Trump Is Winning the ‘Third Major Revolution in the Republican Party Since WW II’

“The minute-to-minute coverage of the 2016 presidential primaries threatens to obscure the larger story: While Sen. Bernie Sanders is pressing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to move further and faster down the progressive road, Donald Trump is waging and winning the third major revolution in the Republican Party since World War II. … Mr. Trump’s candidacy has showed that the cadre of genuine social conservatives is smaller than long assumed, that grass-roots Republican support for large military commitments in the Middle East has withered, and that the business community is politically homeless. … So it has come to this: A mercantilist isolationist is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.

— William Galston, The Wall Street Journal

GOP Voters Overwhelmingly Back Trump’s Muslim Ban

69%

Of GOP voters in Pennsylvania exit polls Tuesday said they support “temporarily banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the U.S.” In New York last week, the number was 68 percent. “What was once furious Republican opposition to Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. has turned to virtual silence in the face of widespread GOP voter approval.”

— Byron York, Washington Examiner

Trump: Sanders Should Run as an Independent

Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats — both with delegates and otherwise. He should show them, and run as an Independent!

— Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that Bernie Sanders has been treated unfairly by the Democratic Party and that the Vermont senator should abandon his run for the Democratic nomination and instead seek an independent path to the White House,” Politico reports.

Billionaire Spending Big on Youth Vote

$25 million

Amount that Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist who spent millions to help elect Democrats in 2014, is spending to launch a campaign to drive the youth vote in November’s presidential and congressional elections, USA Today reports. “Steyer’s group, NextGen Climate, plans to target students on more than 200 college campuses in seven states that will be election battlegrounds in in November: Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, Illinois and Colorado.”

Election Bodes Ill for GOP

60%

Of Republican voters will support the eventual GOP nominee if their candidate is not chosen, a majority of Donald Trump supporters said they would vote for the businessman if he were to lose the nomination and run as a third-party candidate, according to a new Suffolk University/USA Today poll. Meanwhile, 40% of Republicans whose favored candidate is not nominated said they will vote for the Democratic nominee, seriously consider a third-party candidate, stay home on Election Day in November, or are undecided.