Somehow, Trump is still doing well in the polls
“Still, it is hard to predict what could happen to Trump’s support in the coming days and weeks as the controversy plays out”. His comments in Iowa about which veterans deserve to be called heroes shows how unsafe his candidacy is to the GOP brand and the party’s chances in November. “It’s ridiculous. And I do think it’s a disqualifier as commander-in-chief”.
Luntz: “He’s a war hero“. John McCain, according to Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who welcomed Trump to Arkansas last week for a speech at a GOP fundraiser.
“If there was a misunderstanding, I would totally take that back”, he said in an evening interview on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor“. He’s a war hero because he was captured. OK. Now, he’s watching again as his father’s reputation as a war hero becomes an unlikely subject of debate in the 2016 campaign. “I am not a hero …”
The August 11 appearance of Trump at the Birch Run Expo Center is sure to be a sell-out, said Moon.
Trump’s support fell sharply after he questioned the “war hero” status of fellow Republican Senator John McCain, but that was not indicated in the polls.
Smith says Cruz is likely looking to inherit Trump’s voters, but he says he has to be careful about how he approaches the position. No other candidate reached double digits.
Iowa is the first key caucus state. Trump’s lead in the polls appears baffling to those who view him as entertainment.
Veterans groups also piled in.
None of this is particularly bad news to Trump, however. “The most you saw was a quiet phone call from [Republican National Committee Chairman] Reince Priebus to Donald Trump”.
But a number of vets on Twitter commented to support Trump.
But Trump’s lead doesn’t mean conservatives necessarily agree with him about McCain, or that he’s immune to backlash over his remarks.
The dilemma Trump poses for the GOP presidential field is serious. I would like him, however, to do something with the 15,000 people that were in Phoenix about illegal, you know, immigration. they are being decimated. these people are are being decimated. That’s not fair, but that’s politics.
On Friday, Hutchinson was among officials who spoke at the Republican Party of Arkansas’ annual Reagan-Rockefeller Dinner in Hot Springs, which featured Trump as the headliner.
Trump told CBS News’ Charlie Rose his opponents are just taking shots at him to get attention.