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To: South40

Also it would be good to stop posting lies as slurs.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/aug/24/jeb-bush/bush-says-trump-was-democrat-longer-republican-las/
Trump’s Party affiliation from Voting Records

July 1987 Republican
October 1999 Independence Party
August 2001 Democrat
September 2009Republican
December 2011 No party affiliation (independent)
April 2012 Republican

We don’t need to go back as far as 1987 for this check, of course, but it shows Trump has switched quite a bit. After 12 years as a Republican, he registered with the Independence Party in 1999. That moved Trump to New York’s version of the Reform Party, which is neither Democratic nor Republican. He even won the Reform Party’s California primary for president in March 2000, despite withdrawing from that contest.

Bush’s campaign told us that “the last decade” meant when Trump was registered from 2000 to 2010. Trump was registered as a Democrat for 8 years, 1 month in that time span.

But we think a reasonable person could mistake “the last decade” to mean the last 10 years. When we added up the years since 2005, we found Trump has been registered as a Democrat for 3 years, 9 months, and registered as Republican for 5 years, 6 months (and counting).

Media reports said Trump’s switch in December 2011, where he checked “I do not wish to enroll in a party,” made him an independent voter before the 2012 presidential election, in which he considered running himself. His attorney Michael Cohen told Politico that Trump made the change “in order to preserve his right to run as an independent if he is (not pleased) with the GOP nominee.”

Trump decided not to run that year. He switched back to Republican in April 2012.


116 posted on 01/14/2016 6:42:59 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: JayGalt
You really are dense if you don't know that Republican can also mean liberal.

You're a waste of my time. Bye.

118 posted on 01/14/2016 6:53:53 PM PST by South40 (Ted Cruz = the only conservative in the race)
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