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It’s Trump’s Party Now

February 21, 2016 · 7:22 am ET · 57 Comments

New York Times: “For the past year, party leaders who had pleaded with Mr. Bush to run and armed his campaign with a record-shattering war chest of $100 million had consoled themselves with assurances that Mr. Trump’s popularity in the polls would never translate into victory at the ballot box.”

“Mr. Trump, it turned out, knew their voters better than they did. Mr. Trump’s commanding back-to-back primary wins in two disparate regions of the country have forcefully shaken the Republican firmament out of a prolonged state of self-denial.”

Rick Klein: “Donald Trump now owns the Republican party. The only question left is whether what’s left of the GOP establishment can winnow the field fast enough to take it back.”

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