Posted on 08/12/2015 12:17:53 PM PDT by BigEdLB
EAST LANSING, Michigan --- Donald Trump is leading his Republican hallengers among those who would vote in the Michigan GOP Presidential Primary next year according to a Mitchell Poll of Michigan conducted last night. Trump with 20% leads Carly Fiorina at 15% with Jeb Bush and Ben Carson tied for third place at 12% . Marco Rubio is fourth at 10 % with Ted Cruz and John Kasich both at 8 % tied fo r f ifth.
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I’m starting to think that he must go 3rd party.
The GOPee is going to screw him out of the nomination anyway..someway.
They will also keep Cruz from the nomination.
If It’s Jeb? I say vote 3rd party.
Don’t they call them Yoopers? I heard that somewhere. :-)
Why does Trump need volunteer locations and phone banks? He’s getting all the publicity he needs for free, and he doesn’t have to call folks to get donations.
With Ford making the decision to build their Heavy Duty Trucks there rather than Mexico, whether it had anything to do with what Trump was saying or not, it could only help him with Blue Collar Voters.
Notice how People aren’t buying into the hate him because he’s Rich meme that they did with Romney? Very interesting.
WTH did “I know what he meant because I was a Secretary” Fiorina come from in that Poll?
If Trump goes third party he will win. He doesn’t want to because, as he has said, he wants to run as a Republican.
If the GOPe gives him a fair shot, he will win, if they try to cheat him, he will go third party and still win
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/08/52_minutes_of_donald_trump_lis.html
lol. Yeah. The UP is an absolutely beautiful place. And the people are quirky, polite, and fun. Pretty cold up there though. I went in July one year and it was still in the mid to low 60s.
That is old style campaigning. Last time it really worked was Bush in 04.
There is absolutely no reason in August of 15 to have offices with yard signs and the rest yet. Trump has figured out how to---despite being by far the richest candidate in the race---use the other guy's money to finance his whole campaign. Aside from gas, he hasn't hardly spent anything because all his coverage is free. He gets 10 times the media that the next highest person gets. He has 10 TIMES the Twitter followers as Bush, more than the next six GOP guys put together. He learned from Obama's 08 campaign, but things have gone even further in the direction of social media since then.
I'm certainly not saying you don't need offices and workers at some point. But I think a LOT of these guys are just burnin' money doing it the traditional way yet they all trail. Perry can't pay his staff.
Trump hasn't asked anyone to form a PAC---but people are forming them. He didn't pay for any ads, but "The Ladies" went viral on their own with pro-Trump messaging.
We are about to see if a revolutionary type of campaign can work---although, again, it's really only copying and expanding Obama's 08 campaign.
What everyone heard: "I am an alpha male who will lead the pack."
I think those kinds of code words and phrases are resonating like crazy---heard "The Ladies" on Don Lemon as replayed by Rush today. They essentially were saying the same thing.
It's far less the specifics of how he's going to "bring America back" than the sheer confidence that he'll do it. The old, "we're surrounded, outgunned, and outmanned. We have the enemy right where we want 'em. Let's go."
I agree.
I will admit i have not yet watched his press conference from Michigan, but i have watched his speech, twice.
You are picking up on exactly what i have said in previous posts on this and other threads.
Trump is a rhetorical and strategic genius.
He has not said a single word that doesn’t favor his strategy, and wrt his spech not a single word, gesture or tone he did not think out in advance. He would make an unbelievable trial lawyer, but he is so much better than that. I am amazed at his talent. I have never seen better.
Youtube has it. Just search Trump Michigan speech and press conference. It is all there.
OMG....too funny!
Drudge just put up the new CNN poll for Iowa. Trump leading with 22% and Ben Carson second with Walker Third.
I used to take the up and over route to Wisconsin back in my truck driving days.
I really enjoyed the UP after spending a day or so too near Detroit.
Nice country there.
Most definitely not Detroit.
The wife and I are thinking about an extended, very extended, vacation next year.
Think I might have to introduce her to Michigan.
But *not* Detroit!
“He’s getting all the publicity he needs for free, and he doesn’t have to call folks to get donations.”
I received this long email this morning. Dunno if it’s somebody trying to scam or what. While I appreciate his Hell-raising, I wouldn’t contribute even if it was real.
Urgent Message from Donald J. Trump
Dear Friend,
Are you ready to Make America Great Again?
Since I announced my candidacy for the Republican nomination for president I have soared to first place in the polls, defying the mainstream media and the GOP establishment.
I am rising in the polls because of you – and the fact that I am offering the American people an alternative to the inept career politicians who talk big but never produce results.
I have a long track record of producing big results. Very big results.
Frankly, I am running for president because I hate seeing what is happening to America – the country I love so much.
I am sick and tired of China and Mexico and all other countries beating us at the negotiating table – getting one-sided trade deals from Washington officials.
They have been letting these countries rip off our jobs, killing our potential for economic growth.
Let’s face it, America is in deep trouble.
We are a laughingstock around the globe as our incompetent leaders like Obama and Hillary Clinton get outmaneuvered.
Our economy is a disaster.
I think the American people are ready for some hard truths.
You know I call it the way I see it.
Thanks to Obama, the American dream is dead.
But I can bring it back – bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
A few weeks ago the political establishment went crazy when I pointed out the fact that some illegal aliens from Mexico, being pushed into our country by the Mexican government, are bringing crime, drugs and murder to the United States.
The media tried to smear me, claiming I was “racist” and that I attacked the Mexican people.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I forced the media to focus on a number of horrific crimes in which U.S. citizens were killed by illegal immigrants who got into the country because our borders are so porous practically anyone can walk into the United States.
In the face of this media onslaught, my poll numbers actually went up.
I even pulled well ahead of Jeb Bush, the supposed “front-runner.”
Bush is a weak and ineffective leader who would merely preside over the continued decline of this country. If he gets the nomination, we lose in 2016.
I am very critical of John McCain’s record in the U.S. Senate. He has done little to help veterans.
John McCain has been in the Senate for 30 years and worked closely with Senator Bernie Sanders to pass legislation to ensure that no one was held responsible for the scandal at Obama’s Veterans Administration, in which over 1,000 of our veterans died waiting for medical care.
Ironically many of these veterans died in the VA hospital in Phoenix, Arizona – McCain’s home state!
It’s just like Benghazi – incompetent and pathetic officials screw up, then Americans die . . . and no one in Washington is held responsible.
My concern is for all those men and women who served this country.
As president, I would build the finest Veterans Hospital system in the world where our veterans would have universal access – and I will do it for far less in tax dollars than we are spending now on our disgraceful broken Veterans Administration health care system.
The political establishment is in shock over the way I have taken the lead in the presidential race – and they are scared to death.
I am not afraid – I know Americans like you are with me.
Because my campaign will be funded mostly with my own money, the Washington insiders know that the lobbyists and special interests will have no influence in a Trump administration.
The special interests know you can’t “buy” me.
As I have traveled across the country I have met thousands of Americans who want to join our crusade. Actually, some people are calling it a movement.
The media, however, wants to claim that I have no grass-roots support.
I want to prove them wrong. I am asking you to stand with me and join with me today.
I believe so much in this campaign and that we can Make America Great Again, that I will match dollar-for-dollar every dollar donated by people like you.
If you will send a contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250 or more I will personally match whatever gift you give.
If you can send $500, $1,000 or more, I will also match that.
Show your support – Go Here Now
https://secure.piryx.com/donate/5DXeC32o/Paid-for-by-Donald-J-Trump-for-President-Inc-/ext_rep6
I want to show the liberal media that not since the days of Ronald Reagan has there been such a grass-roots movement of people ready to transform our party and our country.
My #1 goal is to create the greatest economic boom in American history, to unleash the incredible spirit of free enterprise in this country – get America moving again!
I have been tremendously blessed in this country.
I want all American families to share in the great economic opportunities this country offers.
I am very rich and I created something very special.
I want to make you and the American people rich.
I have no doubt the liberal media and the GOP establishment will continue to attack me.
But, make no mistake, I will never back down or apologize in the fight to make America great again.
Stand with me today and send a powerful message to the establishment by supporting my campaign
Please rush me your answer today.
Sincerely,
[facsimile signature]
Nevada - Trump 26, Fiorina 16... The anti-Politician meme continues,
I love that map!
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