Day: August 4, 2016

From least important to most, these are the ten reasons why Trump quitting is plausible. 10) He can reasonably claim health problems. His medical records are sketchy at best and the quack doctor who said that he'd be the healthiest president ever can easily be thrown under the bus. 9) He watches, and takes ques, from Fox News. If Fox News bails once and for all, he will know it and will have to react to it. 8) The Senate appears ready to investigate his ties to Russia. 7) His wife was an illegal immigrant. 6) His businesses are off 17 to 20% How long can he sustain that kind of drop in revenue? Especially since... 5) He can't self-fiance his campaign. He isn't as wealthy as he says he is, and money from donors is dying up. 4) His pre-2010 taxes are not subject to being audited. So he is lying about why he isn't releasing them. (For this and many other reasons, he knows he will be KILLED in a debate.) 3) He hates being viewed as a loser. He'd rather quit (and blame the liberal media) than lose to Clinton. 2) He was never really running a serious campaign in the first place. And if all of that does not convince him to quit, one person might... 1) He listens to Ivanka. Of all his advisors, he appears to listen to Ivanka. She certainly seems smart enough to know when the jig is good and truly up. When the kids are sure that the gravy train is imperiled, they may be the ones to pull the plug.

Town Square Delaware reports: US Education Secretary John King was in Wilmington yesterday morning – his second recent visit to the First State – to laud a federal grant program…

Josh Marshall:

Let me start by saying I see no chance that Trump withdraws from the race, despite Republican wishful thinking to the contrary. Call it big game unicorn hunting. But unicorn studies is a perfectly respectable discipline. So I wanted to explore one aspect of this scenario. In the quite unlikely case of Trump leaving the race, who would replace him? My understanding is that in this all but unprecedented situation the Republican National Committee would convene and pick a replacement. Even if they wanted to canvas the views of Republicans nationwide there's simply no practical way and no time to do that. So who do they pick? Good luck. Trump isn't an accident. His ascendence is tied to Republican voters who became a sort of frankenstein's monster of the GOP elites' own creation. Weened on decades of victim-speak, impossible goals, over-primed lust for revenge against various domestic bad guys and outsiders and perverts and all the rest, they finally rebelled and chose someone who at least said he could follow through on the political snuff films they see on Breitbart, Newsmax, WorldNetDaily and the rest.

Trump quitting and being replaced is quite impossible. If he is "voluntarily" forced from the race at this stage 40% of the GOP doesn't show up to vote in November. This is a lose-lose situation for the GOP no matter what happens. So what is behind both Trump's erratic behavior after the DNC and the panic among Republicans? It is not anything Trump has done or said, because the truth about Trump has been known for a year.