2016 USA Presidential election thread II: And. Here. We. Go!

[kisada]

jeb's son was pushing his support for trump in a meeting with texas republicans.

isn't that the equivalent of getting cucked by your own son?

[archibaldcrane]

#neverTrump lives! Evan McMullin, a BYU educated Republican Mormon and ex-House staffer, is filing papers to run.

Utah is back on the table for Hilldog.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12401642...resident-trump

[archibaldcrane]

After a Monmouth poll with Hilldog +13, the Now-cast has Trump with less than a 5% chance to win. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/...-forecast/#now

Note that even South Carolina is blue on this map. Hilldog coast to coast.

[Byrthnoth]

Trump's campaign is pivoting away from purely negative language:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...nton/88385942/

This was probably always the smartest angle for Trump's campaign. Pose him as a competent businessman that America needs for economic growth.

[kisada]

eh, it'll take him all of a week to start up again with his word vomit.

i find it pretty hilarious though for someone who took full advantage of outsourcing that his entire speech was based around american workers making american things and so on and so forth.

[Zealot]

He's had such enormous success in the worlds of casinos, hotels, steaks, bottled water, magazines, mortgages, board games, game shows, travel sites, education, football teams, airlines, vodka, restaurants, radio, nutritional supplements, and ISPs, how can we turn down that kind of Midas touch.

[Mertron]

BUT HE CREATED SO MANY JOBS, ZEALOT. HOW MANY JOBS DID CROOKED HILLARY CREATE?

[kisada]

i knew this kind of shit was coming from the GOP and will keep on doing so, but cot dam this one's gotta sting

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...y-trump-226801

"Donald Trump's effort to appeal to establishment Republicans suffered another setback on Monday as 50 senior GOP national security officials warned in a new letter that Trump would "risk our country’s national security and well-being.” The signatories of the letter, which was first reported by The New York Times, all worked in Republican administrations, with many serving as top aides to President George W. Bush. They said none of them would be voting for Trump.

“Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President,” they wrote. “He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.”

[archibaldcrane]

Cmon Condi - your whole staff is on this letter, but you don't want to step up?

[Ksandra]

Trump listed the Philippines as a terrorist county and has now moved from banning Muslims to just banning anyone in a terrorist country from entering the US.


http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/08...rorist-nation/

[Olo401]

Trump listed the Philippines as a terrorist county and has now moved from banning Muslims to just banning anyone in a terrorist country from entering the US.

http://kickerdaily.com/posts/2016/08...rorist-nation/

You can't make this shit up.

...

Guys, he's not making this shit up is he?

[kisada]

haven't seen another source on him saying that (i'd imagine it'd have blown up into a huge thing already) and not sure of what that site is. so i dunno

[Krandor]

Every site I've seen talking about it is cherry picking quotes together to come to the conclusion. Can't find an actual transcript of his speech. I'm not putting it past him since I mean.. it's Trump. But the media is so out of control to do nothing but slam him 24/7 it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't really say it in that way,

[kisada]

a lot of the media has turned on him. but let's be real: they have very little exaggerating to do. this is honestly the first thing i've read where i've said "eh, i don't think that actually happened."

[Ksandra]

haven't seen another source on him saying that (i'd imagine it'd have blown up into a huge thing already) and not sure of what that site is. so i dunno

Every site I've seen talking about it is cherry picking quotes together to come to the conclusion. Can't find an actual transcript of his speech. I'm not putting it past him since I mean.. it's Trump. But the media is so out of control to do nothing but slam him 24/7 it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't really say it in that way,

It's sort of putting stuff together from this speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxbQrUJW9FU

Around 22 minutes in he starts listing all the terrorists from various countries. One from the Philippines is around 24 minutes in which after he states that "Hillary wants to let these people in by the thousands."

Trojan horse comment comes around 28 minutes, but all he's been listing is terrorists, so he is referring to these people coming in from the countries.

And mentions Hillary wants to let in more than Obama.



I didn't get a chance to watch everything, so I didn't find the comment about just not letting people in from terrorist countries yet(I think it's before he starts the list). I'll try to later unless someone else can point it out first.

[Krandor]

Wait, the speech is from 4 days ago and people are only complaining about it now?

[ringthree]

It's sort of putting stuff together from this speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxbQrUJW9FU

Around 22 minutes in he starts listing all the terrorists from various countries. One from the Philippines is around 24 minutes in which after he states that "Hillary wants to let these people in by the thousands."

Trojan horse comment comes around 28 minutes, but all he's been listing is terrorists, so he is referring to these people coming in from the countries.

And mentions Hillary wants to let in more than Obama.



I didn't get a chance to watch everything, so I didn't find the comment about just not letting people in from terrorist countries yet(I think it's before he starts the list). I'll try to later unless someone else can point it out first.

He has been flopping around on the "who not to let in" question for about a year.

[Ksandra]

Wait, the speech is from 4 days ago and people are only complaining about it now?

He has been flopping around on the "who not to let in" question for about a year.

I'm mostly find it interesting on a personal level. Husband's family is Filipino, and his parents are staunch republicans. They have said several times they don't like him, but he's on the R ticket so they're going to vote for him.

Should be interesting now since it seems like there are people in the Philippines trying to get him banned from the country now.

[Cail]

I heard the Philippines thing a couple days ago but didn't find the source

[Cail]

Republican Senator Susan Collins says she will not be supporting nor voting for Trump