Posted on 04/18/2016 2:48:31 AM PDT by nikos1121
LIVE Donald Trump Buffalo New York Rally at First Niagara Center (4-18-16) - Full Speech: Donald Trump Rally in Buffalo New York - Make America Great Again in Buffalo First Niagara Center 7:00 PM EDT.
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Hey, I have done that several times.. and I’ll bet most here have also..
LOOK AT THE PEOPLE THERE!!! I been Trumpified!!!!
My state of CT votes a week from tomorrow.
The rally is at the First Niagara Center.
Crowd is YUUUUUUGE!
Trump will fix it.
Sounds like this song could have come from Hamilton...lol.
(Hamilton just won a Pulitzer, today, btw.)
I wonder if it's too late to look into trying to be delegate? (probably is)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3300832/posts?page=47#47
We are defiant...
I figured out something about the appeal that Donald Trump has over Teddy as it relates to many hard working Americans.
In a blood and knuckles fight at the construction site, would we rather have the guy with god-awful arms and the dry wall hatchet on your side (who curses maybe a little too much), or would we prefer the pencil-necked half-blind geek building inspector with his candy arsed clipboard?
I looked at “trump buffalo” on Twitter... They showed the wave, and several other great photos!
Stop by the LIC Food Cellar and grab me a medium, ½ and ½ Cappuccino, please :)
Not that many watching right now!!!!
good observation.. didn’t think of that
Never underestimate the appeal of free stuff!
They’re getting home from work or they’re there!
Not a presser per se. He will probably have a statement of some kind when the results are clear. He may, as on other occasions, take questions from the press.
LOL...great call.
Who are you?
FYI interesting....just some history.....
The 2000 election was the most recent when the candidate who received the greatest number of electoral votes, and thus won the presidency, didn’t win the popular vote. But this scenario has played out in our nation’s history before.
In 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president despite not winning either the popular vote or the electoral vote. Andrew Jackson was the winner in both categories. Jackson received 38,000 more popular votes than Adams, and beat him in the electoral vote 99 to 84. Despite his victories, Jackson didn’t reach the majority 131 votes needed in the Electoral College to be declared president. In fact, neither candidate did. The decision went to the House of Representatives, which voted Adams into the White House.
In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the election (by a margin of one electoral vote), but he lost the popular vote by more than 250,000 ballots to Samuel J. Tilden.
In 1888, Benjamin Harrison received 233 electoral votes to Grover Cleveland’s 168, winning the presidency. But Harrison lost the popular vote by more than 90,000 votes.
In 2000, George W. Bush was declared the winner of the general election and became the 43rd president, but he didn’t win the popular vote either. Al Gore holds that distinction, garnering about 540,000 more votes than Bush. However, Bush won the electoral vote, 271 to 266.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/presidents-winning-without-popular-vote/
1824: John Quincy Adams[edit]
John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825. The election was decided by the House of Representatives under the provisions of Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. Andrew Jackson had received received the most electoral votes, but he did not become President. This became a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.[1][2]
1876: Rutherford B. Hayes[edit]
One of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history. The results of the election remain among the most disputed ever, although there is no question that Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio’s Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes’s 165, with 20 votes unresolved. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states: in the case of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal (as an “elected or appointed official”) and replaced. The question of who should have been awarded these electoral votes is the source of the continued controversy concerning the results of this election.
An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute: the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes. In return for the Democrats’ acquiescence in Hayes’s election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction. The Compromise effectively ceded power in the Southern states to the Democratic Redeemers, who went on to pursue their agenda of returning the South to a political economy resembling that of its pre-war condition, including the disenfranchisement of black voters.[3][4]
1888: Benjamin Harrison[edit]
The 1888 contest saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana. The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost re-election in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.
Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election. Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers. His opposition to Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers. On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states, and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps.
Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest (losing only Connecticut and New Jersey), and narrowly carried the swing states of New York (Cleveland’s home state) and Indiana (Harrison’s home state) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the electoral vote. Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.[5]
2000: George W. Bush[edit]
The contest was between Republican candidate George W. Bush, the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush, and Democratic candidate Al Gore, the incumbent Vice President.[6]
Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton was not eligible to serve a third term, and Vice President Gore was able to secure the Democratic nomination with relative ease. Bush was seen as the early favorite for the Republican nomination, and despite a contentious primary battle with Senator John McCain and other candidates, secured the nomination by Super Tuesday. Many third party candidates also ran, most prominently Ralph Nader. Bush chose former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney as his running mate, and Gore chose Senator Joe Lieberman as his. Both major party candidates focused primarily on domestic issues, such as the budget, tax relief, and reforms for federal social insurance programs, though foreign policy was not ignored. Clinton and Gore did not often campaign together, a deliberate decision resulting from the Lewinsky sex scandal two years prior.[7]
The result of the election hinged on Florida, where the margin of victory triggered a mandatory recount. Litigation in select counties started additional recounts, and this litigation ultimately reached the United States Supreme Court. The Court’s contentious decision in Bush v. Gore, announced on December 12, 2000, ended the recounts, effectively awarding Florida’s votes to Bush and granting him the victory. Later studies have reached conflicting opinions on who would have won the recount had it been allowed to proceed.[8]
I’m seeing that 10.3K are watching.
I love your tag line incorporating your NICKNAME!
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