For years now the Republican Party has sown hate, discord, racism and anti-gay bigotry as a means to dupe voters into voting against their own best interests at election time. Now, Donald Trump is beating the GOP establishment at its own game and sending terror coursing throughout the party establishment as he continues to lead the GOP candidate pack even after his remarks slamming John McCain's POW experience. Besides visiting the USA/Texas border to maintain his assault on illegal immigrants, Trump gave an interview to The Hill during which he threatened to run as an independent candidate if he fails to win the GOP nomination and/or feels mistreated by the GOP. here are highlights from The Hill:
Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will “absolutely” increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season.
“The RNC has not been supportive. They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy,” the business mogul told The Hill in a 40-minute interview from his Manhattan office at Trump Tower on Wednesday. “The RNC has been, I think, very foolish.”
Trump told The Hill that the GOP establishment in Washington dislikes him because he’s not part of the political class.
“I’m not in the gang. I’m not in the group where the group does whatever it’s supposed to do,” he said. “I want to do what’s right for the country — not what’s good for special interest groups that contribute, not what’s good for the lobbyists and the donors.”
The real estate magnate has upended the Republican presidential primary, with recent national polls showing that he is leading the 16-candidate field. Many in the party’s establishment, pointing to his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants and McCain, say that Trump is badly hurting the GOP brand.
Yet he is connecting with a significant chunk of GOP voters.
Trump told The Hill that the GOP establishment in Washington dislikes him because he’s not part of the political class.
“I’m not in the gang. I’m not in the group where the group does whatever it’s supposed to do,” he said. “I want to do what’s right for the country — not what’s good for special interest groups that contribute, not what’s good for the lobbyists and the donors.”
The real estate magnate has upended the Republican presidential primary, with recent national polls showing that he is leading the 16-candidate field. Many in the party’s establishment, pointing to his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants and McCain, say that Trump is badly hurting the GOP brand.
He insisted that his remarks about McCain and immigration have not and will not hurt him, and pointed to several recent polls to make his point.
Not surprisingly, Trump is a big fan of polls now. At one point, he whipped out a survey that he had inside his suit pocket, and later he called on an aide to print out the latest poll numbers showing him leading former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).
As I have said before, get out the popcorn. The GOP show is going to be very entertaining - despite much exasperation over the batshitery and bigotry.
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I fervently hope that Trump runs a third-party (of one) presidential campaign. My sole concern is that in contrast some will think that the very reactionary Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, et al. are sort of reasonable.
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