Posted on 09/22/2015 11:41:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is not going to be the leader of the free world. That was the reality check delivered to the reality TV star when he was subjected to a pounding in last week’s Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.
A summer of bombast from the bumptious billionaire had led to his anti-immigration rhetoric and populist demagoguery lifting him to the top of all the Republican party polls. The debate in Simi Valley, however, brought him crashing back to earth.
By the time the dust had settled, Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and the widely proclaimed victor of the debate, was in the lead in a Voter Gravity poll in New Hampshire, edging out Trump by four points.
The property magnate, who had looked deflated and remained uncharacteristically silent for almost 40 minutes at one point during the three-hour CNN debate, then stood accused of racism.
Trump was flummoxed when a questioner at a rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, called President Barack Obama a Muslim — and failed to correct or challenge him....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Virtually every media pundit in America had their heads handed to them by Donald Trump during the 2016 election. They got it 100% wrong. If I were them, I'd be hiding under a rock for a few years.
They show how the propagandists operate.
This also helps to keep keep the MSM constant demoralization of Trump supporters in check.
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