# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**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
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5163 "2016-08-25T10:30:21Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> To absolutely nobody’s surprise, [Chicago police deny that Trump met with a Top Cop who told him he could fix crime in a week](http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-respond-donald-trump-chicago-violence-can-be-stopped-in-a-week-391116511.html). Other sources confirm that this non-existent cop’s name was reported to be John Miller and that he also mentioned how Trump had the most positive medical results he’d ever seen.
“We’re going to fix the crime problem. We have a top cop working on it.”
“Who?”
“Top. Cop.”
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5164 "2016-08-25T10:53:30Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> And now to get back to Trump. I wanted to point this out. Seth Meyers wanted to cover the Email scandal, but he still spent half the segment talking about Trump. I actually started to wonder if he’d lied in the title to get Trump supporters to listen.
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> I wasn’t sure whether to put this in Trump’s thread or Clinton’s. But I’ll put it here, along with [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upls5liXVfs) where he covers how even Trump supporters don’t like him anymore.
Did you happen to see Australian comic Jim Jeffries, and his [epic takedown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CceQISThDYQ) of Trump? All kinds of NSFW goodness.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5165 "2016-08-25T10:53:52Z")
Dipping again into the bag of Rovian tricks, [Trump accuses Clinton of being a bigot.](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-hillary-clinton-bigot-n637476) This should go as well as his attacks on her health, which only lead to questions regarding his health and that stupid doctor’s note.
Also it is hoped that his attack on The Clinton Foundation will lead to people looking closely at his charity work-- or lack thereof.
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### Author:  [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5166 "2016-08-25T13:18:47Z")
Meanwhile Trump held a rally in Jackson, Mississippi, clearly a swing state :), which is 80% Black, and spoke to a crowd that was overwhelmingly White.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5167 "2016-08-25T13:22:36Z")
> [@DSeid](#):
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> Meanwhile Trump held a rally in Jackson, Mississippi, clearly a swing state :), which is 80% Black, and spoke to a crowd that was overwhelmingly White.
With Nigel Farage, no less. The guy behind Brexit. The crowd was reportedly “[somewhat baffled by his presence.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-clinton-bigot-rally-nigel-000000682.html)” Gee, no kidding?
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5168 "2016-08-25T13:24:22Z")
In non-namecalling Coulter news, Coulter is reportedly much pissed about Trump’s immigration flip-flops and spent a good part of last night [mocking Trump](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/ann-coulter-mocks-trump-immigration-227392) on Twitter and threatening to cancel her book tour promoting him.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5169 "2016-08-25T13:31:16Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Also it is hoped that his attack on The Clinton Foundation will lead to people looking closely at his charity work-- or lack thereof.
What do you mean? Trump has the best charity work. The best. Nobody does more charity work. People say to him all the time, “Mr. Trump you do more charity work than anyone else in the entire world.”
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5170 "2016-08-25T13:42:45Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> With Nigel Farage, no less. The guy behind Brexit. The crowd was reportedly “[somewhat baffled by his presence.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-clinton-bigot-rally-nigel-000000682.html)” Gee, no kidding?
That’s a rather biased article. (Clue: video of Clinton but not one of either Trump or Farage.) Perhaps you should actually listen to [Farage’s speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4K9fr_WgY)? He can be a very good speaker. And the crowd didn’t seem at all bemused to me.
That so many could vote for Trump with all his manifest faults speaks volumes about Clinton. And Farage actually nails it in that speech: he urges people to vote against the establishment. Trump is just the point man.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5171 "2016-08-25T13:58:28Z")
“That so many could vote for Trump with all his manifest faults speaks volumes about Clinton.”
No. It speaks volumes about the _voters_.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5172 "2016-08-25T14:08:16Z")
Did he also promise that the money saved by having Mexico pay for the wall would go into Medicare?
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5173 "2016-08-25T14:10:17Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> That’s a rather biased article. (Clue: video of Clinton but not one of either Trump or Farage.) Perhaps you should actually listen to [Farage’s speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4K9fr_WgY)? He can be a very good speaker. And the crowd didn’t seem at all bemused to me.
Yeah, Farage did a good job actually. I’m sure a lot of people had no clue who he was but that seemed like a pretty positive reception from the crowd.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5174 "2016-08-25T14:12:55Z")
> [@Jophiel](#):
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> In non-namecalling Coulter news, Coulter is reportedly much pissed about Trump’s immigration flip-flops and spent a good part of last night [mocking Trump](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/ann-coulter-mocks-trump-immigration-227392) on Twitter and threatening to cancel her book tour promoting him.
I imagine it’s a purely cynical–not principled–move on her part. She sees that he’s going to lose and this is a convenient excuse for her to jump off the Trump train. And, of course, it gets her a little attention, which is what she lives for.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5175 "2016-08-25T14:24:52Z")
> [@Tangent](#):
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> I imagine it’s a purely cynical–not principled–move on her part. She sees that he’s going to lose and this is a convenient excuse for her to jump off the Trump train. And, of course, it gets her a little attention, which is what she lives for.
Personally, I doubt she ever thought he would win. But she’s tied herself to his campaign (the book she’s promoting is titled “In Trump We Trust” for God’s sake) and this is an area she likes to be hard line on. In fact in the book [she apparently writes](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/25/hill-breitbart-hosts-party-ann-coulters-trump-trust-book-globalist-elites-burn/) "there’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven. Except change his immigration policies.” So while it may be all cynical, she’s already staked out this ground.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5176 "2016-08-25T14:25:58Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#):
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> I’ve finally figured out how Donald is going to get Mexico to pay for the wall. He tells them “pay for a wall or you’ll have to stare at these naked statues of me all day. Your choice.”
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> You gotta hand it to him, he knows how to negotiate a deal.
He could call his next book _The Deal of the Art._
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5177 "2016-08-25T14:26:27Z")
I believe she is sincerely pissed - I mean, [THIS IS THE BOOK](https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=o8QiDAAAQBAJ&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gl=US&gclid=CKmfpebi3M4CFVA5Mgod9mQBdA&gclsrc=ds).
On the day it’s released she’s repudiating the damned thing!
I think, at least in Coulter’s mind, that this is a betrayal of everything she wanted Trump to be and her disappointment is sincere.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5178 "2016-08-25T14:30:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> I believe she is sincerely pissed - I mean, [THIS IS THE BOOK](https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=o8QiDAAAQBAJ&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gl=US&gclid=CKmfpebi3M4CFVA5Mgod9mQBdA&gclsrc=ds).
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> On the day it’s released she’s repudiating the damned thing!
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> I think, at least in Coulter’s mind, that this is a betrayal of everything she wanted Trump to be and her disappointment is sincere.
I think she’s doing a pro-wrestling thing to set up a big showdown (that may be purely in her own mind) and at which she will eventually decide that he’s actually right, no matter what position he ends up alleging to have.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5179 "2016-08-25T14:53:58Z")
[Trump is not yet on the Minnesota ballot](http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/gop-fail-donald-trump-not-listed-minnesota-ballot/) and it’s unclear that they can [resolve the mess](https://twitter.com/mbrodkorb) before the deadline.
(For what it’s worth, I assume they will just in a “Well, of COURSE he’ll be on the ballot” sort of way…)
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5180 "2016-08-25T15:32:09Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> I believe she is sincerely pissed - I mean, [THIS IS THE BOOK](https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=o8QiDAAAQBAJ&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gl=US&gclid=CKmfpebi3M4CFVA5Mgod9mQBdA&gclsrc=ds).
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> On the day it’s released she’s repudiating the damned thing!
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> I think, at least in Coulter’s mind, that this is a betrayal of everything she wanted Trump to be and her disappointment is sincere.
Schadenfreude.
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5181 "2016-08-25T15:48:31Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> I believe she is sincerely pissed - I mean, [THIS IS THE BOOK](https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=o8QiDAAAQBAJ&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gl=US&gclid=CKmfpebi3M4CFVA5Mgod9mQBdA&gclsrc=ds).
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> On the day it’s released she’s repudiating the damned thing!
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> I think, at least in Coulter’s mind, that this is a betrayal of everything she wanted Trump to be and her disappointment is sincere.
With Anne’s books, all publicity is good publicity. Threatening to take it off the shelves gives that debut of her book much more coverage than it would otherwise get. Also the possibility that the book may be retracted, means that you need to buy your copy today before they disappear, just like ammunition and assault rifles did under gun grabbing Obama. Lastly repudiating the person she just lauded, shows that she is an independent thinker rather than one that just spouts the party line (even though she isn’t.)
All in all this is probably just about the best thing that could have happened to her.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5182 "2016-08-25T16:10:04Z")
[Hillary leads Trump nationally by 10 in new Quinnipiac poll](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-leads-trump-by-10-in-national-poll-227406).
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