“In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call.” GivingNumbersSawsTrumpSpeechCriticismSouthSenatorsCarolinaSouth CarolinaCellphone 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
“Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?” PeopleLooksHas BeensTwoBookCareNumbersTalkingIssuesMediaTrumpLet MeMathDebateComicFallenInsultVillainComic BookCagesDon't TrustMarcosBen Carson Author:Ted Cruz
“They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll numbers are so high because they put him on every program, spewing his crazy ideas.” IdeasNumbersCrazyTrumpProgramPollsCrazy Ideas Author:Jon Stewart
“According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current ones.” NumbersSupportTrumpCurrentsMarchPollsCnn Author:Conan O'Brien
“Trump Entertainment Resorts declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Or as Donald Trump describes Chapter 11, "Back-to-back number ones!"” NumbersTrumpEntertainmentChaptersResortsBankruptcy Author:Conan O'Brien
“Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.” PeopleKindPersonsMightPartyNumbersSupportTrumpRepublicanDrivingRepublican PartyLarge Numbers Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think it's very sad that CNN leads Jeb Bush, down a road by starting off virtually all the questions, "Mr. Trump this, Mister" - I think it's very sad. I watched the first debate, and the first long number of questions were, "Mr. Trump said this, Mr. Trump said that. Mr. Trump" - these poor guys - although, I must tell you, [Rick] Santorum, good guy. Governor [Mike] Huckabee, good guy. They were very nice, and I respect them greatly. But I thought it was very unfair that virtually the entire early portion of the debate was Trump this, Trump that, in order to get ratings, I guess.” ThinkingFirstsLongSaidGuyOrderPoorNumbersNiceTrumpStartingDebatePortionsGovernorsUnfairMikeVery NiceGood GuyRatingCnnVery Sad Author:Jeb Bush
“Actually, Congress just did pass a tax plan like Donald Trump`s.They passed a tax plan which some Democrats voted for, significant number of Democrats which gave huge tax breaks to wealthy people and corporations.” PeopleNumbersBreakPlansHugeTrumpTaxesDemocratCongressSignificantCorporationsWealthyTax BreaksSignificant Numbers Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“[Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.” YearsMadeDifferentNumbersTrumpInvestmentResponseScalesStatementsWillingnessThreatenedScotlandBans Author:James Brokenshire
“The difference there is that the [Donald] Trump number on change is so much larger than the lead that the other two have in their lanes. And that's going to be the challenge for those other two going forward. The other challenge for Marco Rubio, and this assumption that you're just going to get all those Bush and Kasich voters.” TwoChallengesDifferencesNumbersTrumpAssumptionVotersLanesMarcos Author:Amy Walter
“It was very clear, even from long before Donald Trump got in this race, when he would talk to Republicans, the number-one concern they had about Jeb Bush was whether he was too rusty for this, and whether he was going to be strong enough to stand up to Hillary Clinton.” LongEnoughStrongNumbersRaceClearTrumpRepublicanConcernClintonStrong Enough Author:Amy Walter
“I never wanted it to get to this point. I had hoped that, by its own course, by the way the media covers politics, people would open their eyes and see who Donald Trump really is. But that, unfortunately, has not happened. The polls in the early states indicate that he's been able to fool a significant number of people into believing that he is something that he is not.” PeopleWayBelieveStatesEyeAbleWantedCoursesNumbersHappenedMediaFoolTrumpSignificantPollsSignificant Numbers Author:Marco Rubio
“Let me just say the rules are what they are in the Republican Party. You have to have X-number of delegates in order to be the nominee. And if you don't have those number of delegates, then there's a process in place.Here is what would be a calamity, for Donald Trump to become our nominee.” IfsWould BeOrderProcessPartyNumbersTrumpRepublicanLet MeRepublican PartyCalamityDelegates Author:Marco Rubio
“I think that [Chris] Christie`s endorsement is, you know, it`s a sign that - you know, he is who we thought he was in so many different respects. He`s someone who ambition is the only thing that I think is bigger than his appetite.I think in this case, it`s a situation where he saw the one guy who he thinks he can maybe get a cabinet post with if he wins in Donald Trump. I think, you know, he kind of went out the door doing a number of favors in beating up Marco Rubio the way he did.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindDifferentGuyWinningNumbersSituationCasesSawsDoorsTrumpAmbitionBiggerFavorsPostsAppetiteCabinetsMarcosEndorsementsChristie Author:Ben Domenech
“For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who is currently presiding over the Trump University fraud cases in California. Trump somehow managed to offend surprising numbers of establishment Republicans.” WorldHas BeensNumbersAttentionCasesJudgingTrumpRepublicanUniversityFocusedCaliforniaFraudEstablishmentSurprisingFederal Judges Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Donald Trump didn't have much in the bank at all, to the tune of three-point-some-odd million dollars, whereas Hillary has something like (I don't know; I forget the number), $35 million or $40 million that she can legally spend now president the point was made that the Democrats did the same thing to Mitt Romney back in 2012 before Romney could spend the money that he had raised.” KnowsMadeThreePresidentForgetNumbersMillionsTrumpDollarsDemocratRaisedOddTunesRomneyMillion Dollars Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.” LooksInterestNumbersPolicyTrumpTradeWorkersFocusedGdpAmerican WorkersResonating Author:Rick Santorum
“I didn't endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.” ShouldYearsImportantViewsNumbersTalkingIssuesPolicyTrumpImmigrationConsideringImmigration Policy Author:Jeff Sessions
“We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even right now, in this negative period, are holding pretty strong, because people want a leader that's going to make this country great again and have a strong economy.” PeopleWantCountryCareJobsStrongNumbersLeaderEconomyTrumpPeriodsRight NowNegativeTake CareImmigrantsFactoriesStrong Economy Author:Jeff Sessions
“Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.” PeopleShouldYearsBelieveDoeEndsCountryLastsLawNationsSocialPartyNumbersGoneCuttingSecurityTrumpRepublicanTaxesMajorsMajorityWingsDon't BelieveExtremesDuesMinoritiesImmigrantsWealthyRepublican PartySocial SecurityRight WingLarge NumbersDemographicsCruz Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Obviously in the next few months we have got to do everything that we can to make sure that Donald Trump, who in my view is the worst, least-prepared candidate for president in my lifetime. Number two, we've got to obviously elect Hillary Clinton.” TwoNextPresidentViewsNumbersWorstMonthsTrumpPreparedLifetimeClintonCandidates Author:Bernie Sanders
“[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.” WorldActionNumbersTrumpAround The WorldComplimentPutin Author:Michael Morell
“The pollsters who have telephoners are going to consistently get a lower vote for Donald Trump because the media has attacked him so savagely and so dishonestly that a substantial number of people will not say they're for Trump.” PeopleNumbersMediaTrumpVoteConsistently Author:Newt Gingrich
“What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.” ThinkingWayMightInterestingViewsNumbersRecordsWrittenEconomicPolicySourceTrumpSpeechLaborOrganizationTradeUnionsPoint Of ViewVersionsAgreementSectionsTanksReally InterestingInstituteFree TradeEconomic PolicyLabor UnionFootnotesTrade Agreements Author:Avik Roy
“The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.” WorldWayYearsCountryNumbersTrumpRepublicanWeaponsDemocratNuclearPresidentialNuclear WeaponsFrighteningOther CountriesCasualDecreaseBipartisanPresidential Leadership Author:Hillary Clinton
“I don`t understand why President [Enrique] Pena has offered this opportunity. I think it`s nothing more than a political stunt. Trump is using Mexico, is using President Pena to boost his sinking poll numbers.” ThinkingPoliticalOpportunityPresidentNumbersTrumpMexicoPollsSinkingBoostUsing Me Author:Vicente Fox
“In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.” PeopleIfsWellsLooksWinningNumbersTrumpTrendsFairnessFloridaPollsOhioMichiganPennsylvania Author:John Brabender
“[Donald Trump] is still pretty limited in the effect that he can have because he so disqualified himself with such a large number of voters that I don't think that there is an actual a path to victory for him. But he is at least doing a better - engaging in a better strategy than he had previously.” ThinkingStillsNumbersPathEffectsTrumpVictoryStrategyVotersEngagingLarge Numbers Author:Bill Burton
“It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.” ChallengesUnitedPartyNumbersBehindsTrumpRepublicanPrimariesTexasRepublican PartyCementCruz Author:Chris Hayes
“Mitt Romney's numbers are crushing Donald Trump's numbers with women. Crushing them.” NumbersTrumpCrushRomney Author:Megyn Kelly
“Donald Trump's numbers are historically low for a Republican nominee with women. Historically low.” NumbersTrumpRepublicanLows Author:Megyn Kelly
“I mean, the criticism of Donald Trump is that he could win this race, and that he was doing well and he was rebounding and his numbers in various states were rebounding - and then he went after Miss Universe and talked about her being too fat and talked about women's looks again, and women don't like that...” WellsLooksMeanStatesUniverseWinningNumbersRaceMissingTrumpCriticismVariousFats Author:Megyn Kelly
“We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.” WorldWarEndsNumbersMilitaryTrumpProjectsCongressWar Of The WorldsTroopsSmallestLowestNavySecond World WarAmerican Strength Author:Mike Pence
“I know a number of people who - from the comments they make - are going to vote for [Donald] Trump when that curtain closes. But let's keep it real honest here: They are voting for a xenophobic, anti-Latino white supremacist - don't try to pretty it up. This is now the age when people want to be white supremacists, but they don't actually want to be known for it.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingRealAgeWhiteNumbersKnownHonestTrumpVoteVotingCommentCurtainsLatinoKeeping It Real Author:Junot Diaz
“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.” PeopleWayNumbersSupportGroupsEconomicTrumpEasierCrisisBlameRaisedImmigrantsVocabularyMurdererLatinoIntersectionsEconomic CrisisHappenstanceScumbags Author:Junot Diaz
“Where would the Republican Party being without talk radio the last 25 years? And yet who now is enemy number one? Talk radio! I don't know what I did to Michael Gerson, but he's back again in the Washington Post blaming everything [Donald] Trump on me.” KnowsYearsLastsPartyNumbersEnemyTrumpRepublicanBlameRadioPostsRepublican PartyBack AgainTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[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
“There are a number of things that came out of Donald Trump so-called policy speech at Gettysburg that most of the reporters were saying were real positive things.” RealNumbersPolicyTrumpSpeechReportersPositive ThingsGettysburg Author:Star Jones
“In no way, shape, manner, or form could the conservative movement or a conservative, a Burkean conservative could never, ever vote for some low-life like Donald Trump. It might affect their fundraising, which they need. It might affect their cruises, which they need. There could be any number of reasons for it, but in their minds it's rooted in principle.” WayNeedsMindReasonMightFormNumbersPrinciplesMovementTrumpShapesLowsVoteConservativeRootedCruiseFundraising Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want certainty. They do not want to see a disruption in trade. He's promising to rip up NAFTA, redo NAFTA. He's not going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the TPP trade with Asia.” WantNumbersTalkingTrumpAreasTradeNervousCertaintyPartnershipAsiaRipTransPacificDisruptionNaftaRedos Author:Maria Bartiromo
“[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.” WhiteLevelsNumbersSupportPathCollegeDependsTrumpVictoryEducatedVotersHistoricLarge NumbersEducated Voters Author:Mara Liasson
“A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.” NumbersPolicyTrumpExpertsForeign Policy Author:Lawrence O'Donnell