Trump may have frittered away the only other commodity that is as valuable as money in an election campaign: time.
Trump’s biggest drawback is not what he says or how he says it but that he lacks experienced hands that can guide him as chief executive of a $17 trillion economy and commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military.
Cleveland is being forced into a rush job converting the Quicken Loans Arena from a basketball court into courting the Republican Party.
At the rate things are going the Republican National Convention may become every bit the cliffhanger that the Cavaliers-Warriors final was. After a couple of woeful weeks on the campaign trail Donald Trump has been looking less like a slam dunk for the nomination and more like the first presumptive presidential nominee who could foul out of a game.
Most pundits attribute Trump’s slippage to a series of misbegotten statements including knocking members of his own party whose support he needs and lashing out at the judge with Mexican parentage who is presiding over a class action suit in which Trump is the defendant. His comments in reaction to the Orlando massacre succeeded in offending both the politically correct with his anti-Muslim rhetoric and his own supporters with his callous and self-congratulatory tone.
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