Donald Trump Accuses Virginia Of ‘Crooked Politics’ For Restoring Voting Rights To Former Felons

[OldBrownsFan]

Donald Trump Accuses Virginia Of ‘Crooked Politics’ For Restoring Voting Rights To Former Felons

 

At a rally Monday in Rhode Island, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump went after the governor of Virginia (Terry Mcauliffe) for signing an executive order that restores the voting rights of more than 200,000 ex-felons.

 

“That’s crooked politics,” he told the booing crowd. “They’re giving 200,000 people that have been convicted of heinous crimes, horrible crimes, the worst crimes, the right to vote because, you know what? They know they’re gonna vote Democrat. They’re gonna vote Democrat and that could be the swing. That’s how disgusting and dishonest our political system is.”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/25/3772501/trump-felon-voting/

 

Did You Know Terry McAuliffe Took $25,000 From Donald Trump?

 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/346374/did-you-know-terry-mcauliffe-took-25000-donald-trump

Trump supporters will find out Trump's support for the people who have created a permanent democrat majority will come back to haunt him (if he is the nominee) when he can no longer carry a state like Virginia thanks to his donations. He will have paid for the rope that hung himself.

[Westside Steve]

So you are in favor of restoring the vote for murderers rapists drug pushers child molesters et cetera?

 

Sounds like another Democrat voting bloc to me.

 

WSS

[OldBrownsFan]

So you are in favor of restoring the vote for murderers rapists drug pushers child molesters et cetera?

 

Sounds like another Democrat voting bloc to me.

 

WSS

 

No.

 

The point: Trump supporters will find out Trump's support for the people who have created a permanent democrat majority will come back to haunt him (if he is the nominee) when he can no longer carry a state like Virginia thanks to his donations. He will have paid for the rope that hung himself.

 

Trump has championed every left wing cause under the sun until recently. He has funded Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Terry McCauliffe (governor of Virginia) who he is now whining about for giving voting rights to felons. For Trump supporters though the facts do not matter.

[calfoxwc]

Trump is a salesman of ...himself. He's a panderer, and I don't have

much faith that he will stand his ground on any family value, any principle,

and part of our Constitution if it makes him more money by betraying every

single voter who thought he would.

[MLD Woody]

He played that crowd like a violin

[Browns149]

Trump is a salesman of ...himself. He's a panderer, and I don't have

much faith that he will stand his ground on any family value, any principle,

and part of our Constitution if it makes him more money by betraying every

single voter who thought he would.

That description sounds like a career politician, not one who's been in it for a year or so

[bbedward]

Republicans have always been against allowing felons to vote, because as he said they vote Democrat.

[OldBrownsFan]

Republicans have always been against allowing felons to vote, because as he said they vote Democrat.

Most republicans were never big donors to liberal democrats:

 

WOW: Donald Trump funded Democrat just rigged the voter rolls for Hillary!

 

What if I told you a Democrat Governor just pencil whipped over 200,000 convicted felons into eligibility to vote in a swing state, just in time to support Hillary Clinton this fall? I’d say it sounds like someone’s trying to rig the system!

 

Guess who gave this Democrat $25,000 for his last run for Governor, in order to defeat a solid conservative? That’s right, Donald Trump!

 

It’s true: Terry McAuliffe just opened the floodgates for convicted murderers, drug dealers, rapists, and other nasties to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Presidential election here in Virginia this fall.

 

Terry McAuliffe is a long time member of the Clinton universe. He was a big money man for them, and he was co-chairman of Clinton’s campaign in 2008, before running for Governor of Virginia in 2009 (losing the primary), and again in 2013.

 

In 2013, he won the primary, and in the general election faced a staunch conservative hated by the beltway establishment: Ken Cuccinelli. Cooch managed to get the nomination because the Republican Party of Virginia didn’t hold a primary that year, so he was able to overcome the natural establishment advantage held by Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, he of his own ‘green jobs’ program, who was endorsed by Eric Cantor.

 

Turns out Donald Trump wasn’t a fan of showing the establishment who’s boss. Instead of backing Cuccinelli, Trump gave $25,000 to Terry McAuliffe, remaining on good terms with the Governor the following year.

 

The money was valuable, too. McAuliffe only barely beat Cuccinelli 48-45. Had the conservative won and not the Clintonite, it’s unlikely those 200,000 convicted felons would be eligible to vote today in Virginia.

 

This casts much doubt on Trump’s claim that he converted to the pro-life cause “a number of years ago” when he was still pumping large sums of cash into pro-abort candidacies in 2013.

 

http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2016/04/26/wow-donald-trump-funded-democrat-just-rigged-voter-rolls-hillary/

[bbedward]

You act like people want a tried and true hard-line conservative.

 

They don't, they want an anti-politician. Trump happens to be center right with most of his ideas but he ditches the neocon foreign policy among other things

[bbedward]

And besides Cruz is falling through the floor at like 20% in national polls now. He's falling fast and hard.

[bbedward]

Trump also skyrocketing in the odds markets, give it up OBF. Trump is the nominee

[OldBrownsFan]

Right. Trump lies, slanders, whines, does the cry-bully routine, pretty much anything for more power for him.

The PROBLEM is this:
- It doesn't solve America's problems
- It doesn't help voters focus on which candidate has the best SOLUTIONS and would implement them best
- It drags the campaign through the mud
- It divides the GOP by attacking the character of others

SO WHAT TRUMP HAS DONE IS SMEAR THE ENTIRE GOP, HELPING HILLARY WIN.

[MLD Woody]

I think you're getting to him

[bbedward]

 

Right. Trump lies, slanders, whines, does the cry-bully routine, pretty much anything for more power for him.

The PROBLEM is this:

- It doesn't solve America's problems

- It doesn't help voters focus on which candidate has the best SOLUTIONS and would implement them best

- It drags the campaign through the mud

- It divides the GOP by attacking the character of others

SO WHAT TRUMP HAS DONE IS SMEAR THE ENTIRE GOP, HELPING HILLARY WIN.

 

 

Cruz can't open his mouth without shitting on Trump.

 

Cruz has done absolutely nothing as a senator except cause a government shutdown which cost tons of money and didn't accomplish anything

 

Cruz preaches divisions of Americans - saying he refused to work with democrats or negotiate with them

 

Cruz would get absolutely destroyed if he faced Hillary in a general

[calfoxwc]

I think you're getting to him

yep. there's the gay, lonely woodypeckerhead at work.

[Westside Steve]

So, OBF, we've been through the your boy my boy thing before but have you been a Ted Cruz guy from the get?

 

WSS

[calfoxwc]

"and cruz is an alien from the planet whoochie and he has green blood and

lizard eyes that hypnotize liberals and"...

 

sounds like Edward Scissors..brain.

[bbedward]

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-trump-reaches-50-percent-support-nationally-first-time-n562061

 

IE 74% of Republican voters will never, ever, ever support Ted Cruz based on this data.

 

Oh wait, you can only say that about Trump - 50% of republican voters will never, ever support Trump! Cruz has to be the nominee don't these people realize that!

[OldBrownsFan]

No, Trump is Not over 50% Nationally

Trump’s supporters, who are among the most credulous people on earth (which is the main reason they are Trump supporters) have been touting a poll which purportedly shows that Trump is above 50% nationally. Actually, it shows that he is at 50%, but still. The main problem with this poll is that it is a SurveyMonkey poll, which is to say, a non-scientific poll.

 

In other words, this poll is just as worthless at measuring Trump’s level of support as a Drudge poll. Which means – and I know this will be shocking to Trump’s supporters and even moreso to Trump himself – that it is completely worthless. A USA/Today Suffolk poll was released late yesterday which registered Trump’s level of support at 45%, which is more or less consistent with other recent polls that all show him in the 38-45% range.

 

The fact is that Trump hasn’t yet cracked 50% in a scientific national poll, which is pretty astounding given that we started voting three months ago and over a dozen other contenders have been knocked out of the race. Remember back after South Carolina when Trump was mocking the media who said that the other candidates were still beating him if you combined their totals, and he said, “How stupid are they? Do they not realize that when other people drop out, some of their supporters are coming to me?”

News flash: no, they aren’t. If they haven’t by now, they never will. Nothing has changed that – not Trump’s big day on Super Tuesday, not his allegedly momentous victory in New York, nothing. Give it up, Trumpkins – Trump will not consolidate the Republican vote. He may yet win the nomination because the system is in fact rigged, in his favor. But he’s not going to reach the point that half of Republicans support him.

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/04/26/trump-50-nationally/

[bbedward]

No, Cruz is Not over 26% Nationally

 

Ftfy

 

But also it's an NBC poll that has been done several times, this is the first time Trump has hit 50% in that particular poll

 

It doesn't make it invalid because you disagree with it, also Trump is going to score 50-60% everywhere tonight in actual votes

 

And "another poll came out yesterday that showed Trump within the margin of error of 50%, so NBC must be wrong"

 

Redstate is a bit biased there

[OldBrownsFan]

Ftfy

 

But also it's an NBC poll that has been done several times, this is the first time Trump has hit 50% in that particular poll

 

It doesn't make it invalid because you disagree with it, also Trump is going to score 50-60% everywhere tonight in actual votes

 

"The NBC/Surveymonkey poll, the poll universe is a self selecting universe of people who respond to SurveyMonkey on-line polls: "Respondents for this survey were selected from the nearly three million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day." That automatically eliminates the poll from what would usually be considered a "scientific poll" because the universe is not all adults, all voters, etc., but a self selecting group of people who engage in on-line polling. If your universe is restricted, your results are, in the inimitable words of young Dr. Frankenstein - "Doo Doo". Well, somewhat better than that, but still not statistically valid random polling of voters."

 

The Media will Try to Anoint Donald Trump Today

 

Today, voters from an area of the country that has no thought or hope of giving Republicans any electoral votes in November will go to the polls. They come from an area that has for years enacted failed economic policies that have caused the region to systematically hemorrhage both population and jobs to other areas of the country – areas like Texas. They come from an area of the country where loudmouthed liberalism is the order of the day.

 

And so, of course, they will vote for Donald Trump. I would expect that he will either sweep the delegates today or come very close to doing so. As you watch the returns roll in they are going to tell you that Trump has turned a corner, and he is ready to put this election away.

 

When you hear this rhetoric, use your brain and your critical thinking skills to evaluate whether what they are saying is true. If you had predicted, way back in February, that the GOP primary was going to still be competitive at the end of April, then you would have circled this day as a likely sweep for Donald Trump. The only thing that would have been surprising is if Trump did not clear 50% in any of the states that are voting today, given the geographic and cultural territory. Anything less would have been counted as a total loss. April 26th has always been a necessary day for Donald Trump

 

So if and when he wins today, all he is doing is meeting expectations. He’s really doing nothing more surprising than Cruz winning Texas (or Nebraska, which he will doubtless do next month) by a huge margin. Nothing at all has changed for Trump and there is no evidence that he has “righted the ship.”

 

So why will the media do this? Well, because they obviously want Trump to win. Trump has been a ratings bonanza for all the networks, including MSNBC and CNN. Having Trump around to talk about through November would probably lead to a record setting year for the networks. Cruz is less exciting (and less likely to lose to Hillary in historic fashion), so they have a direct pecuniary interest in Trump winning the nomination. And so they are going to help it happen in any way they can.

 

At every step of the way, the media has tried to actively paint the narrative that the GOP primary is over and the voters should get in line behind Trump. The only problem is, GOP voters keep refusing to do so, and they will keep refusing to do so after today.

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/04/26/media-will-try-anoint-donald-trump-today/

[bbedward]

Lol, yep the media has been really kind to Donald Trump. It's not like they do hit pieces every day or say he's Hitler for making people at his rallies raise their hands or making him disavow David Duke 100 times.

 

The reality is the GOP primary is not competitive at the end of April. It wasn't competitive at the end of March. Trump has been on pace for 1237 since forever ago and he still is.

[OldBrownsFan]

LOL..Denial is not just a river in Egypt

 

Donald Trump Has Received Nearly $2 Billion In Free Media Attention

Donald Trump received nearly $2 billion in free media exposure this past year, dwarfing his Republican rivals and more than doubling the attention paid to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, according to tracking firm mediaQuant.

Trump received $1.9 billion in free, or “earned,” media coverage, yet spent just $10 million on paid advertisements this election cycle. While Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich each spent more money than Trump on ads, the Republican candidates clocked in at $313 million, $204 million and $38 million in free media respectively.

The New York Times first reported Tuesday on Trump’s “mammoth advantage in free media” using data provided by mediaQuant. In an interview with The Huffington Post, mediaQuant Chief Analytics Officer Paul Senatori discussed the firm’s 2016 findings and comparisons between the candidates and major national and world figures.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-2-billion-free-media_us_56e83410e4b065e2e3d75935

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[OldBrownsFan]

Donald Trump meets the Washington Post – what we learned (the lowlights of the gilded toad)

Republican frontrunner met the newspaper’s editorial board to talk about Isis, protesters, race, freedom of the press … and his ‘normal hands’

 

Trump is going to knock out Isis

 

Washington Post: If you could substantially reduce the risk of harm to [American] ground troops, would you use a battlefield nuclear weapon to take out Isis?

Trump: I don’t want to use, I don’t want to start the process of nuclear. Remember the one thing that everybody has said, I’m a counterpuncher. Rubio hit me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he’s a low-energy individual, he hit me first. I spent, by the way he spent $18m worth of negativeads on me. That’s putting …

WP: This is about Isis. You would not use a tactical nuclear weapon against Isis?

Trump: I’ll tell you one thing, this is a very good-looking group of people here. Could I just go around so I know who the hell I’m talking to?

 

He’s really bothered by what people say about his hands (major narcissist OBF)

 

Trump: Here’s my hands. Now I have my hands, I hear in the New Yorker a picture of my hands… A hand with little fingers coming out of a stem. Like, little. Look at my hands. They’re fine Nobody other than Graydon Carter years ago used to use that. My hands are normal hands. During a debate, he [Marco Rubio] was losing, and he said, “Oh, he has small hands and therefore, you know what that means.” This was not me. This was Rubio that said, “He has small hands and you know what that means.” OK? So, he started it. So, what I said a couple of days later … and what happened is I was on line shaking hands with supporters, and one of supporters got up and he said: “Mr Trump, you have strong hands. You have good-sized hands.” And then another one would say: “You have great hands, Mr Trump, I had no idea.” I said: “What do you mean?” He said: “I thought you were like deformed, and I thought you had small hands.” I had 50 people … Is that a correct statement? I mean people were writing: “How are Mr Trump’s hands?”

 

My hands are fine. You know, my hands are normal. Slightly large, actually. In fact, I buy a slightly smaller than large glove, OK? No, but I did this because everybody was saying to me: “Oh, your hands are very nice. They are normal.” So Rubio, in a debate, said, because he had nothing else to say … Obviously, it didn’t work too well. But one of the things he said was: “He has small hands and therefore, you know what that means, he has small something else.”

 

And not just a little bothered …

 

Trump: I don’t want people to go around thinking that I have a problem. I’m telling you, I had so many people. I would say 25, 30 people would tell me … every time I’d shake people’s hand: “Oh, you have nice hands.” Why shouldn’t I? And, by the way, by saying that I solved the problem. Nobody questions … I even held up my hands, and said: “Look, take a look at that hand” … And by saying that, I solved the problem. Nobody questions. Everyone held my hand. I said: look. Take a look at that hand.

 

… Really quite bothered indeed

 

Trump: He [Rubio] said: “Donald Trump has small hands and therefore he has small something else.” I didn’t say that. And all I did is when he failed, when he was failing, when he was, when Chris Christie made him look bad gave him the … a little recap and I said, and I said, and I had this big strong powerful hand ready to grab him, because I thought he was going to faint. And everybody took it fine. Whether it was presidential or not, I can’t tell you. I can just say that what he said was a lie. And everybody, they wanted to do stories on my hands; after I said that, they never did. And then I held up the hand, I showed people the hand.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Forget the BS, Trump 2016, get on the Trump Train or get the fuck out of the way.

[bbedward]