Donald Trump
Controversial Republican candidate, Donald
Trump, has sparked a massive voter increase in the U.S.
primaries. Over 8,700,000 more voters have hit the polls
during the primaries, casting votes as apart of the 2016
presidential election process. This could spell real trouble
for the Democrats, as candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary
Clinton duke it out to become their party's official
candidate. Trump and fellow Republican, Ted Cruz, have been
battling to become their party's candidate. Trump holds a
massive lead in the process.
Donald Trump kissing a black baby
Trump has emerged as a very divisive figure.
However, what he is using to draw people to the polls is
American born citizens discontent with the direction the
country has taken over the past 7-years under President
Barack Obama, due to wild spending that has sent the deficit
skyrocketing, as well as an unconstitutional lack of
personal freedoms. Trump has been trying to tone down some
of his racist rhetoric, in posing for photos with black
babies and running campaign commercials featuring blacks and
Hispanics.
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Exclusive Data Analysis: GOP Primary Turnout Up 8.7 Million Votes, More Than 60 Percent in 2016 Versus 2012
Exclusive Data Analysis: GOP Primary Turnout Up 8.7 Million Votes, More Than 60 Percent in 2016 Versus 2012
Apr 2016 - Newly compiled data after the New
York Republican primary shows that among the states that
have voted so far in 2016, GOP primary and caucus turnout is
up well more than 8 million votes and well more than 60
percent over 2012’s process. Top GOP officials say that the
intense interest in the GOP primary throughout the year so
far only serves to benefit the Republican nominee in
November, whoever it ends up being.
In total, so far, nationwide the GOP has
seen an increase of 8,719,041 votes in 2016’s primaries,
caucuses and conventions over 2012’s primaries, caucuses and
conventions. In 2012, 14,452,500 people voted in each of the
states and territories that have held contests so far in
2016. In 2016, 23,171,541 people have voted in the GOP
contests so far. That is a 60.33 percent increase in GOP
contest turnout in just four years.
Republican National Committee chairman
Reince Priebus reacted to the news in an exclusive comment
to Breitbart News saying that voters are flocking to the GOP
after a bad past eight years with Democratic President
Barack Obama because they know Democrat Hillary Clinton as
president would be “disastrous.”
“After eight years of Barack Obama, voters
throughout the country know that four years of Hillary
Clinton would be disastrous,” Priebus said in an email.
“Almost to a state, we are seeing record turnout because
voters know it’s the Republican Party that has the ideas and
solutions that will move America in the right direction.”...
