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Who was going to stop Trump from running?

• rconti 10y ago
  There was already a political vacuum. Why else did we end up with 17 candidates in the primary? That's virtually unheard of. 16 candidates played more-or-less fair, while the 17th threw hand grenades at everyone. Everyone else tried to outlast him by focusing on each other. They gambled and lost. It's hard to see him winning the primary against a small handful of rivals. But even if you think he would have won against (say) Rubio and Cruz and Bush as his only competitors, it's hard to argue that the sheer size of the field indicated that the electorate had a very, very diverse set of interests.
• sidcool 10y ago
  Let's c, Republicans, voters and many others.