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Mosbacher, who has helped raise money for presidential campaigns, said Trump's net worth can give the appearance that "he can't be bought."

TPRJones wrote:And so begins the turn from "outside the beltway candidate who is shaking things up" to "corrupt politician eager to trade political favors for cash". It's earlier than I expected.

Their major focus appears to be the Senate, considering they have to win a net total of four seats to retake control of the chamber, though the more outside chance of also flipping the House now seems more attainable.
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Democrats would need to win roughly 30 seats in November to retake control of the lower chamber.

Donald Trump is epically unprepared to be president. He has no realistic policies, no advisers, no capacity to learn. His vast narcissism makes him a closed fortress. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know and he’s uninterested in finding out. He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa.
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"You could be living on a diet of lead paint, cheap vodka and Real Housewives and still know more than Trump does about, well, everything."
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"Trump is not a noninterventionist in foreign affairs; he's a national populist who will adopt any position that advances his political ends."
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"He's said terrible things about women, terrible things about the military. I don't understand why people are for him, for that reason." - Barbara Bush
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"At this point, I'd happily support a moderate. Would be more conservative than either of the two dishonest liberals now leading the Rs & Ds."
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"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."

“Donald Trump, who says if Hillary Clinton were a man she wouldn’t get 5 percent of the vote,” Maher said. “If Trump was a man he’d stop whining like a little bitch.”
Maher continued, “This is a guy who actually brags about his prowess at whining.”

The “Real Time” host made his case that nobody fits the stereotypically ’50s description of women better than the modern-day Trump.

“Irrational, pouty, vain, thin-skinned, hysterical and just not that bright, does that sound like anyone we know today?” the comic said.

“Who gets more hysterical than Lady Donald Trump?” Maher asked, noting how worked up the candidate gets over pet issues like Mexican immigrants, Muslims and building a wall.

“I thought they were trying to get clues about her illness,” he told The Associated Press in an email. “Instead, they tell me that the woman was concerned that I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper.”

He told The Washington Post that he laughed when he heard someone thought his differential equation was terroristic scribbling.

Leisher wrote:I'm seriously considering a vote for Trump just to spite Malcolm.

Malcolm wrote:Matters as much as yours.

this weird, rabid, almost uncomfortable hatred of "Donnie Dickbag," or however you say it.

But I have to admit, I also would get some entertainment out of Trump actually becoming president.