"This is a difficult state for a candidate such as ours," Dees said.
My game could not possibly conceive a candidate such as he winning the G.O.P. nomination".
Many would have preferred a more mainstream candidate such as Jeb Bush, or Marco Rubio to be the candidate.
He would seem to have retained some of his old weaknesses as a candidate, such as a tendency to go off message.
But many of his supporters have expressed distrust of Clinton, and could elect to vote for a third-party candidate, such as the Green party's Jill Stein.
Faced with a candidate such as Donald Trump, the demagogue of division, the US media doubled down and did its job.
However, there also remains the possibility that a European candidate such as the Dutch FA president Michael van Praag may decide to stand.
"I hope whoever gets elected will mobilize the left," said Sumumba Sobukwe, who said he would back a third-party candidate such as Jill Stein or Gary Johnson.
This suggests she will not field an alternative candidate such as Klaus Regling, who heads the main European bail-out fund, for the ECB post.
One is to back a proxy candidate, such as Ramon "Palito" Ortega, a former pop singer whom the president has turned into a politician.
But if their quarrel persists, their parties could yet pick another candidate, such as Christian Wulff, the premier of Lower Saxony.
