Posted on 08/06/2015 9:14:13 AM PDT by Red Steel
Though the Fox News promos state it is a debate of Republican candidates, most of the network’s on-air personalities have admitted publicly it has turned into the Donald Trump show as the top GOP contender has become the single most referenced topic on the minds of everyone following the 2016 Race for the White House.
That reality is not sitting well with GOP power brokers who are said to have made it clear to operatives linked to a variety of candidate camps that Donald Trump cannot be allowed to appear to win tomorrow night’s debate. Some are said to have taken an even more aggressive stance by indicating Trump’s Republican rivals are to “take him out” tomorrow night.
Trump has shocked the GOP establishment with his currently growing base of support based largely on his straight talk and a repeated promise to “Make America Great Again.”
That dominance is said to be facing its most focused challenge tomorrow night as Mr. Trump will be target #1 for a number of GOP hopefuls who have been told their own presidential hopes will be finished if they do not help in breaking the Trump momentum once and for all. This threat is said to come from an assortment of Wall Street and business interests concerned over the potential volatility of a Trump political machine – volatility that might make him “unmanageable” should he actually go on to become the Republican nominee.
It should also be noted some of these high-powered donors are helping to finance the campaigns of BOTH Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Presently, Donald Trump represents the single greatest threat to their intention of controlling the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Of the candidates who are said to have been given their anti-Trump marching orders last night, one was apparently told with the greatest sense of urgency – Senator Marco Rubio
Senator Rubio is currently sitting near the bottom of the top-tier candidate rankings with just 5% support among Republican voters. He was not so long ago viewed by some to be a legitimate contender for the GOP nomination. If he is to regain that former momentum (and the all-important campaign dollars that come to a real contender) he must prove himself to the political donor class tomorrow night by coming out aggressively against Mr. Trump.
It was reportedly the Rubio campaign that was specifically given the directive to, “take Trump out” during this week’s debate.
“What would convince him otherwise?”
US!
I am for the guy against the H1-B visa program, and for imposing real border security. Amnesty in any form is a killer. Path to citizenship is a killer.
If you are here illegally you must go.
Everything else is fifth on the list.
“Frankly, I could give a crap what happens to the Republican party as a formal entity. They are my enemy, actually.”
Just like as said in Catch 22. The enemy is anyone trying to kill you. They can be found on either side.
Here’s what I think is going to happen....Trump will get VERY little time to speak...LESS than the average....because, everytime he speaks he actually SAYS SOMETHING WORTH HEARING!
munchkins lol.
Did you see this article titled :MR. UNIVERSE, DONALD TRUMP, TAKES ON THE NINE DWARVES
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3321011/posts
This is another key to Trumps success. He has a theme and vision for the country and is articulating it. I can't think of anyone else who does. Most of the rest of them have a theme of "I want to be President so vote for me" or "I will be a good President so vote for me".
These “Big Donors” need to be named. If there were a shred of integrity in the RNC they’d disassociate from any donor who thinks they are in a position to decide particular candidates should be “taken out”.
Probably some of the same “Big Donors” who were plotting a few weeks back to ban Trump from the first debate.
Any response along that line will make Trump look like a mensch ... and Jebbie look like a little, spoiled brat.
I’ll laugh out loud. Literally.
We did a bang-up job on the landslide class of GOP in 2012, and a super job on Boehner and McConnell.
What makes anyone thing we are going to change Cruz’s mind?
We are very, very close to the point where the only thing that is going to change a politician’s mind is a bullet in it. I don’t think a single one of them is afraid of prosecution, so long as they are on board what Obama is trying to accomplish. Menendez found that out.
The subject has been openly discussed in the U.S. Senate, at least since 1919, and the debate over Wilson's League of Nations.
I AM thinking, and if you believe Perot and Trump have any more than superficial similarities, YOU'RE the one that needs to start thinking.
Anyone able to get Trumps newly released book? I can’t find it on Amazon...
Prediction: All this will backfire tonight.
Yep. The party (the entrenched party leadership, actually) has failed its core constituents, and has abandoned its core values.
A new party is obviously needed. The problem is that the Democrats would run the field because the conservative vote would be split, at least until the old GOP withers away. But there is a solution: a run-off mechanism for elections, like they do in France. Unfortunately, that would probably take a Constitutional amendment.
>> It was reportedly the Rubio campaign that was specifically given the directive to, “take Trump out” during this week’s debate.
Ha! Sending a snot-nosed boy to do a man’s job? I don’t think that’ll work out well for you, “Mr. Gotrocks”.
They were. Try searching FNC for the story.
I was never even slightly attracted to Perot. But, if the vote were today, I'm voting Trump. He had me the minute he started calling stupid for what it is.
Enforcing our laws and protecting American neighborhoods means Deportation.
I don’t think I’ve heard one of them call for that.
I’ve read today is the release date.
I get your meaning and I agree, but I’m sure he already knows that, hopefully.
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