Posted on 08/29/2015 12:19:18 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he is leading the GOP race because he represents Americans who have had it with their nation coming up short.
“People in this country are smart,” he told listeners at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies’ 2015 conference in Nashville on Saturday.
“We’re tired of being the patsies for everyone,” Trump said.
“There is a big, big, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds silent majority out there. [The 2016 race] is going to be an election based on competence.”
Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.
“I love the Tea Party,” Trump said. “You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting.”
“At least I have a microphone and can fight back,” the outspoken billionaire added.
Trump indicated he envisions a much wider base for his campaign than traditional Republican voters next election cycle.
“You don’t know how big you are,” he told listeners. “The Tea Party has tremendous power. It’s Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody.”
The New York business mogul also vowed he would not succumb to the prestige and power of Washington’s political establishment if he wins in 2016.
“They go to Washington and they get weak,” Trump said of Democrats and Republicans alike. “They get there and they see these beautiful, vaulted ceilings and they say, ‘Honey, I’ve made it.’ That won’t happen to me, I promise.”
Trump also said he intends on saving taxpayer dollars by focusing his energy on the nation’s capital if elected next year.
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Still waiting for him to say something wrong.
So far, he sounds like a veteran of FR!
But he is absolutely spot on correct. And he's the only one saying it.
If Americans aren’t tired of being stepped on, mocked and expected to pay for the Communist dreams of Democrats, we don’t deserve a free country.
Im sure he or an aid checks in hear from time to time most of them do
His supporters are patsies for this socialist idiot. If he wants to run for president, he should do it in the Democratic primary where he belongs.
He gets it.
Donald Trump is an arrogant blowhard(per a poll). Just what we need to break the Washington Cartel.
He would definitely be a bull in a china shop.
Americans want leaders in Congress and in the Presidency who don’t apologize for things that are not their fault.
It seems both Obama and Boehner (and Jeb and others) are on non-stop apology tours.
Not a fan but he’s probably right about this.
Well if there ever was a time for a Bull in a China Shop, this is it.
“His supporters are patsies for this socialist idiot.”
Explain.
But he is our BULL! And the CHINA shop needs to be reevaluated. No way should we be owing them
Because as we all KNOW nothing in heaven or on earth could EVER move Donald Trump from his old lefty luxuriations regardless of HOW much sense such movement would make both to Donald and to America.
So let’s all wring our hands and get behind the single digit percenters once more. We have a safe milquetoast to choose, his name is Jeb.
Wow, a fellow who wants to take the max tax rate down to 15% wants to punish the rich who are now paying over 33%.
Yep you sure made your case well!!!
Tiresome. Please go to DU where you will be appreciated.
But seriously, this is a rather open admission that Trump is NOT a TEA Party conseravtive. He doesn't say "we", he says "you people".
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