First Read: Donald Trump, Captain Chaos

First Read: Donald Trump, Captain Chaos

by Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann at Meet The Press


http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read-donald-trump-captain-chaos-n492741

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Well, Jeb Bush was right about this: Donald Trump has been a chaos candidate -- for almost everyone involved in the 2016 contest. He created chaos in Bernie Sanders' backyard yesterday; he brought chaos into Hillary Clinton's campaign, raising an issue (Bill Clinton's past with women) that few had been willing to touch in quite some time; he introduced chaos for Ted Cruz, knocking the Texas senator off message with the "birther" issue for multiple days; and he's produced chaos within the entire Republican Party over the last six months. If you want to know why this 2016 presidential campaign has been so crazy, bizarre, and unpredictable, you can thank one person for that -- Donald Trump.

Last night's Trump-vs.-Obama split screen

Trump even intruded on President Obama's town hall last night on guns, with one cable network (MSNBC) taking Trump's Burlington, VT rally live and another (CNN) hosting a town hall with Obama on guns. The events couldn't have been more different. Trump was classic Trump: boastful, confident, and short of specifics. He also was viewing the world through a black-and-white lens, and he kicked out and hushed the protestors who interrupted his event. Obama, on the other hand, was classic Obama: measured, nuanced, and full with specifics. He also weighed both sides of the gun debate, and he took questions from several gun-rights supporters. Maybe one of the biggest reasons why Trump has grown more popular with GOP primary voters over the past year -- 58% said they could see themselves supporting him in the Dec. 2015 NBC/WSJ poll, up from about 20% in March -- is that he's the most profound polar opposite to Obama in entire GOP field. If Obama is Mr. Spock, Trump isn't Captain Kirk; maybe he's Khan.





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