No masking Trump’s popularity at Chinese party supply factory
THERE’S no masking the facts. One Chinese factory is expecting Donald Trump to beat his likely US presidential rival Hillary Clinton in the popularity stakes.
At the Jinhua Partytime Latex Art and Crafts Factory, a Halloween and party supply business that produces thousands of rubber and plastic masks of everyone from Osama bin Laden to Spiderman, masks of Trump and Democratic frontrunner Clinton faces are being churned out.
Sales of the two expected presidential candidates are at about half a million each but the factory management believes Trump will eventually run out the winner.
“Even though the sales are more or less the same, I think in 2016 this mask will completely sell out,” said factory manager Jacky Chen. The firm was already beginning to stockpile the de facto Republican candidate’s mask, he said.
Just like with the sales of the $4-$5 masks, Trump is now running nearly even with Democrat Clinton among likely US voters ahead of the November election, a Reuters/Ipsos poll from May 11 showed.
That is a big turnaround for the real estate billionaire once considered a fringe figure in the race but now the Republican party’s presumptive presidential nominee.