But, anyway, the bottom line is I look at Donald and said, “You and Marla (Maples) have to go. You’re fired.” He looks at me and goes berserk. I notice the three shtarkers he’s with, in trench coats, two of them are putting on gloves and the other one is putting on brass knuckles. I go on the walkie-talkie and I call for Jim Callahan, who was head of our security, and I go, “Jim, I think I’m in a bit of trouble.” And he says, “Just turn around.”
I turn around. He’s got 40 of the crew with tire irons and hockey sticks and screwdrivers.
“And now, are you gonna go, Donald?”
And off he went.
Hahaha wow, it's like something out of the movies!
Trump was assigned Secret Service protection in November. Probably because they thought these crazies would show up because you know, its cool to try to demonize free speech in an election.
I agree the GOP is getting desperate, but I don't think a few improvident editorials are evidence of a conspiracy to do something like that. History tells us that would only make things worse anyway.
Trump is a flash in the pan; he has likely already lost this election cycle for the GOP, but my guess is he disappears after that and the party comes back much stronger in 2020.
Trump has proven to adaptable and I would think he will change his strategy and messaging for wider appeal if he becomes the nominee. He is likely up against Hillary who is not a particularly strong candidate either, and we are about to see all of the Clinton baggage dragged out on the lawn.
This electoral cycle is like watching a slow motion car accident - horrifying and fascinating at the same time.
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Trump has proven to adaptable and I would think he will change his strategy and messaging for wider appeal if he becomes the nominee. He is likely up against Hillary who is not a particularly strong candidate either, and we are about to see all of the Clinton baggage dragged out on the lawn.
This electoral cycle is like watching a slow motion car accident - horrifying and fascinating at the same time.
I don't think you can switch the overt racism off. It may convince the Trump supporters, but it's not as though minorities just forget all the racism
Trump has proven to adaptable and I would think he will change his strategy and messaging for wider appeal if he becomes the nominee. He is likely up against Hillary who is not a particularly strong candidate either, and we are about to see all of the Clinton baggage dragged out on the lawn.
This electoral cycle is like watching a slow motion car accident - horrifying and fascinating at the same time.
While I think he has the potential to be adaptable, I'm not sure that most of the mainstream is willing to forget things that have previously been said. Let's say he's the nominee and it's October: is Trump getting up and sounding relatively reasonable in his stump speeches going to the main thing we hear, or is it going to be all the ridiculous, inflammatory stuff he's said early in the campaign, constantly brought up again by the Democrats?
I guess what I'm saying is sensational Trump draws media attention away from every other candidate. And March sensational Trump probably draws media attention away from rational October Trump. Trump apparently had a really reasonable, normal-sounding speech yesterday. It also got pretty-much zero coverage.
On a different subject, Rubio's presser this weekend was excellent: honestly the best he's ever sounded: sincere, passionate, articulate yet off-the-cuff and unrehearsed. Too late of course, he's going to get steamrolled today. But his campaign could have used more of this a few weeks ago.
Huge day today (even that is an understatement). Likely that Trump picks up NC and Florida. If Trump gets Florida & Ohio, I imagine Kasich and Rubio will back out (only way to stop Trump at that point).
But if Kasich holds Ohio, then we are likely heading to a contested convention and you might see all 4 stay in the race till then. Trump will amass the most delegates, but below the 1,237 needed. He will argue he should be the nominee, and chaos will ensue after the 1st ballot at the convention when a tonne of delegates become unbound. Trump will lose after multiple ballots, and will claim he had majority of delegates going in and should have been nominee, and will run as a 3rd party candidate, and Hillary will win the general.
Ohio today will be interesting. Trump has generally underperformed his polling in caucuses, and overperformed in open primaries. (Closed primaries generally end up closest to polling, given that is generally the polling sample). Ohio is both open and a primary so honestly could go either way. Momentum is with Kasich though. Cruz pushing hard in both states certainly helped no one but Trump.
That Rubio clip pretty much confirms he simply choked under the pressure of being the prospective nominee. He's mostly terrible for months when he had a chance to win, and now that he's got no shot at all he actually looks like a decent candidate (relatively speaking of course). Rubio easily is the biggest loser of this campaign, everything was in place for him to at least be the nominee and probably the favorite to be President. Instead Kasich outperformed him.
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Trump will annihilate Hillary, I honestly think Bernie's odds against Trump are better. And Bernie's odds are not good.
Huh? What are ratings for that? Trump is detested by more than half the country? He has the highest unfavorable rating of any major political figure ever. People focus on his numbers on a fractured Republican race which contains almost his entire base. Among independents and Democrats he has amidst no support
That Rubio clip pretty much confirms he simply choked under the pressure of being the prospective nominee. He's mostly terrible for months when he had a chance to win, and now that he's got no shot at all he actually looks like a decent candidate (relatively speaking of course). Rubio easily is the biggest loser of this campaign, everything was in place for him to at least be the nominee and probably the favorite to be President. Instead Kasich outperformed him.
Looks to me like Rubio just started his 2020 run to be the Republican nominee. That sounded like the kind of reasonable Republican that used to exist pre-2001.
