Now that Donald Trump looks to be sweeping up delegates in New York and other eastern states, Republican establishment figures are starting to reconcile themselves the possibility of his becoming their standard bearer.  Kenneth P. Vogel and Eli Stokols of Politico cite unnamed sources to contend that the very embodiment of GOPe, Karl Rove, is privately telling big donors that his PAC American Crossroads could do good work on behalf of candidate Trump. The apparent warming of the American Crossroads super PAC and its sister groups to Trump has become evident in its recent communications with donors, including a Tuesday afternoon “investor conference call,” according to multiple sources familiar with the outreach. The phone call — which featured Rove, Crossroads officials and a pollster — laid out swing state polling and electoral map analysis done by the group showing circumstances in which Trump could beat Clinton, the Democratic presidential...(Read Full Post)