Five Reasons Trump Is Weaker Than He Looks

Published March 2, 2016 5:20am ET



There’s a classic scene in First Blood where John Rambo declares, “Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don’t turn it off!”

So let’s go with that for a moment. You’ll get no shortage of Trump-is-the-nominee talk today. At worst, he’s in a very strong position. At best, he’s the presumptive nominee. But even though I’m a born-pessimist, I’m not quite sure that I’m convinced by the best-case (for Trump) argument. So for the sake of argument, let’s lay out the case for why Super Tuesday was not actually a campaign ender.

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