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as "dishonest," "not good people," sleazy, and among the worst human beings he has ever met.
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"I'm the only one in the world who can raise almost $6 million for the veterans, have uniform applause by the veterans groups, and end up being criticized by press."
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  Trumps supposed recklessness in a time where danger, especially nuclear danger, is all around.
  
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Because a lot of the proposals that he's made display either ignorance of world affairs or a cavalier attitude or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what is required to keep America safe."
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"backdrop of a nuclear event remains something that, I think, presses on the back of our imaginations."
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But, he added: "We can't focus on the short term ... when you have a regime (in North Korea) that is so isolated and flouts international rules, devotes national resources hell bent on getting nuclear weapons."
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When looking at this support by different demographic groups, Clinton continues to enjoy a large amount of support among women—54 percent to Trump’s 37 percent. Trump, however, expanded his support among men this week to 15 points from 10 points last week.
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Over the last two election cycles, when a candidate becomes the presumptive nominee, that person has gained a boost in the public polls.
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He needs to flip blue-leaning states to his column, soften his public image -- particularly as he targets independents, women and minority voters -- and drive up Hillary Clinton's already high negatives even further.
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Trump must win every state Mitt Romney did in 2012 -- plus an additional 64 electoral votes.
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"If you add up African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics in Virginia, which are all growing constituencies, that's about one third of the electorate," said Tucker Martin, a Virginia consultant and former aide to ex-Gov. Bob McDonnell. "And then you combine the fact that we're a well-educated state -- it's a very bad match for him."
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In other words, Trump must redraw the map.
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For too long, career politicians have over promised and under-delivered.
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In my race, the establishment types said I wasn’t Republican enough.
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People listened when I spoke in business terms out on the campaign trail about the national debt and global security crisis – instead of reciting tired old GOP talking points.
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Mr. Trump’s nabbing of the presidential nod embodies a dramatic shift in the political paradigm.
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He is the only true outsider running for president. Now, he can focus on dismantling the Republican Party’s real opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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But especially among Republicans, religious issues have taken a back seat in the party's discourse and religious leaders are playing a diminished role in the 2016 campaign.
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     But Cruz failed to awaken and unite religious conservatives, a reason why D
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onald Trump is the presumptive nominee. The split this year among conservative evangelicals was profound.
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  On the one side were those, mainly Cruz supporters, still voting on abortion, gay marriage and other moral issues. On the other were those among the faithful so angry about the direction of the country and what they saw as the marginalization of conservative Christianity in public life that they opted for the strongman who could push back hard against their enemies.
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. By some measures, he's running the most secular Republican campaign since the 1970s.
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As the first chart shows, the change in the overall electorate has been steady—and profound. Since Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection in 1984, working-class whites—defined as those whites without a college degree—have plummeted from around three-fifths of all voters in presidential elections to just over one-third in 2012.
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The results show that Democrats have grown significantly more reliant on minority voters, while Republicans are still preponderantly dependent on support from whites—including the white working-class voters who have rapidly declined as a share of the Democratic coalition.
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Donald Trump, clearly, represents something new and very disturbing in American politics.
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He revealed himself as having utter disregard for American constitutionalism.
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At a fundamental level, Donald Trump does not grasp the significance of the American constitutional order.
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Yet along the Texas-Mexico border, Trump enjoys a well of support among Hispanic Americans that some might find surprising.
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"I'm a former chief of police in a border town. I'm Hispanic, I'm proud to be Hispanic and I'm 100 percent behind Donald Trump for his candidacy to the White House," Castaneda told CBS News.
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"He's very blunt. I'm blunt too. Maybe that's why I like some of his positions
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I participated in the arrest of these people. So I want a good defense along the border, too, so I can live in comfort and I can live in peace just like everybody else in this country," he said.
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