This means all those who had run for president in 2016, who had a good chance of winning'' and who were the most well known and the most popular', were comped except for the "outsider", Trump? The implication is quite unpleasant on the side of the Republicans. No wonder, POTUS was so harsh with some of them. The U.S. ''could not afford' for any comped individual to win from either side as that would have spelled the final doom of this country.