Now, hear me out. I’m thinking out loud here, but I don’t think that Trump will accept the nomination for president. Why? Because I think he’ll drop out before the convention.
I understand that one should never overreact to a given day’s or week’s political events, but, in the last three days, the fall race crystallized, at least for me. Hillary Clinton, and a vast array of surrogates, including Barack and Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bill Clinton, will successfully eviscerate Donald Trump through Trump’s own words. Trump, who styles himself as a ‘counterpuncher’, has been reduced to hurling insults into a microphone w/o being able to effectively deny that he never said what he indeed said.
What trait has Trump time and time again said he hates most? The term he uses is ‘loser’. McCain’s a loser b/c he was captured, Romney’s a loser and a choker. The mantra is always the same. Trump’s a winner and his enemies are losers.
Now, unless I’m dead wrong, the upcoming polls are going to reflect just how disastrous this last week has been on Trump. The R’s, already resigned to a bad year, are now looking at an absolute disaster. An unhinged narcissist screaming insults at the voters while not even bothering to defend the things he said.
If Trump somehow understands that he is likely an inevitable loser of historic proportions in November, he will drop out, citing the ‘maliciously unfair’ coverage he has received as the reason. I think you’d then be looking at a Ryan/Haley ticket, or something like it. Which would be a lot more formidable than Trump/Whoever.
It would be ironic if Hillary’s speech turned out to be too successful. But that’s what I think is gonna happen.