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Well I think he’s probably right, I am the most fabulous whiner. I do whine, because I want to win…I am a whiner, and I’m a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.
— Donald Trump, quoted by The Hill, saying he agreed with conservative author Rich Lowry that he is “the most fabulous whiner in all of American politics.”
I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism, so I’ll continue doing my job without fear or favor. This is a tough business and it’s time now to move forward.
— Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, quoted by the New York Times, noting she would not respond directly to any of Donald Trump’s numerous insults and disparaging statements about her.
Demagogues like Donald Trump exhaust the patience of the political press corps because reporters fundamentally misunderstand the candidate’s appeal. … Reporters like to think that logic and reason hold sway, so they believe a demagogue can be easily disarmed by exposing his crimes against logic, his pandering to the uninformed and his manipulative emotionalism. They’re entirely wrong—as the last month of The Donald’s unlikely rise to the top of the Republican presidential heap has demonstrated day after day.
— Jack Shafer, on Politico.
I thought what he said was offensive, and I certainly think that it determines the kind of reaction that it’s getting from so many others. But I think if we focus on that, we’re making a mistake. What a lot of the men on that stage in that debate said was offensive.
— Hillary Clinton, saying that Donald Trump’s comments about Fox host Megyn Kelly were “outrageous” but so are Republican policies about women, Politico reports.
32%
Donald Trump’s lead over the Republican field grew in the several days after his performance at the first GOP presidential debate. Trump’s lead was up 7 percentage points over last week’s poll, followed by Jeb Bush at 11%, Ben Carson at 9%, Scott Walker at 6% and Marco Rubio at 6%, according to a new Morning Consult poll. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Trump leading with 24%, followed by Jeb Bush at 12%, No other candidate earned more than 8%.
You don’t change the system from within the Democratic Party. My own feeling is that the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt.
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by Politico.
28,000
Number of supporters Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), attracted to his largest audience yet: about 28,000 people in Portland, OR, Sunday night, the Washington Post reports. “Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has emerged as the leading alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, appeared at a Portland arena with a capacity close to 20,000, aides said. An additional 8,000 people gathered in overflow areas set up for the event, aides said, citing numbers provided by officials from the venue.”
We don’t want to destroy people’s jobs based on some theory that’s not proven.
— Gov. John Kasich, quoted by National Journal, on whether humans have caused climate change.
The thing is, income inequality is due to some people working harder and selling more things. If people voluntarily buy more of your stuff, you’ll have more money.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), responding when asked if his flat tax plan would further separate the haves from the have-nots, Paul said that income inequality is the result of some Americans working harder than others, rather than economic policies, the Huffington Post reports.
