The Distraction Gains Traction

++Nate "The Great" Silver at 538 says that The Donald is the world's greatest troll.

++The Des Moines-Register says that the Donald is so obnoxious with his remarks that he is a distraction that should gain traction. The Donald ,of course, responded. The Des Moines Register has asked that he remove himself from the race.

++The Donald continues today to calm all the GOP candidates and even threw in Hillary. With Ms. Lindsey he even told an audience to call his cellphone and read out the number.

++The Donald leads all national GOP polls. The POst wanted to downplay his 24% by citing a single day after his remarks about John McCain where he fell to single digits. But factor that in and that 24% must have been up to 30%.

++538's Eten wrote yesterday that if Donald goes third party, you can kiss the GOP good-by in 2016 election.

++Ms. Lindsey did have a good point--Donald has taken away the ability of the GOP candidates to comment on the Iran deal.