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.
Thursday brought nothing but bad news for Donald Trump. To wit:
- Bernie Sanders signaled that his primary fight was winding down after a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House and pledged to do everything he could to defeat Trump. That presumably means campaigning for the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton and against Trump.
- Obama himself issued an enthusiastic endorsement of Clinton after the meeting with Sanders and is already planning a campaign stop with his former secretary of state next week. This gives Clinton not only star power on the trail, but also additional fundraising might against Trump. The Republican candidate’s response was “meh” and Clinton had a wildly retweeted counter-response of her own.
- Speaking of fundraising, Trump reportedly told his fundraisers and finance team that he plans to spend money in California and New Jersey. Slate’s Jim Newell noted that these places will be giant sinkholes of cash for Trump, the Republican Party, and said donors, and make them less inclined to give the Republican nominee money.
- Finally, Elizabeth Warren is ending the day with a Clinton endorsement and brutal assault on Trump’s candidacy.
All in all, a no good, terrible, very bad day for Donald J. Trump, which makes me think him winning the presidency is as unlikely as it’s ever been. But! The rightful TAW author has decreed that the danger level wouldn’t be lowered below a full horseman until there was a legitimate chance he would not be the Republican nominee. And so a full horseman is where it shall stay.
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