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Beckel on Trump: "People Have Underestimated Him," "He's Going To Be Around For A While"
RealClearPolitics Video ^ | September 18, 2015 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 09/18/2015 5:04:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

DON LEMON, CNN: How many people predicted the demise of Donald Trump in the last six, seven months? He is still around as far as I can tell. And it is a phenomenon in politics not seen since Ross Perot. Amazing.

BOB BECKEL: You know, you are right. I always say if anybody is running for president, for office I always take them seriously. Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.

LEMON: Did you watch the interview earlier, the fundraiser to night? What did you think?

BECKEL: I watched it. I was just stunned. Look the -- Trump is getting money. Forget this thing for a second... The fact of the matter its that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump. It's not who he is, it's who he isn't....

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1 posted on 09/18/2015 5:04:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I sorta kinda miss Beckle on The Five. I rarely watch it, but when he was on, it was more entertaining.


2 posted on 09/18/2015 5:06:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL. Trump has only been running for three months. I know, it seems like a lot longer.


3 posted on 09/18/2015 5:06:36 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a fire"arm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was going to offer the plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face explanation of Trump’s appeal, but I don’t want to jar them out of their error. Trump has already told them plenty of times.


4 posted on 09/18/2015 5:09:33 PM PDT by odawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump has told us many times that he accepts money from his followers, but he does not take money from super pacs, lobbyists or people that will tell him what to do...

He is funding his own campaign, he's not taking money from ‘money bags’...and many on here have said they have donated to Cruz or Bush or to who ever...what's the difference? They are getting money from the sponsors to tell the candidates what to do, and Trump isn't, so what's the big problem here?

5 posted on 09/18/2015 5:10:06 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: Hugin

And it seems like an eternity until the next election. One thing: Trump isn’t like Perot - Perot ran as a 3rd party candidate and was a spoiler. Trump is in it to win it.


6 posted on 09/18/2015 5:10:11 PM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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Perot ran for one reason and one reason only: visceral hatred of GHW Bush.


7 posted on 09/18/2015 5:15:19 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: lee martell
Agree. I regularly watched The Five when Beckel was aboard.

He was a lib, yet he despised the muzzie invasion.

Geraldo or Juano as replacements? No thanks.

8 posted on 09/18/2015 5:18:43 PM PDT by Jacquerie ( To shun Article V is to embrace tyranny.)
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To: Catsrus

Except at one point Perot was in first place. That’s when he panicked that he might win and quit — before he reentered and never recovered.


9 posted on 09/18/2015 5:24:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN now on cable predicting his demise because he did not protect Barry from his muzzie roots. I thought that was a badge of honor with libs and the MSM - but I repeat myself.


10 posted on 09/18/2015 5:25:46 PM PDT by quantumman
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To: lee martell
I sorta kinda miss Beckle on The Five. I rarely watch it, but when he was on, it was more entertaining.

I totally agree!

He was clearly a lib, but not brainless.
I was specially impressed by his grasp of islam and its stranglehold on funding terrorism.

I was amazed at first but he was relentless, in spite of goody-two-shoes at the other end on the table. She is embarrassing. Knowledgeable, but terminal PC totally has cancelled out her grasp of reality.

Beckel's exit and the arrival the loudmouth jerry rivers made watching The Five pretty much a waste of my time.

11 posted on 09/18/2015 5:27:15 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When Beckel is not sniffing glue he’s fairly smart.


12 posted on 09/18/2015 5:40:14 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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I’m not a fan of Perino, Guilfoyle or Tanteros, so the 5 was almost unbearable. I didn’t think it could be worse, then, surprise, surprise....Geraldo! I couldn’t turn it off fast enough.


13 posted on 09/18/2015 5:44:53 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Jacquerie
Geraldo or Juano as replacements? No thanks.

The two are interchangeable so let's just call them both.....Guano, after all I think they are both batshit crazy!

14 posted on 09/18/2015 5:44:55 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just watched a discussion between three extremely low-IQ “experts” on Fox News about how Trump is losing media coverage. All the while not ONE of them noticed the IRONY of their own media coverage of Trump!

The fact is, the media lies. All the media lies all the time.

A vote for Trump is a vote against the lying scumbags in the media.


15 posted on 09/18/2015 5:47:22 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Beckel must be out of rehab again.


16 posted on 09/18/2015 5:50:27 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: lee martell

Hard to to believe, but Beckel is less obnoxious than what replaced him on The Five.


17 posted on 09/18/2015 6:04:33 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Beckel is like Trump. He thinks it, he says it. Bring Beckel Back Mr Ailes, or have you been bought or blackmailed?


18 posted on 09/18/2015 6:16:39 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Jacquerie

I used to watch him, too. The girl that sat to his right I can not stand. He didn’t say he liked Trump but he did like the campaign. Like all of us. I like Cruz.


19 posted on 09/18/2015 7:00:42 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: lee martell
I sorta kinda miss Beckle on The Five.

Bekkel: tub o'lard held together by suspenders with a pin head balanced on top.

Cut the cable. If you're not part of the soultion, you're part of the problem.


20 posted on 09/18/2015 10:48:46 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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