Rick Klein: “Donald Trump doesn’t do anything small. So it is that his campaign strategy – if that’s the word for it – will either wind up succeeding spectacularly or failing with even more splash and noise. Thursday night’s rally in Vermont will go down as a prime piece of evidence proving either case. It was a bold, in-your-face, loud and sometimes messy display of organizing strength in a state with few convention delegates and an extreme liberal bent. Or it was a chaotic and pointless waste of resources that showed the ugly side of the campaign and made a point of excluding undecided voters from the greatest political show of the season.”

“Most broadly, it’s a reminder that Trump is doing something real this year, something that erroneous assumptions about what works in running for president have served to document, not dilute.”

Reuters: “After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan.”

“Trump’s determination to sleep at home every night raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans, who say it could cost him.”

“A Politico review of private and public polling data and interviews with GOP pollsters shows a coalition that certainly begins with conservative, blue-collar men now extends to pro-choice Republicans, independents and even registered Democrats unnerved, primarily, by illegal immigration.”