Donald Trump News for May 18, 2016

Finally, it’s getting serious now between Donald Trump and the GOP establishment, the latter of which has been eerily cold to the longtime Republican frontrunner. As reported by Breitbart News, the issue of fundraising for The Donald’s impending presidential bid as the party’s nominee is finally being discussed in a serious way, as party elders understand it will take a billion dollar-plus war chest to defeat the eventual Democratic nominee (likely Hillary Clinton). But it’s being set up as a win-win for Trump and the party:

Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee are pushing a new fundraising effort to tap mega-donors for the November election. The effort, spearheaded by two new fundraising committees, will allow donors to contribute up to $449,000 to the Republican campaign.

The creation of the so-called “joint fundraising committees” allow donors to underwrite campaign efforts supporting Trump far beyond the $2,700 individual limit for contributions directly to his campaign.

The two newly created funds, Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again Committee, are joint efforts between the Trump campaign, the RNC and 11 state Republican party committees. These partners will share the funds donated to the new committees. Read the rest of the plan here.

Reunited, again. Trump’s long-running feud with Fox News host Megyn Kelly ended last night with a formal appearance by The Donald on the popular host’s program. Sitting down for a live interview, Trump said after the first GOP debate – when the feud began after Kelly asked Trump what he considered to be an unfair question – he knew he could not only become the party’s nominee but actually win the Oval Office. Again, from Breitbart:

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said he knew after the first GOP primary debate, where Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked him an “unfair” question, that he could actually win and potentially become President of the United States.

“I think the debates were really a big thing … that first debate was pretty amazing,” Trump told Kelly during their first formal interview since the GOP primary debate last August. Kelly asked Trump about when exactly he knew he could win and be president.

“I think that first debate meant something,” Trump responded. Read a summary of the interview here; see the interview here.

If you thought infighting was bad for the Republican Party during this primary season, it’s a good thing for the GOP now that supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are waging war within party ranks. More specifically, the Dem infighting is good for The Donald, as reported by The Hill:

Donald Trump appears to be making rapid progress in unifying Republican voters behind his presidential bid even as Democratic discord between backers of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders reaches new highs.

An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday morning showed Trump and Clinton performing at exactly the same level within their respective parties. Each commanded 87 percent support.

The poll also suggested that hopes among Democrats of an easy win over Trump are misplaced. Tuesday’s poll had Clinton with an edge of just 3 points in a hypothetical match-up: The former secretary of State led Trump 48 percent to 45 percent.

And:

To be sure, it’s early. Polling numbers at this point in an election cycle can be significantly out of line with the results in November. 

But there are warning signs for Clinton, nonetheless. 

While Romney, the Bush family and a few GOP officeholders are keeping a distance from Trump, the real estate mogul does not appear to have a huge disadvantage in seeking to unify Republican voters. That means Clinton will need to stoke enthusiasm among all parts of the Democratic base if she becomes the nominee. Read the full report here.

If you want to know why Trump is taking commanding leads with voters who are frustrated by President Obama’s low economic growth policies, then you should read this drivel from New York Times columnist and pseudo-intellectual Eduardo Porter who, like the rest of his liberal/Left-wing cohorts, fails to grasp – as Trump does – the very reasons why Obama’s economy, quite frankly, sucks. Porter expends many words to essentially give Obama a pass (and Hillary Clinton too, while excoriating Trump) for his lousy economy (he is the first president to preside over an entire administration that failed to reach 3 percent economic growth in a single year) while actually claiming that more government (and more government spending) is the prescription for economic growth. Like other Keynesians, however, Porter fails to comprehend the fact that taking money from taxpayers and spending it is not “growth” or “an economy;” it’s government spending that doesn’t create anything except spending, no matter what is purchased. In the long run, an economy grows when things are produced and wealth is created (free-market capitalism, in other words, which is what we used to have when our economy was growing 4-5 percent a year like it was in the ’60s and ’80s). Read the drivel here.