The professional political apparatus have worked earnestly to try every scheme, angle and manipulative dirty trick in the book to eliminate the frontrunner of the republican presidential primary. Despite spending hundreds of millions, the GOPe have consistently failed; due in large part to a more in-tune electorate well aware of their ploys.
Last night the Miami-Dade debate returned to a more civil confrontation, and candidate Donald Trump benefitted from the shift. Mr. Trump reminded the republican audience in the auditorium and at home that millions of newly engaged people were joining the party, switching party registration, and aligning with the republican insurgency he’s leading.

The RNC had previously done an autopsy on their historic failings; and Trump reminded the entire party apparatus he was bringing into the tent exactly the coalition they previously identified as necessary.
There was/is a large sense of irony in Trump delivering where the republican party has failed, and yet the party itself seemed less than accepting of the new, more broad, coalition. In his opening statement, Trump put them on notice. (more…)