Tag: Donald Trump
Obama Remains Confident Trump Won’t Ultimately Win
I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people, and I think they recognize that being President is a serious job. It’s not hosting a talk show or a reality show. It’s not promotion. It’s not marketing.
— President Obama, in a statement.
Trump is the Scariest Potential Candidate
38%
Percentage of likely voters who say they would be scared if Donald Trump won their party’s nomination. Percentage who chose Hillary Clinton — 33%; Bernie Sanders — 28%, according to a USA Today/Suffolk Poll.
News Flash: Trump’s S.C. Supporters are Religious Racists
79%
Of Donald Trump supporters in South Carolina “think the Confederate flag should still be flying over the State Capital, to only 20% who agree with it being taken down. In fact 38% of Trump voters say they wish the South had won the Civil War to only 24% glad the North won and 38% who aren’t sure. Overall just 36% of Republican primary voters in the state are glad the North emerged victorious to 30% for the South, but Trump’s the only one whose supporters actually wish the South had won.,” according to the Public Policy Polling survey in South Carolina that shows Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential race and also shows his support is built on a base of voters among whom religious and racial intolerance pervades.
Trump Sides with Liberals: Bush Should Have Been Impeached
In his quest for the Republican Party presidential nomination, Donald Trump has changed his positions on a number of hot-button issues. He was once for legalizing drugs, for example, now he’s not. He once said he was “very pro-choice,” now he says he is pro-life. He supported background checks for gun buyers and a ban on assault weapons, now he says he’s a Second Amendment guy all the way. He once favored universal healthcare, now he toes the GOP line: He’ll repeal Obamacare but has no plan to replace it.
Based on an exchange at the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina last night, on one issue, at least, Trump still agrees with liberals. In fact, on this issue he’s to the left of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Pres. Obama.
Trump still believes George W. Bush should have been impeached.
Most GOP Insiders Don’t Expect Trump to Win the Nomination
85%
Of Republican insiders say Donald Trump “isn’t on a glide path to become the party’s nominee, despite a 22-point win in the New Hampshire primary this week,” Politico reports. “Their rationale is partly about math – Trump has a solid plurality of the vote in many states, but polls suggest he is too polarizing to win over a majority of Republicans – and partly grounded in the belief that the brash, sometimes-profane real-estate mogul will wilt once the other candidates turn their fire on him.”
Trump Builds ‘Yuge’ National Lead
44%
Donald Trump’s huge national lead over his GOP rivals, followed by Ted Cruz at 17%, Ben Carson at 10%, Marco Rubio at 10%, Jeb Bush at 8% and John Kasich at 4%, according to a new Morning Consult poll. In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders, 46% to 39%.
Trump Finally Repulses Conservatives – His Vulgar Language Shocks S.C. Focus Group
Donald Trump’s rise during the 2016 presidential campaign has confounded experts from the start. No one could have predicted that a buffoonish billionaire from the Outer Boroughs would have broad appeal to conservative voters nationwide.
But now, for the first time, something the GOP frontrunner said appears to have shocked Republican voters.
He said the word “fuck.”
