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Donald Trump Starts to Consider an Iowa Loss
Time Magazine ^ | January 30, 2016 | Philip Elliot

Posted on 01/30/2016 2:25:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

'Unless I win, I would consider this a big, fat, beautiful--and, by the way, a very expensive--waste of time'

Heading into the final days before Iowa's caucuses, Republican front-runner Donald Trump warned supporters that his months of headline-grabbing antics could be for naught if they do not show up Monday night.

"You have to get out there and caucus, or we've all wasted our time," Trump said on a tarmac, speaking to supporters who stood in a cold airplane hangar for hours to see the former Apprentice star. It was a rare suggestion from the billionaire that he might not be invincible and might well not become the GOP nominee....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2dvlikes2lie; canadian; cruz; headlies; ineligible; iowa; propaganda; propoganda; spin; spoiledbrat; spoiledrichkid; tds; tedcruz; timemagcrap; trump; usualsuspects
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Out of context but hey that’s the normal now.


21 posted on 01/30/2016 2:32:21 PM PST by McGruff (Boycott Fox News Channel. I am.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Very much so.


22 posted on 01/30/2016 2:32:54 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: GodGunsGuts

We’re in it to win it...Ted Cruz 2016!

Including threatening and shaming..time for Iowans to go out and get some pepper spray.


23 posted on 01/30/2016 2:33:42 PM PST by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: DannyTN

He may “consider” it, but it’s unlikely with Cruz’s ground game.


24 posted on 01/30/2016 2:33:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time Magazine can be counted upon to push whatever the latest “Extablishment” progressive propaganda is-—I NEVER read this “pamphlet” anymore.


25 posted on 01/30/2016 2:33:48 PM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: Theoria
I have a bad feeling Rubio might win it. I hope I’m wrong.

Marco Rubio will finish strong but Trump or Cruz will win Iowa.

26 posted on 01/30/2016 2:33:57 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Theoria

You know, I am getting a similar feeling. But what I see is the top three getting the same number of delegates. I don’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him but I am a realist. If he dominates Iowa he will be impossible to stop.

And then he will start pandering to the unions. Guaranteed.


27 posted on 01/30/2016 2:34:31 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wishful thinking at Time Magazine.

Even the loser Nate Silver now has Trump winning Iowa big time

This is when Nate had Trump losing Iowa up until a week ago.

Trump will win Iowa.


28 posted on 01/30/2016 2:34:34 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s been using that “if we lose line” for months.


29 posted on 01/30/2016 2:35:08 PM PST by exist
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To: almcbean
C’mon Donald, just call them stupid and move on

They are stupid. And lazy. Addicted to massive corn and soybean subsidies and illegal alien labor. I worked 2 campaigns in Iowa and always called for the stupid caucus to be eliminated. Maybe then we can finally bring the free market back to that pathetic corporate welfare state.

30 posted on 01/30/2016 2:35:40 PM PST by montag813
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To: almcbean

He did not call them stupid.

He said, “How stupid are they to believe XYZ...”

If they did NOT believe XYZ, then they weren’t among the stupid.


31 posted on 01/30/2016 2:35:46 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Good Luck to Cruz. I am now Trump first but am very proud of Cruz. He has worked really hard in Iowa. Either one wins, we win. No Rubio!
32 posted on 01/30/2016 2:35:58 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Encouraging his people to keep working hard during the final two days before the caucus isn’t what I would call “considering losing”.


33 posted on 01/30/2016 2:36:35 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Haha, no. I wasn’t saying that. I was just making a statement. I certainly don’t want him to win.


34 posted on 01/30/2016 2:36:37 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("May God save the country, for it is obvious the people will not."- Millard Fillmore)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

..Iowa is its own animal. That is why it is so hard to poll...


35 posted on 01/30/2016 2:36:38 PM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The writer is an idiot or liar.
This is typical ‘fire up the vote’ stuff.

And Trump, like Cruz, factored in the loss of Iowa at the beginning.
It’s not a big problem.


36 posted on 01/30/2016 2:36:38 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Enlightened1

I don’t think any sane person expecs otherwise.

Cruz pulled his Trump ads and is now trying to protected himself from being bumped to 3rd. That tells you allvyou need to know.


37 posted on 01/30/2016 2:37:03 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump has said all along if he doesn’t win it’s a waste of time.


38 posted on 01/30/2016 2:38:02 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man St anding.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yes because nothing brings out the vote like a shaming letter. :-)


39 posted on 01/30/2016 2:38:40 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Cementjungle

You know that I’m not the reporter who wrote the article, right?


40 posted on 01/30/2016 2:39:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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