Donald Trump
Slowly but surely, some of the very same pundits and political operatives who swore a couple months ago Donald Trump was running a losing race are now reaching a realization: hey, he’s not disappearing, and in fact, could actually win.
“He has a real shot at this. He is the clear front-runner,” said Ron Bonjean, a former aide to Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. “Months ago, we all discounted Trump as a candidate.”
Polls for months have put Trump at the top. Yet political insiders from both parties continued to insist the billionaire businessman was on a slow march to campaign death. As the Hill reported, Think Progress, a news tool of the left, pushed out three dozen or so stories predicting Trump’s eventual demise, including a notable piece from the Washington Post that pronounced “the beginning of the end of Trump” way back in July, when the candidate jabbed at Sen. John McCain’s prisoner status during Vietnam.
Republican strategist Karl Rove, around the same time frame, called Trump an “idiot” while predicting the nominee would come from what he described as the top tier: Sen. Marco Rubio, former Gov. Jeb Bush, or Gov. Scott Walker.
“Then we’ve got people in the third tier which are people who are unlikely to break through. They’re good people, some of them … or in the case of Donald Trump, they’re complete idiots,” he said, during a speech at the American Legion Boys State meeting at the University of Central Missouri.
As Trump might mock: who’s the idiot now?
“The media has twisted and turned through a number of different positions where they tried to explain that it was just a fad – the summer of Trump,” said Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, the state Trump’s led for months and that is readying to go to the primary polls Feb. 1, the Hill reported. “Well, it’s lasted all fall. There is a realization that you are not going to wake up tomorrow and he’s going to vanish.”
Robinson turned critical eyes on the Republican establishment wing that’s been so quick to dismiss Trump, despite poll numbers that paint him in the consistent lead.
“That is wishful thinking of the establishment,” he said, the Hill reported. “That is what they tell themselves so they can sleep at night. The truth is, Trump has one of the better ground operations in Iowa. Will he turn out every single person who shows up at his rallies? No. But if he turns out a fraction, he will roll over the field.”
And another political operative, Rick Wilson, who served as a GOP strategist in Florida, came right out and admitted his flawed projections on Trump.
“I expected the other candidates and campaigns would by now have stepped up to knock down Trump’s numbers,” he said, in the news outlet, “and I was wrong. Unlike Donald Trump, I will admit when I have made an error.”
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