Ross Douthat ✔ @DouthatNYT
I remember when Trump was going to get half the Jeb/Carson/Christie vote and cruise to 45 percent.
6:28 AM - 8 Mar 2016
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He has a bare majority of his own party saying they’d be satisfied with his nomination and nearly a third say they’d be “very dissatisfied,” twice as many as say so for any of the other final three. Among the wider electorate, his favorable rating is 30/67(!) and, as noted in the excerpt, he’s collapsed on key “presidential” qualities:
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