What if Trump had calculated to go the Bernie Sanders on steroids route as a Dem and geared his campaign toward Dailykos and Slate readers instead of Sup Forums and Breitbart?
Personally, I think he could have defeated Clinton and then Jeb or whoever in the general.
What do you all think?
No, if Trump chose the side of lies, well, Hillary is better at it, and she would have won.
If he ran that way in '08 maybe. If he did it this year the DNC would have railroaded him for HER TURN. If Shill somehow miraculously died or something it probably would have been him v Rato and doubling down on Obama doesn't seem like a hot idea.
Trump 2000 was basically this.
Hell he probably would have won. He used to be a well loved celebrity by everyone and hung out with rappers when his image was classy refined rich guy and not tanned crass TV star .
Hillary was the next nominee since 2008. Not a goddamn thing was stopping that.
After years of calling Obama and illegitimate Kenyan? No.
No. Democrats aren't retarded enough to believe his brand of bullshit. He would have been destroyed the moment the "pussy" tapes came out.
To normal functioning humans, that is inexcusable. Not to republicans though. They're highly deficient.
Hillary bought and paid for her nomination through bribes.
Trump could not have gotten the nomination from democrats, even if here were beating her.
They are too corrupt.
Hillary started that though as a means to destroy him, not realizing how far gone and cucked her own party.
Its funny leftists want Trump to carry that mantle but Hillary literally crafted and invented it.
Wouldn't even be an issue on anyones mind save for conspiracy theorists if it wasn't thanks to her.
He would have been cockblocked in the primaries. His best shot would probably have been 2004, against an incumbent bush.
What a fucking shitshow.
Hillary, Trump and Bernie in a debate.
I'm maybe mistakenly assuming that just by virtue of running Dem he would have been covered in an entirely different light.
Obviously no stuff about the Mexicans to start. But say he introduced his campaign with a full pitched Black Lives Matter rally and railed about the crooked Democrat establishment..
Idk. Just seems like if he beat her in a general he likely could have strategized and beat her in a smaller race
Hillary Clinton would have stolen the election from trump just like she stole it from Bernie sanders.
>Implying that if Trump was the golden child media baby that they ever would have released the pussy tapes
Y'all don't understand partisanism
No, because Trump would have called her a fucking cheater and not given her a pass on her security felonies, unlike that pussy Sanders.
In 04 or 08 he could have probably won as a dem.
But after the birther thing that ship sailed.
>Hillary wouldn't have released the pussy tapes at the opportune time
You are retarded, which is why you voted for Trump.
This election has shown that the Democratic Party is too controlled to let an outsider win.
trump basically did run as a democrat
The birther thing is the only thing that makes me see it as unrealistic. But if you extend the hypothetical backwards and say he never made an issue of it, then I think the calculus really enters into his favor
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In our timeline: "The general election is not rigged, Donald"
In OP's proposed timeline: "The primary election is not rigged, Donald"
Same shit, except this time Hillary wins and we all get drafted to go shoot Iranians.
Doesn't matter. Clinton had it in the bag from the start due to superdelegates. Trump was smart to run as a Republican because they had no real way to shut down a legitimate nomination victory.