As a British person, this US election is fascinating to follow, seems like there is serious upheaval in the political landscape.
The Republican candidates have changed their tune so much in the last decade, they seem to have gone so far to the right.
My question is though, how can any of these Republicans actually become President given that they have isolated so many voters with their extremely conservative stances? I mean surely they will not get much of the black vote or Hispanic vote?
The funny thing is, if they had a more center-Right candidate who was a likeable guy surely this election would be for the taking given the unpopularity of Clinton, and Sanders being too far left.
It seems with Rubio, Cruz and Trump they try to out-conservative each other over who is toughest on immigration, abortion, military, and healthcare etc. When I listen to speeches from Reagan, one of the most popular Republicans ever, he comes across as a nice guy, full of optimism about the US. Listening to these current candidates they make it out that the US today is worse than living in Syria. Seems to be an extremely negative campaign period, filled with nastiness and in-fighting. I wonder if at some stage Trump will take a swing at Cruz at a debate lol.
My politics are generally conservative so this is not a liberal rant against Republicans, my question simply is can you guys over there actually see them winning enough states to become President?