Don’t Blame Never Trump
by Rich Lowry October 21, 2016 12:00 AM Never Trumpers did not force the Donald to self-destruct. No one can accuse Kellyanne Conway of complacency. She is already preparing for post-election recriminations. Donald Trump’s campaign manager has recently cited Hillary Clinton’s financial advantage, media bias, and President Barack Obama’s popularity as reasons Trump should be losing to Clinton even more badly. She also floated the stabbed-in-the-back thesis:
“We have the Never Trumpers,” she said in a MSNBC interview, “who are costing us 4 or 5 percent in places.” No one can doubt that Trump is at a financial disadvantage (which is why he either should have spent more of his purported $10 billion on his campaign, or built a serious fundraising operation); that the media hate him (it also hated Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, who won four presidential elections between them); or that Obama is popular (alas). It is the claim about Never Trump that is risible, and will set the stage for the initial hostilities in the impending post-election Republican Civil War. The Trump forces have never gotten their story straight about Never Trump. At times, the GOP’s internal opposition is supposed to be irrelevant; at other times, it is invested with more sinister significance than the Doctors’ Plot at the height of Josef Stalin’s paranoia. Which is it?
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441291/donald-trump-2016-kellyanne-conway-blames-never-trump-trumps-slide/
