BOSTON (WHDH) - This was the day former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was waiting for. As her final Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, conceded that she, not he, will be the party’s nominee for president, the first woman ever.
Clinton is cruising. Add up all the polls and she’s up nationally by 5 percent. Forty-six to 41 percent against Donald Trump. Then look at the battleground states: New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Ohio. She’s leading the polls in every one of them.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump seems stuck. Taken off the offensive by the police ambush in Dallas. He’s also looking for someone to run with him who won’t say no, as well as guarding against any move to take the GOP nomination away from him.
And as a final insult, he has to listen to candidates he beat call him a loser:
“There isn’t going to be a wall built,” said former Gov. Jeb Bush. “And Mexico’s not going to pay for it. And there’s not going to be a ban on Muslims. None of that is–this is all like a–alternative universe that he created. The reality is, that’s not going to happen. And people are going to be deeply frustrated and the divides will grow in our country.”
The Republican National Convention begins next week, and Donald Trump will have as big an audience as he’s ever had. Trump needs a great convention, filled with surprises and, most of all, seriousness. If he doesn’t produce that, you can start to see the dead end sign on his road to the White House.
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