Trump's Dominance Has The GOP Field Using His Rhetoric And Policy Proposals

Here’s why: 60% of GOP voters support Trump’s ban — Rubio, Cruz, and everyone else have nothing to gain, and plenty to lose, by standing up to Trump.

That’s why the GOP candidates aren’t trying to distance themselves from Trump. Think about all the name-calling and posturing we saw last night — the other candidates are actually starting to talk and act like him, as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump pointed out this morning:

[W]hen the candidates talked about foreign policy, they talked about it in positively Trump-ian terms: Who was “winning,” and why it wasn’t America.

Whether intentional or not, their Trump-ian affectations did nothing to convince us they’re able talk about foreign policy with any coherence or nuance:

• “For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish”;

• “It’s not a lack of competence that is preventing the Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness”;

• “I’ve been saying, ‘take the oil, take the oil.’ I didn’t say, ‘just bomb it'”;