Donald Trump is winning over women in key primary states, polls show
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Source: the guardian
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Donald Trump supporters wait in line outside Ladd-Peebles Stadium hours before the start of a rally in Mobile, Alabama. Photograph: Al.Com /Landov / Barcroft Media
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Donald Trump tells Alabama pep rally 'I want the election to be held tomorrow'
New polls conducted in the key early-primary states New Hampshire and South Carolina show the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump not only with large leads over the rest of the GOP field, but with robust support among groups that had not previously shown strong backing for him, such as evangelical Christians and women.
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A poll of usual Republican voters in New Hampshire by left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) found Trump attracting 35% support, well beyond that of the runner-up, John Kasich, the Ohio governor, who was on 11%. Trumps wide lead held among both evangelicals (32%) and women (30%).
In South Carolina, a Monmouth University poll of likely voters found Trump with a 30%-15% lead over neurosurgeon Ben Carson, his nearest rival in the state. Evangelical Christians in the poll backed Trump over Carson 33%-15%, and women backed Trump 25%-18%.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/25/donald-trump-women-voters-key-primary-states-polls
I think it is time to be sick!!
kimmylavin
(2,284 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)wish they had it and his money too. He will step in it soon enough. He has few if anyone helping 'craft' his spiel.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Donald Trumps Connections to Organized Crime
Trump was building his eponymous empire of hotels, casinos, and high rises in the early 1980s in New York City and Atlantic City. In both places, the construction industry was firmly under the thumb of the mafia. And in both places there are literally concrete connections between La Cosa Nostra and Trumps lavish projects. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades, has written a very useful list of questions for Trump. Many focus on his ties to the mob. In addition in his 1992 book, Trump, The Deals and the Downfall, author Wayne Barrett lays out a slew of suspicious dealings and associations.
The Atlantic City story starts with Trumps purchase of a bar, at twice its market value, from Salvatore Testa, a made man in the Philadelphia mafia and son of Philip Chicken Man Testa, who was briefly head of the Philly mob after Angelo Brunos 1980 killing. Harrahs casino, half owned by Trump, would be built on that land, and Trump would quickly buy out his partner, Harrahs Entertainment, and rename the casino Trump Plaza.
Author Wayne Barrett lays out a slew of suspicious dealings and associations.
Trump Plazas connection to the mob didnt end with the land purchase from Testa. Nicademo Little Nicky Scarfo (who became boss after the elder Testa was blown up) and his nephew Phillip crazy Phil Leonetti controlled two of the major construction and concrete companies in Atlantic City. Both companies, Scarf, Inc. and Nat Nat, did work on the construction of Harrahs, according the State of New Jersey Commission of Investigations 1986 report on organized crime. In addition, Scarfo, whose reign as head of the Philly mob was one of the bloodiest in history, controlled the bartenders union, which represented Trumps workers in Atlantic City, according to George Anastasias book, Blood and Honor.
One more link to organized crime lurks in Trumps past Atlantic City dealings. He had a close association with Kenny Shapiro, an investment banker for Scarfo. According to secret recordings of then Scarfo attorney Robert F. Simone, Shapiro was intimately involved with bribing Atlantic City Mayor Michael J. Matthews, whose term would end in 1984 with a conviction on extortion charges. On the tapes, in 1983, Simone, talking about Leonetti, states: Hes a nice-looking boy
Nickys nephew, he can sit with the
mayor. Ah, and Kennys (Shapiro) got the mayor through this kid Phillip.
The Connections Dont End in Atlantic City
Trumps association and business dealings with known mafia figures was not limited to his Atlantic City projects. In New York City, several of his buildings were built by S&A Concrete Co., a concern partly owned by Anthony Fat Tony Salerno, the boss of the Genovese crime family. In addition to this business relationship, Trump and Salerno were both represented by high-power attorney Roy Cohn. In his book, Barrett cites an anonymous source who confirms that on at least one occasion Trump and Salerno had a sit-down in Cohns apartment. Trump has denied this claim in the past.
How can the candidate who promises to secure the border and bring good jobs back to America explain having farmed out good-paying jobs to a bunch of illegal immigrants?
Is it reasonable to assume that Trump had no idea that S&A was run by Salernos Genovese borgata when Trumps own attorney was so closely linked to that organization? After all, if Trump (who likes to point out that he has one of the highest IQs) is as smart as he would have everyone believe, how could he have been so naive?
Another issue that needs to be addressed in Trumps New York operations is the use of undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building, which made way for the Trump Tower. Only a handful of union workers from Housewreckers Local 95 were employed on the site, the vast majority were illegal Polish alien workers, toiling under inhumane conditions, and wildly underpaid. Trump and his associates were found guilty in 1991 of conspiring to avoid paying pension and welfare fund contributions.
Two questions arise from this. First, how did Trump get away with using such obvious scab labor without raising the ire of local 95? More importantly, how can the candidate who promises to secure the border and bring good jobs back to America explain having farmed out good-paying jobs, legally entitled to American workers, instead to a bunch of illegal immigrants? When the rubber hit the road Donald Trump didnt walk the walk, he lined his pockets and sold out American workers.
Is it possible that Trump was simply involved in an industry which in the early 1980s was so infiltrated by the mafia that he couldnt help but have tangential ties? Could this myriad of associations, points of contact, and shared affiliations with known mobsters just be the price of doing business in that business at that time? Sure. And if Trump were just a private citizen, businessman, and reality TV star, he would be under no obligation to explain any of this. But he isnt. He is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.
Cosmocat
(14,572 posts)He is so balls out he might be gaffe proof ...
He is a SERIOUS threat to win the nomination, and from there anything can happen ...
jalan48
(13,883 posts)dhill926
(16,355 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)I guess my poll sample is too small -- over the past couple of weeks, I've asked a few people what they think of Trump and not one of them -- woman or man -- cares for him. In fact, my question is usually answered with a "WTF??? THAT CLOWN??"
And I live in a heavy Tea Party area.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Novara
(5,851 posts)That's the only reason. Wait until he catches up.
Or maybe he ends up driving a bigger wedge in the party because he does support Planned Parenthood and abortion in some circumstances. You've got to admit that's way out of the mainstream GOP playbook.
Remember that white married women went for Romney more than Obama in 2012. And I don't get it.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Also known as make me submissive, control my body and let men do everything for me type of women. They are completely self-loathing. It's not going to make any difference in the general election, as Trump will still suffer badly with Latinos and women in general.
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)these women would ever have voted for Hillary anyway.
But I really do wonder what on earth they are thinking - of if they can think.
americannightmare
(322 posts)isn't exclusive to Trump.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Women overall still hate the guy