Posted on 02/17/2016 1:59:00 PM PST by Hojczyk
Mr. Trumps decision to seize on immigration as his signature issue has showed how out of step the Republican establishment is with rank-and-file voters. Mr. Trumps call to deport more than 11 million undocumented people in the country, denounced as impossible and inhumane, has substantial support. One in four voters in a New York Times poll last year said illegal immigrants should be required to leave the country.
Exit polls from the New Hampshire primary, which Mr. Trump won decisively, showed 65 percent of Republicans supported his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
A CNN/ORC poll of South Carolina released on Tuesday showed Mr. Trump with a 16-point lead over his closest rival, Mr. Cruz. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeb Bush occupied a third tier.
Most surprising, perhaps, is that Mr. Trump led Mr. Cruz by 20 percentage points among evangelical voters, whose support Mr. Cruz rallied to win the Iowa caucuses this month.
The poll showed Mr. Trump losing supporters after the debate on Saturday, with 40 percent supporting him before and 31 percent afterward.
Another pollster, David Woodard of Clemson University, said his survey of Republicans showed Mr. Trumps support holding steady after the debate.
Even after Trumps debate performance, with all the dysfunctional behavior the next day his numbers were the same as before the debate! Go figure, he said in an email.
Hogan Gidley, a former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, whose roots are in the evangelical community, said the Republican base was angry about sending politicians with impeccable conservative credentials to Washington, but seeing nothing change there.
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Yes, we are anti-RNC establishment and want it torn down because it is corrupt!
It’s not his party. He’s a democrat.
And the more Dems he might attract in the general election.
The other candidates all look desperate.
Who does Trump think is paying for the convention? Or is he going to skip that as well?
The New York Times is promoting Trump. We get it.
The one thing T.E.A Party Conservatives and Trumpsters can agree, the RNC can go to hell.
I will make a prediction. Trump will gather more and more supporters, and win the Presidency. Young people are disaffected by current societal conditions, and want the establishment torn down because it's corrupt. Trump will go on to galvanize support from all, regardless of party affiliation. He will make the country stronger and more prosperous. However, there is a danger that he will become a tyrant and his followers will squash his enemies, those who don't follow in lockstep. It's happened before in history (1930's Germany is one example). Whether he is a good tyrant, or a bad one, remains to be seen.
The one thing T.E.A Party Conservatives and Trumpsters can agree, the RNC can go to hell.
Yep, that about sums it up, The Establishment is the Enemy.
The other candidates all look traditional, just like all of them we have sent to Washington since Reagan, who was the last one to accomplish what he was voted into office for.
The rest have betrayed us, at best.
The only two from outside the system are Carson and Trump, and only one puts the most important issue at the top of the list:THE ECONOMY.
The other candidates are desperate, and it shows.
No too hard to understand, since it told the TEA Party to GTH first.
It took years for that to happen in Germany. And it was violent. Have not seen the organization of browshirts and all that happened there.
Have not seen that here...yet.
I do not think that will happen here even with Trump, BUT, I do think of Augustus often.
-— The other candidates all look traditional -—
The other candidates all look rational, compared to the real estate guy.
We have a Constitution to prevent that sought of thing.
“The Pissed Off Party”
Donald J. Trump, founder
It is difficult to imagine a candidate so eager to please and constantly changing his position or talking about making deals with the opposition as a tyrant. Whether Trump will be able to fulfill his many and grandiose promises is a much bigger deal than authoritarianism in my mind. He needs to start getting realistic with some supporters, particularly on the ease of building a wall.
If Trump had run as a democrat in their primary and said “Build a wall” and “Stop the muslims from coming in” he wouldn’t have gotten 1% of the vote in Iowa OR NH. So he had to run as a republican.
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