Posted on 03/18/2016 6:12:05 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Ask Trump supporters why they back him, and you hear different versions of the same litany: He's not a politician. He's a businessman who can get things done. He doesn't bow to “political correctness.”
“He's a billionaire,” explained Deborah Patronik, Richard's wife.
“He's saying a lot of things that we're thinking,” said Gil Brown, 54, an African American businessman from Lakeland. “It's so refreshing to hear somebody say things clearly.”
(Brown said he wasn't worried about Trump's views on race. “I've been on the receiving end of racism. I know what it's like,” he said. “I'm not hearing it from him.”)
Their faith in Trump's ability as a businessman to overturn the traditional order in Washington is hard to shake with conventional political arguments.
Anti-Trump groups spent more than $15million on television ads in Florida, accusing him of straying from conservative orthodoxy and saying demeaning things about women. Both charges were true, but they didn't seem to make much difference.
The unscientific sample I interviewed this week all said yes: They'll vote for Trump if it's the only way to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
“I'm a Republican,” said Dudley, the Rubio voter from St. Augustine. “After a few months, I'll settle in and vote Republican.”
Even Rubio has said he'll probably vote for Trump. “I still at this moment continue to intend to support the Republican nominee,” he said Saturday — adding: “But it's getting harder every day.”
Those are anecdotes, not data. But they suggest that if Trump wins the nomination, he could find a path to winning the votes of most regular Republicans — in addition to all the irregular ones he's lured to the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The DNC, the MSM, and the GOPe (who are living it) are starting to get a whiff of what is coming.
LANDSLIDE.
Hillary’s whole campaign strategy from Day 1 was to recreate the same winning-states-combination that put Obama in office.
Trump is a mortal threat to that plan. Trump puts NY in play - a state Hillary desperately needs to win. Trump also attracts enough black support to threaten Hillary’s desperately-needed minority votes.
Things are looking worse for Team Hillary by the day.
The return of the Reagan Democrat.
Not quite. God is not the reason democrats are voting Trump this time like for Reagan.
Trump may be the coming of the Messiah.
Shhhh...! Don’t tell ‘em that! They and the GOPe are still deluding themselves. It’s Hillary all the way. /s/
Trump's paving the way... he's going to rid DC of eunuchs and wusses... and men afraid to be men...
“The return of the Reagan Democrat.”
It sure is. Called the Reagan coalition. GO TRUMP GO
Even Rubio has said he’ll probably vote for Trump. “I still at this moment continue to intend to support the Republican nominee,” he said Saturday — adding: “But it’s getting harder every day.”
In other words, “I haven’t been told exactly what to say yet.” And there are those who thought he was a conservative.
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