This is kind of a stupid news item. Not a fake news item, necessarily, though there doesn't seem to be any real corroboration. Just a non-news item breathlessly reported to try and make it into a news item.
It is not true that "Trump tried to fire Mueller," not if he was talked out of it by his staff. It was never any mystery that he
wanted to fire Mueller, that he didn't think he should ever have been empowered, and that there's no crime to investigate.
Pushing this as a narrative? Seems like an attempt at propaganda, or even a bot attack style story to protect, what most likely, is an investigation that has no basis.
If the whole thing had been conducted nationwide as an IRV or approval voting or simply a nationwide primary followed by a run off between the top 2 if the winner got less than 50% of the vote Trump almost certainly wouldn't have been the nominee.
That's true, of course under that system, we would have add Clinton vs. Guiliani (rather than Obama vs. McCain).
The ability to stay in this primary is why he won. With his final competition being Cruz, more slimy than Trump, and Kasich, the biggest wimp in the whole race, it was a foregone conclusion.
You could blame the media, they were having a blast tearing down any Republican they thought had a chance against Clinton. It worked out perfectly when they picked McCain to run against Obama, so of course they thought it would work again to pick out the easiest to beat candidate. Honestly, how anyone could thing the media's manipulations are for the best at this point is beyond me.
That said their support of him in congress and willingness to not investigate his misdeeds or violating the emoluments clause of the constitution may hurt specific republican politicians.
Lol. What misdeeds? Nothing in office. There's full on Russian investigation (that largely appears to be based on nothing).
There are no emoluments clause violations. Business transactions have never been deemed to be such.