Posted on 01/30/2016 9:35:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Thursday's edition of Special Report, Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard revealed he has met several Iowans who are now "former Trump supporters" because he decided not to participate in tonight's debate hosted by the FOX News Channel.
"I talked to a couple of Trump supporters who are now former Trump supporters," Hayes said. "Precisely because they thought that his sitting out this one in particular was a slap in the face of Iowans."
"I talked to one woman last night who was not a Trump supporter, she was going to caucus for Rubio or Cruz. She said, 'I take this very personally. We here in Iowa take our participation in the caucuses very seriously, very personally. And if he is not going to show up and doesn't treat this with the seriousness it deserves, given the fact that it is a contest to becoming the president of the United States, I may stay home,'" Hayes recalled.
"I don't know if that is representative of any broader Iowa population," Hayes acknowledged, "but if the question is, are some Iowans upset about it? Yeah, the answer is some Iowans are upset about it."(continued)
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Thursday.
Before The Letter.
Yawn...
“”I talked to a couple of Trump supporters who are now former Trump supporters,” Hayes said. “
Well, there you have it: we know for sure two people said they changed.
Hayes is a Trump hater and has no credibility on the topic.
It's already all over the national media:
Steven Hayes, “Weekly Standard”... A resident of planet Wishful Thinking touts high end bird cage liner.
I will wager these so-called former Trump supporters never intended to vote for Trump in the first place. They just wanted their moment in the sun and a chance to trash Trump.
Hayes has Trumpees dancing in his head every night.
I’m offended that Trump stood up to the media. If we don’t let the elites control us, it could be chaos!
You Trumpets sure are hanging your hats on a thin reed. You really think that that mailer “trumps” all of Cruz’s work s far and his tens of thousands of volunteers?
Those former Trump supports are a figment of his imagination. I ran into some former Cruz supporters...
Pray America wakes
Most everyone I know was delighted that Trump told FOX to shove it and held his own event at the same time.
I have been waiting MANY years to see a republican flip the bird to the MSM.
I just wish that Cruz had skipped the debate and went to Trump’s veteran fundraiser.... I want a Trump/Cruz ticket and that would have reconciled the two men IMO.
And some people a former Cruz supporters, when he pilled his sleazy, creep a la king, voter intimidation crap.
Exactly.
So Don Trump, a multi-billionaire real estate developer and television mogul isn’t part of the elite establishment?
That’s great Jim! Go Trump! Go Cruz!
Real Unclear Politics, a bought subsidiary of the Cheap Labor industry.
If they wanted a milquetoast who can’t stand up for himself than they weren’t Trump supporters anyway.
“If they wanted a milquetoast who canât stand up for himself than they werenât Trump supporters anyway.”
yeah, all both of them!
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