Friday, January 15, 2016

"Have Republicans Given Up in Fighting Donald Trump."-New York mag.

Signs have popped up everywhere that Republicans have not only begun to accept Trump as one of them, a regular candidate, but to even resign themselves to his candidacy.


 Rich Lowry  ✔@RichLowry
From my convos,GOP estab mood on Trump moving from fear/loathing to resignation/rationalization,ie he'd run better than cruz & slam Hillary

Matt Lewis
Matt Lewis – Verified account ‏@mattklewis

Same source (when I ask what's happening on the ground): "On the ground? Everyone literally is getting resigned to Trump as nominee."

Ari Fleischer
Ari Fleischer – Verified account ‏@AriFleischer

Trump was Trump and that means he had a good night.  I give him a 60% shot of being the GOP nominee.

The first vote will still not be cast for weeks. Yet those of us who believed Republican elites would kill Trump’s candidacy out of self-preservation have to face the increasingly plausible prospect that, for whatever reason, they may lay down their arms before a shot has been fired.