The General Election

[HuskerShark]

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

[funhusker]

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

Go for it...

[BigRedBuster]

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

I would love to hear this argument.

[Red Five]

Interesting piece detailing why Trump doesn't like to talk about Birtherism anymore:

 

But in a recent interview with CNN, he said "I would love to" talk about the subject.

Trump suggested the reason why he doesn't engage in "birther" speculation anymore is because it gets too much attention, crowding out other issues.

"I don't talk about it. You know why I don't talk about it? Because once I talk about it, that's all they want to write about. So I don't ever talk about it," he told CNN in the June 14 interview.

"And I would love to," he continued. "But if I do talk about it, then what happens, is, that takes up -- then we're not talking about the horrible economy. We're not talking about real unemployment in this country, which is close to 20%, when you add all the people that have given up looking for jobs. We're not talking about ISIS. We're not talking about the things we have to talk about. So when people ask me, I just say, 'I don't talk about that anymore.'"

 

 

One of the big reasons Trump won the nomination is due to how much support he got on the Birther movement back in 2011. From the NYT story mentioned in the story above:

 

​Mr. Trump’s eagerness to embrace the so-called birther idea — long debunked, and until then confined to right-wing conspiracy theorists — foreshadowed how, just five years later, Mr. Trump would bedevil his rivals in the Republican presidential primary race and upend the political system.

 

In the birther movement, Mr. Trump recognized an opportunity to connect with the electorate over an issue many considered taboo: the discomfort, in some quarters of American society, with the election of the nation’s first black president. He harnessed it for political gain, beginning his connection with the largely white Republican base that, in his 2016 campaign, helped clinch his party’s nomination.

 

[Red Five]

Also mentioned in that NYT Birther story, but Obama just destroyed him in the 2011 WH Correspondents dinner. Both at the beginning and starting at about the 8:00 mark of this video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E

[NM11046]

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

I can't believe I'm stirring this pot, but I'm curious Shark how you could perceive these polls favor Trump and are a positive? Are you kidding me?

[HuskerShark]

So people are trying to say the reason he won the primary is because of blatant racism?

 

LOL what?!

[NM11046]

So people are trying to say the reason he won the primary is because of blatant racism?

 

LOL what?!

Dude - what are you looking at and responding to?

[cm husker]

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

 

Really? even without this guy being available to help?

 

[Moiraine]

 

 

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

I can't believe I'm stirring this pot, but I'm curious Shark how you could perceive these polls favor Trump and are a positive? Are you kidding me?

I believe his argument is that we shouldn't care what the rest of the world thinks. USA USA USA

[NM11046]

 

 

That's totally understandable, and not a big deal. One could easily argue (probably correctly) that those polls favor Trump.

I can't believe I'm stirring this pot, but I'm curious Shark how you could perceive these polls favor Trump and are a positive? Are you kidding me?

I believe his argument is that we shouldn't care what the rest of the world thinks. USA USA USA

 

Figured as much - not sure why I keep hoping that at some point I'll really understand why people are hearing good things when he keeps saying such obvious nut-ball, wacky, horrible things.

[QMany]

FBI Director: Agency won't recommend criminal charges in Hillary Clinton email investigation.

[TGHusker]

FBI Director: Agency won't recommend criminal charges in Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Trump is again saying the system is rigged. This time I'm willing to believe him.

[huskerfan2000]

Some people are just ridiculous puppets. it isn't a "star of david" it is a microsoft image.

 

Man, the level of ignorance is astounding! The star of david is two triangles on top of each other, this is a police badge style image.

[huskerfan2000]

not sure if this was posted already, but here it is anyway.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/politics/donald-trump-star-of-david-tweet-explained/index.html

 

 

 

"The social media graphic used this weekend was not created by the campaign nor was it sourced from an anti-Semitic site," Scavino said in a statement separate from Trump's. "It was lifted from an anti-Hillary Twitter user where countless images appear."

"The sheriff's badge -- which is available under Microsoft's 'shapes' -- fit with the theme of corrupt Hillary and that is why I selected it," Scavino added.