May 5, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Well, how on earth did he get there ? Someone must love him. Quite a lot of ‘someones’. If success breeds success then Trump must be a winner !
By: MrBlueSky - 6th May 2016 at 12:15
We’ve heard all this before when Reagan was up for President and look how that panned out.
People are fed up to the eye teeth with the Political elite on both sides of the pond and can you blame them…
By: John Green - 6th May 2016 at 10:02
Trump is America’s response to the tacit imposition of political correctness and its influence on freedom of expression.
By: J Boyle - 6th May 2016 at 05:17
It’s interesting.
The Republican establishment doesn’t want him, still people vote for him…IMHO, a clear sign of how mad people are at politicians (and the status quo) of both parties.
And remember, Hillary isn’t doing much better, as Sanders has won most of the recent primaries…so democrat voters are also sending a signal to their party that they’re not automatically buying their “presumptive nominee”.
It will be interesting to hear what he has to say. I presume he said those stupid things as a away to attract attention in the primaries…after all he had to make himself noticed in a field of 17 contenders seeing the Republican nomination.
Hopefully, people will hear him out. Democracy works best when there is more th s n one choice. I’m sure the liberals would prefer a coronation followed by one party rule, aided by silencing people they don’t like in the guise of PC or sensitivity or whatever.
By: Flying-A - 6th May 2016 at 03:31
Some of Trump’s views are held by many more than his supporters. Consider this:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-57-percent-say-america-first/article/2590448
(I’m neither endorsing nor denouncing, just reporting.)
By: snafu - 5th May 2016 at 20:32
Well, how on earth did he get there ?
He bought his way there, and therein lies the problem. He now wants the party to pay for his election campaign and yet he has alienated so many party members that he has suddenly got a problem – they are either reluctant or refusing point blank to pay for him.
Someone must love him.
Someone must love him, true – maybe his wife, possibly a mistress or two. Some of the American population think he is the best thing since the last best thing, but the important people in his party don’t like him.
Quite a lot of ‘someones’.
A bit like the winner of some reality show with the winner voted for by the public, yet a few years down the line no one can remember his name and what his ‘thing’ was. The main thing here is, as I mentioned above, he is not popular with the important people.
If success breeds success then Trump must be a winner !
And the ‘winner’ is helping to destroy his party! After Obama won last time the Republicans admitted they needed to reach out to the ethnic voters who hold a huge section of the majority who snubbed them; Trump is not appealing to them with his aggressive platform of nativism, xenophobia, crudeness, and misogyny. He is not appealing to the old republicans who favour economic and social conservatism, and he has turned off those who wonder how he will get any of his plans through when most of them are unthought through bluster.
By: Meddle - 5th May 2016 at 20:07
If America votes in favour of Clinton then 1) a lot of causes she becomes synonymous with will be stone-dead in a few years and 2) at the end of her term the masses will probably vote in favour of a Republican candidate far worse than Trump.
I really don’t mind Trump. He talks a lot of nonsense, usually aggressively so, but I think he will be ultimately ineffectual. His critics who inform us breathlessly that ‘he will be the one to press the button’ end up looking remarkably po-faced at the end of the day.
By: paul178 - 5th May 2016 at 19:16
Wait until he presses the big red button. I always knew Americans some at least were idiots this rather confirms this.
300,000,000 people who don’t know what the word wan*ers mean.
By: John Green - 5th May 2016 at 19:14
I’m nearly but not quite inclined to now back Oily Dave.
By: charliehunt - 5th May 2016 at 19:06
God – Trump or Clinton!! Rather them than us…