I can't see that this changes Trumps' ballistic trajectory in any meaningful way. He can still take the presidency if he wants it that badly.
What universe do you live in? There is no way Trump is becoming President, and I've said so numerous times on this forum for the past few months. America is better than that.
What electoral map are you looking at that gives Trump any possible path to the Presidency? Have you read
any of the general election polling? If the election were held today, Trump would lose to any Democratic nominee, and it's been that way for months and months, and I suspect it will stay that way for many more months. Donald Trump is a gift to progressives, a guaranteed GOP destroyer. I mourn the death of the Party of Lincoln.
Here's the summation of recent polling:
Trump vs Clinton, Clinton wins by 6 (and recently rising).
Trump vs Sanders, Sanders wins by 10 (and recently rising).
Florida currently leans towards Clinton in a hypothetical matchup, after previously leaning Trump. But Clinton is leading comfortably in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, and if she takes both of those she can still lose Florida and everything else that's close and still win. Trump's electoral map is a disaster.
Could things change between now and election day? Of course. Someone could shoot one of them. Both of them could go to jail, setting up my fantasy election of Sanders vs Cruz for an ideological wrestlemania smackdown from opposite extremes. But if things unfold in a predictable manner, Trump will get the nomination and then lose the general election badly.
Please explain to me why you keep saying things like "ballistic trajectory" and "his for the taking" because I just don't see it. Americans are stupid, but we're not that stupid.
edit: I went looking through the polling data to find any hypothetical matchups that the Republicans would currently win in a general election. Out of all possible combinations of current candidates, the only way the Democrats lose the whitehouse today is if Kasich runs against Clinton, and
maybe if Cruz runs against Clinton. Sanders beats everyone handily in a nationwide election. Trump loses handily to everyone in a nationwide election.