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SEIU chief says Trump can win


The head of the Service Employees International Union is worried about what Donald Trump is stirring up in her 2.1 million members, because she thinks he can win.

In an interview with David Axelrod out Thursday, Mary Kay Henry said her organization is going into “hyperdrive” to stand up against Trump because she sees him as a real threat.

Henry compared Trump to former California Gov. Pete Wilson who supported Proposition 226, a measure strongly opposed by unions that would have required them to get approval from individual members to spend their dues on political campaigns.

“This ad that Trump released today is horrific in my mind and reminds me of Pete Wilson in California on Proposition 226,” Henry said, likely referring to Trump's first TV ad talking about building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and a proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.

"But Pete Wilson won,” Axelrod said.

"I know. I know. That’s why I think this is a very dangerous political moment in our country,” Henry said. She added that she thinks Trump appeals to some of her members because of the “terrible anxiety” some people in the working class are experiencing.

“I think he’s touching this vein of the terrible anxiety that working-class people feel about their current status, but more importantly, how terrified they are for their kids not being able to do as well as they have, never mind doing better,” Henry said. “ You know, so that broken sense of the future and that emotion having an easier appeal to fear than to what’s possible is what we found is why — we’re doing one-on-ones with every one of our members right now in this period because 64 percent of our public members identify as conservative and are much more interested in the Republican debate than the Democratic debate at this moment.”


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-seiu-mary-kay-henry-217445

Full Donald Trump and Wolf Blitzer Interview: Part 1

The game theory tells me having harpy clinton as president would be a worse outcome to the future of the USA.

His past is an open book and he appears to shift with the wind, ie. he has no principles.

This means you are voting for an open book with blank pages. Nobody has any idea what he would do as president as the wind shifts one way or another.

I try to do my best, but that bad frog beer is slowing me down...

What, you trying to make like one of those smart people and figgur stuff out?

Let's have sum mo' o' that Diamond n Silk.

And that is why his base is so wide as he was always an open book, that is why the GOPe (google it) does not trust him as a puppet you can control republican. That is why he was attacked by Kelly when she asked "since when you became a republican?". That is why he is yuuuge because he was not a politician, but a citizen who can vote, and change his mind whenever, like anyone else.

Everything about his past is an open book, and no one as powerful as Trump would wish a (future nobel winner) president to fail...

That said, the "Make America Great Again" was trademarked 6 days after romney lost in 2012.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/20/trump-trademarked-make-america-great-again-right-after-romney-lost.html


Trump is more than a regular democrat or republican candidate: he is the radiation that kills cancer, D or R

But in 2008 Trump would have run as a Democrat because he was a registered Democrat until 2009.

He was a big fan of Obama ("I think there's a chance he'll go down as a great president...I think he's going to lead through consensus, it's not just going to be a bullrun like Bush did who just did whatever the hell he wanted") and really hated Bush ("Bush has been so bad, maybe the worst president in the history of this country. So incompetent, so bad, so evil."). Even had some Ron Paul type of rhetoric about how we shouldn't have attacked Iraq because none of the terrorists on 9/11 were from Iraq.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuj7VMB48o

As soon as the 0bozo was in campaign mode you had stuff like this all over against harpy clinton during the democrat primary



The 0bozo was representing a paradigm shift and a lot of people wanted to believe in him. That is why he got the nobel too. I seriously doubt trump back in 2008 would have won against 0bozo, even after winning the republican primary. Not voting for 0bozo was considered racist in 2008 and 2012.

If Donald Trump had run for president in 2008, do you think he would have beaten John McCain?


Or do you think that Obama would have beaten Trump in the Democrat primary?



At least we know who he voted for:

Supporters Seek to Persuade Democrats to 'Ditch and Switch' for Donald Trump







At a campaign event for Donald J. Trump in Mississippi last weekend, Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson — two African-American YouTube stars who go by the names Diamond and Silk — rallied the roaring crowd with a plea. “Ditch and switch! Ditch and switch!” they yelled.

The pitch was directed at Democrats and independents in the audience, urging them to become Republicans and vote for Mr. Trump if they really want to show their support.

It could be an important strategy for Mr. Trump as the pace of primary season picks up, and he looks to turn his raucous campaign events into voters, delegates and ultimately the Republican nomination. To accomplish that, Mr. Trump will be relying on people who do not tend to vote and trying to persuade some Democrats and independents to change parties so that they can vote in states that allow only registered Republicans to participate.

Ms. Hardaway and Ms. Richardson are former Democrats who became supporters of Mr. Trump and jumped to the Republican Party in North Carolina in September. While they are not formally affiliated with the campaign or paid by it, they have been urging other supporters of Mr. Trump to follow suit on social media and at rallies. They have even created a “ditch and switch” website explaining to voters which states are closed primaries and when the deadlines are for changing party affiliations.

“Donald Trump is going to have Democrats switching in droves to vote for him,” Ms. Hardaway said in an interview. “He’s going to be the only candidate to be able to pull independents and Democrats to vote for him in the primaries and the general election.”

Supporters of Mr. Trump have been spreading the word on Twitter that they have been switching parties and have been urging others to do the same.

“I would love to see more Democrats vote Republican in this election,” said Sunny Kreis Collins, a supporter of Mr. Trump from California who was urging people online to switch parties and vote for him. “The country is a mess.”

An analysis by The Upshot last week showed that Mr. Trump is popular with registered Democrats who identify as Republican leaners, drawing 43 percent of their support. What is more, his best states are those with traditions of Democrats who vote Republican in presidential elections.

Perhaps aware of this dynamic, Mr. Trump expressed outrage at Virginia lawmakers last month who introduced a requirement that Republican voters sign statements of affiliation on their primary ballots. Arguing that it was disenfranchising new voters, Mr. Trump called the move a “suicidal” mistake.

Despite the push by his supporters to get Democrats to change parties, the Trump campaign said that it was not making an organized effort to convert voters.

“It’s happening organically,” said Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump.


http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/06/supporters-seek-to-persuade-democrats-to-ditch-and-switch-for-donald-trump/

Vote for Trump. Fuck Clinton. Vote for Trump. Fuck Clinton.

What's the problem?

Canada is just you know, like a big US state or something.  It's not  a foreign county like Mexico or Iran or something.

If any of this mattered, Obama would not have become President, ever.

Donald Trump revives 'birther' views in attack on fellow Republican Ted Cruz

Donald Trump cast doubt on Republican candidate Ted Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency on Tuesday, on the basis that he may not be a natural-born US citizen.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump said the fact that Cruz was born in Canada was a “very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head.”

The Republican frontrunner went on to claim a “lot of people are talking about … the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport.”

Cruz, whose campaign declined to comment, was born in Calgary in 1971. Although his father Rafael was not an American citizen at the time, his Delaware-born mother, Eleanor, was. Article II of the US constitution requires that “no person except a natural born Citizen … shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

However, legal scholars have long interpreted natural born citizen to refer to whether someone acquired their citizenship at birth, not the geographic location where they were born. As a result, Cruz, who was a citizen at birth, is a natural born citizen.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/05/donald-trump-birther-republican-ted-cruz

Trump: It Would Be Interesting To Ask Bill Clinton The Difference Between...






Donald Trump says it would be “very interesting” to ask Bill Clinton how he was different from Bill Cosby.

Asked on the Howie Carr Show on Monday if there is a difference between Clinton and Cosby, Trump said, “Well, the Cosby thing is a weird deal and he’s got himself some big problems, and you almost have to ask Bill Clinton that question. It would be a very interesting question to some day ask him. Certainly he has a lot of strong charges against him and it’s pretty bad stuff. And it only got brought up because she said I have sexist tendencies. And I respect women so much and I’ll protect women and I’ll protect them and I’ll protect the whole country.”

Criminal charges were filed against the comedian last week for the first time over an alleged 2004 sexual assault. Cosby has been accused of sexual assault by more than 40 women over the years.

Carr also compared two past headlines about Trump’s and Clinton’s sex lives.

“I remember a headline in one of the New York tabs, I forget which one, saying about one of your girlfriends, maybe one of your wives, ‘best lover I had,’ that’s the headline I remember about you. The headline I remember about him in the New York tabs is, ‘you better put some ice on it.’”

“Oh wow. That’s amazing,” Trump said.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-it-would-be-interesting-to-ask-bill-clinton-the-differ#.wbnQGaWL7

The End of Donald Trump That Never Came

Donald Trump dominates first national poll of 2016


More than half of Donald Trump’s supporters say they are strongly committed to voting for him, according to the results of the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey online tracking poll released Tuesday, the first national poll of 2016.

Overall, the Manhattan mogul commanded the support of 35 percent of the Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters who were surveyed over the past week, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz came in second place with 18 percent support.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio earned 13 percent, followed by 9 percent for Ben Carson, 6 percent for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, 4 percent for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and 3 percent for Carly Fiorina, according to the full results shared first on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Among those pledging their allegiance to Trump, 51 percent said they would “absolutely” vote for him, while 33 percent indicated a “large chance.” Meanwhile, just 14 percent said the odds were merely 50-50, and only 2 percent said there was little chance they would support him. By comparison, 36 percent of Cruz voters indicated absolute loyalty, with 49 percent saying there is a greater chance, while just 26 percent of Rubio voters said they would “absolutely” vote for their candidate and 49 percent again saying there is a large likelihood that they would.

Along gender lines, Trump took the support of 39 percent of men and 29 percent of women, leading with both groups. Cruz earned support of 21 percent of men and 13 percent of women, while Rubio won the support of 13 percent of men and 14 percent of women.

Trump also leads the way among those describing themselves as white evangelicals (35 percent to Cruz’s 21 percent) and those calling themselves very conservative (35 percent to Cruz’s 30 percent).

Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders 53 percent to 36 percent, with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley earning 2 percent and 8 percent saying they are not sure.

The poll was conducted online Dec. 28-Jan. 3, surveying 3,181 registered voters among a sample of 3,700. The margin of error for 949 registered Republican voters is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, while among 1,060 Democrats the margin of error is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-leads-poll-2016-217349

This crowd shot from Donald Trump’s Massachusetts rally is absolutely mind-boggling







Donald Trump went to Lowell, Mass. — a town about five miles south of the New Hampshire border — for one of his now trademark big-arena rallies on Monday night. This is what the crowd looked like per WaPo's Jenna Johnson.

The building — named after the late Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas (D) — holds 8,000 people, and local officials were estimating that it was filled to capacity or beyond. That is a MASSIVE amount of people — especially considering that the high temperature in Lowell yesterday was 29 degrees and Trump's rally didn't start until the evening.

This is what the line to get in looked like.
https://twitter.com/rsobeyLSun/status/684129192850681857


I know that crowd size is an uncertain indicator in politics. After all, if crowd size at rallies was determinative, Bernie Sanders not Hillary Clinton would be the heavy favorite to be the Democratic presidential nominee.  That skepticism of crowd size goes double for Trump since there are plenty of people who go to see him simply for the spectacle or to be near a celebrity, not because they have any designs on voting for him.

And yet, the willingness of so many people to wait so long in such cold temperatures simply for the chance to see Trump speak would suggest that the idea that his supporters won't be the sort of people to sit through the long caucus process of Iowa or turn out to vote in the frigid cold of New Hampshire might be misguided.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told supporters that the recent diplomatic fallout between Iran and Saudi Arabia is over oil at a Mass. rally on Jan. 4. He said that after the Iran nuclear deal, Iran 'got' Iraq, and was now after Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

Ditto the idea that Trump's bubble would burst or the ardor with which his backers regard him would fade. The Iowa caucuses are in 27 days. New Hampshire votes in 35 days.  The time is now, and people are still showing up in droves to see — and cheer — Trump.

Crowds like the one in Lowell on Monday should make clear to the last few lingering doubters that the Trump phenomenon isn't going away as voters begin the process of picking a Republican presidential nominee. Hell, he might even be getting stronger.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/05/this-crowd-shot-from-a-donald-trump-rally-is-absolutely-eye-popping/