“Never had a Presidential campaign flamed out so spectacularly as that of Donald J. Trump in 2016,” wrote Mark Halperin in Game Over: The Shock Cruz Victory. “The object of media fascination in Iowa and a surprise winner in New Hampshire, the ludicrous political dreams of the host of the Apprentice were toast, sunk by the Access Hollywood Tape and the extraordinary revelations of E. Jean Carroll that dropped before South Carolina.” This left the field wide open for Ted Cruz to build up his impressive lead among Republicans, one that only widened with his choice of Carly Fiorina, the …read more
Source: The American Interest