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Donald Trump brags about bringing in voters. He doesn't mention the ones he might be chasing away.
LA Times ^ | July 21, 2016 | David Lauter

Posted on 07/21/2016 1:49:06 PM PDT by Zakeet

Among Donald Trump's proudest boasts is his claim to have brought millions of new voters into the Republican Party.

Part of his strength, his son Donald Trump Jr. said in Cleveland, is his ability to speak to people who "aren't necessarily the traditional Republican voters."

"Actual workers" — like the people who put up sheetrock in Trump's buildings - "those are the guys who are going to vote for us because we're speaking with them, we're not speaking at them, we're not lecturing them," the younger Trump said.

But many party leaders fear Trump has embarked on a zero-sum game: For every new voter he pulls in, they worry, he may chase away an existing Republican.

"The question is whether we can keep the party growing," House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told reporters this week at a session hosted by the Wall Street Journal. "Are we adding, or just adding and subtracting?"

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; demsfortrump; independents; mediabias; trump; votetotals
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To: Lent

I geeze, you geeze, he/she/it geezes, they geeze...


21 posted on 07/21/2016 1:59:35 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RummyChick

Look for anti voter fraud organizations to step up in that fight.


22 posted on 07/21/2016 2:01:16 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

The real question is how many voters is Hillary chasing away? She has a huge male like gap. Males do not like her. Maybe Hillary is sexist?


23 posted on 07/21/2016 2:02:18 PM PDT by Kozy
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To: Zakeet

Hitlery brings in millions of voters: dead, double dippers, pets, etc.


24 posted on 07/21/2016 2:02:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Zakeet

“...the ones he might be chasing away.”

Illegal immigrants?


25 posted on 07/21/2016 2:03:03 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Zakeet

After the all day media slobberfest over the Ted Cruz scene last night, I’d say it’s safe to conclude the media are doing their ususal job for the leftists and their globalist oligarchs.


26 posted on 07/21/2016 2:03:20 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: Zakeet
For every new voter he pulls in, they worry, he may chase away an existing Republican.

An existing Republican politician, maybe. Anybody who thinks Trump is "too rough" is probably more than half Democrat already.

27 posted on 07/21/2016 2:03:31 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Zakeet

Is the LA Times a all Spanish publication yet?


28 posted on 07/21/2016 2:06:24 PM PDT by heights
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To: Zakeet

Oh Great...He just lost the illegal alien vote! (sarc)


29 posted on 07/21/2016 2:08:25 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Zakeet
Hillary Clinton and her ‘election committee’ at work again...ROFL...she's going down in flames and can't admit it...wonder if she has ‘Cruz disease’ ....
30 posted on 07/21/2016 2:09:44 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Zakeet
Well he didn't pull me in as I have always been here. Just not very happy for several years now.

The Never Trump crowd will all but disappear when the rubber meets the road come November 8th.

31 posted on 07/21/2016 2:13:40 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Zakeet

And how many voters is Hillary running away from the dems for each BLM racist she panders to?


32 posted on 07/21/2016 2:13:54 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: Zakeet

Let’s see...Mitt Romney, Billy Krystal, Glen Beck, Ted Cruz and the HP Bitch.


33 posted on 07/21/2016 2:15:10 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (Remember...after the primaries, we better still be on the same team!)
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To: Kozy

“The real question is how many voters is Hillary chasing away? She has a huge male like gap. Males do not like her. Maybe Hillary is sexist?”

That and the fact she reminds too many men of the Ex-wife from HELL.
Mean, vindictive, underhanded and dumb as a box of rocks.


34 posted on 07/21/2016 2:16:28 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Live free or die!)
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To: Zakeet

It’s Hellary and Luzer who are chasing voters toward Trump.


35 posted on 07/21/2016 2:22:36 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Zakeet

They are lying awake nights trying to come up with lines of attack vs Trump and the GOP. I.e., the Laura Ingraham ‘nazi salute.’ Seriously, they are truly deranged.


36 posted on 07/21/2016 2:24:34 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Zakeet

bookmark


37 posted on 07/21/2016 2:28:27 PM PDT by Mr Apple (HILLARY -- NO COOKIES NO CANDIES NO CAKE NO DESSERTS NO CASHEWS / NO TO THE WALRUS LOOK)
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To: Zakeet
My only hope now is that the libs weren't running an "operation chaos" like the Rushster did in '08 to keep Hillary in the race against Obama!

We had lots of former dems and unaffiliated signing up to vote in the March Primary here in KS.

Our overwhelming votes totaled up for Cruz and one for Rubio not much for Trump, so not sure how to calculate it - if at all.

38 posted on 07/21/2016 2:29:43 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

Yes, these disgraceful papers and almost the entire MSM have become the propaganda weapon of the enemy within. And, beginning with the first election of Obama, the Democrat Party became that enemy’s major base of operations.


39 posted on 07/21/2016 2:32:19 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (If not utterly repudiated, Fifth Columnists Will Destroy America.)
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To: All

Yesterday, the LA Slimes was opining about the possibility of a military coup against Trump if he were elected, now they’re gazing at their navels and trying to convince themselves that Trump has driven more voters away, than he has brought into the Republican Party.

What’s next? (almost afraid to ask that lol)


40 posted on 07/21/2016 2:34:22 PM PDT by mkjessup (Cruz is an oily crap weasel who stabbed us ALL in the back. He's working for Hillary. F--k him.)
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