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Trump likes to sleep in his own bed and it may cost him votes
Yahoo News ^ | 8 Jan 2016 | Emily Flitter

Posted on 01/08/2016 7:59:04 AM PST by mandaladon

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates are spending long days on the campaign trail and their nights in a succession of budget hotels, often in small towns. Not Donald Trump.

After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan.

In November and December, Trump held six rallies in Iowa, visited a local production plant and held one town hall, flying home each night. His nearest rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, has zigzagged around the state, holding around a dozen town halls and twice as many "meet-and-greet" sessions, and bedding down between stops in hotels.

Trump's determination to sleep at home every night raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans, who say it could cost him. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire often want more personal attention; they feel they play a special role in choosing presidential nominees because their contests are held first.

Trump leads in polls in New Hampshire but he has slipped behind Cruz in Iowa. Cruz has done what U.S. presidential candidates typically do: He has made the state a virtual second home in the run-up to Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus.

This week Cruz is crisscrossing the state in a bus, cruising through small hamlets with stops at a pizza place, coffee house and even a water park.

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To: sitetest

Better his own bed than beds Bill Clinton ‘slept’ in Emily Flitter ...

Uncle Lonny’s Clinton bed count:

Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - forced himself on her, biting, bruising her
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidation, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcome sexual advance, intimidation
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcome sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet - unwelcome sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcome physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters

And many “orgy island” trips with a pedo who got off on twelve year old children...


101 posted on 01/08/2016 8:57:38 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: uncitizen
when really we know he just wants to be home with his wife and youngest son each have night.

That's a big plus in my eyes.

102 posted on 01/08/2016 8:57:56 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: sitetest

Good point. But...
Trump has spent DECADES building his public brand. EVERYONE knows who he is, and respects him as a successful manager (even if they don’t _like_ him).
That vs all other candidates who are in a mad rush to introduce themselves to all potential voters.

Q: “Trump?”
Typical A: “Yes.” or “No.”

Q: “Cruz? Bush? Carson? Christie? Fiorina? Huckabee? Kasich?”
Typical A: “Who?”


103 posted on 01/08/2016 8:58:05 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: maggief

#46 No wonder he likes his own bed. His wife is in it. She is easy on the eyes whereas the Clintons and obamas are horrid looking.


104 posted on 01/08/2016 8:58:50 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: GOPJ

Trump should bring all those women up on a rally stage and let them tell their stories. It would be like a direct hit from the entire nuclear triad.


105 posted on 01/08/2016 8:59:20 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: mandaladon

Question!! Did Trump buy and pay for all of his stuff with his own money that he earned by working? Or, did he pay for all of this stuff with money he scammed from mind-numbed donors?


106 posted on 01/08/2016 9:02:13 AM PST by Parmy
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To: GOPJ

Yes, we all have our vices. Billy’s deadly sin seems to be lust. trump’s seems to be greed. Even driving him to hire a couple of hundred illegals for one, single demolition project, and paying them under the table $4 or $5 per hour, with no benefits, and not even hardhats. And a few union guys to satisfy his Mafia colleagues, to provide labor the job.


107 posted on 01/08/2016 9:03:57 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

labor should be labor cover


108 posted on 01/08/2016 9:05:28 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: mandaladon

“...his opponents are waking up in Holiday Inns or Courtyard Marriotts.”

What a load of crap. As if Hillary, Yeb! or any of those other elitest snobs would ever lower themselves to sleeping at a Holiday Inn.


109 posted on 01/08/2016 9:08:36 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

You’re right - funny AND true... well, size wise...

Trump was asked about it and said it would be an honor to live in the White House... (Both the reporter and Trump aware the WH ‘objectively’ isn’t as beautiful as his Florida Vacation home... )


110 posted on 01/08/2016 9:10:41 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: ctdonath2

Brand recognition CERTAINLY helps, especially for contests that are still far into the future. In fact, I would say that brand recognition is most of trump’s national lead. But as one gets closer to an election, and people actually examine the candidates , brand recognition’s importance will fade, and the personal contact of good retail politics will grow in importance.


111 posted on 01/08/2016 9:10:57 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest

I don’t have a problem with lust - I DO have a problem with rape.

You know the difference, right?


112 posted on 01/08/2016 9:12:14 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: jennychase

“With Trump I am rich, I want others to dream like me.”

Indeed, I can imagine Trump saying (if he hasn’t already many times) “yes I’m rich, and I want you to be rich too - let’s get rich!” Conversely, Hillary et al are “you have money, I’m going to give it to someone else.”

Socialism belies a misunderstanding of the nature of wealth. It’s not a fixed commodity to be shared, it’s a transient quality which must be replenished by effort.


113 posted on 01/08/2016 9:12:35 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: ctdonath2

Rich people love socialism because it eliminates competition.


114 posted on 01/08/2016 9:14:37 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: GOPJ

I don’t have a problem with marital love. I do have a problem with lust. You do know the difference, right?


115 posted on 01/08/2016 9:15:25 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Parmy; mandaladon

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Trump pays for his stuff with money scammed through eminent domain thuggery from the rightful owners.

Trump is a big government thug.


116 posted on 01/08/2016 9:18:10 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Free America52; Balding_Eagle

I was working out in W.Texas and had to get a room at a crappy little motor inn. Went to the room and opened the door, closed it and went and slept in my truck.


117 posted on 01/08/2016 9:18:21 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: dynoman
Trump's shaming the MSM into covering this.. that's putting the women on stage... Victims often WANT their story told to safeguard other women. It's the elites that don't want this story coming out.

For all we know the press rapes powerless women too. Why else would they attempt to bury this story? It has to be more than bias and hatred of Conservative Americans.

Right?

Could they really hate us that much?

The Washington Post and New York Times damn well would cover this story if rape allegations and abuse of women were made against Carly Fiorina’s husband... Rather than the husband of Hilliary. Yes, they would make that connection.

118 posted on 01/08/2016 9:21:38 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: dynoman
Trump's shaming the MSM into covering this.. that's putting the women on stage... Victims often WANT their story told to safeguard other women. It's the elites that don't want this story coming out.

For all we know the press rapes powerless women too. Why else would they attempt to bury this story? It has to be more than bias and hatred of Conservative Americans.

Right?

Could they really hate us that much?

The Washington Post and New York Times damn well would cover this story if rape allegations and abuse of women were made against Carly Fiorina’s husband... Rather than the husband of Hilliary. Yes, they would make that connection.

Even Chris Matthews would figure that one out...

119 posted on 01/08/2016 9:22:00 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: sitetest

You going back to the old Jimmah Carter thing... LOL


120 posted on 01/08/2016 9:22:56 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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