Heilemann: Nothing National Review Could Do to Help Trump More than this Issue

SCARBOROUGH: “John Heilemann, I read an article of the week yesterday that said establishment fractured — John Heilemann, I read an article of the week yesterday that said if Trump does win Iowa, then what he could do would be a historic run. That he would be the first Republican candidate to [indecipherable] possibly every primary in America. That’s actually an establishment split in half in Washington D.C., but it sounds like a party more united than ever.”
HEILEMANN: “Well, yeah. Look, I mean, first of all, I’d say about the ‘National Review,’ there’s nothing the National Review could do more to help Donald Trump than to put out an issue like this. It’s like in kind campaign contribution for the establishment to attack Trump. (Laughter) It helps him with these people. It’s where Trump wants to be reinforces his message. And I think it’s possible — look, there’s an increasing sense among a lot of Republicans. Establishment and any establishment that if Trump does win Iowa and again, we can all right now see is kind of the trajectory. And I think there is no question in anybody’s mind that Cruz has been losing altitude, Trump gaining altitude in Iowa. If Trump wins Iowa, his strength here in New Hampshire is unchallenged. Everyone assumes basically that Trump is going to win the New Hampshire primary and that the only question is who’s going to come in second. If Trump wins Iowa and New Hampshire the likely [indecipherable] going in to South Carolina with a huge head of steam, and winning those first three, I believe if he were to do that he would be unstoppable.”