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Clown Time Is Over as Trump Crumples
RealClearPolitics ^ | September 22, 2015 | Toby Harnden, Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Times.

Posted on 09/22/2015 11:41:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump is not going to be the leader of the free world. That was the reality check delivered to the reality TV star when he was subjected to a pounding in last week’s Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.

A summer of bombast from the bumptious billionaire had led to his anti-immigration rhetoric and populist demagoguery lifting him to the top of all the Republican party polls. The debate in Simi Valley, however, brought him crashing back to earth.

By the time the dust had settled, Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and the widely proclaimed victor of the debate, was in the lead in a Voter Gravity poll in New Hampshire, edging out Trump by four points.

The property magnate, who had looked deflated and remained uncharacteristically silent for almost 40 minutes at one point during the three-hour CNN debate, then stood accused of racism.

Trump was flummoxed when a questioner at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, called President Barack Obama a Muslim — and failed to correct or challenge him....

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: 2016trump; carolshilby; fiorina; trump; wishfulthinking
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A bit premature, Toby.
1 posted on 09/22/2015 11:41:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not sure what world that guy is living on.


2 posted on 09/22/2015 11:42:31 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is a comedy article, right?


3 posted on 09/22/2015 11:42:33 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All opinion and no proof.


4 posted on 09/22/2015 11:43:27 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Toby is launched himself into outer space. His cold dead body will soon be sighted circling the planet Pluto as a tiny asteroid lost in space.


5 posted on 09/22/2015 11:44:04 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Toby at the crack pipe again?


6 posted on 09/22/2015 11:44:12 AM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner,McConnell,Corker,McCain,Alexander,Hatch,Graham+More=Corrupt)
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To: miliantnutcase
Not sure what world that guy is living on

The same one that everyone else is living on who know Trump, Cruz and Palin won't ever be elected in a national election.
7 posted on 09/22/2015 11:44:38 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. The NH “plant” story lost traction days ago.


8 posted on 09/22/2015 11:44:57 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the author waved his arms any faster....

he’d be airborne.


9 posted on 09/22/2015 11:45:47 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More DemocRat paranoia.


10 posted on 09/22/2015 11:46:24 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

GGeeeez...Can you believe this crap...

Was listening to Rush, and this very very low informational gal gets up there, and cries about Trump pushing Walker out of the race and Rush being behind it.

But what got me was her saying that Trump was the Kardashian candidate. He was anti gun, pro taxes, etc etc.
Obsiously she knows nothing of the man.

I see Trump growing here over time. The man is up in New York? Seriously? He’s going to win all 50 states...


11 posted on 09/22/2015 11:46:31 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wishful thinking.

While who ends up as nominee is far from decided, it looks to me as if Trump’s position at this moment is as good as it was before the most recent “debate”.

It frosts me that these liberal choreographed dog and pony shows are even referred to as debates.


12 posted on 09/22/2015 11:47:04 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

All cat and no hattle.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 11:47:11 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Eagles fan after loss to Dallas -- This is the first time I ever saw the "prevent offense".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

14 posted on 09/22/2015 11:47:37 AM PDT by Bratch
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Trump crumbling, eh? Not according to the Morning Consult poll just released...
Trump takes 32 percent of the vote among self-identified Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, according to a new Morning Consult tracking poll — far ahead of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s 12 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 11 percent.

Fiorina finishes in fourth position, at 6 percent, just ahead of Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), who clock in with 5 percent each.


15 posted on 09/22/2015 11:47:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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What? ...Again?


16 posted on 09/22/2015 11:48:10 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh gee, another “Trump is Fading” article, how clichéd.


17 posted on 09/22/2015 11:48:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cicero2k

“Trump was flummoxed when a questioner at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, called President Barack Obama a Muslim — and failed to correct or challenge him....”

Moron...


18 posted on 09/22/2015 11:48:22 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"By the time the dust had settled...."

This guy should be a fiction writer....oh wait!

19 posted on 09/22/2015 11:49:06 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: miliantnutcase

Is he looking at the same polls?


20 posted on 09/22/2015 11:49:10 AM PDT by GilGil
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