National Review, sensing a growing tide of support among Republicans for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is trying to “push back now,” delaying Trump’s momentum and creating space for a “mainstream candidate” to emerge, Charles Krauthammer argued tonight on Special Report.
What’s so interesting about this, I think is the timing. I think there’s a reason why this is now coming out, National Review, pushing back. I think they have a sense, that we may be approaching a moment, an inflection point, where essentially the so-called establishment, I hate the term, the mainstream Republicans, decide to throw in the towel on the Trump candidacy. Have a sense that he’s inevitable. Some of them because they really can’t stand Cruz. But I think it’s larger than that. And you may get the beginning, beginning with a trickle maybe, a larger, a river or a stream, of establishment, mainstream governors or senators, I talked about this last night. You get one or two start to endorse Trump, essentially as a signal that it’s okay. He’s become normalized, the number of people who are against him, six or eight months ago, was about 60 percent, 59 percent as I recall. If you’re down to 15 percent, there’s an acceptance. That’s why I think the National Review people thought we got to push back now, make this a federal case and hope that this will be delayed or postponed until a candidate out of the mainstream emerges.
Krauthammer also mocked Donald Trump calling National Review “a dying paper.”
“It seems like anybody who attacks the Trump is dying one way or the other,” Krauthammer said. “Either a loser or gone or dying. It’s getting a little bit old.”
Krauthammer's Take: NR Pushing Back on Trump Until 'Mainstream Candidate Emerges'