# Trump for New York governor! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 10, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409 "2014-01-10T00:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/21 "2014-01-10T17:26:22Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It’s probably a couple of minor-league officials who have no real power, and Trump probably leaked this story. Anyone who thinks he might really run for office is a chump. What, you mean you don’t think there’s a groundswell of up-staters going to their county chairman and saying, “You know who’d make a good governor? Donald Trump, that’s who!” ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/22 "2014-01-10T18:01:56Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Are we sure he was born here? I think Colbert is still waiting for proof he wasn’t born to a primate. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/23 "2014-01-10T20:52:33Z")
I think we ought to be looking for proof that he **was** born to a primate. Normally I don’t put much truck in those UFO conspiracy theories, but you look at him and you think, “Well, maybe those guys who talk about the reptilians are on to something…” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/24 "2014-01-11T01:04:49Z")
Trump gave himself a easy excuse to back out. I can’t imagine the party canceling the primary for Trump. Is that even legal under the NY state election laws? He won’t run. > **[Donald Trump Says He’ll Run For NY Governor If Republicans Unify Behind Him](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/01/10/donald-trump-says-hell-run-for-ny-governor-if-republicans-unify-behind-him/)** > > Donald Trump says he’s prepared to run for governor this year if the state’s Republicans can unify behind him. Trump, in a phone interview with the Daily News following a two-hour meeti… > [@](#): > > Trump, in a phone interview with the Daily News following a two-hour meeting with 50 GOPers in his office today, said he wants full support, meaning no primaries and even Conservative Party backing. “The advantage the Democrats have in New York State is pretty substantial,” Trump said. > > “You can’t have primaries. You can’t have all the wasted time and effort in doing that. You have to pick somebody and go to win. If that couldn’t happen, I wouldn’t do it.” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/25 "2014-01-11T01:35:46Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Trump gave himself a easy excuse to back out. I can’t imagine the party canceling the primary for Trump. Is that even legal under the NY state election laws? > > He won’t run. > [Donald Trump Says He’ll Run For NY Governor If Republicans Unify Behind Him – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2014/01/donald-trump-says-hell-run-for-ny-governor-if-republicans-unify-behind-him) Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is asking himself why he didn’t think of that. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/26 "2014-01-11T01:45:19Z")
“Also, this whole ‘General Election’, ‘Electoral College’–all that stuff has got to go. We should just declare me to be President of the United States.”[/Trump] ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/27 "2014-01-12T14:26:45Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I’d sooner vote for the thing on his head if I didn’t think he was taking orders from it. I’ve always imagined it’s a kind of alien leech/parasite combination. Years ago, it launched itself out of its spacecraft onto his unsuspecting head, slowly began to suck his brains out, and then replaced them with its own special mucus-fluid. He’s no longer a thinking person: merely an empty shell controlled by the Overlords. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/28 "2014-01-12T18:36:18Z")
Really stupid Overlords. I expect better from anyone who would adopt that moniker. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/29 "2014-01-12T19:01:30Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Are we sure he was born here? Certainly, if “born” encompasses “hatched.” ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409/30 "2014-01-29T02:38:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The Republicans, in what I can only imagine is some sort of last-ditch effort to completely tank their party, are going to [try to draft](http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/albany-politics/gop-leaders-will-try-to-draft-trump-at-friday-meeting-20140109) The Donald to run against Cuomo. You can’t make this sort of comedy gold up. I can already imagine the fake debate on SNL, and am salivating at the prospect of Jon Stewart’s take on this. They really are desperate. I’d absolutely love that. Would make my GOTV work for the Democrats much easier. Might even help my locality win a state assembly seat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-for-new-york-governor/678409.md?page=1)