Trump likes to sleep in his own bed and it may cost him votes

Yahoo News ^ | 8 Jan 2016 | Emily Flitter

[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.

[The Iceman Cometh]

However suppose it’s done sitting on the parking apron at the airport.

Well, that takes the adventure out of it doesn't it?

Lolz

[italianquaker]

Ok

[Rebelbase]

~~This is funny. If he stayed overnight on campaign trail they would bitch about the crowds, media and extra cops needed. Call him selfish for not flying home. ~~

No only that but the media would spin his slumming at a Best Western to mean he’s losing and having to take drastic measures to connect with the common man.

[PA Engineer]

I've also seen rallies from 2016 for Gov. Romney as massive as anything you've shown, and a good bit more.

Put down the bottle. It is not helping your TDS.

[PA Engineer]

I have stayed in more than one place where no one paid any attention to those signs.

No kidding. Was staying in a reservation hotel in northeast Montana during the construction of the Northern Boarder Pipeline. Who would bring all of their beagles into a hotel room!

[PA Engineer]

Yes, we all have our vices. Billy’s deadly sin seems to be lust. trump’s seems to be greed.

Bill's was rape and yours is envy. I consider envy to be one of the most evil of the sins.

[sitetest]

6 of the 7 Deadliest I readily confess. Pride, lust, anger, greed, sloth, gluttony. Envy holds no charm.

Although, as I’ve gotten older, I find that lust has lost its luster and for gluttony I no longer have much appetite.

Bummer. I’m down to four of the deadlies.

[dead]

Maybe that one series of indiscretions taught him better.

Yeah, maybe. But if I'm going to trumpet the awesome morality of some guy's marital fidelity, I'm going to pick a guy who never cheated on his wife, not somebody who is probably not doing it these days.

[kcvl]

“Raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans”

aka consultants who haven’t won an election in years

[kcvl]

It's ephemera, it's aura. This candidate doesn't even finish half his sentences. His most concrete policy proposal is a giant wall. 16 hours ago - Twitter