Posted on 05/02/2016 4:05:55 PM PDT by RayofHope
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Trump on the cusp of putting away GOP race
If Sunday's NBC/WSJ/Marist poll showing Donald Trump ahead by 15 points in Indiana is correct, then Trump's path to the Republican presidential race would turn into a cakewalk. And this kind of result in Indiana, which holds its primary on Tuesday, would knock out Ted Cruz and the "Stop Trump" movement. The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll found Trump getting support of 49% of likely GOP primary voters in Indiana -- followed by Cruz at 34% and John Kasich at 13%.
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Go Trump!Bring our factories back to the USA from China.
Trump responded Sunday at a rally in Staten Island, NY, saying that over the course of the past thirty years, China has “waged an economic war against [the United States].”
“You have to look at my response to China,” Trump said excitedly. “Because it is what someone has to say. Because we can’t continue to get ripped off like we’re being ripped off. You’ve got to look at it... I’m not talking about war. But they have waged economic war against us.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/17/trump_im_so_happy_china_is_upset_with_me.html
The interesting part of the article is what it says about the demodog convention
This makes 2016 one of the most fun election years since 1980.
Please give me your most imaginative Trump quotes from the upcoming Trump-Clinton debates. Here’s mine:
“No, Secretary Clinton, you’re not on the vanguard of the feminist movement. You stuck by your philandering husband way too long to pick up that mantle!”
“No, Secretary Clinton, youre not on the vanguard of the feminist movement. You stuck by your philandering husband way too long to pick up that mantle!”
Let’s play.
“Secretary Clinton, you know Orange is the new Black?”
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump walk into a bar and grab a booth. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says: The media is really tearing you apart for that scandal.
Hillary: You mean the Mexican gun running?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: You mean SEAL Team 6?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi ?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: You mean voter fraud?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: You mean the military not getting their votes counted?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: You mean the drones in our own country spying on citizens without the benefit of the law?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million right before it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: You mean Obama arming the Muslim Brotherhood?
Trump: No the other one:
Hillary: The IRS targeting conservatives?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: The DOJ spying on the press?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: The NSA monitoring citizens phone calls, emails and everything else?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Obamas ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Obamas threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Obamas repeated violation of the law requiring me to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Obamas unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senates advise-and-consent role?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: Me, The IRS, Clapper, and Holder all lying to Congress?
Trump: No, the other one.
Hillary: I give up! Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters who dont pay taxes and get free stuff from taxpayers and stuck middle class tax-paying citizens again with the most pandering, corrupt administration in American history?
Trump: THATS THE ONE!
He put it away last Tuesday.
The GOPe will be moving soon from bargaining-promoting Cruz to get Mrs. Clinton, and therefore the devil they know-to depression as they realize they’ve been beaten. And finally acceptance that it’s THEIR turn to hold their noses.
Eff all of them. NO MERCY!
For a guy who has no chance to win nomination, Trump is doing rather well
Trump is on an upward path
A point of infexion maybe...
But not a cusp.
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