Posted on 01/22/2016 3:54:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican presidential nomination race has settled into two distinct tiers.
Four candidates -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson -- command nearly three-quarters of the party's support. The rest are just trying to break through.
Here's how the race stands according to the latest Fox News national poll on the 2016 election:
Trump receives 34 percent among Republican primary voters, Cruz gets 20 percent, Rubio 11 percent, and Carson 8 percent....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I still want the birther concerns judicated. Trump has won this thing. But Trump needs to sue Cruz and Rubio and let the eligibility questions get resolved once for all.
I still want the birther concerns judicated. Trump has won this thing. But Trump needs to sue Cruz and Rubio and let the eligibility questions get resolved once for all.
I think that would backfire on Trump.
He'd be better just going after Hillary.
Constitutional scholars may force the RNC into asking for a declarative judgment They are the ones who have to certify a candidates elegibility.
democrats got around by having NAncy P delete a paragraph stating O was eleigible
It needs to be settled
Can you be so sure? There has not been a single vote cast. I remember 1968 and George Romney was a shoe in.
"Two weeks before the March 12 primary, an internal poll showed Romney losing to Nixon by a six-to-one margin in New Hampshire.[38] Rockefeller, seeing the poll result as well, publicly maintained his support for Romney but said he would be available for a draft; the statement made national headlines and embittered Romney[38] (who would later claim it was Rockefeller's entry, and not the "brainwashing" remark, that doomed him).[9][40] Seeing his cause was hopeless, Romney announced his withdrawal as a presidential candidate on February 28, 1968.[38] "
They highlighted this on FoxNews’ Special Report tonight:
The poll also asks GOP primary voters if there is any candidate they just couldn’t support against the Democrat in November. Some 15 percent say they would refuse to vote for Trump and 10 percent feel that way about Bush. Another 8 percent would stay home instead of voting for Christie, and 6 percent say the same about Carson, Cruz, and Paul.
Danny, my friend, it doesn’t tell the whole story. I lived through it. Prior to that Romney was considered the front runner. He messed up by going to Vietnam and coming back and saying that he had been “brainwashed.” Wikipedia doesn’t always tell the whole story.
According to Wikipedia he was the front runner for 1 month about a year before primaries. Wikipedia has a chart of the polls. He was seriously losing anyway. Romney was almost trailing as bad as Cruz.
Date Percentage Points behind
November 1966 39% –8 (ahead)
January 1967 28% 11
February 1967 31% 10
March 1967 30% 9
April 1967 28% 15
June 1967 25% 14
August 1967 24% 11
September 1967 14% 26
October 1967 13% 29
November 1967 14% 28
January 1968 12% 30
February 1968 7% 44
Trump is far ahead of the field. Whether separately or even added together, the support Cruz and Rubio now enjoy doesn't really bother Trump.
However, if both Rubio and Cruz were deemed to not be natural born citizens and thus ruled to be ineligible, the support they now enjoy would have to go to those who remain and might make the other candidates more competitive against Trump.
All candidates would seemingly have standing to have this question addressed asap, but especially those for whom those votes, along with their viability as candidates, are potentially at stake.
You miss the whole point in your wiki quotes Danny. A front runner has to be tested. This will come for Trump when people actually vote. I might add another one from 1972. Edmund Muskie was the clear leader on the dems approaching the New Hampshire primaries until he got up and did a crying fit. It brought him down. And George McGovern, on the basis of organization won primary after primary. Of course, I might compare Trump to McGovern but you would care much for that either!
LOL seriously!!! You think Trump hasn’t been tested yet?! They’ve thrown everything at him including the kitchen sink.
I’ve never seen a candidate treated like this, and Trump is handling it masterfully.
Seriously. Who has voted yet?
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