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Ivanka Trump Reacts to GOP Leaders Not Attending the Republican National Convention

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By JOHN SANTUCCI
KATIE KINDELAN
KAITLYN FOLMER

Jul 18, 2016, 3:07 PM ET

Ivanka Trump said the presidential campaign of her father, Donald Trump, is a “forward-looking moment.”

The 34-year-old also said she is not hurt that major figures in the Republican Party — George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain and Ohio Gov. John Kasich among them — will not be attending the Republican National Convention, which kicked off today in Cleveland.

“That’s their choice if they don’t want to be part of the narrative, if they don’t want to be part of the future,” Ivanka Trump told “Good Morning America” co-anchor Lara Spencer in an interview today in New York City. “But this really is about a forward-looking moment.”

Tune in to “Good Morning America” tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., ET, for more of Lara’s one-on-one interview with Ivanka Trump.

Ivanka Trump, a key adviser in her father’s campaign, acknowledged that he has bothered some in the party in his unlikely path from real estate mogul and reality TV star to presidential hopeful.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ivanka-trump-reacts-gop-leaders-attending-republican-national/story?id=40664370

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Trump Takes Lead 43%, Clinton 39%

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June 30,2016

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Ridgewood NJ, According to Rasmussen the tables have turned in this week’s White House Watch. After trailing Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks, Donald Trump has now taken a four-point lead.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 43% of the vote, while Clinton earns 39%. Twelve percent (12%) still like another candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Last week at this time, it was Clinton 44%, Trump 39%. This is Trump’s highest level of support in Rasmussen Reports’ matchups with Clinton since last October. His support has been hovering around the 40% mark since April, but it remains to be seen whether he’s just having a good week or this actually represents a real move forward among voters.

Trump now earns 75% support among his fellow Republicans and picks up 14% of the Democratic vote. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats like Clinton, as do 10% of GOP voters. Both candidates face a sizable number of potential defections because of unhappiness with them in their own parties.

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Trump breaks with GOP stares down globalization threatens to renegotiate trade deal

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June 28,2016

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Monessen, Pennsylvania , Donald Trump breaks with GOP stares down globalization and threatens to renegotiate trade deals . Trump repeatedly attacked Globalization  in his Monessen, Pennsylvania speech on trade,

“Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache”

Donald J. Trump spoke at the Alumisource Factory in Monessen, Pennsylvania. Mr. Trump’s speech focused on how to rebuild the American economy by fighting for fair trade. The middle class has collapsed because of the failed policies from Washington, D.C. that benefit the politicians, but not the American people.

Trump said, “The all talk, no action politicians have promoted globalization at the expense of American workers.”

Trump declared he will fight to put the country and its workers first in order to Make America Great Again. A transcript of the remarks can be viewed via the link below:

Declaring American Economic Independence
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/DJT_DeclaringAmericanEconomicIndependence.pdf

 

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Democrats on guard over Brexit’s angry populism

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Clinton should not underestimate the anti-establishment mood that makes Trump attractive to voters

After Britain voted to leave the EU, Hillary Clinton issued a statement declaring that America’s “first task has to be to make sure that the economic uncertainty created by these events does not hurt working families here in America”.

While she leads Mr Trump in the polls and has an advantage due to support from demographic groups such as Hispanics and women, the comments underscored that she cannot underestimate the populist mood that has overturned conventional wisdom at every twist and turn of the 2016 White House race.

“As a Democrat you don’t have to be paranoid to be concerned about the similarities between the Brexit vote and our own election,” says Jim Manley, a former Senate aide. “Trump is playing to the same kind of anger that the Leave folks did. [It] doesn’t mean he is going to win — he won’t — but what happened took an awful lot of people by surprise.”

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Nigel Farage: Britons voted for Brexit because Obama told them not to

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By Mark Hensch

A leading figure in the British push to exit the European Union says President Obama accidentally helped the Brexit cause.

Nigel Farage on Friday said Obama’s calls for the United Kingdom to stay in the EU caused people to vote to leave.

“Threatening people too much insults their intelligence,” the United Kingdom Independence Party head said.

“A lot of people in Britain said, ‘How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do?’ ” Farage continued on Sirius XM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” citing Obama’s U.K. trip in April.

“It backfired. We got an Obama-Brexit bounce, because people do not want foreign leaders telling them how to think and vote.”

Britain on Thursday voted to leave the EU in a move experts predict will lead to worldwide financial uncertainty.

British Prime Minister David Cameron promptlyresigned Friday morning.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/284790-nigel-farage-obama-helped-force-brexit

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For Trump and Brexit voters, echoes of the same frustrations

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une 26, 2016

MAYBOLE, Scotland (AP) — At the heart of the campaign that led Britain to vote to leave the European Union was a desire to regain independence lost amid a globalized world. It’s the same kind of feeling that Donald Trump rode to become the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S., where he campaigns to put “America first” and “make America great again.”

“I love to see people take their country back. And that’s really what’s happening in the United States,” Trump told reporters this weekend during a visit to his golf resort in western Scotland.

The anxiety that drove the stunning “Brexit” decision has been brewing for at least a decade in the United Kingdom, as waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe arrived as the global economy plunged into recession. In the years since, right-leaning leaders have stoked populist concerns about their impact on wages, as well as fears about the loss of ethnic identity, which runs deep in parts of largely white rural England and Wales.

“There’s a real feeling things have changed and they’ve changed too fast,” said Muriel MacGregor, filling up her car at a BP station on her way to work as a clerk at a hotel in Aberdeen, Scotland.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-brexit-voters-echoes-same-122734320.html

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Could a Brexit sentiment sweep Trump into office?

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BY DAVID GOLDSTEIN

The 2016 race for the White House has weathered more shocks than an old pickup truck bumping along a pothole-covered road.

Now there’s Brexit, Britain’s stunning decision this week to bolt from the European Union, and possibly another jolt in America’s journey to the November election.

Political seismographs were busy Friday measuring the shock waves on this side of the Atlantic.

Does it help real-estate mogul Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose nativist, anti-immigration, anti-trade-deals campaign has channeled a similar current of anger among a large swath of Republican voters?

Or does former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic standard-bearer, benefit, given her foreign policy résumé at a time when the global order could come under increasing strain?

“What you’re watching right now is how candidates deal with it,” said Republican pollster David Winston. “Are they going to address the concerns, or have a traditional discourse of attacking their opponents?”

Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article85877257.html#storylink=cpy

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It’s Brexit !

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https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results

Brexit: Britain Votes with Trump, against Hillary, Obama

British voters chose to “leave” the European Union on Thursday, defying the polls — and President Barack Obama, who had urged Britain to “remain” in the EU. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had also urged Britain to stay in the EU. Only Donald Trump had backed the campaign to leave.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/23/brexit-britain-votes-trump-hillary-obama/

 

 

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Authorities: Hoboken Man at Vegas Rally Said He Wanted to Kill Trump

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June 21,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Las Vegas NV, A man arrested over the weekend trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer at a Las Vegas rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told an investigator he wanted to kill the candidate, in court papers showed on Monday.

Michael Steven Sandford, who prosecutors described as a 19-year-old British national,who had lived for a time in Hoboken and was currently living out of his car was arrested on Saturday at the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas after trying to disarm the officer, according to Las Vegas police.

Sandford told authorities that he had been in the United States for a year and a half,and had lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, after coming to the country. Stanford had overstayed his visa from the United Kingdom and was now living in the USA illegally.

According to court papers filed on Monday in federal court in Nevada, Sandford told a Secret Service agent he had driven to Las Vegas from California with the goal of shooting Trump.

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Trump: We can’t afford to be politically correct anymore

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DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT REGARDING TRAGIC TERRORIST ATTACK IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA

June 12,2016

Donald J. Trump

Last night, our nation was attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist. It was the worst terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11, and the second of its kind in 6 months. My deepest sympathy and support goes out to the victims, the wounded, and their families.

In his remarks today, President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words ‘Radical Islam’. For that reason alone, he should step down. If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still cannot say the two words ‘Radical Islam’ she should get out of this race for the Presidency.

If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore. Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen – and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can’t afford to be politically correct anymore.

The terrorist, Omar Mir Saddique Mateen, is the son of an immigrant from Afghanistan who openly published his support for the Afghanistani Taliban and even tried to run for President of Afghanistan. According to Pew, 99% of people in Afghanistan support oppressive Sharia Law.

We admit more than 100,000 lifetime migrants from the Middle East each year. Since 9/11, hundreds of migrants and their children have been implicated in terrorism in the United States.

Hillary Clinton wants to dramatically increase admissions from the Middle East, bringing in many hundreds of thousands during a first term – and we will have no way to screen them, pay for them, or prevent the second generation from radicalizing.

We need to protect all Americans, of all backgrounds and all beliefs, from Radical Islamic Terrorism – which has no place in an open and tolerant society. Radical Islam advocates hate for women, gays, Jews, Christians and all Americans. I am going to be a President for all Americans, and I am going to protect and defend all Americans. We are going to make America safe again and great again for everyone.

 

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Trump takes credit for ‘being right on radical Islamic terrorism’

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By Nolan D. McCaskill and Kristen East

06/12/16 01:34 PM EDT

Updated 06/12/16 04:53 PM EDT

Donald Trump wasted little time seeking political advantage in the massacre at a Florida nightclub, taking credit for “being right on radical Islamic terrorism” in the wake of the worst mass shooting in American history.

The suspect in the attack, identified by authorities as a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent named Omar Saddiqui Mateen, killed 50 people and injured another 53 during a rampage through a gay dance club in Orlando. He died in a gunfight with SWAT officers after initially firing shots into the club and later taking hostages.

“Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee tweeted.

Trump followed up that tweet with a statement expressing “My deepest sympathy and support goes out to the victims, the wounded, and their families.”

But he also attacked President Barack Obama, whom he said “disgracefully refused to even say the words ‘Radical Islam'” during his comments on Sunday afternoon. “For that reason alone, he should step down.

Obama condemned the attack as “an act of terror and an act of hate,” but declined to identify a motive.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-terrorism-tweet-224237#ixzz4BPGwKvMe

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Trump, gets Negitive Endorsement from former NJ Gov. Whitman

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Editors notes : Most GOP voters are voting against the likes of unpopular former Gov. Whitman and the GOP Establishment 

Don’t vote for Trump, former Gov. Whitman tells N.J. primary voters

By Kelly Heyboer | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 31, 2016 at 7:39 AM, updated May 31, 2016

TEWKSBURY — Donald Trump may have locked up the Republican presidential nomination, but one of the state’s most prominent GOP leaders is urging the party faithful to vote against him in next week’s New Jersey primary.

Former Gov. Christie Whitman, a two-term Republican governor, said Republicans should make a statement and cast a protest vote for Ohio Gov. John Kasich or U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the June 7 primary.

“I hope voters will express what they feel. Don’t be steamrolled into thinking you have to be for Donald Trump because he’s now locked up the nomination,” Whitman said in an interview at her Hunterdon County farm Friday.

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/dont_vote_for_trump_gov_christie_whitman_tells_nj.html

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A Wide-Swinging Pendulum: a Short Recent History of NJ Prez Politics

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Veteran Essex County operative Tom Barrett likes to point out that Bill Clinton turned New Jersey into a blue state, but poll numbers released today by Monmouth University show Clinton’s wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on shaky ground in the Garden State. Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more

Monmouth Poll: Clinton 38%, Trump 34% in New Jersey

It’s close. The presidential election in New Jersey is close, according to this morning’s Monmouth University Poll Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more