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Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2016 19:29:49 GMT
Donald Trump called it "ridiculous" for critics to compare the pledge he's asking his supporters to take at his rallies, with their right hands raised, with World War II images of Nazi rallies. "Honestly, until this phone call, I didn't realize it was a problem," the Republican front-runner said Tuesday in a live interview on TODAY. Trump claimed the crowds simply were "having a good time" and even demanded he lead them in the pledge. Over the weekend, Trump urged supporters at a rally in Orlando to raise their right hand and repeat a pledge to vote for him. Despite critics comparing the scene to one of Nazi rallies, Trump repeated the effort at two more rallies days later.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2016 19:27:53 GMT
Protesters and supporters of Donald Trump clashed in sometimes-violent fashion here and in Chicago on Friday, the latest in an escalating series of confrontations that have come to define the front-runner’s rowdy campaign rallies even as he gets closer to securing the Republican nomination. Trump’s camp issued a statement saying that “for the safety of all the tens of thousands of people that have gathered in and around the arena, tonight’s rally will be postponed to another date. Thank you very much for your attendance and please go in peace.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2016 19:37:30 GMT
Donald Trump addressed Friday's violent Chicago rally during a campaign event in Dayton, Ohio, shifting much of the blame for the violence to Bernie Sanders' supporters, who Trump said "taunted" and "harassed" his fans. "So what happened yesterday was incredible," Trump said Saturday. "It was determined that if we go in, it could cause really bad, bad vibes, and you have to understand they want me to tell my people, 'Please, be nice, be nice.' My people are nice! The people that came there were so nice." "They were taunted, they were harassed by these other people. These other people, by the way, some represented Bernie, our communist friend," Trump said. "With Bernie, he should really get up and say to his people: stop. Stop. Not me, stop. They said Mr. Trump should get up, this morning, and tell his people to be nice. My people are nice folks -- they are. They're great, they're great, my people are great."
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Post by Admin on Mar 16, 2016 19:52:45 GMT
You ever feel like you don’t know exactly how to interpret an election night? That’s how I feel about the Republican side of the aisle after Tuesday. Donald Trump won at least three of the five states that voted on Tuesday, including Florida. (We’re still waiting on a call in Missouri, but Trump leads.) Marco Rubio ended his campaign. John Kasich stayed alive by winning Ohio. Given that Trump likely won every state except for the home state of another candidate, it has to be considered a good night for him. And yet, the main question — are we going to a contested convention? — remains unanswered. The good news for Trump is that he won the most delegates on Tuesday, and was able to make up for the 66 delegates he lost in Ohio by winning Illinois and likely Missouri, which could bring as many as 95 delegates, depending on how the district allocation shakes out. Moreover, Trump performed strongly in all the states that voted Tuesday. He won 36 percent of the vote in Ohio, 39 percent in Illinois, 40 percent in North Carolina, 41 percent in Missouri and 46 percent in Florida. His average performance was 40.3 percent. That’s far above his average 34.6 percent that he had on March 1. Granted, the states that voted tonight were different than the states that voted two weeks ago, but there isn’t any sign that Trump’s support is falling. If anything, these results suggest it may be somewhat rising. The bad news for Trump is pretty clear: even with a Missouri win, he would still have won only a little more than 47 percent of the delegates allocated so far. Moreover, he’ll need to win a little more than 54 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot. That’s certainly possible given there are several winner-take-all states to come, and Trump may do well in big East Coast states such as New York and New Jersey. Trump is also in a good position in Arizona, a winner-take-all state that votes next Tuesday.
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Post by Admin on Mar 29, 2016 19:23:56 GMT
After months of wading into presidential waters with shallow foreign policy proposals -- including bombing "the s*** out of" terror groups and inking a "totally renegotiated" nuclear deal with Iran -- Donald Trump is finally jumping into the deep end. During an interview with the New York Times that spanned two phone calls and clocked in at 100 minutes, Trump, answering a bevy of foreign policy questions with his trademark bravado, outlined an "America First" vision for the world that would come to fruition with business deals and tough negotiations. "I'm not isolationist, but I am 'America First.' So I like the expression. I'm 'America First,'" Trump said, according to the Times' transcript, which was published Saturday. Trump glommed on to the term, once used as the name for an isolationist political party in the U.S. in the 1940s, after the Times' David Sanger suggested it. "We have been disrespected, mocked and ripped off for many, many years by people that were smarter, shrewder, tougher. We were the big bully, but we were not smartly led." "Unfortunately, we have a nuclear world now," Trump said. "Would I rather have North Korea have [nuclear weapons] with Japan sitting there having them also? You may very well be better off if that's the case. In other words, where Japan is defending itself against North Korea, which is a real problem." He called the current U.S. relationship with Japan "a pretty one-sided agreement" because "if we're attacked, they do not have to come to our defense." But "if they're attacked," he said, "we have to come totally to their defense. And that is a -- that's a real problem."
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