So how long before Donald Trump quits the race?
 

I bet he drops out within 6 months.

I'll go with 3 mos.

Who do you want going up against Hillary?

he doesn't strike me as a quitter so i'll guess that he won't ever quit the race. he'll lose the nomination before he quits.

It all depends. A few people are starting to pull closer to him. He needs to come up with some positions on different issues if he wants to hold them off because people will start wanting more substance than just "I'll be great!"

I would say he will hang around at least through the first 3-4 primaries then it will depend on how he does. If he doesn't win any of those and it looks like things are going bad for him he will drop out sometime around then. If he wins or comes in a close second in those early primaries he will be around for a while.

He said the other day that if he can't see a path to victory for himself he will drop out of the race. Exactly what constitutes his not seeing a path to victory remains a mystery.

This! :2 cents:

i get what you are saying but he kind of said the opposite, he said if he ever tanks in the polls, he'd consider dropping out. to me that means he thinks he's in it unless something goes absolutely haywire.

He quit last election no?

here's the quote-

"I'm not a masochist," the entertainer and Republican presidential candidate said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And if I was dropping in the polls, where I saw that I wasn't gonna win, why would I continue?"

Trump expressed confidence in the predictive nature of polling.

"I believe in polls," he said. "How many elections do you see where the polls were wrong? Not that many."

he wasn't in that election. i'm not defending Trump btw. but this is the first time he's announced he's running for the office.

Donald Trump forcefully rejected the idea Tuesday that he might be considering getting out of the race as his lead in the polls has contracted in recent weeks.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'm leading every poll and I'm going to make our country great again," Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day" on Tuesday morning.

"I'm not getting out. I'm going to win, OK?" Trump added. "The answer is: I'm going all the way and I'm going to win."

Trump said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would get out of the race if his poll numbers plummeted and he had no chance of winning, setting off speculation among pundits that Trump might soon drop out of the GOP presidential contest.

Trump vows to win: 'I'm not going anywhere' - CNNPolitics.com

Canadians for Mr. Trump!

well he's got my vote, for the best doo in the race :thumbsup

Ahhh okay, I just looked it up he never officially did it he was just kind of flirting with it. Thanks

What part of these polls makes you think he'd quit? Hillary has a better chance to quit first.

Polls released today.

Florida. 28% Trump. 12 over Carson, 14 over Rubio, 16 over Bush. Double the % of the sitting Senator and former Gov.

Ohio. 23% Trump. 5 over Carson, 10 over sitting Gov Kaschich, who has 65% approval rating in the State.

Penn. 23% Trump. 6 over Carson and 11 over Rubio.

From Sunday,

Iowa - 24% Trump. 5 over Carson and 16 over Fiorina.

NH. - 21% Trump. 5 over Fiorina and 11 over Carson.

Yeah he's dropping out real soon.

I haven't been keeping up, has the Republican Jesus finally started to loose his luster? I've said since the beginning that he will drop out. He's just running a PR campaign to give himself an ego boost.

The guy will not just walk away from his Trump empire to be president. Anyone who thinks he'd do that is a fool, the guy is too much of an egomaniac to let anyone else take control of his name brand.

I was just responding to you assertion that he would never drop out of the race. Clearly there are circumstances under which he would. Right now those circumstances are nowhere in sight.

He is coming down a little, but more importantly a couple of other candidates are starting to pull away from the pack and potentially challenge him. RCP has the nationwide average showing him at 7 points above Carson. He is still leading by a good margin in many individual states.

I don't know that he will fall much more, but I think what we will see is some of the other candidates started to crash and burn and their anti-Trump supporters may end up jumping on board one of the other candidates and helping them close that gap.

Carson is just as nuts as trump.

Edit: my bad that's insulting to trump Carson is far more nuts then trump

Quality vote :thumbsup

Agreed, Carson is a bigger nut that Trump, but that's not saying much. It's pretty easy to see no "sane" candidate has a chance with the current right wing.

They have to either cater to the jesus freaks or to the hate the govt nimrods. There isn't any sane people left in their voting block..

I don't see Trump as pulling out - at all. He seems to be leading the pact of the Republican party. Even if he doesn't get the Republican nomination he could run as an independent.

He pledged he won't run as independent.

If he loses the nomination I expect him to run as an independent... yes even after his oath.

And I was just responding to you as well. The thread asked for guesses and I guessed. Regardless of what trump said on a certain day, which doesnt = action neccesarily, my guess is that he would lose the nom before quitting.

I was under the impression this was nothing more than a gesture and had little value. In the event the Republican party does not give him the nomination, he will have no obligation to the Republican party and would have nothing to loose by running outside of the Republican party.

He has a ton to lose by running independent. He guarantees a Dem win, and spends a lot of money to do it. All while pissing off the 25-30% of the Republicans that are his die hard base currently, which could effect his business and brands going forward.

Y'all are bored.

Yes about 6 months or July-ish at the latest. No way is he going the distance.

It doesn't matter. I think Hillary, or Biden, or Bernie the Bern Sanders will win by a landslide.

Lol! No, no, nonononono....nnoooOOOOooooo....


Really? I prefer the "Doc Brown" thing that Bernie Sanders has going on...


Nothing in the polls makes me think he will quit...

I thought Regan was the republican Jesus?


He is... he really is. Which is really strange. How can a brain surgeon be nuts? Giving the guy some credit, he has to be a genius to be a brain surgeon... yet, he thinks the earth is only 6000 years old...


I read this a couple of months ago, but... so what? Serious question: If he decided to, why not run as independent? He could just claim that the GOP screwed him over and do his own thing. Is there anything stopping him?

And besides that, why run on the republican ticket anyway? What does he gain by staying on it, and what would he lose by giving it up and going full indy?


Yeah, I reckon'.

Yes, lets hope the only colorful guy who is the complete opposite of every puppet politician is dropping out soon, so you will have your safe "choice" between a giant douche and a turd sandwhich. That will teach 'em!

Yes, because everybody that plays for your "team" is sane and normal but everyone on the other "team" is a crazy freak.

Good to know you're not at all biased.



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He's not dropping out and hopefully will be our next president. If that doesn't happen this country is finished, do you really think Hillary is going to stand up to Putin?

No you angry Canadian, it's because he says shit like "Obamacare was worse than 9/11" or when he as a fucking Doctor, had the opportunity to stand out and talk out about the anti vaxer bullshit, he instead skirted the question to make it seem as if he supported the idea vaccines cause things like autism.

Not to mention his grandstanding over the fake planned parenthood videos, when he himself has used aborted fetuses for his own studies.

He's a typical Relgious nutcase.. It's a shame as he's obviously a smart person, but he's dumbed himself down with religious stupidity.

I think he has sunk the Republican party. The Republican party already knows it needs two demographics - women and Hispanics. With Trump they lost both; Right out of the gate Trump started with "Mexicans are rapists" and then followed up with calling women names.

If he runs for the Republican party he will have lost the two demographics he needs the most causing them to loose. If he runs as a independent, he will loose a lot of his support who will vote Republican no matter what, but he will pull enough away from the Republican party to cause them to loose.

It will be interesting no matter what.

Why do we need to "stand up to Putin"?

Right now it seems the current administration just got Putin to do our dirty work for us.

Trump has plenty of women voters, a surge in fact.

Donald Trump's nonexistent problem with GOP women - CNNPolitics.com

that's not at all what's happening.

Putin is using his Syria gambit to disparage Obama - LA Times

The outcome of Vladimir Putin's bold military gamble in Syria is far from clear, but in the short term, one loser seems certain: President Obama.

The Kremlin raised the stakes Wednesday by firing cruise missiles into Syria from warships nearly 1,000 miles away as Obama's critics at home and abroad said Putin's escalating attempt to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad already has made the White House look weak and wavering.

Obama has turned Putin into the world’s most powerful leader | New York Post

The best part when Trump finally drops out, all the GFY Trumpiteers who jumped on his "hate the establishment" bandwagon will soon after, start preaching the talking points of the next guy at the top. It will be like they always likeed "that guy" because he's different..

I'll agree that Obama has acted weak against Russia with both Syria and Ukraine, but honestly we have no business dicking around in either of those two countries. We shouldn't be supporting any rebels in Syria.. It's just dumb Cold War BS pushed by the neocons that serve no purpose for us other than cock blocking Russia and giving guys like John McCain hardons..

Obama would have been better served to just step back and say, ok Russia, Syria is your allies you fix their shit. I mean really what does anyone think we could possibly gain there? It's not like we would flip them into a modern democracy or even a working one. The only thing that would happen, is we might help overthrow Assad and then it would just end up yet another failed state that goes on with endless fighting.

Fuck Syria and skirting our jets around Russian's.. Hand the problem over to the Russians and get anything we have there out.. Just bomb the shit out of the ISIS fuckers if they get close to Iraq no need to half ass or play along with the Russians, make them spend their money, not waste ours.

My guess is Obama didn't want anything to do with Syria, hence the reason he took so long to even get us involved. I bet he caved and made a deal with the John McCains (aka neo cons) and just opted to give minimal support. Hence the reasons he's acting weak against the Russians because he likely has no desire to have us involved.

He'll probably last longer than most of us think.

That's what they want you to believe because its the only card the current administration can play, but the truth is Putin has spineless Obama eating out of his hand.

Putin has set Russia back 20 years or more when it comes to relations and future trade. His only chance to save face at home is to create hate toward the west and nationalism at home.

He's playing the only cards he has to keep dumb drunk Russians in check and supporting him. Meanwhile Russia's trade has srunk people not in Moscow are hurting and he's now tied up money into two conflicts.

Putin could have helped Syria at anytime in the last 4 years, if it was really about helping Syria. Putin is just helping himself and regaining dumb russian redneck support with the Russia vs west bs.

This is why Obama and the US would be best served to step back and let Russia get stuck in an endless conflict.

yeah he doesnt need to drop his business at all & be president. he can do both if he wants. once again you show the interwebs that you make assertions without knowing what your talking about.

Donald Trump's candidacy raises novel ethics questions

for gods sakes man this info was on the front page of a national newspaper only 48 hours ago. you coulda saved yourself the egg on your face.

:conehead

You are very dumb if you think he would be able to run the US govt and his business at the same time..