Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday that if the “anti-Trump” vote in the Republican Party remains split, “Trump will win the nomination.”
Appearing on Fox News’ “Special Report” with Brett Baier, Krauthammer said “the reason it looks like [there is] a wholesale revolt [in the GOP] is because the anti-Trump vote is so split.” (RELATED: Ted Cruises Past Trump In New National Poll)
Referencing the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and the Quinnipiac University poll, Krauthammer said, “[T]he one thing they agree on is that if you take Trump against the field, the field wins. And that’s why I thought the numbers you just showed of a hypothetical one-on-one of a Cruz against a Trump, Rubio against Trump with a 16-point lead, that tells you what we have been saying, which is so obvious for the last six months, that the problem in this race is not necessarily that there is a wholesale majority revolt of Trumpites against the Washington establishment.”
“What there is is a significant plurality. But the reason he is way ahead and it looks like a wholesale revolt is because the anti-Trump vote is so split,” Krauthammer argued. “And if it consolidates, it would beat him. The problem is it has not consolidated and if the vote remains split, it may never consolidate and Trump will win the nomination.”
According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, head-to-head, [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] beats Trump 56 percent to 40 percent and [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore] beats Trump 57 percent to 41 percent.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has Cruz leading Trump 28 percent to 26 percent nationally, followed by Rubio with 17 percent and John Kasich with 11 percent. Ben Carson has 10 percent, and Jeb Bush has four percent. (VIDEO: Trump Downplays Front-Runner Status Ahead Of South Carolina)
But according to the Quinnipiac University poll, Trump is in the lead with Trump has 39 percent, Rubio has 19 percent, Cruz has 18 percent, Kasich has six percent and Bush and Carson have four percent, with nine percent of the electorate still undecided.
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