Another reason wealthy donors are holding back: a widespread conclusion that it is futile to try
to dislodge the New York billionaire, who has successfully parried nearly every attack.
“I’m not sure someone wouldn’t do better to take their money and throw it off a tall building,”
said Henry Barbour, a Mississippi-based operative who is unaligned with any of the campaigns.
“I think the voters who are for Trump are not going to move off from Trump.”
Radio host Rush Limbaugh poked fun this week at the muddled anti-Trump movement.
“Many in the Republican Party are just beside themselves now,” he said on his syndicated show
Tuesday. “They don’t know what to do. They’re still in denial that, ‘This isn’t real, that Trump’s
going to be off and doing something else once the year turns and he’s bored and made his point.
He’ll go back to TV.’ ”
He went on to mock the Kasich super PAC ad, saying, “They’re wasting their money,
but it’s their money to waste.”