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Originally Posted by Pierre
Trump is a genius.
No other republican candidate is getting any airtime whatsoever.
Also Clinton and Obama have now started having a go at him, meaning even more air time for Trump.
Clinton knows if trump gets the nomination that it'll be a walkover .
That said, it's a forgone conclusion that Clinton will be the next president.
It doesn't matter who the GOP candidate is, none of them will win against Clinton.
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Some of them might. Rubio especially. He is probably their nightmare candidate especially if he can bring on someone good as his running mate. He presents a different generation, he can bring on Latino voters and he will likely win Florida. He takes his home state and then brings New Mexico and Nevada along then he could well win it.
His national polling compared to Clinton is pretty good too:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...nton-3767.html
He is their best chance. However much like Corbyn here there is a wave of anti-establishment votes from those who don't really seem to care if they win power as long as they can cause chaos in the political systems. They're going for populists over realists and radicals over moderates.
It doesn't really work because most people are largely moderate but they only turn out when it matters. However this could be enough to kill the Republican party's chances in 2016. I don't think he'll get the nomination but he might still do enough damage to the party to cost them or allow them to elect someone who appears sane by comparison but is still a wacko.
Alternatively maybe he monopolies the attention so much that he protects the rest from taking negative press leaving them undamaged once one of them has have nomination....