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Trump Inflicts More Damage with Hispanic Voters

June 2, 2016 · 10:36 am ET · 53 Comments

“The head of Hispanic media relations at the Republican National Committee is resigning this month in what appears to be another indication of the lingering discomfort some party officials have about working to elect Donald Trump president,” the New York Times reports.

James Hohmann: “Donald Trump is doing to the national GOP brand in 2016 what Proposition 187 did to California Republicans in 1994. He continues to inflict lasting, perhaps irreparable, damage to the party’s image among Hispanics. It is not hyperbole to say that Trumpism could relegate the party of Abraham Lincoln to long-term minority status.”

2016 Campaign, Race Donald Trump

PGA Moves Tournament from Trump Course to Mexico

June 2, 2016 · 8:41 am ET · 43 Comments

The PGA Tour is moving a key tour date away from a golf course owned by Donald Trump and relocating it to Mexico, CNN reports.

Said Trump: “They’re moving it to Mexico City — which, by the way, I hope they have kidnapping insurance. But they’re moving it to Mexico City. And I’m saying, you know, what’s going on here? It’s so sad when you look what’s going on with our country.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Trump Threatens to Hit Obama If He Campaigns

June 2, 2016 · 7:28 am ET · 151 Comments

Donald Trump, “lashing back at Barack Obama after the president waded forcefully into the presidential campaign,” threatened to turn the president’s attacks on him in retaliation, McClatchy reports.

Said Trump: “This is a president who doesn’t have a clue. If he campaigns, that means I’m allowed to hit him, just like I hit Bill Clinton.”

2016 Campaign Barack Obama, Donald Trump

Quote of the Day

June 2, 2016 · 7:22 am ET · 33 Comments

“Hillary is not a talented person. In fact she is a person with no actual talent. All you have to do is watch her speak. This is not a president.”

— Donald Trump, quoted by CNN.

2016 Campaign Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Letters from Trump

June 2, 2016 · 6:13 am ET · 2 Comments

Donald Trump “is a master of modern media, exploiting Twitter and television to punish his enemies, energize his allies and promote himself,” the New York Times reports.

“But perhaps his most powerful and memorable form of communication is the old-fashioned ritual of a personal letter, written on embossed paper or scrawled across a newspaper clipping, signed by hand and sent from the 26th floor of Trump Tower.”

“Churned out prolifically from a computer-free desk, they are letters of gratitude, hate, flattery and revenge, dispatched to teenage admirers and big-city mayors, professional athletes and magazine editors. The tone can range from florid to juvenile, pleading to poisonous. Tightly clutched and prominently displayed even by those who despise him, the epistles have become keepsakes and mementos for hundreds of people across the country.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Clinton Camp Hits Trump as a ‘Con Man’

June 1, 2016 · 12:35 pm ET · 106 Comments

Hillary Clinton’s campaign vowed to take up the mantle of Marco Rubio in blasting Donald Trump as a “con man,” kicking off a series of tweets hitting the presumptive Republican nominee for his business practices with Trump University, Politico reports.

Tweeted press secretary Brian Fallon: “Trump U is devastating because it’s metaphor for his whole campaign: promising hardworking Americans way to get ahead, but all based on lies.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

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Trump Declares War on the Media

June 1, 2016 · 10:33 am ET · 30 Comments

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After Donald Trump’s contentious press conference yesterday, National Press Club President Tommy Burr suggested in a statement that the Republican presidential candidate’s tirade was un-American:

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2016 Campaign, Members Donald Trump

Former Workers Call Trump University a ‘Scheme’

June 1, 2016 · 8:07 am ET · 67 Comments

“In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics, employed unqualified instructors, made deceptive claims and exploited vulnerable students willing to pay tens of thousands for Mr. Trump’s insights,” the New York Times reports.

NBC News: “Trump University salespeople were instructed to play to peoples’ emotions and suggest that potential customers rely heavily on credit card debt or retirement funds to pay for the classes.”

New York Magazine: ““Most charmingly, the playbooks suggest recruiters exploit the desperation of a single parent with hungry children in order to convince said parent to take on massive credit-card debt.”

Washington Post: “Trump was personally involved in devising the marketing strategy for Trump University, even vetting potential ads.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Democrats Race to Recruit House Challengers

June 1, 2016 · 7:30 am ET · 36 Comments

Washington Post: “Facing a 30-seat deficit, Democrats have dramatically improved their odds of retaking the House since Biden’s remarks. Republicans are on the verge of formally nominating Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who remains deeply unpopular among minorities, women and younger voters — just the kind of voters Democrats need to win House seats in swing districts.”

“Democrats have scrambled to convince enough credible, well-funded candidates to enter key races that could flip control of the chamber — and time is fast running out to recruit more.”

“Democratic consultants think that Trump’s rise has, broadly speaking, tilted the House battlefield in their favor by firming up candidates’ chances in battleground districts, allowing resources to be focused on more marginal seats. Trump, they say, has accelerated the party’s ‘demographic pivot’ into more affluent, better educated, suburban districts. But there are gaping holes that could cost them gains.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

The Dark Heart of American Politics

June 1, 2016 · 6:14 am ET · 6 Comments

Hollywood Reporter: “That notion is what’s at the center of this improbable campaign, its own brilliant success. It’s its main subject — the one you can’t argue with. You can argue about issues, but you can’t argue with success. Hence, to Trump, you’re really foolish to argue with the Trump campaign… And this provides him the reason to talk endlessly and repetitively about the phenomenon of the campaign. That phenomenon is, of course, Trump himself, about whom Trump spends a lot of time talking in the third person.”

“You can try, but it’s hard to resist this admiration for himself. The certainty of it, the enthusiasm for it and the lack of not just doubt, but of any negativity. It’s all upbeat and positive. The dark, scary, virulent heart of American politics is having the best time anyone has ever had.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Trump Rips Media In Contentious Press Conference

May 31, 2016 · 2:22 pm ET · 103 Comments

At a press conference defending his donations to veteran’s groups, Donald Trump “demanded that journalists credit him for his act of charity and took umbrage at their scrutiny of his boasts and promises,” the New York Times reports.

“In a heated, 40-minute appearance in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, Mr. Trump dismissed a CNN reporter as ‘a real beauty’ and an ABC reporter as ‘a sleaze,’ and said that if he was elected president, the American public could expect a similar dynamic in the White House briefing room.”

Said Trump: “Yes, it is. It is going to be like this.”

Politico: “The major cable news networks — CNN, MSNBC and Fox News — broadcast nearly every single word of the billionaire’s news conference at Trump Tower, in which he was expected to disclose the details of the money he’s raised and distributed to veterans organizations but largely focused on attacking on the Fourth Estate.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Bonus Quote of the Day

May 31, 2016 · 2:20 pm ET · 42 Comments

“I gather Donald Trump said I’m a loser. I’ve won some and I’ve lost some, but one thing I’ve always tried not to be is a roaring jackass.”

— Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, quoted by Politico.

2016 Campaign Donald Trump, William Kristol

Fired Trump Aide Still Sees Victory

May 31, 2016 · 11:51 am ET · 68 Comments

Former Trump political director Rick Wiley told Bloomberg that he still thinks Donald Trump will win the presidential election.

“Wiley said Republicans need to remember that the 2012 general election wasn’t a blow-out. If the GOP had turned out 400,000 more voters in three states combined—Ohio, Virginia, and Florida—Mitt Romney would’ve won, he said. Trump will capitalize on his crossover appeal with non-Republican voters and win battlegrounds ‘where everyone says he can’t.'”

Said Wiley: “The path exists. I firmly believe this guy’s going to win… The unwritten story is the enthusiasm gap.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump, Rick Wiley

Trump Way Behind In Digital Campaigning

May 31, 2016 · 8:01 am ET · 16 Comments

“Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving digital campaigning to win over voters,” the AP reports.

“The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has dismissed the science that defines 21st century political campaigns, a tool that President Obama used effectively in winning two terms and the Clinton campaign has worked on for nearly a year. And while it is too early to tell whether the late start signals trouble for Trump, it illustrates the difference between Trump’s proudly outsider campaign and the institutional knowledge within Clinton’s.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Trump Responds to Indie Candidate Speculation

May 31, 2016 · 7:24 am ET · 33 Comments

Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol wrote on Twitter over the weekend that there will be an “impressive” independent candidate on the ballot in November with “a strong team and a real chance” to defeat Donald Trump.

Trump responded: “Bill Kristol has been wrong for 2yrs — an embarrassed loser, but if the GOP can’t control their own, then they are not a party. Be tough, R’s!”

He added that an independent candidate would mean conservatives can “say good bye to the Supreme Court.”

2016 Campaign, Third Parties Donald Trump, William Kristol

Shady Accounting Boosts Trump’s Wealth

May 31, 2016 · 7:01 am ET · 39 Comments

“Donald Trump claims a net worth of more than $10 billion and income of $557 million. But he appears to get there only by over-valuing properties and ignoring his expenses.”

“Politico spoke with more than a dozen financial experts and Trump’s fellow multi-millionaires about the presumptive Republican nominee’s financial statement. Their conclusion: the real estate magnate’s bottom line – what he actually puts in his own pocket – could be much lower than he suggests. Some financial analysts said this, and a very low tax rate, is why Trump won’t release his tax returns.”

2016 Campaign Donald Trump

Quote of the Day

May 31, 2016 · 6:59 am ET · 29 Comments

“Some people have said our nominee is too controversial and that will cause you problems. But by the way, the Democratic nominee is pretty controversial, too. The negatives on both these candidates at the moment are stunningly high. It’ll be interesting to see whose negatives are the highest.”

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by USA Today, adding that it would be a “mistake” for Republicans to distance themselves from Trump.

2016 Campaign Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell

Clinton Gives Trump the Romney Treatment

May 31, 2016 · 6:30 am ET · 20 Comments

“If the Hillary Clinton campaign’s attacks on Donald Trump feel a little familiar, it’s because they appear to be straight from Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney,” Politico reports.

“That push was successful, as Clinton’s allies are quick to point out. But it also runs the risk of being a little too conventional for a candidate as unconventional as Trump, leaving some former Obama operatives and Never Trump Republicans eager for reassurance that the Romney approach isn’t the only arrow in the quiver.”

2012 Campaign, 2016 Campaign Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney

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