Trump just had his 47% moment

[lupojohn]

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Source: Hardball with Chris Matthews

So Hardball was airing Trump's town hall in New Hampshire and some idiot was talking about Muslims and said "we all know the President is one" similar to what happened with John McCain in 2008. Unlike the Arizona senator, Trump brushed it off and sort of laughed and agreed with the guy. Wish I had video/quotes, but it was already replayed at least half a dozen times by Matthews. Yeah, this could sink him.

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[peacebird]

1. Won't sink him, apparently a majority of R's believe Pres Obama IS a muslim.....

[Fred Sanders]

12. And not to worry...CNN will make sure to cover this up and make sure no bad publicity for Trump goes unchallenged.

Just like they covered up a Trump goon assaulting a protestor.

There is more sweet sweet ad revenue milk in that Trump cow!

Trump and Zucker clearly have a quid pro quo going on.....while all America suffers through their deceit.

[jberryhill]

27. "True, but misleading"

[SummerSnow]

2. As soon as Chris Hayes came on, He started talking about it

he said the guy was calling for ethnic cleansing and Donald agreed

[Person 2713]

7. Ethnic cleansing is a war crime not a policy debate and should be discussed as such

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

[wordpix]

23. what a shameless man-whore. Anything for a vote, in Trumpty Dump's case

[totodeinhere]

3. Why would this sink him? A good portion of the Republican base agrees with him.

If anything it will bring his numbers up just like his remarks about Mexicans did. Remember we are not dealing with sane people and conventional wisdom doesn't apply.

[global1]

14. He'll Keep The Percentage Of Support He Now Has And He'll....

pick up more support from the people that believe Obama is a Muslim.

[840high]

36. Not just that. People from both parties

are tired of stale politicians. Trump and Sanders bring excitement to them.

[hibbing]

19. yes

My first thought also. It's disgusting and makes me sick.

Peace

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. With this, his polling numbers will rise by 5%.

At least. Guaranteed.

[Greybnk48]

5. Trump's a hard core birther and has been all along.

This one reason his people like him. This will not hurt him one bit.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Yeah, I've been hearing "this could sink Trump" on a regular basis,

but it never seems to happen. I hope it does.

[customerserviceguy]

18. Same here

but I think his failure to totally smack down Carly Fiorina might just be the thing that does it. He had a chance to really take it to her on her record, (total failure in everything she's ever done, only has what she has because she was given it) and she came up looking like a winner from last night.

Remember four years ago? I called the GOP process the 'lava lamp', each candidate took their turn at being the hot blob that rose to the top and pushed the other ones down. After they had all had their moment at the top, finally Mittens made his move, and displaced them all, winning on the first ballot, which surprised me.

I still think it is possible for Jebbie to do the same trick, he'll always have enough money to keep going on.

[Shrike47]

8. His supporters agree with the statement so they will only applaud, if they even notice.

The general public is never going to go with this guy (they wouldn't, would they? Icy chills...) but the Republican base will lap it up. Remember, this is the party of ignorance.

[Throd]

9. This only bothers people who already wouldn't vote for him.

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Nope, won't cause any trouble

for him.

[liberal N proud]

11. He has been making that claim since Obama became President

He was one of the original birthers.

[Dawson Leery]

13. This will help in the primary, but ruins him for the GE.

Any poll showing him close will be found highly inaccurate.

[Roland99]

15. Saw this tonight on Facebook >>>>>

https://instagram.com/p/7qGHefOy3i/

[kydo]

16. ROFLMAO

[jberryhill]

34. That still buys into "Muslim" as insult

It's like responding to "gay" when hurled as an insult with "no I'm not", instead of "so what if I am?"

[madville]

17. You're joking right?

This may give him another bump up. The majority of this country is anti-Muslim to some degree.

[Laser102]

20. The more vile and ugly he is, the more he's loved by the vile and ugly who support him.

Let's just hope they aren't our neighbors. They say Hitlers troops were on meth. Seeing the same kind of behavior among Trumps troops.

[madville]

21. What's scary is that his lead over

Hillary and Berniebin several key swing states is actually increasing.

[wordpix]

25. there is dirt everywhere - Trump was in the casino business, went bankrupt over it

there's lots of dirt, it just needs to be outed. Air it!!!

The problem here is, all these dirty politicians don't want to out The Donald b/c he has equal dirt on them. He said this very thing last night, but in a slightly different way. He isn't shy about saying he was on "the other side" as in, the donor side, previously.

[LannyDeVaney]

22. Sink him?

Anybody that was already planning on voting for him isn't going to change their mind when he calls for the genocide of Muslims (which he also did at the same rally).

He will go up in the polls tomorrow, I promise you.

[Frank Cannon]

24. HA! Hardly. The only thing that would drive his numbers down...

Is if he were to declare tomorrow that we should all follow the words of Jesus and do unto others as we would have them do unto us and help out the poor and the sick. That would tank him immediately.

Other than that, fat chance. The Teabaggers LOVE this stuff..

[unblock]

26. seriously? birther crap is how he launched his presidential bid.

[TeamPooka]

28. Trump took questions at his town hall & found out who his fans really are. I wonder if

he still wants to be their president?

[JCMach1]

29. Not really, the majority of Republicans I know believe pretty much what was said...

but the OP is accurate if they mean what would happen in a General election. Trump might not get 40% of the vote...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. These idiots have taken the phrase "The victor writes the history" to the next stage....

They believe they can VOTE for reality.

If they win: Global warming is a hoax, Obama is a Muslim and 9/11 happened under Clinton.

[maryellen99]

31. If you support Trump you support ethnic cleansing/genocide period nt

[Skittles]

32. his response shows he has no honor whatsoever

he's a coward, kissing up to the worst of the repuke base

[StevieM]

33. I doubt it. In case you forgot "the birth certificate has gone missing." The GOP voters do not

have a problem with this kind of garbage.

[restorefreedom]

35. i wish i could agree about him sinking

but this birther tribal bullshit is his calling card. the crazies suck it up like a hoover elite.

but it could bring him closer to his ceiling.

almost feel bad for the guy who asked the question. got to be tough going through life that uninformed.

[SoapBox]

37. He is drawing the same Tea Baggers....

As Palin and other freaks.

[Javaman]

38. won't do a thing. nt

[EEO]

39. Oh, there will be so many more.

And he will be unelectable by the end.

[TexasTowelie]

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