# Trump's Republican primary campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1953
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/1953 "2016-02-16T09:02:20Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Several folks have suggested Trump’s campaign began as a lark or a prank and he was amazed to find himself surfing the frontrunner wave. > > Your ideas are another reasonable interpretation. If he’s not actually pissed at Jeb, maybe he’s whacking Jeb to get back at GHWB or GWB for something they did way back when. He’s known for holding grudges. > > Alternative: > History is also full of folks who looked like the heir apparent nominee from well before formal campaigning began until about now when they began to flag and then they fell by the wayside in March or April. > > It might just be that Trump’s star has burned brightly, but alas :), not longly enough. We’re now seeing the first sputterings of the fade-out. So what is this? The 69th time someone’s made a prediction of the inevitable doom of TRUMP because he said a big no-no about Megyn Kelly or John McCain or the Bushes? The Donald was never “heir apparent” nominee-even as he consistently led the mediarati sought to marginalize his lead as temporary and he’s been just as strong if not stronger since the beginning of voting finishing at a respectable second in a state which in many ways is the antithesis of his campaign and winning a crushing victory in New Hampshire. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828)._