The Note: What Candidate Trump Means For The GOP

By MICHAEL FALCONE NOTABLES --DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE'D 'WIN EASILY' IF HE RAN WITH OPRAH. According to Donald Trump, a 2016 ticket of Trump for president and Oprah Winfrey for vice president would be a lock for the White House, ABC's CHRIS GOOD notes. "I think Oprah would be great. I'd love to have Oprah," Trump told ABC News. "I think we'd win easily, actually." "She's great, she's talented, she's a friend of mine," Trump told ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS when asked if Winfrey is still on his VP shortlist. Trump announced his presidential candidacy in a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan Tuesday, sitting with ABC's George Stephanopoulos at his high-rise for his first interview as a candidate. http://abcn.ws/1MJ0Bg4 MORE FROM GEORGE'S INTERVIEW ON "GOOD MORNING AMERICA" TODAY: http://abcn.ws/1SnFfZr --ANALYSIS -- ABC's RICK KLEIN: Here's to a (partial) defense of Donald Trump ... or at least an explanation. No, he won't win the Republican nomination for president, and no, his...