“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
– Actual wording of often misquoted phrase by Mark Twain
Less than a month ago, much of the traditional and new media were writing gleefully about the likely demise of the Republican Party.
“The rats are trying to desert the sinking ship,” a submission on FreeThoughtBlogs.com said. “… All that has changed is that the size of his defeat will probably be larger.”
“You do not need a statistical model to know that Donald J. Trump is in a lot of trouble,” The New York Times wrote last month. ” Now it’s fair to wonder whether he’ll drag down the whole Republican Party.”