Trump's Rival Republican Officials Struggle to 'Move' Against 'Cultish Devotion' of His Supporters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "The other candidates have failed to make their case well, while Trump continues to entertain and push hot-button items that motivate the base.
43% : ""This cycle has been unique in that support for candidates that drop out has mostly all gone to Trump.
37% : As a testament to Trump's increasing lead in the primary, sources familiar with the overtures say that the anti-tax Club for Growth, which was originally determined to keep Trump from winning the nomination, has reached out to Trump advisors in an attempt to reach a détente.
37% : "The more they seem not to want him tells me there's a good reason for me to want him," a 77-year-old Iowan Trump supporter said when interviewed outside a rally by Trump.
32% : "How do you engage with that level of creativity in finding a way to excuse Trump?" they told the Post.
26% : Republicans who opposed Trump were unable to capitalize on his mistakes because his followers had already come up with ridiculous justifications for his inability to fulfill promises that he declared were his top priorities, per Raw Story.
22% : Even focus group participants who expressed concern about the growing national debt were unmoved by accusations that Trump was a major factor in the deficit.
2% : Also Read: Donald Trump Convinced About Claims on This Conspiracy Website Run by 'Dumbest Man on the Internet'A Republican operative for a competing campaign told The Washington Post about the findings of a focus group in which supporters of Trump faced off with Trump's inability to build the wall, only to have one woman assert that "Trump intentionally didn't finish the barrier so that migrants would bottleneck in the gaps and be easy to detain there.

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