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Trump says black Americans 'are going to like me better than they like Obama' – even though the president has 'a slight advantage'

• Donald Trump said his focus on jobs would compel black and Hispanics Americans to vote for the Republican frontrunner
• 'Obama has done nothing for them,' Trump said of black voters in an interview with Fox News' Howard Kurtz
• Trump also labeled his campaign 'a movement,' saying that voters were sick of being lead by 'incompetent people'

PUBLISHED: 19:07, 24 January 2016 | UPDATED: 23:08, 24 January 2016
Donald Trump boldly claimed this morning on Fox News that black Americans are 'going to like me better than they like Obama.'
Though, Trump noted, 'he does have a slight advantage in all fairness,' the GOP frontrunner said of the country's first African-American commander in chief.
Trump sat down in Las Vegas this week and talked to Fox News Channel's Howard Kurtz about why minority communities might vote for the Republican businessman.
Trump had a one-word reason: jobs.



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Donald Trump told Fox News' Howard Kurtz that he thought black voters would like him better than President Obama because he would help them get jobs

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Donald Trump said that minority unemployment would be one problem that he would fix as president, suggesting he'd get jobs back from China, Japan and Mexico - 'all these countries that are ripping us off'

'Look, the African-Americans love me because they know I'm going to bring back jobs,' Trump said.
The billionaire pointed out the high unemployment rate for African-American youth as well as black workers in their 30s through 50s.
'Look at African-American people in their prime,' Trump said. 'They want jobs.'
'They're going to like me better than they like Obama,' he continued. 'Obama has done nothing for them. He's African-American and he's done nothing for them.'
Kurtz raised his eyebrows at Trump's statement, but the billionaire doubled down.
'I think that relatively speaking, he does have a slight advantage in all fairness, but I think relatively speaking when I'm finished I think they will absolutely love Donald Trump,' Trump continued.
'I'm going to bring back jobs, I'm going to create wealth for the country, people are going to partake - we're going to take jobs back from China, from Japan, Mexico, from all these countries that are ripping us off,' the billionaire boasted.
Trump argued that job creation would help him with black voters and it would help him with Hispanic voters as well, despite the fact that some of his rhetoric on illegal immigration has irritated Latino groups, especially when he classified Mexicans as criminals and rapists.

'And, by the way, Hispanics are going to benefit,' Trump said.
'I have now thousands of Hispanics that work for me. I have tens of thousands over my lifetime that have worked for me. These are great people. They want jobs,' he said.
Kurtz was curious about whether Trump planned to change his rhetoric, at all, or reach out to minority communities should he win the Republican primary and need to add to his voter base going into a general election.
Trump said he would absolutely do outreach in these communities and suggested he was already polling better with black voters than your typical Republican.
'I'm going to do great with the African-Americans. I think I'm going to do great with the Hispanics. I think I'm going to do great with the Asians,' he said.
Trump said he didn't plan to massage his message too much.
'I don't know if I want to change so much,' he told Kurtz.
On a broader scale, Trump talked about his whirlwind week, in which he was endorsed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
'She's a good woman, she's a great person, I've known her for a long time,' Trump said.
Trump also boasted that at one of his recent rallies he had to send 5,000 people away.
'I've created – this is a movement. It's not about me, it's what we're saying,' Trump said of his growing appeal. 'We are lead by incompetent people and the voters are getting it.'


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[h=1]'No ifs, ands or buts': Trump campaign manager says The Donald will never quit – 'We're going to the convention!' – as the billionaire insists he'll 'spend whatever the hell it takes'[/h]

• Corey Lewandowski, the man at the helm of Trump's unlikely front-runner candidacy, spoke with DailyMail.com during a rally in Muscatine, Iowa
• 'Whether we've got one delegate or 1,273 we're going to the convention' in Cleveland, he said
• Trump has hinted in the past that he would end his campaign if the writing on the wall suggested he wouldn't win
• But on Sunday he pledged that he would 'spend whatever the hell it takes' to win in the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses.

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PUBLISHED: 22:19, 24 January 2016 | UPDATED: 00:23, 25 January 2016
Donald Trump is dead-set against ever withdrawing from the presidential contest, his campaign manager said on Sunday, and will take his campaign all the way to the Republican National Convention in August – no matter what.
'We're going to the convention. There's no ifs, ands or buts,' Corey Lewandowski told DailyMail.com on the margins of a Trump rally in Muscatine, Iowa.
'Whether we've got one delegate or 1,273 we're going to the convention,' he said.

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IN IT TO WIN IT: Donald Trump is no longer talking about scenarios that might push him out of the presidential race, as the Iowa caucuses loom barely a week away

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CONFIDENT: Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski (left) said The Donald will take his campaign all the way to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, 'no ifs, ands or buts'

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RALLY: The Donald spoke to voters in Muscatine, Iowa on Sunday

Trump has said on the campaign trail that if his poll numbers take a dramatic turn for the worse and he loses his front-runner status, he might see the writing on the wall and withdraw.
But on Sunday, as the all-important Iowa caucuses loomed just eight days away, he pledged that he's in it for the long haul.
Talking about his willingness to dip into his personal fortune to blanket Iowa and New Hampshire with advertising, he said he's committed to put his money where his famous mouth is in order to win the GOP nomination.
'I don't want to take a chance. I don't want to be a wise guy,' he told a large crowd in a high school gymnasium.
'I'm willing to spend whatever the hell it takes,' Trump said.
Lewandowski painted a picture of an optimistic but pragmatic campaign devoted to taking The Donald all the way to the August finish line in Cleveland, and said Trump wont' settle for a second-place finish in Iowa.
'We've gotta win,' he said.
'And if we lose Iowa – which, boy I hope we don't, but it's possible. You can lose. People lose every time.'
'If we lose Iowa, we'll double our effort in New Hampshire,' Lewandowski pledged. 'I don't care what the polls say. We'll work harder in New Hampshire. And we'll work harder in South Carolina. We're going to Nevada, and we're going to the convention.'
He said the billionaire political phenom is working 'incredibly hard' to turn his cheering throngs into caucus-goers on Feb. 1.
Asked if the famously sleep-deprived Trump was getting at least three hours of shut-eye every night, he shook his head and said: 'Less. It's a two-man race now, in my opinion.'



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HUMILITYL Trump said Sunday services at First Presbyterian Church in Muscatine focused on how to be humble, but 'I don't know if that was aimed at me'

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FRONT-RUNNER: Trump leads in the most recent statewide Iowa polls and is working hard to maintain his edge as the Feb. 1 caucuses are just eight days away

That was a reference to Ted Cruz, the tea party senator from Texas who has led Trump in four out of the 10 Iowa Republican polls released this month.
Pundits and political prognosticators have forecasted a potential Trump collapse if Cruz' retail ground game outperforms Trump's wholesale approach to campaigning.
'I think there's this expectation that Ted Cruz has put together, in his own mind, right? The greatest ground game ever assembled in the history of Iowa? Let's see what happens in eight days,' Lewandowski said.
'We want to win ... and we're finally coming to the first opportunity to prove if all these rallies, all these people who come out to see Trump, are going to show up and vote. I think they will. Absolutely.'
He recalled that on the day in June when Trump announced his unlikely candidacy, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party gave him long odds to be where he is today.
'The chairman of the party, [Jeff] Kaufmann, said publicly in the Des Moines Register that if Donald Trump finishes in the top seven. it's a win for him. Top seven!' Lewandowski chuckled.
'I think we're going to make the top seven,' he snarked. 'I'm not certain. But I think we have a shot at the top seven.'
Trump himself said Sunday that Cruz's Iowa insurgency will fall short, and he will have 'a mandate' from loyal Iowans.
'I don't think we're going to come in second,' he said. 'There's a theory that even though I'm doing great in the polls, I'm going to do better than the polls.'
Trump's swagger was on full display Sunday – mostly.
He began his speech by noting that he had worshiped that morning in a small church less than a mile away.
'I learned something,' Trump said. 'We talked about humility in church today. I don't know if that was aimed at me. Perhaps.'


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[h=1]Donald Trump says he'd 'love' to see Michael Bloomberg jump in the race while Hillary says he won't have to bother because she's winning the nomination[/h]

• This weekend the news broke that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering launching a presidential run
• Bloomberg sees an opening with Donald Trump on top of the Republican field and Hillary Clinton looking weak
• Trump responded saying he'd 'love' the competition from his 'friend' Michael Bloomberg
• Clinton said she's winning the Democratic nomination so she's going to 'relieve him of that' duty
• Bernie Sanders said he'd love to run against two billionaires

PUBLISHED: 18:02, 24 January 2016 | UPDATED: 01:03, 25 January 2016
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders said they'd welcome a Michael Bloomberg presidential run – while Hillary Clinton said the former New York City mayor won't have to bother – because she's winning the nomination.
Bloomberg is mulling a third-party run, which is motivated by Donald Trump's dominance in the Republican primary and Clinton's apparent weakness to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic one.
'I know Michael very well, I'd love to compete against Michael,' Trump said today on Face the Nation. 'And I think he might very well get in the race and I would love to have him in the race.'



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Michael Bloomberg is reportedly mulling a third-party presidential run - inspired by Donald Trump's dominance in the Republican polls and Hillary Clinton's weakened stance in the Democratic race

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Donald Trump seemed to enjoy the challenge that a third-party bid from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would bring to the presidential race

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Hillary Clinton said on Meet the Press today that Michael Bloomberg won't have to run for president - because she's winning the Democratic nomination

Trump seemed to enjoy the idea of a challenge from another New York City billionaire.
'He's very opposite on me with guns and he's opposite on pro-life and he's opposite on a lot of things, so I would love to have Michael get in the race,' Trump said. 'But I don't know if he's going to do it, but I hope he does, I would love to compete against Michael.'
Bloomberg has been one of the loudest political voices for more gun control measures, helping form Mayors Against Illegal Guns in 2006, which combined with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America in 2014 to create Everytown for Gun Safety.
Face the Nation host John Dickerson pointed out one of the reasons Bloomberg was thinking about a run was to 'counter balance' Trump.
The Donald said this was a good thing.
'Michael's been a friend of mine over the years, perhaps we't not friends anymore,' Trump said. 'You know, he's wanted to do this for a long time and he never pulled the trigger. We'll see if he does right now.'
Clinton also discussed her friendship with the former mayor during an appearance on Meet the Press.
'He's a good friend of mine,' the former secretary of state told host Chuck Todd. 'And I'm going to do the best I can to sure that I get the nomination and we'll go from there.'

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Bring on the billionaires! Bernie Sanders said that adding Michael Bloomberg to the race would make the Vermont senator even more electable


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Todd asked Clinton if she was concerned about Bloomberg getting in the race.
'Well, the way I read what he said is if I didn't get the nomination, he might consider it,' Clinton replied. 'Well, I'm going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn't have to.'
Bloomberg said he'd be willing to spend $1 billion on the race, according to the New York Times.
Sanders, when asked about it on Meet the Press, seemed downright giddy about another rich guy entering the presidential race.
'Well, my reaction is that if Donald Trump wins and Mr. Bloomberg gets in, you're going to have two multi-billionaires running for president of the United States against me,' Sanders said.
'And I think the American people do not want to see our nation move toward an oligarchy where billionaires control the political process,' Sanders continued.
'I think we'll win that election,' Sanders added.
Bloomberg will make a decision one way or another by early March, which would ensure that he'd be giving his team enough time to get his name on the ballots in all 50 states.

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[h=1]Sorry Ted! Donald Trump is back on top in Iowa in TWO new polls - and way ahead in New Hampshire[/h]

• Both Fox News and CBS put out new polls today with Donald Trump overtaking Ted Cruz in Iowa
• The two polls have Trump out front in New Hampshire too - with Cruz in second place in the Granite State
• CBS also looked at the Democrats and found that Bernie Sanders is one point ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa

PUBLISHED: 23:11, 24 January 2016 | UPDATED: 23:11, 24 January 2016
It's a good day for The Donald as two new polls have him out in front in Iowa, with just a little more than a week left before the Feb 1. caucuses.
Today's new CBS News/YouGov poll has Donald Trump up by five points in the Hawkeye state, receiving 39 percent of the vote to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's share of 34 percent.
A second poll released by Fox News shows Trump with an 11 point lead, with 34 percent of the vote to Cruz's 23 percent.

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Donald Trump has is five points ahead of Ted Cruz in one poll out of Iowa and 11 points ahead of the Texas senator in another

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Ted Cruz was giving Donald Trump a run for his money, but Trump may have been boosted by Sarah Palin's endorsement in Iowa last week, among other things

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Donald Trump has regained the lead in Iowa in the newest Fox News poll. Ted Cruz is back in second place while Marco Rubio is in third

Iowa was the closest contest for Trump, who's polling by wide margins among national Republicans as well.
Two weeks ago, he was being bested by Cruz in a Fox News poll, receiving 23 percent, while Cruz was narrowly ahead with 27 percent, but now the billionaire has regained his ground.
Trump is coming off two strong weeks, winning the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and deflecting attacks from Cruz about his 'New York values.'
Meanwhile, the governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, encouraged Republicans not to vote for Cruz over his views on ethanol subsidies. S
'We tend to over-interpret every little thing in a presidential race, but here we actually have solid evidence Trump didn't just win last week in Iowa – he won it by enough to put some distance between himself and Cruz,' said Fox's Republican pollster Daron Shaw.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is the only candidate also polling in the double digits in Iowa.
In the CBS New/YouGov poll Rubio receives 13 percent of the Republican primary vote, versus the 12 percent he gets in the Fox News survey.
Moving on to New Hampshire, the Granite State is still the Donald Trump show.
The CBS News/YouGov poll has Trump out in front receiving 34 percent of the vote.
Cruz has moved up to 16 percent, while Rubio is at 14 percent.

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Donald Trump is way out front in New Hampshire, according to two news polls from CBS News and Fox News Channel



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Ohio Gov. John Kasich is receiving 10 percent, followed by Jeb Bush and Chris Christie with 7 percent, Ben Carson at 5 percent, Carly Fiorina with 4 percent and Rand Paul with 3 percent.
The Fox poll also has Trump, Cruz and Rubio in the three top spots.
Trump has a 17 point lead in this poll, capturing 31 percent of the vote.
Cruz has 14 percent, Rubio has 13 percent, Kasich receives 9 percent.
Like the CBS poll, Bush and Christie are tied at 7 percent.
Paul is tied with Carson at 5 percent and Fiorina has 3 percent support.
In the Fox poll, Mike Huckabee is polling at 1 percent. In the CBS poll, he and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum received zero percent support.
CBS also surveyed Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and found that Bernie Sanders currently has more support in the first two contest states.
In Iowa, it's super close, with Sanders only beating Clinton by one point.
Sanders receives 47 percent in the new poll to Clinton's 46 percent.
In New Hampshire, the Vermont senator is up by double digits.
He receives 57 percent to Clinton's 38 percent.

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[SheriffJoe]

Trump has poll numbers. Cruz has a ground game second to none. 12,000+ volunteers going door to door and making personal phone calls.

If Cruz is within 7-10 points in Iowa, he will probably win and if he's tied or ahead he'll win comfortably.

New Hampshire is a different story. If Trump is ahead 20 pts Cruz will probably will not catch him, but then every one of these polls are historically unreliable.

 

[neverbend]

The Hollywood/Sportingbet.eu odds to win Iowa are Trump -250 - Cruz +175
The 5 Dimes odds to win Iowa are Trump -195 - Cruz +155

3 weeks ago Cruz edged ahead slightly but it's been downhill for him since

In New Hampshire at Bookmaker/DSI family of books Cruz is 4th behind
Trump -450
Kasich +835
Rubio +845
Cruz +863

The Hollywood/Sportingbet.eu odds in NH
Trump -500
Kasich +800
Rubio +1000
Cruz +1400

For the nomination
Trump -175
Rubio +250
Cruz +950
Bush +1500

Cruz chances according to those who predict which is a better indicator than polls
are closer to the chances of Bush than they are to Trump.

 

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[h=6]- JANUARY 26, 2016 -[/h][h=1]EVANGELICAL LEADER JERRY FALWELL JR. ENDORSES TRUMP[/h]The Washington Post
Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of the late televangelist, endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday, giving Republican front-runner the blessing of one of the evangelical community’s biggest names just days before the Iowa caucuses.
In a statement announcing his endorsement, Falwell called Trump “a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.”
Falwell’s move has long been expected since he has showered praise on the billionaire in recent weeks and developed a rapport with Trump. But the timing of the formal announcement is significant, coming as Trump and Ted Cruz compete intensely in Iowa for the support of social conservatives.
“It is truly an honor to receive Jerry’s endorsement. Not only is he a high-quality person, with a wonderful family, whom I have great respect for – I also consider him a very good friend and his support means so much to me,” Trump said in a statement.
Coming a week after evangelical favorite Sarah Palin endorsed Trump, Falwell represents the latest attempt by Trump to cut into Cruz’s deep support among born-again Christians nationwide and showcase his own popularity with prominent people of faith.
Falwell in particular has a Cruz connection: when the Texas senator launched his presidential campaign last year, he did so at Liberty University.
Trump’s appeals to religious voters, however, have gone beyond splashy endorsements. On the campaign trail in Iowa, he now begins rallies with a prayer. In Souix City, it the prayer was offered by Dallas mega-church pastor Robert Jeffress. And on Sunday, he attended a Presbyterian service where he met with churchgoers and posed for pictures.
The Falwell endorsement came together over the course of several months, with the school leader and Trump exchanging private phone, according to Republicans familiar with the relationship. By late last year, Falwell was publicly encouraging Trump, even though he held off on an endorsement. “Trump reminds me so much of my father,” he said in a December interview with Fox News.
When Trump appeared on Jan. 18 at Liberty, a Christian college in Lynchburg, Va., Falwell’s introduction was effusive.
“In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment,” Falwell said.
“He cannot be bought, he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates ... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters,” he added.
Falwell then spoke of his father’s support for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, an affiliation that was controversial in some evangelical circles since Reagan’s opponent in the 1980 election, then president Jimmy Carter, was a devout Southern Baptist.
“When he walked into the voting booth, he wasn’t electing a Sunday school teacher or a pastor or even a president who shared his theological beliefs; he was electing the president of the United States with the talents, abilities and experience required to lead a nation,” Falwell said of his father. “After all, Jimmy Carter was a great Sunday school teacher, but look at what happened to our nation with him in the presidency. Sorry.”
As Trump took the stage, he shook Falwell's hand and embraced him. "To be compared to his father, just a little bit, to be compared to his father is really an honor for me, so I want to thank Jerry for saying that,” Trump told the crowd.
The Trump campaign has since cut the audio of Falwell’s remarks into a 60-second radio ad.
Liberty, a massive and influential Christian university with 14,000 on-campus students and 66,000 enrolled online, has net assets worth more than $1 billion and is known for its conservative culture. Students live by a strict code of conduct: No alcohol, no sex outside of marriage, no shorts in class. Three times a week all students are required to attend "convocation," a loud, highly produced religious gathering that features guest speakers.
Although the university is forbidden from taking stances on political issues as a condition of its tax-exempt status, Liberty is often at the epicenter of Republican politics. The elder Falwell, who died in 2007, was a blunt-spoken man who led a "Moral Majority" political movement.
Since the institution does not take positions on candidates for public office, Falwell’s endorsement is an explicitly personal one, the Trump campaign said.

 

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- JANUARY 26TH, 2016 -

JERRY FALWELL JR.'S ENDORSEMENT​

Dear Guesser What a great honor --- the Reverend Jerry Falwell Jr. of Liberty University, one of the most respected religious leaders in our nation, has just endorsed me! Evangelical Leader Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Trump We are less than one week away from the Iowa Caucus! If you do not know your Caucus location please go to DonaldJTrump.com to determine where you should be on Monday night to show your support. We are leading in all national and state polls and together we will Make America Great Again! Best Wishes, Donald J. Trump

 

[loomis41973]

Another bid endorsement coming up for Trump. Let the avalanche begin.

dbanana0-9

 

[neverbend]

Another bid endorsement coming up for Trump. Let the avalanche begin.

dbanana0-9

Out of state endorsers who have campaigned with candidates

Trumps All Star endorsements
Jerry Falwell Jr. (Evangelicals) a 10- Sarah Palin (Tea Party) a 10- Joe Arpaio (Immigaration) a 10

The opposition

Bush- Lindsey Graham (for Amesty) a 0

Cruz- Glen Beck (?) a 0- Rick Perry (0)

 

[Michelangelo]

On a lighter note, you've gotta hand it to Tina Fey. What a great Palin impersonation. Funny, funny skit.

 

[The Guesser]

What a phony. Big, tough talking Bully, and he's scared Shitless of a little, tiny Woman.

Donald Trump Boycotting Republican Debate Because Megyn Kelly Is a Moderator

January 26, 2016 @ 08:31 PM / By Kathy Campbell

Donald Trump Credit: Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images That didn't take long. Just hours after Fox News announced that Megyn Kelly would be a moderator at the next Republican debate, Donald Trump decided to skip the event.
The GOP front-runner's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, confirmed on Tuesday, January 26, that Trump "will not be participating in the Fox News debate on Thursday,"

Trump, 69, who memorably clashed with Kelly during and after a GOP debate last August, hinted on Monday, January 25, that he would be a no-show if she was chosen as a moderator for Thursday's debate. "Fox will drop Kelly if it means no Trump," he tweeted. "Nobody will watch w/o Trump."
Earlier on Tuesday he told supporters on Twitter that having Kelly as a moderator was a "Pathetic attempt by @foxnews to try and build up ratings for the #GOPDebate. Without me they'd have no ratings!" He also posted a video on his Instagram account stating, "Megyn Kelly is really biased against me. She knows that. I know that. Everybody knows that. Do you think she can really be fair at a debate?"
But the network stuck with Kelly, and Trump decided to walk, telling reporters at a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday as news of his boycott was announced, "Let's see how much money Fox is going to make on the debate without me."
The billionaire businessman's problems with Kelly, 45, began when she quizzed him during the August debate about calling women he doesn't like "fat pigs" and "slobs." The following day he told CNN that the Fox News host was "a lightweight."

 

[loomis41973]

Not scared at all.... will likely do his own show and donate the $$$.

 

[loomis41973]

...or appear on FOX and say his supporters begged him to. Win WIN

 

[The Guesser]

Not scared at all.... will likely do his own show and donate the $$$.

Of course he's scared. Of honest Journalism, and tough questions. He's a pathetic joke. He wants to be a tin horn bully dictator of all things, and when he doesn't get his way, he shows his colors. Of course his hypnotized follows will make excuses. Trump is right, he could go downstairs and shoot somebody, and his sycophant followers will still be hypnotized, brain dead followers.

 

[neverbend]

What a phony. Big, tough talking Bully, and he's scared Shitless of a little, tiny Woman.

Donald Trump Boycotting Republican Debate Because Megyn Kelly Is a Moderator

January 26, 2016 @ 08:31 PM / By Kathy Campbell

Donald Trump Credit: Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images That didn't take long. Just hours after Fox News announced that Megyn Kelly would be a moderator at the next Republican debate, Donald Trump decided to skip the event.
The GOP front-runner's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, confirmed on Tuesday, January 26, that Trump "will not be participating in the Fox News debate on Thursday,"

Trump, 69, who memorably clashed with Kelly during and after a GOP debate last August, hinted on Monday, January 25, that he would be a no-show if she was chosen as a moderator for Thursday's debate. "Fox will drop Kelly if it means no Trump," he tweeted. "Nobody will watch w/o Trump."
Earlier on Tuesday he told supporters on Twitter that having Kelly as a moderator was a "Pathetic attempt by @foxnews to try and build up ratings for the #GOPDebate. Without me they'd have no ratings!" He also posted a video on his Instagram account stating, "Megyn Kelly is really biased against me. She knows that. I know that. Everybody knows that. Do you think she can really be fair at a debate?"
But the network stuck with Kelly, and Trump decided to walk, telling reporters at a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday as news of his boycott was announced, "Let's see how much money Fox is going to make on the debate without me."
The billionaire businessman's problems with Kelly, 45, began when she quizzed him during the August debate about calling women he doesn't like "fat pigs" and "slobs." The following day he told CNN that the Fox News host was "a lightweight."

Trump was all set to appear in that Fox debate until Ailes put out this unusual response to
Trump's anti- Ms. Kelly tweets. It was this remark which changed Trump's tune, not a fear
of Kelly but I must admit he has a huge dislike for Kelly doesn't even want to be in the room
with someone like her.

"We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump
unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has
his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those
meetings."

And this silly Cruz guy is trying to take advantage of this bruhaha, so frantic that now he's
challenging Donald Trump to a 'mano mano' one on one Lincoln-Douglas type debate.
Sounds familiar? It's always a tactic of the also-rans.

For the better part of the 2012 prinaries, Gingrich touted the idea of Lincoln-Douglas
style debates, inviting his GOP opponents to face him and also promising to challenge
President Obama to seven of them, at three hours each.

Huntsman did take Newt up on a 1 on 1 Jon Huntsman:ut their 'Lincoln-Douglas' Debate
Failed To Have Much Disagreement. It was dry enough at times to prompt Huntsman
to joke about putting one of his daughters to sleep.

Those anxious for an Obama-Gingrich Lincoln-Douglas debate, didn’t hold their breath.

 

[The Guesser]

Trump was all set to appear in that Fox debate until Ailes put out this unusual response to
Trump's anti- Ms. Kelly tweets. It was this remark which changed Trump's tune, not a fear
of Kelly but I must admit he has a huge dislike for Kelly doesn't even want to be in the room
with someone like her.

"We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump
unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president — a nefarious source tells us that Trump has
his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those
meetings."

And this silly Cruz guy is trying to take advantage of this bruhaha, so frantic that now he's
challenging Donald Trump to a 'mano mano' one on one Lincoln-Douglas type debate.
Sounds familiar? It's always a tactic of the also-rans.

For the better part of the 2012 prinaries, Gingrich touted the idea of Lincoln-Douglas
style debates, inviting his GOP opponents to face him and also promising to challenge
President Obama to seven of them, at three hours each.

Huntsman did take Newt up on a 1 on 1 Jon Huntsman:ut their 'Lincoln-Douglas' Debate
Failed To Have Much Disagreement. It was dry enough at times to prompt Huntsman
to joke about putting one of his daughters to sleep.

Those anxious for an Obama-Gingrich Lincoln-Douglas debate, didn’t hold their breath.

So he's running away and going home because Ailes told the truth in a funny way. Trump is a nothing but a punk.

 

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So he's running away and going home because Ailes told the truth in a funny way. Trump is a nothing but a punk.

 

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[h=1]In New Hampshire, Donald Trump's supporters can have his face tattooed on them for free[/h]
[h=2]Even in seemingly wealthy New England, the Republican frontrunner taps into a vein of resentment among white Americans who feel their economic and cultural status is being ripped away[/h]

Robert Holmes outside one of his tattoo parlours (Dermot Tatlow)












Robert Holmes says he will give free tattoos of Donald Trump to any willing customer, so enamoured is he of the Republican presidential frontrunner.

The 48-year-old hasn’t voted in decades but now his tattoo parlour - a bachelor-style pad complete with leather sofas, dragon statues and a stripper’s pole - proudly bears Mr Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ election slogan on the door.



“I think he is going to help the country in huge ways,” Mr Holmes said, looking out at the depressing row of adult video shops and liquor stores that are his neighboring businesses in the New Hampshire town of Exeter. “The only one who can save us is Donald Trump.”

Exeter, New Hampshire: behind the apparent wealth is a large number of 'working poor' (Dermot Tatlow)

With a week to go until the Iowa caucus, when the first votes of the 2016 elections are cast, panic has set in among the Republican establishmentover Mr Trump’s relentless rise in the polls.



The real-estate mogul is leading in the first-in-the-nation state with 37% of the Republican vote, a full 11 points clear of Ted Cruz, the evangelical Texas senator and his nearest rival. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator seen by the Republican establishment as their best chance of beating Mr Trump is languishing woefully behind.


But their scrambled efforts to beat the man they once wrote off as a political joke are being thwarted by a insurgent movement of furious, mostly white, voters they thought had checked out of politics long ago.



Mr Trump has tapped into a vein of resentment from a growing segment of the country’s population that feels its economic and cultural status is being ripped away.


His popularity is rooted in the trailer parks, shipping yards, factories and small businesses – places where the American Dream of prosperity through hard graft has soured.
For the first time since at least the 1960s, the majority of Americans are no longer in the middle class (a term that in America often includes blue collar employment).


According to a recent study by the Pew Research Centre, less than half the country is in the middle-income bracket, down from 61% in 1971.





Amid this great "hollowing out" of middle America, those that cling on do so with shrinking wealth. In the face of chronically stagnating wages, the median net worth of families today is barely higher than it was 30 years ago.


Most white Americans believe that in an economy of widening inequality, in which the vast majority of the wealth is going to a small percentage at the top, the future for their children is bleak.




These millions of disaffected lower and middle class voters are also responding to the populist message of the insurgent candidate of the left,Bernie Sanders, often described as the American Jeremy Corbyn.


Though their prescriptions are wildly different, both Mr Trump and Mr Sanders speak to what they see is a “40 year decline” in the living standards of the average American.


This powerful message is seeing Mr Sanders also rise in the polls, placing him ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.





“I don’t even know what the middle class is any more,” said Mr Holmes. “Every time somebody tries to do a little better for themselves then they get more screwed.”
The decline is not limited to the country’s less wealthy states, such as Mississippi and West Virginia. Even in leafy New England, behind the white picket fences of picturesque painted wooden-slat homes, white poverty is on the rise.


Just five months ago, Mr Holmes’s friend Aleigsha Welch, 32, was living the life of a normal American mother.

Aleigsha Welch poses with her children outside the Exeter church they are staying in (Dermot Tatlow)


She and her partner Nathan Rogers, 34, spent their days working and taking care of their four children. They lived in a comfortable home, along with the family dog.






But after Mr Rogers injured his back, their problems quickly spiralled: he lost his job, they were evicted from their home, and they sank into the indignity of becoming one of the homeless “working poor”.


“This past year has been hard for us,” said Ms Welch, speaking from a shelter in Exeter where they now life. “We tried to survive on the wages from my job at first – I was a garden landscaper - but we couldn’t make the rent.”

Aleigsha with Nathan Rogers and their children at the Seacoast Family Promise shelter (Dermot Tatlow)


Amid the stress of searching for a home and keeping their children in school, Ms Welch too was fired from her work.


She found another job, working in a petrol station, but the pay, at less than $8 an hour, was not enough to survive on: “We had to move to a camping ground. We lived in a tent. This job barely covered the fees for that.”


Taken in by Seacoast Family Promise – a non-profit organisation that houses homeless families in churches – they are trying to build rebuild their lives, step by step.


She works as a maid in a hotel chain for $10 per hour, while he is a labourer with a manufacturing company, earning less than $13 an hour.


"People say homeless people don’t want to work,” said Nate. “I am in the factory by 4am and I work a 58-hour week".


Across the country, millions of once comfortable Americans are now living pay cheque to pay cheque. With no financial cushion, even a small extra bill for a car repair can push them over the edge.


"Family homelessness is the fastest growing homelessness in the country. Families are not making it,” said Pati Frew-Waters, the executive director of Seacoast Family Promise. “We’ve had people here who have university degrees; people here who survived cancer, but not the financial end of it. We’ve had well educated average American families here."


The statistics are bleak: Exeter, a picturesque town that houses the Phillips Exeter Academy – an American answer to Eton – has a population of about 13,800, but more than 2,000 are in need of food aid according to a local charity.

In Exeter, one in seven requires food aid, accordig to a local charity (Dermot Tatlow)


In the face of this stark economic decline, disaffected voters have found solace in Mr Trump, as a radical spokesman.


They cite his experience as a businessman, and his promise to “bring jobs back from China”.


Yet loss of wealth is not the only determining factor of Mr Trump’s support.





America’s changing demographics – whites will no longer be the majority by 2040 – is leaving segments of a once privileged population feeling they are losing their advantage.


For conservative whites, institutional changes, such as the legalising of gay marriage, and the increase in the non-white population is leading to a sense that the “moral fabric” of the country, as they define it, is being lost. And it is giving rise to an ugly strain of, often overt, racism.


“This country was made great by the white American male and now it's being given away to others," said one Trump supporter, who asked not to be named, as he lounged in a cigar shop in a parking lot not far from Mr Holmes’s tattoo parlour. “We are bending over backwards to suspend our own culture for that of another. Enough of the white guilt.“

Trump speaks at a rally in Sarasota, Florida


They revel in Mr Trump’s clear eschewing of political correctness. At his rallies he whips up crowds using an authoritarian style that pits “us” – the people in the room – against an undefined enemy. Sometimes the "they" are Mexicans; at other times “Muslims”.


His slogan of Making America Great Again, implies a harking back to a golden era – a time of post-World War Two economic prosperity that was essentially enjoyed by a dominant white America.


Past elections have also thrown up radicals like Mr Trump, but as voting day nears they have fallen away and the establishment choice – Mitt Romney and John McCain in the last two Republican nominations – has emerged the winner.


But just days away from the first votes, there is little evidence that that is how the chips will fall this election.


"Americans have decided not to vote for a career politician this time,” said Tom Dimasi, 51, a taxi driver, describing his view of the Washington elite. “Sure, Donald Trump is controversial. But when you are looking for someone to fight for you, you don’t choose a priest.”