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82 days to Cleveland -- ‘DOMINOES FALLING’: Trump likely to clinch – ‘IT’S OVER ... I consider myself the presumptive nominee’ – MIKE MURPHY: ‘The lights are going out across the Republican Party’
Politico
By Mike Allen and Daniel Lippman
4/27/2016
Excerpt:
Good Wednesday morning. Donald Trump said last night after winning each of the five Acela Primary states by 29 or more points: “As far as I am concerned, it’s over. ... I consider myself the presumptive nominee – absolutely.” He’s right about both. To the pundits who’ll try to infuse next week’s Indiana primary – Ted Cruz’s last stand -- with melodrama and cosmic significance: Good luck. Trump won Connecticut by 29, Delaware by 40, Maryland by 31, Pennsylvania by 35, Rhode Island by 39. I think the voters are trying to tell us something.
--A top Republican insider laments that even with conservative calculations, he now projects Trump will cross the magic number of 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Cleveland convention: “The dominoes are falling, and you can’t stop them. ... Kasich staying in the race was an in-kind contribution to Trump. It blocked Cruz from ever getting his one-on-one shot.”
--OLD TRUMP was back for last night’s victory speech (gloating, off the cuff), and Corey Lewandowski was more prominent than Paul Manafort in the camera shot. Trump will have a teleprompter for today’s foreign-policy speech at noon in D.C. A speechwriter supplied a text, but MSNBC reports that Trump “rewrote it.”
--Kevin Madden tells us that for two months, the Trump wave has divided establishment Republicans into two camps: RESIGNATION and RESISTANCE camps – and RESIGNATION is winning. Madden says the too-little, too-late Never Trump movement “only changed the atmospherics, never the fundamentals.” He said it became “pure fantasy” to think you could derail Trump with the momentum he was picking up, going back to at least Nevada on Feb. 23.
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http://www.politico.com/playbook
Politico
By Mike Allen and Daniel Lippman
4/27/2016
Excerpt:
Good Wednesday morning. Donald Trump said last night after winning each of the five Acela Primary states by 29 or more points: “As far as I am concerned, it’s over. ... I consider myself the presumptive nominee – absolutely.” He’s right about both. To the pundits who’ll try to infuse next week’s Indiana primary – Ted Cruz’s last stand -- with melodrama and cosmic significance: Good luck. Trump won Connecticut by 29, Delaware by 40, Maryland by 31, Pennsylvania by 35, Rhode Island by 39. I think the voters are trying to tell us something.
--A top Republican insider laments that even with conservative calculations, he now projects Trump will cross the magic number of 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Cleveland convention: “The dominoes are falling, and you can’t stop them. ... Kasich staying in the race was an in-kind contribution to Trump. It blocked Cruz from ever getting his one-on-one shot.”
--OLD TRUMP was back for last night’s victory speech (gloating, off the cuff), and Corey Lewandowski was more prominent than Paul Manafort in the camera shot. Trump will have a teleprompter for today’s foreign-policy speech at noon in D.C. A speechwriter supplied a text, but MSNBC reports that Trump “rewrote it.”
--Kevin Madden tells us that for two months, the Trump wave has divided establishment Republicans into two camps: RESIGNATION and RESISTANCE camps – and RESIGNATION is winning. Madden says the too-little, too-late Never Trump movement “only changed the atmospherics, never the fundamentals.” He said it became “pure fantasy” to think you could derail Trump with the momentum he was picking up, going back to at least Nevada on Feb. 23.
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View the complete article at:
http://www.politico.com/playbook