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From Donald Trump, Hints of a Campaign Exit Strategy
NYTIMES ^ | 10/9/15 | Maggie Hagerman

Posted on 10/09/2015 12:30:21 PM PDT by VinL

In unmistakable ways over the last two weeks, whether he has intended to or not, Donald J. Trump has started to articulate a way out of the presidential race: a verbal parachute that makes clear he has contemplated the factors that would cause him to end his bid.

It is a prospect that many in the political establishment have privately predicted as the actual voting grows closer.

In three separate television interviews, Mr. Trump, who has made his standing in the polls a central facet of his campaign message, spoke about what would prompt him to quit a race in which he is currently leading in the polls.

“I’m not a masochist,” Mr. Trump told Chuck Todd, the host of “Meet the Press” on NBC News, last weekend. “If I were doing poorly, if I saw myself going down, if you would stop calling me because you no longer have any interest in Trump because ‘he has no chance,’ I’d go back to my business.”

It was similar to what he said in an interview with the “Today” show a few days earlier, and at another point to “60 Minutes” on CBS.

In interviews this week, Mr. Trump insisted he was in the race to win, and took aim at “troublemakers” in the media who, he said, are misrepresenting his remarks. “I’m never getting out,” he insisted Friday on MSNBC.

Mr. Trump keeps noting that he still leads in every major Republican poll and is in a political position that others would envy, and he says he will spend the money to keep his candidacy alive. But he conceded ...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; chucktodd; demagogicparty; election2016; exit; maggiehagerman; meetthepress; memebuilding; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump; trump2016; trumparticle; trumpexit
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I just post 'em.
1 posted on 10/09/2015 12:30:21 PM PDT by VinL
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To: VinL

The NYT, always trying to create history that way they want to see it.


2 posted on 10/09/2015 12:31:54 PM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: VinL

They just can’t help themselves, lol!


3 posted on 10/09/2015 12:32:28 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: VinL

Post ‘em if you got ‘em...


4 posted on 10/09/2015 12:32:37 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: VinL

This makes Cruz’s recent comments on Trump VERY interesting. ..


5 posted on 10/09/2015 12:32:39 PM PDT by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: VinL

Keeping hoping DC Political/Media/Business Machine, Trump is your worse nightmare. A self funded candidate who owes you nothing and needs you for nothing who is winning with the people


6 posted on 10/09/2015 12:32:40 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: VinL

Best reason for exit:

A Republican with a set of cohones (or ovaries) who steps forward. Anyone? Anyone?

[crickets chirping]


7 posted on 10/09/2015 12:33:45 PM PDT by QBFimi (/...o.o/.o...ooo/...o.o...o/ooo/...o.o/.o/ooo.//o..o./. o.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Exactly.

They are throwing everything they can at Trump, but the MSM is now irrelevant.

That’s why they are going after the internet.


8 posted on 10/09/2015 12:33:52 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: VinL

What a total, shameless, lying propagandist Hagerman is.


9 posted on 10/09/2015 12:34:00 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: VinL

I know what it is. He really wants to be Vice President.


10 posted on 10/09/2015 12:34:39 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: VinL

They desperately want him out.
Not just the NY Times and the rest of The Ministry Of Propaganda.

The Cheap Labor Express
And their employees in both parties.


11 posted on 10/09/2015 12:36:07 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: chae

what were they?

and if bush had this lead, they would say it was all but over


12 posted on 10/09/2015 12:37:22 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

I am LAUGHING at the desperation!


13 posted on 10/09/2015 12:38:23 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: VinL
Maggie, leave some money under your pillow for the tooth fairy.

Maggie, do you believe 0bama road into town riding a unicorn shitting Skittles?

5.56mm

14 posted on 10/09/2015 12:39:11 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: chae

Maybe Trump told Cruz something that nobody else knows?


15 posted on 10/09/2015 12:40:28 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: chae

Well, I’ll tell you...I’m tired of being played, especially by Senators!


16 posted on 10/09/2015 12:41:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: VinL

I can’t remember who said it, but the gist was, that if Jeb! had Trump’s polling numbers for this long, he would have already been declared the winner.

Propaganda pieces like this are trying to replicate the somewhat successful strategy used by Romney against Thompson in a previous election: “He doesn’t really want it”, “He is thinking about quitting”, “No fire in the belly”, etc. The whole thing is designed to create hesitancy in the minds of the voters. Who wants to bet on a horse that will not finish the race, etc.?


17 posted on 10/09/2015 12:42:49 PM PDT by odawg
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To: VinL

In three separate television interviews, Mr. Trump, who has made his standing in the polls a central facet of his campaign message, spoke about what would prompt him to quit a race in which he is currently leading in the polls.


LOL!!!! Maybe because that’s ALL the MSM have asked him about and are obsessing about.

Trump has said he’s not getting out, “ever” ;-)
Not called NY Slimed for nothing.


18 posted on 10/09/2015 12:44:29 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: VinL

What is this OBSESSION about trying to get Trump out? This is something new. In previous presidential runs, it was only negative Ads about other candidates. But I can not recall Newt or Santorum ever saying “How can we get Romney the front runner out of the race”.

GOPe is obsessed about getting Trump out of the race. Should’nt GOP PTB trying to help the front runner instead of plotting to finish him off? What happens if he wins enough delegates to win nomination? Will the GOP still try to kill their nominee?


19 posted on 10/09/2015 12:44:40 PM PDT by entropy12 (When you vote for a candidate, you are actually voting for his/her rich donors!)
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To: freepertoo

Trump called in to the Joe Scarborough Show this morning and was laughing about this very thing. He went on record as saying, ‘I’m NEVER getting out!’


20 posted on 10/09/2015 12:45:15 PM PDT by ElainaVer
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