US elections - Round Two

I know I am observing from a distance, but the GOP seems to be calming down a bit and accepting that Trump will be the candidate? While uproar is growing in the Dems because of Clinton shenanigans?

That is pretty much it at the moment, Bonny.  

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/05/20/donald-trump-grabs-clear-poll-edge-over-hillary-clinton-in-early-campaign/

A new round of polls have confirmed a rapid tightening of the presidential race between frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
After trailing Clinton for months, two recent surveys — from Fox and Rasmussen — show Trump with a slight edge, +3 and +5, over Clinton. A CBS/New York Times poll taps Clinton with a 6-point lead, much narrower than the 10-point she enjoyed in that survey last month.

A number of battleground state polls, also, have shown a very close race between Trump and Clinton. Trump leads in Arizona, Georgia and Ohio, while Clinton maintains narrow leads in Oregon and New Hampshire. Pennsylvania and Florida are toss-ups.

Predictions of an inevitable Clinton landslide victory against Trump seem rather premature.

Experts wrong again, then.

It's quite a while until November.  

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It's unacceptable that billionaire families can leave virtually all of their wealth to their families without paying a reasonable fair tax.

How about, It's their money, not the state's'?

PS - Is he still a big fan of Venezuela?

Heavens to Betsy, Bonny.  Hush your mouth!  You are sounding soooooooo cruel.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-fox-news-2016-5?r=US&IR=T

Donald Trump just vaulted past Hillary Clinton in a major national poll for the first time

Allan Smith

May 18, 2016, 11:24 PM 981

Donald Trump overtook Hillary Clinton in a Fox News poll released on Wednesday evening.

The Manhattan billionaire held a 45% to 42% edge over the former secretary of state in the new survey measuring their expected general-election matchup.

The result represented a sharp shift from April, when Trump trailed Clinton by seven points. In March, he trailed by 11.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, held a large 55% to 31% lead over Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, among white voters.

That margin outpaces the final split from the 2012 race that pitted President Barack Obama against Republican Mitt Romney.

White women in the survey favored Trump by 47% to 38%. But Clinton held a lead among all women, by a 50% to 36% difference. She also maintained massive advantages among African-American and Hispanic voters.

The all-but-certain Democratic nominee still holds a 5.2% lead over Trump in the RealClearPolitics average of several polls, which did not include the Fox poll.

Clinton remains, however, locked in a primary battle with Sen. Bernie Sanders.



NOW WATCH: Trump said he’s willing to do what no sitting US president has ever done

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I have resisted watching the video. What's the answer? Use his own plane?

Talk to Fatty. :

Ah! Yes, that is rather a novel idea, and might even work, as nothing else has.

Well, you never know unless you try.

That fat dictator who runs N. Korea, LL.

Don't blame you, LL.  

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/22/radical-leftwing-tourists-pimps-dictatorship-hugo-chavez-venezuela-sex-tourism?CMP=soc_3156

For their part, political tourists are stuck in a sexless marriage to a Britain that offers them no excitement. The proletariat has refused their entreaties to revolt. Their radical fantasies are never fulfilled. So they, too, scour the world. For years, the top radical tourist destination, the political equivalent of the Pattaya Beach brothel, has been Chavista Venezuela. Hollywood stars, the leaders of the British Labour party and Spanish “popular resistance”, and every half-baked pseudo-left intellectual from Noam Chomsky to John Pilger has engaged in a left orientalism as they wallowed in “the other’s” exotic delights.

Sanders and a few others should read that piece - and learn.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/trump-vince-foster-think-absolutely-murder/

When asked in an interview last week about the Foster case, Trump dealt with it as he has with many edgy topics — raising doubts about the official version of events even as he says he does not plan to talk about it on the campaign trail.

He called theories of possible foul play “very serious” and the circumstances of Foster’s death “very fishy.”

“He had intimate knowledge of what was going on,” Trump said, speaking of Foster’s relationship with the Clintons at the time. “He knew everything that was going on, and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.”

He added, “I don’t bring [Foster’s death] up because I don’t know enough to really discuss it. I will say there are people who continue to bring it up because they think it was absolutely a murder. I don’t do that because I don’t think it’s fair.”


No, of course it isn't, perish the thought!

I don't see Hillary standing up to a Trump onslaught; she has way too many skeletons in her closet, and he won't hesitate to drag them out.

Of course he won't.  

Well, looks like we have a winner......

http://news.sky.com/story/1702544/trump-gets-enough-delegates-to-win-nomination

Trump Gets Enough Delegates To Win Nomination
The billionaire completes his journey from political outsider to beat 16 other contenders to the Republican party nomination.



Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president, according to an AP count.

The billionaire was put on 1,238 delegates on Thursday after a small number of unbound GOP delegates told the news agency they would back him at the party convention in July.

With another 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on 7 June, Mr Trump is expected to easily increase his total and avoid a contested convention in Cleveland.

Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and an unbound delegate, said he liked the tycoon's background as a businessman.

He said: "Leadership is leadership. If he can surround himself with the political talent, I think he will be fine."

Oklahoma GOP chairwoman Pam Pollard added: "I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is.

"I have no problem supporting Mr Trump."

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This is going to be even more interesting in the coming months.

In the meantime, although Hillary has refused to debate with him, Bernie has said he will - with Trump donating his earnings to charity.

Poor Hill.  Its not the best time for her at the moment.  

That would actually be quite an interesting debate, IMO, and less likely to end in a shouting match - as long as Bernie doesn't start singing the praises of Venezuelan socialism.

I think it will too, Bonny.  I would imagine bringing in the meltdown of Venezuela would be the worst idea.  

Reading about Hillary's latest little problems, Trump is going to destroy her if she gets the Dem nomination. She might have got away with it with Bush or another establishment candidate, but not faced with someone who will not hesitate to drag out all her skeletons from the cupboard.

Newt Gingrich ‏@newtgingrich 4h4 hours ago
No one In American history has moved from a June 16 announcement to a May 26 winning of a majority. Trump's achievement is remarkable.

Yup. Under time and under budget.