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Halperin: Trump Reached "Turning Point" "Most" Estab Cands Think He Can Win Nomination
Breitbart.com ^ | August 17, 2015 | Ian Hanchett

Posted on 08/17/2015 6:37:19 AM PDT by Biggirl

Bloomberg Politics Managing Editor Mark Halperin stated that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has “reached a turning point” where the “establishment candidates” think he can win Iowa, “most” believe he can win the nomination, and “a significant number think he could win the White House” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; halperin; trump
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1 posted on 08/17/2015 6:37:19 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

The Donald didn’t get that rich by not knowing when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. He has timed his entry into the fray perfectly.


2 posted on 08/17/2015 6:39:06 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Biggirl

Wow, their change of heart is way too fast. They are really in chaos.


3 posted on 08/17/2015 6:40:52 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: Biggirl

The reason Sanders and Trump are as popular as they are, is that like Perot and Nader before them, people are fed up with politics as usual. We’re never going to see an established third party (the Dems and the GOP have a lock on that), but people who don’t want to be pigeonholed into one party or another like these outside or protest candidates. I’d still be very surprised if Trump doesn’t flame out somewhere real soon, with some statement that he can’t walk back. Same with Sanders. But, we shall see.


4 posted on 08/17/2015 6:41:26 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (No more Bushes! No more Clintons!)
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To: Biggirl

Seven Stages of Grief: Acceptance


5 posted on 08/17/2015 6:44:16 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Trump is saying what Americans have been begging to hear from their nation’s leaders for a very long time.

Anything he would say that would suggest a need to walk-back would only “offend” those on the left or those that wouldn’t have voted for him in the first place. So far. all of his “controversial” comments have only made him more popular.


6 posted on 08/17/2015 6:47:50 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: 22202NOVA

Obamanation: What Has Become of America?

https://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/08/Obamanation-What-Has-Become-of-America


7 posted on 08/17/2015 6:48:36 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Biggirl

Placemark


8 posted on 08/17/2015 6:50:04 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3..An Appeal to Heaven)
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Your case would hold water except that it was an established party that was eliminated and replaced . . . in 1856 by one of the now-established parties. I know, it hasn't happened in a while, but even the Perot stuff didn't have this level of discontent.

BTW, I've been doing a lot of research on Perot for a book and found that one study found that if people had thought Perot could win, enough would have voted for him that he WOULD have won. (Kind of scary). In other words, it was all about confidence. Trump has it, Perot really didn't generate it.

9 posted on 08/17/2015 6:50:21 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: 22202NOVA
Your case would hold water except that it was an established party that was eliminated and replaced . . . in 1856 by one of the now-established parties. I know, it hasn't happened in a while, but even the Perot stuff didn't have this level of discontent.

BTW, I've been doing a lot of research on Perot for a book and found that one study found that if people had thought Perot could win, enough would have voted for him that he WOULD have won. (Kind of scary). In other words, it was all about confidence. Trump has it, Perot really didn't generate it.

10 posted on 08/17/2015 6:50:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Its funny how easy it is to fight the media, you just need a backbone and fight back and everyone will fold. Most Republicans would surrender very quickly when under pressure from the media


11 posted on 08/17/2015 6:51:02 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 22202NOVA
This is completely different than Perot. Back in 1992, people believed America was still functional. They had jobs, no chimpouts in major cities, and people had a decent quality of life.

Not so anymore.

12 posted on 08/17/2015 6:52:10 AM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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Wow, their change of heart is way too fast. They are really in chaos.

Haven't seen evidence yet that my man Ted Cruz has been caught off-guard by all these Trump goings-on. Seems to just continue plugging away at beefing up his on-the-ground State teams as if his campaign might have anticipated all this was coming from Trump.

Hmmm...
13 posted on 08/17/2015 6:52:18 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: 22202NOVA
I’d still be very surprised if Trump doesn’t flame out somewhere real soon, with some statement that he can’t walk back.

The political cliche "walk it back" is getting quite tired. It's right up there in tiredness with the "he's playing chess while the others are playing checkers".

Anyway, when has Trump walked any of his statement back?

14 posted on 08/17/2015 6:52:34 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Trump 2016)
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To: Biggirl

All it took was raising his hand in one debate, scaring the pee out of them and owning Fox News in the process.


15 posted on 08/17/2015 6:53:22 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: 4rcane

Its funny how easy it is to fight the media, you just need a backbone and fight back and everyone will fold. Most Republicans would surrender very quickly when under pressure from the media


The Donald is showing them what “ Gravitas” is...... He can’t be bought, they need him more than he needs them, and he didn’t before mega rich by being a fool. He also can talk without a script or preplanned points.... Something they can not do.


16 posted on 08/17/2015 6:53:34 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: 4rcane

They were all wrong about Trump because they are wrong about everything.


17 posted on 08/17/2015 6:53:41 AM PDT by Williams
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To: nonliberal

Exactly, nonliberal.


18 posted on 08/17/2015 6:57:25 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: 22202NOVA
I’d still be very surprised if Trump doesn’t flame out somewhere real soon, with some statement that he can’t walk back.

Unless he's says something truly outrageous along the lines of he likes eating babies or supports The Holocaust, he's on a line to win the nomination ... easily


19 posted on 08/17/2015 6:57:28 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: LS

Doh, forgive double post


20 posted on 08/17/2015 6:58:39 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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