Posted on 01/12/2016 6:18:05 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
In his latest interview with talk-host Michael Savage, Republican presidential primary front-runner Donald Trump was asked what he will do if the GOP establishment tries to "cut him out" of the nomination. Trump drew on his experience hosting prizefights, including 17 bouts featuring Mike Tyson.
"When the fighter goes into the other fighter's home territory, his home territory, they'll always say, the only way I'm going to win is, 'I gotta knock him out,'" he explained.
"The way you knock him out is to just win the primaries. If I win the primaries, if I can win in Iowa and win in New Hampshire and win in South Carolina, where I have very big leads, you know, there's nothing anybody can do, frankly."
A new Fox News poll has him beating Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton in the general election, 47-44 percent.
Asked about his popularity with African-Americans, Trump pointed out some polls show him getting 25 percent of the vote in that demograhic.
He recalled an "announcer" remarking, "Well, wait a minute, if this is true, that means the election is over. Trump wins automatically."
Savage said he believes Trump will also do well among Hispanics, because of a "macho culture" that prefers male leadership.
While it's assumed that a tough stance on illegal immigration will erode support from Hispanics, Trump argued Hispanics don't want people coming into the country illegally and taking their jobs. He pointed to a Quinnipiac poll released Monday has him ahead in Iowa, which means he has the lead in every state, according to some polls.
"We're doing well, and people want to see something happen," he said.
He said he hates to use the term "change," because it was Obama's campaign theme in 2008.
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Perhaps they realized that those making the decisions at the convention would be Trump, Cruz, Carson, and maybe Rubio.
The establishment won't even have a seat at the table.
Therefore the sudden silence concerning their beloved brokered convention.
A warm glowing feeling writing that have I.
:-)
It is amazing how the anti-Trump whiners are saying the same type of things that were said about Ronald Reagan in 1980.
I suggest he use the word FIX. WE are going to FIX what the political establishment has broken in our country.
“Notice how the Chamber folks and their allies have stopped talking about a “brokered conventionâ€?”
Yep. I have heard nothing about it lately.
Yes, they are saying many of the same type of things.
I found the “brokered convention” was the most stupid of all GOPe ideas: really? A bunch of slugs who make a living off of image manipulation wants to go into negotiations with a guy who wrote “The Art of the Deal”?
But, for what it's worth I have been called a "liar" by a Cruzer here merely because I support Trump. Does that one fit you "sneers" or "jeers" category?
Inaccurate comparison. Frankly, either Trump or Cruz winning the nomination is fine with me.
However, Trump is not Reagan.
Trump is a populist - like Rick Perry but with actual marketing skills.
Reagan was a conservative - a conservative Democrat and then a conservative Republican. He was conservative before it was cool to become one. For example, his Goldwater speech in 1964.
If Trump ran in 2008 after the "compassionate conservative" debacle of Bush 43, there's little doubt Trump would have out hope and changed Obama as a Democrat candidate.
That doesn't make Trump a bad person. Just recognize that Cruz (like Reagan) is conservative. Trump is a populist who has adopted conservative positions in order to win the presidency and may well govern that way too. Should the winds change in public opinion during a Trump presidency, expect Trump to change with them.
All it did was damage the establishment candidates even further.
This convention will be almost GOPe free as far as influence.
And they are having kittens...kittens I say!
:-)
I like the word FIX.
Maybe the word “SHRED” We are going to SHRED the mess Obama has made, REBUILD the country and RESPECT the Constitution.
TRUMP is tearing through the strongholds and obliterating them!!!!!!!!
GO TRUMP!
Come to think of it, no one has heard from Jorge Ramos either. Wonder what happened to him?
Yeah. What happened to him????
They are all probably coming up with strategies to take Trump out.
N.i.c.e insight. One to treasure.
The stupid Gopeers do not even realize Trump is making mincemeat out of them.
the Trump-haters around here have nothing but “sneers, jeers and tears”.
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Are you suggesting that the pro-Trump contingent here at FR behaves any differently towards the other candidates?
I admit it can get heated at times.
Let’s all just remember, in a short while (maybe less than a month) this race may start to become settled.
At that point it will be very important for both sides to begin to reconcile and start to work together, against the democrat.
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