re: How did it come to this?

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Jeb could have beat Hillary will integrity and likely could have been a 2 term president.

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No he couldn't.

Trump won the primaries and may win the general election because he captured the same anti-establishment mood that carried a back-row independent from Vermont to the brink of being the Democratic nominee.

Jeb Bush (who I think is an honorable man) would have simply been another round of Bush v Clinton and the results would look just like 2008 and 2012.

Trump may well lose too, but he brought states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and even New Hampshire into play and Jeb would have had ZERO chance at any of those.

For the record, today was the first time in the entire cycle I cast a vote for Trump. My primary vote went to Marco Rubio. I'm not thrilled with having to vote for someone you correctly identified as not being a real conservative, but to say Jeb could have won is really beyond ridiculous.