Hillary
Clinton 2016 For Prison - Donald Trump: ‘Clinton Cash’ Proves Hillary Is
‘Crooked As Hell’
-Play The Trailer for Clinton Cash
a.Salon.com Devastating Clinton Cash Documentary
set to Rock Cannes Next Week
b.Time Mag Clinton Cash is a scathing broadside
aimed at persuading liberals
-Opening Statement Judge
Jeanine (1A)
a.Hillary “Im trying to be as transparent as I
can” (1B)
-The Kremlin is
considering whether or not to release some 20,000 hacked Clinton emails
reportedly in its possession. Russian security services apparently obtained the
emails as part of their investigation into the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel
Lazar, known as “Guccifer” — now in U.S. custody in relation to the Clinton
email scandal.
-Hillary attack ad on Trump (1C) Romeny, Jeb, Cruz, Gram, Rubio,
-47 Clinton friends turned up dead
a.James Mcdougal (58) – conviced white water
partner ’98 working with Ken Star
b.Mary Mahoney 20’s) – ’97 white house intern
c.Vince Foster (48) – ’93 same method of suicide
used by a Marine officer in the film A Few Good Men – which Foster was known
recently to have watched.
d.Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce under Clinton
and the former DNC Chairman was in a plane crash in 1996, I presumed it was
just that – a crash, an accident. It was not until the revelation of the hole
in Brown’s head in late 1997
e.Victor C Raiser, a major player in the Clinton
fundraising organization, died in a private plane crash in July 1992
f.Paul Tulley was the Democratic National
Committee Political Director who was found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock,
Ark., on September 1992. He was described by Clinton as a “dear friend and
trusted advisor.”
g.Ed Willey, a Clinton fundraiser, was found dead
in November 1993, deep in the woods of Virginia with a gunshot wound to the
head, which was ruled a suicide. Kathleen Willey, claimed that Bill Clinton
groped her in the Oval Office of the White House
2.Trump 55% to Hillary 45% General Election
-Jeff Sessions 2016 is about Nationalism vs
Globalism
-Latino For Trump (1A) -
Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by ten points among Hispanic voters, according
to a shocking new general election match-up poll released Friday
-Katrina on Kelly Files
talking about Trump and women and Hillary camp coming out calling Trump a
sexist and Kelly defends Hillary as Katrina shocks Kelly with Breaking News. (2C)
-Tammy Bruce – War
on Women by Obama in the 8 years on Varney and co. (2B)
-Trump Minimum wage:
I like to give minimum wage to the states
-Barack Obama’s Friday decree that the nation’s 100,000 public schools open
their bathrooms and locker rooms to kids of both sexes whenever even a single
child or teenager announces he or she has the “gender identity” of the opposite
sex. The new rule — which is not law but is backed by federal
threats to sue or slash funding — would impact roughly 55 million children
a.The federal government should leave sexual
regulation of the nation’s K-12 bathrooms and locker rooms to state and local
governments Trump
b.Trump followed the same pro-federalism script
when asked about Obama’s bathroom policy on NBC’s Today
show. “I think this should be a states’ issue. It’s become a huge story
and yet it affects — and everybody has to be protected, if it’s one person —
but it’s a tiny, tiny portion of the population, and it’s become a massive
story,”
c.Jason Pomare, 33, entered the bathroom which the
ACLU and the liberal elitists in this country say is his God given right. He
sets up a hidden camera in one of the stalls and for the next two hours, tapes
women using the bathroom. Eventually, one woman noticed the camera with the
record light on and notified mall security, who arrested Pomare
d.Shakina Nayfack A transgender actress and activist preparing
to embark on a traveling performance tour of North Carolina plans to take
photos of herself urinating “in all the wrong bathrooms” to protest the state’s
recent passage of what critics have called an anti-LGBT bathroom law.
e.Federal Court Ruled Obamacare payments to Ins
Co unconstitutional
-Breitbart - JAMES P. PINKERTON13 May 201651
f.A key point to remember about American Greatness
is that you can see it: It’s tangible.
g.If America is rich, if its middle class is
prosperous, you can tell. If our military is strong, you can see that, too. If
we’re winning our wars and destroying our enemies, we know it—and so does the
foe. If we are doing cool things, that’s visible, too: It’s our test pilots
breaking the sound-barrier, it’s our scientists developing the polio vaccine,
it’s our astronauts walking on the moon, it’s our entrepreneurs debuting the
next world-changing smart-device or launching the next reusable rocket. Again,
the common thread in American Greatness is reality, technology—that is,
tangibility.
h.As a real-estate developer, Donald Trump has
been building tangibles all his career. The building, and all its parts, either
stands tall and looks good, or it doesn’t. The same holds true for a golf
course, or a resort—or even a beauty pageant.
i.And now, in politics, Trump brings his emphasis
on the real, and the tangible, with him as he enters the political arena. When
he says, “Build a wall on the US-Mexican border,” everyone can visualize it.
Whether one loves the idea—as do a majority of Americans, and an overwhelming
majority of Republicans—or hates the idea, it’s a real thing in the mind. When
he says he would“bomb the [bleep]” out of ISIS, that’s a real thing, too.
Tangible.
-Gary Welsh RIP – ousted Cruz dad as hanging out
with Lee Harvey Oswald
NEW YORK CITY, New York — Real estate magnate Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, tells Breitbart News that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “crooked as hell.”
“That’s why I call her ‘Crooked Hillary,’” Trump replied when Breitbart News asked him during the interview in his Trump Tower office how she could have gone from “dead broke” when she and her husband former President Bill Clinton left the White House to worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. “She’s crooked as hell.”
Trump’s tripling down on his nickname for Clinton–“Crooked Hillary”–comes as the Los Angeles Times reports that the name seems to be sticking to Clinton nationwide.
“All campaign long, pollsters have found that many voters — including some Democrats — don’t think she’s principled,” columnist Doyle McManus wrote this week. “Maybe it’s her four decades in bare-knuckle politics, ancient questions about investment deals in Arkansas, her entanglement in her husband’s personal scandals, her decision to set up a private email server when she was secretary of State, her big-dollar fundraising and speech fees — or all of the above. Fairly or not, Clinton can’t shed her history.”
In this interview with Breitbart News, Trump called out the Clintons for their paid speeches’ connections to actions they took around the world—a theme laid out in both the “Clinton Cash” book by Breitbart News senior editor-at-large and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer and in the subsequent film on the movie. The film, written and produced by Breitbart News executive chairman and GAI chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Dan Fleuette and directed by M.A. Taylor, will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France next week. Trump said the Clinton Cash book is “amazing” and that he is looking forward to seeing the movie.
“They made speeches for a lot of money and then things happened,” Trump told Breitbart News. “I mean, if you read that book, that book is amazing. How’s the movie? Did you see it? Let me know. If Steve [Bannon] is involved, it will be good.”
The film, which was screened for select media and political audiences here in Midtown, Manhattan, on Wednesday and will be again on Thursday, brings to life the revelations of several parts of the Clinton Cash book. It shows on the big screen in graphic detail how the Clintons used their influential connections worldwide to enrich themselves and their millionaire and billionaire friends while empowering many times corrupted world leaders and furthering plight of the world’s needy and poor in places like Africa and Haiti—all while jeopardizing U.S. interests by allowing Russia’s Vladimir Putin to have financial control of U.S. nuclear materials. This reporter saw the film at the screening on Wednesday.
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Trump also noted to Breitbart News that this pattern of the Clintons pocketing enormous amounts of cash with little effort—in large part due to their governmental connections—is nothing new. He pointed back to an seemingly forgotten scandal from the Clintons’ days in the Arkansas governor’s mansion when then Arkansas First Lady Hillary Clinton—before she was even the First Lady of the United States—made shocking financial gains off cattle purchases she made.
“It’s like her cattle deal, years ago—remember?” Trump said. “She made a cattle deal, and she made a phenomenal return in a very short time. They went to various cattle ranches, and they all said it’s impossible. In other words, she bought cattle and sold it—she made a massive return in a very short period of time. All these cattle people said it was impossible to do.”
Back in May 1994, writing about the 1978 Hillary Clinton cattle deals, the Washington Post’s Charles Babcock detailed exactly how suspect the deals were.
“Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released yesterday,” Babcock wrote in the Post on May 27, 1994.
The computerized records of her trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, show for the first time how she was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In about 10 months of trading, she made nearly $100,000, relying heavily on advice from her friend James B. Blair, an experienced futures trader. The new records also raise the possibility that some of her profits — as much as $40,000 – came from larger trades ordered by someone else and then shifted to her account, Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Merc who reviewed the records for the White House, said in an interview. He said the discrepancies in Clinton’s records also could have been caused by human error.
Trump questioned, in this interview, why Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont—Clinton’s only competitor in the Democratic presidential primary—has largely avoided these serious questions about the Clinton Cash issues during his campaign. Sanders has also given Clinton a pass on the email scandal with regards to her home-brew server, for which she is under criminal investigation by the FBI—which has 147 FBI agents working on the case.
“It’s amazed me that Bernie has not gone after that,” Trump said. “Two things amaze me: He hasn’t gone after the emails, and he hasn’t gone after the Clinton Cash. Unless they have some kind of side deal —which is shocking—it’s inconceivable that Bernie has not gone after that. And it’s also amazing that Bernie has not been complaining more about the super delegates.”
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Trump also noted that Clinton’s astonishing now 20 losses to Sanders in primaries and caucuses nationwide—but Sanders still trailing Clinton in the delegate race thanks in large part to super delegates who are party insiders not responsive to any voters whatsoever—is “unacceptable.”
“I think it’s unacceptable to a party and it’s a rigged system because of the super delegates, so it’s a very rigged system,” Trump said. “But I think it’s unacceptable to a party—why would anyone accept that, where she’s losing seemingly every single Tuesday? You watch and she loses. And you watch and she loses again. But then the pundits say, ‘oh he can’t win.’ I think it’s unacceptable to have someone lose that much that’s going to represent your party, but that’s their problem not mine.”
Trump said the exit polling from West Virginia showing that sizable portions of Democratic voters will support him in the general election if Hillary Clinton wins her party’s nomination in the end is proof he will win in November. He said they support him because he is strong on national security and right on trade deals.
“Because they know that I’m going to make the country safe and they know I’m going to make great trade deals,” Trump said. “One thing with Bernie that he’s got right is the trade deals are a disaster in this country. The difference is he can’t do anything about it—he wouldn’t know where to begin—whereas I’m going to make bad deals into great deals.”
But Trump edges slightly ahead if the stay-at-home option is removed. Trump also now does twice as well among Democrats as Clinton does among Republicans.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 41% support to Clinton’s 39%. Fifteen percent (15%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Trump now has the support of 73% of Republicans, while 77% of Democrats back Clinton. But Trump picks up 15% of Democrats, while just eight percent (8%) of GOP voters prefer Clinton, given this matchup. Republicans are twice as likely to prefer another candidate.
Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump leads 37% to 31%, but 23% like another candidate. Nine percent (9%) are undecided.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 27-28, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Trump leads 48% to 35% among men but trails Clinton by a similar 44% to 34% among women.
Clinton’s narrow 38% to 32% lead among those under 40, traditionally a reliable Democratic group, suggests that younger voters will be a big target in the upcoming campaigning. Twenty-five percent (25%) of these voters like another candidate for now, and five percent (5%) are undecided. Trump has a small advantage among older voters.
Clinton earns 71% of the black vote, 45% support among other minority voters but just 33% of whites. Trump gets only nine percent (9%) of blacks, 33% of other minorities and 48% of white voters.
Following Trump’s big win in last Tuesday’s primaries, it’s moment of truth time for the #Never Trump crowd: Do they want four years of Clinton in the White House or a Republican president they strongly disagree with?
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Data compiled since the New York GOP primary shows that billionaire Donald Trump’s popular vote total in 2016 in states that have voted so far significantly exceeds the vote totals that Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, had in those states in total.
All in all, in the contests that have been had so far in 2016, Trump towers over Romney—having won more than 2 million more votes in the 2016 GOP primaries. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the next closest vote-getter to Trump this cycle, falls just under 300,000 votes short of Romney’s totals in the 2012 cycle.
In total, Trump has received 8,776,586 votes so far this year in states that have already held primaries or caucuses or conventions. In those same states in 2012, Romney received 6,654,029 votes—a whopping 2,122,557 votes less than Donald Trump. That means Trump has gotten a 31.79 percent increase over Romney’s totals.
Meanwhile, Cruz, in states that have voted already in 2016 has received an impressive 6,452,032 votes. While admirable, that’s still 201,977 votes less than Romney’s 2012 totals in those states—a decrease of 3.04 percent from Romney’s 2012 votes.
The analysis shows that of the nearly 40 contests so far, Trump’s 2016 vote totals have demolished Romney’s 2012 vote totals in most places.
In Alabama, for instance, Trump’s 373,721 votes in 2016 were 193,385 votes more than Romney’s 180,336 votes in 2012. In Arizona, Trump won 47,576 more votes than Romney. Trump beat Romney by more than 300,000 votes in the swing state of Florida—which Romney lost to President Obama in the general election in 2012—and Trump similarly outperformed the former Massachusetts Governor in the critical state of Ohio by more than the margin Romney lost Ohio to Obama in the general election. Trump, in the 2016 primary, won 713,404 votes in Ohio—252,573 more than Romney’s 460,831 in the 2012 primary. Romney lost Ohio to Obama in the general election in 2012 by only 166,214 votes. Trump even beat Romney in his home state of Massachusetts by more than 46,000 votes.
In Trump’s home state of New York, too, the real estate developer finished well more than four times better than Romney did four years earlier. Romney in 2012 only received 118,912 votes in the Empire State while Trump in 2016 received 515,091 votes.
The analysis shows national competitiveness on Trump’s part, meaning that like Romney—and better than Romney so far—Trump can win everywhere in the country, rather than just regionally like Cruz.
Trump outperformed Romney in the following states and territories: Alabama, Alaska,Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin. It’s worth noting that Idaho went from a caucus in 2012 to a primary in 2016, so Trump probably got a boost in turnout due to that shift in system.
States and territories where Romney’s 2012 vote totals outperformed Trump’s 2016 totals were: Washington, D.C., Utah, North Carolina, Kentucky, Puerto Rico, Texas, Vermont, Wyoming, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It’s worth noting that D.C. went from a primary in 2012 to a convention in 2016, something that significantly decreases turnout. Kentucky went from a primary in 2012 to a caucus in 2016. Utah, a Mormon stronghold very favorable to Romney, also went from a primary in 2012 to a caucus in 2016. And while Romney did better than Trump in North Carolina, Trump still won the state back on March 15. What’s more, part of Trump finishing in 2016 lower than Romney in 2012 in the state of Texas is a result of Cruz being in the race—and being the U.S. Senator from Texas.
A Romney spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request for comment. Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who appeared on Breitbart News Saturday this weekend, made the point that Trump doing significantly better than Romney did—while Cruz isn’t doing better—is a good sign for the businessman should he make it to the general election.
“If Ted Cruz were to be nominated, there is no state that Mitt Romney lost last cycle that Ted Cruz can win. That’s not the case with Donald Trump,” Lewandowski said. He argued Trump could potentially win Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, New York, California, and Massachusetts in the general election, when Romney couldn’t in 2012. “We have the ability to expand the map,” Lewandowski said.
Cruz did finish higher than Romney in several states when comparing the Texas senator’s 2016 vote totals up against the former Massachusetts Governor’s 2012 totals, but not nearly as many as Trump did.
Cruz beat Romney in the following contests: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Again, with this one, the shift in Idaho’s system from 2012 caucuses to 2016 primaries probably benefitted Cruz just like it probably helped Trump’s totals versus Romney’s totals.
There are several more contests, however, where Romney’s 2012 numbers are much greater than Cruz’s 2016 finishes. They include: Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Nevada, the Northern Mariana and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Cruz has forged an alliance with Ohio Gov. John Kasich in upcoming states, in several of which including Oregon, Indiana and New Mexico they plan to collude to try to stop Trump. It’s unclear if they’ll be successful, especially if Trump continues on this tear he’s been on all year.
Breitbart News compiled this data analysis from information purchased from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. That data, available at USElectionAtlas.org, is widely used by academics and media organizations including the New York Times, the Economist, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and many more reputable organizations. Technically, Breitbart News did not include Colorado in these totals for Trump, Cruz or Romney since voters in Colorado were not afforded an opportunity to be heard at a caucus or primary.
This is the second in a multi-part series in Breitbart News’ election metadata analysis. The first examined a massive spike in GOP primary turnout in 2016.
Donald Trump, after New York, increased his lead against Ted Cruz. Trump also continues to top Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in the elections to date.
Primary and caucus results to date (as of Thursday April 21st) show that Trump continues to outshine all candidates.
Charts by Joe Hoft (data from RealClearPolitics)
Trump is leading both Republicans and Democrats this year.
Trump has—
** More primary wins than any candidate (18)
** More overall state wins than any candidate (21)
** The highest percentage of primary wins (82%)
** The highest percent of overall state wins (64%)
** The highest percent of primary delegates (68%)
** The highest percent of overall delegates (60%)
** And Trump now leads all candidates in the highest percent of overall votes (58%).
And Donald Trump started out last year competing against 16 primary opponents.(Note although not noted atRealClearPolitics.com caucus wins for Cruz in Colorado, Wyoming and North Dakota, Sanders in Maine, Alaska and Washington and Hillary in Iowa and Nevada were added to these results. These states show no winners currently in the RCP data. If these caucus wins were not added to the data, Trump would be even further ahead in the areas mentioned above.)
To date, the Democratic race has been tighter than the Republican race based on wins and delegates. (However, the Democrats also have super delegates which are highly in Hillary’s favor at 502 to 38 for Sanders which are not included in these totals.) It continues to be very clear that both Cruz and Sanders benefit from caucuses over primaries.
As noted earlier Cruz will not only be mathematically eliminated from obtaining enough delegates to win the election outright by April 26th, he will have fallen to third place in popularity too.
Cruz needs two out of every three delegates next Tuesday to stay alive but he is way behind Trump in polling and currently in 3rd place in some of these states and therefore will be done Tuesday per data from RCP.
Bernie too will be mathematically eliminated from gaining enough delegates by next Tuesday. He currently needs a little less than half of the delegates next week to stay alive but is also behind in the polls to Hillary.
Bernie, like Cruz, will be mathematically eliminated from obtaining enough delegates to win the election outright next week.
RUSH: The big news, the big news, Kasich and Cruz forming an accord to try to stop the Trumpster. Let me tell you what this is all about. Everybody is trying to figure this out, and everybody's digging deep trying to get into analysis that nobody else has come up with. Everybody is trying to become the smartest the guy in the room. Let me explain to you what this is really all about.
This is about narratives. Primarily Cruz, but Kasich as well, are convinced that they had to do something to change the narrative. The narrative is that Trump's already won this. That narrative is beginning to settle in. In many people's estimation, the narrative has set in. Trump's win in New York, even though it was expected, was voluminous. It was bigger than everybody thought. This has created in the media this narrative that now Trump is inevitable. And that means that it is over.
Isn't it interesting, by the way, when we discuss news, we don't discuss news anymore, we discuss narratives. And you know what a narrative is. A narrative is simply a story that somebody wants to tell and a story that somebody wants to tell that can dominate as though it is the news. That's why I say there isn't any news anymore; there's simply the advancement of agendas.
Now, in this case, we have these Northeastern primaries coming up, and it is expected here that Trump is going to continue to do well and that Cruz and Kasich are not, and that's gonna further add to the narrative that Trump has it locked up. Where Trump still might run into trouble is out west. Washington state, California, and until this, you know, Indiana was something that was possibly up for grabs.
So what is happening here is that Cruz and Kasich are -- I don't want to say hail Mary, but they may think of it that way as a last-ditch effort to stop the narrative, to change the narrative that Trump has this wrapped up and that it's all but over and inevitable because neither Kasich nor Cruz can get to 1,237 before the convention. Their only hope is to see to it that Trump doesn't get to 1,237.
So I think it's really no more complicated than that. It's not about intricate delegate math, although it might be, but you don't need add up numbers here to figure out what's going on. This is strictly about trying to change the tone of the news, and there's little offshoots of this that are fascinating, too. I know some people that were shocked today that Cruz decided to team up with Kasich. If Cruz is gonna team up with anybody, team up with Trump. You know, they both occupy the outsider position here in the campaign, they both staked out that position, and if you're gonna have any teaming up, team up that way, ice Kasich out, and then make it officially over.
But that's not what happened. So it's the way this thing is falling out. And I don't know that there's anything really that's going to change this. We'll see if this has the desired effect from the Cruz and Kasich standpoint.
Do you remember the delegate, the RNC delegate that we have quoted in the past on this program, a guy by the name of Curly Haugland is how it's spelled, H-a-u-g-l-a-n-d. And Curly is the guy that we quoted some weeks ago now as saying (paraphrasing), "You know, you people in the news media, you don't understand how this works. The voters don't choose the nominee; we delegates do that. The voters have nothing to do with it."
And it kind of snuck in under the radar out there. I mean, he didn't walk it back. It didn't cause a lot of controversy. It was just there. And some people paid attention to it, but not much. Well, little Curly is back. Now, this actually is dated April 22nd, so this goes back to Friday when I was out. It's on CNBC; "Donald Trump may be the only Republican presidential candidate who can realistically hit the magic 1,237 number for the majority of delegates, but according to a senior Republican National Committee official that does not mean he will become the GOP presidential nominee.
"Curly Haugland, a longstanding RNC official and an unbound delegate from North Dakota who will be on the convention rules committee in July, told CNBC that attaining 1,237 during the primaries does not secure the nomination."
Did this come up Friday, Mr. Snerdley? Oh, good. Okay. Here's Curly. "Even if Trump reaches the magic number of 1,237 the media and RNC are touting, that does not mean Trump is automatically the nominee," Haugland said. "The votes earned during the primary process are only estimates and are not legal convention votes. The only official votes to nominate a candidate are those that are cast from the convention floor."
Now, this makes perfect sense. Obviously nobody's counting delegates yet but when you count the pledged delegates and the delegates that must vote the way they must vote on the first ballot, that's of course where the 1,237 comes in play. What Curly's saying is, hey, we run this show, and we can massage this, and we can do whatever we want to do here with this delegate count, first ballot, second ballot.
"Haugland explained the primary number is really an estimate. That's because the eligibility of some delegates in how they are voted in could be questioned and their status may not be considered valid." Well, let's pull that back and see what he's talking about. Let's just take Florida, for example, because Trump won it all and we're dealing with a solid number, 99 delegates. Ninety-nine delegates are pledged to Trump on each of the first three ballots in Florida. What little Curly is saying here, "You know, we might decide to challenge 50 or 10 or two or 20 of those delegates. We might try to say that they're not legal. We might try to say that they don't meet the threshold. We might try to say that their votes don't count because of some vagary."
When he starts talking about the eligibility of some delegates, how they are voted in, he's saying maybe they were not selected legally, maybe they weren't appointed legally. I mean, this guy is essentially shouting from the rooftops to anybody that wants to listen: "You all think you're choosing what's happening here, but you're not; we are." What he's really talking about here is that the credentials committee can decide to take away the credentials from some states' delegates, and give them to another group.
And, by the way, that happened in 2012. The credentials committee took away the credentials from Maine's delegates because they suspected them of actually being Rand Paul supporters, even though Romney had won the Maine primary. Do you remember that? (interruption) Would I make it up? (interruption) "Yeah, you said." Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Now that I mentioned that you vaguely remember this.
In 2012, the credentials committee at the Republican National Convention took away the credentials from Maine's delegates because they suspected them of actually being Rand Paul supporters who had snuck in there, even though Romney had won the Maine primary. So their credentials were given to Maine delegates. Curly said, "Remember every state has a different delegate allocation process. Delegates are picked up in state contests that can be winner take all, open primaries, and remember there are seven states that allow the candidates to pick their own delegates. Until those delegate challenges are settled, there is no 1,237."
Now, he said that he expected the delegates won in winner-take-all states to be most likely challenged, too. So here's the point. The establishment is not just going to roll over no matter what Trump gets going into this. Don't misread what I'm saying. I'm not saying... It's risky for me getting into this 'cause Curly's kind of out there on his own, but you have to know that the establishment's going to do everything they can here. I mean, they are. We've heard that they're panicking, and they are. And they're gonna pull out all the stops.
And it's really getting bloody out there. Then we get Charles Koch and his own version of Operation Chaos. Charles Koch is upset that he can't find any Republican worth supporting.
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RUSH: I kind of thought there might have been some derailing of the Trump train last week. It turned out not to be the case. But I really thought that Trump's comments that he's cool with boys in the girls' bathroom and vice-versa -- and, by the way, by the way, Mr. Snerdley, I ask you: Do you think Trump walks this back? You remember the comments that he's okay with girls in the boys' bathroom, and vice-versa?
I said, "Do you think he walks it back?" and you said, "No way," and he did. I told you he'd walk 'em back, and he walked 'em back by saying, "You know what? It's a state issue. Let's leave it up to the states." Because he came out made it sound like it's no big deal and I had some people say, "Rush, you're forgetting your own advice. You're forgetting your own observations. This is Trump strategically appealing to left wingers as he attempts to expand his base. You know, girls in the boys' bathroom and vice-versa is a big deal to them; so he's not gonna come out and criticize it."
And I said, "Yeah, but this has a chance to backfire," and I thought it might. But it didn't. And then when he came out and said he wanted to raise taxes on the rich, I thought, "That's gonna cost him blowback," and it didn't. And then when he really made the point that he's gonna bring all these illegals back legally, the illegals are gonna come legally, I thought, "Three different chances there that Trump might have not destroyed the...
Don't misunderstand. It's maybe given people pause, but that didn't happen. The Trump train rolls on, and so they have the momentum kept on. The narrative is established. Here's what I think has happened here. Again, just to explain this accord between Cruz and Kasich. Trump has gotten a boost, or has benefited from three things recently: That New York win -- although everybody knew it was going to happen. The fact that he hit 60% and won that bigger than anybody thought, that creates momentum.
That's a big, big plus. And I think Trump has succeeded... I can tell by the people who have called this program. As you know, late last week I spent a lot of time thanking various callers for helping me to learn things. And Trump has succeeded inconvincing his voters that Cruz is disenfranchising them by interfering with the process out there and stealing delegates, even though it isn't happening. Trump's supporters think it's happening.
Trump has been able to convince his supporters that it's happening, and that creates a negative for Cruz. "Cruz: Anti-democratic process! Cruz: disenfranchising voters!" The third thing is this... Well, you add those two together and you get this inevitability or it's over, and that's what I think they're trying to fight now. The effort here to beat that back is what he says is going on. Here's Kasich today. We have time to get this? Yeah, Kasich. Here he is in Philadelphia today. A reporter says, "Your collaboration with Senator Cruz smacks of desperation, sir."
KASICH: No, I'm not desperate. Are you? Are you desperate? 'Cause I'm not. Okay, people are yelling at me. I'm not gonna answer the question. Have a little bit of civility when you do your job. My team met with the Cruz people and they made a recommendation. I don't have, you know, like Daddy Warbucks behind me giving me all this money. I have to be careful about my resources. I don't see this as any big deal, other than the fact that I'm not gonna spend resources in Indiana; he's not gonna spend 'em in other places. So what? What's the big deal?
RUSH: And we'll be back and explain it in a minute.
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RUSH: No, no. Don't misunderstand. I don't think it's over. I just... (interruption) No, no, no, no, no. If the Trump people thought it was over, they wouldn't be going through this business of trying to remake Trump, turn him into presidential whatever it is they say they're doing. If this were over, if they really thought it was over, the Trump campaign profile would be entirely different and it would be focused almost exclusively on Hillary, and there wouldn't be a lot of this ongoing effort, public effort to remake Trump's persona, his image, whatever "making him presidential" is.
But it's clear that they're trying to capitalize on this narrative. You know, narratives are powerful things. They lead to self-fulfilling prophecies in many ways, and that's what the Trump people are trying to capitalize on. It's what the Cruz and Kasich people are trying to stop. And it's not over. There's way too much yet to happen. Look, this is where it gets tough because in these next primaries coming up tomorrow, it's gonna be another Trump sweep. None of this is unexpected. None of this is gonna be shocking.
We're in Trump's backyard now in the Northeast. He's gonna do well in Pennsylvania; he's gonna do well in Delaware and Maryland and so forth. Indiana, we still don't know. But you go out west to California and Washington state, a lot of people think that Trump is gonna have those states locked up, and he's not. It has been calculated. There are 192 delegates in California. Trump's gonna need 119 of them, according to the best calculation. Trump's gonna need 119 in California, if everything goes according to projection prior to that.
Trump is gonna need 119 of California's delegates out of their 192. I don't know that he's going to be able to do that, based on polling that's out there now. And remember that Cruz and Kasich are all about a contested convention. They're not trying to get to 1,237 themselves. They're trying to stop Trump from getting there. And it's up to you, really, if you want to be affected by the narrative -- and it's tough to avoid these. I mean, you're gonna turn on cable news, and it's not gonna take long. It's very subtle.
If they start asking people questions about Trump as though he already is the nominee... You know, it's very, very subtle the way these things play out. Even the way reporters question Trump himself, or Cruz, or Kasich. All they'd have to do is start asking Cruz or Kasich questions as though they've already lost, and you can cement the so-called narratives or templates, and that's what's going to be the order of the day in those places in the media that are all-in for Trump. So you just have to steel yourself for that.
But it isn't over, and it's not gonna be over. This is gonna go through California -- it's probably going to go through California -- and I don't think that Cruz people are gonna quit any time before that. Kasich has now been given a new nickname by Trump. It's now "Lyin' Ted Cruz" and "1-for-38 Kasich." That's the team that Trump says he's up against: "Lyin' Ted" and "1-for-38 Kasich." Let's go back to this Kasich sound bite.
Again, this is in a diner -- a restaurant -- in Philadelphia today. And it's a Q&A, and the reporter is asking Kasich about his accord, his new collaboration with Cruz, and he says, "It kind of smacks of desperation, Governor Kasich. Isn't this desperate?" And Kasich profoundly offended by this. (replaying of sound bite) "Why don't you have a little bit of civility when you do your job? Don't keep yelling at me!" So then another reporter said, "Are you telling your voters not to vote for you in Indiana? Is that what you're doing?"
KASICH: I've never told 'em not to vote for me. They ought to vote for me. But I'm not over there campaigning and spending resources because we have limited resources. You folks have been counting me out before I even got to New Hampshire --
FEMALE REPORTER: But Bernie --
KASICH: -- and now we can't jam all of you into this diner. I'm not campaigning in Indiana, and he's not campaigning in these other states. That's all. That's all it is.
AIDE: Thank you, guys.
MALE REPORTER: Thank you, Governor.
KASICH: It's not a big deal. But it's fun, though; you're all still here. (talking with food in his mouth) Ha-ha-ha. By the way, I'm having the time of my life.
RUSH: What is he so testy about? They made an accord. The reporters are coming along, they're asking about the accord, and Kasich's acting like there hasn't been an accord, or he's acting like it's not that big a deal. It is a big deal. They want it to come across as a big deal, and Kasich says (paraphrased), "I don't know what you're asking me. I mean, I'm not gonna spend money in Indiana, and he is. And I'm gonna spend money where he isn't and (muttering)." The guy's just incredibly testy. Now, here's Cruz. This is in Borden, Indiana. Cruz is speaking with reporters about his strategizing with Kasich. The reporter said, "Did you make Governor Kasich a deal to work with you on this?"
CRUZ: We had conversations, and both campaigns agreed to focus our energies. We're focusing our energy on the state of Indiana, and Governor Kasich is focusing his energies elsewhere. I think that is a decision -- an allocation of resources -- that makes a lot of sense. And it's devoted to the principle of beating Hillary Clinton in November and turning this country around. It is abundantly clear that nobody is getting to 1,237. We are headed to a contested convention, and at a contested convention Donald Trump is in real trouble. Why? Because he cannot earn the support of a majority of the delegates elected by the people.
RUSH: Yeah, when Cruz says that, see, here come the Trumpsters. "Yeah, yeah, 'cause you're out there cheating! You're out there disenfranchising people! You're out there stealing delegates that are Donald's, and so on. That stuck. You heard the calls we had last week from Trumpists who tried to explain to me why it is that they think delegates are being stolen, and it doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong; the perception is -- and this is all part of this narrative that's being created.
The perception is that, and it infers a claim that Trump makes that he's a victim, that everybody's ganging up against him and he's being cheated, and he's triumphing over it. Which, you know, adds even more mystique as far as his voters are concerned. Another reporter in Borden, Indiana, said to Senator Cruz, "Respectfully, sir, what do you say to those people, though, who say that it's collusion, what you and Kasich are doing? Trump is saying that you're colluding, and we expect to hear that from him again and again on the campaign trail."
CRUZ: I understand that Donald will whine. That's what he does. Donald is a sore loser. When he lost five states in a row in landslide elections, Donald threw a tantrum, and his response is to attack the voters. His response is to attack the people. Yes, I get that the Trump campaign is scared. They're scared of Indiana. If Donald wasn't scared, he'd show up in Indiana and have a debate. But he would much rather hide in Trump Tower. He'd much rather stay in Northeastern states that tend to be more liberal than actually come to the Midwest.
RUSH: Again, I'm forced to ask: "Does Trump look scared to anybody? Does Trump look like he's afraid to go anywhere?" I don't know how that sells. I understand the technique and the desire to call Trump out and so forth. I understand what's going on there. I just... Of all the things Trump looks to be, scared, frightened, intimidated is not one of them. But, you know, this thing that they're doing, that Cruz and Kasich are doing is actually the Romney plan. On March 3rd, 2016 in Salt Lake City at the Hinckley Institute, Romney spoke about the presidential election and Trump. See if you remember this...
ROMNEY: I believe we can nominate a person who could win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection process, that means that I'd vote for Marco Rubio in Florida and for John Kasich in Ohio and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state.
RUSH: So you could say that Romney's already outlined this strategy that has now been taken up by Cruz and Kasich.
Isn't it interesting, by the way, when we discuss news, we don't discuss news anymore, we discuss narratives. And you know what a narrative is. A narrative is simply a story that somebody wants to tell and a story that somebody wants to tell that can dominate as though it is the news. That's why I say there isn't any news anymore; there's simply the advancement of agendas. 
Do you remember the delegate, the RNC delegate that we have quoted in the past on this program, a guy by the name of Curly Haugland is how it's spelled, H-a-u-g-l-a-n-d. And Curly is the guy that we quoted some weeks ago now as saying (paraphrasing), "You know, you people in the news media, you don't understand how this works. The voters don't choose the nominee; we delegates do that. The voters have nothing to do with it." 
When he starts talking about the eligibility of some delegates, how they are voted in, he's saying maybe they were not selected legally, maybe they weren't appointed legally. I mean, this guy is essentially shouting from the rooftops to anybody that wants to listen: "You all think you're choosing what's happening here, but you're not; we are." What he's really talking about here is that the credentials committee can decide to take away the credentials from some states' delegates, and give them to another group. 
I said, "Do you think he walks it back?" and you said, "No way," and he did. I told you he'd walk 'em back, and he walked 'em back by saying, "You know what? It's a state issue. Let's leave it up to the states." Because he came out made it sound like it's no big deal and I had some people say, "Rush, you're forgetting your own advice. You're forgetting your own observations. This is Trump strategically appealing to left wingers as he attempts to expand his base. You know, girls in the boys' bathroom and vice-versa is a big deal to them; so he's not gonna come out and criticize it."
But it's clear that they're trying to capitalize on this narrative. You know, narratives are powerful things. They lead to self-fulfilling prophecies in many ways, and that's what the Trump people are trying to capitalize on. It's what the Cruz and Kasich people are trying to stop. And it's not over. There's way too much yet to happen. Look, this is where it gets tough because in these next primaries coming up tomorrow, it's gonna be another Trump sweep. None of this is unexpected. None of this is gonna be shocking. 
KASICH: I've never told 'em not to vote for me. They ought to vote for me. But I'm not over there campaigning and spending resources because we have limited resources. You folks have been counting me out before I even got to New Hampshire --