Halperin: If Anyone Else Had a Night Like Trump, the GOP Would Fall in Line

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SCARBOROUGH: "It’s very interesting Mark Halperin. We got skewered four years ago for trying to explain to Nate Silver’s worshipers that sometimes politics can’t just be distilled to numbers. That sometimes things that don’t make sense happen in American politics and a lot of the things that we put up there where Nate silver’s prediction which is had been wrong about Donald Trump from the beginning. Sometimes there’s a ghost in the machine, sometimes things just happen."
HALPERIN: "Flesh and blood matters. This was not the strongest need a generation, it was the most overrated need a generation, that helped trump. But Trump has shown himself to be one of the most extraordinary candidates, particularly as a first-time candidate, any of us have ever seen for the presidency and his message, as Nicolle suggested is, resonated well more than anyone else’s. I’ll say again, he’s the overwhelming favorite for the nomination right now based on both what he’s done and what’s coming up ahead but as John Heilemann said, normally what would happen in the Republican party after a night like Trump had last night is everybody falls into line. I don’t think everybody will fall into line. They’re not done trying to stop him but they’ll have a heck of a time trying to stop him."