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Title: This News Could Mean Trump Has the Nomination Locked Up
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URL Source: http://americanactionnews.com/artic ... p-has-the-nomination-locked-up
Published: Oct 28, 2015
Author: AAN
Post Date: 2015-10-28 17:00:51 by christine
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Views: 240
Comments: 10
It began as whispers in hushed corners: Could it ever happen? And now, just three months from the Iowa caucuses, members of the Republican establishment are starting to give voice to an increasingly common belief that Donald Trump, once dismissed as joke, a carnival barker, and a circus freak, might very well win the nomination. “Trump is a serious player for the nomination at this time,” says Ed Rollins, who served as the national campaign director for Reagan’s 1984 reelection and as campaign chairman for Mike Huckabee in 2008. Rollins is not alone in his views. “Trump has sustained a lead for longer than there are days left” before voting begins in Iowa, says Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “For a long time,” Schmidt says, “you were talking to people in Washington, and there was a belief that there was an expiration date to this, as if there’s some secret group of people who have the ability to control the process.” But for Trump, a dip in the polls after the second debate that many predicted was the beginning of the end has arrested; and for nearly four months, he has remained at the top of the polls. Now, long-time GOP strategists who were expecting Trump’s act to wear thin a couple of months ago worry that he can’t be stopped, or at least that he has a significant chance of winning the nomination. For months, the establishment has been engaged in an all out war on Donald Trump, first treating his candidacy as a joke and then moving actively to discredit it. Meanwhile, favored sons have fallen by the wayside. Scott Walker and Rick Perry, both very accomplished governors, bowed out early, and the conventional favorites, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, trail Trump by double digits. As time marches on, it seems like reality is setting in, and Trump may have the nomination locked up. For years, the grassroots suggested that if the GOP didn't give them a proper candidate, they would find their own. It appears that time has come. - See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/this-news-could-mean-trump-has-the-nomination-locked-up#sthash.9Llrl4xW.dpuf
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#1. To: All, Simpsons Predicts Donald Trump POTUS in 2000 (#0)
Amen. EVERY venue that Trump goes to has over-flow crowds. WE are PISSED and Trump seems to have some real solutions for US.
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#5. To: christine, Lod, 4 (#1)
Trump is drawing enormous crowds of mainly pissed off White folks who are sick of illegal immigration & lousy trade deals. This is bigger than Perot in '92 and frankly nothing I've seen on the political right in my lifetime. Trump, perhaps inadvertently, and on the issues of illegals & trade alone, is in front of a growing movement that eclipses politics. I'm thoroughly enjoying his performance.
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