# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 137
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2723 "2016-07-19T00:20:13Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > God, if Trump didn’t repeat himself in every sentence, he would only say half of the things he says. But our oratorical suffering would be reduced by 50%! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2724 "2016-07-19T00:21:40Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > So, um, two states have walked out of the convention and say they aren’t returning. Any chance we can get 50 to walk out? I… what? Which states? How is that even a thing? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2725 "2016-07-19T00:22:49Z")
Iowa and Colorado. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2726 "2016-07-19T00:33:10Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Iowa and Colorado. Did they say why? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2727 "2016-07-19T00:37:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Trump is blatantly two-faced/a hypocrite and flat-out [says so.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-230001736.html) > > And I’ll bet not one supporter sees it. People who vote for Donald Trump don’t care about facts…and that’s a surprisingly large number. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2728 "2016-07-19T00:42:12Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Did they say why? I believe it was because they are Cruz delegations and demanded a floor vote on unbinding delegates. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2729 "2016-07-19T00:44:33Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I believe it was because they are Cruz delegations and demanded a floor vote on unbinding delegates. That makes sense, but I was hoping they were just too embarrassed to be at a convention that is going to nominate Trump. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2730 "2016-07-19T00:58:23Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I agree that the Clinton campaign should run a ton of ads like this. A lot of Trump’s support comes from blue collar men. Showing how Trump stiffed the electricians and plumbers who built his properties would be really damaging, I think. One of my friends was leaning Trump. He owns a small remodeling business. Someone circulated an article on Facebook about a small business that went under after Trump screwed them. I’m not sure if my friend has abandoned Trump, but that article definitely made an impression on him. They need to run ads that talk about how his crap his made in China or how he’s outsourced jobs. They need to run attack ads on his many comments about women and how he’d schlong his own daughter if he were in another body. They need to replay the images of fights at his events. In short, the mission is not to make him look clueless on the issues – that won’t work this time. The mission is to make him look like a complete fraud, which is hard in a time when people are so determined to exact vengeance against the system and don’t seem to care about facts as much. Beyond that, they need to make him look chaotic, incapable of leadership. Short of that, and he could actually win this thing. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2731 "2016-07-19T01:22:34Z")
This is quite the convention: Illegals killed my son. Only Trump will protect us from the illegals. God bless Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2732 "2016-07-19T01:28:36Z")
They managed to find the only 3 black people in America who are voting for Trump and gave them speaking spots at the convention so Trump doesn’t look too racist. Smart. ---
**Author:** ![Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2733 "2016-07-19T01:36:13Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > This is quite the convention: Illegals killed my son. Only Trump will protect us from the illegals. God bless Donald Trump. No liberals and beard stroking progressives who live in gated communities killed Jameel Shaw by letting an illegal alien criminal waltz into this country. BTW, I’m sure more than three African Americans have been killed by illegals ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2734 "2016-07-19T01:37:43Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > No liberals and beard stroking progressives who live in gated communities killed Jameel Shaw by letting an illegal alien criminal waltz into this country. You’d feel better if illegal alien criminals killed innocent people in their country of origin? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2735 "2016-07-19T01:38:26Z")
Representative Sean Duffy of Wisconsin and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy are speaking. Rachel’s parents came from Mexico. I guess she’s one of the “good ones.” It’s hard to tell which illegals are good and which are bad. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2736 "2016-07-19T01:38:28Z")
Just FYI, there’s a thread for the Republican National Convention over here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=796129&page=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=796129&page=4) ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2737 "2016-07-19T01:41:13Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Just FYI, there’s a thread for the Republican National Convention over here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=796129&page=4](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=796129&page=4) Whoops, I’ll stop the commentary. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2738 "2016-07-19T02:32:03Z")
[http://www.theweeklyobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/trump-republican-voters.jpg](http://www.theweeklyobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/trump-republican-voters.jpg) This should be show on TV ! It tell what Trump really think of this supporters . ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2739 "2016-07-19T02:47:39Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Whoops, I’ll stop the commentary. Oh, I didn’t mind your posts here, I just meant that as an invitation to join in over in the other thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2740 "2016-07-19T02:47:54Z")
Unfortunately, purplehearingaid, it’s a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2741 "2016-07-19T04:29:01Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > No liberals and beard stroking progressives who live in gated communities killed Jameel Shaw by letting an illegal alien criminal waltz into this country. BTW, I’m sure more than three African Americans have been killed by illegals Because only liberals and beard-stroking progressives had anything to do with immigration policy. Do you even read what you write? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2742 "2016-07-19T05:05:29Z")
Sorry - I meant that post to go in the RNC thread. Maybe a mod will move it … But if not, it’s about how Melania’s speech at the RNC plagarized Michelle Obama’s speech from eight years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=136) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=138)