Donald Trump Widens Lead Over GOP Rivals (32-16-8 over Jeb/Carson)
Source: Reuters/Newsweek 8/21/15 AT 8:50 PM
Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party's U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.
Republican voters show no signs they are growing weary of the brash real estate mogul, who has dominated political headlines and the 17-strong Republican presidential field with his tough talk about immigration and insults directed at his political rivals. The candidates are vying to be nominated to represent their party in the November 2016 general election.
Nearly 32 percent of Republicans surveyed said they backed Trump, up from 24 percent a week earlier, the opinion poll found. Trump had nearly double the support of his closest competitor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who got 16 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was third at 8 percent.
Trump has driven the debate on the campaign trail with a hard-line immigration plan that calls for the deportation of undocumented immigrants, amendment of the Constitution to end automatic citizenship for all people born in the United States, and construction of a wall along the border with Mexico.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-polls-republicans-winnning-365199
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Xipe Totec
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(43,890 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)Oh wait, it's not.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,881 posts)with a plastic picnic fork, or being thrown naked into a Turkish prison.
Or maybe not.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,726 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,881 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,726 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,881 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)They actually believe a billionaire gives a rat's ass about them.
candelista
(1,986 posts)How about someone who is only worth $100 million, like Hillary? Do you actually believe she gives a rat's ass about you?
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)On edit: This deserves more than my flippant answer above. I believe that most of these candidates do give a rat's ass about me right now, while courting my vote.
After they are in office? Nah, not so much.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)Doesn't seem likely to me...
... unless he had staff clicking on JEB for half a day...
candelista
(1,986 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 22, 2015, 02:04 AM - Edit history (1)
Donald Here:
You may have noticed I have taken on a new sport and as it appears ,or I do, I can honestly say I am a very good poll vaulter!
I don't think anybody believes Bush got 16 %
Great entertainment ahead folks ,really really great entertainment. I am sure those favorites wonder if they can be saved by the king pins.
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trillion
(1,859 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)I wish the eagle had made a real fuss. (Eagle fusses are pretty scary
wing flapping, beak poking, big yellow claws grasping.)
Oh well, maybe next time.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Donald Here : )
Fabulous ,just fabulous,everybody should wear one ! I will have my marketing strategist carefully look over the design features ,everybody should have one for every day of week ! 7&7 4 24/7.
Seems like a good combination of numbers for a new line in jumbo jets !
Stay tuned folks we are on a high speed roll!
I just had a brain storm, what the t shirt needs is a powerful message coming through the eye of the eagle,
PUT JEB ON THE BOTTOM TO TOP IT ALL OFF !
!
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)lol
https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/ntkthpv54c3RweyWfsSDwg--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NTMxO3E9OTU7dz04MDA-/
The Donald here : )
But you have a point ,or I do !
I can see it,don't let them crap all over us.
I think the concept has much more of a commercial quality, yes I can see it ,great numbers of chickens on the largest chicken ranch in the world in Texas run like sh-t shop ,run down, dirty ,chicken sh-t all over the place,
And the narrator says, don't let them run this country totally afoul ! From Reagan to Bush to Bush to Bush ,do you really think the country can afford to gift them with the walk ?
And the eagle perched up in a dead shabby looking lop sided tree with a tear drop falling down from it's right eye .
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)Today it means racism, sexism, sociopathic about not helping others, anti-education, pro-torture, and generally backward hatefilled ignorance. I'm not surprised they are going for trump. They will go for the worst candidate they can get. If someone shows up more racist than trump, more crude, more grossly ignorant, and says they will start not only building walls, but physically hurting the other races, they'll win the Republican primary.
candelista
(1,986 posts)They haven't done anything good since the Civil War.
tanyev
(42,634 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,695 posts).."it's time for Mitt Romney to enter the race"
Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Hello Folks
The Donald here:
Romney ? That seems like the name of some kind of disinfectant product ,you know ,Romney clean ,Mr. Clean,Martin Shean clean ,SOS, brillo pads all that ! Scourer power !
Chipper Chat
(9,695 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)nascar car fan base)
the first band on the stage to get the folks rockin' (then they are gone)- or
the clown (and his friends) before the big act (then they are gone) - or
the smoke screen to give Jebbie time to hone HIS act(yes, Jebbie will be the nutties nomination (IMHO))
This exercise certainly has exposed the bu''ll''sh''it'' wing of the republiklan party, and I ask - is there any sanity left on the right, or now just far right...based on everything I'm hearing..it seems ....
I find Trump disgusting, the Matt Taibbi article, Trump stopped being funny was spot on....be well all..
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)as though it was fine pate de fois gras like they did with George Bush's canned feces, I won't see Trump as the leader of this party. All George Bush had to do was issue a series of primitive grunts and do a primitive dance on stage and Republicans swooned by the hundreds of thousands. Trump isn't there yet.