general election

Ross Douthat revisits his assumptions about Trump and the GOP:

Recently NBC's Chuck Todd asked Donald Trump if he would pledge to release his tax returns before the general election, to which Trump responded that he'd love to, except for the fact that he's still being audited.

"Sure. If the auditors finish. I'll do it as fast as the auditors finish. You don't learn much from tax returns. But I would love to give the tax returns. But I can't do it until I'm finished with the audit."

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

The latest Quinnipiac University Survey on the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is absolutely fascinating, and presents some very bad news for team Clinton, as well as all the clueless pundits who say Trump can’t win.

 

Following yet another victory for Bernie Sanders last night in West Virginia, Hillary Clinton's race to The White House suffered another, perhaps more critical blow. As The Hill reports, nearly half of the voters in the West Virginia Democratic primary who backed Bernie Sanders say they would vote for Republican Donald Trump in the fall presidential election, according to exit polls reported by CBS News.

Election Night 2014 was a triumphant night for professional Republicans. They had seemingly beaten back and vanquished the barbarians of whatever was left of the Thing That Had Been Called the Tea Party. They had run smart, slick, sane campaigns in purple states like Colorado. Most importantly, they had expanded their majority in the House of Representatives and won control of the Senate—an outcome that seemed well within their grasp during the previous midterm cycle of 2010.