"He's flailing.... He's in a meltdown. He looks at his polls and he doesn't know who to blame. He blames his advisors, he's even blaming Fox News now, but he's just flailing. He's just throwing everything he can out and hoping he strikes a chord on something. But what he doesn't realize is, the base he has, the edges of that base are beginning to fray. That base is getting smaller and smaller. At the same time, because he's a Republican, he's causing a brand problem for Republicans. Mark my words, there is going to be a point in time where these folks are going to leave. Many of them will claim they didn't or don't support him, but in the meantime because they have gone along they've enabled him to do these outrageous things."
-Republican John Kasich
This now makes several times I have heard people say that the party is going to abandon him at some point prior to the election once polling becomes obvious that he can't win.. I heard someone else say they were going to distance themselves after Labor Day..
Democratic strategist James Carville has been my favorite to listen to on the topic because he's hilarious.
"There is a better chance that Donald Trump doesn't run, than there is that he is elected. I get private polls of all kinds every day, and it all confirms everything that we see now. Zero chance he gets re-elected. Someones going to have to tell him that he can't risk the humiliating defeat that is coming his way. That which can't continue will not. And the Republican Party can't continue in this direction. I'm serious. They can't."
-James Carville
"It's evident to everyone what is going to happen. This thing has gone so poorly, he's so far back, to me it doesn't even make sense for him to run. This is the Mitch strategy, after Labor Day we are going to turn on him. That's not going to work. McSally, Ernst, Sullivan, Lindsey Graham, etc have been licking his boots for 3 years but on Labor Day they plan to start distancing themselves. The chances of that working are 0. He is going to drag the whole outfit down with him. The guys over at The Lincoln Project are spending millions of dollars to just bludgeon him every day. I am part of group that has so far spent $75 million in rural counties. He (Trump) has no idea of what he's getting ready to get hit with. There are a lot more patriots in this country than he thinks, and people are outraged and they are coming together and they don't care if you are Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative. It's just a wonderful thing to see creative, energetic people coming together to extract this menace from the body politic"
-James Carville
Monmouth Poll shows 18% of country thinks we are on the right track
Politico Poll shows 25% of country thinks we are on the right track
Suffolk Poll shows 20% of country thinks we are on the right track
Pew Research Poll shows 12% of country thinks we are on the right track
