“Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.” PeopleWayFeelsBelieveDoneSpeakLinesPartyDangerTrumpRepublicanCrossesSpeaks Out Author:Mara Liasson
“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
“I think media think it's going to be good for ratings, and, two, because they know they have a lot of material to work with. If Donald Trump were to ever become the nominee, immediately, the hounds of hell would descend on him. They're going to tear him apart, everything he's ever done, from not releasing his taxes, to all of his failed business dealings.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoDoneHellMediaTearsMaterialsTrumpTaxesBe GoodRatingDealingsHounds Author:Marco Rubio
“Donald Trump has built a super successful business. He's an effective organizer. He's an effective execution-oriented executive. He has the right political personality to get on with people in a way that'll surprise people. He will cut deals in a way that are more favorable for America than what establishment politicians have done.” PeopleWayDoneAmericaPoliticalDealsSuccessfulCuttingPersonalityTrumpPoliticianBuiltSurpriseExecutivesEstablishmentExecutionSuccessful BusinessOrganizer Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.” PeopleIfsDoneMediaTrumpVoteEnormous Author:David Folkenflik
“Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you get to the general, it's not about national votes. It's about states! It's about swing states. It's about battleground states. And you've gotta have targeted expenditures, great ads running against your opponent in those swing states."” StatesDoneRunningRememberCan DoTrumpVoteYeahPrimariesOpponentsAdsSwingsConventionalExpendituresConventional WisdomBattleground Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am done underestimating [Donald] Trump and his appeal.” DoneTrumpAppealsUnderestimate Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“I think Donald Trump has done everything he can to take us back to policies like we had during the McCarthy years.” ThinkingYearsDonePolicyTrump Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“I personally know Donald Trump, and I know a lot of amazing really kind acts that he's done one-on-one with people. And the candidate that I see is not the person I know.” PeopleKnowsKindPersonsDoneTrumpCandidatesOne On One Author:Mika Brzezinski
“He may be a lot of things, but Donald Trump has not done one thing that detracts from the character or the reputation of the USA, for crying out loud. I can give you a list of Democrats who you seem to want to sidle up to who are doing their level best to destroy this country as it was founded, who are doing their level best to transform this country away from its intentions as founded. For crying out loud.” WantGivingMayI CanCountryDoneCharacterSeemsLevelsOne ThingCryTrumpIntentionDemocratListsReputationLoudUsa Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We have a presidential candidate who has deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me because if that was any other person you'd be in prison.” IfsPersonsDoneKidsBlackTrumpPrisonClintonMake SensePresidentialCandidatesRacistTeensEmailPredatorPresidential Candidate Author:Colin Kaepernick
“I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .” DonePlayerTrumpDominant Author:David Brooks
“Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.” DoneBlackCommunityChurchGoneEventsTrumpClintonBlack CommunityBlack Church Author:Donna Brazile
“Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have been slain and killed from violence in the country as Hillary Clinton has done.” ChildrenHas BeensCountryDoneMotherBlackGoneViolenceCollegeTrumpMetsHistoricalClinton Author:Donna Brazile
“We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsCountryDoneGovernmentCuttingTrumpSolutionsSizeAround The WorldWho We AreSystems Of Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One of the things [Donald] Trump has done is tie into particularly what would be the sons and daughters of Reagan Democrats in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, who are voting for him because they feel both parties left them on the economic battlefield.” FeelsDoneWould BeLeftPartyEconomicSonTrumpDaughterDemocratTiesVotingBattlefieldsOhioMichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsinSon And Daughter Author:John Brabender
“I think that was the smartest thing [immigration policy], he [Donald Trump] is done in his whole campaign there .” ThinkingDoneWholePolicyTrumpCampaignsImmigrationImmigration Policy Author:Eric Bolling
“I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.” KnowsTryingLongDoneGovernmentGamesInformationTrumpToughMethodDemocraticCommitteesFilesPutinHacksCyberHavocPraiseworthy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.” KnowsDoneTrumpDadGratefulMy DadContracts Author:Hillary Clinton
“We are going to enforce the law of America and strengthen immigration and customs enforcement with more resources and personnel to be able to do that, and then Donald Trump has made it clear. Once we have done all of those things, then we are going to reform the immigration system that we have in this country.” MadeCountryDoneAbleAmericaLawClearTrumpResourcesImmigrationMade ItReformCustomsEnforcementPersonnel Author:Mike Pence
“I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider.” IfsThinkingHardDoneCasesStudySeeingMediaTrumpStandardsConservativeOutsidersBeing DoneDouble StandardCase Studies Author:Newt Gingrich
“I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very effectively stood up to Donald Trump who has obvious fascist tendencies and his - who's a temptation like all authoritarian figures to try to crush the media or make it obey him. As that - the media has, in fact, stood up to him and has refused to bow out or cower.” WantTryingStatesDoneFactsHappensAmericaOne ThingMediaFiguresTrumpObviousTendenciesTemptationCrushBowsFascistsStood UpTotalitarian State Author:Tim Wu
“We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television.” KnowsSaidDoneTelevisionTrumpReportersDisabled Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Donald Trump] held a number of big rallies where he said that he could not possibly have done those things to those women because they were not attractive enough for them to be assaulted.” SaidDoneEnoughBigsNumbersTrumpAttractive Author:Hillary Clinton
“Whatever is going on wrong in America today, you cannot pin it on Donald Trump. He's not been there. He has not one fingerprint. He hasn't done one thing regarding anything policy-wise that's happening in the country today, and I think this is why his candidacy is so shocking and frightening to both establishment and Republican Democrats.” ThinkingCountryDoneTodayAmericaWiseOne ThingPolicyTrumpRepublicanHappeningsDemocratEstablishmentFrighteningShockingPinsFingerprintsAmerica TodayCandidacy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think, for the good of the country and the fact that you don't want a question coming up every time there's a decision made, [Donald Trump] should basically take himself out of it and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decision-making, no involvement and no decisions get made separate from him. Which is the way the way it's done for more Cabinet offices. Or I think all Cabinet offices.” ThinkingWayWantShouldMadeCountryDoneFactsDecisionTrumpOfficeDecision MakingPassiveInvolvementCabinetsParticipantsDecisions Made Author:Rudy Giuliani
“If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.” IfsWayWellsLittlesDoneOpportunityForceStuffPolicyHugeTrumpTruth IsAreasResponsibleAgreeTradeDistanceCampaignsImmigrationBehaveInitiativeVansObamacare Author:William Kristol
“want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.” WantHumansBookDoneHuman BeingsMoralTrumpCallingLateToughElectionSeriesConnectedCampaignsSubstancePresidentialDisgustingColumnsPresidential Election Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, I might listen to what he has to say.” IfsDoneMightRecordsMinutesTrumpIraqDesertCriticizeAfghanistanCredibility Author:John R. Allen
“The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of his audience but he's kind of reaching over his audience or behind his audience to black Americans, saying what have you got to lose? As in you might as well join me because the Democrats haven't done anything for you. But joining me means joining this group that already supports me.” WayWellsKindMeanDoneProblemMightBlackLosesBehindsSupportAudienceGroupsHavensTrumpDemocratReachingJoiningSupport Me Author:George Packer
“I think [Donald Trump] s got the votes for [tax reform]. I think he's definitely has the Republican votes for it, in House and Senate, and I think he probably has maybe 20 percent of the Democratic vote for it. So he could get it done with a bipartisan majority.” ThinkingDoneHouseTrumpRepublicanTaxesPercentVoteMajorityDemocraticReformSenateGet It DoneBipartisanTax Reform Author:Rudy Giuliani
“What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there.” PeopleKindDoneTrumpPrejudiceAll KindsRacistBigotrySexist Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm not going to be able to wave a magic wand and change everybody's thoughts. That's something that can only happen by people working on themselves and being held to account by the rest of us, but what Donald Trump's done really unleashed a lot of darkness and divisiveness.” PeopleDoneHappensAbleDarknessMagicTrumpAccountsWaveWandsUnleashedMagic WandsDivisiveness Author:Hillary Clinton