Posted on 07/26/2015 10:20:32 AM PDT by GoneSalt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Real estate magnate Donald Trump moved to the top of the 2016 Republican presidential field in a CNN poll released on Sunday, edging rival Jeb Bush and gaining support from Republicans in the last month despite a series of controversial statements.
Trump was backed by 18 percent of Republicans in the CNN poll, which was conducted entirely after his July 18 criticism of Republican Senator John McCain's war record. His lead over Bush, a former Florida governor who was at 15 percent, was within the poll's margin of error.
"There is a movement going on. This is more than me," Trump said on CNN's "State of the Union," saying the poll results were not surprising. "People are tired of these incompetent politicians in Washington that can't get anything done."
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So maybe now people on our side will spend less time attacking Trump and more time lighting a fire under the ass of the person they are supporting to be more like him.
The libs are going to go into full-on ignore mode in hopes that no coverage = decline in popularity.
Unfortunately for the Trump has the cash to buy his own media coverage.
“People are tired of these incompetent politicians in Washington that can’t get anything done.”
And incompetent Republicans who can’t lift a finger against the destruction of America.
Yep Trump still on top; no surprise.
I do wonder where they find JebBer supporters. They seem to be RINO unicorns, but these pollsters sure can magically make them appear.
I watched some of the alphabet talk shows this morning. The same ones who said he’d never run, he’ll never file, he’ll never get any traction, he’ll never lead in the polls - are all saying he won’t get the nomination nor ever be POTUS.
Me thinks they don’t have much credibility.
I’m with Trump, but have no idea, if elected, what he would do with the 30+ million illegals here.
I’m just spit balling here but this “movement” he describes just might be that tsunami of votes that gave the Senate to the RINOs and further strengthened the House’s lead.
RINO leaders mistook that tsunami as endorsement of their quisling policies and a mandate to continue to being traitors to American workers.
Never could they be more wrong. I believe Trump in however he came only lit the match of discontent that symbolizes much of the disgust in what Obama has done, what leadership is doing and a last gasp allowance to make amends. They didn’t, they won’t.
So now we have a candidate they all try to condemn, who conservatives supporting Cruz and Walker encourage, says what every working tax paying, working, real American is thinking in this “illegal” thing that symbolizes all of liberaldom and RINOdom’s puffery, lies and subterfuge.
God help these RINOs, God help their Dauphin on the Shining Stallion who bears their standard. God can only help them because I damned sure won’t. Screw the RINOs, screw Jeb, screw any of these appeasers, equivocators and liars.
Donald Perot.
Jeb Arnold.
“I watched some of the alphabet talk shows this morning. The same ones who said he’d never run, he’ll never file, he’ll never get any traction, he’ll never lead in the polls - are all saying he won’t get the nomination nor ever be POTUS.”
By this time next month they’ll be saying that Trump will NEVER run for re-election (in 2020) - therefore don’t take him seriously.
...just watch.
...So maybe now people on our side will spend less time attacking Trump and more time lighting a fire under the ass of the person they are supporting to be more like him....
Why should I ask my political choice to be more like Trump when I can have the real thing?
I’m done with lighting a fire under a politician’s ass. If they don’t naturally have it in them to take a path I can agree to, forget it. If people have to force their hands, politicians lie and call the voters stupid for believing them. I done. I want an adult in office, not a sneaky teenager.
Trump certainly has caught the attention of the “low-information voter” bloc, as he has name recognition going back for YEARS. More than that, he can still engage the attention of libertarians and contrarians in droves, as he is bucking up against the Republican establishment. Both these trends tend to feed upon themselves, and the ripples grow wider and wider.
WAY to early to start talk of “inevitable”, but certainly a lot of interest has been stirred in corners where none existed before.
Do I like The Donald? no, not yet, but in the event he does NOT implode, it will be the birth of something as great a movement in US politics as, well, the era of William Jennings Bryan. Bryan never became President, but he certainly shifted the dialogue a lot in his years, from his advocacy of “free coinage of silver” to “Prohibition” to the “Scopes Monkey Trial”. Just in passing, he ate the Grover Cleveland “Bourbon Democrats” for lunch, forever shifting the Democrats to the more progressive mode they enjoyed under Woodrow Wilson and FDR.
“I’m with Trump, but have no idea, if elected, what he would do with the 30+ million illegals here.”
I like what Trump has brought to this campaign. It’s great!
Yet, we have no idea what he might do if he were elected President.
Nor do we have any idea what way he will go if he got the nomination.
it’s time for ALL WHITE AMERICANS to steamroll all these s-heads that think they cal the shots in our country .
Both my Guy Cruz and Trump have said until the Border is Secure, the issue of the Illegal Invaders already here will have to wait to be resolved.
Obviously, they will never be loaded into Cattle Cars and taken down the Southern Border, so the next best thing is to force them into Self Deportation.
Require E-Verify for all current and future Employees, fine Employers knowingly Employing Illegal Invaders, remove ALL Illegal Invaders from any form of Public Assistance and get rid of the Anchor Baby Laws that are destroying America.
Can any or all of those things get done, we can only hope. This Nation is full of Bleeding Hearts that have no problem inviting in the instruments of their own demise.
Yep. I agree. Which means he may institute a Medicare Part D on us. Ya just never know do ya.
He may double the national debt on his watch like the last Republican president. You just never know.
What I do, he probably won’t be any worse than the Republicans who preceded him, and he may be better than most.
He’s show me a grasp of the issues none of the other have.
Ever hear one of the others say one bad thing about McCain?
LOL, loving this...
I just dont get it.
Trump wants free universal healthcare for all, AKA single payer.
That is flat out socialism, and makes Obamacare look conservative in comparison.
(time until Donald’s menions show up saying he is actually for some sort of mythical capitalist version of universal healthcare for all where businesses give away all there services for free..
3..2..1..
Correction Mr. Trump: "People are tired of these incompetent politicians that GET TOO MUCH DONE [and incrementally diminish our liberties, lower our standard of living, and give support to our enemies].
Try that talking point Mr. Trump.
One avenue that should be pursued is to make illegals self deport. Another is not attract and support them in sanctuary cities.
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