Posted on 01/07/2016 9:04:40 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Barry Bennett, who resigned his role as campaign manager for Ben Carson a few days ago, just issued a somewhat shocking prediction on the winner of the Republican Party presidential primary - and it's not his former employer, but rather Donald Trump.
"All you've got to do is compare the size of everyone's rallies," he said, during an interview with CNN. "Donald Trump is having ten-, twelve-thousand people show up at rallies, and a lot of these guys are having five or six people show up at their events in Iowa."
Bennett said "unless something cataclysmic happens," Trump was slated to win the primary nod.
"The establishment can fret about it all they want," he said, Bloomberg reported, "but this is the new reality."
Bennett, as WND reported, resigned along with Doug Watts, communications director for Carson, amid growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the campaign. In a joint statement, the two said they continue to "respect the candidate" and "wish him and his campaign the best of luck."
Still, Carson's polls have suffered dramatically in recent weeks, dropping from 29 percent in one poll in October to barely 11 percent in December. And according to Bennett, those numbers aren't headed up any time soon.
Despite all the money the campaign's spent on targeted efforts and get-out-the-vote initiatives, Bennett said "it's getting harder and harder to see how Donald Trump isn't our nominee," Politico reported.
And perhaps that's not a bad thing, he suggested.
"Well, I think Ben Carson has the best head and the best heart," he said, during the interview. "[But] I'm a realist, and I believe in data, I believe in polls. And I have not seen a plan out there that is going to take down Donald Trump quite yet."
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Dan Rather thinks he was a man ahead of his time...
The "rebel factor", the "non acceptance" of Trump by the establishment of his own party is actually going to help him greatly with Democrats and Independents in the general.
Think about it from our side if the situation was reversed. What if we were on our way to nominating a dud of a candidate (i.e. Jebbie Bush) and the Democrats had somebody new and exciting challenging Shrillary Clinton. Somebody who the establishment Democrats hated. Somebody who was his own man, loved America and wanted to do the right things for the country. If that was the case, many of us would be rooting for that man and would vote for him over our own Jebby Bush.
That’s NUTS...they give away those tickets for nothing/for free.
Right you are and he’s the ONLY ONE who can do this.
My big issue is gun rights. So I am more likely to support Cruz. But if Trump gets the nod I have no problem voting for him.
They gave away 20,000 tickets to that event. The police chief said that if it was any other sort of event the cops would have shut it down.
Anyone of the others, including T Cruz, have a do or die in one of the early states.
It is nice if that candidate leading is an individual voter's first choice.
It sucks for those who don't have a say until much later.
Thanks for that great post!
Winning is what Trump does.
I predict he will win by a sizable margin, enough to take care of demoncrat voter fraud.
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