Donald Trump’s Problem Isn’t Corey Lewandowski. It’s Donald Trump.
he has long lived by Lord Beaverbrook’s maxim: Never apologize, never explain.
.. Trump appears to be a one-trick pony. In focussing, verbalizing, and mobilizing the political alienation of a certain segment of the American population—one largely, but not exclusively, drawn from the ranks of working-class and middle-class white men—he has no equal. But in appealing to the voters he needs beyond his base—suburban white women and conservative minority voters particularly—he has demonstrated little or no aptitude.
.. After Republicans subjected Trump to a barrage of criticism, and one of them, Senator Mark Kirk, of Illinois, withdrew his endorsement, Trump resorted to a teleprompter for a speech he delivered on June 7th, the day of the California primary.
.. Republican leaders such as Ryan and Mitch McConnell appear to be giving at least tacit support to the effort to replace him on the ticket.
,, Trump still has a potential path to victory, albeit a narrow one. It involves shoring up his position in red states such as Arizona and Georgia, where recent polls show Clinton to be competitive; carrying Florida and North Carolina; and blazing through the Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.