2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEric Trump argues he’s not ‘in a bubble’: ‘You can’t drive 500 yards without seeing a Trump sign’
Everything is a conspiracy against the Trump campaign, according to GOP nominee Donald Trumps son, Eric. But, hes not worried about losing the election because he sees a yard sign every 500 yards as hes driving through states on the campaign trail.
In Sundays episode of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the host cited Trumps recent polling numbers in key battleground states to show how the candidate is losing. Eric doesnt believe them, though.
I dont give much credence to the Washington Post polls, Trump said of the recent numbers that show Democratic rival Hillary Clinton leading. He cited Florida polls that showed the campaign leading by six percentage points during the primary elections and noted how Trump ultimately won Florida primary by nearly 20 points.
When asked if he felt like he was fighting from behind, Trump could only say maybe but it didnt much matter to him. When Im on the ground, the amount of love out there is incredible, he said. The amount of Democrats I have coming up to me every day saying, Ive been a Democrat my entire life. My entire family is made up of Democrats. Were coming out voting for you.'
Trump also said that many of the polls show them only winning four percent of Democrats and he just doesnt buy it. I mean, were getting the union votes. Were getting the law enforcement votes. I mean, so many of those votes had traditionally gone to the Democratic Party and I can tell you, were getting 90 percent of this vote.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/eric-trump-argues-hes-not-in-a-bubble-you-cant-drive-500-yards-without-seeing-a-trump-sign/
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)narnian60
(3,510 posts)So hilarious.
drm604
(16,230 posts)but I can easily drive a lot more than 500 yards without seeing one.
The weird thing this election, is that I'm not seeing many signs at all, for any candidate.
I did see a guy standing by the highway holding a handwritten sign saying that the "Clinton crime family" should be in prison, but I see people like that in that spot every presidential election. It must be some local Tea Party group.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Those I do see are mostly for down ticket races. I don't think people want to get into it with each other. It's not a normal race where you can have a rational argument about the presidential candidates. For us Democrats, putting a Hillary sign in your yard or a sticker on your car is just begging for some RWNJ to do some damage or get confrontational. It's like waving a red cape at an angry bull.
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)I could (if I were crazy enough to try) drive from here across Siberia to the Russian Pacific coast. I promise you I would not see one Trump sign!
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)once you hit Russia you would start seeing trump signs. The closer to the Kremlin, the more signs.
DFW
(54,436 posts)With cash short there, and the lack of polling places for our election in the Siberian countryside, I doubt they'll be spending their money on signs. Those hackers don't for free, ya know.
procon
(15,805 posts)He's a wealthy child of privilege who thinks the world revolves around Trump's fact free, vulgar reality show.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)I'm sure they're plastered all over his house inside and out. That's the bubble.
DFW
(54,436 posts)Total ego- and meglo-maniac. The perfect nouveau-riche Republican. Spent $25 million he had borrowed on a house he didn't need. Hell I don't the English Royal Family could have needed this:
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This is not a model, by the way. It is an areal photo of the real thing!
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)When your father implicitly calls for the assassination or jailing of his opponent, his followers explicitly call for it, and he repeatedly threatens others with deportation and litigation, it doesn't necessarily feel very safe to put up a yard sign.
While moderately fanatic followers of your father might not muster up the "courage" to try to assassinate the candidate, it takes exponentially less "courage" to assassinate the yard sign, or the family dog or cat, or even just to relentlessly bully the owner.
Fewer of us than we would like to think would have followed the example of the Danes WW II, who figuratively - if not literally - donned the Star of David by sheltering and arranging for safe passage for Danish Jews to Sweden.
Far more follow the path suggested by Martin Niemöller:
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
Especially when it appears your father is intent on self-immolation.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)that just creeps me out. Not many people affect me that way.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Bucky
(54,065 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)The thing about the GOP voters is that they are rubes. And rubes always fall for the con.
kstewart33
(6,551 posts)Not one Trump sign in my neighborhood which is about one square mile in size.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)No bumper stickers either. Nothing for anybody. You would never know this is an election year at all. There are more Trump signs here on LI where my daughter lives. NO Hillary signs at all. Maybe we Hillary supporters are the true Silent Majority? Big Mouth Trump Supporters like him.
Take it to the bank that the Trumpster is going to be crushed in his home state of NY.
Ardoewaan
(144 posts)come 9 november.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)I can't imagine why, can you?
mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)and not a single Trump yard sign.
vdogg
(1,384 posts)Correlation?
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,765 posts)Many Trump signs in my part of Houston. There was a guy who had a Latinos for Trump sign but he took it down after the second debate.
demotux
(76 posts)... but the bubble inside of him sitting where normal people have a brain.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Of course, I've never seen a Hillary one either, but I'm not the one claiming to see one.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)Northwest side....
I have only seen one. I'm in a purple area that runs next a blue area and reddish suburban area.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)And 2 Clinton. Pierce county. WA.
tinrobot
(10,916 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)So you think they would be everywhere. But barely any to be seen. I can make trips to the store a few freeway exits down and not see one. In my neighborhood you normally see a lot of repub yard signs out. But this year just a few local political signs out. Even repub bumper stickers seem rare.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)would be me. They are few and far between. And the GOP'ers we know are pretty silent about the election.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Who has time to listen to all these morons!