With victories in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary, former President Donald Trump is on cruise control to the Republican Presidential nomination. It appears unlikely that any of his myriad of legal problems will reach a bad outcome for him prior to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee scheduled for July 15-18.
While Trump is clearly dominant among Republican primary voters, it is worth noting that his support is not unanimous. Suffice to say that fostering party unity is not Trump’s strong suit.
Trump talks and acts in a manner that shreds the old political maxim that elections are won through addition and inclusion, not subtraction and exclusion. Witness his New Hampshire primary night “victory” speech, which was a crude rant against Nikki Haley using language not appropriate for prime time broadcast television.
There was a nugget of under-reported information buried in the CNN entrance survey of Iowa Caucus attendees. CNN asked, “Is Donald Trump fit to be President if he is convicted?” — 31% percent responded “No.” That is a number which should shake both the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee to their foundations.