You might say that Mr. Donald Trump “choked” in Wisconsin.
As he would point out (were he not the candidate in question), he should have won the state. The February Marquette University poll had him leading Marco Rubio there by ten percentage points, and Ted Cruz by eleven. In November, he led Cruz by ten points. By his own standards, that makes him a “terrible candidate.”
I’ve spent very little time in Wisconsin, and haven’t been to the state for years. But I feel a real obligation now to go there and lay down some tourist dollars. Or, at least, to go out and buy some Wisconsin cheese. Here, in case you would like to hum along, is the Wisconsin fight song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmE8xl072A
It’s certainly possible that Trumpism will rebound from yesterday’s defeat. The battle within the Republican Party for limited government, honor, human decency, unborn children, respect for women, and fidelity to the Constitution isn’t over, and genuine conservatives can’t even think about relaxing yet. But Wisconsin may prove to be a pivotal moment in this thus-far quite wretched presidential campaign — see here for inspiration — and the Leader’s path to the nomination has just become considerably steeper than it once was.
Responding to the Leader’s decisive Wisconsin loss, Trumpist Campaign Command issued a characteristically ill-mannered and ungrammatical official statement — one might say, in its own style, that it’s “a graceless statement that is graceless” — in which it closely followed the guidelines supplied here. (Note: In Trump-speak, The Establishment is currently defined as “anybody or anything that opposes Trumpism.”) A second statement, pointing out the physical unattractiveness of the women of Wisconsin, is anticipated later today.
In the meanwhile, Andy Borowitz, who writes humor for The New Yorker, posted an important news dispatch at 7:16 this morning:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report
To which, I’m told, the Leader replied roughly as follows: “I’m a very good loser. In fact, I’m the biggest and best loser in the country!”
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