Welcome to The Lid, your afternoon dose of
the 2016 ethos… Donald Trump is feuding on Twitter with Samuel L.
Jackson over their golf skills. Which we can only assume with end with
the two of them doing an elaborate re-enaction of the "Big Kahuna
Burger" scene from Pulp Fiction.
'16 from 30,000
Even though it might not feel like it in this
crazy news cycle, (see: arguing about Marco Rubio's shoes), we're
getting close to actual voters making actual, consequential decisions
about candidates. Our big sib First Read wrote
this morning about how *unacceptable* most of the establishment GOP
candidates are to their own electorate. The flip side of that coin is
just how much Donald Trump has traveled from being unacceptable to
being, well, pretty okay, actually. In March 2015, only 23 percent of
GOP voters said they could see themselves supporting Trump. Now?
Fifty-eight percent. National Journal's Ron Brownstein
makes a great point today noting how the "Trump Gap" is increasing.
Meaning: As Republicans increasingly view Trump as a conceivable
nominee, Democrats and independents view him as LESS acceptable. It sets
up a scenario where, if Trump actually wins the party nod, he'll need
to win back really significant ground with these groups fast to have a
prayer of being successful in the general election. And he'd probably
start in a deeper hole than any GOP nominee in recent memory.
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