Tag: 2016 GOP Primary
The Bush-Trump Feud Has a Long History
The 2016 campaign is merely the latest manifestation of decades of discord between Trump and the Bush family. Since the gilded 1980s, when Trump and George H.W. Bush rose as forces in their respective spheres, the relationship between Trump and the Bushes has been a melodrama — veering between displays of public affection and acerbic insults. … At the core, there are clashes of style, manner and class between the Bushes — a patrician clan of presidents, governors and financiers who have pulled the levers of power for generations — and Trump, a hustling New York City deal-maker who turned his father’s outer borough real-estate portfolio into a gold-plated empire.
— Washington Post
Trump’s lead Grows; Clinton’s Shrinks
28%
Donald Trump’s expanding lead over the Republican presidential pack, followed by Ben Carson at 12%, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio all at 7%, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton leads with 45%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 22% and Joe Biden at 18%.
Chait: Trump Will Lose Because He’s Crazy
Trump has certainly crafted an appeal to voters who like impractical ideas. But his true threat lies in the fact that Trump himself is crazy — not just ideologically, though he is certainly that as well, but in the sense that he lacks any rational connection between his actions and his goals, to the extent that his goals are discernible at all. That is also his downfall.
— Jonathan Chait, in New York Magazine.
The Stop Chris Christie PAC Shuts Down
Our committee believes that Mr. Christie has already performed the service of stopping his campaign in spirit.
— Tom Bjorklund, treasurer of the Stop Chris Christie PAC, which is shutting down because it says Christie is doing a better job at stopping his own campaign.
Frum: Bush Is Making a Mistake in Attacking Trump
It may be unavoidable, a necessary error to avert the even-worse calamity of having his fundraisers go on strike. Yet attack-Trump remains an error all the same for Jeb Bush—and for two big reasons. … First, Trump certainly hurts Bush, but he hurts other candidates more. Bush’s most immediate problem is not that the base doesn’t trust him—it didn’t trust John McCain either, yet he nevertheless won the nomination—but that his donors enjoy too many plausible alternative choices… The second reason Bush shouldn’t fight Trump: Even if Bush wins, he’ll lose… Trump is not playing by the usual rules. Show Trump a line, and he’ll cross it. He has crossed it. And Jeb Bush is a candidate who needs lines respected almost more than any other.
— David Frum, writing in the Atlantic.
Kasich Approval Hits All-Time High in Ohio
61% to 28%
John Kasich’s standing rises to an all-time high among voters as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, a new Quinnipiac poll in Ohio finds. Voter approval of Kasich’s job performance is even stronger numbers among Republicans at 84% to 10%.
Anchor Babies Aweigh!
In the campaign they haven’t acted much like mateys,
But they both disdain foreign-national pregnant ladies.
Despite the Constitution,
Which labels them “American,”
Both Jeb and The Donald prefer the term “anchor babies.”
