But in today’s polarized political America, Trump is viewed extremely negatively by Democrats.
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But that remains a minority viewpoint.
Also after the Paris attacks, Florida Atlantic University released a poll showing Trump up by 17 points in Florida. “I felt the need to call him out – particularly because Trump himself has never served”.
Donald Trump holds a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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According to PA GOP Chairman Rob Gleason, “Donald Trump is a successful and dynamic businessman and we are excited to hear about his vision for the future of our country”, Gleason said.
Vin Weber, a prominent GOP strategist, told me that many Republicans remain in “denial mode” about the possibility of Trump’s nomination. You know something about Hispanic voters?
Nyhan agreed, saying that fact-checking “can often be ineffective or counterproductive when it comes to the most controversial political issues”. That’s Populism 101. I’m surprised the media hasn’t tried to pin down other ostentatious hawks in the field like Bush and Rubio (or “conservatarian” Ted Cruz) to see where they stand. It’s a dynamite gotcha.
But before you start your float for a Trump inaugural parade, or prepare to flee for Canada, we’d like to put this level of support in perspective. And if disrespect for institutions is common, Trump is its flawless vehicle – combining the snark of Twitter with the staged anger and grudges of reality television. “I do believe that we are in a different era”.
“Donald Trump is going after minority groups that they’ve been working hard for years to try to bring into their large Republican tent”, McLennan said.
Rath said Trumps newly hawkish tone is the greater risk than his previous positions.
“Sometimes voters don’t separate the person at the top of the ticket from other Republicans down-ballot”.
The media refs are really savaging him after a couple of misstatements and missteps, even as they struggle to understand why he pays no penalty when they blow the whistle. For Republican leaders and rival candidates, these are the wages of cowardice. I don’t see one state he could carry that Mitt Romney didn’t carry. No longer is The Donald being blown off as a candidate who could not possibly win, but one who very well may be leading this country next year.
But he continues to enjoy a healthy lead both in New Hampshire and in national polling.
But the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination talks about the forced registration of Muslims. Giuliani was a popular, extremely hawkish, slightly heterodox Republican mayor who ended up getting beaten by a popular, extremely hawkish, slightly heterodox Republican senator.
It does not take much political talent to turn this sense of cultural displacement into anti-immigrant resentment. If politicians like Trump and his cohorts are allowed to dominate our modern discourse, the outcome will only fuel more racism and injustice and doom us to repeat the past.
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That’s fair, and McCain was pretty lucky. That certainly would make him one of the final three or four [GOP candidates]. Yet the more he is criticized, the more he seems like Godzilla to grow bigger and stronger. Trump supporters amount to “something like 6 to 8 percent of the electorate overall, or about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked”. At a recent rally in Birmingham, Ala., Trump’s supporters viciously beat an African-American man named Mercutio Southall while screaming racist epithets at him. This goes all the way back to his attacks on John McCain’s war record and his sexist attacks on Megyn Kelly.
