Back Quote by Harry Enten
“The failure of the GOP establishment to back a single Trump alternative in 2016 was part of the reason he was able to win the nomination. Elected Republican officials were split on whom they wanted to be the nominee, and Trump was able to take advantage of this divided field.”
![“If [Donald] Trump loses narrowly, it will make it much harder for the GOP to unify. Under that scenario, the Trumpists are likely to argue that the election was lost because the Republican establishment failed to rally around the choice their own voters made.” quote by Mara Liasson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78d/mara-liasson-8465_arguing_if-donald-trump-loses-narrowly-it-will-m_2491336.jpg)
![“The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/119/noam-chomsky-42_candidates_the-republican-primaries-were-quite-inte_118352.jpg)
![“Republican party leaders have been worrying about the damage a [Donald] Trump nomination could do to the party, but also what might happen if he left the GOP and took his supporters with him. But Trump said he would stay a Republican and do everything in his power to beat Hillary Clinton.” quote by Ted Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/713/ted-cruz-487_beats_republican-party-leaders-have-been-worry_1082665.jpg)
