{"id":12986,"date":"2016-05-05T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:51:13","slug":"they-brought-this-on-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986","title":{"rendered":"They brought this on themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/03\/politics\/ted-cruz-drops-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/john-kasich-is-ending-his-presidential-candidacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Kasich<\/a> ending their campaigns <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\">The Donald<\/a> has pretty much wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination.\u00a0 I suspect this will go very badly for them even if he wins.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the GOP has brought this on themselves both at the New York state and national level.\u00a0 Their cowardice, incompetence and complacency are to blame.\u00a0 I would like to think that maybe Trump&#8217;s behavior is going to change, but at the moment that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/trump-national-enquirer-rafael-cruz-not-involved\/2016\/05\/04\/id\/727294\/\" target=\"_blank\">is not happening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, here is some commentary from people who think Trump can win in November:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/04\/my_gut_trump_beats_hillary_in_landslide\" target=\"_blank\">My Gut: Trump Beats Hillary in Landslide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/05\/04\/trump-white-house-electoral-college-key-states-republican-election\/83863926\/\" target=\"_blank\">If Donald Trump wants to beat Hillary Clinton, he needs to win these 5 states<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/05\/04\/3-reasons-donald-trump-can-win-against-hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">3 reasons Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton and win the presidency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/yes-trump-can-beat-hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commentary: Yes, Donald Trump can beat Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12986&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With both Ted Cruz and John Kasich ending their campaigns The Donald has pretty much wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination.\u00a0 I suspect this will go very badly for them even if he wins. Of course, the GOP has brought this on themselves both at the New York state and national level.\u00a0 Their cowardice, incompetence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12986&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12986\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12998,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions\/12998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}