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Attacks on Trump just make these voters like him more
MSN News ^ | December 10, 2015 | David Weigel

Posted on 12/10/2015 1:42:24 PM PST by detective

It was the most brutal attack ad run against Donald Trump, and it was tanking. Twenty-nine voters, all of whom supported or used to support Trump, watched retired Air Force Col. Tom Moe not so subtly compare the Republican front-runner to Adolf Hitler.

"You might not care if Donald Trump says he's going to round up all the Hispanic immigrants, because you're not one," said Moe onscreen. "You might not care if Donald Trump wants to suppress journalists, because you're not one. But think about this: If he keeps going, and he actually becomes president, he might just get around to you."

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KEYWORDS: elections; immigration; msm; trump; trumpwasright
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Frank Luntz and the Washington Post do focus group tests to try to find a strategy that will destroy Donald Trump.

They show people slick, expensive ads that compare Trump to Hitler, they say he will get Hillary Clinton elected, they say he will destroy the economy and other attacks.

None of it works. People are more enthusiastic in their support for Trump after 3 hours of continual attacks.

1 posted on 12/10/2015 1:42:24 PM PST by detective
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People are tired of the politically correct, one-world, globalist control agenda.

We want peace, economic security, fairness and justice for all.

2 posted on 12/10/2015 1:45:09 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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Col Moe.He is related to General Larry and Major Curly.

Moron!


3 posted on 12/10/2015 1:46:08 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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Focus groups are crap. In the end a couple of jerks shoot their mouths off while most avoid conflict.


4 posted on 12/10/2015 1:47:49 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump and Cruz are not attacking each other. Why don't their follows take note)
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Liberals have called conservatives “Nazis” for so long and compared conservatives to Hitler for so long that those insults have lost all usefulness. Liberals are caricatures of themselves.


5 posted on 12/10/2015 1:50:56 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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A much larger percent of the population has figure out that the MSM, the left, and the Rhino’s are the ones who put America on the path to destruction.

The downward path is happening so fast now that some of the frogs are actually jumping out of the boiling water.


6 posted on 12/10/2015 1:51:26 PM PST by Revel
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Didn’t Kasich also use the Hitler comparison? Hopefully people realize that not only are many of those attacks ridiculous but often also based on lies.


7 posted on 12/10/2015 1:52:46 PM PST by Jane Austen (Those who welcome Syrian refugees are enabling ISIS.)
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Seruzawa wrote:
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Liberals have called conservatives “Nazis” for so long and compared conservatives to Hitler for so long that those insults have lost all usefulness. Liberals are caricatures of themselves.
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I don’t know why political campaigns even bother wasting their money on running attack ads in this day and age because do they even sway anyone anymore?


8 posted on 12/10/2015 1:58:42 PM PST by DestroyLiberalism
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9 posted on 12/10/2015 1:59:50 PM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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Has anyone else noticed that Trump repeats the media are scum at the tallies. Heard it repeated on the three or four videos I've watched, and it a real applause grabber.

So he's just stating what we've know for some time.

So every attack on Trump in the MSM just reaffirms our judgment.

“There they go again, damned lying media scum. spit” They can't win anymore.

10 posted on 12/10/2015 2:02:22 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse the. news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!

The reason attacks against Trump are failing is because they're based on transparent lies:

"You might not care if Donald Trump says he's going to round up all the Hispanic immigrants, because you're not one,"

See, I AM a Hispanic immigrant who understands Trump is talking about criminals who flout American laws. The dissolution of the integrity of its borders is an existential threat to this or any country.

11 posted on 12/10/2015 2:02:55 PM PST by stormhill
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Yes they do. It is amazing because as Luntz said, normally these attacks would finish a candidate. But Trump doesn't back down, and even doubles down in some cases, which earns Trump respect.

The party elites will never understand why Trump continues to stay on top. This has never happened to them before. Oh sure they are used to losing, just not within the party.

12 posted on 12/10/2015 2:02:59 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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Lindsey Graham says Trump supports should tell Trump to go to hell.

I say call Lindsey's state offices and tell Lindsey to go to hell!

I wish trump would give the order! hehe

13 posted on 12/10/2015 2:02:59 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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It’s because people know Trump and what he stands for, and they do not fear him. They have been watching him on TV for years.

The tried and true method of defining and demonizing your opponent does not work on Trump.


14 posted on 12/10/2015 2:06:07 PM PST by toast
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It’s like calling someone a “racists”; it has all lost its meaning and insult value.


15 posted on 12/10/2015 2:06:23 PM PST by nopardons
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This is just beautiful. I love Trump for this alone. He is deconstructing the media and the political class. He’s like a beautiful wrecking ball with an crop of well styled reddish hair. :-) Him being elected will be like watching the final scene in fight club.


16 posted on 12/10/2015 2:13:05 PM PST by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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Ironically, Trump is fighting against an ongoing Islamic fascist invasion that is hellbent on world conquest/domination and the slaughter of the entire Christian-Judeo civilization.

Hitler could only dream of having the American establishment support.


17 posted on 12/10/2015 2:14:49 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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The more they hit him, the more they get hurt.


18 posted on 12/10/2015 2:52:27 PM PST by Bon mots
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Sounds like Moe is as effective as his old cellmate, McCain.


19 posted on 12/10/2015 3:33:20 PM PST by PAR35
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Hubbie is also a Hispanic immigrant and he is more pro Trump than I am. He was always very apolitical before, but he really likes Trump and what Trump says. Wants to see a Trump presidency.


20 posted on 12/10/2015 5:16:09 PM PST by Ann de IL
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