Officerrob
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Trump is all Bush, all the time in this press conference
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She needs to balance her ticket out with youth. Castro or Kaine. Bet on it.
Officerrob
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Reporter asks a question about Wisconsin, Trump replies, "I don't know much about Wisconsin, but in Florida I'm way ahead of Bush"
Trump also just said the Univision reporter is part of his lawsuit AFTER saying he had no idea who he was earlier
Trump also just said the Univision reporter is part of his lawsuit AFTER saying he had no idea who he was earlier
But most of it was in Super PAC money. I guess one of the problems with being so extremely dependent on the mega donors is that you're still limited when it comes to contributions to your campaign. Below is the list of contributions to the candidates themselves through June 30th.
Jeb Bush is flying all around the country in a private jet to do a new interview or speech in a new state every day. I have to imagine he's blowing through money way faster than Perry just doing that. Trump is doing the same but all that is coming out of his own pocket.
But he gets the money in the end, no? Does it matter so much if he collects it from megadonors into the super pac?
I just think, like, wow he raised 120 mm. its insane. does he really need more for a while? how could he possibly need more?
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thepotatoman
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They've defended so many horrible comments, now that Trump is making those horrible comments extra obvious, they can't attack him. The beauty of it is that Hillary can certainly attack him, and mainstream media can certainly attack him and people will listen, but not the audience of a conservative media that has a super long history defending offensive comments like that.
PlayALLtheGames
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Lindsey Graham is hilarious. An idiot overall, but this is great:
I mean he's right about everything, of course, but just the way he says it. I always forget he's actually running for president.
I mean he's right about everything, of course, but just the way he says it. I always forget he's actually running for president.
I turned on CNN and Trump has been rambling for over 5 minutes at an Iowa rally about Nielsen ratings of various episodes of Saturday Night Live. Alright then.
And now he is on to taking about now Network up fronts work. This is uh...not political in the slightest.
I haven't watched one of his rallies before. Does he tend to ramble about inside Hollywood nonsense without much of a real point often?
And now he is on to taking about now Network up fronts work. This is uh...not political in the slightest.
I haven't watched one of his rallies before. Does he tend to ramble about inside Hollywood nonsense without much of a real point often?
I don't think it matters. The media and conservative base will eat up anything at this point. Trump could call Megyn Kelly a slut(no offense) tomorrow and jump 10 pts probably.
Trump gonna Trump.
Could've been alright in my books if he were not such a warhawk. Still, he does make sense from time to time.
Thequietone
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I can't help but read Lindsey Graham quotes in Jon Stewart's impersonation of him. Well, I do declare it is hot out here today. lol
Coriolanus
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Given how correct Donald has been about what his base likes so far, shouldn't be a matter of being ridiculous, but of having a good feel for how they'll read the move.
It's near hypnotic, can't turn away.
Coriolanus
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PhoenixDark
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Cheebs, tell everyone about how the 2008 Obama campaign put you in camera view because of your race lol.
Back when I was in college I should have become a black conservative just to make money. It's quite a lucrative racket.
FloydtheFathead
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I'm about all-in on Warner at this point. Latinos are already pushed to the Democrats pretty forcefully (thanks Trumpy!), so Castro would give limited added margin, and his limited experience could blow back in her face if voters see him as a blindly pandering choice.
Warner, in his last poll, had an approval-disapproval of 59-25 in Virginia. Crazy margin!
2 Senate seats to defend in 2018? Please No.
Oh god I forgot about that! To those other than PD, I went to an Obama rally early on in the primaries in a pretty predominantly African American area. To say the audience was over 80% African American would be a understatement, of course I got picked to be behind him on stage for the cameras and of course us on stage made a perfect combination of white, hispanic, black, sex, age etc while starring at a room of people that did not match.
Was fun to see how that game works first hand.
RustyNails
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this Trump speech
JHoNNy1OoO
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More like "Stream of consciousness". He's talking about whatever pops into his head at that moment.
It is insane.
I got to give him credit for not having a canned stump speech at the very least.
RastaMentality
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He barely uses filler words too. How does he do this without getting stuck?
Here's a senator debate:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?308624-1/virginia-senate-debate
Admittedly, I'm banking on 2018 not being quite as crazy-bad as 2014. And I'm banking on two more years of demo change putting Virginia more firmly into Democrat territory.
Just found Kaine's approval-disapproval. 52-32. Not bad for a plan B.
I'd want to know which guy has bigger skeletons, etc. And I haven't seen Kaine speak publicly or debate.
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thepotatoman
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As long as he's still a candidate, he's still subject to the same regulations that were in place before Citizens United. Super PACs cannot give more than a certain amount to a candidate. This includes in-kind contributions, which mean if they even give him a word of advice, they have to report to the FEC exactly how much it cost to pay those advisors to come up with that advice and all that counts towards the limit.
There's certainly a line you can skirt on that if you're creative enough, but Bush can't rely exclusively on that.
RustyNails
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He has completely turned the traditional campaigning upside down. He turned it into a stand-up mixed with policy seriousness.
I am ignorant on this. What is the limit the super pacs can give to the candidates?
And are we talking about directly give vs. just run negative attack ads under the guise of someone else?
Or are you saying this presents a problem in directly compensating campaign staff and ground organization, etc
Aaron Strife
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I'd say Kaine myself of the two Virginia senators just to avoid having to defend two seats as NeoXChaos said. I mean don't get me wrong I don't think Democrats would have a bad chance at holding both of them but it's not worth the risk. Warner is very popular but he almost lost in 2014.
speculawyer
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Yes. He often rambles and goes off on weird tangents. But he does it so smoothly, throws in insults, and brings up amusing anecdotes such that it is mesmerizing. And all done with no teleprompter. He really is a showman. What he says often makes absolutely no sense in the real world but you just want to go with him into Trump land.
I'm watching the debate right now (thanks, Rasta!); I like Kaine's speaking style a ton more than Warner's. He'll do!
edit:
FreeRepublic reacts to the Ramos news: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3329150/posts
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thepotatoman
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$2,600 or $5,000 is the limit for super pacs to directly give to individual candidates.
When it comes to running ads, Super PACs can basically do whatever they want, as long as they haven't coordinated with the candidate to do so. Citizen's United said this sort of thing is just an endorsement, and not a contribution.
But a campaign is more than running ads. Every time Jeb Bush personally gets in front of a crowd or camera, he's doing so with his own money, with the help of his own campaign staff, and Super PACs can't do much at all to help with that.
Interesting so what if there was no Citizen United like before 2010? Where would that $100 million he raised likely have gone to instead?
Because then they're on The YouTube
RustyNails
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Trump is a genius.
He boils down wonkish, boring topics like the trade deficit and value-added tax into vessels of conservative anger through his brand of "straight talkin". He had people eating out his hands by the end of the Iowa speech. He says outrageous shit every 4 days such as "Megyn Kelly is a bimbo lol". These two scenarios play out every week, thus ensuring everyone's talking about him and only him, punctuated by Jeb's goofs. He's gonna win this thing.
He boils down wonkish, boring topics like the trade deficit and value-added tax into vessels of conservative anger through his brand of "straight talkin". He had people eating out his hands by the end of the Iowa speech. He says outrageous shit every 4 days such as "Megyn Kelly is a bimbo lol". These two scenarios play out every week, thus ensuring everyone's talking about him and only him, punctuated by Jeb's goofs. He's gonna win this thing.
Coriolanus
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I'd like to meet this universe where people would go "omg, i was totally gonna vote for hillary, but she put castro as vp? fuck that, trump/jebba it is".
Get castro, double down on florida, laugh.
Glad to see everyone is coming around. Trump is a total moron about many things, many many things, but the press cycle is not one of them.
RustyNails
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Last week my odds of him getting the nom was less than 40%. Today it's maybe 55%.
Of course Jeb's near constant gaffe's added to the equation. I wish I had incognito's percentometer machine from 2008.
BertramCooper
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Even if Trump doesn't win and bows out before Super Tuesday, what if he comes out and endorses someone like Ted Cruz?
I mean, shit.
I mean, shit.
Tarkus
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Here's Trump calling in to the Howard Stern Show today. Nothing too remarkable.
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