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Eric Cantor: I underestimated Trump
Politico ^ | May 3, 2016 | Brianna Gurciullo

Posted on 05/04/2016 6:02:25 AM PDT by C19fan

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor admitted Tuesday that he underestimated Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. “I was predicting way back when that Donald Trump had no chance. I think many of us were,” Cantor said on Tuesday in an interview with CNBC. “I’ve stopped the business of predicting.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016gopprimary; cantor; ericcantor; potus; trump; trump2016; va2016
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To: 1Old Pro

Sounds to me like he is getting it, from reading his statement. Says Trump can win some voters over Hillary.


61 posted on 05/04/2016 7:36:16 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: C19fan

“I think many of us were”

Is that supposed to be an excuse?


62 posted on 05/04/2016 7:37:07 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: C19fan

Admitting that he is out of touch with the electorate.


63 posted on 05/04/2016 7:39:50 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: C19fan

You bet eric. You and all the rest of the GOPe


64 posted on 05/04/2016 7:44:21 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: C19fan

What he underestimated was how pissed off we are at his ilk.


65 posted on 05/04/2016 7:48:12 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: C19fan

Not missing you Eric. Won’t miss Paulie Ryan either.


66 posted on 05/04/2016 8:02:31 AM PDT 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: TheBattman

When in your lifetime have you ever had a good choice for president?? Ronald Reagan twice maybe?

I am not a huge fan of Trump either. Yes, he did participate in the corrupt system/ environment that already existed. He would not have built his business had he not. He went along to get along. Now we are past having a squeaky clean candidate. However, I think Trump believes that the corruption has grown so pervasive that it is wrecking the country and threatening our freedom and prosperity. So do I. I think he believes we are marching double-time into Marxism, and the GOPe has done NOTHING to stop it. So do I. I think he believes that unless something is done, the business climate will become so corrupt that ONLY businesses that pay off the government will be allowed to be successful. So do I.

A vote for Johnson, absent a widespread movement to make his party viable, is a vote for Hillary. It is too late for a 3rd party movement in this election. Trump is the ONLY viable alternative, at this point, to elect someone who MIGHT slow down the slide to Marxism with the Rats and Hillary at the helm. The Rats hate him and the GOPe hates him. That is actually a pretty good testimonial for me. The GOP certainly is in dire need of wrecking. . . the Rat Party is in the pit of hell like a pedophile coaxing a child (American voters) with candy to get in his car. I cannot subscribe to your logic. Trump is all we really have at this point


67 posted on 05/04/2016 8:08:54 AM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: TheBattman
Ted Cruz and his father and his wife feel that he has been called by God to run this country. Cruz senior is a Dominionist.

Dominion Theology is a theocratic ideology that seeks to implement a nation governed by conservative Christians ruling over the rest of society based on their understanding of biblical law. Dominion Theology is related to theonomy, though it does not necessarily advocate Mosaic law as the basis of government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology

If I wanted to live under a theocracy I would move to Saudia Arabia.
68 posted on 05/04/2016 8:13:27 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: C19fan

Just as you underestimated us.


69 posted on 05/04/2016 8:59:53 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: C19fan

It was Obama that hadn’t a chance, but twice, nobody told him.


70 posted on 05/04/2016 10:09:55 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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