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Friday, March 11, 2016

England's "The Independent" Views "The Trump Circus"

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Barack Obama says Republicans can only blame themselves for Trump 'circus'

President condemns Republicans for setting the stage for Donald Trump, as Republican front-runner pledges to become more presidential if elected

By , Washington and Ruth Sherlock, Miami
10 Mar 2016

Barack Obama on Thursday blamed the Republican establishment for the "circus" of the party's presidential primaries, suggesting it had created the atmosphere of hostility and polarisation that allowed Donald Trump to thrive.
Amid Republican turmoil over the prospect of the belligerent billionaire becoming its nominee, Mr Obama was asked by reporters at a White House press conference whether he bore some responsibility for the state of the race.
The US president roundly rejected the suggestion his actions had led to "theRepublican crack-up", adding: "I have been blamed by Republicans for a lot of things, but being blamed for their primaries and who they're selecting for their party is novel."
He said the Republican elite and affiliated media outlets had set a political tone of "us versus them" in which other people were always to blame for your problems.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his wife Sophie Gregoire, on the Truman Balcony during an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his wife Sophie Gregoire, on the Truman Balcony during an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington  Photo: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
"It's fair to say that the Republican political elites and many of the information outlets, social media news outlets, talk radio... have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years a notion that everything I do is to be opposed, that cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal ... that there is a them out there and an us, and them are the folks who are causing whatever problems you're experiencing."
This had created an environment where "someone like a Donald Trump can thrive", Mr Obama said, adding. "He's just doing more of what has been done for the last seven and a half years."
The outgoing president also questioned whether there was a significant difference between Mr Trump's positions and those of candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, suggesting the business mogul was just more "proactive" in how he expressed them.
On Wednesday night, Mr Trump promised to act “more presidential” should he win the White House, as his campaign pivots to focus on the national race.
Donald Trump
In an interview just days before the Florida and Ohio primaries, which rivals view as a last chance to stop the frontrunner, Mr Trump struck a decidedly moderate tone.
“At the right time, I will be so presidential that you'll call me and you'll say, 'Donald, you have to stop that’,” Mr Trump said. “I can be presidential. But when you're being attacked and when you attack back, they say it's not presidential."
Mr Trump is backed by an electorate that have reveled in his devil-may-care political style, and embraced his hyperbolic calls to “ban Muslims” from the US and stop illegal immigration by building a “huge” wall.
Faced with the real prospect of winning the nomination, Mr Trump is, in his own unorthodox way, trying to his appeal.
ValuesRepublican national pollSource: NBC/WSJPercentageTrumpCruzKasichRubio010203040Trump● Percentage: 30
After initially promising to deport the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, Mr Trump is now showing flexibility on the issue: “There always has to be some tug and pull and deal," Mr Trump said during the most recent Republican debate.
He vowed to defund Planned Parenthood; the government sponsored women’s health centers that also offer abortions. But now he is rowing back: "In order to be victorious, frankly, I had to be very tough and I had to be very sharp and smart and nasty," Mr Trump said. "I can see women not liking that. That will change once this is all over."
Mr Trump's rivals have one more chance to slow his momentum in Tuesday's winner-take-all contests in Florida and Ohio.
But new polls show Mr Trump leading in Florida, Mr Rubio’s home state, by a full 20 percentage points. He also looks set to win Ohio, where Mr Kasich is governor, though by a smaller margin.

But after devastating losses in the early primary races, Mr Rubio went nuclear at the last Republican debate, lobbing personal insults at Mr Trump.
Looking at his polls, it was a move he now says he regrets: “My kids were embarrassed by it, and if I had to do it again, I wouldn't," Mr Rubio said this week.
The Florida senator had tried to campaign on an optimistic message, originally rising above the fray and focusing on being the unity candidate. But now, it seems, Mr Trump is even stealing that show.
In a sign of how contentious the campaign has become, footage from a Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, went viral on Thursday after it showed a black protester being escorted out of the event, then punched in the face by a Stetson-wearing white man.
Rakeem Jones, 26, was being shepherded out by sherrifs when John McGraw, 78, lashed out.
Police then pushed Mr Jones to the floor, instead of arresting Mr McGraw - a response which sparked fury online.
Mr McGraw was on Thursday night in custody, having voluntarily come in to be interviewed by police.


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Alan: Despite Trump's encouragement of the worst angels of our nature, I want him to win the Republican nomination 
in order to reveal the terrified face of American conservatism.
Remember: If you're terrified, the terrorists won.
And you made their victory possible.

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