Nah, if you're voting for Trump you're voting for...Trump. Republican voters are energized right now and will jump on Trump's bandwagon just because he's the nominee. Look at ****** Christie -- you would have never thought he'd side with Trump but look at him now. And it's the same with voters. Right now they are saying one thing but come election time they will vote for Trump -- just because he's the nominee and because he's running against Hillary. I mean, freaking Hillary only got 6,000 + votes in Nevada while running against only ONE person. Whereas Trump totaled more than 30,000 votes running against 4 other candidates! Republicans are eager to vote right now and frankly I think will be the reason for a Republican president come November. Democrats don't have the fire right now, especially if Hillary is the nominee.
Seriously when people like Jeff Sessions an old school establishment republican come out and endorse Trump you can be assured that once Trump locks up the nomination the party will rally behind him. Unless they are complete r****ds and want to hand Hillary the election they will that is.
The Governor or Jersey Shore sided with Trump because he's going to be out of a job pretty soon and no one else would have wanted his endorsement. I think you'll be surprised how few Republicans support Trump. He's a total scumbag and so are his supporters, not everyone would want to jump on that kind of bandwagon.
All you do is spout biased BS with no substance or facts to back it up. You are just as bad as the Media with their agendas.
Look at the Real Clear Politics average in head to head elections, Rubio leads Clinton by 4.7 points, Cruz leads Clinton by 0.8%, Clinton leads Trump by 2.8 points. In fact, Trump is the only Republican other than Carson that is trailing Clinton. Of course, I don't expect a Trump supporter to be swayed by facts....or even have the mental capacity to understand them, so I'm sure that'll be over your head.
Here's some background on Trump's career. As many have said there is nothing in Trump's career that indicates he is a friend of the working class. His career has been one of pursuing wealth, excess and self-aggrandizement. He has a record of leaving creditors hanging even when he's said he would back them up and is proud of how he's benefited from using bankruptcy laws to his own benefit even while it's left others stuck with his losses and cost many jobs. http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2016/02/trumps_career_plenty_for_fans.html The truth about Donald Trump's career: It's complicated NEW YORK (AP) — To his supporters, the business career of Donald Trump is proof he's got the decisiveness and smarts required to lead the country. To critics, his exaggerated claims, burned customers and four bankruptcies suggest a man wholly disqualified for the office. The truth: It's complicated. Criticized by Republican rivals for his crude comments and what they call iffy conservative credentials, Trump now finds his business acumen in the political crosshairs. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has started calling Trump a "con artist" who has been "sticking it to the little guy" as he built his empire, and says he would be "selling watches in Manhattan" if he hadn't gotten help from his millionaire father. Trump's business record gives Super Tuesday voters inclined to praise or condemn his boardroom bona fides a way to support either view. Gutsy, shrewd and armed with an uncanny sense of timing, Trump built a business that spans the globe, much bigger in scope and riches than when he took it over from his father. Yet some of his failures have been as spectacular as his successes, and he's stiffed creditors and has licensed his name in ways that raise questions about his judgment. "Donald has proven himself an innovative and smart businessman," says real estate developer Don Peebles, a registered Democrat who does not plan on voting for Trump if he makes it to the general election. "I respect and admire what he's accomplished." ___ The fortune built by Trump's father, estimated at several hundred million dollars, came from low- and middle-income housing in Brooklyn and Queens. Trump wanted more. So he bet big on much richer Manhattan, a risk for the son of an outer-borough builder. Two early ventures: Turning around the former Commodore Hotel at Grand Central Station, with help from tax subsidies, and buying a train yard out of bankruptcy across town, then getting New York to put a convention center there. He was bold and creative. He put his name on luxury condo buildings, gambling that buyers would share his unabashed love of glitz and excess. It was a branding strategy like that used by giant hotel chains — Conrad Hilton had done it with Hilton Hotels — but it had never really succeeded in luxury residential buildings. His timing was near perfect. He began construction in 1980 on his signature Fifth Avenue building, Trump Tower, just as New York City began a long boom following a brush with bankruptcy. He put up more buildings, bought an airline and rolled the dice in another industry — casinos. In 1984, he opened the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and he opened Trump's Castle the following year. In 1991, he took an especially big risk to build the Trump Taj Mahal. He personally guaranteed loans used to develop the project, putting his own fortune on the line if things went sour. They did. As the U.S. muddled through a recession, Trump was unable to make good on billions of dollars of debt. He put two of his casinos into bankruptcy, sold the airline, threatened to tie up his creditors in court and cajoled and blustered his way into deals that erased much of the guarantees on the Taj Mahal that endangered his personal wealth. The bankruptcies — four in all, stretching over nearly a decade — left many casino lenders and vendors bitter. They got just pennies on each dollar they were owed. Trump makes no apologies. He says he uses the laws of the land, including the bankruptcy law, to his advantage. "People forget that he left bondholders out to dry ... that these were not victimless events," says Michael D'Antonio, author of the Trump biography "Never Enough." He views Trump as a "competent" businessman but no genius. "When he tried to do other kinds of business — airlines and casinos — he stumbled." Trump began building again. In 2001, he completed the 90-story residential Trump World Tower in New York City. Then, three years later, he discovered a flair for reality TV with the launch of "The Apprentice" on NBC. ___ As his celebrity star rose, Trump moved to squeeze more dollars out of his name. These days, you can drink Trump bottled water in your Trump suit with sun glinting off your Trump cufflinks while reading one of his books — perhaps "The Art of the Deal," a best seller. And you can do it sitting in one of the many Trump-labeled hotels or residential towers across the globe. He has struck deals to put his name on properties built and owned by others in Panama, Uruguay, Turkey, India and the Philippines. As he has extended his brand, he's faced criticism that he's gotten careless, or worse. He invested in a health products company that extolled the wonders of taking Trump-branded vitamins based on people's urine samples. The business struggled, and Trump sold it a few years later. Trump Mortgage, which the candidate predicted would soon be the country's largest home loan provider, fizzled out after the man he hired to run it stepped down following revelations that he'd inflated his resume. Rubio has focused in the past several days on Trump University, which charged students $1,495 each for seminars that would teach them the billionaire's secrets to making it big in real estate. A lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general claims the classes fell so short of promises that it amounts to fraud. "This is a guy who says he stands for the working class," Rubio said Saturday. "When in fact his entire business career, he's been sticking it to working-class Americans." It's clearly struck a nerve with Trump, who spent a large part of his time defending the business while campaigning on Saturday. He called the litigation "a small deal, very small" and told supporters he could have settled but is continuing to fight on principle. Trump also railed against the California judge presiding over the civil suit, calling him hostile and noting his Hispanic ethnicity. Trump said of the judge: "I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine. He's Hispanic — which is fine." That drew a reply for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who said "there is no place in this process for racial demagoguery." Trump has also left bitter feelings at residential towers that bear his name but which he didn't build. Condo buyers in failed Trump-branded properties in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Baja, Mexico, have claimed in lawsuits that the presidential candidate misled them to believe he was deeply involved in the projects, not just lending his name. Trump won the Fort Lauderdale case and settled the one in Baja. As the Trump candidacy gains momentum, even early Trump triumphs are getting new scrutiny. The Rubio campaign is highlighting a 1983 lawsuit by union laborers who helped build Trump Tower. Polish laborers living in the U.S. illegally were paid "substandard" wages with no overtime, and paid "irregularly if at all," according to a judge hearing the case. In his campaign, Trump has taken a hard line on employers who pass over Americans for workers living in the U.S. illegally. The candidate has maintained he had no knowledge of his contractor's activities, though the presence of the "Polish Brigade" was overt, with more than 200 men working 12-hour days, some sleeping at the construction site during the demolition of the building the Trump Tower replaced. The judge hearing the case found Trump had engaged in a "conspiracy" to shortchange union workers. Trump appealed, then settled and sealed the case. ___ For Trump, there's perhaps nothing as important as the idea he's a winner — especially in business. "I'm really rich," Trump declared in his speech announcing his candidacy last year. He added, "I've done an amazing job." For a man who measures his success in dollars, Trump has managed to grow them substantially. "Amazing" is more debatable. According to Forbes magazine, Trump's wealth has risen to $4.5 billion from $1 billion in 1988, a 350 percent gain. That's half of what he would have earned if he had invested in a broad U.S. stock index, and that doesn't count dividends. Other moguls have been more amazing. Donald Bren, a California developer who Forbes says is worth $15 billion, has increased his wealth at twice the pace in that time — a nearly 700 percent gain. Trump, by the way, says Forbes is all wrong. "I borrowed a tiny amount of money, $1 million," he said Saturday. "I started a business. It's worth much more than $10 billion right now."
Honestly those polls are irrelevant. I'm guessing if you looked at the polls six months ago they would probably look much different than today.
What's hilarious in this thread is how certain and self-assured Bobbythegreat is about what's going to happen. He postulates as if he has some kind of inside information, when he is really just speculating and pulling these predictions out of his ass. Going to be funny to bump this thread in 7 or 8 months and point out how wrong he was.
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It's not inside information, it's readily available information. Of course I could see how someone stupid enough to be a Trump voter might see readily available information as some kind of insider info or magic or whatever.
so your a poor lower wage caucasian who is racist against immigrants bc we take the jobs your too lazy to do yourself?
John Oliver got it exactly right. Trump has built a brand that is synonymous with his success as a businessman even though his record as a businessman is questionable at best. What he is terrific at is building this brand and he has now branded himself as the Republican outsider who will get things done because he "tells it like it is" and is self-funded. Of course anyone who is watching this closely, and isn't a complete moron, can see that there is a formula to all of this. Take his rallies for example, they all follow a simple formula: get some people up on stage to say how great he is, call out the media as liars, talk some policy with absolutely no details at all, insult your rivals, throw some protestors out, etc. This plays perfectly to the nuts who eat up the alpha male persona all day long. It also helps that it's comical and brings something different to politics and Trump is actually likable at times in some weird way. But the fact of the matter is that only an idiot would think that someone like this should be commander in chief of this country and unfortunately there are even more idiots in this country than we thought and it's starting to get kind of scary.
Bobby's not even close to being the only Republican convinced that Trump will get pasted in a general election.
As if you hadn't already lost all credibility, you lost any remaining pretence when you stated that republican voters would flock to vote Hillary. In a Trump vs. Clinton race, Trump has a far greater chance of gaining crossover votes than Clinton does. How can anyone be so blind and oblivious to how much disdain the average republican holds for Hillary?
Hillary is a bad candidate for president, and is disliked by a large percentage of the country, but she is a legitimate candidate. Trump is disliked by a large percentage of the country and isn't even a legitimate candidate for president. Like I said, you might as well be running Charlie Sheen.
oh no, I thought your export tariffs made a lot more sense XD like, 35% taxes on stuff made in the States shipped out. Why not? +100 to this idea like I said dude, you're like the Zodiac Killer of economics, you take economic terms and place them in the totally wrong context.
Not really but stuff happens. If Trump can attract blue collar white Democrats then I think he can win. Hillary does poorly with white men from what I've read. I don't think Trump is a real Republican though. I think if he became President he would revert back to the liberal positions he's always had. In a weird way, he could promote a lot of things like universal health care that no Democrat could do.
