Republicans who hope that Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will not be their party’s presidential nominee might find some relief from The Four Faces of the Republican Party: The Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination, an excellent new book by Henry Olsen and Dante Scala. But if Trump and Cruz end up being the last candidates standing, Olsen and Scala’s analysis, and the analysis by others, suggests that Trump, not Cruz, could be the favorite for the nomination, even though neither candidate seems much like the kind of person who typically wins Republican nominations. CONT.
Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball