According to the latest Quinnipiac poll Donald Trump and Ben Carson are now in second place in the Republican sweepstakes for President. Both Trump and Carson have 10% of the vote, trailing Scott Walker with 18%. Ted Cruz and Ron Rand Paul have 9%. Trump does even better in the recent CNN poll where he garners 12% of the vote. [read_more]
Democrats speculate that Donald Trump is doing better in the polls because of his terrible remarks about Mexican immigrants. In his kickoff speech Trump said,
“They’re bringing drugs They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”
Of course Democrats would think that Republicans would support such comments. His remarks are quite a nice gift for Democrats.
On Saturday after the SCC vote for a primary Virginia Democrats on social media were very happy because they saw a Republican primary as a great opportunity for them to vote for Donald Trump. (They do not expect it will be necessary for Democrats to have a primary in Virginia and that frees them to vote for Trump in the Republican primary on March 1st.)
After Trump’s awful remarks he was quickly dumped by NBC and his show cancelled. Macys said they will remove his line of clothes from their stores. Nevertheless, Trump has stood by his remarks,
I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they’re bad. They’re really bad. You have people coming in, and I’m not just saying Mexicans, I’m talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists, and they’re coming into this country.”
On the campaign trail Hillary is using Trump’s remarks, tying him to Republicans. From the Washington Post,
“Recently a Republican candidate for president described immigrants as drug dealers, rapists and criminals,” Clinton told a raucous rally in Northern Virginia last week. “Maybe he’s never met them. Maybe he’s never stopped to ask the millions of people who love this country, work hard, and want nothing more than a chance to build a better life for themselves and their children what their lives are like.”
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, who is thought to be Hillary’s first choice for Vice President, was quick to weigh in on Trump and tie him to the party,
“He will be in this campaign in many ways the face of the Republican Party, because he has higher name [identification] than almost all of them,” Castro said. “That is a very dumb way to begin a campaign.”
Great. The face of our party is the Donald. No wonder Democrats are rejoicing and Virginia Democrats can’t wait to vote for him on Super Tuesday.
In Virginia Hillary was quick to chastise Republicans for not calling out Republicans on Trumps’ comments,
“We need to call out derogatory language, insults, personal attacks wherever they occur,” she said. “There is enough for us to debate without going there.”
Some Republicans defended Trumps remarks. Candidate Ted Cruz called Trump “terrific” for speaking the truth. Iowa Congressman Republican Steve King said
“Donald Trump is one of the few individuals that will speak boldly about what he believes in, and he’ll be challenged by the P.C. police, the politically correct police, and instead of backing up and curling up, he just goes forward,” King said on KAYL Radio in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Democrat strategist Paul Belgala said
“I am a person of faith — and the Donald’s entry into this race can only be attributed to the fact that the good Lord is a Democrat with a sense of humor,”
Lovely. Begala added he thinks the Republican Party needs a ‘Trump Strategy’. He’s right. If Trump continues to do well in Iowa and New Hampshire we could be in trouble, especially in Virginia where Democrats can crossover to vote for him along with the 10% to 20% of Republicans who may vote for him. This could be very, very bad.
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I am completely in love with Donald Trump. Most of the politicians are absolute idiots and are unfit to run any business let alone a country, state, or county. He is wealthy enough to call them all out on their incompetence driven by egos. He is wealthy enough to tell the PACS to take a hike and the sycophantic establishment wants to discredit his honesty.
Looks like Trump might take the lead in the next poll if the killing of a lady in San Francisco takes traction.
Maybe those so afraid of the potential primary crossover should cross themselves and vote for Bernie Sanders. This is such a non issue; thank God commonsense prevailed and all eligible voters will be able to show up and personally vote for their candidate of choice at the presidential primary!
Entertaining aside: Opened this story and the one about CRs in new tabs, clicked this tab thinking it was the CR post, and my eyes went to “they’re bringing drugs, they’re criminals, they’re rapists.”
For a quick second, I thought it was an accusation someone made about College Republicans.
The biggest threat from Trump is that he turns the nomination contest into a circus, embarrassing the Party and driving people away every time he opens his mouth. He is not a credible threat to actually win any significant number of delegates, and polls that show this now only show that people aren’t yet paying close attention.
Have you ever thought about operating your own blog? Most people come here for the good stuff and get distracted by the sideshow, like reading the National Enquirer in line at the check out.
But you and the precious few other respectable writers here would do well on your own, and you wouldn’t have to constantly take to the comments to contradict Jeanine’s inanity.
You and Brian are so cute with your little tag team. Bless your hearts. Keep flailing around. It’s adorable.
Why would you like Steve’s comment? He shot down your entire premise.
Much better blog than Drifting Left. At least the contributors on this blog care about Republican principles, not just giving cover to Establishment Big Govt Republicans.
His comments are correct , true and spot on . He just put them in a brash generalized way.
MR. Albertson our State Legislators are commanded to make Employee Misclassification illegal in 2017.
I think Virginia Legislators need all the facts in this issue, to have some of the facts to be sifted out by Politically Appointed Commissioners and Directors will result in Asylum State with a ” bona-fide” underground labor market.
Personally both R and D will fall short in this law.
To much money to due the noble act.
Ron Paul is not even running and he still polls at 9%. Sweet.
Ron Paul or Rand Paul?
I see you’ve made the correction. 🙂
I believe you are giving too much weight to democrats voting in the republican primary. I understand that is a favorite position of convention fans, but it just isn’t a significant issue.
Also, I am not 100% sure Hilary won’t have a primary opponent, and another primary would make the crossover argument even less relevant.
Democrats expect Hillary’s opponents to drop out prior to March 1st.
That might be true, but I learned long ago to ignore expectations…especially in politics.
22 states hold open nomination processes, accounting for nearly half of the RNC’s delegates. In nearly every closed process state, you can change party affiliation shortly before the election.
If Democrats were to make a serious effort to nominate Trump, Virginia’s 1.98% wouldn’t stop them.
They won’t though. Those Democrats “celebrating” a chance to nominate Trump are making fun of him and Republicans who would vote for him. We’re treating a joke like it’s a strategy memo.
Patrick, consider your audience. Reason and facts aren’t going to matter.
Jeanine, I will once again offer you a deal:
If Donald Trump comes in first or second place in Virginia, I will stop commenting.
If he does not, you will stop blogging.
Do we have a deal?
Please take this deal. I find it hilarious that Jeanine is now complaining that Trump is saying the same things about immigrants, legal and illegal, that she’s been defending others for saying.
Don’t be ridiculous. I never said illegal immigrants are rapists and criminals. Most are not but I still oppose illegal immigration. What part of ILLEGAL do you not understand? It’s not that big a word.
Illegal immigrants are, by definition, criminals. Aren’t they?
See, when Shaun and I complained about folks making comments like Trump did, you went on a crusade against us. Now you’re agreeing with us that Trump’s comments are inappropriate.
Glad to see you made it to the right side of this argument. Only took a year or so.
No, they are not criminals. By definition they are another source of “cheap labor” for Republican’s.
If they were criminals, they would most certainly be arrested in this great country of ours!
Some Illegal Aliens are rapist Child rapist that is , drug dealers and kidnappers.
These illegal aliens were given asylum in Virginia under the previous Republican Administration , Yes you know it.
for people to deny this they have a political motive , they have their heads buried in the sands of their respective political party , you included.
I believe it to be a serious act of irresponsibility to deny this.
http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy/
Ms. Martin first please get informed as to how they are illegally employed .
After you learn the laws that they are violating for employment I can give you cases of illegal aliens committing violent crimes in Virginia.
You must be one of those that think the tree does not make a sound when it falls if no one is there to here it.
Democrat Governor McAuliffe understands that illegal aliens and gang members are given a resident stronghold in Virginia through the holes in the Construction industry that were fostered under McDonnell and Attorney General Cuccinelli .
Research Attempted Abduction At VA. TECH , June , 2012 . Alex Flores an unlicensed contractor.
Ironic the release of JLARC 427 , how come this report left out unlicensed contracting , illegal immigrants.
Was that by design of Ken of Bob? Or were they just to plain ignorant as to the Va. State Documented violations that they were issuing to illegal businesses.
You mam must be one of those complicit Republicans that use the cheap price of illegal labor to exploit the equity built in wages by the American that does work.
Read the story posted and ask why is all this illegal commerce and employment allowed in the Republican stronghold of Lynchburg , VA.?
How can any Republican speak of job creation when they foster illegal employment in their home Districts?
C’mon even Biden talks of underground labor market.
Tech story ” she was seen being DRAGGED to his truck ”
Do you think that Bill Boling put 2 and 2 together , The Sexual Task force on College Campus with the Flores Tech. Case ?
Of course not. First, I rarely gamble and second, I would never agree to give up my blog. Sorry!
It was worth the shot, Spiker. Oh well.
Ok, so before anyone starts freaking out… you should all read the internals of the poll. First of all, while, yes, Trump polled in second place, he was also listed as the person who most people would be least-likely to choose. On top of that, he was also one of only two candidates who had a net-negative favorability rating. He’s experiencing a little bump in numbers after he said some controversial things.
Do you know which group gave Trump the highest favorability rating? The TEA Party.
These races are all about swinging the undecideds. If Jeanine wants to put a lot of stock in this early poll, she should at least note that he’ll pull almost 0 undecideds.
With so many candidates running in Virginia, Trump could easily walk away with the most delegates with only 30% of the vote.
… except that he won’t and everyone knows it, including you. You’re just poorly trying to make a dumb point that ignores the fact that almost all states have a primary and the nomination won’t come down to the outcome in Virginia.
Where did I say the nomination would come down to Virginia? Of course it won’t. Democrats want Trump to win our primary because it make Virginia Republicans look bad. Nothing more than that.
Virginia republicans don’t need any help “looking bad”. All the immature and childish infighting does that all on its own, and blogs like this one airs all of the dirty laundry without any help from the Democrats.
Ah, I see. So Democrats in Virginia are much more likely to vote in our primaries than in other states?
I shouldn’t need to inform you that Virginia is not the only state that has an open primary.
I agree with you Stephen, but I think the general will be a different story when it comes to the impact of VA.
Well maybe if Republicans stood up for their “principles” all of the time, instead of when it is convenient, Trump would not be a.serious candidate. The “party faithful ” better realize that Americans are pretty fed up with both parties.
The quicker that we disassociate ourselves from that egotistical blowhard the better. He has been a gift to the Democrats and the leftist media. Sure, he says some of the things that we are all thinking, but his intemperate and self-absorbed rhetoric detracts from the seriousness of the 2016 election.
Well said Jerry. I completely agree. We need a ‘Trump Strategy’ for dealing with our Trump problem.
virginia.arrests.org/Arrests/Santos_Guzman_11184801
Do all Ladies in Lovettsville support an underground labor market in Virginia.
Some are more concerned with what a Man says , rather than the importance of the issue he is speaking of.
http:/watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy/
Story ran Feb. 25th 2015 Kenric Ward, this is a waste fraud and abuse news site
Yea lets just 1099 illegal aliens and blame the Federal government for violating Statutes 54.1-1100 and the Virginia Employment Compensation Act.
Illegal Immigration is Economic Terrorism.