Surging Trump mocks pundits who called him a clown

Washington, Sep 15: With his poll numbers soaring, Donald Trump mocked pollsters, pundits and his rivals saying those who once called him a "clown" are now wondering "how are we going to stop this guy." "I hear they're all going after me," during Wednesday night's CNN Republican presidential debate, the Republican frontrunner told thousands of roaring fans at a sports arena in Dallas, Texas Monday. When he launched his White House bid earlier in the summer, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that the campaign would soon fizzle, the real estate mogul recalled. "All these geniuses. All these talking heads," he said. "One person-a real loser - said 'he's a clown.' Now they are saying - how are we going to stop this guy? I haven't heard the word clown in a while." Trump claimed that he was leading all the opinion polls because people had latched on to his vow to make America great again. "The polls come out - and we are really killing it. We are really killing it," he said. The voters whom he called the "silent majority"- borrowing a phrase from President Richard Nixon - were finally making their voices heard. "It is not silent. I think they should call it the noisy, the aggressive majority, the wanting to win majority!" he said.