Krauthammer: Trump ‘Most Improbable Presidential Victory Since Jimmy Carter’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "Look, between now and the first debate, this will be the last time he’s going to have an audience of this size, and he’ll be able to make that case. And remember, in the debate, that is sort of a jousting affair. That depends on the other player. That’s a game of tennis. This is a personal display. What will be interesting to me, less the contempt but the demeanor. He’s where Reagan was in 1980, in the sense that the other side discredited itself by its record in office. The question with Reagan, as it is today with trump, does he meet the minimal threshold for competence and fitness for the presidency. The 1980 campaign ended when Reagan, who was going to be the warmonger, turned to Jimmy Carter and said oh, there you go again. It was over."
BAIER: "Briefly down the road here, starting with you, Charles, about this journey. You officially are putting a black chip now on Donald Trump. But your bets have gone really from nothing —"
KRAUTHAMMER: "I put the $100 on Monday this week."
BAIER: "You were in. But quickly about the journey."
KRAUTHAMMER: "This is the most improbable presidential victory since Jimmy Carter, and it is more improbable than Jimmy Carter, because Carter was at least a governor. Donald Trump struck the chord, he found the issues. I think overplayed here and there in a way I would not approve of. But he did it in a way that had eluded 15 other competitors who were veterans."