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In reply to the discussion: OK. I've joined the crew that doesn't think Trump will be the nominee [View all]Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)on this one.
Honestly, there is less energy with them now to take the nomination from Trump than back in April.
There are good reasons for this.
He simply got past a critical mass of actual votes, states won and delegates that leaves them with too little wiggle room.
They know if they take the nomination from him, that:
1) The convention will be a shit show the likes of which the body politic of this country has never seen, and they will forever be defined by it.
2) Trump will work relentlessly to make the nominee lose.
3) A BIG chunk of the pods who voted for him in the primary will be lost to their party for a generation, and they win a LOT of elections with those pods.
They will have next to no chance to win if they take the nomination from him, and will suffer long term damage to the party, well past this cycle.