Here’s the scariest part about a Trump nomination

This week, with the exits of Ted Cruz and John Kasich from the race to secure the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump became the face of the Republican party.

All but one major poll suggests Trump will lose quite handily to Hillary Clinton. In fact, he gets trounced by Bernie Sanders, too. You know what the scariest part about the Trump nomination is? He still might win.

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Early polling and nearly all the pundits thought Donald Trump would lose. He’s not a serious candidate who has had as many stances on the issues to sufficiently please and upset every constituency out there. Yet, people still voted for him. He offered no substantive plan on, well, anything. He has some cute lines (“We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with the winning”) and some crazy ones (he apparently thinks he can stop companies from doing business overseas; perhaps he’s trying to be King Trump).

But Trump has no plans. He just has words. And people fell for it, despite all the “expert” analysis saying he won’t ever win.

We know Clinton to be a deeply unpopular and flawed candidate. Independents do not like her. Clinton’s favorability rating with independent voters dropped 15 percentage points in the last several months. The media is under-reporting the “Bernie problem” of millions of voters who won’t ever support Clinton. Many will stay home, many others may even go to Trump (in interviews with Sanders supporters, I’ve been told some will jump to Trump if it’s a race against Clinton purely because they think he’s someone who will disrupt the system).

And the contrived “Clinton is a victim of sexism” line is already tired, and people just grow resentful of a candidate (and her supporters) who can only defend her positions by claiming any criticism is fueled by sexism.

So, experts and polls were wrong about Trump becoming the nominee. Given their track record and a flawed Clinton as an opponent, why shouldn’t we assume that the polls and experts are wrong now?

President Trump? That’s a scary notion.

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