The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
It’s been another not-great 24 hours for the Trump Man. He lost the Wisconsin primary to Ted Cruz last night by 13 points, a substantially bigger margin than had been predicted by the polls. (Trump did pick up a few delegates in the state, though; it wasn’t a total fiasco.) The Daily Show aired a 1994 video of Trump answering an open-ended question about his 1-year-old daughter by implying that he hoped she grew up to have large breasts, a clip that will probably not help him with women (or men) in the general election. Politico gave Trump the “campaign in disarray” treatment in which disgruntled anonymous “operatives” complain about various low-level decisions. And a New York Times piece about a fraud lawsuit reminded us about yet another close Trump associate with a history of violent and dishonest behavior.
The good news for Trump is he’s about to begin campaigning in earnest for the April 19 primary in New York, a large state where he’s leading in the polls—and a state which his opponent has been repeatedly insulting throughout the campaign. So, there should be some positive news cycles ahead for him. Nonetheless, given the downright un-Trump-like way that the bad news cycles Trump has been getting actually seem to have hurt him in the polls in Wisconsin, we’re downgrading today’s rating to:
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