According to this PPP poll, Trump is dominating the Republican field even if it’s whittled down to two candidates:
Trump: 59
Bush: 34
Trump: 53
Walker: 39
Trump: 50
Rubio: 42
Trump: 48
Fiorina: 41
Trump: 43
Carson: 49
Only Carson beats Trump 1 on 1 – apparently because he’s very well liked by Republican voters.
Wow that’s weird, but as a Democrat it makes me very happy. Go Trump go!
Palin interviews Trump. Yes, friends, it has indeed come to that - that’s a former VP candidate and the current leading Pres candidate of one of our major parties.
It is to weep.
*“Among all registered voters, Clinton continues to lead all of her potential Republican rivals, though narrowly. She leads Bush by only a 43 percent to 41 percent margin, and she has just a one-point edge — 43 percent to 42 percent — over Trump. Clinton leads Paul, Walker and Rubio by wider margins.”
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As I said, be careful what you wish for.
I want Trump to do well because I don’t think Republican party leaders will allow him to win, even if he wins early states. I think they will do anything including changing the rules mid-stream to avoid a Trump nominee. And this will just make it more likely he runs third party.
Also, even one-on-one, this early I’m just going by gut feel – and my gut feel is that Trump will do terribly with women and minorities, and will have virtually no chance of winning Florida. Without Florida, the Republicans have zero chance… even with Florida, I think Trump has very little chance of winning states like Virginia, New Mexico, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and other states the Republican candidate needs.
But I could be wrong, as could everyone, this early. We’ll see. Right now, Trump’s polling success makes me happy.
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A piece I haven’t seen brought up is that even without a rules change there’s a significant uphill fight if the establishment is against you. 437 of 2470 total delegates are unpledged (168 of them go to the members of the RNC). In attacking the establishment he’s potentially alienating 17% of the support he needs. If Trump doesn’t win any of them he needs to win just shy of 61% of the delegates awarded in primaries/caucuses to secure the nomination on the first vote. Winning even by a small margin has tended to get those delegates to fall in to line. If the party is dead set against Trump though it’s a play without rules changes and possible lawsuits. It’s also a play that doesn’t become obvious until the convention itself. At that point Trump has lost most of his ability to get on ballots as an Independent.
From the article posted by ElvisL1ves:
This is his reality TV show.
Every time I think I’m being maybe just a little too hard on American politics, something like this happens.
I will also point out, if looks like the Repubs are running a stealth Deem to go with the Dems’ stealth Repub.
Though to be fair, some of the position statements used are fairly old from the '90s. It’s hard to know what Trump really supports.
Wait, which one is the stealth Repub?
All of them that aren’t Bernie?
Goddamn autocorrect. I swear that did not say “Deem” when I typed it in.
I think it’s obvious I mean the Democratic frontrunner, the one we’ve previously commented as being practically a republican in terms of business and such.
How about a Trump/Palin vs. Clinton/Sanders match-up in 2016?
I’d like to see a Trump/Giuliani vs. Clinton/Pelosi ticket, myself.
Then there’d be no question as to whether Americans truly want to see America made great again, or whether 40 years of liberal dominance in the fields of education, news and entertainment media, and Hollywood have managed to brainwash enough of us into desiring a version of American ‘greatness’ that belittles success and achievement and handwaves them away as merely the product of ‘privilege’; a land where any and every possible form of victimhood is lauded and seen to grant moral superiority; where decades of drug, gang and criminal activity have resulted in a militarized police force; and where a small but ever-increasing number of ‘social justice warriors’ are allowed to determine for themselves how everyone else should think, speak and behave, followed by immediate and aggressive (and more often than not, dishonest) bullying heaped upon anyone who either refuses to toe the party line or perhaps blunders across it innocently out of ignorance borne of having not quite kept abreast of which have been the latest words to be decreed verbotten by the speech and thought police.
I truly would like to know where we are as a nation now, and whether most of the populace is happy with the way things are going now, or whether most of the country detests it and feels our political leadership either has no clue as to what the American people really want, or doesn’t care, or has idea how to get us there.
I think a ticket similar to the one I proposed would answer that question pretty clearly.
Haters and losers
[quote a 2007 deposition]
(Donald Trump Has Lost Between $1 and $6 Billion Over His Business Career – Mother Jones) regarding Donald Trump’s wealth as of 2005: [INDENT][INDENT]… two separate banks had assessed Trump’s assets and liabilities before agreeing to lend him money. One, North Fork Bank, decided he was worth $1.2 billion, while Deutsche Bank found he was worth no more than $788 million. [/INDENT][/INDENT] Given that Trump’s Dad handed him the business in 1974, haters and losers estimate that Donald Trump lost between $1 and $6 billion over his business career relative to simply putting the money into an index fund. The Donald made money the old fashioned way: he inherited it.
You’ve been disappointed with your life for many years. But it’s definitely not* your* fault.
Trump/Palin, while ridiculously scary, is not out of the question. Trump needs a running mate, and Palin has her popularity crowd.
Clinton/Sanders is much more unlikely. Sanders is too different is policies and ideas from Clinton. I could see either pick O’Malley as their VP, but neither would pick the other.
[Darth Vader voice]The spin is strong with this one.[/Darth Vader voice]
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Haters and losers
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This bit of nonsense has been debunked several times already. Trump and his executives were given managerial control of his father’s properties…mostly large complexes of affordable apartments in the outer boroughs. If anything, the fact that Fred Trump had enough confidence in his son’s abilities to give him managerial control of his large business is a vote of confidence, and these continued “it’s not a feature, it’s a bug” claims when it comes to Trump’s father turning management of his properties over to Trump are just silly.
People also like to try to belittle Trump’s accomplishments by claiming he inherited and then modestly grew his father’s wealth, when Trump was already fabulously wealthy and sussessful for two decades by the time his father died and left several hundred million.
And of course you know perfectly well that Trump has built not one but two multi-billion dollar fortunes, having nearly lost it all in the early nineties. The amount of thought and effort he put into negotiating the deals that allowed him to avoid personal bankruptcy and save and ultimately rebuild his wealth are testaments to his intelligence, fortitude and perspicasity, and IMO demonstrate abilities far beyond those of the last several presidential administrations, at least.
Frankly I’m beginning to wonder if you aren’t really a stealth supporter of The Donald’s, as you keep giving me opportunities over and over again to point to his many achievements under fire. I can’t imagine what you’re attempting to accomplish by bringing this stuff up over and over again otherwise. 
Hahahahahaha.
Trump supporters are old white men who are afraid of getting their toys taken away from them. Nothing more.
Where was this “debunked”? What “executives”? His first job was working for his father; he had no executives. His father loaned him the money to begin speculating in Manhattan.
The contents of your posts are becoming increasingly delusional.
But don’t you see, that’s actually a point in Trump’s favor. Anybody can go in to a bank and get a loan. How much time do you think they have to go over every application, anyway? But Donald Trump was able to win the trust of his own father; someone who knew him well, and knew what it would take to succeed. There are loads of self-made men in the world, but Trump was able to make something of himself despite the handicap of coming from a rich family.
That’s the kind of success story that should make us all proud to be Americans.