The media would immediately start digging up anything they could about him. They'd find some sort of faint connection to the League of the South and just keep bringing that up. He'd be called a racist neoconfederate until he left.
Just heard the 10k students announcement for the first time. That's huge.
How firm is a "pledge"? In other words, how many will show up, and how many will bring friends?
You don't think Trump will finish top 3? Watching people talk right now it's hard to tell whether Cruz is taking Trump down or Trump is taking Cruz down. I see many saying that Trump's attacks on Cruz will hurt Cruz a lot, but I also see people saying they're ditching Trump for Cruz because of them.
W was also the last Republican to win the White House. If Rand takes Iowa, he may be able to use that to his advantage and create a narrative of "history has shown that you can't win the WH unless you nominate the Iowa winner"