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ABC News Report: Trump Spoke About David Duke In 2000
Tom Llamas: "Trump Clearly Knows Who David Duke Is. Listen To What He Said In 2000"
From the February 29 edition of ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir:
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TOM LLAMAS: Today's confrontations coming as the Republican front-runner finds himself in the middle of a new controversy, dodging a question about whether he will reject the support of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
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LLAMAS: Today, Trump under fire, saying he "didn't understand the question."
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LLAMAS: But Trump clearly knows who David Duke is. Listen to what he said in 2000.
DONALD TRUMP: David Duke just joined, a bigot, a racist, a problem. I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party.
LLAMAS: And Friday, Trump said this.
TRUMP: I didn't even know he endorsed me? David Duke endorsed me? Okay, alright, I disavow, okay?
Previously:
CNN's Jake Tapper Presses Donald Trump To Condemn The Ku Klux Klan
CNN's Jeffrey Lord Defends Trump's Refusal To Disavow KKK By Claiming It Is "A Function Of The Left"
How Trump Acknowledged David Duke On CNN In 1991: "I Hate Seeing What It Represents"
Ben Stein: "It's A Ridiculous Thing" To Call Donald Trump Racist
Pundits Across Political Spectrum Blast Trump For Declining To Disavow Support From KKK
ABC News Report: Trump Spoke About David Duke In 2000
Tom Llamas: "Trump Clearly Knows Who David Duke Is. Listen To What He Said In 2000"
From the February 29 edition of ABC's World News Tonight with David Muir:
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TOM LLAMAS: Today's confrontations coming as the Republican front-runner finds himself in the middle of a new controversy, dodging a question about whether he will reject the support of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
[...]
LLAMAS: Today, Trump under fire, saying he "didn't understand the question."
[...]
LLAMAS: But Trump clearly knows who David Duke is. Listen to what he said in 2000.
DONALD TRUMP: David Duke just joined, a bigot, a racist, a problem. I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party.
LLAMAS: And Friday, Trump said this.
TRUMP: I didn't even know he endorsed me? David Duke endorsed me? Okay, alright, I disavow, okay?
Previously:
CNN's Jake Tapper Presses Donald Trump To Condemn The Ku Klux Klan
CNN's Jeffrey Lord Defends Trump's Refusal To Disavow KKK By Claiming It Is "A Function Of The Left"
How Trump Acknowledged David Duke On CNN In 1991: "I Hate Seeing What It Represents"
Ben Stein: "It's A Ridiculous Thing" To Call Donald Trump Racist
Pundits Across Political Spectrum Blast Trump For Declining To Disavow Support From KKK
Why Donald Trump hasn’t locked up the Republican nomination just yet, in 1 chart
The Washington Post
Chris Cillizza
© Seth Perlman/AP Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in St. Louis earlier this month.
Donald Trump has won 19 of the 32 contests so far in the Republican presidential primary race. He has a 250+ delegate lead over Ted Cruz and is the only candidate with a plausible path to the 1,237 delegates he would need to formally become the Republican party's standard-bearer in the fall election.
Far from uniting behind Trump, however, the national party -- or at least many of its leaders -- continue to huddle in hopes of devising a plan to stop him. The latest: Speaker Paul Ryan met with a number of major donors including New York financier Paul Singer on Thursday in Florida to discuss their options when it comes to Trump.
That's a far cry from how the party treated Mitt Romney in 2012. As soon as it became clear that Romney had effectively put down the challenge from Rick Santorum, the party establishment rallied to his side. On April 25, 2012, the Republican National Committee declared Romney the presumptive nominee and began coordinating its efforts with his.
It made a big difference -- as evidenced by this chart from GOP consultant Alex Gage which compares Romney's winning percentages state by state in 2012 with Trump's performance to date.
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Two things immediately jump out at me from the chart:
Gage's chart suggests two very different things.
That's the question facing establishment Republicans today:
The latter route appears to be the one that most establishment Republicans are taking. For now.
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The Washington Post
Chris Cillizza
© Seth Perlman/AP Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in St. Louis earlier this month.
Donald Trump has won 19 of the 32 contests so far in the Republican presidential primary race. He has a 250+ delegate lead over Ted Cruz and is the only candidate with a plausible path to the 1,237 delegates he would need to formally become the Republican party's standard-bearer in the fall election.
Far from uniting behind Trump, however, the national party -- or at least many of its leaders -- continue to huddle in hopes of devising a plan to stop him. The latest: Speaker Paul Ryan met with a number of major donors including New York financier Paul Singer on Thursday in Florida to discuss their options when it comes to Trump.
That's a far cry from how the party treated Mitt Romney in 2012. As soon as it became clear that Romney had effectively put down the challenge from Rick Santorum, the party establishment rallied to his side. On April 25, 2012, the Republican National Committee declared Romney the presumptive nominee and began coordinating its efforts with his.
It made a big difference -- as evidenced by this chart from GOP consultant Alex Gage which compares Romney's winning percentages state by state in 2012 with Trump's performance to date.
Two things immediately jump out at me from the chart:
1. As soon as the RNC backed Romney, his margins jumped through the roof. Now, that's not all because of the RNC. Romney had just come off victories in five states before he was tagged as the "presumptive nominee" and the race was getting very close to being totally over by the time the party committee stepped in.
2. Prior to the RNC's involvement, Romney was averaging 43 percent of the vote in primaries and caucuses. Trump is averaging 35 percent. That's a big difference.
Gage's chart suggests two very different things.
The first is that Trump is not consolidating support in any meaningful way just yet and is not matching the win margins of the last GOP nominee even as he continues to rack up wins.
The second is that it seems relatively clear that if the party did decide to get behind Trump at this point, it would go a long way to helping him get to the 1,237 delegates he would need to be the party's nominee.
The second is that it seems relatively clear that if the party did decide to get behind Trump at this point, it would go a long way to helping him get to the 1,237 delegates he would need to be the party's nominee.
That's the question facing establishment Republicans today:
Do they line up behind Trump now in hopes of managing him and making him more acceptable to a general electorate; or
Do they continue to fight like hell to keep him from the nomination, running the risk by doing so that they could severely damage him and themselves for November?
Do they continue to fight like hell to keep him from the nomination, running the risk by doing so that they could severely damage him and themselves for November?
The latter route appears to be the one that most establishment Republicans are taking. For now.
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Guns at GOP convention petition tops 35K, Trump wants to study 'fine print'
© Andrew Harnik, AP Then-Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul and his wife Kelley
Ashby walk outside the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland before an August debate.
USA TODAY
David M Jackson
March 28, 2016
Donald Trump says he wants to study a petition that calls for allowing the open carry of guns at the Republican convention this July in Cleveland.
While proclaiming himself "a very, very strong person for Second Amendment," the Republican front-runner told ABC's This Week that "I have not seen the petition. I want to see what it says. I want to read the fine print."
Posted on the website change.org, the petition of unknown origin notes that "though Ohio is an open carry state, which allows for the open carry of guns, the hosting venue -- the Quicken Loans Arena -- strictly forbids the carry of firearms on their premises." That "is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and puts all attendees at risk," said the petition that has more than 35,000 signers as of Sunday.
The other Republican presidential candidates -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich -- have not commented on the open carry petition.
The name of the group purportedly behind the effort — Americans for Responsible Open Carry — does not appear anywhere else online and accepts online message only from networked supporters, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
According to the website cnet on Sunday, the petition may have been started by a group as satire.
"A blog called Hyperationalist has claimed responsibility.
He or she writes: "It just doesn't seem right that thousands of patriotic Republican good guys should be left totally unprotected by whatever bad guys might wish to do them harm. I mean forgodsake people, ISIS could show up to take out everybody in and around that building and they'd be sitting ducks. Sitting ducks, I tell you! There might even be a bad egg or two among the delegates."
Hyperationalist didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
However, his or her tweets since 2011 suggest that he's not exactly of the Republican cause. For example: "Win-win for the Trump people at last night's rally: a protester got beat up and a black guy got arrested. This was accompanied with the #NeverTrump hashtag."
The Ohio Republican Party said it was not aware of the petition, the Journal reported, nor was the host committee overseeing the convention, although it noted that the Secret Service, in conjunction with Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and state and federal authorities, is handling security for the event.
“They are coordinating and will be continuously refining security plans leading up to the national convention,” said Alee Lockman, a spokesperson for the Republican National Convention, the Journal says.
In 2012, firearms were banned by the Secret Service at the Republican convention in Tampa.
Contributing: Doug Stanglin
SOURCE: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...5k-trump-wants-to-study-fine-print/ar-BBqZJdB
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Rush Limbaugh’s blessing of Trump is killing conservatism
By Michael Gerson Opinion writer March 28 at 8:41 PM
If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, one of the main reasons will be that many in the conservative movement found him acceptable. And one of the main reasons that many conservatives are finding Trump acceptable is that the most influential political talk radio host in history, Rush Limbaugh, has provided his blessing.
Not his endorsement. Limbaugh takes pains to preserve neutrality between Trump and Ted Cruz, whom he describes as the obvious choice “if conservatism is the dominating factor in how you vote.”
Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Post. View Archive
But Limbaugh has also consistently defended Trump as a legitimate choice for those whose dominating factor is the humiliation of “the establishment.” Early in the campaign, when Trump attacked Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) status as a war hero, Limbaugh responded by praising Trump’s courage, defending him as “an embattled public figure” willing to “stand up for himself, double down and tell everybody to go to hell.” Through a long series of controversies, Limbaugh has excused Trump’s narcissism and bluster as an endearing “schtick.” Trump’s deviations from conservative orthodoxy are noted but considered secondary. “I think with the case of Trump,” argues Limbaugh, “there’s a much bigger upside than downside.”
[The decline and fall of the GOP]
The upside, in this view, is not just taking the political fight to liberalism; it is also overturning a failed and corrupt Republican political order. Limbaugh dismisses defenders of this order as fundamentally self-interested. “[Trump] has put together a coalition that’s exactly what the Republican Party says that it needs to win, and yet, look what they’re doing. They’re trying to get Trump out of the race, because they’re not in charge of it.” Opposing Trump is the work of a “cliquish, elitist club,” preserving its influence and employment prospects. This criticism is sometimes expanded to include the conservative intelligentsia. “I’m talking about the establishment,” says Limbaugh, “conservative media, the brainiacs, the think tanks, the professors.”
Listen: Donald Trump's full interview with The Washington Post editorial board
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump visited the editorial board of The Washington Post on Mar. 21. Here is audio of the full, unedited interview. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
For decades, Limbaugh set the tone of popular conservatism by arguing for ideological purity. Now, the great champion of conservatism has enabled the rise of the “least conservative Republican presidential aspirant in living memory” (in the words of Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs). Trump is a candidate who talks more of personal rule than of limited government. A candidate who praises a single-payer health system, proposes higher taxes on the wealthy, opposes entitlement reform and advocates the systematic destruction of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy. This is the politician Limbaugh has given the ideological hall pass of a lifetime.
Why might this concern your average conservative brainiac? First it is necessary to dismiss Limbaugh’s consistent questioning of motives. Many men and women I know who work on Capitol Hill, in conservative media or in think tanks are hardly in it for the money or job security. Criticizing their venality from 30,000 feet in his Gulfstream jet rings particularly hollow.
[George Will: Do Republicans really think Trump will make a good Supreme Court pick?]
Most in this Republican “establishment” believe they are serving a set of ideals, which includes market economics and limited government. There is no longer a Nelson Rockefeller wing of the GOP that is attempting to block the rise of the conservative movement. Leaders such as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are conservative by any serious measure. But they are forced to live within the constraints of our constitutional system. They don’t have the option of inhabiting a fantasy world where entitlements such as Obamacare can be undone by the legislature alone. Such utopianism is fundamentally at odds with constitutionalism.
And many Republicans, in Washington and elsewhere, do not view civility, inclusion and tolerance as forms of weakness or compromise. In fact, they view casual misogyny, racial stereotyping and religious bigotry as moral failings, in their children and in their leaders. And they oppose — as a matter of faith or philosophy — any form of populism that has exclusion, cruelty or dehumanization at its core.
In reading Trump’s recent interview with The Post’s editorial board, what is striking is not only his shallowness (though his policy depth must be measured in microns). It is also his utter rootlessness. None of his ideas or proposals is placed in the context of ideals or ideology, Republican or otherwise. Trump possesses impulses and instincts. He does not reason from first principles. Whatever the appeal of his authoritarian populism, it does not remotely resemble conservatism (see Russell Kirk’s 10 principles, which include belief in an enduring moral order, political prudence, and restraints on power and human passion).
Populist anti-intellectualism, on the rise at least since Sarah Palin, has culminated in Trump. It is the passing of conservatism, even if Limbaugh baptizes the dead.
Rush Limbaugh’s blessing of Trump is killing conservatism
By Michael Gerson Opinion writer March 28 at 8:41 PM
If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, one of the main reasons will be that many in the conservative movement found him acceptable. And one of the main reasons that many conservatives are finding Trump acceptable is that the most influential political talk radio host in history, Rush Limbaugh, has provided his blessing.
Not his endorsement. Limbaugh takes pains to preserve neutrality between Trump and Ted Cruz, whom he describes as the obvious choice “if conservatism is the dominating factor in how you vote.”
Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Post. View Archive
But Limbaugh has also consistently defended Trump as a legitimate choice for those whose dominating factor is the humiliation of “the establishment.” Early in the campaign, when Trump attacked Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) status as a war hero, Limbaugh responded by praising Trump’s courage, defending him as “an embattled public figure” willing to “stand up for himself, double down and tell everybody to go to hell.” Through a long series of controversies, Limbaugh has excused Trump’s narcissism and bluster as an endearing “schtick.” Trump’s deviations from conservative orthodoxy are noted but considered secondary. “I think with the case of Trump,” argues Limbaugh, “there’s a much bigger upside than downside.”
[The decline and fall of the GOP]
The upside, in this view, is not just taking the political fight to liberalism; it is also overturning a failed and corrupt Republican political order. Limbaugh dismisses defenders of this order as fundamentally self-interested. “[Trump] has put together a coalition that’s exactly what the Republican Party says that it needs to win, and yet, look what they’re doing. They’re trying to get Trump out of the race, because they’re not in charge of it.” Opposing Trump is the work of a “cliquish, elitist club,” preserving its influence and employment prospects. This criticism is sometimes expanded to include the conservative intelligentsia. “I’m talking about the establishment,” says Limbaugh, “conservative media, the brainiacs, the think tanks, the professors.”
Listen: Donald Trump's full interview with The Washington Post editorial board
Play Video63:54
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump visited the editorial board of The Washington Post on Mar. 21. Here is audio of the full, unedited interview. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)
For decades, Limbaugh set the tone of popular conservatism by arguing for ideological purity. Now, the great champion of conservatism has enabled the rise of the “least conservative Republican presidential aspirant in living memory” (in the words of Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs). Trump is a candidate who talks more of personal rule than of limited government. A candidate who praises a single-payer health system, proposes higher taxes on the wealthy, opposes entitlement reform and advocates the systematic destruction of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy. This is the politician Limbaugh has given the ideological hall pass of a lifetime.
Why might this concern your average conservative brainiac? First it is necessary to dismiss Limbaugh’s consistent questioning of motives. Many men and women I know who work on Capitol Hill, in conservative media or in think tanks are hardly in it for the money or job security. Criticizing their venality from 30,000 feet in his Gulfstream jet rings particularly hollow.
[George Will: Do Republicans really think Trump will make a good Supreme Court pick?]
Most in this Republican “establishment” believe they are serving a set of ideals, which includes market economics and limited government. There is no longer a Nelson Rockefeller wing of the GOP that is attempting to block the rise of the conservative movement. Leaders such as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are conservative by any serious measure. But they are forced to live within the constraints of our constitutional system. They don’t have the option of inhabiting a fantasy world where entitlements such as Obamacare can be undone by the legislature alone. Such utopianism is fundamentally at odds with constitutionalism.
And many Republicans, in Washington and elsewhere, do not view civility, inclusion and tolerance as forms of weakness or compromise. In fact, they view casual misogyny, racial stereotyping and religious bigotry as moral failings, in their children and in their leaders. And they oppose — as a matter of faith or philosophy — any form of populism that has exclusion, cruelty or dehumanization at its core.
In reading Trump’s recent interview with The Post’s editorial board, what is striking is not only his shallowness (though his policy depth must be measured in microns). It is also his utter rootlessness. None of his ideas or proposals is placed in the context of ideals or ideology, Republican or otherwise. Trump possesses impulses and instincts. He does not reason from first principles. Whatever the appeal of his authoritarian populism, it does not remotely resemble conservatism (see Russell Kirk’s 10 principles, which include belief in an enduring moral order, political prudence, and restraints on power and human passion).
Populist anti-intellectualism, on the rise at least since Sarah Palin, has culminated in Trump. It is the passing of conservatism, even if Limbaugh baptizes the dead.
College students to GOP: Don't bother
Little appetite for Trump, Cruz or Kasich
Young voters are tilting Democratic
Young Republicans different from older Republicans
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks to reporters just before casting his ballot in New York, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Seth Wenig AP
McClatchy D.C.
By Jess Nocera
April 22, 2016
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- As the Republican presidential campaign turns to Maryland as well as other states, candidates might just skip over the University of Maryland, the largest college in the state.
“I feel like the election right now is a joke; there are not many good candidates left on the Republican side, ” said Ariana Lulli, 19, a sophomore who is studying to be a teacher. “I don’t even know who I’m going to vote for.”
Kaitlynn Motley, 20, a sophomore physiology and neurobiology major, said the only thing she applauds in the Republican Party is the refusal among some to support any of the remaining candidates.
“It shows a lot of thought into the decision,” said Motley, who said she recently switched her party affiliation to Democrat from Republican for the upcoming Maryland primary.
The sentiments are widely shared among younger voters. While crowds of 18-to-34-year-old voters flock to see Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is trailing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, fewer numbers are drawn to Republicans Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or John Kasich.
“No candidate from the Republican Party has ever had a large young voters following,” said Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement — CIRCLE — at Tufts University.
In a national poll in March, USA Today and Rock the Vote found that voters in this age group were split: Trump had 23 percent support, Marco Rubio had 18 percent, both Cruz and Ben Carson had 14 percent, and Kasich had 6 percent, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
“Not one has captured the hearts and minds of the youth vote like Sanders has on the Democratic side,” said John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard Institute of Politics.
“Young Republicans are so different in the way they think of most social issues,” Kawashima-Ginsberg said. “Our analysis of Pew Research data showed that young Republicans are left of older Republicans on most issues.”
Immigration marks the sharpest contrast.
When Trump does win over younger voters, he wins them over with much narrower margins than he enjoys with older voters, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
During the March 15 primaries, for example, Trump didn’t win the majority of younger voters vote in any of the states, though he did take a plurality in Florida and Illinois, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
“The percentage-point difference between Trump and the runner-ups Rubio and Cruz, respectively, in both of those cases were quite small,” Kawashima-Ginsberg said. In Florida, Trump won 36 percent, compared to second-place Rubio’s 34 percent. In Illinois, the New York businessman won 32 percent, compared to second-place Cruz’s 29 percent.
“Trump does have an outsider appeal to many of them, while Cruz is now the establishment guy — relative to Trump, anyway,” Kawashima-Ginsberg said. “So, young conservatives have a really hard choice to make – either go with someone whose value propositions oppose at least some of their belief, or go with another ideological extreme who has now lost the ‘outsider’ appeal because he’s the only viable party-backed candidate left.”
Maryland: Primary 4/26
Historically, Maryland has voted mostly for Democratic presidential nominees. Former Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley served as governor of Maryland for two terms between 2007 and 2015. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore. Maryland has 10 electoral votes.
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Dan Rosenberry, 19, a sophomore computer engineering major, dislikes all of the candidates, particularly Trump.
“Trump is so ridiculously racist and promotes an unhealthy culture for the country,” Rosenberry said, referring to Trump’s remarks on Mexican immigrants and call for a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the United States.
Fifty-six percent of millennials polled nationally by the Harvard Institute of Politics in December said they prefer a Democrat to a Republican.
Della Volpe said he does not see any Republican candidate gaining significant support among younger voters in the next few months.
Rosenberry, who identifies as a moderate Republican, said he finds Cruz to be too conservative and although he said he doesn’t know much about Kasich, he finds him to be the most desirable of the three.
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Will Armstrong, 22, a senior finance major, agrees with Rosenberry.
“While I don’t agree with all of what Obama says, he looks the part — very presidential — and I don’t see that in Ted Cruz or Donald Trump at all,” said Armstrong, who said he identifies as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
With a win in Ohio, Armstrong said he hopes that Kasich garners more attention.
“Hopefully Kasich will become a little more marketable and come out of the shadows,” Armstrong said. “But I’m not sure if he still has time to do so.”
Jess Nocera: 202-383-6022, @JessMNocera
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article73047137.html#storylink=cpy
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Little appetite for Trump, Cruz or Kasich
Young voters are tilting Democratic
Young Republicans different from older Republicans
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks to reporters just before casting his ballot in New York, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Seth Wenig AP
McClatchy D.C.
By Jess Nocera
April 22, 2016
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- As the Republican presidential campaign turns to Maryland as well as other states, candidates might just skip over the University of Maryland, the largest college in the state.
“I feel like the election right now is a joke; there are not many good candidates left on the Republican side, ” said Ariana Lulli, 19, a sophomore who is studying to be a teacher. “I don’t even know who I’m going to vote for.”
Kaitlynn Motley, 20, a sophomore physiology and neurobiology major, said the only thing she applauds in the Republican Party is the refusal among some to support any of the remaining candidates.
“It shows a lot of thought into the decision,” said Motley, who said she recently switched her party affiliation to Democrat from Republican for the upcoming Maryland primary.
The sentiments are widely shared among younger voters. While crowds of 18-to-34-year-old voters flock to see Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is trailing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, fewer numbers are drawn to Republicans Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or John Kasich.
“No candidate from the Republican Party has ever had a large young voters following,” said Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement — CIRCLE — at Tufts University.
In a national poll in March, USA Today and Rock the Vote found that voters in this age group were split: Trump had 23 percent support, Marco Rubio had 18 percent, both Cruz and Ben Carson had 14 percent, and Kasich had 6 percent, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
“Not one has captured the hearts and minds of the youth vote like Sanders has on the Democratic side,” said John Della Volpe, director of polling at Harvard Institute of Politics.
“Young Republicans are so different in the way they think of most social issues,” Kawashima-Ginsberg said. “Our analysis of Pew Research data showed that young Republicans are left of older Republicans on most issues.”
Immigration marks the sharpest contrast.
Young republicans see immigrants who are in the United States illegally as an asset to the country,
whereas older Republicans tend to echo Trump’s views, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
whereas older Republicans tend to echo Trump’s views, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
When Trump does win over younger voters, he wins them over with much narrower margins than he enjoys with older voters, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
During the March 15 primaries, for example, Trump didn’t win the majority of younger voters vote in any of the states, though he did take a plurality in Florida and Illinois, Kawashima-Ginsberg said.
“The percentage-point difference between Trump and the runner-ups Rubio and Cruz, respectively, in both of those cases were quite small,” Kawashima-Ginsberg said. In Florida, Trump won 36 percent, compared to second-place Rubio’s 34 percent. In Illinois, the New York businessman won 32 percent, compared to second-place Cruz’s 29 percent.
“Trump does have an outsider appeal to many of them, while Cruz is now the establishment guy — relative to Trump, anyway,” Kawashima-Ginsberg said. “So, young conservatives have a really hard choice to make – either go with someone whose value propositions oppose at least some of their belief, or go with another ideological extreme who has now lost the ‘outsider’ appeal because he’s the only viable party-backed candidate left.”
Maryland: Primary 4/26
Historically, Maryland has voted mostly for Democratic presidential nominees. Former Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley served as governor of Maryland for two terms between 2007 and 2015. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore. Maryland has 10 electoral votes.
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Motley’s biggest issue is abortion rights.
“Trump doesn’t really respect women and no matter what someone’s ideas are, if the basic lack of respect for a person is there, I would have trouble supporting them,” Motley said.
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Dan Rosenberry, 19, a sophomore computer engineering major, dislikes all of the candidates, particularly Trump.
“Trump is so ridiculously racist and promotes an unhealthy culture for the country,” Rosenberry said, referring to Trump’s remarks on Mexican immigrants and call for a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the United States.
Fifty-six percent of millennials polled nationally by the Harvard Institute of Politics in December said they prefer a Democrat to a Republican.
Della Volpe said he does not see any Republican candidate gaining significant support among younger voters in the next few months.
Rosenberry, who identifies as a moderate Republican, said he finds Cruz to be too conservative and although he said he doesn’t know much about Kasich, he finds him to be the most desirable of the three.
EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE
Will Armstrong, 22, a senior finance major, agrees with Rosenberry.
“While I don’t agree with all of what Obama says, he looks the part — very presidential — and I don’t see that in Ted Cruz or Donald Trump at all,” said Armstrong, who said he identifies as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
With a win in Ohio, Armstrong said he hopes that Kasich garners more attention.
“Hopefully Kasich will become a little more marketable and come out of the shadows,” Armstrong said. “But I’m not sure if he still has time to do so.”
Jess Nocera: 202-383-6022, @JessMNocera
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article73047137.html#storylink=cpy
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CNN FAREED ZAKARIA GPS 11/26/2017 [FULL] WHY TRUMP WON
CNN FAREED ZAKARIA GPS NOVEMBER 26, 2017 Breaking News, Latest News Today President Donald Trump, SEN FRANKEN, TRUMP JR, KUSHNER, IVANKA TRUMP FLYNN STOPS SHARING INFO WITH TRUMP LAWYERS FLYNN LAWYERS CUT TIES TO TRUMP LEGAL TEAM FRANKEN VOWS TO "REGAIN TRUST" IN NEW APOLOGY IS BLACK FRIDAY DEAD? TRUMP JR. VENTS ABOUT RUSSIA PROBE ON SOCIAL MEDIA FLYNN'S LAWYERS STOP TALKING TO TRUMP'S TEAM OFFICIALS: TILLERSON SNUBBING IVANKA TRUMP'S INDIA TRIP TRUMP RESPONDS "NEED THE WALL, NEED THE BAN" OBAMA ENVY?
CNN FAREED ZAKARIA GPS NOVEMBER 26, 2017 Breaking News, Latest News Today President Donald Trump, SEN FRANKEN, TRUMP JR, KUSHNER, IVANKA TRUMP FLYNN STOPS SHARING INFO WITH TRUMP LAWYERS FLYNN LAWYERS CUT TIES TO TRUMP LEGAL TEAM FRANKEN VOWS TO "REGAIN TRUST" IN NEW APOLOGY IS BLACK FRIDAY DEAD? TRUMP JR. VENTS ABOUT RUSSIA PROBE ON SOCIAL MEDIA FLYNN'S LAWYERS STOP TALKING TO TRUMP'S TEAM OFFICIALS: TILLERSON SNUBBING IVANKA TRUMP'S INDIA TRIP TRUMP RESPONDS "NEED THE WALL, NEED THE BAN" OBAMA ENVY?