For weeks many reporters and commentators had wrongly predicted and expected that there would be an open and contested Republican convention.
After a landslide victory in the state of Indiana, Trump’s opponents Ted Cruz and John Kasich have dropped out of the presidential race.
Mr. Trump’s victory is unprecedented in American politics. First he was ridiculed as an entertainer who was merely pretending to be running for president. They said he was a joke. Then he was ridiculed and denounced for his initial campaign announcement. By misrepresenting his words, writers denounced him as a racist and a bigot.
Entire news outlets, such as the Huffington Post and the New York Daily News ruthlessly attacked Trump. When Trump came in second in the Iowa caucuses, news commentators repeatedly insisted that, “Trump is a loser.”
When Trump then won the New Hampshire primary, The Huffington Post posted this headline on its front page: “NH GOES RACIST SEXIST XENOPHOBIC.” Unable to grasp that they themselves, the Huffington Post, systematically misrepresented Trump’s statements.
If he insulted particular women, especially, the comedian Rosie O’Donnell, Huffington claimed that he was sexist “against women,” as if he had such views against all women.
When he claimed that the immigration of Muslims into the US should be stopped, until the U.S. authorities could distinguish between which of them are not terrorists, the Huffington Post said, in many articles, that Trump “repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims – 1.6 billion members of an entire religion – from entering the U.S.”
In reality, Trump had repeatedly specified that “of course” there would be many exceptions, including: U.S. Muslim military personnel could enter and reenter the U.S., as well as American Muslims who are traveling, as well as Muslim businessmen, Muslim ambassadors and politicians, Muslim athletes, etc. The ban was only on immigration, it would be temporary, and he proposed that it would be lifted quickly.
When Trump won southern states that were expected victories for Senator Cruz, again commentators thought that Trump would nevertheless soon collapse.
Trump was denounced by ABC’s The View, The National Review, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the White House, and British Parliament, among many others. Almost every newspaper, with very few exceptions, vigorously opposed the candidacy of Donald Trump, not only in editorial un-endorsements, but in countless many articles.
Hundreds of members of the “Republican establishment” repeatedly criticized and denounced Trump, including governors, senators, congressmen.
Conservative news commentators such as George Will, Karl Rove, and radio personalities, such as Glenn Beck thoroughly belittled and criticized Trump. For example, Beck said that the Evangelical Christians “are not listening to their God” when they vote for Trump, whereas Cruz would be “the next George Washington” and had been “anointed” by God and “raised for these times.”
Thousands of people protested loudly against Trump, especially outside of Trump campaign rallies in many states. Some of the incidents were violent and some people were arrested.
The FBI investigated death threats against Mr. Trump. A letter with mysterious white powder was received at the New York apartment of his son, Eric Trump. It was not the deadly powder anthrax, but the letter threatened that if Trump did not drop out of the race, the next one would be real.
By March 2016, a total of more than $63 million had been spent on broadcast ads against Trump, according to an ABC News analysis of CMAG/Kantar Media data.
Yet Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President of the United States
He did it while spending far less money than other candidates.
In the history of U.S. politics, never before has one candidate received more critiques and ridicule as Donald Trump.
Having had no previous experience at all holding any political office, Trump will be the nominee. No other person has done this, since General Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.
Never before has a candidate for the Republican nomination won as many votes in a primary. And the primary is not even over.
I think its great to finally have a candidate who really isn’t a politician or a washington operator. the sad thing will be seeing how they buy him, how he crumbles and sells out
There are ways to undo this mess. Trump is a dangerous demagogue and should not be taken so seriosuly.
this is the end of the Republican party, did you forget to report that?