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“Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm, — and believe he can’t be bought. These are the same character traits our candidates should be advancing in 2016. That’s Trump lesson #1.”
— Excerpt from a seven-page confidential memo that imagines Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee, in which “the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges candidates to adopt many of Trump’s tactics, issues and approaches — right down to adjusting the way they dress and how they use Twitter,” the Washington Post reports.
Donald Trump makes the cover of Mad Magazine‘s “20 Dumbest People, Things and Events in 2015” issue.
27%
Donald Trump’s lead in the Republican presidential field, followed by Marco Rubio at 17%, Ted Cruz at 16%, Ben Carson at 16% and Jeb Bush at 5%, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. No other candidate gets more than 3%. “It doesn’t seem to matter what he says or who he offends, whether the facts are contested or the ‘political correctness’ is challenged, Donald Trump seems to be wearing Kevlar. Dr. Ben Carson, moving to center stage just one month ago, now needs some CPR,” said pollster Tim Malloy.
Let’s not mince words: Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist. Some will think this an outrageous label to apply to the frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination. Ordinarily, I would agree that name-calling is part of what’s wrong with our politics. … But there is a greater imperative not to be silent in the face of demagoguery. Trump in this campaign has gone after African Americans, immigrants, Latinos, Asians, women, Muslims and now the disabled… It might be possible to explain away any one of Trump’s outrages as a mistake or a misunderstanding. But at some point you’re not merely saying things that could be construed as bigoted: You are a bigot.
$47.5 million
Amount the campaigns and allies for three establishment presidential candidates – Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and John Kasich – have spent combined $47.5 million on TV ads in the 2016 race so far, NBC News reports. “By contrast, the campaigns and allies for the three Republicans who have been leading or surging in the most recent polls – Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz – have spent just $2.9 million.”
At least I was once winning. Jeb Bush has been doing nothing but losing throughout this entire campaign.
— Former 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, responding on his website to being cited by Jeb Bush as an example of an outsider presidential candidate who lost the race.
