“[Hillary Clinton] was an unqualified Secretary of State because the way she handled classified material. His [Trump's] selection for Secretary of State will be David Petraeus, who pled guilty to mishandling classified material. He said she was unqualified because she gave a speech to Goldman Sachs.…”— Jon Stewart, huffingtonpost.com
“Hillary Clinton's history of supporting interventionism puts her in a weird place to be portraying her opponent as trigger happy.”— Yousef Munayyer, commondreams.org
“I was reminded that Trump was still fundamentally a real estate developer with exactly zero previous campaign experience, who had gotten this far by spending only a fraction of what his opponents had and against the wishes of his party — who was as new to the idea of a Trump candidacy as the rest of…”— Robert Draper, nytimes.com
“It was the day before the New York primary, and Trump sat in the front of the eight-seater plane. 'I have to think about my speech now,' he told me, and began composing one on the spot. He leafed through various talking points and issue memos, from which he culled a few ideas that he then scribbled…”— Robert Draper, nytimes.com
“The candidate took in the good news with an oddly inert expression. 'Maybe I’ll get beat tomorrow,' he said, for at least the third time that day. Not a single poll had given him cause for worry. But for all his swagger, Trump had an awareness of unseen, deal-breaking contingencies that held his tri…”— Robert Draper, nytimes.com
“Mr. Trump has rendered useless the traditional rule books of American politics.”— Jim Rutenberg, nytimes.com
“The GOP is going to nominate for President a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it’s on the level.”— Mark Salter, washingtonpost.com
“Indiana further confirmed the ‘stop Trump’ efforts didn’t work and spending even more resources in an effort to keep him from the nomination will just be expensive political therapy or theatre at this point.”— Tim Pawlenty, washingtonpost.com
“If this is one of those moments in history where for various reasons the party has to play out nominating someone who is completely unelectable . . . so be it.”— Stuart Stevens, washingtonpost.com