“He was always very open about describing women by their breast size. Any time I see people in the Trump organization say how nice he is, I want to throw up. He’s been a nasty person to women for a long time,” says one crew member. “My girlfriend at the time was a production assistant on the show and he made a comment about her, knowing that he was mic’d and that we’d all hear it. He said, ‘Who’s that hot little girl running around?’ For a second I was like, Cool, Donald Trump thinks my girlfriend is hot. But then I was like, Wait, an old man said something about my 28-year-old girlfriend. Take it easy, homeboy.”

“He would talk about the female contestants’ bodies a lot from the control room,” recalls one midlevel producer. “We shot in Trump Tower, the control room was on the seventh floor, and he walked in one day and was talking about a contestant, saying, ‘Her breasts were so much bigger at the casting. Maybe she had her period then.’ He knows he’s mic’d and that 30 people are hearing this, but he didn’t care. That’s kind of him. During the campaign, when he was talking about Megyn Kelly, I thought: He’s obsessed with menstruation.”

Trump Will Be the Nominee. Period.

This election year has been rife with conspiracy theories. Most of them, of course, have been peddled by Donald Trump. The most recent - that Trump is somehow going to be denied the nomination in Cleveland - comes from establishment and inside-the-Beltway types who should know better.

In the wake of recent polling showing a “Trump slump” and record high disapproval ratings (he hit 70 percent unfavorable in the Washington Post/ABC News poll), the “establishment” Twitter-verse has exploded with the theories of how Trump will be dumped by his party before the RNC convention in July. I have heard the same version of this theory from otherwise rational, politically deft insiders on the left. I talked with a high-ranking Democrat the other night who joked, with a level of seriousness that surprised me, that Trump will be pulled from the ballot before the fall, leaving the GOP with a stronger candidate to face Hillary Clinton. Surely, goes the thinking of these theorists, GOP voters can’t look at these numbers and think that Trump can still win? Well, yes, actually, they do.

As someone who sometimes gets caught in the insulated allure of Twitter, it’s important for me and those of us who spend our days inside the campaign machine, to remember who and what “normal” voters are. Most voters don’t look at the RealClearPolitics polling averages. Nor do they spend their day digging through cross-tabs and the Electoral College map. More important, if we learned anything from this primary campaign season, it’s that a big chunk of the GOP base is voting against everything that the GOP leadership stands for. They didn’t accept the premise of the 2013 RNC Autopsy that “we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform” – but actively and knowingly supported a candidate who argued that we should deport immigrants and build a wall to keep them out. They don’t like, trust, or believe what their leaders or the “MSM” has been peddling. Why would they listen to their entreaties now?

More important, as I have written many times before, an “Anti-Trump” campaign can’t succeed without a “Pro-Another Candidate” to replace him. The most obvious choices to oust Trump at the convention – Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz – have said they aren’t interested in putting up a fight. Leaders of the #NeverTrump movement have failed to produce a third-party option. You can’t have a coup without a replacement. Period.

Finally, more GOP infighting only helps Hillary Clinton. Instead of unifying the party and pivoting to a general election message, Trump has decided to keep picking fights with his GOP detractors and making the race a referendum on his own unfavorable traits instead of Hillary Clinton’s. That is clearly helping her. The latest RealClearPolitics average shows the former Secretary of State with a 6-point lead over Trump. And, more of this infighting and uncertainty will continue to help her.

To those GOPers still thinking/hoping that Trump will “get the message” and suddenly become a more focused and disciplined candidate, I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Here’s the deal, Trump is not going to change. Ever. This is the candidate who won the primaries. This is the candidate you are going to nominate in July. And, this is the candidate who you will have to decide to support or not in November. There’s simply no other option.