# Trump could win the election in a nowcast by FiveThirtyEight

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**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-could-win-the-election-in-a-nowcast-by-fivethirtyeight/760846 "2016-07-25T13:36:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-could-win-the-election-in-a-nowcast-by-fivethirtyeight/760846/101 "2016-07-26T14:49:29Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> This is the part that continues to baffle me.
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> It’s not the media giving Trump a break. His idiocy has been, and continues to be, reported in all its richness. But his supporters are unmoved.
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> What would Trump have to do to get people to actually think about his actions, his so-called proposals? Kick a puppy on live TV? People would say that this is how puppies need to be trained.
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> It’s like I have stepped into a bizarre alternate universe. I oppose Clinton on so many policy levels, but she has a basic understanding of government and foreign policy. You may not endorse every decision she made as Secretary of State, BUT SHE SERVED AS SECRETARY OF STATE! She served in the US Senate!
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> How is this even a debate?

The vast majority of Trump’s supporters are angry white nationalists whose lives aren’t all that great and they look to Trump to right those wrongs. He cannot, and likely would not even significantly try in office, this core of supporters view anything he says as ‘sticking it to the man’, that has allowed black liberation, Hispanic immigration and other things they blame for the collapse of the “white man.”

This isn’t something easy for me, a life long Republican, to say–but the reality is the GOP is no longer a functioning political party. The White Nationalists we have tolerated to win elections have taken over the party, only a purging fire can restore it.

Clinton’s task is to make sure the “middling” voters who might vote Trump but aren’t his core supporters, recognize how inherently unfit for the Presidency he is and vote for her as the only remaining “competent candidate of a rational America.”

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