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Donald Trump formally endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Thursday, describing the former Massachusetts governor as "tough" and "smart" and the best pick in the GOP primary.
Trump and Romney appeared together in Las Vegas to announce the endorsement, which drew heavy media coverage.
"It is a real honor and privilege to endorse Mitt Romney," Trump said in brief remarks. "Mitt is tough, he's smart, he's sharp. He's not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country we all love."
Romney said in response: "There are some things that you just can't imagine in your life. This is one of them," adding that it means a "great deal" to have the billionaire's support.
The endorsement follows a bizarre period of time in which several major news outlets -- including the New York Times and Associated Press -- had initially reported that Trump had been planning to endorse Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker had been one of only two candidates to agree appearing at a debate the "Apprentice" host had planned, but which never came to pass. Romney declined attendance.
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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) said he didn't think the Trump endorsement matters, but added on KDWN radio that if Trump "wants to endorse the person who's most in line with his thinking with respect to the major issue of this economic problem that we're involved in, he should endorse Rick Santorum."
For their part, Democrats seemed to take a degree of joy in the Trump spectacle.
"It really wouldn't be surprising if Donald Trump endorses Mitt Romney, because they both like firing people, and they both made millions doing it" Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said on msnbc. "Donald Trump is such a cartoon character, no matter who he chooses, it's like Bugs Bunny endorsing ... It's really kind of a non-news event."
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells MSNBC's Thomas Roberts that recent verbal missteps from Mitt Romney show that he has "no concern about people who are struggling."
It's reflective of the media whirlwind to have surrounded Trump's game of footsie with Republican politics over the past year.
Trump had initially thought about running for the GOP nomination last spring. He talked publicly about the possibility of running and even visited New Hampshire. The flirtation coincided with the broadcast of last spring's season of "The Apprentice" on NBC. (NBC is a co-owner of mnsbc.com, along with Microsoft.) Trump had initially promised to make clear his intentions in the show's season finale, but ultimately demurred, and made the announcement separately.
Trump had additionally been one of the most prominent figures to voice suspicions that President Obama had not actually been born in the United States, and, thusly, was constitutionally ineligible to be president. Obama eventually relented and released his long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, verifying he was born in Hawaii. Obama made light of the situation at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on May 1, deriding the media for giving voice to “carnival barkers” like Trump, only to announce the next day that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a daring raid in Pakistan -- planning of which had been ongoing during the annual dinner.
But the discussion of "birther" theories over the course of last spring appears to have harmed Trump in the eyes of the public; Trump had a 26 percent favorable rating in a February 2011 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and a 29 percent unfavorable rating. By mid-May, the point at which the real estate magnate announced he wouldn't be running, a Suffolk University poll found that Trump had a 70 percent unfavorable rating, while just 18 percent of Americans had a positive opinion of Trump.
It's also not incredibly clear what, if any, impact the Trump endorsement will have on the trajectory of the race, in Nevada's caucuses on Saturday, or beyond. Romney had already led, at 45 percent, in a poll of likely Nevada caucus-goers released Thursday. He's followed by Gingrich at 25 percent, Santorum at 11 percent and Texas Rep. Ron Paul at 9 percent.
Still, the reality television star continued to play an out-sized role throughout the 2012 cycle. All the Republican candidates visited Trump through the course of last summer with the exception of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
"I think his infusing himself into the dialogue really dumbs down and makes less consequential the very important issues that we must be discussing to get this country back on its feet again," Huntsman said on Fox News in December.
One of the most intensely covered media events of 2011 came when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went out for pizza with Trump in Manhattan during a stop on her bus tour of the Northeast, a journey meant to stoke speculation about her own presidential aspirations. When Romney visited Trump, he snuck in and out of the billionaire's headquarters without being captured by staked-out cameras.
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Wonderful??? That one decadent rich elitist embraces another? You find comfort in that?? Jobs? Are you living on this planet with the rest of us? Are you here? jOBS? They don't need no stinking jobs!
A marriage made in a bank vault.
I actually chuckled out loud when I initially read the header.
Too funny.
Hilarious all the righties that want the country "run like a business'. America is not McDonalds so we don't need a Mitt or Donald playing fast food resturant with our future! I here they always need more Ronald McDonalds though!
What a None Event!!!!!!!!!!!! Donald the Clown endorsing Mitt Nobody!! Donald was talking about all the people he knows who are laughing at us. No Donald, they are laughing at your Azz.
I have seen many posts here in the past referring to G.W. Bush (Jr Bush as I call him as oposed to Papa Bush) as Dubya. Will someone educate me as to where Dubya came from ? what does it mean ? I'm a little slow, please excuse me. Thanks.
I think even the family may have called him that at some point as a way of distinguishing George "W." from George Sr.
dubya is Texan for double u (or "W")
Weasel...........
Thanks; why didn't I think of that ?
Sr and Jr.
Since when does what Donald Trump thinks matter? He is just another "wanna be" - someone who thinks he knows so much, but isn't willing to go through the microscope everyone else is managing to deal with. Let him join the ranks of the news commentators who know exactly what should be done, but can't manage to get off their fat a$$es to do put their flapping gums into action..
two of a kind, both are out of touch with average american, both are blow hards who will push their backers agenda and both talk out of both sides of their mouth. its easy to say i will do this and that but unless one sides get more seats we are in for 4 more years of the same crap.
Can't wait for the SNL skit on this one, should be great.
They looked like the cast from HAIR !!!!
Hairless, LOL
Well fellow libs,we fought the good fight...but with Donald McRonald backing the Mitty...well...we are doomed...what will we do.... FOMOFO-O !!!
i remember when i was homeless, at the time romney was governer of m@!$%# massachussetts, and he had the nerve to go and have breakfast with the head honchos of the amvets homeless shelter in downtown boston, it was a fund raiser! romney should be in line with ex prez bush on death row, one for killinglokk 3000 people in one day, and the other one for a future disaster..i had a lot of respect for trump, but now i am very disapointed in him..romney said a day or 2 ago, the poor are not really a concern for him, why not? are the poor like the rich americans?.. please do not vote for romney im calling on all nations colors and creeds. vote obama again ,gingrich santorum or paul..or vote for obama,obama created more jobs, he got bin laden,he stopped the war in iraq... thankyou
great post Joseph !!! go ahead and attack that....teabaggers !!!!
Comments like this really makes my point....not very educated...Obama got Bin Laden? He didn't want to say yes to get him..he had to be talked into it from the reports....hilarious....I can't give credit to a man that just happens to hold the office when this kind of thing happens. Give the credit to where it belongs...the long enduring effort of the military to track Bin Laden down....They are the true heroes.
I think Mitt taught Donald how to bankrupt a Company and still make MEGA BUCKS.
dm8...you are truly disgusting !!! uneducated ??? Who's the dumb ass now!!!
dm: Reports from Rush?
"LOL"......enjoying that 16 trillion dollar debt.....
Well..don't look at it , so you can keep on Obama supporting....
newt not from the northeast or ivy league school, northeast will not vote or do bussiness unless you are from one or other. they have to take care of all the billions that wall street takes in and steels from the rest of the country. the don knows that if he had backed anyone from outside of their cult then he would have been cut out. if you talk bad about anyone from an ivy league school then you will be blacked balled. notheast takes care of the northeast and looks down on the rest of the country as their servants
The king of bankruptcies cheering for the king of flip floppers. Who's next? Pee Wee Herman? A word of advice for Mitt, whatever you do, don't shake hands with Pee Wee.
I don't know if I am the only one who noticed,but the DNC head,Reince Preibus (or whatever the hell) is none other than Paul Ruebens (it's like JUMBLE)...Thats right...take a closer look...its PEEWEE !!! Haaaa !!!
Of the RNC
Hell
See my post at 126.4
Two one percenters grossly out of touch with the other 99% of the country.
Mit and Donald show that you can be smart in business but and A$$ every other way. Mit has been running for president for eight years, when you are that rich all of your life than that is the only thing you can aspire to being is President. Looking for more prestige and power. Mit is not what our country needs, a person
who want to be President at any Cost, one who has no compassion for the poor, one who has no principal and will run a nasty sleazy campaign and accepts endorsements from someone sleazier than him. Mit drop out of the race and find your sole.
Mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo all believe in supporting the upper 1%. Now trump has jumped on the bandwagon. It seems the thing that did it for trump was the i don't care about the poor statement by romney. Trump can emphasize with that. Ole gop sock it to the poor.
Who cares what Trump does? He may have made billions but he has had more bankruptcies than any person I know.
Before you declare the bankruptcy king, better add up Mitter's score. He could be ahead of Mopsy.
It's the beginning of the end for Romney, now.
"Bad things happening in America" Thanks to Republicans like Bush, Boehner, Cantor, the Alabama and Arizona power elites, bad things have already happened, and continue to happen. If Obama couldnt accomplish more than ending the Iraq debacle, killing Bin Laden and a batch of other terrorist leaders, it is the fault of the party of NO. Trump and Romney are perfect mates, rich pigs who like to fire people and who don't give a rats ass about anything but their own profits and those of their supporters.
Thank God someone is finally blaming the Alabama Power Elite. It's that Montgomery cabal that sold us out to the Chinese. They also forged Obama's Hawai'ian Birth Certificate, and caused the ground hog to see his shadow.
trump will never ever endorse obama. he is not that smart . if we hypnotize him, all he has in his head is thinking of money nd younger women. what an insecure person.pitiful,pitiful!!!!!!!!!!!!he must also have a small something, coz he always put people down nd elevate himself. too insecure. not to brilliant chap, but people thinks he is a mogul coz he has buildings all over the world,but i really wonder what is his net worth. also goes to show how much peopel can be duped w/ the sparkle of money nd a little power.he! he! he!
Trump will never endorse Obama, lyn says. And we thank the Maker for that. Obama would lose any support he had from the working class, all of us, if some reality TV guy with a horrible comb-over endorsed him. These Republiclowns are dumb. If they wanted to drag a Democrat down, they just need to have The Donald put his Seal of Approval on him. That would just kill it. Reverse psychology.
Wow, The Donald endorses Romney. Big news, yessir. Makes me think that Romney just got a big ol' tramp stamp, a Trump stamp, tattooed above his milky white butt that says' Kick Me Here'. Or 'Kiss Me When You're Done'. But now, back to work, can't spend all day thinking about this, gotta make my bosses rich.
Well there you go! The Trump just bought the Rom.... The Rom is Happy Happy Happy.....Humm what do you think the Trump will get out of the Rom that he couldn't get out of the fig Newt?
What do you know- one filthy rich POS endorses his fellow filthy rich POS
Im sure Trump doesn't give a damn about the poor too!!! Donald Trump.... YOU ARE FIRED!!!
I wonder if the Republican Party has anyone directing the Republican Party. What a joke. I used to proclaim that my party line was Republican. But I won't follow the morons that call themselves Republicans.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
Well at least the GOP can fix this really fast with just one letter...instead the party of MORONS,they can be the party of MORMONS...easy fix !!! MMMMMMMMMMMMM !!!
I am so sick of people taking Romney's comments out of context. He did NOT say he didn't care about the very poor. It just makes a good story, when one is scrambling for some mud to sling. He said he isn't as worried about them, as they HAVE A SAFETY NET. It's those just above them that need a boost.
As for enjoying firing people, he didn't say it that way either. He was referring to insurance companies, not individuals, and all of you people snickering KNOW that.
You must be desperate to find something wrong with turning the economy around the correct way. Handouts are NOT the way to go in the long run. It should be a temporary measure to get people over the rough spots.
Believe me. I run a huge food pantry, and I am HAPPY to help those out of work right now, and all those unable to find anything. THOSE people will not be coming for generations, and expecting the government, or the successful, to be paying their way forever. However, they know the present system is to their advantage, and they use it to the hilt. I know some that didn't want to go back to work after a layoff, as they enjoyed the major part of their income during their stay at home. That's the auto industry union for you. Even had one finish a Practical Nursing degree, but would not look for a job, until the unemployment benefits stopped coming in. It's mind boggling!! Where is the pride in that???? What are they teaching their children?
Put down the KOOL-AID mary, it's giving you brain damage.
Well Mary, I'd say his karma came back and bit him big-time. Did he not put up out of context advertising on his opponents? Oh , I recall he did. You know the old saying.....what's good for the goose, is good for the gander . Karma's a bitch ain't it?