SHOCK: Trump’s official voting record released by NYC, shows he has been Repub since 1980

Prently ^ | January 23, 2016 | Voltova Dmitri

[Marie]

(photo at the link)

Donald Trump’s official voting record has been released, showing that he was a registered Republican since at least 1980, throwing water on the theory that he was at one time a Democrat.

This is causing major panic in the Cruz campaign that insisted that Trump recently switched his affiliation.

Voting records for Trump’s adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, were not immediately available.

Trump is leading by wide margins in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, and nearly every other state where pollsters take the Republican electorate’s temperature.

In Iowa, he is running neck-and-neck with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in some polls, and leading him comfortably in others.

On Thursday in Las Vegas, Trump boasted of a new Emerson College poll that shows him leading Cruz there by 10 points.

‘Cruz is going down,’ he told a packed ballroom at the South Point casino. ‘He’s like a nervous wreck. He’s going down. He’s had his moment.’

(photo of Trump's registration at the link)

[onyx]

I did!!

[BigEdLB]

Thanks for posting the article. I guess that he has lived in Trump Tower since 1989 and lived elsewhere before that.

[onyx]

Can’t fault him. I’d live in Trump Tower, too!!

[Cboldt]

-- So am I to believe that Trump was still a Republican when he ran as the Reform party candidate in 2000? --

Definitely not a Republican. But the question before us isn't one of party loyalty. The party loyalists are the like of McConnell, Boehner, Haley Barbour, Thad Cochran, and so on.

Donald Trump entered the race briefly, giving television interviews outlining his platform. Trump was progressive on social issues, and supported allowing openly gay soldiers in the military, saying: "it would not disturb me."^[6] Trump considered himself a conservative, but criticized Pat Buchanan, saying: "I'm on the conservative side, but Buchanan is Attila the Hun."^[7] He withdrew from the race citing the party's infighting,^[8] as did Jesse Ventura and the Minnesota Reform Party. Donald Trump stated: "So the Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.".^[9]^[10] "Mr Duke" was a reference to David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Reform Party of the United States of America - Wikipedia

[DB]

Prntly.com “in the news”:

http://www.thirdbasepolitics.com/trump-ford-plant-mexico/

http://www.snopes.com/woman-arrested-sausage-walmart/

[Cboldt]

-- it kind of stings knowing that he would have likely been the next pres of the US if trump didn't enter. --

Cruz taking the office also depends (or depended, depending on how you want to look at it), on overcoming his CA birth certificate and circumstances of birth in the venues that ultimately decide - the electoral college (50 states, all of which have the power to deny him a ballot on eligibility grounds) and Congress - maybe SCOTUS too, if it suddenly decided it has a role.

[Jukeman]

Nope wrong again. You and the other Trumpettes don’t have a clue about anything except waiting for your little check deposit from Trump. The very same creeps that are now bitter losers from your support of that loser Ron Paul. What a bunch of JV ninnies! Or you are a skin head type that hopes Trump is your Hitler reincarnation or a Mussolini retread. You really must hate this country to support a a megalomaniac like Trump. You venom piking yahoos should go out and get a decent job and learn what a real conservative American is.

[MD Expat in PA]

The "R" under "voter type" stands for "Registered," not for Republican.

The "R" under "Ballot Type" stands for "Regular," not for Republican.

Good catch zeestephen but I think you got it backwards.

See page 32 of this 2013 Annual Report from the Board of Elections - The City of New York:

http://vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/documents/boe/AnnualReports/BOEAnnualReport13.pdf

In the column Voter Type, the R stands for Regular Voter as opposed to: E-Special; F-Federal; H-R(Mail Address); M-Military; O-Overseas or P-Permanent Absentee. I am not sure what all those designations mean but none of them have to do with party registration. Military, Overseas and Permanent Absentee are fairly obvious, but I can't find any keys or designations for the others. But it has nothing to do with party registration at the time the vote was cast.

Ballot Type would be R for Regular or A for Absentee.

On the voting record printout posted in the sloppy blog post* that links back to the Daily Mail article, the registration date is the date the person first registered to vote in Manhattan (and Trump has said he prior to 1987 was registered in Queens), and the Enrollment, i.e. Republican, would indicate the voter's party registration at the time the printout was made.

*Sigh. Bloggers. Some are good but I find a lot are very sloppy in their research. It only took me a few minutes to research the above. Perhaps I should start a blog about bad blogs : )

[nikos1121]

The record is interesting.

1. He’s listed as a registered republican since 1987?
2. He votes in the primary only twice both time choosing a republican ballot.
3. It looks like he failed to vote just once in 2004.
4. I don’t know what “b” stand for.
5. It looks like remains with the republican party indicated by voter type
6. It looks like he takes a republican ballot each time, of course, they should be the same for the general election.

This sounds like he may have mislead Russert in 1999, or gave the impression that he was going to vote democrat, or go with the democrats.

I lived in Chicago. My mother was an attorney working for the County. You registered as a democrat, even though my parents voted republican.

[Fhios]

If The Don told you a little green man was going to fly in, circle around your head 3 times and piss in your ear .....

I guarantee you that you will have wet ear.

He sets his detractors up for a fall at the right time pretty good.

He’s a master. He’s Julius Caesar.

[Ted Grant]

You sign in when you vote.

[HotKat]

I guess the secret ballot isn’t so secret.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

You are voting for him after teds comment?

Speechless.

[dp0622]

man i dont know who to vote for.

there’s so much innuendo and lies being tossed around both candidates you get confused.

i guess you are voting for Cruz?

i’m a NYer and i’m a good guy with good values. why did he have to say that?

you should never verbally attack a state in the union. I’m sorry.

i defend the heartland constantly in Manhattan, and i get stabbed in the back, it feels like.

[dp0622]

how can this not be BLACK AND WHITE?

how could such smart founding fathers not address this clearly?

someone told me the Naturalization Act stated that someone like him could.

and for a country of immigrants, what an outdated rule.

my grandparents and my friends’ parents and grandparents who came from Italy were more patriotic than most “Americans” i know.

[dp0622]

who’s Stephie?

Cruz is a good man.

but the distortions thrown out there along with his stupid NY comment have thrown me off kilter in supporting him.

yes, I am PROUD to be a NYer in NYC.

[dp0622]

no, it’s not lol!!!

[Cboldt]

-- how can this not be BLACK AND WHITE? --

It is, in law. It isn't in the public's mind, because the people are gullible and our leaders (political and academic) are duplicitous.

-- how could such smart founding fathers not address this clearly? --

They assumed, wrongly, that the meaning of the term would not change (in the minds of all people) with the passage of time.

-- someone told me the Naturalization Act stated that someone like him could. --

That's a popular argument, one that is comfortable and easy to adopt when the candidate is "good and decent," and hard to adopt when the candidate is the Afghan-born daughter of US citizen Polly Pinhead and Afghani Achmed the Mad-bomber. The 1790 act created a legal fiction. It did not say then, that a person born abroad of a citizen parent WAS an NBC, it said the law would PRETEND that he was. It's a definition in the sense that it EXCLUDES persons born abroad from being NBC as a matter of fact.

-- my grandparents and my friends' parents and grandparents who came from Italy were more patriotic than most "Americans" i know. --

That's an argument that naturalized persons should be allowed to assume the office.

[dp0622]

i’ve always been a cup half empty guy and a brutal realist and i dont see it happening.

hard to vote for a guy who insults your home state.

whatever its politics, lots of good folk here and that’s hard to get past.

i know it doesn’t make sense to someone who doesn’t live here, but i’ll say it, many IDIOT LIBERALS with NO political COMMON SENSE are decent people.

many supported me when i was ill and were very generous with their time and money. and BOY did we argue in the years previous.

they would have us ruined if they had their way, but not all their values are bad.

and making money ain’t such a bad value in a capitalist society

[dp0622]

i FORGOT the biggest one!!

what the heck was that all about?!?!?!

terrible support for the guy who stood down teachers unions and single handedly got rid of “tenure”