Staff
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