Wallace: ‘I’m Beginning To Believe’ Trump ‘Could Be Elected President of the U.S.’

WALLACE: “I have got to tell you, Lisa, I know all of us dismissed Trump early on, all of us, the so-called experts, the summer fling, momentary amusement.  As I watched that interview, and I heard what he had to say about the country and about trade and about losing, and just the sheer force of his personality, I am beginning to believe he could be elected president of the United States.”
LERER: “Well, I’m not going to take that bet, but I will say by the conventional rules —“
WALLACE: “You would take that bet?  You think I’m wrong?”  
LERER: “I’m not going either way. I don’t know. By the conventional rules of politics, this is a guy that should have been out of the race a long time ago. His numbers should have dropped after the summer, maybe even before, and we shouldn’t have him being such an outsize presence, as the front-runner in this primary, but he remains so. So he’s defying all these rules. We have no reason to expect he won’t continue to defy all these rules. The next debate will be a really interesting moment to see how he does. He did sort of seem to fade from the stage a bit when the last debate got a little more policy oriented.  He also started to look a little bored.”  
WALLACE: “It was three hours long. I was bored too. It was a human rights abuse.”
LERER: “It was very long, very tiring. I mean, flying around in your jet from your various penthouses across the world is an awful lot more fun than running for president, which turns out can be kind of grueling and hard. So there is a question I think at some point, does Trump himself get tired of this process? Does it seem like it’s happening now?”
WALLACE: “I have to tell you, in the time I’ve spent with him, I don’t think he’s the least bit tired. He flew up for an event in New Hampshire on Friday. He was down in Virginia, not just to do the interview, he was making a speech in Virginia. George, I know you’re going to just look at me and shake your head. The voters are angry, they are fed up, they want something different, they want somebody to knock down the pillars of the temple, he’s their man.”