Posted on 07/07/2015 7:17:18 AM PDT by jimbo123
A top establishment Republican donor reportedly wants Donald Trump banned from the first presidential debate.
Fox News will host the first GOP presidential debate on August 6 in Cleveland, and the debate will be limited to the top ten candidates “in an average of the five most recent national polls in the run-up” to the debate. Trump, who placed second in Fox News’s most recent national poll after his presidential announcement speech in which he took firm stances against illegal immigration and trade deals that harm American workers, is in line to be one of the 10 candidates on stage.
And that is not sitting well with some of the party’s top donors, many of whom favor pro-amnesty legislation and do want to see their establishment darlings like Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)80% challenged on the issue.
According to an Associated Press report, “Republican donor John Jordan said Monday that GOP leaders should take steps to block Trump’s access to the first presidential debate in early August.”
“Someone in the party ought to start some sort of petition saying, ‘If Trump’s going to be on the stage, I’m not going to be on there with him,'” Jordan told the AP. “I’m toying with the idea of it.”
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These people with money think and act like they own the United States, it’s culture and it’s people. That’s a problem that has to be fixed one way or the other.
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Yup.
You people SHUT UP!!! Mr. Jordon wants his grapes picked for cheap and he doesn’t care how many of your daughters get killed!
Nailed it.
Since Cruz is younger, I want him to be VP. Trump has 9 billion dollars in management experience, and negotiating skills. Think of this Trump Cruz 2016 add 16 years for both Trump and Cruz 2 terms each, and our country will be BACK!
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