The Influence Of Donald Trump On The Republican Party

As the GOP continues to implode, and as a field of 17 Republican candidates is narrowed down to three, one of whom, John Kasich, has virtually zero chance of capturing enough votes to ensure nomination, the very real prospect on a Trump or Cruz Presidency becoming reality is pretty terrifying. Thankfully we have people like Bill Maher to keep us laughing as the political world burns beneath the feet of these two rampaging monsters.

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz on Friday crisscrossed Iowa on a five-stop campaign event swing through the state as he continues to built a strong support amongst Republican voters with just 100 days left into the Iowa caucus. The latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll released on Friday has Cruz in third place with 10% in Iowa. Ben Carson is in first place in Iowa with 28% while Donald Trump is now in second with 19%. Even though Cruz is positioned to earn one of the ‘three tickets out of Iowa,’ he still needs to snatch up more voters from the other Republican candidates who are vying for the same fraction of evangelicals conservative that are taking away votes from Cruz.

For months, the crowded GOP field all pledged to commit their support on whoever the eventual party’s nominee would be. That was months ago. Now, the three remaining candidates have reversed their earlier vows to support the eventual GOP nominee.

The famous billionaire and real-estate developer Donald Trump announced his running on the Republican ticket for the 2016 presidential elections on June 16, 2015. Currently in the race, Trump is leading the Republican polls with sixty-seven delegates on board. Ted Cruz is falling in second with only eleven delegates. Seventy-four percent of voters believe that Trump will be nominated as the Republican candidate. About twenty-three percent of voters believe that he will be elected as the next 2016 president. Donald Trump’s success has followed him from the beginning.

Not sure if you've been following along or not... BUT, the establishment Republicans you are describing were NOT fond of Trump. They discredited, fought him and tired to being him down every step of the way. Until it was clear he had a legitimate shot at winning, then and only then did the endorsements come rushing in as they feared for their own political futures. No, a large portion of America wanted change in their government, removal of corruption, and an outsider, not a career corrupt politician. And yes, a part of that change is an expectation that the Republicans will work with Democrats and Democrats will work with Republicans. They voted Trump into the Office of President because they believed he represents, at least in part, the changes they want. So you can bring out all the hypocrisy hyperbole you want about Republicans, while Democrats are wrapped up in their own hypocrisy which is clearly visible to anyone with a discerning objective eye. They carry the same exact polarizing politics that you're so righteously dismissing Republicans for having.

With the Republican Party on an urgent mission to woo Latino voters, one of its leading presidential candidates has been enmeshed for two weeks in a nasty feud over his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants.

Kasich acknowledged that he won't win in Trump's home territory, but hopes to pick up some delegates to add on his long-shot bid. "Here in New York we are running in second now," Kasich said. "In Maryland we are now running in second and in Pennsylvania, I haven't seen anything lately, but the last thing I saw had us in a virtual tie for first place."

When speaking about Democrats, he says, “as much as they love Sanders, they loathe Donald Trump more. It seems more evident each day that Republicans have lost their collective reason and are beginning to accept the notion that Trump will be their nominee” (Milbank). Many people view Donald Trump as being out of his mind and a threat to the country if he were elected. Even if he has consistently been in the top two candidates of the Republican Party for polls, he is greatly hated by many of his own party. It is nonsensical to argue that he would somehow have an edge over Sanders in a main election when he inspires such rage in a large amount of the population. If Trump won the nomination, it is possible that some Republicans would not vote so as to avoid supporting him. The other top candidate of the Republican Party, Ted Cruz, is also viewed by many as being unelectable in a general election. He is a far right candidate who is unwilling to compromise and is not well liked even within the senate. Overall, there is no logical reason to believe that the top Republican candidates would do any better in a general election than

Establishment Republicans are not sniggering at Donald Trump’s antics anymore, especially as he threatens to go solo in November if party insiders scheme to deny him the nomination. Echoes of similarly irate conservative Teddy Roosevelt and his “Bull Moose” party sinking the Republican (GOP) national campaign in 1912 get louder every time Trump wins a primary state. After the real estate mogul announced his candidacy in June last year, party leaders contentedly sat back in the peanut gallery ridiculing his naked attempts at demagoguery. Later, they dismissed Trump’s surging poll numbers as an electoral blip sparked by fringe sections of the party base that loathed the GOP’s handling of Congress.

On the front runner Donald Trump, a candidate he has criticized a lot during his short lived presidential bid and after when endorsing Jeb Bush. “Donald, I don’t think he understands what makes America great,” Graham said in a more serious tone while urging reporters to ask Trump harder questions. “Our party and our country is going to have to step up its game.”

Now Paul has dropped out early February to focus on his reelection seat in Kentucky, it was down to two young Senators for Lee to decide. With Rubio's campaign on life support heading into next Tuesday's contest, with all or nothing left in his home state of Florida, Cruz is having a good week. He has already won seven contested states and gained a total count of 359 delegates, establishing himself as the candidate with the best chance to defeat

I hope there is a brokered convention that pushes Donald Trump out of the lead. The thought of him as president scares me half to death. My hope is that votes from other candidates go to Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. I find the idea of a brokered convention intriguing because we essentially do not have an accurate idea of the candidates’ standings until the first primary. I believe that Trump as president would result in complete chaos. Therefore, a brokered convention gives me hope that votes can be distributed to boost another candidate to Trump’s level. At this point, I genuinely do not care who rises up among the top Republican contenders as long as Trump is not chosen as the Republican nominee. I’m aware that GOP does not favor Trump. I’m

With his continuous loss against his presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump did something that would be considered unpredictable for amongst Republican presidential nominees. Donald Trump openly ask for the votes of those who live in the inner cities, in his speech in Milwaukee Trump attacked the democratic party, some might say effectively too. With his speech Trump explained how the democratic party has been taking the votes of inner city people for granted. He even stated “Hillary Clinton-backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today, and a vote for her is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime and lost opportunities,” and with reason too he stated that the Democratic party policies

As Super Tuesday approaches, growing tension between the top three Republican nominees is higher than ever. During the debate prior to Super Tuesday, both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz carefully strategized attacks against front runner, Donald Trump. Although this tactic proved effective in shooting down Trump at the debate, Susan Davis from NPR looks as it being “too little too late”, saying that this should have been happening several months ago in order to inhibit Trump’s success. Just as things were starting to look down for Trump following the debate, he was able to gain momentum the next day by revealing Chris Christie’s endorsement. Clearly, this came as a shock to many people considering that Trump and the New Jersey Governor share very

Donald Trump has entered a new phase of autocratic weirdness. His attack on Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding in the lawsuit against Trump University, was a trifecta. It combined outright racism with an assault on the independent judiciary and a clear warning that Trump would use the presidency to settle personal business scores. His rants at reporters display contempt for the role of a free press. He would govern like a spiteful tyrant, with all the awesome powers of a president of the United States -- settling scores, punishing enemies, making impetuous, ignorant decisions. As this reality sinks in, Trump's campaign should be imploding about now. And it might be -- if other Republican leaders displayed a modicum of concern for