Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump: The Battle Ahead
about eight-thirty last night, after the news came in that Donald Trump had trounced Marco Rubio in Florida, and that Hillary Clinton had won big victories over Bernie Sanders in Florida and North Carolina, Tony Fratto, who was a White House spokesman for George W. Bush’s Administration, tweeted, “What essentially happened today is @HillaryClinton was elected president. We have 8 months of hyperventilating before its official.”
Since overstatement is the norm on Twitter, this divination perhaps didn’t merit much attention, taken on its own. But it reflected a growing belief among Republicans in Washington that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are unstoppable, and that, come November, this will spell disaster for the Grand Old Party. By the end of the night on this Ides of March, the third successive primary Tuesday, the gloom in the Republican establishment had deepened further, as both Clinton and Trump had taken huge steps toward securing their respective parties’ nominations.
The picture is clearest on the Democratic side, where the Clinton campaign successfully derailed the Bernie Sanders Express, which roared out of Michigan last week. Her easy victories in Florida and North Carolina had been expected, but in defeating Sanders handily in Ohio—her margin of victory was more than ten points—and also coming out narrowly ahead in Illinois and Missouri, where Sanders had been campaigning hard, Clinton surprised even some of her own supporters.
In so doing, she confirmed some things that had been called into question: she can win big states outside the South, she can win in the Midwest, and, at least in some places, she can attract almost as many white voters as Sanders. In Ohio, exit polls showed that she had the support of fifty-three per cent of white voters and sixty-seven per cent of black voters. Among white women, she got sixty-one per cent. As long as she can split the white vote and win the non-white vote by large margins, she can’t be beaten.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/hillary-clinton-versus-donald-trump-the-battle-ahead
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And the media is there spinning out their responses as truth.
