“We’re not respected anymore”, said Jerry Welshoff, 56, of Franklin, Massachusetts. Trump leads most polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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“We have a tremendously successful campaign and Roger wanted to use the campaign for his own personal publicity”, Trump’s committee said in a statement.
Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders have both surged toward the head of the pack in their parties, challenging party front-runners Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, according to a pair of new NBC News/Marist polls.
Most other candidates drew barely a mention from Republicans voters, including Kasich, who became a favorite of political insiders after the first debate. With Republicans in control of Congress, they appointed Mr. Hall to head the CBO, which means they can’t attack him for his honest as they could a Democratic appointee.
Leigh Ann Crouse, one of the dozens of voters interviewed in the past two weeks by The Associated Press to understand how Trump’s political fortunes have risen, called it “totally refreshing”. It stems less from their love for the candidate and more from a belief those in power have failed.
On Saturday, she chided Trump over his claims that he “cherishes” women, despite engaging in an ongoing feud with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, for which he has been accused of blatant misogyny.
The storyline is now that Trump and the GOP establishment have reached an understanding, after GOP leaders agreed to stop treating him unfairly. Jeb Bush – once viewed as the most likely nominee – sits at 8 percent.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus asked all candidates to take the loyalty oath, but the only signature he really wanted was Trump’s. His ideology, however, changes with the prevailing winds, as did Mitt Romney’s, which is one of the many reasons that no American of either party or of no party should trust him in the White House to do anything that he has proposed or promised over the decades. In June, the dominant word Republicans used to describe Trump was “rich”. “I believe it is our responsibility as a people to take care of those in our society”.
Despite the current poll results, Trump is a long way from winning the Republican nomination.
The former secretary of state also spent part of her weekend firing back at former republican Vice President Dick Cheney over recent criticisms he lodged against the Obama administration over the nuclear arms deal it made with Iran.
Among a subset of registered voters who told SurveyUSA they pay “a lot” of attention to politics, Trump’s leads in the head-to-head matchups with Democrats were even larger.
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Apparently “The Donald” is unaware that heads of state with standing armies tend to have huge egos, too, and that they are unlikely to respond favorably to Trump’s “because I say so” approach to all things government. Indeed, Bush’s hapless attempt at a takedown suggests that his political team still doesn’t get it, and thinks that pointing out The Donald’s heresies will be enough to doom his campaign.
