'Some experts note that Trump's outsider image helped him during the primary, when a restive, dissatisfied Republican base was looking for a maverick.
But the general election could be a different matter.
"At the general election stage, you need the state level or the local level [party officials] to help out with turnout. If you don't have people rowing in your boat in states that matter, then you are going to run into a problem," said Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at Syracuse University.
On Wednesday, Trump told a crowd of supporters in Atlanta that Republican leaders needed to "be quiet." The billionaire added that he might need "to do it alone."
The GE will be a very different matter, where this sort of amateurish incompetence will clearly lose Trump the election.
