Trump, Clinton Predicted to Stomp Super Tuesday

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***Horse Race LiveWire*** 

by BREITBART NEWS1 Mar 20166623

Welcome to Breitbart News’s daily live updates of the 2016 horse race. Here’s a previewof what to expect on Super Tuesday. 

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7:18: Did Clinton violate election rules in MA?

7:15: Georgia Dems: Clinton wins black vote big; Sanders on top with whites:

7:13: Virginia exit polls:

7:08: Gingrich on Cruz:

7:04: Trump at 40% in Georgia:

7:01: Exits in Virginia – CNN 34 Trump, 31% Rubio 31%, Cruz 16%

7:00: Trump wins Georgia. Vermont and Virginia too close to call.

Hillary wins Georgia and Virginia. Bernie wins Vermont.

6:46: Rubio is both lowering and raising expectations

Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday

Rubio Team Raising Expectations for Super Tuesday

6:42: Late deciders by state

6:40: Your handy guide to tonight’s poll closing times

Polling Close Times:
Vermont 7:00pm (Eastern)
Virginia 7:00pm (Eastern)
Georgia 7:00pm (Eastern)
Alabama: 8:00pm (Eastern)
Massachusetts: 8:00pm (Eastern)
Oklahoma: 8:00pm (Eastern)
Tennessee: 8:00pm (Eastern)
Arkansas: 8:30pm (Eastern)
Texas: 9:00pm (Eastern)
Minnesota: 9:00pm (Eastern)
Alaska: 12:00 midnight (Eastern)

6:35: 72% of TN voters back Trump’s temporary Muslim ban.

6:27: 6 in 10 Super Tuesday GOP voters approve of Trump’s temporary Muslim ban.

6:26: Rubio wins late deciders in Virginia

6:08: More than half of GOP voters in SEC Primary states feel “betrayed” by GOP, per exit polling:

6:03: Ideology of Super Tuesday voters:

6:01: Georgia Republicans wan’t someone who can “bring change.”

6:00: Levin asks:

5:55: DEMOCRATS: Obama’s policies most popular in Alabama, “where 68 percent of Democratic voters say they want to continue them. Sixty percent of voters in Georgia and Virginia say the same,” according to CBS.

5:50: 66% of GOP PRIMARY VOTERS made up their minds at least a month in advance while 22% did so in the last few days according to MSNBC’s exit polling.

5:46:  Majority of GOP primary voters angry at federal government:

5:45: Evangelical voters dominating in SEC Primary states:

5:41: Government spending most important issue to GA GOP Voters:

5:37: Trump: Rubio should drop out if he doesn’t do well on Super Tuesday.

5:36: Exit polling from Texas: 

n Texas, fewer than half of GOP voters – about four in 10 – are looking for a political outsider, fewer than anywhere else. Nearly four in 10 in preliminary exit poll data also say it matters a great deal to them to support a candidate who shares their religious beliefs, and six in 10 are evangelicals. Two-thirds say they’d be satisfied with Ted Cruz as the nominee, a high for him among all states in which we have exit polls – compared with nearly six in 10 for Rubio and less than half for Trump. That said, two-thirds of GOP primary voters in Texas want to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, as Trump has suggested.

5:35: ABC News Exit polling: At least 60% of GOP primary voters support temporary Muslim ban:

Muslims: One of Trump’s more controversial proposals continues to receive majority support in the GOP electorate. At least six in 10 GOP primary voters today support banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the country, peaking at more than three-quarters in Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. That compares with 65 and 74 percent in New Hampshire and South Carolina, respectively.

Immigration: On another controversial issue, immigration, anywhere about four in 10 voters in Virginia, Texas and Georgia, peaking at more than half in Alabama, favor deporting undocumented immigrants, as opposed to offering them a route to legal status.

5:25: Virginia Democrats: 60% (including 74% of black voters) want to continue Obama’s policies per NBC’s exit polling.

5:20: Exit polls: 50% of Republicans want someone from outside of the system while 40% want someone with “political experience.”

For Democrats, 80% want someone with “political experience” while 16% want an outsider.

5:19: CNN’s John King points out that Trump has the broadest range of supporters.

5:15: Exit polls: 50% of GOP primary voters in Texas “angry” and 41% dissatisfied.

GA: 47% angry, 45% dissatisfied

VA: 36% angry, more just dissatisfied

Vermont: 37% angry

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First Four States:

Iowa: 42% angry

New Hampshire: 39% angry

South Carolina: 40% angry

Nevada: 59% angry

5:13: Kasich says there is “zero chance” he will be someone’s vice presidential pick.

5:11: Virginia primary ballot:

5:07: NBC’s Chuck Todd calls Rubio the establishment’s “only hope” against Trump.

4:55: The weak opposition from the GOP establishment and the establishment’s insistence that “viable” 2016 candidates embrace comprehensive amnesty legislation also fueled Trump’s rise:

4:50: Team Rubio doesn’t think so, even though a pollster on Fox News throughout the morning said Rubio’s numbers went down when he started to uncharacteristically go against his brand and unleashed juvenile attacks against Trump:

Washington Post:

The Rubio campaign made a tactical mistake by going into the gutter with Trump over the weekend.

Again, this isn’t rocket science to those who aren’t career political consultants/pundits who love to be stroked on Twitter about how great their anti-Trump “burns” are. So Keep mocking Trump for his spelling errors.

4:45: Sounds as confident as he is of winning his home state of Florida:

4:40: Trump told Kentucky crowd that Syrian refugees will not be coming to America. He says look at what has happened to Germany, Sweden, Brussels. It’s not going to happen to our country. Not. He says we’ll have safe zones over there but it’s not going to happen to our country. Trump says he will also bring the coal industry back and it is “ridiculous” we’re sending our coal to China and they are using it instead of America even though they are not even “cleaning” it. “The coal industry is going to make a very big comeback.” He says Clinton does not have the “strength or the stamina” to be president.

4:35: Trump says he loves his “Make America Great Again” theme. He mocks Hillary for saying wanting to “make America whole.” Trump asks, “what does that mean?”

4:31: Sanders supporters disrupt Trump event.

4:30: Trump holds up “Hispanics 4 Trump” sign during rally:

4:15: Trump says it takes guts to run for president because it’s not easy. He says after he talked about illegal immigration at his announcement speech, “it wouldn’t be a subject under consideration.” Trump blasts Vicente Fox. And he says Fox is upset because he is not used to being told what to do. He says he will make great deals as president. Trump says he knows it doesn’t sound presidential but he will call the head of Carrier and say he will tax their products 35% if they move to Mexico.

4:05: Christie urges voters in Kentucky to vote for “Donald Trump” on Saturday. He says America needs a leader who will bring back jobs and stand up to ISIS. Christie says Trump’s opponents are “desperate” but “Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz are the Washington, D.C. twins” and we don’t need more politicians.

3:50: Ben Carson Calls for a Private Meeting with GOP Field to Address ‘Lack of Civility’

3:29: Huge Kentucky crowd getting ready 

Amid Trump surge, nearly 20,000 Mass. voters quit Democratic party

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Nearly 20,000 Bay State Democrats have fled the party this winter, with thousands doing so to join the Republican ranks, according to the state’s top elections official.

Secretary of State William Galvin said more than 16,300 Democrats have shed their party affiliation and become independent voters since Jan. 1, while nearly 3,500 more shifted to the MassGOP ahead of tomorrow’s “Super Tuesday” presidential primary.

Galvin called both “significant” changes that dwarf similar shifts ahead of other primary votes, including in 2000, when some Democrats flocked from the party in order to cast a vote for Sen. John McCain in the GOP primary.

The primary reason? Galvin said his “guess” is simple: “The Trump phenomenon,” a reference to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who polls show enjoying a massive lead over rivals Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and others among Massachusetts Republican voters.

“The tenor of the Republican campaign has been completely different from what we’ve seen in prior Republican presidential campaigns,” Galvin said. “You have to look no farther than the viewership for some of the televised debates.

“The New York Times referred to the campaign as crude; I suppose that’s fair,” added Galvin, a Democrat. “The fact of the matter is the tenor has been very different this time. And that has an effect. People are interested. It’s exciting.”

Galvin said the state could see as many as 700,000 voting in tomorrow’s Republican primary, a significant number given just 468,000 people are actually registered Republicans. In Massachusetts. unenrolled — otherwise known as independent — voters can cast a ballot in the primary of any party.

If the Democratic vote is close to that of 2008 — when 1.2 million hit the polls — the state could surpass the 1.8 million that voted that year overall, setting what Galvin said he believes would be a record for a presidential primary in Massachusetts.

“The question in my mind is the Democratic turnout,” Galvin said. “The nature of the race is a little different than it was in ’08. ... It’s a fact that Sen. (Bernie) Sanders has a very aggressive campaign here in Massachusetts. He spent both time and money. He has a good ground (game) from what I can see, as does Sen. (Hillary) Clinton. So that’s going to help us. But the chemistry was somewhat different than it was in ‘08.”

Galvin noted the historical context in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama was vying to become the nation’s first black president, and running against Clinton — seeking, as she is again this year, to become the first woman to serve as president.

Turnouts have hit record levels in other primary states this year.

Galvin pointed to the shift in voters from the Democratic party as an “indicator” of turnout in the Bay State.

But while significant, it doesn’t necessary signal a change in the political power structure in Massachusetts, where Democrats have long dominated with heavy majorities in the legislature and across constitutional offices.

The 19,800 who left the Mass Dems represent about 1.3 percent of the 1.49 million enrolled in the party. And though the MassGOP gained several thousand voters, it actually lost more in the same time frame, when 5,911 quit the party to be unenrolled.

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Ted Cruz Eligibility Lawsuits Filed in Texas, New York, Illinois, Alabama and Now Pennsylvania

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Jim Hoft Feb 25th, 2016 8:49 am 140 Comments

Ted Cruz eligibility lawsuits have been filed in Texas, New York, Illinois, Alabama and now Pennsylvania.

Ted Cruz is a natural born Canadian citizen. He was born in Canada and did not renounce his Canadian citizenship until after he was a member of the US Senate in 2014.

The Cruz campaign wants to delay a Texas eligibility lawsuit against the Canadian born senator.

Last week a Republican lawyer filed a lawsuit against Cruz’s eligibility in Pennsylvania.
CBS Local reported:

We’ve all heard the claim from Donald Trump that Sen. Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, is not a “natural born citizen.”

If Trump’s right, Sen. Cruz isn’t eligible to be president. Now, KDKA has learned that the first test of that could happen here in Pennsylvania.

Last week, Sen. Cruz filed nominating petitions to run for president in Pennsylvania’s April 26 Republican primary. Now a Republican attorney from suburban Philadelphia has challenged Sen. Cruz’s right to run because he is not a natural born citizen.

“It is my contention supported by a number of constitutional scholars that it means one must be born in the United States, that the framers of the Constitution were very concerned about the influence of foreign powers over the nascent republic,” said attorney David Farrell.

In a petition filed with the state’s Commonwealth Court, Farrell, of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, says Sen. Cruz’s Canadian birth certificate proves he was born in Canada, and the fact that his mother is an American citizen does not make him natural born.

“We’re going to get right to that constitutional provision to see if he is or is not eligible to be president,” Farrell said.

The Commonwealth Court hearing on whether to disqualify Sen. Cruz’s nominating petitions is now set for March 10.

Cruz and Rubio Eligibility Lawsuit Set for 11 AM, Friday March 4th in Florida

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Jim Hoft Feb 28th, 2016 11:48 pm 90 Comments

Guest post by Sarah Johnson

Although Florida media reported that Senator Marco Rubio’s parents were not US citizens when he was born, national media has largely avoided the topic.   Senator Ted Cruz’s status as a natural born Canadian and a number of related eligibility lawsuits were underreported nationally, until news hit that an IL judge was hearing one of the cases.  

Cruz’s lawsuits were filed in Florida,Vermont, Texas, Utah, Illinois, Arkansas,Alabama, New York, and Pennsylvania, and individuals who raised a ballot challenge in Indiana are weighing whether they’ll file suit.  

Cruz has a new IL court date March 1^st – Super Tuesday, a filing deadline on March 2^nd for the AR case after his requested extension was granted, and a joint court date with one Senator Marco Rubio on March 4^th in Rubio’s home state of Florida. Rubio’s pending lawsuits, court dates, and questionable defenses to the actions have been missing from the national discussion.

The initial narrative had Rubio’s parents fleeing Cuba’s Castro in 1959.   It was later revealed they’d arrived in America in 1956 instead.   Rubio’s parents did not become US citizens until nearly twenty years later, several years after Rubio’s 1971 birth.   Their status as Cuban citizens, not US citizens, at the time of Marco’s birth prompted his inclusion in the Florida,Vermont, Arkansas and Indiana suits and challenges above.

Thomas Lee, a professor of constitutional and international law at Fordham Law School, explained a portion of the Originalist view of natural born citizenship, namely jus soli and jus sanguinis. As Mario Apuzzo elucidates:

“The historical and legal record demonstrates that in order to be a citizen by virtue of birth alone, one must be born in the country to parents who were its citizen at the time of the child’s birth.  Indeed, a natural born citizen is a child born or reputed born in the country to parents who were its citizens at the time of the child’s birth.”

The motions filed in defense of Cruz and Rubio in Florida are available to the public through the Broward County Courtwebsite due to the state’s sunshine laws, Case # CACE15022044.   Each one stakes their claim on only one half of the historical natural born requirements. Rubio argues the only thing that matters is he “was born in the United States”, while Cruz argues the only thing that matters is his mother’s citizenship, although the bulk of both rely on attempts to stop the case from moving forward on technicalities vs merits. Stunningly, while both crisscross the country appealing to voters, both have now argued that voters have no recourse to challenge a candidate over ineligibility, that courts have no authority to rule on this Constitutional matter. Instead, both argue it must wait until they are elected as President/Vice President and then the legislative body where they’re employed at the will of The People, Congress, would determine whether they’re eligible and if not, choose their replacement. That does not sound like a Conservative, accountable to voters, Separation of Powers viewpoint. What’s worse is both US Senators are pursuing and defending their own ambitions for the Executive Branch in a way that undermines the Constitution and Founders’ Intent.

US SENATE OATH OF OFFICE

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

The biggest bombshell in Rubio’s motion is its globalist, open borders tone, as he tries to distance himself from his previous amnesty push on the campaign trail.   Just like Obama, the Leftist media, and the Gang of 8, he chooses to ignore the difference between illegal aliens and legal immigrants subject to the jurisdiction of the government, referring instead just to “immigrants” interchangeably with “foreign parents” and “noncitizen parents”, arguing wrongly that immigration status has nothing to do with it; any child born here is not only a US citizen, but also a Natural Born Citizen, capable of becoming President of the United States: “A natural-born citizen is one who is born in the United States regardless of their parents’ ancestry,” Rubio’s motion states.   Understand, he cannot argue illegal “dreamers” can become President and believe they are anything other than already US citizens with the right to vote and full government benefits.   This would also preclude deportation. Perhaps Florida’s familiarity with Marco, his eligibility issues and his affinity for amnesty after promising otherwise explain why he is twenty points behind the frontrunner in his own home state.

The hearing for the Cruz/Rubio eligibility lawsuit in Florida is set for 11 AM, Friday March 4^th

Hillary Clinton receives $2 million from KKK and neo-Nazi groups

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WASHINGTON D.C.—Several factions of the KKK and neo-Nazi groups have come out in public support of Hillary Clinton.

The groups have donated a collective $2 million to her campaign, as well as executed a highly-active social media campaign in support of Clinton.

“We actually really done(sic) like her at all, which is why we(sic) supporting her,” said local Klansman Billy-Bob . “We white supremacists are well-aware that our public image ain’t(sic) the best. We decided to stop fighting and embrace it. All we gotta(sic) do is publically endorse the  people we don’t like. With our support, she’ll never win!”

The Clinton campaign said they only took the money because the organizations did not properly label themselves.

“With so many organizational transitions they no longer call themselves the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi Party; they need to differentiate themselves from the other bodies claiming to Klansmen or Nazis,” said a spokesman for the Clinton campaign. “For example, we accepted monetary donations from organizations calling themselves ‘Coup Clucks Clan and’ the ‘Not-See Party’—Okay, now that we say it out loud the name sounds a little more obvious.”

The Clinton campaign said it would really like to return the donations, but unfortunately the money has already spent on “really fancy cheese” for campaign banquets.

Rick Perry, former Governor of Texas and Republican candidate for 2016, said he is outraged that Clinton “took any money from an organization that was dishonest.”

Perry added “such blatant deceptery(sic) has no place in politics” and he only accepts donations from “honest, salt-of-the-earth racists, not deceptive racist organizations.”

Republican front-runner and comedian Donald Trump released a characteristically vicious Twitter attack against Clinton in response to the news

MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email

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By Paul Farhi,   

MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network’s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said.

Harris-Perry refused to appear on her program Saturday morning, telling her co-workers in an email that she felt “worthless” to the NBC-owned network. “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” wrote Harris-Perry, who is African American. “I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC executives] or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”

The rebuke, which became public when it was obtained by the New York Times, has triggered discussions involving the network, Harris-Perry and her representatives about the terms of her departure, said people at MSNBC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Harris-Perry’s departure has not been formally announced.

The flap with Harris-Perry, who did not respond to a request for comment, follows a strategic transformation of MSNBC that has swept up several of its minority program hosts. Specifically, the network — which typically finishes far behind Fox News and CNN in cable-news ratings — has been trying to emphasize breaking-news coverage during daytime hours while maintaining a slate of liberal hosts during prime-time hours at night. Like its competitors, it has emphasized breaking campaign coverage, which lately has bumped Harris-Perry from her regular spot.

The network earlier faced some outcry on social media over its irregular preemptions of Jose Diaz-Balart, who hosts a two-hour bloc from 9 to 11 a.m. weekdays. Diaz-Balart’s disappearance from the air prompted a hashtag — #MasJose — and a petition to encourage MSNBC to feature him on the air more often.

Diaz-Balart’s hosting duties are also in question at the network. Scenarios under review include extending the “Morning Joe” program into Diaz-Balart’s slot or creating a new program hosted by one of “Morning Joe’s” regular personalities. Diaz-Balart, who also anchors for NBC-owned Telemundo, is based in Miami, which complicates his role anchoring weekday coverage for New York-based MSNBC. He will continue anchoring “NBC Nightly News” on Saturdays.

All of the changes carry a potential perception risk that MSNBC — known as the most liberal among the three leading cable-news networks — is diminishing the contributions of its minority personalities, network officials acknowledge. In addition to the issues with Harris-Perry and Diaz-Balart, the network’s new emphasis on news during the day has led to the demotion of two African American hosts: the Rev. Al Sharpton and Joy Reid, both of whom have been moved from daily shows to lower-profile weekend slots. (Reid assumed Harris-Perry’s hosting duties on Saturday.)

At the same time, the network brought back Brian Williams to be its leading daytime news anchor. Williams was suspended by NBC and ultimately lost his job as the anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams” last year after he exaggerated the details of his reporting exploits in a series of media appearances.

In a statement, MSNBC spokesman Mark Kornblau said: “We are proud of the diverse backgrounds and viewpoints of our journalists, opinion hosts and analysts. We will gladly put that up against everyone else in the news business.”

MSNBC’s pivot to more news reporting, especially campaign coverage, has lately resulted in improved ratings. So far this year, its weekday ratings among all viewers have grown 57 percent over the same period in 2015, compared with a 38 percent gain for CNN and 20 percent for Fox News, the cable-news leader, according to MSNBC. Among viewers aged 25 to 54, a key bloc for advertisers, MSNBC is up 76 percent, compared with 25 percent for CNN and 19 percent for Fox.

MSNBC executives said that they were surprised by Harris-Perry’s blast on Friday and that it may have stemmed from her perception — incorrect at the time, but now a reality — that her weekend program was about to be canceled. “She’s a brilliant, intelligent but challenging and unpredictable personality,” one executive said. “There was no plan to cancel her.”

He added, “It’s highly unlikely she will continue” at MSNBC. Her email “is destructive to our relationship.”

This executive disputed Harris-Perry’s assertion that MSNBC executives had not communicated with her, although he said Harris-Perry has never met Andrew Lack, the NBC News chairman who was rehired by the network last year after the controversy over Williams. The decision to preempt Harris-Perry’s program for election-news coverage over the past several months was made by Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s president.

Harris-Perry, a professor at Wake Forest University, joined MSNBC four years ago at a time when the network was attempting to graft its opinionated evening programs onto its daytime schedule. While such evening hosts as Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow have proven relatively popular, the liberal-talk format was unsuccessful during the lighter-viewed daytime hours.

In her email to her colleagues, Harris-Perry wrote, “Here is the reality: Our show was taken — without comment or discussion or notice — in the midst of an election season. After four years of building an audience, developing a brand and developing trust with our viewers, we were effectively and utterly silenced.”

In a follow-up phone interview with the Times, Harris-Perry softened the racial aspects of her criticism, saying: “I don’t know if there is a personal racial component. I don’t think anyone is doing something mean to me because I’m a black person.”

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Steve Forbes Backs Trump, Bashes Rubio

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by TRENT BAKER28 Feb 2016

Sunday, former GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes heaped praise on GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s on Sunday radio show “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York.

Forbes speculated union leaders would support Hillary Clinton, but “the rank and file, a big chunk of them are going to go their own way.”

He explained to show host John Catsimatidis, “Trump, even as he criticizes and throws out charges and all that kind of thing, he always ends up on an upbeat note about the USA. People want that, people want to hear that. They’re tired of all this gloom and doom, and ‘the U.S. is going in a trash heap.'”

The magazine publisher then spoke out against the tax plan of 

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)

79%

, calling it “the worst tax plan” of the GOP field.

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