“The 2016 campaign season has been a wild ride for the Republican Party.”
— The Washington Post headline “The Worst and Best of the 2016 Campaign Season”: From The Washington Times article “For the past year, Donald Trump’s campaign has been the focus of national attention, but now, his presidency could be on the brink.”
— Fox News headline “Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign is on the verge of collapse: The Post” article “With Trump facing the threat of a court challenge to his bid for a second term, his campaign is now facing an existential crisis.”
— ABC News headline “‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’: The Political Season’s Worst and Biggest Stories” article The Huffington Post article “It’s been a strange year.
The biggest story of the year, the biggest political story of any campaign in history, has now turned into a bitter campaign, with the stakes soaring.”
— USA Today article “Trump is going down: How Trump is ‘dying’ in the face of a looming court challenge.”
— Time article “Presidential campaigns are a marathon and a sprint.
The race for the White House, after a long slog, is just a sprint away.”
— CNN article “On Election Day, we’ll have to live with the results: A historic race for president.”
— Huffington Post headline “‘This Is Not A Presidential Campaign’: The ‘Best’ and ‘Worst’ of the Presidential Campaign Season.”
— Salon article “Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign is dying.”
— NBC News headline Donald Trump “dying” in face of court challenge “There are no guarantees in politics.”
— CBS News article “We’re living through a presidential campaign, a long, wild ride, that has become a race to the bottom.”
— Wall Street Journal article “Democrats, Republicans, Democrats and Republicans all look to Trump’s failure to win the White National Committee primary to blame for his inability to close the deal.”
— Politico article “Here are the 10 worst and 10 best presidential campaigns of all time.”
— MSNBC article “Who’s winning the 2016 presidential race?”
— Donald Trump at campaign rally, Iowa in February 2016. “
— CNN’s “State of the Union” article”It’s not a campaign.
“– Donald Trump at campaign rally, Iowa in February 2016.
— CNN headline “It might be the worst campaign ever: ‘The Greatest’ and “The Most’ of this presidential campaign season.”
— Reuters article “After six years of Barack Obama, it’s the Democrats’ turn.”
— NYT headline “After 6 years of Obama, Hillary Clinton is the president.”– CNN’s State of the Unional News article”In the last month of a presidential race, it feels like the campaign’s over.
For now, it seems that no matter who wins the nomination, the race is over.”
— New York Times headline “Obama has been elected President: Obama’s presidency is over.
But it’s only a matter of time before he’s reelected.”
— NY Times article”This is not a presidential election.”
— Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, announcing his retirement from the Senate in October, saying he would not run for reelection.
— ABC’s “Nightline” article “‘It’s Not a Presidential Election’: The “Best” and “Worst” of the Campaign Season,” by David Cay Johnston and David Weigel, Politico, February 19, 2017″It doesn’t seem like it.”
— “Donald J. Trump: I’m not going to be in the Senate.”
— Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, announcing her retirement from Congress, saying she would not seek reelection in 2018.
— MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show article “This is a campaign, not a marathon, and there are no promises.”
— President Donald Trump, at campaign event in Michigan, March 16, 2020.
— “It was the longest day of my life.”
— Trump, addressing supporters at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 20, 2020, at the American Legion Post 556, near the American Veterans Memorial.
— Reuters’ “The 10 Worst and 10 Best Campaigns of 2016” article