Why did the Republican Party chose Trump?!?!?

[Jedidiah]

Sort of disagree in part, because this view is highly insulting of the Republican voters. Most of the candidates were well known.

Republican voters have already insulted themselves by their choice. Same applies to democrats.

[rogue06]

Choice of Hillary was more an establishment choice within the Democratic Party.

Definitely. The party that pretends that they want every vote to count didn't give a rat's... whisker about what the voters actually wanted or who they voted for. They rigged the system in favor of Hillary. Including having so many super-delegates pre-committed to support her that even if someone else won the popular vote Hillary would still get the most delegates.

Trump is the puzzle. were the Republican voters really that pissed off with Republican establishment?

They kept telling their supporters that if they got control of Congress that they would vote to repeal Obamacare and to defund it but when they did get control they simply refused to do anything and got mad at those who had the gall to try to keep their word. Needless to say the Republican voters felt profoundly betrayed

Seer brings up a few other reasons in post#5

[DesertBerean]

The Republican establishment made Trump possible. They sold the middle class out on immigration and trade. The Republican House did next to nothing, using the purse strings, to counter the Obama agenda, and we were just tired of Political Correctness.

A LOT of people are steamed about the ACA fiasco and the PC issue. The "no-gender" bathrooms...the loss of insurance because of it not meeting ACA "standards"....having to get more expensive insurance. .. the "need" to be sensitive to people's needs that aren't really needs... the infringement on companies' right to refuse to cover insurance items that violate their protected beliefs. ..

UGH.

[demi-conservative]

This is a question that has puzzled me since the primaries started.

He said what they want to hear, and they weren't triggered by him??

[Terraceth]

This is a question that has puzzled me since the primaries started. From the beginning this choice was problematic, because of the lack of a broad base of support for Trump outside his core, not even considering his self inflicted wounds. Trump's history was never a conservative Christian view, and most of his views were contrary to the general Republican agenda. I may provide some references, but it should make an interesting discussion.

Like Bernie Sanders, Trump benefitted from people dissatisfied with the "regular" politicians and wanting something different. The reason Trump got the nomination and Sanders didn't is that Trump had a major stroke of luck that Sanders lacked: Enough opposing candidates to split the establishment vote.

[demi-conservative]

Why did the Republican Party chose Trump?!?!?

Because he's a winner????

[Cerebrum123]

Like Bernie Sanders, Trump benefitted from people dissatisfied with the "regular" politicians and wanting something different. The reason Trump got the nomination and Sanders didn't is that Trump had a major stroke of luck that Sanders lacked: Enough opposing candidates to split the establishment vote.

That, and Trump didn't have to deal with the cheating that Bernie had to deal with either.

[Sparko]

Like Bernie Sanders, Trump benefitted from people dissatisfied with the "regular" politicians and wanting something different. The reason Trump got the nomination and Sanders didn't is that Trump had a major stroke of luck that Sanders lacked: Enough opposing candidates to split the establishment vote.

From the exit polling it was clear that a LOT of Bernie supporters voted for Trump. Hillary cut her own throat in that department with their treatment of Sanders and his supporters. That might have been what swung the votes in Trump's favor.

[Mountain Man]

This is a question that has puzzled me since the primaries started. From the beginning this choice was problematic, because of the lack of a broad base of support for Trump outside his core, not even considering his self inflicted wounds. Trump's history was never a conservative Christian view, and most of his views were contrary to the general Republican agenda. I may provide some references, but it should make an interesting discussion.

Also, how does this choice change the Republican Party in the future?

Any thoughts to get started?

How can you still be puzzled about this? He's an outsider who promised from the beginning to shake things up and wrest control away from "the establishment". That has popular appeal because people are tired of the "system" and how broken and corrupt it is.

Will Trump change that? Who knows, but he has a much better chance than Hillary ever did of doing something good for America.