The sudden srop in Trump’s support has been linked to his critical comments in the aftermath of the November 13 Paris attacks.
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Trump recently mocked handicapped New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. I do not think the media or the party establishment have a real grasp on how deep the anger and frustration is around the country.
And it’s about a third of the number of Hispanics in the United States.
“Because Ted Cruz is surging in the polls, the Washington cartel is now so desperate they would openly abandon the Fourth Amendment that protects citizens from unconstitutional searches”, Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler said in a statement to the Texas Tribune on Monday. If you look at the way the field lined up in the early primaries, he had a divided field of more conservative candidates who split the vote against him.
He also suggested a registered database for U.S. Muslims, which drew comparisons to Nazi Germany’s mandatory registration of Jews. In the past, news coverage seems to have helped, rather than hurt, Trump. A 2014 Quinnipiac poll put Gov. John Hickenlooper down 10 points to his Republican rival weeks before voting began even though others showed him with a narrow 2 percentage point edge. Those who see the nation going down the tubes flock to Trump’s rallies and send him their small donations – as if he needed the money. He said that on 911 he saw “thousands and thousands of people” cheering in Jersey City as the twin towers fell. At some point, Abramowitz argued, pundits need to admit that Trump has a good chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination. He said never met the reporter claiming that he has “one of the best memories of all time”.
Yes, I do it too, and no, for obvious reasons I’m not going to tell you what my sore spots are. And you know what? “If it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway”.
“Trump is a fascist”.
That is the chief question dominating politics two months before the Iowa caucuses, and two numbers provide much of the answer. The presidential aspirant suggested that he would keep mosques under surveillance to root out domestic terrorist plots.
Ben Carson, running second in the polls, compared Syrian refugees to “a rabid dog running around your neighborhood”.
“You know, when I did this, I said I have to be treated fairly”, he said. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. If that’s the analogy for Trump, then I don’t see how the support goes to Rubio.
While it may be hard for the rest of America to fathom Trump’s success, he has given voice to bullies who want to stop feeling guilty about being bullies. “I ain’t gonna do it”. Could all but Trump’s most hardcore supporters now think that, even if they secretly agree with him, he’s not electable? A Washington Post handicapper still predicts Sen.
The Times, typically, dismissed the significance of the Trump campaign, writing, “This phenomenon is in fact nothing new. And every generation or so, at least one demagogue surfaces to fan those flames”.
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Republican experts are warning that Trump could do lasting damage to the GOP, and that his nomination in the party primaries would essentially hand the presidency to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
