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GOP braces for long battle against Trump (GOP is becoming completely unglued)
WDSU News ^ | Published 5:06 AM CST Dec 04, 2015 | By MJ Lee

Posted on 12/04/2015 3:22:32 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network

(CNN) —Donald Trump, defying skeptics and overcoming an avalanche of mockery from establishment Republicans, has extended his streak as the party's presidential frontrunner for almost five months.

With the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, Republican leaders are growing deeply alarmed by Trump's resilience. Anxious that his lead may not fade before the voting starts, GOP strategists have begun to brace for a long and painful nomination fight, with Trump's opponents hoping to grind him down over a period of months.

In a new CNN/ORC poll released Friday, Trump leads the GOP field of White House hopefuls at 36% --- his broadest support this cycle. In a distant second place is Ted Cruz at 16%, giving Trump his widest lead this year, followed by Ben Carson at 14% and Marco Rubio at 12%. Just two days before, a Quinnipiac University poll showed Trump on top at 27%, followed by Rubio at 17% and Carson and Cruz tied at 16%.

The back-to-back polls are yet another confirmation of Trump's remarkable ability to withstand an onslaught of criticism. Since launching his campaign in June, the billionaire has barreled from the center of one controversy to the next, repeatedly bypassing predictions of demise from all corners of the political world.

http://www.wdsu.com/politics/gop-braces-for-long-battle-against-trump/36792358

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabbers; dirtypolitics; elections; gope; trump
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

GOP strategists have begun to brace for a long and painful nomination fight

I don’t think the nomination fight will take that long.


21 posted on 12/04/2015 4:25:14 AM PST by euram
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

LOL, so we’re almost to the point where the GOPe is going to be honest and admit theyre really liberals in disguse. How refreshing, truth at last. RINO is jusst another way to say democrat.


22 posted on 12/04/2015 4:25:42 AM PST by 556x45
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Hum. Let’s just say that the GOPe is right. Undecideds go to other candidates. They won’t all go to the same one. Then when Carson wads up his towel and gives time of death for his ride, I would think Cruz would get 80 percent of his supporters and Mr Trump the balance. Even if you take all of the undecided plus all those polling under 5 percent and give them all to rubio, he still only gets to 30 percent.


23 posted on 12/04/2015 4:30:40 AM PST by lovesdogs
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
"Former Republican Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who was a closer adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, said while Trump has clearly locked in a solid bloc of supporters, the majority of GOP voters are still up for grabs."

Do yourself a favor, Mike, and get your head out of the sand.

If you add up just three anti-RINO candidates--Trump, Carson, and Cruz--you get 36% + 16% + 14% = 66%.

Where do you think Carson's and Cruz's voter will go when Trump knock's 'em out in the early primaries and offers them "Surgeon General" and "Vice President"? to Jeb? to Lindsey Graham? to Kasich? I don't think so.

The smartest thing the RINOs could do would be to jump on the Trump Bandwagon--and FAST!--and try to convince him that they've been just kidding all along.

But if they were that smart, they wouldn't be RINOs in the first place.

24 posted on 12/04/2015 4:37:18 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It's witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: JustaCowgirl
I say JustaCowgirl hits the bullseye. Only say the second sentence louder. Like this:

"With the Iowa caucuses less than two months away, Republican leaders are growing deeply alarmed by Trump's resilience."

Apparently they are not at all alarmed by the fact that our country is on the brink of destruction, only that they are in danger of losing their power.
--JustaCowgirl--

And this is why so many Americans consider you RINOs so utterly contemptible.

25 posted on 12/04/2015 4:42:42 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It's witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Savage Beast

I hold these elites of both parties more in contempt with each passing day. When did we start to realize that they are just as highly contemptible as the Democrats?


26 posted on 12/04/2015 4:53:45 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (When its all about Obama, the rest of us generally get a boot to the head --Investors Business Daily)
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To: JustaCowgirl

I hold them all in contempt too—along with the so-called “news reporters” of the corrupt press, the anti-American university professors, and the rest of the decadent, corrupt, anti-American Left. They’re all corrupt. When people refer to Putin as a thug I can’t help wondering if he’s as bad as the Clintons—or the rest of these corrupt American power-hungry thugs.


27 posted on 12/04/2015 5:01:03 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It's witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Tallguy

And if that guy happens to win, he becomes the king of the party.


28 posted on 12/04/2015 5:18:09 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: Savage Beast

I have recently started wondering the same thing. You know things are bad when you have more respect for Putin than you do for American politicians.


29 posted on 12/04/2015 5:21:04 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (When its all about Obama, the rest of us generally get a boot to the head --Investors Business Daily)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Note that they don’t even bother noting Cruz’s rise, which has been the strongest of any candidate since Carson.


30 posted on 12/04/2015 5:22:32 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Note that they don’t even bother noting Cruz’s rise, which has been the strongest of any candidate since Carson.”

This was meant for a thread about the CNN poll, which now has Cruz in second.


31 posted on 12/04/2015 5:29:10 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Interesting here - sounds like they’re about other Republican officeholders and candidates GETTING BEHIND TRUMP and undercutting their little country club. They put out memos like these, and leak them, to try to keep Congressional Republicans in line.

If I were an officeholder, it would be very difficult to find fault with Trump’s stands on border control and immigration...and that scares the hell out of the big money.


32 posted on 12/04/2015 5:31:37 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: JustaCowgirl
Excellent observation CowGirl. You said EVERYTHING in one simple phrase.

Trump is exposing everything that is wrong with Americas political system, and the republican party.

They are only willing to go to the mat, fight to the death, over a perceived usurper, who threatens to upset their cozy relationship with dems and the media.

They have never been this motivated to fight for traditional American values. Those were readily sacrificed in their desire to maintain their hold on the republican party, which is nothing more then a network of griters, working their way up tbe party apparatus, to the next level of tax payer subsidized largess.

Along comes Trump, an independent outsider. He kicked open the door of party headquarters, sat down at the head of the mahogany conference table, put his feet n the table, lit a cigar, and said, “this is how we do things now.”

33 posted on 12/04/2015 5:37:24 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: grania

Agree. Next to Paul, she is likely the biggest “Tea Party” disappointment.


34 posted on 12/04/2015 5:56:02 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: GraceG
Either trump wins as a republican or he is forced to run 3rd party destroying the gop. I am fine with either scenario.

Cruz is still my top pick and gets my donations.

However, if he falls and Trump is still there, I will donate to him even though, as some might point out to justify their lack of tangible support, "he doesn't need my money.....

35 posted on 12/04/2015 6:31:52 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: JustaCowgirl
When did we start to realize that they are just as highly contemptible as the Democrats?

When you decided you wanted Hilary picking the next couple Supreme Court justices.

36 posted on 12/04/2015 6:52:51 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Tallguy

The GOP play a terrible negotiating game. Trump has them outclassed and outgunned. The GOP will fold like cheap suits and quickly learn to get on their knees and lick Trump’s boots.


37 posted on 12/04/2015 7:02:24 AM PST by GilGil
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To: GilGil

I’m leaning toward Ted Cruz, but Trump is my #2. Living in a late primary state you always need a Plan B. I suspect that if Cruz drops or joins with Trump, you’re looking at a majority of the GOP. That’s why the elite are in panic-mode.


38 posted on 12/04/2015 9:18:12 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

I have no idea if such a thing would happen Trump-Cruz really no idea but if it did I suspect those two would be as tough as the hardest steel to break.


39 posted on 12/04/2015 11:17:09 AM PST by GilGil
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

These people are committed globalists. They are facing someone with Nationalist tendencies will will side rail their agenda of global government.


40 posted on 12/04/2015 3:04:49 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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