# 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:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5763 "2016-09-05T02:30:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Don’t let it bother you, we have just as much a shot now as we ever had.
Speak for yourself, my friend. My eleven-inch tongue tends to garble my diction.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5764 "2016-09-05T02:35:02Z")
Pitiful helpless giant, what the girls at the pool hall say.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5765 "2016-09-05T03:29:41Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Goddam it! All that money I wasted on chocolates and flowers!
Better you should find out now; the good stalking weather is only going to last another few weeks.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5766 "2016-09-05T04:39:45Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Speak for yourself, my friend. My eleven-inch tongue tends to garble my diction.
At least it’s not forked.
Is it…?
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5767 "2016-09-05T05:15:51Z")
So apparently Trump hasn’t yet agreed to the first debate and is still demanding that Johnson and Stein should be included saying he won’t turn up if they are not allowed to participate. Or at least this article is claiming it (and it was posted today) but I can’t see any other source saying this.
> **[Donald Trump Will Not Debate Hillary, if Gary Johnson not Allowed to Participate](https://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/09/04/news/donald-trump-will-not-debate-hillary-if-gary-johnson-not-allowed-to-participate/1894.html)**
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> The Donald Trump for President 2016 campaign will pull out of the scheduled September 26th debate between Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Trump, unless third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are also...
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### Author:  [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5768 "2016-09-05T07:17:49Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> So apparently Trump hasn’t yet agreed to the first debate and is still demanding that Johnson and Stein should be included saying he won’t turn up if they are not allowed to participate. Or at least this article is claiming it (and it was posted today) but I can’t see any other source saying this.
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> [Donald Trump Will Not Debate Hillary, if Gary Johnson not Allowed to Participate - Santa Monica Observer](http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/09/04/news/donald-trump-will-not-debate-hillary-if-gary-johnson-not-allowed-to-participate/1894.html)
He never had to face a Republican challenger one on one, so I’m sure he would rather not do that with Hillary. The more people on stage, the more he can fling his shit and try to distract everyone.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5769 "2016-09-05T07:37:44Z")
My guess on the way the worms are squirming in his brain pan is to demand their participation mostly in hope Hillary will refuse. Thus, a stand on principles is available, and he can pretend to have some.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5770 "2016-09-05T07:38:34Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> People who identify as Hispanic, likely middle class, and have been in America for generations so have little cultural or familial connections to Mexico or Latin America. They don’t much care for the wetbacks and ignore the blatant racism baked into Trump’s attacks on illegal immigrants.
The first not necessarily, based on interviews to Hispanic Trump supporters I’ve seen: some of them are 0-generation immigrants. “Get off my land” indeed.
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5771 "2016-09-05T07:44:23Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> My guess on the way the worms are squirming in his brain pan is to demand their participation mostly in hope Hillary will refuse. Thus, a stand on principles is available, and he can pretend to have some.
I don’t that anyone who isn’t already a Trump supporter will buy this at all. I hope the Debate commission plays hardball and refuses to make any concessions to him. He’ll look like a coward if he doesn’t turn up with this excuse. The debate rules and dates were set last September, Johnson and Stein didn’t make 15 percent so they don’t get to be in. Simple.
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5772 "2016-09-05T08:30:41Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> The same Alex Jones who is highly concerned about [fish babies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzNeg9D-EZ4).
:eek: What is the context? Is this his argument against fetal cell research or something?
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5773 "2016-09-05T09:19:15Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> :eek: What is the context? Is this his argument against fetal cell research or something?
From what I can tell he is claiming that he somehow got into some secret government lab and saw the human-fish hybrids, but I can’t keep up with his conspiracies, he’s just got too many. Either he doesn’t believe all of this stuff and just knows it gets him fans or he’s actually a high functioning Schizophrenic.
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5774 "2016-09-05T09:44:14Z")
Good question!
So now FOX News has found a doctor (who just happens to be a [blonde with huge tits](http://home.cableone.net/tv/3/player/vendor/Fox%20News/player/embedded/asset/fox_news-clinton_blames_mental_health_for_email_confusion-foxnews), imagine that) to proclaim that Hillary’s “I don’t recall” answers to the FBI’s questions amount to a neurological problem. Oy. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5775 "2016-09-05T10:03:25Z")
Strange I seem to remember Reagan saying “I don’t recall” 88 times in his testimony on iran-contra. But then expecting the Trump campaign to have that kind of memory is a bit unrealistic. Selective memory loss is not something that either party can claim exclusive right to.
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5776 "2016-09-05T11:42:31Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> So apparently Trump hasn’t yet agreed to the first debate and is still demanding that Johnson and Stein should be included saying he won’t turn up if they are not allowed to participate.
When McDonald’s CEO refused to testify before Teddy Kennedy’s Committee, Kennedy put a BigMac and Fries at the witness table and let CSPAN film “Teddy vs the Big Mac.”
Since the debates are already scheduled, could the network televise Hillary vs the Gold Toupee (or whatever) perhaps giving 50% of the time to whatever self-appointed Trump surrogate is willing to appear?
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5777 "2016-09-05T12:53:34Z")
Anybody notice how Eric Trump looks like a grown-up Draco Malfoy?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5778 "2016-09-05T13:16:22Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> Strange I seem to remember Reagan saying “I don’t recall” 88 times in his testimony on iran-contra. But then expecting the Trump campaign to have that kind of memory is a bit unrealistic. Selective memory loss is not something that either party can claim exclusive right to.
Except it’s likely Reagan that actually did have a (developing) neurological issue at that time.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5779 "2016-09-05T13:46:58Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> I don’t that anyone who isn’t already a Trump supporter will buy this at all. I hope the Debate commission plays hardball and refuses to make any concessions to him. \*\*He’ll look like a coward if he doesn’t turn up with this excuse. \*\*The debate rules and dates were set last September, Johnson and Stein didn’t make 15 percent so they don’t get to be in. Simple.
My bold.
Not to his followers, he won’t. He’ll look like a guy who refused to be bullied/pressured by Crooked Hillary and her media flacks.
To the rest of the world he already looks like a coward.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5780 "2016-09-05T13:53:07Z")
Who cares what he looks like to his core followers? It’s the idiots who are wavering whom we have to convert.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5781 "2016-09-05T15:00:39Z")
Damn… rape case has been postponed to October 14th.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5782 "2016-09-05T16:43:56Z")
> [@Tangent](#):
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> Well, that seals it. I’ll definitely be voting for Hillary on [del]November 8[/del] Taco Tuesday.
“Today will not be known as Taco Tuesday! It will be known as Freedom Friday! But still on a Tuesday!”
> [@coremelt](#):
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> Strange I seem to remember Reagan saying “I don’t recall” 88 times in his testimony on iran-contra. But then expecting the Trump campaign to have that kind of memory is a bit unrealistic. Selective memory loss is not something that either party can claim exclusive right to.
Alberto Gonzalez managed a decent [72 “I don’t recall” statements](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIgbJSrIvWc) in his Senate hearing. How’s he doing these days?
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