# 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:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5783 "2016-09-05T16:51:31Z")
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> …On June 7, 2016, Gonzalez signed with the Guerreros de Oaxaca of the Mexican Baseball League…
> **[Alberto González (baseball)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonz%C3%A1lez_(baseball))**
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> Alberto Ramón González (born April 18, 1983) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, and Chicago Cubs.
> González was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Diamondbacks on August 3, 2002. He spent his first three years in the minors, playing for the Single-A South Bend Silver Hawks in 2004 and 2005, and the Double-A Tennessee Smokies and Triple-A Tucso...
Lo, how the mighty are fallen!
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5784 "2016-09-05T16:56:26Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Anybody notice how Eric Trump looks like a grown-up Draco Malfoy?
I knew he looked familiar!
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5785 "2016-09-05T17:16:38Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Damn… rape case has been postponed to October 14th.
JohnT, I can’t find any source for this. Linky? I thought the case was without merit, [incited by a known prankster/huckster](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow) ?
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5786 "2016-09-05T20:04:52Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> Good question!
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> 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:
Good old Fox.
“I’m here to be interviewed for potentially being on a panel.”
“Good. Here’s your bikini. You can get changed in the Roger Ailes Memorial Dressing Room. And don’t mind the red light - it is just a fire alarm. On the ceiling. With a lens.”
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5787 "2016-09-05T20:10:47Z")
That wouldn’t make me feel self-conscious at all.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5788 "2016-09-05T20:23:40Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> Good question!
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> 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:
Apparently she’s a surgeon and a podiatrist?
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5789 "2016-09-05T20:23:50Z")
“Good, now dance for us, just a little.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5790 "2016-09-05T20:50:10Z")
Hey! The blonde with the huge tits was a LAWYER!
Also she had glasses, so she is also a SEXY LIBRARIAN.
The doctor was a brunette, and the OTHER blonde looked like she was nineteen, so I doubt that she was a professional anything. They also had large shapely tits under their tight tight sweaters, but not as huge as the lawyer/sexy librarian’s.
Up in the control booth, the remaining Fox News executives were furiously masturbating.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5791 "2016-09-05T20:58:03Z")
> [@Maastricht](#):
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> JohnT, I can’t find any source for this. Linky? I thought the case was without merit, [incited by a known prankster/huckster](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump-sexual-assault-lawsuits-norm-lubow) ?
[http://www.irontroll.com/2016/08/donald-trump-pedophile-rape-case-delayed.html?m=1](http://www.irontroll.com/2016/08/donald-trump-pedophile-rape-case-delayed.html?m=1)
Not interested in merit, but optics. Glad to see “Donald Trump rape case” in Twitter feeds and headlines on 10.14.16.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5792 "2016-09-05T20:59:27Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Hey! The blonde with the huge tits was a LAWYER!
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> Also she had glasses, so she is also a SEXY LIBRARIAN.
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> The doctor was a brunette, and the OTHER blonde looked like she was nineteen, so I doubt that she was a professional anything. They also had large shapely tits under their tight tight sweaters, but not as huge as the lawyer/sexy librarian’s.
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> Up in the control booth, the remaining Fox News executives were furiously masturbating.
So they were fair & balanced? Tell me again why I shouldn’t watch FOX?
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5793 "2016-09-05T21:32:48Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> Apparently she’s a surgeon and a podiatrist?
I had a podiatrist cut a piece of glass out of my foot, once. On the Donald J. Trump Campaign Org Chart, that probably makes him as a Surgeon General.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5794 "2016-09-05T21:49:35Z")
> [@septimus](#):
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> 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?
That would be a Doonesbury cartoon come to life.
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### Author:  [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5795 "2016-09-05T21:59:34Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
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> Good old Fox.
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> “I’m here to be interviewed for potentially being on a panel.”
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> “Good. Here’s your bikini. You can get changed in the Roger Ailes Memorial Dressing Room. And don’t mind the red light - it is just a fire alarm. On the ceiling. With a lens.”
LOL…except in this case there was no bikini they could find that would contain those things to the satisfaction of the FCC.
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> Apparently she’s a surgeon and a podiatrist?
I guess so, yeah. I’m trying to picture her having an actual practice, with patients and colleagues. I just can’t do it, except as part of some ridiculous soap opera.
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Hey! The blonde with the huge tits was a LAWYER!
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> Also she had glasses, so she is also a SEXY LIBRARIAN.
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> The doctor was a brunette, and the OTHER blonde looked like she was nineteen, so I doubt that she was a professional anything. They also had large shapely tits under their tight tight sweaters, but not as huge as the lawyer/sexy librarian’s.
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> Up in the control booth, the remaining Fox News executives were furiously masturbating.
I’m pretty sure the blonde in the middle and the brunette to the left were both doctors. The one in the middle was also definitely a sexy librarian. The blonde on the right was a lawyer, I think, and you’re right: in any normal setting, she would be seen as having big boobs…but next to Chesty Mountains in the middle, there, she looked to have the chest of a ten year old boy by comparison.
And yes: definite circle jerk going on in the control booth, or maybe up in the executive suites.
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### Author:  [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5796 "2016-09-05T22:15:15Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> So they were fair & balanced?
The tits?
They were white, if that’s what you mean by fair. Balanced? Everybody knows one is always bigger than the other. Unless they’re fake.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5797 "2016-09-05T22:31:43Z")
Guys, it has been a rough week for Trump’s “Latino Council” and they need your support.
We all know about Marco “Taco Truck” Gutierrez, the man who made election day Taco Tuesday, right?
Well, today, Trump Latino surrogate Steve Cortes admitted to MSNBC’s Joy Reid that Trumps bribe to Bondi was “pay for play” and, if I’m hearing this right, it was OK to do it because he’s a successful businessman and that’s what successful business-people do.
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Please, if you have a Twitter account, please let @CortesSteve know you appreciate his honesty.
(I’m beginning to have a NewsCrush on Joy Reid, btw.)
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5798 "2016-09-05T22:43:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> …(I’m beginning to have a NewsCrush on Joy Reid, btw.)
Yesterday’s show (“AM Joy”) contained a segment well worth your time; Media Matters highlighted it. A brief excerpt:
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> …the media search for scandal in Clintons emails continued on Thursday when The New York Times announced “Emails Raise New Questions About Clinton Foundation Ties to State Dept.” Those new questions involved a long time adviser to Bill Clinton, Doug Band, who attempted to obtain a special diplomatic passport related to Clinton’s 2009 mission to free two American journalists detained in North Korea.
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> Except there was no there there either, because the answer to those questions about whether the Clinton Foundation received special access from Hillary Clinton’s State Department was a resounding no. As theTimes reports in the story, **the State Department never issued the passport to the foundation official who made the request.** So why is the media looking for a Clinton scandal when there’s none to find and trying so hard to see a Trump pivot when he shows no signs of ever pivoting?
[http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/04/msnbcs-joy-reid-standard-what-qualifies-hillary-clinton-scandal-arent-about-smoking-guns-theyre/212844](http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/04/msnbcs-joy-reid-standard-what-qualifies-hillary-clinton-scandal-arent-about-smoking-guns-theyre/212844)
I added the underline to point out a rather important part of the story that was absent from every other cable-news treatment I happened to catch (and I caught several).
Reid should, by rights, be in line for the NBC Nightly anchor chair; she’s that good. Great in interviews, too.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5799 "2016-09-05T23:48:09Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Well, today, Trump Latino surrogate Steve Cortes admitted to MSNBC’s Joy Reid that Trumps bribe to Bondi was “pay for play” and, if I’m hearing this right, it was OK to do it because he’s a successful businessman and that’s what successful business-people do.
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> [x.com](https://twitter.com/amjoyshow/status/772910755599511552)
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> Please, if you have a Twitter account, please let @CortesSteve know you appreciate his honesty.
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> (I’m beginning to have a NewsCrush on Joy Reid, btw.)
Trump’s folks: "So what? Emails show Clinton did it first! Crooked!
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### Author:  [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5800 "2016-09-06T00:34:22Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> Apparently she’s a surgeon and a podiatrist?
It means she can do foot surgery. She has no expertise in the supposed neurological (memory) issues she is commenting on. It looks like her qualifications are the large floatation devices on her chest which Roger Ailes would approve of.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5801 "2016-09-06T00:46:00Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Reid should, by rights, be in line for the NBC Nightly anchor chair; she’s that good. Great in interviews, too.
If you mean the “NBC Nightly News” chair currently held by Lester Holt, she won’t ever be in line for that position. She isn’t that caliber.
If you mean she is better than Brian Williams, current MSNBC anchor, she still wouldn’t be next in line if Brian left. She’s a good reporter /host, but not in the top three.
This from a lefty who watches MSNBC every night, all evening long.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5802 "2016-09-06T01:00:50Z")
Trump’s campaign tweets out poll results. [And gets them wrong](http://mashable.com/2016/09/05/trump-wrong-polls.amp). Again.
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> Donald Trump’s campaign can’t seem to get out of its own way on social media.
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> On Monday morning, Trump began heralding poll results from Iowa and the key swing state of Ohio. He mentioned the results at a rally and tweeted out nifty graphics on his account to share the numbers.
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> The only problem: he kept crediting an outlet that doesn’t commission such polls: FiveThirtyEight.
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> Trump credited Nate Silver’s electoral wizardry for showing he had a lead over Clinton of 46 percent to 43 percent in Ohio and a 44 percent to 41 percent lead in Iowa.
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> Later, his campaign also tweeted out the poll results, again crediting FiveThirtyEight. Those tweets have since been deleted and retweeted – screenshots are below.
And naturally, what’s not mentioned:
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> Indeed, a look at FiveThirtyEight’s current forecast shows Clinton with around a 60 percent chance of winning Ohio and Trump with just over a 50 percent chance of winning Iowa.
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> As for the Ipsos/Reuters poll of likely voters, however – it actually shows Clinton as the favorite to win the election in November.
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> Later, Trump sent out another tweet, appropriately citing the Ipsos/Reuters poll with attribution to FiveThirtyEight, thought not its forecast that Trump would lose if the election were held today.
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