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now totally lost.” Trump even authored a book, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, in which he offered his game plan for taking back America from the socialist path Obama had put it on. In February of this year, Trump joined former


Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas to endorse him for president. Pundits predicted Trump would quickly fade from the political scene, and that Romney’s camp was attempting to bury the Trump endorse- ment early. That proved hardly the case as Romney tapped


Trump to produce radio ads and robo calls — efforts that were credited with helping Romney in tough primary contests in Nevada, Michigan, and Ohio. In fact, Romney was trailing by double digits in Rust Belt states Michigan and Ohio when Romney de- ployed the billionaire to win over the “Trump voter.” Trump also kept busy behind the scenes with the


assistance of his chief counsel and political aide Mi- chael Cohen, opening fundraising doors for the can- didate. By May, Romney was out-raising the Obama


juggernaut. Trump and Romney hit the campaign trail together. Now, with less than a hundred days until the gen-


eral election, new evidence is emerging that Trump could be poised once again to rattle the chinaware. An exclusive Newsmax-JZ Analytics poll conduct-


ed by John Zogby shows that unlike other conserva- tive firebrands, Trump enjoys a strong appeal with a specific segment of independent voters that neither campaign has been able to grab: the blue-collar and low-level white collar workers who say that they’re tired of hearing the same old political falderal from career politicians. Americans are attracted to the Trump effect. “In


an era of nauseating political correctness,” Fox News host Sean Hannity tells Newsmax, “Donald is re- freshingly honest.” But the real key to Trump’s value to Romney lies


in who those Trump voters are. Team Romney knew it caught lightning in a bottle when Trump helped them make up a double-digit deficit in the wan- ing days of the Michigan primary. An insider who


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