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The GOP establishment's risky bet on Trump
Former Sen. and GOP presidential nominee Bob
Dole made a pretty stunning admission yesterday: If forced to choose
between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, he'd pick Trump. "I question his
allegiance to the party," Dole said of Cruz, per the New York Times.
But Dole added that Trump could "probably work with Congress, because
he's, you know, he's got the right personality and he's kind of a
deal-maker." (Dole told NBC's Andrea Mitchell last month that he "might
oversleep" on Election Day if Cruz is the GOP nominee.) New York
magazine's Jonathan Chait
lists other parts of the GOP establishment that have warmed up to Trump
-- including the Wall Street Journal's editorial page and Rupert
Murdoch. And Cruz, not surprisingly, has fired back at the
establishment. "We see the Washington establishment abandoning Marco
Rubio and unifying around Donald Trump," he said yesterday, according to
NBC's Vaughn Hillyard. But when you look at the feeling thermometer in
the latest NBC/WSJ poll, the GOP establishment might be making a risky
bet here on Trump:
Trump's overall positive/negative score: 29% positive, 58% negative (-29)
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Source: NBC News
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