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GOP leaders: Trump sets us back on race
The Politico ^ | September 23, 2015 | Ben Schreckinger

Posted on 09/23/2015 8:07:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In South Carolina, he confronts a changing Republican Party trying to bury its past.

Donald Trump is campaigning Wednesday in a South Carolina where the Republican Party has been turning the page on a divisive racial past: The state boasts the first black Republican U.S. senator elected to Congress from the south in over a century, an Indian-American Republican governor, and a Republican-controlled legislature that voted in July to remove a Confederate flag from the grounds of its State House.

So much for all that.

As Trump prepared to attend events with Sen. Tim Scott and the state’s African American Chamber of Commerce, national Republican leaders are saying his candidacy is pushing the party backwards on matters of race and inclusiveness.

“Donald Trump in and of himself represents a tremendous setback for anybody who’s trying to expand the party in an inclusive direction,” said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary to George W. Bush and the co-author of a 2013 Republican National Committee report dissecting 2012 Republican losses that recommended making minority outreach a pillar of the party’s future....

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


TOPICS: South Carolina; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: benschreckinger; blacks; hispanics; politico; racism; trump
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To: vetvetdoug

Shock Poll: Trump Receives 25% of Black Vote-Enough To Ensure a GOP Landslide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3333949/posts


21 posted on 09/23/2015 8:24:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: calljack

Except that these are supposed Republicans saying it....


22 posted on 09/23/2015 8:24:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Ari is Jewish. Wait till he sees the support the NYC Jewish community is giving Trump


23 posted on 09/23/2015 8:24:45 PM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More propaganda to convince you to give up your country without a fight.

The Cheap Labor Express has invested billions in keeping us from electing anyone who would stop them.


24 posted on 09/23/2015 8:27:33 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think we see the theme of the week.


25 posted on 09/23/2015 8:29:16 PM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: Catsrus

Yes, Trump is the ONLY Repub candidate who has EVER garnered the amount of the black and hispanic support that he’s getting.

For has been’s Ari Fleischer and Michael (Never did ANYTHING for GOP) Steele to criticize Trump....more than they do ANY Dim....is quite telling.

They’re out for blood, with Trump, because he disrupts their DC/COC/Lobbyist gravy train. Speaking of which...I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the rabid Trump detractors, here, are are on the Cheap Labor Express payroll ;-)


26 posted on 09/23/2015 8:29:31 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ari Fleischer is upset that his GOPe meal ticket is being derailed. Tough ca-ca, Ari.


27 posted on 09/23/2015 8:29:33 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I want the opinion of GOPe “leaders”, I’ll beat it out of them with a Louisville Slugger.


28 posted on 09/23/2015 8:30:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary to George W. Bush and the co-author of a 2013 Republican National Committee report dissecting 2012 Republican losses that recommended making minority outreach a pillar of the party’s future....

A three time loser, then. We’re all ears, Ari. Not only are you a moron, but you prove you are a moron by imagining anyone should be listening to you. You are being proven wrong in real time, in front of your face, by poll after poll, and you still can’t see it.


29 posted on 09/23/2015 8:30:19 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a pantload. I watched both events. Trump was not only well received, he got tons of applause, and a standing ovation at the Chamber.


30 posted on 09/23/2015 8:33:12 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: Nifster
gopE?????...They wont give up without a fight....I promise!////

watch when it gets close..they will cave EVERY damn time..to help us idiots out!!!...I'm starting to hate the “friends” I helped get elected!!!...

What is it about being “elected”. that put their finger to the wind to stay there???...I'm serious!...they all hated the "Club" before they joined it....( I gotta laff)

31 posted on 09/23/2015 8:34:56 PM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: hoosiermama

I’m sure he’ll think that’s terrible too!


32 posted on 09/23/2015 8:36:12 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unless Trump pulls out of the race he’ll win the SC primary going away. The people of South Carolina like patriotic men with balls of brass to run the country, not RINOs. If Trump pulls out Cruz will win.


33 posted on 09/23/2015 8:36:46 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...national Republican leaders are saying his candidacy is pushing the party backwards on matters of race and inclusiveness.

While, outside of Washington, people of all races recognize that Trump is pushing the party forward on matters of illegal immigration.

Washington is clueless.

34 posted on 09/23/2015 8:39:31 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WTF are they talking about?
Don’t these jerks know history?
Democrats = slave owners
Democrats = KKK
Democrats = Segregationist
Democrats = the racists

Why do we pick up the BS from the other side and claim it for ourselves?


35 posted on 09/23/2015 8:40:05 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The DNC is the party of slavery, before the Civil War,
and today, and the party that promotes crucifixion,
genocide, rape, and chemical weapons for ISIS and al Qaeda
(albeit helped by McCain and complicitly by the rest
of the SECRET-document-loving, lying, EXEMPT GOP).


36 posted on 09/23/2015 8:43:28 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
These people live on another planet.

They do. It's the planet Washington -- which orbits the star Oblivious, in a solar system far, far away.

37 posted on 09/23/2015 8:44:41 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: . IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

38 posted on 09/23/2015 8:45:52 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Lopeover

Must see video! Please do not miss this video!
Thanks for posting lopeover!


39 posted on 09/23/2015 8:48:57 PM PDT by entropy12 (When you vote for a candidate, you are actually voting for his rich donors! Trump has no rich donors)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Talk to Diamond and Silk about Trump.


40 posted on 09/23/2015 9:13:05 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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