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Donald Trump's 'kinder, gentler' version: Kirsten Powers

Kirsten Powers10:55 p.m. EDT April 11, 2016





Is Donald Trump about to make a pivot toward presidential?


In an hour-long interview Thursday in his New York office, Trump promised, “The time is going to be soon.”


Trump assured me that he is ready to “start building coalitions” at the right moment. “I’ll tell you what else is going to be soon. My whole life I’ve gotten along with people. ... People you see excoriating me on TV ... are calling my office wanting to get on the team. I actually asked a couple of them, ‘How can you do this after what you said?’ And they said, ‘No problem.’ ”


At this, The Donald seemed hurt to discover the dirtiness of politics.


“It’s a crazy business,” said the man who helped invent the lunatic asylum called reality TV.


Could he build coalitions with people who had wronged him? Could he, for example, see appointing Sen. Marco Rubio to a position in his administration?


“Yes. I like Marco Rubio. Yeah. I could,” he answered. As for a potential Rubio vice president: “There are people I have in mind in terms of vice president. I just haven’t told anybody names. ... I do like Marco. I do like (John) Kasich. … I like (Scott) Walker actually in a lot of ways. I hit him very hard. ... But I’ve always liked him. There are people I like, but I don’t think they like me because I have hit them hard.”


He seems to have forgiven Rubio for his cringe-inducing attempt at stand-up comedy at Trump’s expense. “He made a mistake,” Trump said. “He became Don Rickles for about four days, and then I became worse than Don Rickles.”


I told Trump about a Hillary Clinton-supporting family member who, after watching a Trump speech, noted to me that he'd be very hard to beat. Everything Trump says — opposition to the Iraq War, criticism of trade and criticism of Washington — is right, she told me.


So, why not just stick to substance and stop with the other stuff?


“Maybe the other stuff is part of it,” Trump said. “If I didn’t do it, then you might not be talking to me about a race where we are leading substantially.” Or as Trump told Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March 31: “Sometimes you have to break an egg. ... I think I have two more left.”


Fair enough. But this attitude underscores the problem for the Republican establishment. A conciliatory Trump — if such a man exists — is predicated on him securing the presidential nomination if he has the most delegates. When asked about the possibility of a contested convention, Trump mused darkly, “I wouldn’t be happy about it.” He added, “The nicest thing that will happen — the minimal — is that if I leave, all those people are gone, and the Republicans will go down to one of the great defeats in history.


This kind of tough-guy talk is typical of Trump. But I wondered, perhaps he could see that vulnerability is also important for leadership? “No. I don’t love to see leaders who sit back and cry. We’ve seen some of them.” Crying is fine for other people, Trump told me, but it’s not something he has done since he was a child.


Trump described himself as an Ayn Rand fan. He said of her novel The Fountainhead, “It relates to business (and) beauty (and) life and inner emotions. That book relates to ... everything.” He identified with Howard Roark, the novel's idealistic protagonist who designs skyscrapers and rages against the establishment.


When I pointed out that The Fountainhead is in a way about the tyranny of groupthink, Trump sat up and said, “That’s what is happening here.” He then recounted a call he received from a liberal journalist: “How does it feel to have done what you have done? I said what have I done. He said nobody ever in the history of this country has done what you have done. And I said, well, if I lose, then no big deal. And he said no, no, if you lose, it doesn’t matter because this will be talked about forever.


"And I said it will be talked about more if I win.”


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A week ahead of New York's primary election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told supporters in Rochester that his rallies are 'the safest rallies of anywhere'. (April 10) AP


Kirsten Powers writes often for USA TODAY and is author of The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.

 

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[h=1]Trump was right about illegal abortion: Column[/h]Carol Sanger12:41 p.m. EDT April 11, 2016
[h=2]If abortions were outlawed, it would be only fair to prosecute the women who have them.[/h]
One of the peculiarities of American abortion law is that in the days when abortion was illegal, women who had an abortion were not prosecuted for the crime. The criminal law targeted the doctors and unlicensed practitioners who performed the abortions. They were the ones arrested, tried, and sometimes convicted for knowingly procuring or performing an abortion, not the women who had knowingly hired them. Women were subpoenaed to testify as witnesses against their abortionists at trial, but with few exceptions, women didn’t do time.
Donald Trump’s remark that “there has to be some form of punishment for women who get an abortion,” though quickly retracted, raises interesting questions. Why weren’t women punished in the past and why shouldn’t they be today?
Historically, there were two reasons. First, criminal abortion laws sought to protect pregnant women from the physical harms of unsafe abortions at a time when poisons and sharp instruments were the methods of the day. This risk of injury to women was one of the reasons abortion was brought within the criminal law in the first place, and women were considered the victims, not the perpetrators. The second reason women were not prosecuted was the view that women couldn’t be held responsible for the decision. As the Supreme Court of Connecticut explained in State v. Carey in 1904, a woman who chose abortion needed “protection against her own weaknessas well as the criminal lust and greed of others.”

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But times have changed, so let’s rethink Trump’s remark. Abortion, especially in the first trimester when 89% of all abortions take place, is now a safe medical procedure; it is even safer than childbirth (the relevant comparison). In addition, women are no longer considered ninnies who don’t know their own minds, especially where their own bodies are concerned. Women now read, finish school, vote and own property. Women also understand the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy to them, to their existing children (mothers account for about two-thirds of all abortions) and to their families. They know that abortion ends pregnancy, and while some may wish their circumstances were different so that they were not faced with the choice, they are very clear about the decision.
In short, women have all the mens rea, or criminal intent, any jury would need to convict. Consider how much women go through to have an abortion in a fair number of states — the humiliations, deceptions, risk of stigma and expense they are willing to endure. Many states have such things as 48-hour cooling off periods, mandatory ultrasounds (“real-time viewing" requirements) and for pregnant teenagers, hearings in court. As women well know, regulations like these provide their own sort of punishment.



But let us return to the matter of punishing wrongdoers. If abortion again becomes illegal, an unlikely prospect but one many pro-life advocates hope will happen, it seems as a matter of basic equality that women should be held responsible for their actions. Although we often impose tougher punishment on those who sell illegal goods and services than on their customers (drug dealers versus users, for instance), we don’t generally let anyone off the hook. It is time for pro-life advocates to have the courage of their convictions and support punishing their fellow citizens — wives, daughters, mothers, teachers, colleagues, and neighbors of all ideological stripes — who decide to end an unwanted pregnancy.
The hard truth for those who would outlaw abortion is that no one really wants to see mom or sis (or the other 700,000 women who have an abortion each year) in the dock. Three in 10 women in the U.S. will have an abortion during their reproductive years, so while many people think they don’t know anyone who has had an abortion, the numbers suggest that probably isn’t the case.
But it isn’t just sympathy that makes us want to keep women out of prison. It is that after more than 40 years of legal abortion, many, many men and women have come to understand how crucial it is for women to be able to decide whether or not to have a child (or another child). The right to make that decision makes it more possible for women to plan their lives just as other citizens do. Trump has made us rethink why punishing women for exercising that right is all wrong.
Carol Sanger is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches a seminar on Abortion: Law in Context. Her book, TheEye of the Storm: Abortion in the 21st Century, is scheduled for publication in 2017.

 

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Despite Complaints, Delegate System Has Given Trump a 22 Percent Bonus

 

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Missing from Trump’s list of charitable giving: His own personal cash.

By David A. Fahrenthold and Rosalind S. Helderman April 10 at 8:49 PM
Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years.
To back up that claim, Trump’s campaign compiled a list of his contributions— 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages.
But, in that massive list, one thing was missing.
Not a single one of those donations was actually a personal gift of Trump’s own money.
Instead, according to a Washington Post analysis, many of the gifts that Trump cited to prove his generosity were free rounds of golf, given away by his courses for charity auctions and raffles.

The largest items on the list were not cash gifts but land-
conservation agreements to forgo development rights on property Trump owns.
Trump’s campaign also counted a parcel of land that he’d given to New York state — although that was in 2006, not within the past five years.
In addition, many of the gifts on the list came from the charity that bears his name, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which didn’t receive a personal check from Trump from 2009 through 2014, according to the most recent public tax filings. Its work is largely funded by others, although Trump decides where the gifts go.
Some beneficiaries on the list are not charities at all: They included clients, other businesses and tennis superstar Serena Williams.
This list produced by Trump’s campaign — which has not been reported in detail before — provides an unusually broad portrait of Trump’s giving, and his approach to philanthropy in general.

This page, from Trump’s 93-page list of charitable contributions shows free rounds of golf. In all, Trump claimed credit for 2,900 free rounds given away at his club.
It reveals how Trump has demonstrated less of the soaring, world-changing ambitions in his philanthropy than many other billionaires. Instead, his giving appears narrowly tied to his business and, now, his political interests.
His foundation, for example, frequently gave money to groups that paid to use Trump’s facilities, and it donated to conservatives who could help promote Trump’s rise in the Republican Party. The foundation’s second-biggest donation described on the campaign’s list went to the charity of a man who had settled a lawsuit with one of Trump’s golf courses after being denied a hole-in-one prize.

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The tally of Trump’s giving was provided by Trump’s campaign last year to the Associated Press, which was attempting to assess Trump’s recent record of charitable giving. The AP, which did not publish the list, provided it to The Post.
When asked about The Post’s analysis, a top Trump aide acknowledged that none of the gifts had come in cash from the billionaire himself. But, he said, that was because the list was not a complete account of Trump’s gifts.
The aide, Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, said Trump had, in fact, given generously from his own pocket. But Weisselberg declined to provide any documentation, such as saying how much charitable giving Trump has declared in his federal tax filings.
“We want to keep them quiet,” said Weisselberg, who is also treasurer of the Trump Foundation. “He doesn’t want other charities to see it. Then it becomes like a feeding frenzy.”
‘The Grateful Millionaire’
In the early years of his career — when Trump was making a name as America’s human embodiment of success — he was known for acts of real, and well-publicized, philanthropy.
In 1986, Trump heard about a Georgia farmer who’d committed suicide because of an impending foreclosure. He reached out.
4 times Donald Trump touted his charitable giving


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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump often reminds audiences of his charitable donations, but recent Washington Post analysis calls into question whether he's given any personal gifts of his own money in the past five years. (Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post)

“He said, ‘Forget it. I’ll pay it off.’ He paid for it out of his personal money,” said Betsy Sharp, the daughter of the farmer, Leonard Hill III. Trump flew the family to Trump Tower to burn the hated mortgage in front of TV cameras, with an ebony cigarette lighter that said “New York.”
Through a combination of good deeds and good publicity, the idea of Trump as a gallant friend of the little guy caught on. By the late 1990s, as documented by the debunking site Snopes.com, Trump’s name had been grafted onto a classic American urban legend, known to folklorists as “The Grateful Millionaire.”
Trump — it was said in email chains and books of inspirational stories — had once been stranded in a limo. A good Samaritan stopped to help. Trump secretly paid off his mortgage. The legend goes back to at least 1954, when the grateful millionaire was Henry Ford.
The most complete public accounting of Trump’s actual charity so far is the $102 million list provided by his campaign last year, titled “Donald J. Trump Charitable Contributions.”

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In places, it appears to be an unedited mash-up of internal lists kept by Trump’s golf clubs, noting all the things they’d given away to anybody. True charities like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are followed by freebies given away at sales meetings, followed by entries in cryptic internal shorthand. At a Trump golf course in Miami, for instance, the recipient of a $800 gift was listed only as “Brian.”

This page of “charitable contributions” from Trump’s course in Miami seems to show giveaways to for-profit businesses, and a man named Brian.
To identify what the gifts represented, The Post interviewed recipients to find out what they’d received — and matched those gifts to others with the exact same dollar value.
By extrapolation, The Post estimated that Trump claimed credit for at least 2,900 free rounds of golf, 175 free hotel stays, 165 free meals and 11 gift certificates to spas.
“I thought it would be a pretty hot ticket, [and] it was,” said Marion Satterthwaite, who runs a charity that helps bring back dogs that U.S. service members have bonded with overseas. She was holding a silent auction, and one of things she auctioned off was a free round of golf donated by Trump’s private golf club in Colts Neck, N.J. At that club, Trump appeared to claim donations of 76 foursomes, each valued at $1,720. Satterthwaite said that, in her case, it sold for less.
But Trump’s list was also riddled with apparent errors, in which the “charities” that got his gifts didn’t seem to be charities at all.
Trump listed a donation to “Serena William Group” in February 2015, valued at exactly $1,136.56. A spokeswoman for the tennis star said she had attended a ribbon-
cutting at Trump’s Loudoun County, Va., golf course that year for a new tennis center. But Trump hadn’t donated to her charity. Instead, he had given her a free ride from Florida on his plane and a free framed photo of herself.

This page, from Trump’s course in Virginia, appears to count as ‘charity’ gifts given to visiting VIP Serena Williams. Williams says she got a free plane ride and a framed photo of herself.
The Post sent an annotated version of this list — showing the results of its analysis, and its extrapolations about what each gift represented — to the Trump campaign, along with a detailed list of questions about Trump’s giving.
The Trump campaign declined to answer most of the questions or to provide an interview with Trump.

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The Post’s analysis showed that the small giveaways from Trump businesses seemed to account for the bulk of the 4,844 transactions that Trump took credit for. But they accounted for only about $6.4 million of the total dollar figure.
The most expensive charitable contributions on Trump’s list, by contrast, dealt with transactions related to real estate.
For one, Trump counted $63.8 million of unspecified “conservation easements.” That refers to legal arrangements — which could bring tax breaks — in which a landowner agrees to forgo certain kinds of development on land that he owns. In California, for example, Trump agreed to an easement that prevented him from building homes on a plot of land near a golf course. But Trump kept the land, and kept making money off it. It is a driving range.
In this election, neither of Trump’s Republican rivals — Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) nor Ohio Gov. John Kasich — has detailed his recent charitable giving. Among the Democrats, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said she and her husband gave 11 percent of their yearly income, and the Clintons have also established a foundation that has collected $2 billion for charity around the world, while also increasing their global celebrity and political network. Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) said he gave 5 percent of his yearly income.
Trump has not entirely given up making splashy public gifts.
In 2009, for instance, Trump appeared on the TV show “Extra” and promised that he would pay a struggling viewer’s bills. “This is really a bad time for a lot of people,” Trump said as the contest was announced.
The winner, who got $5,000, was a woman who runs a spray-tanning business.
But the contest’s rules, posted online, made clear that the winner would not be flown to New York like the family Trump helped in the 1980s. Moreover, the rules said, the winner would have to pay for cab fare.
“The winner must live in New York, provide their own transportation to Trump Tower, and be willing to meet Donald on-camera to accept his check,” the rules warned.
According to tax records, the winner’s check came from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, the charity created by Trump in the late 1980s. The same was true on Saturday, when Trump made a well-
publicized $100,000 gift to the *National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. The foundation gave the money after Trump made a brief visit to the museum as he campaigned ahead of next week’s New York primary.

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The Trump Foundation
On the $102 million list created by Trump’s campaign, he claims credit for $7 million given by the foundation, where Trump serves as president.
The biggest donors to his foundation in recent years have been other people, most notably Vince and Linda McMahon, top executives at World Wrestling Entertainment. They donated $5 million after Trump made a cameo on “Wrestlemania” in 2007, according to a spokesman for WWE. The spokesman said Trump was paid separately for the appearance. Linda McMahon has since left WWE and is now active in politics. She and her husband both declined to comment about the donation.
Trump’s foundation has operated on a smaller scale than some run by his billionaire peers. Filmmaker George Lucas, for instance, who is tied with Trump at 324th place in Forbes’s list of the world’s billionaires, donated $925 million to his family foundation in 2012. In 2014, Lucas’s foundation gave out $55 million in donations to museums, hospitals, artistic groups and environmental charities.
Media magnate Sumner Redstone, also tied with Trump in the Forbes rankings, gave $28 million from his company to his foundation that year, and the foundation in turn gave out $31 million in gifts.
The Trump Foundation gave out $591,000 in 2014.
“He’s using [the foundation] as a kind of checkbook, with other people’s money,” Leslie Lenkow*sky, a faculty member at Indiana University’s school of philanthropy, said after The Post described the recipients of the Trump Foundation’s gifts.
“Not a good model. It’s not wrong. It’s not unique. But it’s poor philanthropy.”
In 2013, Trump was trying to persuade the V Foundation — a cancer-fighting group founded by Jim Valvano, the college basketball coach who died in 1993 — to hold a fundraiser at his Trump Winery in Virginia.
Trump’s foundation gave $10,000 to the V Foundation that summer, just when the V Foundation later said it was being wooed. He got the fundraiser.
Trump’s foundation also gave to the American Cancer Society, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, all of which have held fundraisers at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
In 2010, a man named Martin Greenberg was playing in a charity tournament at Trump’s course in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. A $1 million prize was offered to anybody who got a hole in one.
Greenberg did. But then, hours later, he was called back. The rules said the hole-in-one shot had to go 150 yards. But, according to court documents, Trump’s course had made the hole too short.
Greenberg got nothing. He sued.
On the day that Trump and the other parties told the court that they had settled the case, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made its first and only donation to the Martin B. Greenberg Foundation, for $158,000. Both Greenberg and Trump’s campaign declined to comment.
Trump also used the foundation’s money to play the role of a big-hearted billionaire on TV — doling out at least $194,000 to various causes favored by contestants on “Celebrity Apprentice,” Trump’s spinoff reality show that appeared on NBC.
In 2012, NBC Universal made a $500,000 donation to the Trump Foundation. NBC Universal declined to comment about that gift.
In some cases, the recipient was a complete stranger: a club member who stopped him at the pool, another golfer, or a woman who’d just walked into his office.

“I’ll never forget. He said, ‘Debra, you have the ‘it’ factor. He said, ‘I don’t know any other beautiful woman going into the inner city,’ ” said Debra George, a Christian minister in Texas who met Trump when a mutual friend brought her along to his office. Trump asked how she paid for her work.
“It’s kind of like walking on air. We trust God,” she told him. “He said, ‘I’m going to help you.’ ” Trump’s foundation gave her charity $10,000.
Some recipients said they liked the Trump Foundation’s informal approach to giving. “(At) a lot of foundations, you know, there’s a grant process,” said Barbara Abernathy, whose charity helps children with cancer. Not Trump, whom Abernathy had met at a Mar-a-Lago gala. She later asked his people for money, to help a patient’s family afford medicine and a car payment. She got $1,000 in two weeks.”
In 2013, Scott K. York, then the head of the Board of Supervisors in Loudoun County, came to Trump’s son to ask for help. An elementary school in the county needed a $110,000 handicapped-accessible playground. York asked for $10,000. Trump’s foundation gave $7,500.
A month later, the Trump Foundation gave $50,000 to the American Conservative Union Foundation. With donations to that group, Politico has reported, Trump was building a relationship that won him prime speaking slots at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a coveted venue for an aspiring Republican presidential candidate.
In this campaign, Trump said he brought in more than $6 million during a fundraiser for veterans groups he held on Jan. 28 in Iowa.
But the Trump campaign has detailed only about $3 million worth of donations that have been given to veterans groups. Some were given directly by donors recruited by Trump, and in some cases, the Trump Foundation served as a middleman.
Trump’s campaign has said that Trump is continuing to identify and vet new recipients for the money but declined to provide additional details.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks declined to respond to questions regarding whether Trump has followed through on a pledge to donate $1 million of his own money to the cause.
Still, as he has campaigned, Trump has benefited from a reputation for generosity.
“His limousine broke down one time, a couple stopped and helped him. He paid off their mortgage a few days later. These are all things that you never hear about Donald Trump,” Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, said on Fox News’s “Hannity” in January.
The Grateful Millionaire. The legend, alive and well.
In a telephone interview, Falwell, who has endorsed Trump, was asked: Did you ever ask Trump if that story was true?
“I never did,” Falwell said. “But, Trey, didn’t you search that on Google?”
“I didn’t,” his son Trey said. “But somebody did.”
“It was in some publication in 1995,” the elder Falwell concluded. “But I forget which publication.”
Anu Narayanswamy and Alice Crites contributed to this report.


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'GUILTY AS HELL': Donald Trump hammered Hillary Clinton Monday night in Albany, claiming that 'everybody knows that she is guilty as hell' in her classified email scandal

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IS IT NOVEMBER ALREADY? Donald Trump previewed a general election campaign devoted to hammering Clinton over her email scandal and foreign policy decisions he called 'so bad' and 'so wrong'

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LIVE, FROM NEW YORK: Trump spoke to an estimated 15,000 people at the Times Union Arena in Albany, where fans waited for hours in the bone-chilling wind for Secret Service Screening

 

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Donald Trump's 'kinder, gentler' version: Kirsten Powers

Kirsten Powers writes often for USA TODAY and is author of The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech.

Has she switched sides? She worked for the Clintons for 6 years and has been working with the D party in NY for many years. Anthony stuck her the Weiner. Surprised to see a pro Trump essay from her.

 

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THANK YOU California, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania! See you soon!#MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2016

 

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Missouri just confirmed #Trump2016 as the official winner- with an additional 12 delegates. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

 

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Has she switched sides? She worked for the Clintons for 6 years and has been working with the D party in NY for many years. Anthony stuck her the Weiner. Surprised to see a pro Trump essay from her.

She's a "Fox News Democrat", but she's been center right for years. That's what that slimy networks trots out as "Democrats" to successfully fool their sheep.

 

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She's a "Fox News Democrat", but she's been center right for years. That's what that slimy networks trots out as "Democrats" to successfully fool their sheep.

love the sarcasm!

 

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She's a "Fox News Democrat", but she's been center right for years. That's what that slimy networks trots out as "Democrats" to successfully fool their sheep.

Actually, you're a far left loon and utter simpleton.

You couldn't point to 2 examples her being "center right for years" if someone would give you a case of boost.

 

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love the sarcasm!

Drumpf.

 

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The new poll results show a very slim margin between support for Hillary Clinton and support for Donald Trump - 2 points - while the poll's margin of error is 1.3 percent


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Hillary Clinton ( and Donald Trump would have a very close general election race if numbers from a new NBC poll are accurate - only two points separate the parties' two frontrunners

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[h=1]Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a statistical dead heat in new NBC poll showing close November match-up[/h]

• There's just two points separating Hillary Clinton from Republican Donald Trump according to a new general election tracking poll
• The poll also shows the discord among Republicans with only about half of Trump and Ted Cruz's vowing to support the other GOP candidate
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• Primary polling has Trump comfortably ahead of his Republican rivals, while Clinton bests Bernie Sanders by six points

A new poll from NBC News shows a highly competitive race between frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton come November.




In a head-to-head match-up, the new NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll shows Clinton with 38 percent support and Trump with 36 percent support from registered voters, for a difference of two, which is just slightly outside the poll's error estimate of plus or minus 1.3 percent.




Another 16 percent would prefer to vote for a third-party candidate, while 8 percent would stay home.


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Sen. Ted Cruz, who has the second-most amount of delegates on the Republican side, is also competitive against Clinton, though the race isn't nearly as tight.

In a hypothetical Clinton-Cruz match-up, the Texas senator receives 32 percent, while Clinton scores five points higher at 37 percent.

Additionally, another 19 percent would vote for a third-party candidate, while 10 percent would sit at home on Election Day.

The poll showcased the divisive nature of the GOP primary, which is likely to be settled at a contested convention in Cleveland in July.

Of respondents who said they supported Cruz, only a little more than half said they would support Trump in the general election – 56 percent.

A full quarter, 26 percent, said they would look for a third-party candidate, though Cruz's Republicans would not really drift to Clinton, with only 6 percent saying they'd support the former secretary of state.


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Nine percent would not vote at all.


Trump's supporters shared a similar sentiment.


Of those supporting The Donald now, 53 percent would switch their allegiance to Cruz if he was on the general election ballot, while 28 percent would seek a third-party solution.


A slightly bigger chunk, 15 percent, would stay home.


While Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has suggested that the one-on-one general election match-ups should keep him in the game, this particular poll didn't test them, as the reality of the situation is that the senator would have to make up a nearly insurmountable Clinton delegate lead.


Nationally in the NBC poll he trails Clinton as well, with Clinton at 49 percent to Sanders' 43 percent, the new numbers show.


And on the Republican side, nationally, Trump remains way ahead.


The Donald stands at 46 percent, while Cruz receives 30 percent.


Ohio Gov. John Kasich is down two points at 16 percent.


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