Posted on 07/02/2015 9:18:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“He never apologizes, he’s never wrong…he’s the white Kanye!” – Bill Maher
On the last HBO “Real Time with Bill Maher” episode before the July vacation hiatus, host Bill Maher was joined by mid-show interview guest Judd Apatow, and panelists Kristen Soltis Anderson, Michael Eric Dyson and Mary Katharine Ham, who hashed over the viability of Donald Trump as a GOP contender.
During the segment, Maher quips he was waiting for the “Trump-Christie” GOP ticket. Now that Christie has thrown his hat in the ring too, this is actually a remote possibility.
Despite the unvarnished remarks slung by Donald Trump, his political future is viable if you look to New Hampshire and Iowa poll data. After taking second place in the latest New Hampshire polls, Trump is coming in second (tied with Ben Carson) in Iowa according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
Maher artfully lasered in on the GOP’s continuous losing strategy, the party railing against gay marriage and pandering to the Bible Belt and Hispanics, while not understanding how to connect to Generation Y and the LGBT community. The GOP strategy didn’t work in ’08, and it is likely to fail in 2016.
Now, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues to lead the Republican field in the Hawkeye state with 18%.
One point behind Carson and Trump lie Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas. Florida republicans Jeb Bush, the state’s former governor, and Marco Rubio, a young senator, trail with 8% and 7%, respectively. Off the radar are the evangelical favorites Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Huckabee notches 5% to Santorum’s 4%.
One thing is sure though: Trump is surging off of his announcement two weeks ago.
Now at 10% in the Quinnipiac poll, a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll that came two weeks before his announcement — and gave Walker the lead with a similar 17% — had Trump checking with just 4% of support.
Trump is now registering as second nationwide — behind Bush — in a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday.
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Trump and Christie are the only two candidates with their approval numbers underwater in Iowa currently according to CNN: 47% have an unfavorable view of Trump versus 42% saying they have a positive view, and 59% see Christie in a negative light, with 25% looking at Christie favorably.
“I probably identify more as a democRAT” ~Donald Trump
William could be wrong? A liar? Totally in the tank for H!?
If it weren’t for the hard left politics of the Progressive Movement there would be no TEA Party or candidate Trump. Thank yourself, Maher.
Uh, don’t think so, Billy Bwa.
I wonder who yanked billys chain?
I guess media Trump is going to redefine the TEA party.
Ann Coulter once had that awful job.
White Kanye
Could you rephrase that?
I guess Bill hasn’t had a daughter raped by MS13 gangs, or a son beat to death.
yep.
this is just another alinsky-ite libtard trying to hang trump around the neck of the Tea Party like a millstone because he knows (we all know) that eventually Trump is going to step into it and really embarrass himself.
Bill Maher can go choke on a bag of d**ks.
I think Trump created himself. If the Tea Party created him I sure don’t know any of them that are going to vote for him. Maher is way off this time.
Welcome to Free Republic!
TangibleDisgust rephrased it better than I.
apologizing only feeds the insane marxists.
Trump is being vilified 24/7 on FR, amazing what you get when you are anti-immigration.
Pray America is waking
A post from Washington Examiner:
Trump is by far the most qualified candidate in the race, for both parties. Trump has done business in all developed countries and if you have ever done that, you know that each one has its own set of difficulties. Trump has a record of running huge projects and making money on them. He handles more problems in a day than these politicians have handled in a lifetime. There is just no comparison between a man that can command respect and one that asks for it. Our country is being invaded right now and Trumps answer is seal the border, send them back and not apologize for protecting our country. Trump has said that Obamacare is a disaster and the trade bills are foreign aid to foreign countries. We do almost nothing right and it is costing American jobs and money. Those that are alive today will not pay the price, it will be our children’s children and they will have it tough. Just look at Greece, that is the US future if we do not stop it. Obama and his socialism is destroying the US. The RINOs are supporting this destruction and everyone wants to play nice, but not Trump, he tells it like it is and if he had horns and a trident in his hand I would vote for him.
Didn’t Bill Maher donate $1,000,000.00 to help Obama get elected in 2012?
I don’t care what this POS thinks.
Someone who sees Maher’s face in the mirror every morning, should not throw around the Frankenstein label.
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