A Trumped GOP Field
Rick Klein: “A new Fox News poll – the first major post-debate poll – shows Trump comfortably out front in the GOP race for president, securing a quarter of votes in the primary. The next two candidates nearly match him if you combine their numbers: Ben Carson with 12 percent, and Ted Cruz with 10. You want to know why Trump’s message is resonating? That’s nearly half the primary electorate split between those three men, backing two candidates who’ve never run for office, and a third who’s defined his time in the Senate by attempts to buck the institution and its leaders.”“Jeb Bush is in danger of becoming a second-tier candidate, if he stays in the single digits for long before his super PAC starts unloading. Scott Walker and Mike Huckabee are right behind them, following by Carly Fiorina (another political outsider), a surging John Kasich, and Marco Rubio. Chris Christie and Rand Paul may have to continue their debate fight off stage in the hopes of becoming the last candidate to make the Top 10 at next month’s debate. August is far from February – but a campaign is finding a rhythm that Trump is banging out just about by himself at the moment.”
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http://politicalwire.com/2015/08/17/a-trumped-gop-field/
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but he couldn't get the votes in the primary. Back then, he seemed to be doing the same thing he's doing now, walking a line between conservatives and liberals. It was apparent that he was just using the Reform Party, the way he appears to be using the Republican, criticizing the other Reform Party candidates like Pat Buchanan who he called too conservative and scientist John Hagelin (author of "string theory"
, who he called too liberal.
From the wikipedia page on the Reform Party:
"...Trump told reporters: "It's not so much the Reform Party, it's really the fact that I'd want to make that if I ran and spent a lot of money I could actually win, I could beat that Democrat-Republican apparatus."[10]
On October 19, 1999 Donald Trump announced he would file to appear on the California primary ballot.[11] During the California primary, he received 15,311 votes.[12] Trump ultimately withdrew his candidacy. During an appearance on The Today Show, he stated: "The Reform Party is a total mess! You have Buchanan, a right winger, and you have Fulani, a Communist, and they have merged.... I don't know what you have!"[13] ..."
The media was all over Trump in 2000, but the electorate wasn't. I wonder what's happened this time and what adjustments Trump might have made.
