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Stephen F. Hayes: Some Iowans Are Now Former Trump Supporters Because He Ditched Debate
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 28, 2016

Posted on 01/30/2016 9:35:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

On Thursday's edition of Special Report, Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard revealed he has met several Iowans who are now "former Trump supporters" because he decided not to participate in tonight's debate hosted by the FOX News Channel.

"I talked to a couple of Trump supporters who are now former Trump supporters," Hayes said. "Precisely because they thought that his sitting out this one in particular was a slap in the face of Iowans."

"I talked to one woman last night who was not a Trump supporter, she was going to caucus for Rubio or Cruz. She said, 'I take this very personally. We here in Iowa take our participation in the caucuses very seriously, very personally. And if he is not going to show up and doesn't treat this with the seriousness it deserves, given the fact that it is a contest to becoming the president of the United States, I may stay home,'" Hayes recalled.

"I don't know if that is representative of any broader Iowa population," Hayes acknowledged, "but if the question is, are some Iowans upset about it? Yeah, the answer is some Iowans are upset about it."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Iowa; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; anonymoussources; debates; iowa; narrative; several; tds; trump
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1 posted on 01/30/2016 9:35:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thursday.

Before The Letter.

Yawn...


2 posted on 01/30/2016 9:38:59 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“”I talked to a couple of Trump supporters who are now former Trump supporters,” Hayes said. “

Well, there you have it: we know for sure two people said they changed.


3 posted on 01/30/2016 9:39:04 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/trump-announces-22-veterans-group-to-receive-6-million-raised-at-iowa-event/


4 posted on 01/30/2016 9:39:05 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: catnipman

Hayes is a Trump hater and has no credibility on the topic.


5 posted on 01/30/2016 9:42:05 PM PST by conservative98
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
btw, i wonder how man Cruz supporters will switch away from Cruz when all of the Iowa TV stations put this little gem on the news:

It's already all over the national media:

https://www.google.com/search?q=iowa+state+secretary+of+state&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#tbm=nws&q=iowa++secretary+state+cruz+mailer

6 posted on 01/30/2016 9:42:11 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Steven Hayes, “Weekly Standard”... A resident of planet Wishful Thinking touts high end bird cage liner.


7 posted on 01/30/2016 9:42:22 PM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will wager these so-called former Trump supporters never intended to vote for Trump in the first place. They just wanted their moment in the sun and a chance to trash Trump.


8 posted on 01/30/2016 9:43:39 PM PST by erkelly
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hayes has Trumpees dancing in his head every night.


9 posted on 01/30/2016 9:44:05 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m offended that Trump stood up to the media. If we don’t let the elites control us, it could be chaos!


10 posted on 01/30/2016 9:46:26 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: catnipman

You Trumpets sure are hanging your hats on a thin reed. You really think that that mailer “trumps” all of Cruz’s work s far and his tens of thousands of volunteers?


11 posted on 01/30/2016 9:46:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: erkelly

Those former Trump supports are a figment of his imagination. I ran into some former Cruz supporters...

Pray America wakes


12 posted on 01/30/2016 9:46:50 PM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most everyone I know was delighted that Trump told FOX to shove it and held his own event at the same time.

I have been waiting MANY years to see a republican flip the bird to the MSM.

I just wish that Cruz had skipped the debate and went to Trump’s veteran fundraiser.... I want a Trump/Cruz ticket and that would have reconciled the two men IMO.


13 posted on 01/30/2016 9:47:35 PM PST by Bobalu (I told you so!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And some people a former Cruz supporters, when he pilled his sleazy, creep a la king, voter intimidation crap.


14 posted on 01/30/2016 9:47:38 PM PST by heights
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To: conservative98
Hayes is a Trump hater and has no credibility on the topic.

Exactly.

15 posted on 01/30/2016 9:48:29 PM PST by map
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To: BinaryBoy

So Don Trump, a multi-billionaire real estate developer and television mogul isn’t part of the elite establishment?


16 posted on 01/30/2016 9:48:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Jim Robinson

That’s great Jim! Go Trump! Go Cruz!


17 posted on 01/30/2016 9:49:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Real Unclear Politics, a bought subsidiary of the Cheap Labor industry.


18 posted on 01/30/2016 9:50:14 PM PST by heights
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To: catnipman

If they wanted a milquetoast who can’t stand up for himself than they weren’t Trump supporters anyway.


19 posted on 01/30/2016 9:50:56 PM PST by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: Aria

“If they wanted a milquetoast who can’t stand up for himself than they weren’t Trump supporters anyway.”

yeah, all both of them!


20 posted on 01/30/2016 9:52:28 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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