SRSLY?!!!!
CRUZ or lose.
Posted on 05/07/2015 4:10:40 AM PDT by iowamark
There are growing signs — including hiring key staff in Iowa — that after years of bluster, businessman Donald Trump is actually serious about making a run for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination.
Mr. Trump has spent years hyping a potential run, and most of the political world now writes off his rumination as another publicity stunt from the fox-haired New York real estate mogul and reality television guru.
But Steve Scheffler, Republican National Committee member from Iowa, said the billionaire has beefed up his team in the first caucus state with some notable hires, including Chuck Laudner, the operative credited with playing a lead role in former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s come-from-behind win in the 2012 caucuses.
“The fact that he has hired Chuck Laudner tells me he is serious,” said Mr. Scheffler, head of the Iowa chapter of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. “I just don’t think that [Mr. Laudner] would have agreed to do what he is doing right now unless he was confident he was going to run.”
That sense is heightened by the presence of Mr. Laudner and other Trump-aligned foot soldiers at GOP meetings across the state...
The move came a few months after he brought on Mr. Laudner and Corey R. Lewandowski, former state director of Americans for Prosperity in New Hampshire and former RNC staffer for the Northeast region, as a senior adviser.
On Wednesday Mr. Trump expanded his staff in South Carolina with the hiring of Jeff Taillon and Gerri McDaniel.
Mr. Taillon ran Henry McMaster’s successful bid for lieutenant governor in 2014 and worked on Gov. Nikki Haley’s 2010 campaign. Mrs. McDaniel worked on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign — which won the Palmetto State — and she co-founded the Myrtle Beach Tea Party...
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I wish he wouldn’t.
SRSLY?!!!!
CRUZ or lose.
Donald Trump is saying the right things about America’s ever-worsening trade situation.
Whatever other flaws he may have as a candidate, that alone is a strong, strong qualification and at the moment I very much support his candidacy.
Completely so. Go Donald Trump.
yes, Trump is china obsessed, like you are, and ignorant of the liberal causes of our trade problems, like you are. You are peas in a pod.
A reminder:
We ran a trade deficit with China last year, of 342 billion dollars.
And the first three months of this year, that deficit is still growing (quite a lot).
For over one entire generation, we have continuously been building up China and allowing America to tread water. Now we need to turn that around 100%.
Bring back jobs, to America.
I’ve got some rotten tomatoes ready if he decides to campaign near where I live. Just what the country needs....an overbearing, arrogant, pompous, egomaniac jerk.
dude when you’ve hired thousands get back to me. Until then, STFU with your little banal repetitions....you give one trick ponies a bad name.
I am quite sure you cannot even describe how a job is created. Love to see you give it a try.
I agree. That's why he should be working for the next president. But he shouldn't BE the next president.
I actually prefer cucumbers in the water balloon stage.
I would agree to that.
But who else is saying that America needs to re-build American businesses?
Right here.
I ask again. Who?
At the moment, Donald Trump is the only person out there, saying we need to return the focus to America.
So at the moment, I am completely, 100% behind Donald Trump getting into this race and shaking things up a bit.
He could even win. I would vote for him at the moment, without a second thought.
I am so tired of everyone saying “build up (this) country, or build up (that) country”
Build up America once again.
Much like the current resident of the White Hut, Donald Trump is an abominable ass who is enamored of the sound of his own voice and has nothing useful to offer.
He must be getting ready to hawk another book.
Trump will never get my vote.
If he was serious, he’d get his hair repaired, just like John F’n Kerry, who had his face reconfigured for his 2016 run.
I see this as a good thing....not my guy but he lets loose on zero and the beast with no holds barred! May drag votes from Bush/Paul/Christie which is a good thing.
Remeber Bush can win most primaries by ONE vote and get the nom!
Iran would NOT approve of his hairdo.
The Donald, a fan of such oppression, is off to a bad start with them. Oh well
After his attack on Geller there is no way I’d vote for him.....he doesnt want to offend any muslims.
I guess its his money to waste. Trunp is more wishy washy than a Kardashian shopping for shoes tho...he’ll bail. He has a history of not following through on just about everything...
His attack on Geller is predictable, classic Trump. He is pro union, not above jumping in bed with gubermint for crony deals, loves Chuck Schumer, and for all his bluster, said a while back that Paul Ryan was too extreme fiscally.
He has the tone of a conservative on a few issues, but he is quite liberal and quite squishy on most issues.
Lotta folks: Everyone who is for reduced regulation. Everyone who is for reduced taxes. Everyone who is for more liberty. Everyone who is against Obama Care....ALL OF THESE THINGS are what sets the table for business growth, and therefore, job growth. Those of us who have been "in business" understand that. Some of us, ahem, have not and do not.
For the record, Trump is a big pro union guy (that's anti business) and a big crony capitalist (anti legit business). If you think he understands how to grow jobs in the bigger economy, you would be wrong.
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