Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Roger Stone Launches Pro-Trump Super PAC to Defeat Rubio

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by PATRICK HOWLEY17 Dec 2015404

Legendary political operative Roger Stone is launching a super PAC to support Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump by bludgeoning Trump’s establishment rivals.

The Committee to Restore America’s Greatness, chaired by Stone and already cleared with the Federal Election Commission, is taking dead aim at SenatorSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

“It is an effort to educate the voters in the early primary states about the establishment candidates who may be challenging Donald Trump for the nomination,” Stone told Breitbart News. “We’re focusing specifically on Marco Rubio, but it could also conceivably be Chris Christie.”

Stone, who formally resigned from the Trump campaign in August, met Trump at a Ronald Reagan campaign event decades ago and led his exploratory committee during Trump’s shortlived run for the Reform Party nomination in 2000. The veteran political trickster is making it clear that he intends to go for the jugular.

“TV and cable is certainly the most effective” method for getting anti-Rubio information out to the voters, Stone said. “If we raise more, perhaps we’ll do broadcast TV.”

“We specifically are not going to take corporate or lobbyist money because I think that corrupts the political process,” Stone added, noting that his PAC wants small-dollar donations and that it has not and will not coordinate with Trump in any way.

But as for Trump-style putdowns of his weak-kneed competitors? Stone thinks it’s fair game.

“The donor class of the Republican Party is shocked at how easily Donald Trump ended the viable candidacy of former Governor Jeb Bush,” Stone explains in his introductory email announcing the PAC. “Jeb was supposed to be the anointed one, and all the other candidates were expected to drop out of the race to make way for the restoration of the ‘House of Bush.’ But Trump branding Jeb as ‘low energy’ and a ‘stiff’ was the beginning of the end of his candidacy. He is now in 5th place.”

With Bush knocked to the sidelines, Stone thinks it’s time to go after Rubio, who has picked up the support of Republican donor heavyweight Paul Singer and is angling for the endorsement of billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

Stone identified Rubio’s support for the Gang of 8 amnesty bill, for President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership deal with East Asian countries, and his support for importing Syrian refugees as the issues that make him “the Establishment’s Water Boy.”

“Rubio’s campaign slogan is ‘A New American Century,” Stone said. “But make no mistake, Rubio’s New America is the wet dream of the crooked lobbyists, Wall Street billionaires and special interests.”

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Trump: Paul Ryan Will Get Along Well With Me Or ‘He’s Gonna Have To Pay A Big Price.’


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by MICHELLE FIELDS2 Mar 2016973

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA— Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)will get along well if he becomes president.

Speaking from the white and gold ballroom at his Mar-A-Lago resort, Trump said that there will be consequences for Ryan if the Speaker chooses not to get along with him if he becomes president.

“I’m going to get along great with Congress, Okay? Paul Ryan, I don’t know him well, but I’m sure I’m going to get along great with him, and if I don’t– he’s gonna have to pay a big price.”

Ryan went after Trump this week and challenged Trump to reject groups like the Ku Klux Klan, who have expressed support for his presidential candidacy.

“When I see something that runs counter to who we are as a party and as a country, I will speak up, so today I want to be very clear about something,” Ryan said.  “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games…they must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people’s prejudices. We appeal to their highest ideals…. This is fundamental. And if someone wants to be our nominee, they must understand this.”

Senator Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) also blasted Trump this week.

“There has been a lot of talk in the last 24 hours about one of our presidential candidates and his seeming ambivalence about David Duke and the KKK, so let me make it perfectly clear,” McConnell said. “That is not the view of Republicans who have been elected to the United States Senate, and I condemn his views in the most forceful way.”

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Kristol Lays Out Strategy to Give White House to Hillary: Trump ‘Shouldn’t Win’

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by JOHN NOLTE2 Mar 20166636
In order to defeat Donald Trump,  The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol admits he is prepared to hand Hillary Clinton the Oval Office. On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” the Republican Establishment leader laid out his plot to deprive Trump of the 50% of delegates necessary to secure the nomination. From there, the idea is to go into a brokered convention and cut a kamikaze deal that awards enough delegates to an “acceptable” candidate (who will have won far fewer votes, states, and delegates than Trump).
The problem with the Establishment brokering a behind-closed-door deal that hands the nomination to a Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), is that the backlash against the Republican Party is almost certain to hand Hillary Clinton the presidency.
If a bunch of rich, angry GOP elites rob Trump supporters of their victory, the blowback will result in so many voters staying home in November, Hillary wins. As NBC’s Chuck Todd pointed out last night, at this point the delegate math is such that the only way to stop Trump is through this scheme at the convention.
As you’ll see below, that outcome is preferable to Kristol, and by extension it is safe to assume that outcome is also fine with the rest of the Republican Establishment.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: The fact of the matter is that you know there is no historical precedent with someone doing as well as Candidate Trump did yesterday — winning New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, [losing the nomination] has never happened before, and as you know there is a momentum, a forward progress–
BILL KRISTOL: Right, so we have to stop the momentum, I totally agree.
SCARBOROUGH: So that’s my question. There’s no cheering here. I am looking at facts.
KRISTOL: To your credit, you have correctly seen that this was not going to be the historically normal year, and it’s not, so maybe we go–
SCARBOROUGH: So how do you beat him?
KRISTOL: You have to beat him in Florida and Ohio, the first two winner-take-all states, which means there has to be a de facto agreement between the opposition candidates — between the resistance to Trump, which I am proud to be a part of, because I think he’d be a terrible nominee and a terrible president…
SCARBOROUGH: You have the authority to broker that deal right now?
KRISTOL: Well, they need to. They need to defer to Rubio in Florida and probably to Kasich in Ohio, and say, or imply, that if you are a Cruz voter in Ohio, and if you look up the day before the primary and it’s Trump 42%, Kasich 35% — vote for Kasich. And the truth is if Trump doesn’t win Florida and Ohio, it remains very much of an open race. …
Donald Trump [so far] has 35% of the popular vote and 47% of the delegates. That’s a lot better than having 24% of the popular vote and 25% of the delegates, granted. …
JOHN HEILEMANN: Just to go a little further on this topic of what Bill’s advocating: As you talk more and more to Republicans, who will say to you privately and sometimes publicly, that they would rather vote for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump, [these are the] people who are going to try to stop him — their attitude is: We know that would happen at a contested convention if we took the nomination away from a Donald Trump [who has won through] a plurality of delegates.
What would happen is that we would likely alienate his supporters and we would likely lose the presidential election. But their position is that it would be better for us to lose the [general] election than to have Donald Trump tear the Party in half as the nominee.
Now you can say that’s suicidal, but that is the posture of people [worried] about the negative effects down ballot.
KRISTOL: And [Trump] would still lose the election. And shouldn’t win the election, So, yeah, I agree.

This is a good time to ask where this scorch-earthed mentality was when America needed it most to stop Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

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Trump dominates in Texas border town where proposed wall would be built

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Cruz may have taken the state on Super Tuesday, but Trump’s wins along border prove he hasn’t been shunned by Latinos despite controversial immigration plan
 
Donald Trump near the US-Mexico border outside Laredo, Texas, in July. The rationale for his win there has been attributed to personality, not policy. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
A candidate who has described Mexicans as rapists and criminals and whose core immigration plan is to make Mexico pay for a giant wall ought not to prosper on the southern border. Yet Donald Trump was embraced on Tuesday by voters in America’s most Hispanic city.
Trump won almost 35% of the Republican primary vote in Webb County, where Laredo is the county seat, comfortably ahead of Marco Rubio (28.4%) and Ted Cruz (28.2%), the Hispanic senator from Texas who finished first in the state overall.
Not that it takes a lot of GOP votes to win here – only 4,089 were cast in the race, compared with nearly 26,000 among Democrats. Laredo is 96% Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2010 census, and it is hugely Democratic: Barack Obama won 77% of the vote in the county in 2012. In an unusual spurt of eloquence, twice-failed GOP presidential hopeful and former Texas governor Rick Perry once called the border the blueberry in the tomato soup: a speck of nutrition for Democrats in a Republican-dominated state.
Despite the limited GOP voter pool, it is notable – and jarring – that Trump should not only triumph here but generally perform better in border counties than in the Texas interior, where Cruz was in command. Aftersome small-scale polling at the Nevada caucuses, Tuesday’s outcome provided harder evidence that Trump has not been shunned by conservative Latinos. He may even have inspired them into action: he won more votes in Webb County than were cast in its primary in total in 2012.
One Trump voter in Laredo, who gave her name as Cindy, said he is popular with local elderly people who are “tired of the system”. Jon Melendez, president of the Webb County YoungRepublicans, speculated that Trump’s success owed something to Democrats voting for him because he would be easier for Hillary Clinton to beat in November. “In the fall, the Democrats will be absolutely energised to vote against him,” Melendez said.
Trump bested two Hispanic senators who have also talked tough on immigration, in Rubio and Cruz – though both have Cuban heritage, rather than Mexican or Central American, and there is resentment at a US policy that fast-tracks admission and residency for growing numbers of Cubans while migrants from other countries have far bigger hurdles to overcome.
That situation is one example of the complexities and contradictions here that elude the bombastic rhetoric and uncompromising immigration positions of the main Republican presidential candidates.
Donald Trump’s motorcade arrives near the US-Mexico border, outside Laredo, Texas, in July. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Laredo is a characterful place of bridges and barriers; of ramshackle little homes, pastel-coloured hole-in-the-wall taquerias and family-run auto repair centres, with a decayed downtown of thrift stores, sagging shoe shops, bright currency exchanges and buildings whose grandeur faded long ago.
Laredo’s small-town familiarity and stability is interspersed with with busy crossings, a railway bridge and an interstate highway that barges through the centre of the city to speed trucks northwards where the sprawl subsides into ranchland and flat emptiness and the roving white and green SUVs of the border patrol.
It is the largest inland port on the US-Mexico border, mentioned soon after Los Angeles and New York in scale of international trade. Its population is about 250,000, though the county is vast: two-thirds the size of the LA metropolitan area. It snuggles up to Nuevo Laredo, the more populous and notoriously violent Mexican city on the other side of the serpentine Rio Grande. Laredo’s biggest festival is a near month-long celebration of George Washington’s birthday with a jalapeƱo-eating contest as its highlight.
Laredo carries on its broad shoulders an irony shared with frontier towns across the world: that the governmental apparatus of scrutiny, suspicion and separation is at its most prominent, its most stubbornly wedged, between communities that have the most in common.
“We talk about security but we like to have a balance between security, legitimate trade and tourism so when somebody comes in and says ‘I want to build a wall and secure the border’ that goes contrary to our daily life that we have in Laredo,” said Henry Cuellar, a Democrat who is the district’s US congressman.
Erick Barroso is a 42-year-old corrections officer who votes for some Democratic candidates in local elections, depending on who’s running. Often, Democrats are the only names on the ballot. But he is leaning towards Trump in November’s general election.
“I don’t agree with the wall,” he said. “There’s a saying, if you build 20ft walls you’re going to sell 21ft ladders … They’re always going to find ways [to cross], a wall isn’t the perfect solution.” But he’s not seeing anyone else suggest a better idea right now.
While immigration measures naturally have the most profound and immediate impact on border-dwellers, Barroso’s reasoning for backing Trump could have come from one of his supporters in Pittsburgh, or Louisville, or Minneapolis. The rationale stems from personality, not policy.
“He’s strong and he’s very confident,” Barroso said. “I don’t support everything he says but a lot of the things, he’s not afraid to say it. I see that as a strong characteristic.”
Laredo experienced Trump’s self-belief and self-promotion up close last July when he paid a brief visit, a month after kicking off his campaign by claiming that Mexico is “sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Bilingual signs in English and Spanish with information at the Laredo, Texas, port of entry from Mexico. Photograph: Alamy
After an outcry, the local border patrol union rescinded its invitation to the candidate, though Trump came anyway – and was shown around by the city’s mayor, a Democrat. He portrayed himself as bravely trekking into dangerous territory, but crime figures suggest Texas’s border cities are some of the safest in the state.
Reports indicate there were more media and police than protesters. One of the demonstrators was Henry Rodriguez, of the League of United Latin American Citizens, who came down from San Antonio to heckle the tycoon. “We went and made a big old ruckus over there,” he recalled.
“The more he talks against immigrants, it seems like the more brownie points he gets. It’s sad because it’s kind of a mentality that still exists in this country, of haters.”
The 71-year-old is frustrated by the lack of empathy and nuance in the political discourse on immigration. “There are a good number of Republican Latinos, their parents came from Mexico or Central America or other places like South America, they really don’t care much about people that are coming over now. They’re saying they’re taking away resources from them,” he said.
“But the ones that come here want to better themselves and they’ll do anything, they’ll start off take lower wages than anyone, taking jobs nobody else will do.”
Melendez, a 30-year-old student and former marine, said that “a lot of us here see it day to day, there is an illegal influx of people coming from Mexico and that needs to be addressed. However, the tone and the rhetoric and everything else coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth has been counterproductive.”
“I can get behind somebody who wants to secure the border,” he added. “But I think that Trump has just been awful.” Before Tuesday night, that view would have seemed like conventional wisdom. But even in Laredo, demagoguery confounded demographics.
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Daily Beast Ignored These GOP Establishment Tweets **Content Warning**

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by JOHN NOLTE1 Mar 20161112

****Warning: Vile Sexual Content****

Smears

Threats

Smears

Attacks on Breitbart Readers

Smears

 

No comment necessary

 

 

 

This single tweet below is the only one The Daily Beast mentioned.

Threats of violence

Attacks on their own voters as stupid

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Jake Tapper Asks Spinning Marco Rubio: Are You In Denial?

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by JOHN NOLTE1 Mar 2016333
After getting shellacked by Donald Trump on Super Tuesday with a win in only one state — and let’s be honest, Minnesota is just barely a state — Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made the cable rounds  hoping to spin his way out of a campaign that is now in very serious trouble. Even Rubio’s super PAC over at Fox News wasn’t buying it. But CNN’s Jake Tapper could hardly contain his disbelief at Rubio’s Rain Man-ian spin.
Near the end of the interview,  Tapper just came out and asked, “I’m wondering if there’s a certain amount of denial that you’re in about this race?”
This was the look on Tapper’s face just before he asked the question.
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Tapper: Senator, you keep saying that, and [Trump] keeps winning states, and you’re talking about Virginia and that’s another state that Donald Trump won. I’m wondering if there’s a certain amount of denial that you’re in about this race.
Rubio: No, Jake. We’re in the winner-take-all phase of this. Up you know this is about delegate count. You know in a usual race you’d have a front-runner and people would be saying you need to drop out and rally around the front-runner. What people are saying is fight as hard as you can…

After the interview Tapper said, “Call it determination, call it denial — Senator Marco Rubio.”

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Trump, Clinton Predicted to Stomp Super Tuesday

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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. 
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

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
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:
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