Donald Trump says public scorn greater than he expected

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Donald Trump says public scorn greater than he expected

ASHUA, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Real estate magnate Donald Trump suggested Wednesday it's not much fun flirting with the idea of running for president in the face of relentless attacks and ridicule.

"Nobody said it was going to be easy, but I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I've been hammered the past few weeks," Trump said in Nashua, New Hampshire.

The billionaire host of NBC-TV's "Celebrity Apprentice" has hinted for months that he will run for the 2012 Republican nomination for a chance to take on President Barack Obama.

But Trump has slipped badly in surveys taken since Obama released his birth certificate confirming he was born in the United States.

The so-called "birther" issue had been a major issue of Trump's nascent campaign.

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that is a bit naive of trump...and he has no one to blame but himself

 

[cawacko]

Well anytime you get involved in politics at that level you are going to take hits. That's the nature of the beast. Throw in the fact that he stupidly decided to choose to emphasize the birther issue, which Obama preceeded to stomp on by getting bin Laden, and yes you are going to get mocked Trump. That is your own doing sir.

 

[signalmankenneth]

Trump’s 2012 polling plummets

It appears that "Apprentice" host Donald Trump is no longer all that effectively branded among the top tier of potential 2012 candidates for the GOP presidential nomination.

The real estate mogul tied for fifth place in a Public Policy Polling survey of the 2012 Republican field released Tuesday (pdf). That's down from first place in PPP's April survey.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was the leading preferred candidate among Republican voters, with 19 percent support in this week's survey. He was followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 18 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 13 percent, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with 12 percent. Trump tied with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas at 8 percent.

Those numbers are a long way off from the April 15 survey of the GOP race, which had Trump leading with a comfortable 26 percent of polled support. His closest competitor at the time was Huckabee, who received 17 percent, Romney had 15 percent, Gingrich received 11 percent, Palin had 8 percent and Paul polled 5 percent. (Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann placed last in both surveys.)

So what's changed for Trump?

For one, Trump's quest to pressure President Obama to his long-form birth certificate came to an end last month when the White House released the document. Quickly afterward, "birther" speculation in the GOP field, and in the media generally, died down.

PPP's analysts say the vanishing vogue for birtherism is a key reason behind Trump's waning GOP support. "Donald Trump had a meteoric rise to the top of the GOP Presidential field and has fallen back down just as quickly," PPP president Dean Debnam said in his analysis. "Republicans voters burned out on him pretty fast, especially after the birther issue lost some of its potency with the release of President Obama's birth certificate."

Following the birth certificate release, the president called Trump inexperienced and made him the laughing stock of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and scrutiny began piling up about Trump's past as well as his current business dealings

By Rachel Rose Hartman

 

[Onceler]

Well anytime you get involved in politics at that level you are going to take hits. That's the nature of the beast. Throw in the fact that he stupidly decided to choose to emphasize the birther issue, which Obama preceeded to stomp on by getting bin Laden, and yes you are going to get mocked Trump. That is your own doing sir.

Yup. I can muster much more sympathy for someone like Palin than someone like Trump.

Had he jumped in and talked about the economy & his fiscal plan, he'd have been given a much longer honeymoon, and the heat wouldn't have gotten bad until the primaries. He went straight for birther, though...