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Trump easily wins Oregon Republican race (Welcome new votes from Camp-Bernie)
Portland Tribune ^ | May 18, 2016 | Geoff Pursinger

Posted on 05/18/2016 6:32:01 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Donald Trump further cemented his claim after winning big in Oregon on Tuesday ....promising during his Eugene rally to carry the state during the general election. If Trump manages that feat, he’d be the first Republican to win Oregon in the general election since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

“Congratulations to THE MOVEMENT,” Trump tweeted... “We've just won THE GREAT STATE OF OREGON. The vote percentage is higher than anticipated! Thank you.” [67%]

William Joseph Fields ... was a LIFELONG DEMOCRAT before he SWITCHED HIS PARTY AFFILIATION ...TO SUPPORT TRUMP.

“I was a complete and utter Bernie supporter,” he said standing outside Trump’s Portland office, sporting long hair, a beard and a “Make America Great Again” T-shirt. “… It’s crazy, man. The more I dug, the more truth I found about the situation.”

Fields supports Trump largely because of his economic ideas. “With Trump, he’s sounding a bit more coherent and logical … We’ll have a growing GDP, ... he said. “Trump makes sense, not just in the short term, but in the medium-to-long term.”

Fields said he couldn’t support the Democratic candidate, even if he had stayed a Democrat. “‘Hitler-y’ is a criminal,” Fields says, referring to Clinton. “She belongs in prison.”

“This summer, it’s all on the table (between Clinton and Trump),” he said. “He’s literally going to grind her into little bits and pieces. I don’t want anybody to be met with violence, but it’s obvious to me that there is no way she can beat Trump. If her and her New World Order cronies try to tip the table on Trump, this will be the second great revolution. I feel it in my heart. I don’t want it to happen. The left and right have more in common than we don’t. We’re all in this together.”

(Excerpt) Read more at pamplinmedia.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; 2016trump; bernieswitch; election; or2016; oregon
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To: COBOL2Java

Read. Trump not Cruz has been calling this a movement for months. So have magazines referring to Trump not Cruz.


21 posted on 05/18/2016 7:40:10 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: nclaurel
Read. Trump not Cruz has been calling this a movement for months. So have magazines referring to Trump not Cruz.

You misunderstand my post. I interpret what Trump said as a dig at Cruz's latest lame video.

22 posted on 05/18/2016 7:47:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: null and void

I read that Sanders got four (4) more pledged delegates in Oregon than Hillary. He’s now about 280 behind. At this rate, he should catch her some time in 2024.


23 posted on 05/18/2016 7:51:55 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“However, Bernie is too well educated and mature to actually believe in Socialism as the answer to America’s problems.”

Disagree with this - Bernie is as true a believer as there is. The authenticity with which he speaks is a large part of why people like him. They believe him because HE believes what he’s saying. He’s not micromanaging every speech with poll-tested words - he’s speaking from the heart and that sells.

Of course, his solutions to the problems he’s identified are absolutely wrong but he genuinely believes his solutions are right.


24 posted on 05/18/2016 7:56:15 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Well, here's the latest overall delegate count and popular vote count for Trump after Oregon .

Currently CNN is showing Donald Trump with 1175 total delegates. But the counting in Oregon is not complete so they show him with 18, and Cruz and Kasich both with 3.

I believe Trump will end up with 20 delegates, so I am going to go ahead and call it that way, meaning Trump will have 1177 delegates.

So as of March 18,2016,:

Donald Trump has 1177 delegates. He needs 60 more delegates to clinch the nomination at 1,237

In terms of popular vote overall, Trummp is taking Oregon with 67% of the vote. With 80% in, he now has 214,400 votes.

If that holds, it means he will end up with approximately 268,000 votes. Up to this point Donald had 10,925,000 votes total. If we add the 268,000 to that, we get 11,1930,000.

The record for the most votes for any GOP Presidential candidate in a GOP Presidential Primary is 12,035,000 for George W. Bush in 2000.

In the upcoming primaries, which include California, Donald Trump now needs another 842,000 votes to set the all time GOP record.

IMHO, he is going to break that record by as much as a million or more votes...and the amazing thing is that he is going to do it in a field that started with 17 candidates, and held numerous candidates until later in the primaries. Simply amazing turnout.

25 posted on 05/18/2016 7:57:51 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“Steve Forbes would have been a great president...Wonder if he is interested in VP, he’s 68 years young.”

VERY INTERESTING. I cannot get him out of my head. He was the first true populist to go against the GOPe. It was 1996, and he ignited a FIRESTORM as he attacked the IRS and our tax code.

It was the first time that I saw the GOPe in action. They quickly said that he was an ‘empty suit’, and, sadly, he was. His downfall happened when he was asked whether ‘income’ from employer health insurance benefits would count as taxable income under his flat tax. He said something like “I presume that will be the case”. That was his downfall. He also, like Herman Cain, was simply not up to speed in dealing with the (Karl Rove prompted) US media, world politics, and (again like Cain) got tripped up on what should have been an easy question.

But what I remember most was the GOPe INSISTING that Forbes would be a DISASTER down-ballot. Like Trump they had nothing to base their assessment on...but unlike Trump, Forbes was not at the brilliance level needed to deal with this bunch. So Forbes got dispatched for the ‘safe’ Bob Dole, who easily got defeated by Clinton.

...but Trump is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT character, and is damn close to winning it all.


26 posted on 05/18/2016 8:21:26 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I’m voting for Bernie in the WA primary. :) Since Trump is a lock for the Republican delegates here, I might has well make life hell for Hillary.


27 posted on 05/18/2016 8:23:51 AM PDT by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

No, Steve Forbes is not a good VP candidate. One billionaire is enough. Mr. Forbes has some good tax policies but that’s about it.

Also, I’ve heard other Freepers talk about how Trump’s son could run for president in 2024. I hate political dynasties, they are undemocratic and lead to rent-seeking dynasties like the Walker-Bush clan.


28 posted on 05/18/2016 8:33:01 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: COBOL2Java

You be right!

Donald has a stick in his hand and he relishes poking it at soreCruzerman.


29 posted on 05/18/2016 8:57:33 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; 1_Rain_Drop; Abbeville Conservative; Abby4116; abigkahuna; adc; ...

Make America Great Again


Ping!

This ping provides two daily lists of links to Trump-related threads on FR.
To be added to or dropped from this ping list,
post your request on the thread below or freepmail to Albion Wilde.

* * *

Selected Trump articles on FR, from 12:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT, 5/18/16:
NBC Poll: Trump Outperforming Romney with Hispanics –DailyCaller
US slaps China steel imports with fivefold tax increase [Trump platform in advance] –BBCNews
Kasich: I'm not endorsing Trump (yet) -- or serving as his VP –CNN
Trump’s appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue –WaPo
Forget NATO. Trump Should Defund the UN –Roger L. Simon
Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight (video)
J.K. Rowling: ‘Donald Trump Has My Full Support Because…’ –DailyCaller
Exclusive: Former Bergdahl platoon mates endorse Trump (video) –Hannity
US 2016: Failure is a Better Option Than Success [tax revenue] –Townhall
Trump claims income of over $557M in 2015, slams Sanders in FEC filing –CBS
Obama spending millions to find summer jobs — for refugees –AmericanMirror
Trump easily wins Oregon (new votes from Camp-Bernie) –PortlandTrib
I Acted Like a Pundit and Screwed Up on Donald Trump –Nate Silver, 538
Michael Moore, Bill Maher Pledge to Stop Trump –Jeff Poor
Trump: Obama’s Ignorance Why He’s ‘Worst President in U.S. History’ –Alex Swoyer
The roots of Mitt Romney's anti-Trump fervor –YahooNews
The Left’s Jihad against American energy –Ken Blackwell
Time to Shut Down the Department of Education –Star Parker
Trump’s Apple iPhone demand not that crazy –RoyalGazette, Bermuda
No, The Public Doesn’t Suddenly Support Socialized Medicine –IBD
How Do Economists Teach Rise of Trump & Sanders? –FiscalTimes
Only Donald Trump Can Counter the Coup D’état of 2008 –CFP
Donald Trump Jr. reacts to primary results [hot stuff @3:46] –Fox
Paul Ryan Mum on Trump at Nat'l Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Focus on Religious Liberty –Alex Swoyer
Reclaim Our Stolen Sovereignty –ArticleVblog
Carrie Prejean: NYT twisted passage from my book after I refused to help with their Trump hit piece –CFP
Reporter Behind NYTimes Trump Attack: History of Failed Hatchet Jobs –Breitbart
Ivanka Trump responds to "disturbing" accusations about her father –CBS
Bernie is showing The Donald where to beat Hillary –NYPost
Texas Governor: Time to Support Trump, Put America Back on Right Track –Breitbart
‘Hillary Clinton Took Me through Hell,’ Rape Victim Says –DailyBeast


30 posted on 05/18/2016 8:58:13 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Personal Responsibility

The perfect globalist solution:

Send Bernie to Venezuela.

Ship Ted to Canada.


31 posted on 05/18/2016 9:00:18 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: COBOL2Java

I apologize for the misunderstanding.


32 posted on 05/18/2016 9:11:20 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Jeff Head

Great. This will be a record-breaking phenomena. Simply Amazing!

GreenPapers is good for accuracy and they had Trump over 11 million votes prior to the Oregon primary. All the Oregon votes may not be carried over to the main page yet, but they have Trump as 11,241,262 votes. The GP stats are from the Oregon SoS page.

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/OR-R

Trump Oregon votes-— 215,648 66.82%


33 posted on 05/18/2016 9:12:02 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: WMarshal

You are right, but Forbes would be an excellent Sec. of Treasury.

If we are going to DO dynasties, why not go all the way and have some fun!

Election 2024

Ivanka / Don, jr.

versus

Chelsea / Jorge P. Boosh


34 posted on 05/18/2016 9:18:04 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

How about a Jorge Boosh and Vicente Fox ticket? Ha ha ha - that would be rich.


35 posted on 05/18/2016 9:27:25 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: WMarshal
Hmppphhhh.

What about the Hubble-Clinton clan?

And don't forget us! We got kids and grand kids all over!

36 posted on 05/18/2016 9:40:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks for the ping.

:)


37 posted on 05/18/2016 9:56:16 AM PDT by Canedawg (Make America Great Again)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Steve Forbes would have been a great president. Wonder if he is interested in VP, he’s 68 years young.

On trade, I am a free trader. I don't want tariffs -- to me, tariffs are taxes. And on immigration, I think his proposals are a non-starter, legally and morally.
Steve Forbes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3394290/posts

38 posted on 05/18/2016 10:01:38 AM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Everything posted on this thread is nothing but positive information and positive comments. This is what our country cries for...positive results. Mr. TRiUMPh has repeatedly been gracious to Sen Sanders, saying the only reason to beat him is due to policy differences. He, in his fashion, admires Bernie as Bernie is attempting to make America great again in his own way...just chose the wrong way to do so. Bernie in his demeanor won me over during the first debate w/Hillary. If not for policy, he would have been a terrific grandfather figure. Keep on track TRiUMPh Train. America steered on your track will be Admirable, powerful, justice filled once again.
39 posted on 05/18/2016 10:31:56 AM PDT by V K Lee (uTRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies


40 posted on 05/18/2016 3:05:02 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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