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Conservative talker Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that this program is no longer going to acknowledge the existence of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The decision follows an explosion of anti-Trump talk from the GOP political establishment. But despite efforts to shut him up, Trump is everywhere.
Here’s a rundown of the latest Trump news.
Big-wig GOP donors want other candidates to boycott Republican debates unless Trump is disqualified.
Many national Republican officials are increasingly resigned to Mr. Trump’s looming presence. At a meeting of the Republican Governors Association this week in Aspen, Colo., donors and operatives mused about how to prevent him from hijacking the debate.
One idea that came up was to urge three leading candidates — Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor; Mr. Walker; and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida — to band together and state that they would not participate in any debate in which Mr. Trump was present, using his refusal to rule out a third-party bid as a pretext for taking such a hard line. The thinking, according to a Republican involved in the conversations, was that the lesser-funded prospects who have been eclipsed by Mr. Trump would follow suit, and the TV networks airing the debates would be forced to bar Mr. Trump in order to have a full complement of candidates.
But none of the campaigns have shown any appetite for such solidarity, for reasons ranging from their strategic interests and not wanting to make Mr. Trump a martyr, to fear of making an enemy of Fox News, the preferred cable network of conservatives and the host of the first debate.
Trump-hating has become something of a party pastime for GOP politicians and talking heads.
Sen. Lyndsey Graham continues to whine about Trump, saying Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”: “I think he’s sort of a political car wreck where people slow down and watch. When he crossed the line with John McCain and other veterans, that was the beginning of the end.”
Of course, that’s probably a lot of wishful thinking on Graham’s part.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is similarly bashing Trump.
“Let no one be mistaken, Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded,” Perry said in a recent speech.
“I will not go quiet when this cancer on conservatism threatens to metastasize into a movement of mean-spirited politics that will send the Republican Party to the same place it sent the Whig Party in 1854: the graveyard,” he continued.
Perry also called Trump’s candidacy a “barking carnival act.”
But Trump bit back at Perry Thursday with a trip to the U.S./Mexico border where he discussed his ideas for border policy and made sure to include a negative remark about the former governor’s border control record.
And as for that “cancer on conservatism” talk: Trumphoma appears benign to average voters who are refreshed by the businessman’s anti-political attitude. It could, however, prove terminal for the GOP.
Trump says if the party continues to treat him poorly, he hasn’t ruled out a third party run.
The Hill reports:
Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will “absolutely” increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season.
“The RNC has not been supportive. They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy,” the business mogul told The Hill in a 40-minute interview from his Manhattan office at Trump Tower on Wednesday. “The RNC has been, I think, very foolish.”
Pressed on whether he would run as a third-party candidate if he fails to clinch the GOP nomination, Trump said that “so many people want me to, if I don’t win.”
“I’ll have to see how I’m being treated by the Republicans,” Trump said. “Absolutely, if they’re not fair, that would be a factor.”
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called Trump earlier this month asking him to tone down his controversial rhetoric. More recently, the RNC rebuked him for saying that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is not a war hero. Trump didn’t apologize but has since said that the 2008 Republican presidential nominee is a war hero.
Trump told The Hill that the GOP establishment in Washington dislikes him because he’s not part of the political class.
What should make that more terrifying for the GOP is that Trump has the potential to appeal to Democrats who may be disgusted with Hillary 21016.
“I identify with some things as a Democrat,” Trump recently told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“When the economy crashed so horribly under George Bush because of mistakes they made having to do with banking and lots of other things, I don’t think the Democrats would have done that,” Trump said.
“Now, I see it both ways, but I hated what I was watching in the last two years of George Bush, because it was a bubble that was waiting to explode,” he added. “What they were doing was a death wish, and I saw that.”
“I have seen things done by Republicans that are not good and are not smart, and I would not do that,” he said.
The polls matter.
If Trump’s poll numbers continue to improve, or even hold steady, a third party bid could mean a devastating loss of conservative votes for the GOP in 2016.
Real Clear Politics ranks Trump at the top of five polls: Public Policy Poling (July 20-21), ABC/Washington Post (July 16-19), Fox News (July 13-15), USA Today/ Suffolk University (July 9-12) and Monmouth University (July 9-12). The average shows Trump holding a near five point lead over his closest competitor, Jeb Bush.
There are some negative numbers floating around, mainly a recent Quinnipiac poll that showed Trump registering a 57 percent unfavorability rating among voters. But the same poll ranks Democratic inevitable Hillary Clinton , whose spent about $1 million on polling in an attempt to create a favorable image, giving 56 percent of likely voters negative vibes.
And with that, here’s another Republican in denial.
“Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee of the Republican party,” Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday on “CBS This Morning,”
“These polls at this point basically are measuring who people are hearing about on the news, and Donald Trump is benefiting from that,” Rubio said.
Rubio’s right about one thing, even as folks like Beck are blacklisting Trump, the businessman and entertainer knows how to play the media saturation game.
Trump is a Twitter Jedi.
Part of Trump’s strategy appears to be calling out, often in outrageous fashion, nearly all of his detractors via Twitter.
He called out Anderson Cooper after a contentious interview:
What a waste of time being interviewed by @andersoncooper when he puts on really stupid talking heads likeTim O’Brien-dumb guy with no clue!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2015
That was after he informed Cooper that no one in America trusts him or any other member of the mainstream media.
https://youtu.be/FepVvO5T6UU And Trump had this to say after some media talk about leaking his phone number following his doing the same to Graham:
I hear a failing New York newspaper is going to publish one of my old cell phone numbers. So original – just one of many! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2015
As for Huffington Post’s move to cover his campaign as “entertainment” news:
The liberal clown @ariannahuff told her minions at the money losing @HuffingtonPost to cover me as enterainment. I am #1 in Huff Post Poll.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
He also doesn’t mind trash talking smaller, more conservative outlets:
.@BillKristol Bill, your small and slightly failing magazine will be a giant success when you finally back Trump. Country will soar! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2015
Here’s a reiteration of his Perry bashing:
Rick Perry did an absolutely horrible job of securing the border. He should be ashamed of himself. Gov. Abbott has since been terrific.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2015
His view of MSNBC’s Chuck Todd:
Sleep eyes @ChuckTodd is killing Meet The Press. Isn’t he pathetic? Love watching him fail! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2015
On Karl Rove:
Irrelevant clown @KarlRove sweats and shakes nervously on @FoxNews as he talks “bull” about me. Has zero cred. Made fool of himself in ’12.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2015
But a couple of tweets aimed at MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and magician Penn Jillett stand out the most in Trump’s Twitter feed.
Dopey @Lawrence O’Donnell, whose unwatchable show is dying in the ratings, said that my Apprentice $ numbers were wrong. He is a fool! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2015
I loved firing goofball atheist Penn @pennjillette on The Apprentice. He never had a chance. Wrote letter to me begging for forgiveness.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2015
I hear @pennjillette show on Broadway is terrible. Not surprised, boring guy (Penn). Without The Apprentice, show would have died long ago. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 16, 2015
What makes the tweets remarkable is has little to do with Trump’s delivery. Rather it’s how bot O’Donnell and Jillette responded.
Here’s O’Donnell:
And Jillett’s rebuttal:
In each of the above videos, the targets of Trump insults acknowledge his remarks before praising him for his brutal, even if sometimes misguided, honesty.
And that is what makes Trump the most interesting man in the world. He’s no politician, so he says what he wants when he wants. Notice the only people who are truly offended by that are Washington political elites. Other outsiders, ala O’Donnell and Jillett, can appreciate Trump’s candidness, even sometimes at their own expense.
We’ll end this piece with rapper Mac Miller’s hit song “Donald Trump,” which has nearly 100 million views on YouTube.
“Great song,” Trump recently told The Hill of the music before, reflecting on some of its vulgarity, adding, “I wouldn’t say it’s entirely good for the women or the women of Iowa.”
No matter how you feel about Trump, you have to admit that he’s making this election cycle incredibly fun to watch.
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