I wrote a diary yesterday “October Surprise? Trump Drops Out” discussing my theory that Trump will drop out of the election.
Fast forward to early October. Trump has continued to fall in the polls. The writing is on the wall. Everyone can see that he’s going to lose badly. Hillary is going to destroy him electorally.
Trump’s been playing up the victim card of the election being “rigged” since early August, blaming Hillary, the DNC, the media, hollywood, etc on him losing.
On October 13, 2016, he announces that he’s dropping out. He doesn’t feel it’s worth continuing to run in this “rigged election”.
The diary got lots of good comments, but several thought the topic was nuts.
Where does this nonsense idea come from?
Yes, absolute nonsense. Trump has donated multiple millions of his own money to his campaign. He's not going to drop out.
But just one day later, ABC News reports that Republicans are discussing the chance that Trump may, in fact, drop out, or possibly need to be replaced due to his imploding campaign.
Jon Karl, the chief White House correspondent for ABC News, reported Wednesday morning that Republican officials were scrambling to plan for the possibility that Trump might suddenly quit the presidential race.
“This is absolutely unprecedented,” Karl reported. “First of all, I am told RNC chairman Reince Priebus is furious, that he has had multiple discussions with Trump telling him he needs to drastically change course. But here’s the news, I am told senior officials at the party are actively exploring what would happen if Trump dropped out, how to replace him on the ballot.”
“He is so unpredictable right now, they are so unable to control his message, that they just don’t know and clearly think it is a possibility, which is why they’re looking at these rules,” Karl said.
Just look at this week:
"I'm afraid the election's going to be rigged. I have to be honest," Trump told voters in Ohio, a crucial swing state.
"I could be having a very nice life right now," he said. "I don't have to be with you people ranting and raving." - Trump, 8/1 in Ohio (Nice slap at his supporters.)
There are reports that his campaign staff is "suicidal" -- the candidate is out of control and campaign manager Paul Manafort isn't challenging Trump any more.
Trump has already offered VP Pence to handle "domestic and foreign policy" so he can focus on "making America great". He doesn't really want to do the job of President. He just wants the fame and notoriety.
Every day Trump makes 2-3 comments that outrage voters.
He was on fire yesterday with multiple comments that were later criticized.
Then his repeated questions about the use of nuclear weapons. Trump makes me think of Martin Sheen’s character Greg Stillson from the movie “The Dead Zone”. We really don’t need to give Trump his chance to fulfill “his destiny”.
Is this hard to imagine?
VP Mike Pence: “Mr President. It was just a tweet. We don't need to go to war over a tweet."
President Trump: "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah!"
As a Democrat, I want him to take this all the way to the election, so he’ll destroy all the GOP down-ballot candidates, helping Democrats take the Senate and perhaps even take the House.
What do you think? Yesterday’s poll was 50-50.
