Trump’s new book to be released October . 27

“You know what? As it relates to my brother, there’s one thing I know for sure: he kept us safe”, Bush said to cheers from the audience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Wednesday night.

But if Trump can begin staking out the roots of such a strategy we could be looking at the most ingenious example of political triangulation in American history. Trump declined last week to correct a town hall participant who inaccurately stated that President Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Trump is the author or co-author of a number of other titles, including, most recently, Time to Get Tough: Making America No. 1 Again, in 2011, the aforementioned Trump: The Art of the Deal, and the canonical Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received. Absolutely, no problem with that. OK?

‘I love the Muslims. “They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people“.

Marijuana policy is a discussion for a different time, but until alcohol, prescription drugs and cigarettes are addressed in the same way pot is being discussed, these candidates can not be taken as serious experts on the matter. So if you really have your heart set on the idea, anonymous Republican voter out there, you can hope that Kasich will be brought around to it at some later “point”, perhaps by inauguration day. “Proverbs, the chapter “never bend to envy” – I’ve had that thing all of my life where people are bending to envy”, Trump said.

To recap: the Republican frontrunner for president is ex-reality show host, beauty pageant impresario, mail order university huckster, unrepentant Birther and Anti-Vaxxer Donald J. Trump – and by a margin of two to one, conservatives think he’s eminently qualified to be president of the United States.

Obama is a Christian who as president has attended church occasionally. For a few glorious moments afterwards, nothing Trump said could be heard over the applause.

“Am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him?” A no-win situation’. But combined with his birther efforts and comment about immigrants, Trump’s appeal to nativist sentiments are a growing concern for a Republican Party intent on appealing to a changing electorate.

Trump was among eight Republican candidates who spoke Saturday evening in Iowa at the Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner, a gathering of social conservatives.

He stated that his “first priority” of his administration would be ‘to preserve and protect religious liberty’. He made no mention of asking for forgiveness during his 20-minute appearance there, but he cozied up to the crowd in other ways. Financial woes will combine with an establishment push for consolidation to pressure several candidates to drop out of the race, and not just those whose only seats have been at the kids’ table.

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We all must strive to better – the public, the media and those candidates who believe they can skate by tossing barbs and shouting insults rather than putting forth sound policy proposals and striving to serve all the people, not just the bare minimum needed for election. Look at this chart documenting the ups and down of the Republican field dating back to late July.