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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That's only one name in the dog-and-pony show we call the government/ business complex..
I would like to be enlightened.
Would you kindly name others?
I would also like to , with your permission, to paraphrase a former President who said that the 'business of government is business'.
You are right.
It’s like everyone is a puppet and Trump’s is the puppet master controller. And the puppets haven’t got a clue what’s going on - even Obama.
Certainly not. He didn’t actually understand the difference. Do you?
Absolutely.
If one thinks about it, Trump going home every night is a good thing and clearly indicates the man cares and comes from honorable stock.
Of course the corrupt MSM will dig down to find something negative and attempt to discredit it.
I wonder if it isn't cheaper for him to sleep in his own bed. Considering if he stayed at a holiday inn, he'd have to pay for security personnel and their lodgings, mess up other tourists comfort due to whatever security issues in a hotel. So I think it is cheaper for him to sleep in his own bed....unless he brings his bed with him...
If they're complaining about plane fuel used, well then, let's talk about pelosi and how taxpayers are paying for her trips.
Are you backing Cruz?
It’s Marriott Courtyard...like its a bad thing
And there are no pure Holiday Inn motels anymore
They are all a variation
Select or Expresss or Holiday Inn hotel with the bland logo whatever owned by Intercontinental
I miss the old signs
This writer chick is Clueless
Without eminent domain there would NOT be an interstate system, or airports near cities or railroads..
You do know that, right?
I wonder if they would ever write an article saying that Trump prefers to go home to his Wife and Family every night?
Same situation with a different take.
Agree. I personally hate hotels for various reasons of my own.
One thing folks might be missing here is the security issues.
Going to a different hotels every night creates huge security issues. In Trumps case, that needs to be avoided at all costs.
Thread winner!
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Save the diversion for the idiots please.
The use of eminent domain to literally steal a property owner’s vested equity in order to reduce a Real estate developer’s baseline costs has absolutely nothing to do with highways.
Trump is a thief and he knows it.
The U.S. Supreme Court first examined federal eminent domain power in 1876 in Kohl v. United States. This case presented a landowner’s challenge to the power of the United States to condemn land in Cincinnati, Ohio for use as a custom house and post office building. Justice William Strong called the authority of the federal government to appropriate property for public uses “essential to its independent existence and perpetuity.” Kohl v. United States, 91 U.S. 367, 371 (1875).
The Supreme Court again acknowledged the existence of condemnation authority twenty years later in United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railroad Company. Congress wanted to acquire land to preserve the site of the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania. The railroad company that owned some of the property in question contested this action. Ultimately, the Court opined that the federal government has the power to condemn property “whenever it is necessary or appropriate to use the land in the execution of any of the powers granted to it by the constitution.” United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry., 160 U.S. 668, 679 (1896).
http://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain
lol...Trump likes to go home to his family at night! What a loser.
We've noticed that too. People waiting to check in holding their pillow. I find it a little odd but oh well.
“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. “
No class envy expressed here. None.
It’s his money and his time, not sure why this is anybodies business but Trumps!
To be fair: he isn’t crossing the country. Iowa is as far west as he’s gotten.
Maybe if CA were in play he would sleep in his gorgeous digs on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. He also has a nice place in FL.
Trump will step it up some in Iowa and you can bet he's going attract several times over what Cruz's getting on his 30 plus county short bus trip with only this many stops.
Ottumwa, IA 9th
Clear Lake, IA 9th
Cedar Falls, IA 11th
Can't take away from the fact that he's turned out massive crowds. But I don't think shaking hands with people on a rope line exactly qualifies as meeting "voters one on one."
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