The Trump Express has left for Cleveland and if conservatives think they can derail it, they have another thing coming.
Because Donald Trump — though some people may see him as a national train wreck — thrives on chaos, and the GOP elites will just embarrass themselves and damage the party’s future prospects if they try to run him off the tracks.
The “Never Trump” crowd is working to convince the Rules Committee to adopt a proposal that would let delegates vote their “conscience” on the first ballot — and not how their state voted in the primaries.
This could be the most tone deaf thing Republicans have done in years — and including the years 2008 and 2012, which many of the same GOP elites lost thanks to their hearing problems. Take the nomination away from the presumptive nominee because they don’t share his values, and basically don’t like him? Never mind that the voters did, overwhelmingly. If they are successful at staging a revolt, they should expect a record low turnout in November as well as the next presidential cycle. Why show up to vote in the primaries if political elites know what’s best for average voters, and intend to stick their thumbs on the scale?
Trump has thrived on chaos throughout this election cycle — largely of his own creation, and to his benefit — but the Republican National Convention is not the place to continue that tone.
Most politicians couldn’t handle this pressure, but Trump knows how to put people in their place. This is the guy who wrote “The Art of the Deal,” who also managed to bounce back from an embarrassing bankruptcy only to become one of the richest people in America, and became one of the top GOP vote-getters ever under an onslaught of accusations of racism and sexism.
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