Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin posted the following to her Facebook page tonight after the GOP Iowa caucus results were announced showing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) winning, followed by Donald Trump coming in second, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in third:
Tonight = America wins, the permanent political class does not, and that is good! To restore Constitutional government the status quo has got to go; the Iowa caucus proves many Americans feel the same. The top three candidates, fueled by our independent, grassroots tea party movement, take 70% of the vote in this unique Iowa caucus. Now this healthy, hearty competition moves to NH, SC and beyond. Those of us proud to be on Team Trump thank Iowa supporters and look forward to forging ahead to make America great again with the candidate proving a record of success and strength that is so needed. The tangible Commonsense Conservative solutions requiring a doer, not a talker, will restore American exceptionalism. Onward and upward, America!
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck – who recently erred in alleging that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump voted for President Obama in 2008 – previously said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.
“I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama,” Beck said to Katie Couric during an interview with CBS in 2009. “How’s that?”
CBS noted Beck also said,”He may have voted for Hillary Clinton over McCain had Clinton been the Democratic nominee in 2008.”
In a YouTube video posted on September 21, 2009, Beck tells Couric that McCain is “weird, [and] progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.”
“Failing @GlennBeck lost all credibility. Not only was he fired @ FOX, he would have voted for Clinton over McCain,” Trump tweeted.
Beck called Trump a progressive and compared him to Obama during an interview on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly last week.
“He voted for Obama in ’08, come on Bill,” Beck argued as O’Reilly defended Trump from Beck’s criticism.
Beck later apologized and “pointed to a fake tweet as the reason he initially believed Trump voted for Obama.”
Beck also took part in the recent “National Review Against Trump” magazine edition that resulted in the National Review beingbucked from hosting an upcoming GOP primary debate.
Beck is expected to campaign alongside GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after recently saying on Fox News, “Cruz is my guy.”
MUSCATINE, Iowa — 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump received support from yet another major GOP player, state GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann, in the all-important first caucus state of Iowa.
Kaufmann, who wasn’t officially endorsing Trump for president but is appearing with him on stage and introducing him, said that if Iowans select Trump on Feb. 1, the party is fully committed to electing him president of the United States. Kaufmann has appeared with other GOP candidates at their events, including according to Iowa GOP spokesman Charlie Szold in a comment to the Des Moines Register: Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rick Santorum. Szold told Breitbart News this is a “courtesy we extend to all candidates.”
“This morning I woke up and the headlines were ‘There is a civil war in the Republican Party,’” Kaufmann said on the Trump stage. “Folks, we’re not having a civil war. We’re having a vigorous debate because the last eight years has made us mad.”
Kaufmann, who met with Trump before the rally in Iowa at Muscatine High School, said Trump is a “humble, a patriotic and a capable guy.”
“Most of our conversation was about how to get voices again for people that don’t believe they have a voice—I can’t think of anything more Republican than that,” Kaufmann said.
“As the Republican Party chairman, if you’re a Democrat and you’re going to join us on caucus night, I’ve got one word for you: Welcome,” Kaufmann added, an allusion to the fact Trump is likely to win many crossover voters.
“Donald Trump has brought some energy into this party, he has brought some energy into this country and I’ve lived in this particular county for seven generations,” Kaufmann said.
I’m here to tell you right now, on caucus night you’re going to hand somebody to me. And at the end of this process, the nominee is going to be handed to me. Let me be perfectly clear, I don’t want any ambiguity whatsoever. If you vote for him, Donald Trump, as the Republican nominee, the Republican Party of Iowa and this Republican chair will be behind him one thousand percent!
Kaufmann appearing on stage with Trump at this time comes after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the longtime Iowa U.S. Senator, joined Trump on stage last week and said that he supports making America great again.
Grassley’s appearance was not an official endorsement, but an unofficial statement of support for Trump’s campaign.
Earlier this month, Fox News released a pollshowing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leading Donald Trump by four points. The two had a sizable lead over everyone else in the state, and the poll was confirming what others were showing: Cruz had an advantage.
On Sunday, Fox released another Iowa poll, with substantially different results. Now, Trump is up by 11 points, a 15-point swing in the two weeks between surveys. This poll, too, mirrors the recent trend: Trump has regained the advantage.
It’s still a surprising development. Trump’s gained a lot, across the board, while most of his competitors have slipped. Cruz is still over-performing with conservatives and tea partiers (meaning that his support among those groups is 11 and seven points higher than his overall support), but Trump gained 11 and 17 points with those groups over the past two weeks. Cruz’s support among the groups fell.
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Two weeks ago, the percentage of respondents saying they would “definitely” go out and caucus on Feb. 1 was 59 percent. In this new poll, that dropped to 54 percent, meaning a 10-point swing toward those who would say they will “probably” go to the caucus. Two weeks ago, Trump trailed Cruz by six points among those who would probably vote. Now he leads with that group by 15 — more than his overall lead against Cruz.
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Again, Trump’s gains are across the board, but he’s doing much better with a group of voters that seems less likely to vote. He could certainly win Iowa by an 11-point margin, but that depends on his people turning out — and on his having an operation to encourage them to do so (which the New York Timesreports he doesn’t). In other words, if the election were held tomorrow, the actual results would probably be somewhere in between these two polls, with Trump not doing as well against Cruz as it may appear.
-Sara Palin (1A)- “Based on @MegynKelly’s conflict of
interest and bias she should not be allowed to be a moderator of the next
debate,” Trump posted to Twitter on
Saturday
a.Megan Kelly on Sara
b.Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,”
National Review editor Rich Lowry. Conservatives Against Trump – Glenn Beck
(endorses Cruz) , Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson, Andy Mccarthy, Michael Mukasey,
Tomas Sowell, Brent Bozell, Dana Loesch, Katie Pavlich, David Macintosh. National
Review loses GOP debate sponsorship over anti-Trump issue. (1C)
c.Trump and Beck – Beck (CNN money article) “Trump wins it will be a Snowball
to Hell” "We need a new George
Washington," Beck said at the rally. "Today's Washington will not be
found in the garish light of gold, but rather, in the bold service of a man who
stands tirelessly for what he deeply believes -- that government should be of
the people, by the people, and for the people." "I have prayed for
the next George Washington," Beck said of Cruz. "I believe I have
found him." - Trump (1H 22 Failed Beck) renewed his feud with Beck on
Thursday, days ahead of the conservative commentator's scheduled campaign
appearances with Ted Cruz.Cruz's
courtship of Beck was perceived by many observers as a response to Palin's
endorsement of Trump earlier this week. "Wacko @glennbeck is a sad answer
to the @SarahPalinUSA endorsement that Cruz so desperately wanted," Trump
tweeted on Thursday. "Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul!" - “I
could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t
lose any voters, OK?” Trump told an enthusiastic audience at a Christian
school, Dordt College. “It’s like incredible.”
d.Kelly and Rich Lowry (1D)
e.Hollywood - Michael Moore, Kerry Washington,
Rosie O’Donnell, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Dylan McDermott, Roseann Barr,
and Lily Tomlin are among the film and television stars who have pledged to
“speak out in every way possible” to prevent Trump from becoming the next
President of the United States as part of the new “Stop Hate Dump Trump”
campaign.In a statement on its website,
the group says it believes Trump is “a grave threat to democracy, freedom,
human rights, equality, and the welfare of our country and all our people.”
f.by BREITBART NEWsA former McCain senior adviser blasted former
Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as
“just classless,” telling Politico’s Ben Schreckinger that McCain’s vice
presidential running mate is “one of America’s most astounding morons.” Schreckinger
reports: “It’s just classless,” said a
former senior adviser to McCain of the endorsement, predicting it would
backfire. “It’s undermining to a key Trump message which is one of competency.
What Trump has said is that he’s going to hire the very best people and bring
in men of Carl Icahn’s ilk … and he’s appearing with someone who’s viewed as
one of America’s most astounding morons.
g.Ted Cruz: Establishment Has Abandoned Marco
Rubio for Donald Trump
h.Clinton Super PAC responds to Pailn with a
Mocking Smiley Face on Twitter.
i.Rich Wilson GOP consultant on MSNBC Trump
supporters masterbate to anami. (1E)
j.Sara supported Cruz for his senate run. Mark
Levin on the birth Canada issue (1B)
-Weekly Standard 9 Tales of Trump at His
Trumpiest see Word FIle
-Willy Duck Dynasty (1F)
-Dr. and President Jerry Falwell Jr. Liberty
University on Hannity – Stories the Media wont tell you about Trump. (1F)
a.Trump at Liberty University (1G)
-Drudge Poll posted on Sick Bias.com
a.As a personally responsible American who is
currently working and supporting a family my greatest fear is that our freedom
and our sovereignty will be stolen from us by the socialist communist left.
There is no freedom in social programs only tyranny and control. S 2016 begins
the United States starts to to lose their sovereignty self-governance. Because
the politicians that were elected to protect us or doing the opposite the allowing
the invasion of the illegals from the south the north in the east as well as
overloading social programs, which is a socialist communist idea from the 70's
from Cloward and Piven. This poll taken by Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report is
probably the scariest poll I've ever seen you have the Communist Bernie Sanders
neck and neck with the capitalist Donald Trump who wins the communist or the
capitalist?
-The Week.com – Donald Trump is poised for the
strongest primary performance in modern history
a.No non-incumbent has won both the GOP's Iowa
caucus and the New Hampshire primary since the dawn of the modern primary
system. Trump has a real shot to be the first. And no recent candidate has
overcome the kind of deficit most of the other candidates face in both national
and state-by-state numbers at this late date, against a candidate with as
strong and stable numbers as Trump has, and gone on to win.
b.If Trump wins both Iowa and New Hampshire, and
then goes on to win South Carolina and Nevada — as he is favored to do — he
could very conceivably win every contest, or at worst lose a favored son state
or two like Cruz's Texas. Nobody has run the table like that — not Nixon in
1968, nor Reagan in 1980, nor Bush in 2000.
c.And if he loses Iowa to Cruz, and wins New
Hampshire decisively, there's little historical reason to believe that Cruz has
a better chance at the nomination than Trump does, much less that anybody else
has a better shot than either.
d.A Trump nomination would be unprecedented. But
an upset victory by any of his opponents would, in many ways, be even more so.
2.Obama
-Fox Brian Kilmean talks with Former CIA
operative, Joshua Katz – Obama threatens anyone that gives him bad intel on
ISIS (2A)
-Oct – Nov 10,000 Minors were caught attempting
to cross into Texas 2x as many as 2014 same time line.Forcing the opening of three new shelters and
threatening a worsening humanitarian crisis.’09-’11 upto 1k from El Salvador Guatemala Honduras now ’12-’15 surge up
to 15k and more.
-by JULIA HAHN 20 Jan , Breitbart On Wednesday,
Senate Democrats successfully and predictably blocked what many conservatives
described as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s “Show Vote'”on refugee admissions. It has
been called a show vote because the Ryan plan, even if the President signed
it,would still allow the President to bring in an unlimited number of refugees
from an unlimited number of countries. Democrats’ filibuster on the motion to
proceed to Ryan’s show vote comes one month after Speaker Ryan sent President
Obama a blank check to fund visa issuancesto nearly 300,000 (temporary and
permanent) Muslim migrants in the next 12 months alone. Ryan’s decision to
fully-fund Obama’s immigration agenda arguably ceded any leverage he may
otherwise have had over Democrats and ensured the large-scale migration into
America would continue and grow.
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3.Hillary Imploding
-Wash. Post Who Had the worse week?
a.For Hillary Clinton, it’s starting to look like
deja vu all over again. Start a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination
as giant front-runner. Check. Raise tens of millions of dollars and look
unbeatable for large swaths of the year before the primaries start. Check. An
insurgent challenger running to her ideological left? Check. Collapsing poll
numbers on the eve of actual votes? Check. Over the past week or so, Clinton
has watched as her national polling lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a
self-avowed socialist, has shrunk. And, far more important, Clinton’s standing
vis a vis Sanders in the key early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire has
eroded as well (27+). In Iowa, after holding a high-single-digit lead (at
worst) for months, Clinton now finds herself in a dead heat with the caucuses
just over a week away. The Real Clear Politics polling average gives Clinton an
edge of less than five points. Real Clear Politics polling average, Sanders is
up by almost
13 points. Bernie Sanders Hope and Change ad (3A)
-Breitbart Trump Hillary Should Be Indicted
a.Billionaire candidate Donald Trump says Hillary
Clinton should be indicted for her mishandling of classified documents – after
a Fox News report showed that she was sharing documents on her insecure server
that was classified higher than top secret. “What she did is so ridiculous,
it’s so, frankly stupid … she was conniving, you know it’s just the way she
is,” he said during an interview with radio host Howie Carr.
b.Trump suggested that Clinton was being protected
by the Obama administration, as she was running to succeed him in 2016. “Right
now President Obama and the whole group, they’re probably protecting her, and
we’re going to find out how our law works,” he said, calling it a “criminal
act.”
c.EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's emails on her
unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government's
most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified
letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.
d.Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified
letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles
McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by
intelligence agencies that identified "several dozen" additional
classified emails -- including specific intelligence known as "special
access programs" (SAP).That indicates a level of classification
beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her
server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling
of the government’s closely held secrets.
-Observer.com – Poll Women Wont Help Hillary
a.First, a USA Today/Rock the Vote pollfound
millennial women preferring Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to Ms. Clinton. Women
between the ages of 18 and 34 preferred Mr. Sanders by a 19-point margin, with
50 percent choosing the senator and 31 percent choosing the former secretary of
state.
b.On Tuesday, a Monmouth Universitynational poll
found Ms. Clinton’s lead among women had taken a nose dive since December. Ms.
Clinton currently leads Mr. Sanders by 19 points among all women, a smaller
lead than what the same poll found at the end of 2015, when Ms. Clinton had a
45-point lead. That’s a huge drop in just one month.
-Moody’s Predicts that Democrats win the White
House in 11 months
a.The Democratic presidential nominee will win the
race for the presidency but the election is shaping up as historically tight,
according to a political model. Less than 11 months from Election Day, Moody’s
Analytics is predicting that whomever lands the Democratic nomination will
capture the White House with 326 electoral votes to the Republican nominee’s
212.
b.Those results are heavily dependent on how swing
states vote. The latest model from Moody’s reflects razor-thin margins in the
five most important swing states — Florida, Ohio, Colorado, New Hampshire and
Virginia.
c.In each of those states, the Democratic
advantage is less than 1 percentage point, well within the margin of error.
-Bloomberg.com – Campaigner-in-0Chief Bill
Clinton Gives a worrisome speech in Iowa
a.Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for
his wife in New Hampshire Wednesday, bluntly admitted how much more difficult
than expected Hillary Clinton's race for the Democratic presidential nomination
has become.
b.“This has turned into an interesting election,”
the candidate's husband told a rally in Salem. “We’re fighting it out in Iowa.
We’ve got a little lead that I think is solidifying and maybe growing a little
bit. We’re on a home-field disadvantage here."
4.GAS OPEC – IRAN to Destroy Oil Market
-We’ve defeated the shale revolution, claims Opec
| The Times.co.uk
a.Low oil prices finally damage US production
b.Opec was on the verge of claiming victory over
its North American rivals last night after its strategy of squeezing out the
shale industry by flooding the markets with oil appeared to be vindicated.The oil producers’ cartel said that falling
prices would force lower production from its rivals by the end of this year,
with American and Canadian producers particularly affected. Opec, led by Saudi
Arabia, has maintained production levels even as crude prices have collapsed 70
per cent from their level in 2014. In its first monthly report of the year,
Opec said that its policy was starting
-IRAN
a.Last Sunday, the U.S. Treasury Department
announced it would impose sanctions against a number of individuals and
organizations over Iran’s ballistic missile program.
b.“Iran’s ballistic missile program poses a
significant threat to regional and global security, and it will continue to be
subject to international sanctions,” read a statementfrom Adam Szubin, acting
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “We have consistently
made clear that the United States will vigorously press sanctions against
Iranian activities outside of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action –
including those related to Iran’s support for terrorism, regional
destabilization, human rights abuses, and ballistic missile program.”The new sanctions come as Iran is expected to
receive tens of billions of dollars in frozen assets in accordance with the
Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA), agreed upon by the regime in Tehran and the P5+1 world powers. On
Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the U.S. had granted Iran $1.7
billion dollars, repaying the Ayatollah’s theocracy a $400 million dollar debt
plus $1.3 billion in interest. Kerry called the payment a “fair settlement.”
President Obama agreed, claiming “the settlement could save us billions of
dollars that could have been pursued by Iran.”
c.by JORDAN SCHACHTEL18 Jan 2016Washington,
DC1,431 Iran will ignore recently-passed U.S. sanctions against its ballistic
missile program, the regime’s defense minister pledged on Monday, promising to
unveil new homemade weapons systems in the near future. “[Any] attempt to
impose new sanctions [against Iran] under irrelevant pretexts is indicative of
the continued US hostile policy and acrimony toward the Iranian nation, and a
futile effort to undermine Iran’s defense might,” said Iranian Defense Minister
Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan on Monday.
The pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA officially responded to Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump by releasing a graphic of a smiley face pointing and laughing.
Unable, apparently, to string together a couple sentences, the PAC instead released a mocking image.
Liberals and Democrats in the post-Jon Stewart Age frequently fail to argue substantive points, but rather use the strategy of empty ad hominem attacks to insult conservatives without actually saying anything meaningful.
This tactic allows younger, groupthink-minded progressives to feel like they’re part of a fashionable crowd, in opposition to conservatives, while also appealing to the most base and vicious elements of human nature.
A former McCain senior adviser blasted former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as “just classless,” tellingPolitico’s Ben Schreckinger that McCain’s vice presidential running mate is “one of America’s most astounding morons.”
“It’s just classless,” said a former senior adviser to McCain of the endorsement, predicting it would backfire. “It’s undermining to a key Trump message which is one of competency. What Trump has said is that he’s going to hire the very best people and bring in men of Carl Icahn’s ilk … and he’s appearing with someone who’s viewed as one of America’s most astounding morons.”
Palin’s endorsement of Trump follows a public dispute between the New York real estate tycoon and the Arizona senator whoaccused Trump of “firing up the crazies” after Trump held a campaign rally in Phoenix with supporters who comprise McCain’s own constituents. Trump fired back by dismissing McCain’s status as a war hero and calling out McCain’s disparagement of thousands of Arizonans as “crazies.”
Palin electrified the GOP base after being tapped as McCain’s running mate in 2008. As shown in the documentary “The Undefeated” by Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, Palin’s addition to the McCain ticket gave the lackluster McCain campaign their only lead in the polls against Barack Obama until the financial crisis conclusively brought any hope of a GOP victory to an end. McCain’s decision to “suspend” his campaignfollowing the financial meltdown sent his poll numbers into a nosedive that they never recovered from.
After the 2008 election, the GOP establishment consultants that comprised McCain’s senior campaign staff quickly turned on Palin, shifting the blame for the campaign’s failure on Palin rather than on the consultants who devised McCain’s strategy to deal with the financial crisis.
In spite of the behavior of McCain’s staffers, Palin has maintained her loyalty to her former running mate, who has sought her help in shoring up his conservative base in Arizona. Palin’s endorsement of McCain’s 2010 Senate re-election allowed him to stave off a conservative primary challenger.
McCain, who is up for re-election again this year, is facing another conservative primary challenger in former Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward, who in a poll last November was beating McCain among Republican voters by a 9-point margin.
McCain’s actions calling conservatives “whacko birds” and “crazies” was called out among the PAC’s grievances against the over three-decade D.C. insider.
In January 2014 McCain’s own party in Arizona censured the Senator for excessive liberal voting including support for the “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan. At the time of the Arizona State Committeemen meeting censure of the Senator, six of the state’s fifteen county parties had censured McCain.
Palin has not yet endorsed anyone in the Arizona senate race this year.
Appearing on the Fox Business Network Wednesday, Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said that it was hard for her to watch former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorse Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. “It is hard for me to watch her endorse Donald Trump after what Donald Trump said about my father’s service,” she said.
McCain was referring to Trump’s feud with her father which resulted in Trump hitting back, “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”
Meghan McCain also accused Palin for “pandering” in her support of Trump.
“I was shocked simply because I know of her relationship with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). She’s debatably responsible for his political career,” McCain said.
She also chided Palin for “pandering” and distancing herself from conservative values.
“I wish I just saw this a little less like pandering. And doing something that’s popular instead of sticking with your integrity and the kind of conservative beliefs that she has espoused for so long.”
This is a bizarre criticism from the same Meghan McCain who has spent the last 7 years doing everything but praise Palin for her “integrity.” In fact, were it not for herserial-betrayals of Palin to the delight of the mainstream media, Meghan McCain would probably not have a media career. During an appearance on MSNBC, McCain also smeared the late Andrew Breitbart as a reason she does not feel welcome in the Republican Party.
