See? I told you Trump would not be the nominee.

[RandySF]

In interviews this week, Mr. Trump insisted he was in the race to win, and took aim at “troublemakers” in the news media who, he said, were misrepresenting his remarks. “I’m never getting out,” he insisted Friday on MSNBC.

Mr. Trump keeps noting that he still leads in every major Republican poll and is in a political position that others would envy, and he says he will spend the money to keep his candidacy alive. But he conceded in another interview: “To me, it’s all about winning. I want to win — whereas a politician doesn’t have to win because they’ll just keep running for office all their life.”

He said he had not contemplated a threshold for what would cause him to get out of the race. And he noted that his crowds were even larger than those of Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who is drawing thousands to rallies in seeking the Democratic nomination.

While Mr. Trump still leads major national polls and surveys in early voting states, that lead has recently shrunk nationally, and the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed his support eroding in New Hampshire, the first primary state. His recent comments have lent credence to the views of political observers who had long believed the perennially self-promoting real estate mogul would ultimately not allow himself to face the risk of losing.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

[JudyM]

1. "he had not contemplated a threshold for what would cause him to get out of the race" bodes well

for more world-impacting decisionmaking down the road.

Exit strategy? Etc.

[louis-t]

2. Still a long way until primary season.

[pnwmom]

3. I've been saying all along that it would be Ben Carson. This doesn't surprise me at all.

No one's listening to what he's saying. His supporters just see a good looking brain surgeon with a nice, quiet voice and a very calm demeanor.

I can't believe they all support killing off Medicare, etc.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Exactly what I think:

political observers who had long believed the perennially self-promoting real estate mogul would ultimately not allow himself to face the risk of losing.

He'll lose to Hillary, but no one else. He can always excuse his loss to a Clinton. Dynasty.

[B Calm]

5. I hope he is.