"Senator Rubio.. do you still stand with Trump?"
Now imagine Murphy asking this in every one of the umpteen debates they're about to have.
Also:
LOL at GOP primary oppo researchers. They didn't do jack shit in trying to take him down.
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Now imagine Murphy asking this in every one of the umpteen debates they're about to have.
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LOL at GOP primary oppo researchers. They didn't do jack shit in trying to take him down.
I hope there's more in it than this Bloomberg story from the end of July:
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-donald-trump-golf-cuba/
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For anyone saying "Eh, this won't be that big of a deal" you have no idea how much Castro is hated among Cuban voters in Miami. There are, literally, no words for the level of hatred, anger and disgust at Castro. Bernie refusing to walkback his praise from Castro was a guarantee he would lose the state.
A GOP nominee needs Cuban voters. Trump was already losing them by a point or two. If this is confirmed, this will be everywhere in Miami-Dade tomorrow, and he will be so royally fucked i'ts not even funny.
Also, I'm Priorities, I'm cutting an ad once I read this. I'm putting pictures of hardworking Americans with the voice saying "He didn't pay them for their hard work" and then cut to Fidel "But he had no problems paying him." And then I'm running that 24/7 all day, everyday in Florida.
A GOP nominee needs Cuban voters. Trump was already losing them by a point or two. If this is confirmed, this will be everywhere in Miami-Dade tomorrow, and he will be so royally fucked i'ts not even funny.
Also, I'm Priorities, I'm cutting an ad once I read this. I'm putting pictures of hardworking Americans with the voice saying "He didn't pay them for their hard work" and then cut to Fidel "But he had no problems paying him." And then I'm running that 24/7 all day, everyday in Florida.
If he did actual business that's bad. based on what we know so far they talked to former execs and have internal documents. And if he was using his charity to move money? oh boy.
But I'm probably getting to hyped about this. At best I feel it'll have some Cuban voters in Florida wavering a bit.
Aaron Strife
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PPP poll is ok. Wonder what it looks like without third parties
That should be the only ad Priorities runs in Florida. Just dump all the money into it.
RustyNails
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The castro story will get play. Only because Trump himself will bring attention to it. Failing magazine with lies. Sad!
eBay Huckster
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posted about that newsweek scoop on facebook, someone immediately tried to deflect into the clinton foundation
Spoiled Milk
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No, I gave your excerpt a test run with some friends and they all found it riotous.
I was just thinking about this yesterday. It seems like such a missed opportunity for the GOP to not paint Bill as a serial rapist and Hillary as a rapist-sympathizer. I mean, it seems extreme, but it's not like any line of attack is off limits for Trump. And honestly, given what we know, it wouldn't have been a huge stretch convincing chunks of swing voters and Millennials. All it takes is a couple testimonials and a huge spotlight from mainstream conservative media (Like Fox, instead of just Breitbart). It also fits the strategy of turning strengths into weaknesses (Hillary's history of fighting for women becomes a legacy of threatening women and defending her rapist husband).
Maybe GOP leaders have such little regard for women that they didn't think voters would care. Or maybe they're so terrified by the skeletons in their own closet that they were afraid of getting burned.
Yea nah lol. Not even the same, and it has potential to screw him over with a legit voting demo that he absolutely needs to win the state.
RustyNails
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This is better than PD's fanfics.
whyamihere
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I'll take +4 from PPP.
Randolph Freelander
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Don't tell them what you're going to do! By the way, here's what I'm about to do.
Dominican Power
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Opposition to Castro is the only reason Cubans vote Republican
Black Mamba
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So, since the article isn't out, what do we know about the article?
In that, what are the accusations being levied. I missed Maddow.
In that, what are the accusations being levied. I missed Maddow.
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Randolph Freelander
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Are you an expert?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-article-to-look-at-trump-ties-to-cuba-775347779553
Link to Maddow discussing it. Watching it right now.
Beer Monkey
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"Follow the money!", yelled Trump at his Wisconsin rally tonight.
Let's follow it to Cuba.
Let's follow it to Cuba.
That's actually worse than I thought it was. Not only did he violate the embargo, but he used a charity organization to do it. Only way this could be better is if he funneled money through the Trump Foundation.
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And it now legitimizes every, single instance we have of Trump using his charity to hide transactions. It validates Bondi, the god awful portraits, all of it. Everything.
Seriously how didn't they dig up at least one of these stories? Did Jeb spend to much on banners? And Rubio hire a f-ing newsie to do his research?
Sooooo
Is it time to dispel with this fiction that mi abuela doesn't know what she's doing? She knows exactly what she's doing.
Every. Fucking. Time. This campaign has faced a major moment, they've delivered in the biggest way I dared to imagine. Every super Tuesday when Bernie was planning a "no really I'm still in this" moment, the data, messaging and turnout operations crushed him.
Conventions roll around and everyone's hair is on fire because Julian Assange is apparently still a thing and Busters are idiot children? We get treat to 4 spectacular nights of that pure, unrefined hopium.
Trump voters sneak their way back into the game because Trump stops picking fights with random civilians and his own party while Hilldawg goes on the Meg Whitman money tour? BOOM. Flawlessly executed debate gobsmack, hitting Trump on his vulnerabilities all night long, highlighting his erratic behavior, and goading him into another self-defeating week of idiocy. WHILE managing to talk policy all night.
The positive ads start rolling out, the turnout machine is locked in, and the Superfriends are primed and ready to strike fear in the the hearts of Republicans everywhere in America. The oppo research is clearly prepared to wage war on Trump until election day, and in ways he is completely unprepared for. Trump is an insane idiot and completely blocked, demographically and electorally. Same as it ever was.
Is it time to dispel with this fiction that mi abuela doesn't know what she's doing? She knows exactly what she's doing.
Every. Fucking. Time. This campaign has faced a major moment, they've delivered in the biggest way I dared to imagine. Every super Tuesday when Bernie was planning a "no really I'm still in this" moment, the data, messaging and turnout operations crushed him.
Conventions roll around and everyone's hair is on fire because Julian Assange is apparently still a thing and Busters are idiot children? We get treat to 4 spectacular nights of that pure, unrefined hopium.
Trump voters sneak their way back into the game because Trump stops picking fights with random civilians and his own party while Hilldawg goes on the Meg Whitman money tour? BOOM. Flawlessly executed debate gobsmack, hitting Trump on his vulnerabilities all night long, highlighting his erratic behavior, and goading him into another self-defeating week of idiocy. WHILE managing to talk policy all night.
The positive ads start rolling out, the turnout machine is locked in, and the Superfriends are primed and ready to strike fear in the the hearts of Republicans everywhere in America. The oppo research is clearly prepared to wage war on Trump until election day, and in ways he is completely unprepared for. Trump is an insane idiot and completely blocked, demographically and electorally. Same as it ever was.
At least in Miami.
RustyNails
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Blame Chuck Schumer. He sponsored the bill.
No, I mean he could potentially go to jail for this if they really have it. According to the Treasury Department it's potentially up to 10 years in jail, $1,000,000 in corporate fines, or $250,000 in individual fines.
I love it. There's something about your writing style and the rhythm of your varying sentence structures that just enraptures me no matter what the topic is.
BrokenFiction
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I've already seen more than one person say on Twitter that this opens up the courts to a reparations lawsuit.
FloydtheFathead
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Man That would've tied everything up in a nice neat little bow..
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Also, one thing. I know everyone goes into their "this won't hurt him" mode or "media won't cover it mode." But, I actually think things like this...the media does cover. Because, this is conventional campaign ending level stuff. Like, the media understands this stuff. There is no room to both sides this. Again, depending on what the story reveals, this could very well have been illegal. It also confirms (if he did do this through his charity) that he uses his charity for things he can't have his name on. This legitimizes the Bondi story and the portrait thing.
It fees back into the narrative that he's a greedy little money grubber.
It fees back into the narrative that he's a greedy little money grubber.
Aaron Strife
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We're going to get a story like this every week that would sink any other candidate.
The difference I think is that Trump's ship has already been sunk. He's polling at 40%. The only reason Hillary isn't polling at 60 is because third parties are sponging up more of the vote than usual (due to Hillary herself not being a particularly popular candidate). 40% for Romney, McCain, Bush etc. would have been disastrous. This is the GOP floor and he's been sitting at it the whole campaign.
If he violated he embargo for real, then not only is it illegal but jail time is on the table.
Trump Campaign Statement:
This is yet another desperate attempt by the Clinton Campaign to deflect and distract from the undeniable truth that the 33,000 emails she DELETED from her PERSONAL server held evidence that she did business in Cuba through her PAY-4-PLAY Clinton Foundation.
EDIT: NOT REAL STATEMENT
This is yet another desperate attempt by the Clinton Campaign to deflect and distract from the undeniable truth that the 33,000 emails she DELETED from her PERSONAL server held evidence that she did business in Cuba through her PAY-4-PLAY Clinton Foundation.
EDIT: NOT REAL STATEMENT
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Bwahahahahaha
Black Mamba
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This question in the CiC forum with Obama is heartbreaking (wife whose veteran husband committed suicide after he didn't get the help he needed).
I can't imagine Donald Trump answering this woman with any sort of dignity.
I can't imagine Donald Trump answering this woman with any sort of dignity.
Plinko
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It's stories like the Newsweek ones that honestly make me wonder what Ivanka thinks during this whole thing. We know she's smart-ish and doesn't seem as overwhelmingly scummy as her brothers. We know that Kushner seems like a smart guy who isn't afraid to take charge.
I wonder what it's like for the whole world to constantly reveal to you that your father is a lying, corrupt trash person.
I wonder what it's like for the whole world to constantly reveal to you that your father is a lying, corrupt trash person.
hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha
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Hey, I made this joke earlier today! Somebody's raiding PoliGAF for material.
This seems like the kind of thing that would be easily deflected to some underling somewhere in the organization when it finally comes to prosecution, much like banking scandals.
LMAO at that Trump campaign response though, lol.
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