There Will Be No Republican Unity in 2016
Trump fans gleefully point to his 7.5 million votes in the primary so far, and forget that the universe of voters in the general election will be on a completely different scale — probably 130 million voters. (Mitt Romney won 10 million primary votes.)
.. Last night, Bill O’Reilly offered an odd defense of the GOP front-runner: “The reason I think Trump won in Florida is because he comes across as more authoritarian. Not authoritative, authoritarian.”
.. And if you think “authoritarian” is too harsh a term for the Trump philosophy, last night his spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, contended the campaign had the right to ban reporters he doesn’t like or who write pieces that Trump doesn’t like from his events:
If you have a reporter that is not really reporting, just doing constant hit pieces for no reason, then that’s something we need to look at. We have a lot of reporters who essentially have just been glorified bloggers who aren’t really interested in covering the campaign or the race for that matter, they’re just out there trying to start trouble.