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From Donald Trump, Hints of a Campaign Exit Strategy
NYTIMES ^ | 10/9/15 | Maggie Hagerman

Posted on 10/09/2015 12:30:21 PM PDT by VinL

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To: VinL

He’s our only chance


61 posted on 10/09/2015 1:38:01 PM PDT by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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To: Timber Rattler
Maybe Trump told Cruz something that nobody else knows?
Yea that must be it. Cruz being the new messiah and all. < /sarcasm>

Or maybe there was a secret note in the pocket of that too big coat the dufus was wearing in that photo and Trump forgot it was there.

62 posted on 10/09/2015 1:42:39 PM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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To: VinL

MSM desperation is a terrible thing to watch. :-)


63 posted on 10/09/2015 1:44:11 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: VinL

All Trump is doing is stating the obvious.

“If my numbers aren’t there, I’m not going to waste my time and money”.

Last time I looked he was still leading.

NY Times pretty proud of itself for reporting the effing obvious.


64 posted on 10/09/2015 1:47:19 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Jim Noble

Agreed. The only thing that can win for us is a Populist who leans right on most issues. Otherwise that 47% + those promised student loan forgiveness are gonna crush us. Even if it’s Hillary.


65 posted on 10/09/2015 1:48:30 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: VinL

The more they attack him and the more petty and vicious the attacks become, the more I take the Donald seriously.


66 posted on 10/09/2015 1:49:37 PM PDT by Ophiucus
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To: VinL; flaglady47; hoosiermama; Jane Long; JustaCowgirl; RitaOK; entropy12
The New York Slimes masthead motto since 1897....."All the News that's S##T to Print"

Leni

67 posted on 10/09/2015 1:50:01 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: lewislynn

You Trump people make me laugh.


68 posted on 10/09/2015 1:50:35 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: VinL

FUNYT!!!


69 posted on 10/09/2015 1:56:30 PM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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To: VinL; Jane Long

Did Cruz’ remark initiated this speculation, or do you think Cruz ‘fragged” by donors with this information and delivered it.

It’s not possible that his donors are laying the pressure to him, is it as we end the first quarter of the presidential campaign?

It was the most polite attempt to take a shot at Trump I believe I’ve ever seen, and such a gift to the ravenous media.


70 posted on 10/09/2015 2:06:03 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: entropy12; VinL; Jane Long

<<< Will the GOP still try to kill their nominee? “ >>>>


I know this guy in Mississippi. Remember Mississippi?

These guys play dirty in the GOP and they line up with ANYBODY to work their will, even with black radical democrats.

Donors have to be 99% Establishment now days, and they have no mercy. The Party is bound and determined to be UniParty.
Trump is cracking that fact wide open.

Essentially you belong to them, or you go home. They want Jeb Bubba Bush.


71 posted on 10/09/2015 2:14:23 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: lewislynn
"Yea that must be it. Cruz being the new messiah and all. < /sarcasm>

Or maybe there was a secret note in the pocket of that too big coat the dufus was wearing in that photo and Trump forgot it was there."

And here you are, the liberal who can't stop spitting nails whenever Cruz's name is mentioned. You hate his guts, don't you?

As other Freepers have noted, you are most likely a paid operative.

72 posted on 10/09/2015 2:15:23 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: VinL

Ha..he’s just messing with their minds....more column inches of free discussion.....(and Trump well in the lead in most polls)


73 posted on 10/09/2015 2:15:24 PM PDT by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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To: Jim Noble

There you go. Cruz will be forced to move to the middle by his donors. Trump already owns the middle. The middle won’t move to Cruz.

Cruz loses, even if Trump were knocked out and my vote went to Cruz, I would cast it knowing he would lose.

If Trump can be felled, it’s a cinch no one will stand. Except the GOP anointed, Jeb Bubba Bush, or his little clones Kasich or Rubio maybe.


74 posted on 10/09/2015 2:18:33 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: VinL
Most candidates would give anything for the free airtime Mr. Trump gets – and lower-polling hopefuls like Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky have publicly complained about it.

These pretend journalists continually repeat that BS about all the free TV time Trump has gotten. But they neglect to add that most of the coverage from late June through most of September was devoted to damaging his candidacy and eroding his support by constantly harping on his remarks about illegal immigrants, and John McCain, and the Megyn BS, etc., etc.

But once they realized all that time devoted to damaging Trump wasn't working, they changed their strategy and starting giving more and more time to Carly and Rubio and others to try and build them up to challenge Trump.

Just a dishonest, BS article from the New York Times.

75 posted on 10/09/2015 2:32:08 PM PDT by Will88
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To: VinL

He’s the only one who will change the status quo, no one else will enforce the border just only talk lip service.


76 posted on 10/09/2015 2:35:28 PM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Georgia Girl 2

LOLOL....you are so right on!!!


77 posted on 10/09/2015 3:26:19 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: VinL

It is truly pathetic on how they try to manipulate this...

Here we have a man who is the frontrunner by a good margin and yet they keep saying he will drop out...

Because they wanted him to drop out.. they’re deliberately badmouthing him just drive down his stock

total dishonesty of our press these days is beyond belief


78 posted on 10/09/2015 3:30:22 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: RitaOK

Hey Rita,

I don’t know what’s going on, but after listening to the audio (link below), my view remains the same as it has been.

It helps Cruz to have Trump in the race for now, because Trump sits on the opposition. Cruz has money to burn, so he can sit back and wait. Essentially, Cruz is saying to the others- Donald is going to beat you in NH and Iowa. If you do nothing, you’re out after NH. On the other hand, if you expend your resources now and go after Trump, you might win Iowa or NH— however, if you don’t win, you’re broke. You’re choice!

I don’t know if I’ve made sense- but my position is, Cruz is helping the other guys if he goes after Trump- and so he’s not going to do it. Better to ultimately be one on one with Trump, than to knock Trump out, and have 5 other opponents pop up. I think he’d prefer to narrow the field going into SC and the southern states, and then confront Trump.

So, no, I don’t think his remarks were intended to hurt Trump. If you listen to the audio, seems his standard praise for Trump’s involvement, save for the remark, that ultimately, Cruz thinks he’ll win.

As for the NYTimes piece, that’s all Donald. He opened that door— and now the media will go full out on making the case that he’s ambivalent.

Bottom line, Rita— I don’t think Cruz intended, or wants to, hurt Donald— but mainly because, it doesn’t help Cruz, right now. If it were to happen in Dec or Jan, then I would think it was intentional .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI-DjxsuHdI


79 posted on 10/09/2015 3:33:28 PM PDT by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: VinL

This is absurd. What candidate in their right mind would say they would never get out of the race even if their polls dropped to 0? Other than Jim Gilmore.


80 posted on 10/09/2015 3:35:24 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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