Having led in all but a handful of national polls since mid-July — Trump currently holds a double-digit lead in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — the billionaire businessman’s allies say he has good cause to turn his eye toward November 2016.

“At this point, he is the overwhelming favorite to be nominated, so it is obvious he should begin thinking about the general election,” said Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone, who parted ways with the campaign in August but remains in touch with his former client…

“She doesn’t have the strength, she doesn’t have the stamina,” Trump intoned repeatedly, painting a caricature of a secretary of state chatting with friends while ignoring missives out of Benghazi from Ambassador Chris Stevens, and a presidential candidate who sleeps for days on end between public appearances.

“You don’t see her for four or five days,” said Trump. “Then four or five days later you see her. She awakens, puts on her pantsuit, goes out and does a press conference.”