Post by warrior1972 on Aug 2, 2015 13:47:52 GMT -8
DON'T LAUGH.
I did. I'm not laughing now.
Days before the first Republican debate, Donald Trump has surged into the national lead in the GOP primary race, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush following, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows.
Trump is the first choice of 19 percent of GOP primary voters, while 15 percent back Walker and 14 percent back Bush. Ten percent support retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-surges-new-nbc-news-wsj-poll-n402036
Washington (CNN)—The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination is a former pro-choice Democrat who once supported Canadian-style universal health care, tax hikes on the wealthy and said Hillary Clinton was "terrific."
As he prepares for the first GOP debate of the election season next week, Donald Trump is disavowing many of his former positions and earning support from about one in every five Republicans through a combination of blustering rhetoric and dogged condemnation of the political class.
Now, the question is whether Trump's lead will hold up against the gust of attacks -- and charges of hypocrisy -- he is likely to face from his GOP foes during Thursday's debate. That threat hasn't compelled him, however, to detail his policy platforms.
Trump continues to describe his policies in broad strokes: A wall on the southern border that Mexico will be forced to pay for, or a "terrific" alternative to Obamacare and "the finest" health care for veterans. And there's Trump's plan to deport all estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants and then allow "the good ones" to return and gain "legal status" through an "expedited process."
When pressed for details on how he'll find those individuals, Trump told CNN's...
us.cnn.com/2015/08/02/politics/donald-trump-2016-presidential-election/index.html
I did. I'm not laughing now.
Days before the first Republican debate, Donald Trump has surged into the national lead in the GOP primary race, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush following, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows.
Trump is the first choice of 19 percent of GOP primary voters, while 15 percent back Walker and 14 percent back Bush. Ten percent support retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/trump-surges-new-nbc-news-wsj-poll-n402036
Washington (CNN)—The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination is a former pro-choice Democrat who once supported Canadian-style universal health care, tax hikes on the wealthy and said Hillary Clinton was "terrific."
As he prepares for the first GOP debate of the election season next week, Donald Trump is disavowing many of his former positions and earning support from about one in every five Republicans through a combination of blustering rhetoric and dogged condemnation of the political class.
Now, the question is whether Trump's lead will hold up against the gust of attacks -- and charges of hypocrisy -- he is likely to face from his GOP foes during Thursday's debate. That threat hasn't compelled him, however, to detail his policy platforms.
Trump continues to describe his policies in broad strokes: A wall on the southern border that Mexico will be forced to pay for, or a "terrific" alternative to Obamacare and "the finest" health care for veterans. And there's Trump's plan to deport all estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants and then allow "the good ones" to return and gain "legal status" through an "expedited process."
When pressed for details on how he'll find those individuals, Trump told CNN's...
us.cnn.com/2015/08/02/politics/donald-trump-2016-presidential-election/index.html