First things first, though.
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The unconventional candidacy of Donald Trump is a “creature” of President Barack Obama’s divisive administration, Jeb Bush contends.
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Trump’s more outlandish proposals – making Mexico pay for a border wall, making common cause with Russian Federation in Syria – can be seen as a variation on Obama’s insistence that climate change is the nation’s No. 1 problem and his acquiescence in, well, making common cause with Russian Federation in Syria. The ratings for the GOP debates have been spectacular due to one person, Donald Trump. That is where the analysis gets a lot more interesting. “You’ll always be invited”, Trump said. That’s between Pope Francis and Donald Trump. In fact, Salvanto noted, 74 percent of Republican voters also like the idea that Trump “says the things he says”.
On December 15 alone, Trump tweeted about surveys seven times. Trump sent roughly 330 poll-related messages into the Twittersphere throughout the five-month span, typically touting his first-place position in early-state and national polls, ripping any “dishonest” media organizations that report a survey that suggests otherwise or bashing “failing” candidates for their poll positions. In an editorial, the Union-Leader compared Trump to “Biff,” the character from Back to the Future.
“My own forecast at this point is, he is probably going to lose Iowa and has a decent shot of losing in New Hampshire, and thats basically where his campaign falls apart”, he said. Ever since their banter started in early August – when Trump infamously made the “blood coming out of wherever” remark – the Republican front-runner never lost an opportunity to berate Kelly, on Twitterverse or elsewhere.
“I’ll be spending a minimum of $2 million a week and perhaps substantially more than that”, he said.
“But for Barack Obama, Donald Trump’s effect would not be almost as strong as it is”, Bush said in an interview on NPR. What we found is a tug of war between the Manhattan mogul’s famous ego and his equally infamous id: bragging about his poll numbers, crowd sizes, and TV ratings in one moment, then viciously attacking his rivals and critics the next.
But this year, Clinton is running more on, or to the left of, the platform of Obama (who has 44 percent job approval) than on that of Bill Clinton (who left office with 65 percent job approval). If it’s a Clinton-Cruz race, I predict a historically low voter turnout, which would end up favoring the Democrats, who have a superior ground game in turning out their voters.
The Trump hairstyle is nearly as controversial as the man himself.
While he admits to underestimating Trump in 2015, Enten held firm that he does not see him winning the Republican nomination.
That is not all, however.
Despite Trump’s typically ironclad confidence, he told reporters invited aboard his private jet Tuesday he didn’t want to take anything for granted.
There were important stories outside the presidential campaign, of course, and I managed to get some of those wrong, too.
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After the November terrorist attacks in Paris, I wrote that the biggest danger was overreaction as Trump and others called for restrictions against Muslims entering the United States.
