Donald Trump, White House hopeful and Republican leader of the pack for president, said in a telephone interview on Friday’s edition of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC that his success with poll numbers shows the country is going through a massive change, the magnitude of which some say has never before been seen.
He made the remarks in answer to a question from one of the panelists who spoke of Trump’s unpopularity with many of the so-called establishment Republicans, like pundits George Will and Charles Krauthammer, and whether he could win the nomination without such support. And Trump’s response?
First, he declined to criticize Will and Krauthammer. But then he said a lot of his naysayers have actually come around to his side in recent weeks – and many say his campaign is actually more like a movement than a political run for office.
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“A lot of them have come a long way. A lot of the pundits who said, ‘oh, he’s just kidding’ … have come a long way,” Trump said, speaking of those in the media who once derided his campaign, but now don’t. “I tell you, there’s a movement [going on]. I call it a movement, I think it’s a very, very strong movement and a lot of people are seeing it.”
Just this week, a Quinnipiac University poll showed Trump at 28 percent, up from 20 percent since July 30 – the clear leader of the GOP list of candidates, as WND reported. And that’s despite a concerted effort of many in the Republican ranks to double down on their insistence Trump won’t be the GOP nominee, and of many in the mainstream media to paint him as a racist or bigot for his views on immigration.
Yet his staying power isn’t just stabilizing – it’s growing in intensity, as polls show.
“There’s something happening out there,” Trump said, on MSNBC, “that some people say they’ve never seen before.”
