'Frightening': GOP pollster shows how Trump's rise wasn't due to the will of voters
Donald Trump just essentially wrapped up the GOP primary competition, but that didn't always seem like a possibility. A Republican pollster explains how it happened.
Sarah Longwell, the executive director of the Republican Accountability Project and publisher of The Bulwark, said it wasn't the will of the voters that toppled a mainstream GOP that was resistant to Trumpism. In fact, it was the Republican Party's embrace of Trump that made it possible.
"Just one week after the midterms, he entered the 2024 race, announcing his candidacy to a room of bored-looking hangers-on. Even his children weren’t there. Security had to pen people in to keep them from leaving during his meandering speech," Longwell wrote in a piece published in the Atlantic. "Today, thanks to Trump’s dominant performance in South Carolina, the Republican primary is all but over. Trump’s margin was so comfortable that the Associated Press called the race as soon as polls closed. How did we get here? How did Trump go from historically weak to unassailable?"...