While Democrats were convinced they had the math and a strong enough candidate to win the presidency, Republicans saw that the mood of the country created a landscape that should have suited them well: Hillary was deeply unpopular and well defined, she was running for the Democratic Party’s third consecutive term, and there was little reason to think her gender would be an asset. But they knew Trump was his own worst enemy, and they had little faith that he could be contained. “If Trump went on vacation for the next six months,” one Republican official observed, “he would be the next president
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