“WHEN you crack 60 with three people, that is hard to do.” That was Donald Trump’s boast after sweeping all five of the Republican presidential primaries held on Tuesday night, against two opponents and in some cases by more than 60%. He had a point, even if the electoral terrain was always likely to be favourable to the New York-born businessman. True, the five primaries were held in the north-eastern states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware, where chin-jutting, Tell-It-Like-It-Is voters angry about globalisation outnumber the evangelical Christians and stern social conservatives who have elsewhere favoured Mr Trump’s only serious rival, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
But the larger story of the night was the failure of the “Never Trump” alliance—an always-brittle coalition involving Mr Cruz, the third-placed contender Governor John Kasich of Ohio and Republican bigwigs who fear that Trumpian bigotry will lose them the general election in November (though they are not sure how to win without the tycoon’s bigotry-cheering voters). From blighted, post-industrial towns in Pennsylvania to leafy...Continue reading
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