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Trump Spells Trouble for Clinton
The American Spectator ^ | December 22, 2015 | By Ross Kaminsky

Posted on 12/22/2015 4:29:55 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network

If recent polls from more than half a dozen reputable polling organizations are to be believed, of the six leading Republican candidates for president Donald Trump is the one least likely to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.

Polling can be and has often been wrong, sometimes spectacularly so, but Trump's electability gap has been a consistent feature of his primary campaign as a fire-breathing self-funding willing-to-say-anything non-politician politician.

However, even if you believe (as I do) the conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton is "clearly itching to run against Mr. Trump," he nevertheless poses a substantial threat to her presidential aspirations in advance of November's elections.

The Donald has a remarkable ability to break through conventional restrictions on acceptable political conversation and to make people think about issues in ways opponents call "extreme" but which resonate among much of the American public. Beyond his often nativist and economically illiterate base, he is having this effect, whether for good or for ill, on millions of Americans who would not consider voting for Mr. Trump in a general election.

It's not so much that Donald Trump breaks new ground in his pronouncements; rather he amplifies what many are already thinking even if in some cases, such as his persistent denigration of free trade as "America losing" or the suggestion that most Mexican illegal aliens are dangerous criminals, the Trump base and their brash human amplifier are wrong.

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http://spectator.org/articles/65011/trump-spells-trouble-clinton

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: clinton; elections; immigration; trump; trumpwasright
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This is a good article.

Trump is supported by a large amount of Americans.

Even some, who would tend otherwise, toward the Democrat party.

He is poised to win big.

1 posted on 12/22/2015 4:29:55 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

http://spectator.org/articles/65011/trump-spells-trouble-clinton


2 posted on 12/22/2015 4:30:07 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance./c5700.html)
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The "Trump Democrats." It will be the buzz-phrase of late 2016.

The Democrats seem to have no clue how close their excesses have pushed them toward losing the white working class vote - forever.

3 posted on 12/22/2015 4:36:32 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
the suggestion that most Mexican illegal aliens are dangerous criminals, the Trump base and their brash human amplifier are wrong.

How stone cold tone deaf can you be. If they are here illegally, paying a coyote to run them across the border, while he is running drugs or child prostitutes, that is a dangerous criminal.

Those girls are not raping themselves and rape trees don't grow with the panties already on them.
4 posted on 12/22/2015 4:38:22 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Summary of article: Trump points at all the nobles and tells us they have no cloths on.


5 posted on 12/22/2015 4:39:47 AM PST by Fhios (How about we call it a a war on sharia law?)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“He is poised to win big.”

And the new Quinnipiac poll (with more to come) showing Cruz as the latest to attempt to bring down Trump mean one thing. The media is scared to death of him and know Hitlery would have no problem with Cruz or any one else. I think Trump could win in a landslide. I think Cruz would lose in a landslide. I like Cruz as a VP pick for Trump. Then he could run on his own in 4 years because he would established and still be in his 40s and Trump would be 75 and wanting to stay home with his grandchildren.


6 posted on 12/22/2015 4:40:06 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Unless the republican nominee is willing get into the gutter to fight hillary, he/she has no chance to win.


7 posted on 12/22/2015 4:42:16 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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So Trump is going to beat her up so bad she will be Jebbed, but she will beat him in the general. Nuts.
8 posted on 12/22/2015 4:45:03 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Men like Trump don’t retire. If he wins you can be assured he’ll run for re-election. That said, Cruz will be a far better national candidate after 8 years as Trump’s apprentice.


9 posted on 12/22/2015 4:56:35 AM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

What Trump offers the American people is someone to give a voice to what they feel.

Hillary Clinton has never really been challenged.

I now believe that when Clinton was facing all the scandals while President, many of which should have brought him down, the Republican party intentionally mishandled everything so they came off looking bad, and Clinton was allowed to skate. Note they all managed to shift blame to others such as Rush Limbaugh.

What scares the UNI-party is that Trump can not be controlled. Because of that, I worry for Trumps safety.

I also worry about our nation if something should happen to Trump. The left seems to be totally deaf to the warning bells being rung across this country (indeed the world).

It is sort of like the build up to WWI when all the leaders misunderstood what was happening, and millions lost their life (and the world changed forever).


10 posted on 12/22/2015 4:59:16 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I think it would be ironic if Hillary was arrested the day after she secures the nomination.)
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Yeah I sort of agree with everything you said.

Good post.


11 posted on 12/22/2015 5:00:36 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance./c5700.html)
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I do agree that all of this “Trump can’t win” business is nonsense. Judging by the crowds he is attracting, it doesn’t line up with the polling data.

Trump clearly scareds the democRATS and the media. They keep repeating the mantra “Trump can’t/won’t win”. The evidence to the contrary is ample and out in the open for all to see.

Is he the ideal candidate, no. Is he better than Cruz? that’s open to debate. Anyone else? Demonstrably true.

What the GOPe is afraid of, is if Trump wins the nomination and the general election, he would be in control of the GOP. That’s what scares them the most.


12 posted on 12/22/2015 5:00:48 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

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13 posted on 12/22/2015 5:03:07 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
No other candidate has demonstrated Trump's capacity for demolition of his opponents.

He picks at them until they are forced out of their comfort zone and to a place where they become angry and brittle.

Hillary was born angry and brittle...and Trump will cause her to snap like a twig.

Trump will also force Hillary and her staff into a daily battle on the news and twitter. Hillary is not a daily person. She works one day and then retires from the scene to rest for a while.

Trump will give her no rest. She and her staff will work overtime returning Trump's barbs.

It's gonna get ugly (which is a good thing for Trump and the country, because it will expose the real Hillary).

14 posted on 12/22/2015 5:04:12 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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What the Democratic and GOP parties still do not get is where the American electorate is now. They underestimate the anger, rage, frustration and (with Ovomit) the embarrassment of how the US is functioning and perceived in the world right now.
It isn't just (what the media love to call) “Blue collar” or “Uneducated masses” who are supporting him, it's a much wider phenomenon than what the pollsters are predicting. The Donald appears to be the ONLY candidate who is fed up enough to say, cut the crap, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work repairing this Train Wreck.
15 posted on 12/22/2015 5:05:06 AM PST by Netz
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To: RoosterRedux

All that you say is true,

And I have no idea how they’ll do it yet, but Trump and Cruz will both be taken down,

Hillary is the NWO pick, so John McCain and the Lindsey Graham wing of the GOP including Jeb and his daddy will all be voting for her in the general election. The MSM will be singing her chorus,


16 posted on 12/22/2015 5:23:26 AM PST by captmar-vell
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And I have no idea how they’ll do it yet, but Trump and Cruz will both be taken down,

I believe the same thing. And I also believe that Marco Rubio now becomes the designated loser to Hillary.

17 posted on 12/22/2015 5:26:29 AM PST by sport
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The Media and the elites in both parties have IGNORED our cries of pain....Trump is a bloodless way of having a Revolution in this country....Once an “outsider” is elected, the whole damn system is done for.....


18 posted on 12/22/2015 5:26:41 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: Netz

You are correct. The DC Uni-Party, including the media (Fox, too!) have alienated and insulted us for too long. We are finished with them!


19 posted on 12/22/2015 5:31:56 AM PST by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

From the article:

“Donald Trump is the one least likely to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.”

Read that again, Trump fanbois.


20 posted on 12/22/2015 5:35:16 AM PST by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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