Posted on 07/09/2015 12:12:14 AM PDT by SatinDoll
The GOP’s smear campaign, working overtime to mock, and discredit Donald Trump has has backfired so bad that Trump is now #1. Americans actually are beginning to see that Trump will fight for the American people.
The Telegraph had this to say regarding Trump and some of the GOP’s fear and smear:
For Donald Trump the entrepreneur, it was a damaging week. Two major television networks severed ties, Macy’s dropped his clothing line and Carlos Slim, the even richer Mexican tycoon, ended a joint venture with him.
But for Donald Trump the inveterate showman and Republican challenger for president, the week was a triumph as he climbed in the opinion polls and dominated media coverage, despite the backlash against his decision to condemn Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug traffickers.
“Wow, Huffington Post just stated that I am number one in the polls of Republican candidates,” the brash billionaire bragged as the week closed, citing the liberal media outlet that has been a platform for many of the strongest attacks on him. “Thank you, but the work has just begun!”
Mr. Trump was touting his first place in an average of 105 polls. Of the 14 candidates who have declared, Trump topped the field with 13.6 per cent support to 13.3 per cent for Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and son and brother of two past presidents.
The Republican hierarchy is not laughing as he rides an anti-establishment populist tide, shooting from the hip with his overheated rhetoric. They are concerned not because they think he has a chance of securing the nomination but because they fear he could influence the election by scarring the party’s reputation.
“Donald Trump is like watching a roadside accident,” Ari Fleischer, a former spokesman for George W Bush, told Politico. “Everybody pulls over to see the mess. And Trump thinks that’s entertainment. But running for president is serious. And the risk for the party is that he tarnishes everybody.”
Mr. Trump’s rivals in the race were at first unsure how to respond. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator and son of Cuban immigrants, finally on Thursday called the comments “not just offensive and inaccurate, but also divisive”.
Jeb Bush, whose wife is Mexican and who delivered his declaration speech in English and Spanish and supports creating a path for legalizing the status of undocumented immigrants, said: “His remarks do not represent the values of the Republican party and they do not represent my values.”
But he defended his stance and said he had become a “whipping post” for speaking up on immigration and crime. The lone fellow candidate to speak up for Mr. Trump was Ted Cruz, the Texas senator whose father is Cuban, saying he “speaks the truth”.
This is what attracts grassroots supporters such as Ken Crow, a leader of the Tea Party in the first-voting caucus of Iowa. He reeled off a list of reasons why he was backing Mr Trump. “Americans are sick and tired of corrupt government and career politicians,” he said. “He will straighten out the economy and defend our borders. Americans want a John Wayne right now, someone who’ll be a champion of our country.”
The Trump candidacy is playing up strains between Tea Party activists and senior party figures, with Mr. Fleischer adding that his comments were irresponsible and “hurtful”.
And John Weaver, an adviser on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, noted: “I remember growing up in Kermit [Texas], every time the carnival came to town it drew a big crowd. But nobody wanted the carnival barker to be mayor.” (Read the full story at The Telegraph)
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Now Trump leads in North Carolina and is beating Bush according to Newsmax, the Washington Examiner and the Charlotte Observer:
Trump’s momentum “just keeps on building,” according to the PPP website, though the poll found Trump drags the bottom of the GOP field among those who could likely beat Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Still, Trump leads the GOP field in North Carolina with 16 percent followed by Jeb Bush and Scott Walker at 12 percent each; Mike Huckabee at 11 percent; Ben Carson and Marco Rubio at 9 percent, Rand Paul at 7 percent; Ted Cruz at 6 percent; Chris Christie at 5 percent; Carly Fiorina at 4 percent; Rick Perry at 2 percent, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, and Rick Santorum at 1 percent; and John Kasich and George Pataki at less that 1 percent.
Trump has a way of expressing American anger at the liberal mental disorder. All one has to do is watch how Trump just owned MSNBC (click [here] or [here]) to see why the man is surging in the polls.
On April 14th, before Trump even announced and while everyone was so skeptic he would run or even when most doubted he would even make it we stated:
“I suspect Trump will run, win and rid us from one wicked wretch: Hillary Clinton.”
I never doubted that Trump will make it.
Trump is the only candidate who will fight for the American people.
Shoebat is the one person in the world that would make me rethink my position. In this case, he really doesn’t have to. If Cruz falters, it is Trump, and no-one else.
I fear his joining the Republican party is situational; he’s given a lot of money to Democrats. He is harder on Republicans than the Democrats are breaking Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment. In sum, I fear Trump runs as much for vanity as for fighting for the American people. Having said that I’d still support him over any Democrat any day.
Same here. I see nothing incendiary that will make me vote for this clown...yet. But if he states that he will “place landmines, steel spikes and have motion activated machine guns at the border”, then I will be leaning to vote for the guy. Right now, he’s like a politician saying stuff to get my vote.
I won’t be fooled after all these so-called Tea Party “conservatives” who won in the last election start voting for Boner’s libtard policies.
"Divisive." Right out of the liberal playbook.
At least Trump is getting the RINOs to come out of the closet.
I sincerely doubt that Trump is the only candidate who will do this, Cruz certainly has shown backbone and a willingness to fight for Americans. Heck, most of the Republican field has shown at least a minor claim on that.
What they have been unwilling (or unable) to do is to name one of the prime problems in our society, that of illegals who have no interest in becoming citizens who are abusing the insanity of liberals and committing gross criminal acts or, really, for the long run, committing the far worse crime of stealing jobs that Americans desperately need.
Do I trust Trump in the slightest at this point? No. But thankfully he’s moving the conversation towards what needs to be asked and answered, and the most frightening part is how many of the GOP are answering ‘Yep, those are protected people who get to commit crimes without end for whatever end they please, and while they’re at it, could they illegally vote for Republicans?
The most common victim of the crimes of illegal aliens are legal Hispanic residents who can vote. You’d think that Trump and Cruz would not be the lone voices representing this electorate block.
Who woulda thunk campaigning to American citizens would resonate with American citizens.
Cruz already faltered.
I know, right ? What a novel idea
Trump was born in NYC and lived in NY most of his life. When you do business in a place like that, you give money to the party in the majority.
He has been, from what I researched, a lifelong Republican except for 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. He tried being an Independent and then a Democrat. In 2009 he returned to the GOP.
We will see. I hope not.
he sure is making most of them look like simpering cowards, isn’t he?
except for Cruz, the rest of them either look desperate to say whatever CNN/MSNBC/Univision wants them to say or are trying to hide in the corner and escape notice until this phony scandal about Trump’s comments die down.
don’t get me wrong, Trump would be a disaster as the GOP candidate in a general election, but maybe these whimpy RINOs can learn a thing or two from him now so they won’t be shrinking violets in the national election.
keep it up Donald! don’t forget to remind the country how we have basically turned our economy over to the giant banks and the chicoms while you’re at it.
There’s no “H” in Rino unless you’re referring to the animal. Now why doesn’t he know that?
Rhinos? LOL
The American people think the RINOs are the roadside accident. Open borders. Funding Obamacare. Tyrannical Trade Agreements. etc.
Yup, all this outing of the RINOs that Trump's doing could be very good for Cruz in the long run. I have doubted that Trump stays in past the primaries, however, the cancelling of his Reality show and other so called boycotts could encourage him to stay in. Trump lives for media attention and if no longer has his TV shows to get it, he may try to get it from within the White House walls.
That's a warning to those Trump haters, take away his TV show, he'll only want the White House even more. I doubt he really wanted it in the beginning but all the boycotting could keep him around a lot longer than it did in 2012.
NOPE, NOPE, NOPE!
Correction:
Republicans wee their panties at the first sign of an actual principal. Unlike Democratic Socialists who's only "principal" is power. At least they know what they want.
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