Month: March 2016

Trump Lies More than Any Other Candidate — Ever

Buck Banks

65%

Of what Donald Trump says is lying, according to the Washington Post: “There’s never been a presidential candidate like Donald Trump — someone so cavalier about the facts and so unwilling to ever admit error, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. At last count, nearly 65 percent (17 of 27) of our rulings of his statements turned out to be Four Pinocchios, our worst rating. By contrast, most politicians tend to earn Four Pinocchios 10 to 20 percent of the time. (Moreover, most of the remaining ratings for Trump are Three Pinocchios.)”

Trump Would Be the Least Popular Nominee Ever

Buck Banks

67%

“Trump’s unfavorable rating stood at 67% — two-thirds of all Americans — in a March Washington Post-ABC poll, including 56 percent who had a ‘strongly’ unfavorable impression of him. Just 3 in 10 had a favorable impression of Trump (15% ‘strongly’). American politicians tend to be more unpopular than usual these days, but it’s hard to overstate how bad Trump’s numbers are with all Americans. In fact, Trump’s highly negative ratings appear to have no equal among major party nominees in presidential campaigns over the past 32 years.”

Trump Unites GOP Fundraisers — In Opposition to Him

Buck Banks

4.8 million

Amount raised by the Anti-Trump PAC, Bloomberg reports. “The prospect of a Donald Trump nomination is accomplishing what a diverse and talented field of Republican presidential contenders could not: uniting the party’s big-money donor establishment,” the New York Times reports. “Some of the wealthiest conservative givers in the country are helping pay for a series of last-ditch attacks to wound Mr. Trump, disclosures filed on Sunday night revealed, even after previously backing rival Republican candidates. And officials involved with the political groups have made clear that they are aggressively raising more money to fight Mr. Trump, hoping to deprive him of enough delegates to win the Republican nomination outright. That would set the stage for a contested convention in July.”