“Donald Trump has a great campaign slogan: 'A complex world demands complex hair.'” WorldHairTrumpDemandComplexesCampaignsSlogans Author:David Letterman
“Scott Walker's campaign slogan is 'Reform. Growth. Safety.' Which is actually similar to Donald Trump's new slogan: 'Mexico. Money. Crazy.'” GrowthCrazyTrumpSafetyCampaignsReformMexicoSlogansWalkers Author:Jimmy Fallon
“After Donald Trump wrote Lindsey Graham's cellphone number on a piece of paper and showed it to everybody, Graham said he's getting a new phone. Which explains Lindsey Graham's latest campaign slogan, 'New phone, who dis?'” SaidNumbersPiecesTrumpPaperPhonesCampaignsSlogansCellphone Author:Jimmy Fallon
“In a recent interview, John McCain addressed Trump's campaign rally in Arizona and said that he just quote, 'fired up the crazies.' Not to be confused with Trump's show 'Celebrity Apprentice,' where he just FIRED the crazies.” SaidShowsTrumpCampaignsConfusedInterviewsArizonaMccainApprenticeFired Up Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Donald Trump's campaign has raised about $100,000 in donations during the second quarter. Which raises an important question: Who is giving Donald Trump money? That's like giving your money to a pile of money.” GivingImportantTrumpRaisesRaisedCampaignsQuartersDonationImportant Questions Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser.” TrumpCampaignsRacistShockingRemarksAdviser Author:Conan O'Brien
“It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.'” WellsLongSaidSeemsHappensTrumpLong TimeMarkCampaignsBest ThingsOwnersCubanDallasWeighingMaverick Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'” AmericaPolicyTrumpVoteCampaignsImmigrationGrandfatherSlogansImmigration PolicyComing To America Author:Conan O'Brien
“A top aide to Donald Trump says he quit the campaign this weekend because of Trump's public feuds, but Trump said he was fired. When asked what he was fired for, Trump said, 'Quitting!'” SaidTrumpQuittingCampaignsWeekendFeuds Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"” RightsMovementTrumpOvercomingCampaignsCivil RightsSlogansCivil Rights Movement Author:Michael R. Burch
“At his campaign launch, Donald Trump apparently paid extras $50 to cheer for him at the rally. Trump said, 'Usually when I pay a person to like me, it's my wife.'” PersonsSaidPayWifeTrumpPaidMy WifeCampaignsLike MeExtrasCheer Author:Conan O'Brien
“Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.” IfsDifferentWinningNamesTrumpTablesDinnerDrawingCampaignsRomneyFundraisingDonateGimmicks Author:Jay Leno
“The terror attacks have reshaped the campaign and may have given another boost to Donald Trump.” MayGivenTrumpTerrorCampaignsBoostTerror Attacks Author:Barack Obama
“The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, "I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution." That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees.” MeanSaidChristianGuySidesReligiousSupportExampleFieldsTrumpRepublicanProveTestsClintonCampaignsCleverPresidentialOnlineRefugeeThis GuyCautionBansProve ItQuiz Author:Chris Hayes
“Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.” TrumpCampaignsBigotryBullyingBluster Author:Hillary Clinton
“Because a part of the entire [Donald] Trump experience or whatever this last six months [of 2015] has been sort of feels like we`ve been living in a dream, but this is all actually happening.I mean, it`s great to be a political journalist in this time. It`s about the rhetoric. You hear his supporters on the campaign trail say we`re glad he`s not politically correct.” FeelsMeanHas BeensDreamLastsPoliticalMonthsTrumpSixHappeningsCampaignsGladJournalistRhetoricSupporterSix MonthsTrailsPolitically Correct Author:Greg Gutfeld
“I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don`t know that Donald Trump has any boundaries at all.” PeopleKnowsTrumpCampaignsBoundariesToneDividesRhetoric Author:Hillary Clinton
“A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.” FoundMinutesTrumpTenNewsProgramElectionClintonTrackCampaignsCompareAnalysisReportsCoverage Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“The folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from [Barack] Obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then Donald Trump gets in it and turns it into a national election.” DoneTurnsSocialMediaTrumpLessonsBuiltElectionFolksSocial MediaCampaignsContactBarackVotersExpectingDatabasesWhipping Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.” ThinkingWayIdeasWarSeemsTalkingTakenOne ThingTrumpHeroCallingRepublicanShotsImpactStartingCampaignsBeastVisibleManifestEstablishmentMccainKeep TalkingWar HeroMythical Beasts Author:Rachel Maddow
“When people floated this idea that this was a conspiracy by the [Jeb] Bush campaign to undermine [Marco] Rubio, at first, it was like it`s too complicated, wheels within wheels but as I thought about it more I did buy that, that this is part of a campaign by Jeb to make it look like there`s no backup plan to Donald Trump, try to blow everything up and then all that will be left is Donald Trump and Jeb who nobody really likes but who has a ton of money and then he`s the only option left.” PeopleTryingFirstsLooksIdeasLeftPlansTrumpBlowComplicatedCampaignsLikesWheelsConspiracyMarcosBackupBackup Plan Author:Josh Barro
“Let's be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It's not about Donald Trump, he's an entertaining guys, he's the greatest show on Earth.” ShowsEarthGuyClearTrumpCampaignsPresidentialEntertainingPresidential Campaign Author:Marco Rubio
“They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.” KnowsWantNeedsGivingKindThreeFourMaterialsTrumpCampaignsDirtyOxygenPolls Author:Ted Koppel
“Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsHas BeensInterestingTrumpAngryFolksCampaignsTreatedThank GodConventions Author:Ted Koppel
“It was a very unusual year [2015]. You usually don't have five campaigns operating full time in a state this late into the process, three states in. But I feel great that now that the choices have become less and less, more and more that new voter or alternative to Donald Trump vote, is going to coalesce around us.” FeelsYearsStatesChoicesThreeProcessFiveTrumpLateVoteCampaignsAlternativesVotersUnusual Author:Marco Rubio
“We're also optimistic about the future, but only if we do a few things.And that's a big difference in this campaign between Donald Trump's campaign and mine. And I think that's going to begin to matter a lot more now because there are less people in the race and more time to pay attention to some of that.” PeopleIfsThinkingMatterBigsDifferencesPayRaceAttentionMinesTrumpCampaignsOptimisticPay AttentionMore Time Author:Marco Rubio
“What we saw with both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, that their response, whenever you point to anything in their record, is just to yell, "Liar, liar, liar," and to get very personal and to make direct character attacks. And my approach, from the very beginning of this President's campaign, starting a year ago in 2015, is that I will not respond in kind. I do not intend to insult any of the candidates.” YearsKindCharacterPresidentRecordsSawsTrumpApproachYears AgoDirectResponseStartingCampaignsCandidatesInsultLiarsMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“For anyone who doesn't believe that Donald Trump is the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton in November, and that's about 70 percent of Republicans nationwide who don't think Donald Trump is the right guy, our [President's] campaign is the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump and that can beat Donald Trump.” ThinkingBelieveGuyPresidentTrumpRepublicanBeatsPercentClintonCampaignsCandidatesBeatenNovemberRight Guy Author:Ted Cruz
“If you want to beat Donald Trump, you know, one of the clearest indications of who can beat Trump is Donald spends every waking moment attacking me. He doesn't attack any other candidates, because his campaign views us as the only real threat to him.” IfsKnowsWantRealMomentsViewsTrumpBeatsThreatCampaignsCandidatesWakingAttackingIndication Author:Ted Cruz
“We are the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump. And we're the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump. If you look at the Super Tuesday states, we're running neck and neck with Donald in states all across Super Tuesday.” IfsLooksStatesRunningTrumpBeatsCampaignsCandidatesNecksBeatenTuesday Author:Ted Cruz
“I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign. And so I would encourage, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don't want Donald to be the nominee.” IfsThinkingWantHomeTrumpRepublicanBeatsCampaignsCandidates Author:Ted Cruz
“We talked a lot about Donald's [Trump] record on immigration. There is irony that he has made the center of his entire campaign immigration, given that he faced a $1 million court judgment for being part of a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, given that news broke that he is hiring foreign workers at his fancy hotel in Florida.” MadeGivenMillionsRecordsTrumpJudgmentNewsCourtWorkersCampaignsImmigrationAliensBrokeIronyFancyHotelIllegalConspiracyFloridaHiringIllegal Aliens Author:Ted Cruz
“Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.” PeopleNeedsFirstsOpportunitySpaceWhiteTrumpCompetitionCurrentsCampaignsWitnessPresidentialNichePresidential CampaignWhite Space Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I think folks need to understand the whole background of Donald Trump. I find from time to time, I talk to people about the campaign and they say, gosh, I didn't know that Donald Trump gave a bunch of money to Jimmy Carter and to Hillary Clinton and to Harry Reid and to John Kerry.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsWholeTrumpClintonFolksCampaignsBackgroundsBunchJimmyCarterJohn Kerry Author:Mitt Romney
“Donald Trump talks about how he's not going to be controlled by the moneyed interests. Do people understand that he's not giving money to his campaign, he's loaning it because he expects to get money back from those same big donors he decries right now? He's planning on running a general election based upon raising money from those very people.” PeopleGivingBigsRunningInterestTrumpRight NowElectionCampaignsPlanningControlledGet MoneyDonorsGeneral ElectionsGiving MoneyRaising Money Author:Mitt Romney
“On the other side of the spectrum, you see someone like Donald Trump, who is using as the basis of his campaign political incorrectness. It's clearly intentional. He'd have to be a complete moron just to coincidentally insult Mexicans, and women, and disabled people, and Muslims. So clearly he's using it as a vote winner. But I think with comedians there's a responsibility.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalSidesResponsibilityTrumpVoteBasesCampaignsWinnerComedianInsultSpectrumDisabledMoron Author:Sacha Baron Cohen
“Obviously in a work capacity I've been tremendously busy running The Trump Organization now that my father's on the campaign trail and my own company and the growth of that. So it's been an amazing time, a wild experience, and an incredible one.” RunningFatherGrowthMy OwnCompanyTrumpCapacityOrganizationIncrediblesBusyCampaignsTrails Author:Ivanka Trump
“I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed through the campaign of Donald Trump, calls for, I think, a very vigorous and aggressive response to what he's saying.” ThinkingWayBeliefTrumpRacismResponseCampaignsAggressiveVigorousXenophobia Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.” PoliticalTrumpSlaveCampaignsManagersAdviser Author:Joe Arpaio
“Hillary [Clinton] had started running a million-dollar ad campaign trying to define [Donald] Trump as temperamentally unfit for the office and intellectually unfit. No experience. It's dangerous to let Trump anywhere near the nuclear codes and the push button and so forth.” TryingRunningMillionsDangerousTrumpOfficeDollarsClintonNuclearCampaignsCodeAdsButtonsMillion Dollars Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There`s a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.” CommonKnownTrumpUnionsCampaignsBritainPhenomenonExitEuropean Union Author:Chris Hayes
“Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.” KindHas BeensFormMiddleDyingTrumpEuropeCrisisEastDrivenCampaignsGenuinePresidentialNationalismImmigrantsMiddle EastInwardRefugeeInvasionPenetration Author:Chris Hayes
“I'm really looking forward to both meeting with Sen. [Bernie] Sanders as soon as our campaign teams find a time that works for both of us and talking with him about how we are going to defeat Donald Trump and then how the goals that he and I share can be achieved.” GoalTalkingTeamShareTrumpMeetingsDefeatCampaignsLooking Forward Author:Hillary Clinton
“It's very much in our interest to unite [with Bernie Sanders] as quickly as possible to begin the campaign against Donald Trump. And I think the facts really speak for themselves. I have a won a big majority of the popular vote of the states, of pledged delegates, and we want to go forward in a positive and unified way.” ThinkingWayWantStatesFactsBigsSpeakInterestTrumpVoteMajorityCampaignsUnifiedDelegatesPopular Vote Author:Hillary Clinton
“I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.” PeopleKnowsCountryCareHoursMediaTrumpClintonFocusedCampaignsHealth CareKnow MeWages Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.” KnowsGivingGivenAdvicePositionTrumpCampaignsPrimaries Author:Ted Cruz
“There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy and other kind of factors. And he said if [Donald] Trump stays about where he is right now, he'll win at about 51 or 52 percent. If Trump actually gets his act together in a disciplined way, he could win by as much as 66 percent.” IfsWayKindLongSaidTogetherWinningEconomyRecordsTrumpRight NowPercentTrackCampaignsFactorsPresidentialAnalystsTrack RecordPresidential Campaign Author:Newt Gingrich
“This rhetoric that Donald Trump is used is very consistent with rhetoric he's used on the campaign trail for a long time now. He'll always say - and you look - you can look at the past transcripts of his old speeches. He'll always say, I'm in favor of trade; trade is great, but these deals - NAFTA, TPP, the South Korean Free Trade Agreement - are all terrible.” LooksLongPastUsedDealsTrumpTerribleSpeechLong TimeTradeSouthFavorsCampaignsConsistentAgreementRhetoricTrailsKoreanFree TradeTrade AgreementsNafta Author:Avik Roy
“I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.” ThinkingHas BeensEnergySourceTrumpTaxesSpeechIntellectualTradeStructureFavorsCampaignsImmigrationReformDevelopingConsistentTrailsFree TradeEnergy SourcesTax ReformFrackingHydraulic Fracturing Author:Avik Roy
“Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.” HelpingHatePartyGroupsTrumpRepublicanBuiltPrejudiceCampaignsRadicalMainstreamRepublican PartyFringeParanoiaHate Groups Author:Hillary Clinton