Year: 2016
Two Polls Find Trump Ahead by 20 Points in N.H.
20 points
Margin by which two polls find Trump leading in New Hampshire. A new CNN/WMUR poll in New Hampshire finds Donald Trump with 34%, followed by Ted Cruz at 14%, Jeb Bush at 10%, Marco Rubio at 10%, Chris Christie at 6%, John Kasich at 6% and Rand Paul at 6%. A new Gravis Marketing survey finds Trump leading at 35%, followed by Kasich at 15%, Cruz at 10%, Rubio at 9%, Christie at 8% and Bush at 7%.
Dole Paints Dire Picture of Cruz as GOP Nominee
I question his allegiance to the party. I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word ‘Republican’ — not very often.
— Former Sen. Bob Dole, saying that the Republican party would suffer “cataclysmic” and “wholesale losses” if Ted Cruz was the nominee and that Donald Trump would fare better, the New York Times reports. Dole added that while Cruz calls himself “conservative,” he preferred a different word for Cruz: “extremist.”
Trump Nears 50 Percent in Florida
48%
Donald Trump’s lead over the GOP presidential field among likely Republican voters in Florida, followed Ted Cruz at 16%, Marco Rubio at 11% and Jeb Bush at 10%, according to a new Florida Atlantic University poll. Said pollster Kevin Wagner: “At this point, Donald Trump is simply crushing the opposition in the Florida Republican primary. Not only has he increased his lead, Mr. Trump’s favorability ratings among Republicans are now ahead of his competitors by a substantial margin.”
Palin’s Trump Endorsement Is Her Ultimate Betrayal of John McCain
Political news this week has been dominated by Donald Trump’s latest spotlight-grabbing stunt — his endorsement by Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice-presidential nominee, whose ineptitude and stubborn ignorance were major factors in the GOP’s loss to Barack Obama that year.
“He’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, OK?”
– Donald Trump, smearing John McCain’s military service in July
– Donald Trump, smearing John McCain’s military service in July
In rescuing Palin from well-earned obscurity and thrusting her onto the national stage again, Trump got what he wanted, at least in the short term. Coverage of Palin’s word-salad-y endorsement speech led the nightly news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC Monday night. Both legit cable news networks, MSNBC and CNN covered the event live, as did Fox.
But in her MSNBC show that night Rachel Maddow made a point that everyone else overlooked.
Pile of Palinisms
What Sarah Palin’s going to say is anybody’s guess,
And what she really means, only she knows best.
But The Donald’s endorsement
Became an embarrassment
When she called political correctness a “suicide vest.“
Sarah Palin: Pre-Primary Endorsing Poetess or Post-Literate Endorseress?
The New York Times offers a tongue-in-cheek analysis of Sarah Palin’s Donald Trump endorsement speech delivered in her unique oratorical style in Ames, Iowa, yesterday.
In “The Most Mystifying Lines of Sarah Palin’s Endorsement Speech,” reporter Michael Barbaro attempts to parse the 10 most memorable lines from Palin’s address, which, he says, “has been described as performance art, a filibuster, even slam poetry.”
Here’s an example:
“He is from the private sector, not a politician. Can I get a ‘Hallelujah!’ ”
Mrs. Palin goes godly as she enthuses about the business world.
