# Trump's Republican primary campaign

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/4068 "2016-05-02T09:23:46Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Be more efficient to have him take the nomination, then in November let the world know just how offensive sane Americans find the entire Republican Party.

Last summer, I [thought this would be the most cleansing, least likely event](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18547072&postcount=411) for the Republican Party.

I’ll quote the penultimate line of that post:

> [@Donald Trump announces presidential run](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/411):
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> November 2016 is beautiful beyond words for all of us bitter schadenfreude addicts who read The Free Republic.

At that point, I thought Jeb would eventually stagger away with the nomination and stumble through a gaffe-filled Romneyesque general election, and I secretly feared Rubio would quietly maneuver himself into the top spot and be a genuinely challenging opponent for Clinton. Little did I know how far the rot in the core of the modern Republican Party had progressed, and how incapable it was of fighting off diseases like Trump and Cruz.

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