Headline Roundup • May 4th, 2016
Can Trump Win?
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Washington Times
Donald Trump’s path to victory in November runs through disaffected white working voters who the GOP hopes can force the election into Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and other states that haven’t been in play for decades.
Analysts said it’s a tricky path, fraught with potential pitfalls — not least of which is Mr. Trump’s own brash style, which could alienate millions of moderate and independent voters and could help keep minority turnout at the 2008 and 2012 rates that powered President Obama to two victories.
USA TODAY
The Republican nomination is in his grasp. Now the question becomes: Can Donald Trump win the White House?
With a decisive victory in the Indiana primary Tuesday, the billionaire businessman who was initially ridiculed as a fringe candidate was declared the party's presumptive nominee by Republican National Chairman Committee Reince Priebus. Trump has defeated 16 primary rivals, including some of the GOP's top governors and senators, and defied the conventional wisdom that he wouldn't run and couldn't win.
His primary rivals and other senior Republicans have argued that Trump's lack...
New York Times (News)
A general election matchup between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton became all but certain on Tuesday after Mr. Trump’s decisive victory in Indiana. He would begin that matchup at a significant disadvantage.
Yes, it’s still a long way until Election Day. And Mr. Trump has already upended the conventional wisdom many times. But this is when early horse-race polls start to give a rough sense of the November election, and Mr. Trump trails Mrs. Clinton by around 10 percentage points in early general election surveys, both nationally and in...
