Ruth Marcus: Trump’s ‘The Victim of Friendly Fire — He’s Shooting Himself’

MARCUS: "He’s trying, but he’s the victim of friendly fire, which is he’s shooting himself. And, you know, when you have a week where the — your campaign manager is accused of battery against a reporter and that’s not the worst thing that happens to you in the week, that’s a really bad week. And I thought the abortion answer continuing with your questioning of him was really revelatory and a problem for Donald Trump on three different levels. First, it illustrated — we’ve been talking a little bit on the conventional wisdom that’s been emerging, Donald Trump doesn’t know enough of what he’s talking about when he’s talking about when he’s talking about foreign policy. That’s not correct. Donald Trump doesn’t know enough of what he’s talking about when he’s talking about policy, period. Number two, he says something and then when it turns out to be wrong, it’s not his fault, it’s the questioning. It’s the questioning. It was hypothetical or it was convoluted. And the third part is, managing to alienate both sides simultaneously, which is really quite magnificent because I really — I have to just point out, that if you look at Donald Trump’s position on — actual position on abortion, it is less extreme than Ted Cruz’s position on abortion. Ted Cruz would not have exceptions for rape or incest in cases of abortion. And where Donald Trump said, including to you, that he’d like to leave it to the states, Ted Cruz wants to make it illegal everywhere."