Where will Trump get his support from?

[Donerail]

Donald Trump.

[Simfan34]

People with follower complexes.

[JonathanSwift]

I will be supporting him.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

[JonathanSwift]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

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I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

Most Hillary supporters don't match her very well.

[HAnnA MArin County]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

What are his policy positions? The only one I know of is that he believes Obama is a Kenyan Marxist socialist, but then again, 99.9% of Republicans believe that.

[JonathanSwift]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

What are his policy positions? The only one I know of is that he believes Obama is a Kenyan Marxist socialist, but then again, 99.9% of Republicans believe that.

They are explained in his announcement speech:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/donald-j-trump-presidential-announcement

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Donald Trump wants to simplify our tax code by taxing China instead. Sure, normal people fine people for bad acts, but Trump taxes them.

[WVdemocrat]

Donald Trump.

God**** it.

You stole my joke.

[Angel of Death]

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[Mr. Morden]

According to PPP's latest national poll, Trump is +17 in favorability among "very conservative" GOP primary voters, but -51 among self-described moderates.

You've also got:
men: -13
women: +6
age 18-45: +12
age 46-65: -12
age 65+: -10

So the answer is very conservative women below the age of 45. 

[wildfood]

Democrats trying to discredit the Republican party.

[Lief 🗽]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

Most Hillary supporters don't match her very well.

No; Clinton is a mainstream Democrat, most of her supporters are mainstream Democrats. Don't lie.

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I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

Most Hillary supporters don't match her very well.

No; Clinton is a mainstream Democrat, most of her supporters are mainstream Democrats. Don't lie.

Mainstream Democrats agree more with Sanders on the issues.

[Frodo]

The same crazies who were nutty enough to back Michelle Bachmann, Hermain Cain, Sarah Palin, and the like when they were candidates. 

[Fuzzy Bear]

Perot-type voters who are registered Republicans will be interested in Trump.  Perot-type voters across the spectrum would support Trump as an Independent, but I don't think Trump's into that kind of thing.

Trump's a serious candidate, and should be treated that way, if only because he has money, celebrity, and business accomplishments that inspire others to have confidence in him as a leader.  Plus, the guy has some stones, and while they are misdirected at times, people are willing to forgive that then they are spinelessness.  He has an instant following, and while he may or may not build his support from where he's at, he'll be above 2% and Chris Christie probably can't say that nowadays.

There is always a constituency for the Man on Horseback.  What people liked about Perot is that, in many ways, Perot was an up-front Fascist.  People had confidence that Perot would do things, and the Constitution be damned.  Trump inspires that sort of confidence in that sort of voter that would be attracted to this approach. 

I don't see Trump bolting and going Indy.  I don't see him winning the GOP nomination either, but he's positioning himself to be a power in the GOP.  These folks who are ragging on him (mostly half-baked Inside-the-Beltway consultant-types) are folks Trump could put out of business if he were vindictive enough.  Trump is offering American Greatness and he's better at that than the others because people actually think he might deliver.  NO ONE thinks that Rand Paul or Hillary Clinton, or any of the other Republicans will "Make America Great Again".  If the election were really about THAT sentiment (and past elections have been about exactly that), then Trump may well redefine the terms of the 2016 GOP nomination race.

[andrew_c]

Anyone who wants to party raid the Republicans.

[HAnnA MArin County]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

Most Hillary supporters don't match her very well.

No; Clinton is a mainstream Democrat, most of her supporters are mainstream Democrats. Don't lie.

Mainstream Democrats agree more with Sanders on the issues.

So mainstream Democrats are democratic socialists? I would have to disagree with that.

The base (allegedly) agrees with him more, all because the media has painted Hillary as an out-of-touch Wall Street corporatist DINO, and that smear tactic tends to resonate with the (alleged) base that is overrepresented on Atlas. But the base isn't mainstream Democrats. They're the true believers who tried and tried to get Warren to run.

[Donald Trump 2016 !]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

I genuinely can't tell if you're serious or trolling.

[heatmaster]

The lunatics of this world, and people who shouldn't be voting in the first place.

[Fuzzy Bear]

I will be supporting him.

Why do you want him to be president?

I like his policy positions. The same reason anyone supports a candidate.

I genuinely can't tell if you're serious or trolling.

I don't see where "Donald Trump Repupublican" is wrong here.  It's why Nixon won in a landslide in 1972; people overwhelmingly agreed with his issue positions.  It wasn't his party and it wasn't his persona; that's for sure.

The same was true of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.  When it came right down to it, people elected these guys by landslides because they basically agreed with their worldview and issue positions. 

[Famous Mortimer]

He'll probably be in the low single digits at highest. There will be few unifying factors between the couple of hundred people who vote for him other than general conservatism and being Republicans.

I think the claim that he'll get support from center-left or anti-war Republicans is particularly outrageous though. He might have opposed the Iraq War (did he? I don't remember but I'll believe it) but he also used to support abortion and socialized medicine. He doesn't talk about those things anymore. He pretends they never happened. He's certainly not going to be campaigning on such things.

[mencken]

CountryClassSF and FuzzyBear are the best prognosticators by far.

[Adam Griffin]

In terms of popular vote, he's going to win a majority of the Latino vote, a majority of the black vote and a majority of the white vote - however, he'll lose because he'll only win each of these groups by one vote and the Democrat will score 50%+4 of the Asian/other vote.