In line with the questions about his religious faith, play up the fact that most of his business experience is in building casinos.
Other than the first part of (2), nothing this list is likely to make him unpalatable to the Republican base.
And the argument for that part of #2 is not only kinda thin, but the most solid evidence is stuff where the base is on his side. Like him, they don’t want to fuck with Social Security and Medicare, they’re against trade agreements that send our jobs overseas, and they’re for raising taxes on hedge-fund millionaires.
Go ahead, GOP, please attack Trump on these issues. Ain’t too proud to beg!
Another item on the list:
Sounds good, until she fleshes it out:
I’m trying to imagine how the GOP candidates can ‘seem to genuinely care about’ people when they’re trying to keep their pay as low as possible while seeking to take affordable health insurance away from them, and raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility age.
What can they tell these people? I guess the GOP candidates could give them Jayne Cobb’s “Jaynestown” speech:
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You people have been given the shortest end of a stick ever offered a human soul in this crap-heel ‘verse… But you took that end, and you, you know… Well…You took it. And that’s… I guess that’s somethin’.
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Yeah, that’ll go over well. 
[If Trump isn’t embracing the crazy, he sure isn’t pushing it away:
](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOP_2016_TRUMP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-18-01-04-25)The article notes that Trump himself has been a proponent of so-called “birther” arguments.
Once again, I don’t see anything here that sticks. Pressing the guy for a question is about as dismissive as Trump could be without risking a confrontation with a member of the public (which generally doesn’t play well even if the person was talking crap). Then, in response to this guy’s vague concerns, just basically gave him a verbal hug – making no real claim, stating no opinion and promising nothing.
In the unthinkable scenario where I wanted to win the GOP nomination, I would do the same. Especially if I had previously been a part of the birther nonsense.
No, because it’s nothing we don’t already know. What’s surprising is that you’re agreeing with it, that you support Trump because of how he makes you feel instead of any intelligent reason.
You do realize Stoneburg said “he appeals to the idiots,” right?]
Oh, and Terr made it very clear in his first post on the subject that he likes Trump because it pisses people off. It’s why I don’t debate him on the topic. I know he doesn’t really think Trump can win, or he’d be freaking out.
The “he failed to correct the rube!” thing is pretty much a non-story, except as a minor point of contrast between Trump and McCain, but man, it doesn’t get any Trumpier than that last paragraph, does it? When you see his words in print, away from the mesmerizing smug delivery, it’s apparent just how much nothingness is there.
The anti-Muslim stooge could come back to haunt Trump, IF a competent reporter would bring it up in a news conference or debate. “Mr. Trump, at a recent rally a supporter said that Muslims are a problem in America and that the president was a Muslim himself. You nodded in agreement with him. Are Muslims a problem in America and if so, what would you do about it?”
The incident will not faze current Trump supporters. They are well beyond the universe of factual knowledge.
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No, because it’s nothing we don’t already know. What’s surprising is that you’re agreeing with it, that you support Trump because of how he makes you feel instead of any intelligent reason.
You do realize Stoneburg said “he appeals to the idiots,” right?]
Oh, and Terr made it very clear in his first post on the subject that he likes Trump because it pisses people off. It’s why I don’t debate him on the topic. I know he doesn’t really think Trump can win, or he’d be freaking out.
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Crikey,** BigT**, but you have been hitting some home runs lately.
CBS poll shows Trump lead down to 4. And Kasich is pulling a strong third in New Hampshire, even second in some polls.
And this was before Trump got hit from pretty much everyone including Fiorina and Bush who actually struck real blows. While I don’t think this debate is going to knock Trump out completely, Republican voters are waking up and realizing this guy with his entire platform being “everything is going to be better and we are going to have the biggest military ever seen and we’re going to build a wall to keep the Mexicans out” could actually be the nominee if they don’t do something.
I forsee Bush/Rubio/Kasich/Fiorina fighting against each other for the rational people and the winner gets the nom.
Build a big, big wall and make the Muslims pay for it.
Next question.
Trump pulls out of Heritage Foundation forum (via TPM)
Let’s assume this is the real reason. Either vaunted businessman Trump can’t manage to schedule a deal closing to around his schedule (“I’m gonna tell *them *when to close, and make them pay for it!”); or, Trump’s business deals are more important that running for President of the United States.
Did Heritage boot him for some reason?
Yeah, but that’s just one poll. And the polling period overlapped with another poll (WaPo/ABC) that showed Trump at 33% instead of the 27% in the CBS/NYT poll.
It may be indicative of a drop in Trump’s support, or it may be an outlier. We won’t know until we have more polls.
here is a post-debate poll:
In this same poll, prior to Wednesday night’s debate, Trump sat at 33% support. Dr. Ben Carson sat in second place with 17% support. Today Trump enjoys 36% support. Carson is still in second place but with just 12% support.
Trump’s lead increased from +16 points to +24%. That’s an +8% jump.
Breitbart for cite? Seriously?
First of all, Trump’s number didn’t move much. It went from 33% to 36% which could be noise. The big change seems to be that many voters switched Carson to Fiorina.
Secondly, “The Morning Consult survey polled 504 registered voters who said they watched the Republican primary debate and that they plan to participate in their state’s Republican presidential nominating contest.” (my bolding) This may or may not be representative of Republican primary voters in general. It could be that people who support the TV star are more likely to to watch TV.
To be fair they didn’t conduct the poll. That said…
Terr - A Morning Consult poll? Seriously? Just clicking through from Breitbart shows that their sample was 28% Independents that plan to vote in the Republican primary. That seems like an odd weighting for R and R leaning voters. That overweighting is towards people who tend to NOT actually vote in the primary.
But hey if you want to go with it at least acknowledge the same poll said Fiorina won the debate. Secretariat is finding her stride. 
Can’t be bothered to properly credit the article you copy/pasted from?
People who’re criticizing that the cite is from Breitbart - who cares where the cite is from? The poll is the poll, who’s reporting on it is immaterial. If I linked to a leftist site with exactly the same info - can you explain why that would be more acceptable to you?