Posted on 01/08/2016 7:59:04 AM PST by mandaladon
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates are spending long days on the campaign trail and their nights in a succession of budget hotels, often in small towns. Not Donald Trump.
After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan.
In November and December, Trump held six rallies in Iowa, visited a local production plant and held one town hall, flying home each night. His nearest rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, has zigzagged around the state, holding around a dozen town halls and twice as many "meet-and-greet" sessions, and bedding down between stops in hotels.
Trump's determination to sleep at home every night raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans, who say it could cost him. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire often want more personal attention; they feel they play a special role in choosing presidential nominees because their contests are held first.
Trump leads in polls in New Hampshire but he has slipped behind Cruz in Iowa. Cruz has done what U.S. presidential candidates typically do: He has made the state a virtual second home in the run-up to Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus.
This week Cruz is crisscrossing the state in a bus, cruising through small hamlets with stops at a pizza place, coffee house and even a water park.
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Cruz spent Monday night in a motel in Missouri Valley, Iowa, where vending machines sold items with long-past expiry dates. His campaign manager Jeff Roe fired off a series of bemused tweets about the state of the motel, lamenting the presence of "the long hair on the pillow" that he found in his room.........................Trump will soon be sleeping in the White House!
When the criticism gets this lame and pathetic - it’s over.
He sleeps in his own bed??? That’s it! I can never support him now. ;)
Like a king?
As nice as waking up to views of Central Park is, even nicer are the views of the Plaza Hotel and St. John’s Episcopal! Lucky guy.
Amen to that!
This matter won’t effect my vote.
If he slept in an arctic tent on the prairie, I still would never vote for Trump.
[”Trump likes to sleep in his own bed...”]
Unlike Bill Clinton.....
Probably a security issue. Even before the candidacy, Trump had a huge security apparatus.
It boggles my mind that he would crisscross the country to sleep in his own bed.
Imagine the cost associated with that.
He could sleep on the plane while it is on the ground.
I guess he really doesn’t want to sleep in other people’s beds at a hotel.
I remember Obama complaining every day about sleeping in hotels etc etc.
ROFL ROFL
Wait! Why do media bedwetters escape to their suburban homes each night when they could stay at a corporate apartment near the studio and not have to hassle with traffic?
Yea, who does The Donald think he is passing up all that road nookie.
As long as I’m not paying for him to fly home every night to sleep in his own bed, what do I care? It’s his plane. It’s his money.
“After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan. “
Well it is his house?
Like why do I care where he or Cruz sleeps at night?
His jet has a full bedroom. I’m sure he doesn’t mind sleeping in it.
real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan.
I am not a Trump fan but this is such a silly attack cmon
It’s his money after all.
Mind-boggling.
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