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Paul Krugman says Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “right on”

By implicitly supporting the superiority of men, as a Republican candidate, Trump gives the party a bad name standing by the negative rhetoric he uses to describe women. “I mean we have a professional political class, 80 percent of the American people now think we have a professional political class that is either unwilling or unable to challenge the status quo of Washington and get anything done”.

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Thanks her breakout debate performance, and subsequent rise in the polls, Fiorina has now earned a chance to tangle with Trump and the other top-tier candidates on the main stage.

And there is no certainty of success, the Times said, adding that a campaign against Trump rather could make his comments about lobbyists and corporations scheming to finance his opponents more credible. Krugman asked, making it clear that he is still not a Trump supporter. “From a broad perspective, these data show no signs yet of an overall backlash among rank-and-file Republicans to his campaign, style or issue positions”.

The pledge is not legally binding; however, Trump told reporters on Thursday that he can see “no circumstances under which I would tear up that pledge“. Just like the first time around, Trump is bound to be the center of attention and will likely decide whether his bubble bursts or truly begins to take shape as a legitimate force.

The economist’s intervention comes after Jeb Bush attacked Trump not on his “absurd and vicious” immigration policies, but “precisely the issues on which Mr. Trump happens to be right“, according to Krugman.

Trump says conservative darling Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat, too, and Trump says he shouldn’t be held accountable for past views.

You will not be surprised to learn that Trump shrugs off the question. Bernie Sanders of Vermont 44 to 40 percent. Martin O’Malley, another Democratic contender, raised income taxes on the rich as governor of Maryland.

The storyline is now that Trump and the GOP establishment have reached an understanding, after GOP leaders agreed to stop treating him unfairly.

The businessman also predicted he would win the Republican nomination in any event, saying “I am leading in all local and national polls – my whole life has been about winning“. As Wonkblog has previously reported, they are largely white, blue-collar workers.

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For a decade Melania Trump, 45, has lived in relative seclusion in her Manhattan eyrie, remaining quietly in the shadow of her larger-than-life billionaire husband, Donald. “Literally, taking their jobs“. Trump fired these hateful statements specifically at Rosie O’Donnell during the debate, to which O’Donnell responded, “Women fought for equality in this country, and right now, politically, it’s being taken away from us”.

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