Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success
Donald Trump
January 18, 2008
Posted on 02/12/2016 11:19:40 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Some of the biggest Republican donors, who collectively have contributed tens of millions of dollars to shape the presidential race, are tightening their purse strings out of frustration with their inability to boost their favored candidates, or to slow Donald Trump.
Rather than continuing to write huge checks to support the cluster of establishment candidates jockeying to emerge as the leading alternative to Trump, a billionaire real estate showman roundly despised by the GOP elite, these donors have mostly retreated to the sidelines. They're watching anxiously, hoping that the field sorts itself out, according to interviews with a half dozen major donors or their representatives.
Many of the donors are urging the deep-pocketed groups they've already funded to begin spending against Trump, even as some recognize the potential for such spending to backfire, and are increasingly questioning the efficacy of big-money advertising campaigns more generally.
"It's unbelievable. I mean Jeb Bush spent $42 million in New Hampshire ― what did he get for it?" said billionaire GOP mega-donor Stan Hubbard, a Minnesota media mogul. "It's frustrating."
Several donors expressed frustration that the establishment candidates and the super PACs supporting them spent considerable time and money attacking one another ― and not Trump ― in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
Perhaps as a result, many donors who supported candidates who have since dropped out appear inclined to wait until after the Feb. 20 South Carolina primary to pick a new horse.
Wisconsin roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks, who gave $5 million to a pro-Walker super PAC and is being hotly courted by supporters of both Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz, intends to wait until the cluster of primaries and caucuses on March 1 ― Super Tuesday ― before backing another candidate, said sources familiar with her plans.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
FRiends, Womans, countrymen ... maybe you could drop by the ‘Trump Freezes Establishment Donors’ thread above and edify us as to what in the diddly heck’s up with all these flibberjibbeted billionaires?
You would think they would use the billionaires’ secret handshake with Trump or something ... But for some reason they seem to think he’s some kind of Bolshevik or Vampire, or Bolshevik vampire. It’s a puzzle.
Wisconsin roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks, who gave $5 million to a pro-Walker super PAC and is being hotly courted>>
if you are truly army captain... thank you for your service and your trump posts. god bless you and i hope you are hotly courted by someone you love.
Perhaps Trump is keeping a naughty list of SuperPac donors and Dem and GOPe donors. Want help. Don’t have time to meet with you about that special project you want! lol
America knows a bell that rings true. Donald J. Trump is that bell calling America to come together to make America great again. It is a clear message without the clutter of ideology when America has existential problems. It is a pragmatic salt of the earth voice that says, “I am going to build that shining city on the hill.” It makes me remember that one who waved fare well as he said,
“And that’s about all I have to say tonight, except for one thing. The past few days when I’ve been at that window upstairs, I’ve thought a bit of the ‘shining city upon a hill.’ The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we’d call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free. I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.”
—President Ronald Wilson Reagan
Yes, Donald John Trump will do ‘the work that brings America back. He will made a difference. Americans will make the city stronger, make the city freer, and leave her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.’
Trump is incredible...he is a one man campaign reform machine!!!
The donor class will shift to the DEM party or withhold funds, if Trump is the nominee.
He talks like typical Americans talk every single day.
Reminds me of Jesus turning over the money changers tables...bringing light to What is going on...truth. He is carpet bombing the oppositions money changer tables...exposing their duplicity.
Question of the day. Anyone? Bueller?
Ho boy, his appearance at the debate tonight will be something to behold.
I have never had so much fun during a primary, and Trump is just my second choice, but I love it when he pisses down the press' pant leg and they still believe it's raining {but warm, yellow, rain}.
He's right, the press is evil and stupid.
Cruz always selling his values for money if he had any.
Jeb!
I mean...
Stan!
Or maybe it should be
Jeb/Stan!
GO!!!!
The Cruz moral compass has lost its magnetism.
Hmmm, let me think... Maybe cheap foreign labor?
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