Based on the article Can Donald Trump Actually Be The GOP Nominee? by Dan Balz on the Washington Post.
What was unthinkable a few months ago now no longer is. Trump’s durability in national polls and his standing in the early states have forced GOP leaders — and all his rivals — to confront the possibility that the New York billionaire and reality TV star could end up leading the party into the fall campaign against the Democrats. Unless and until he actually wins primaries and caucuses, the race will remain what it has been for months: a confusing mash-up among a relative handful of candidates looking to pick up the pieces of a possible Trump breakdown. The GOP race is now commonly defined as a pair of contests. The first features Trump and Cruz fighting to emerge as the leading candidate in what is either defined as the anger lane, the populist conservative lane or the outsider lane. In their own ways, both Trump and Cruz embody the vibrant anti-establishment anger of the grass roots. The other contest is the battle among more mainstream conservatives, representatives in one form or another of a nervous party establishment worried about protecting down-ballot candidates in the fall.
That battle features Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Normally, the establishment is in the driver’s seat in nomination battles. This time, those candidates have found themselves on the defensive and struggling to adapt to a Trump-dominated environment.
In my opinion though, Trump still, as he did in the beginning, stands absolutely no chance to win the GOP primary. Trump brings out the radicals, which are the people who really stand up for what they believe in and that means entering in polls and things such as that. When the people hiding back behind the curtain come out for the election days, we will see as a nation that, although he put up a fight, Trump really never stood a chance. Our nation should be nervous though because the idea of having a radicalist in each post up clawing for the presidency is NOT where America should be. If we have Clinton and Trump in the two top seats, other nations and our own will see that as the end of the American empire because it truly will be.