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With Record Turnout In Sight, Donald Trump Is Closing In On An Unnerving Victory In Iowa
Huffpost Politics ^ | January 29, 2016 | Scott Conroy

Posted on 01/30/2016 8:17:05 AM PST by Hojczyk

The Republican front-runner has secured his standing, as Ted Cruz has faltered.

Its probably too soon to run for the hills just yet.

But if youre worried about the possibility that the nuclear launch codes might a year from now be in the hands of a megalomaniacal strongman with a tenuous grip on reality, the scene on the ground in Iowa with just three days to go until the caucuses won't make you feel much better.

Donald Trump appears poised to notch a major victory in the first electoral test of the year -- a win that would further launch him along a once implausible path toward actually becoming the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.

This prevailing sentiment solidified during Thursday night’s debate when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) failed to capitalize on the GOP front-runner's glaring absence from the stage, instead choosing to bicker with the moderators in Trump-like fashion but without the flair.

And in a clear indication of his campaigns new strategic priority of trying to hold onto a now-tenuous second-place standing in Iowa at the expense of competing more explicitly to win it, the Cruz campaign is turning its focus over the airwaves away from the front-runner and toward Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

The New York Times reported on Friday that Cruz had shifted almost all of his negative advertising away from Trump and toward Rubio, in a last-minute attempt to prevent the upstart Floridian from surging into a second-place showing in Iowa -- a result that would upend the race and might prove fatal to Cruzs 2016 hopes.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; election2016; iowa; newyork; trump
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1 posted on 01/30/2016 8:17:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Must be a Trump Fan


2 posted on 01/30/2016 8:17:34 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

It ain’t over ‘till the fat lady sings, but she’s definitely getting warmed up...


3 posted on 01/30/2016 8:18:34 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Hojczyk
in Trump-like fashion but without the flair

Is that the difference between Wharton and Princeton?

4 posted on 01/30/2016 8:19:01 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: Hojczyk
Coming from Huff and Puff

Well, at least it is no longer under entertainment.

5 posted on 01/30/2016 8:19:07 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Hojczyk

I’m pretty sure the list of political pundits who have successfully called the Iowa caucuses for two or more presidential election cycles is an extremely short list.

With that in mind, I’ll expect a different result when they are reported.


6 posted on 01/30/2016 8:19:45 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Jim 0216

I heard a few bars as she was warming up for the finale.


7 posted on 01/30/2016 8:20:03 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Hojczyk

Is this Fox Snooze?

Pray America wakes


8 posted on 01/30/2016 8:20:43 AM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: Hojczyk

If Trump wins this nomination, every conservative I personally know is going politically Galt.

Good luck with your blowhard windsock.


9 posted on 01/30/2016 8:21:00 AM PST by bolobaby
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To: Hojczyk

Huffington puffington piece.
All stories on Trump must be hateful, even if the news is positive for him.


10 posted on 01/30/2016 8:21:39 AM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: bolobaby

Why wait, do it now!


11 posted on 01/30/2016 8:22:27 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Hojczyk
But if youre worried about the possibility that the nuclear launch codes might a year from now be in the hands of a megalomaniacal strongman with a tenuous grip on reality

THAT's exactly what I want our enemies to think about before they cross us.

Thanks Huffpro, keep spreading the word.

12 posted on 01/30/2016 8:23:12 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: bray

“Is this Fox Snooze?”

Or National Review, or Glenn Beck, or Hot Air, or Mark Levin.

Kinda hard to tell these days.


13 posted on 01/30/2016 8:24:10 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Hojczyk

Same language they used with Ronald Reagan. It was that a**hole, Bill Clinton, who LOST the nuclear codes.


14 posted on 01/30/2016 8:24:11 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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Trump has brought more life to conservatism then anybody since Reagan


15 posted on 01/30/2016 8:24:12 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: nascarnation

Good point, as if the HuffingtonPuffingtonPost would be any happier with the keys to the nukes in the hands of a Harvard law grad who speaks well and was born outside the US...


16 posted on 01/30/2016 8:25:38 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first ande then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: bolobaby

Please tell us where we can find your stuff...


17 posted on 01/30/2016 8:26:57 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first ande then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: Hojczyk

Huff puffed that headline.

It probably hurt like crazy.

LOL


18 posted on 01/30/2016 8:28:56 AM PST by TomGuy
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Rent Is Too Damn High Party founder endorses Trump

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/267600-rent-is-too-damn-high-party-founder-endorses-trump


19 posted on 01/30/2016 8:29:08 AM PST by jennychase
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To: bigbob

Talk about a tenuous grip on reality- Ariana Huffington is a joke and certifiable!


20 posted on 01/30/2016 8:29:14 AM PST by princess leah
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