TRUMP PLEDGES ALL DONATIONS FROM THIS DEBATE TO WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS.
Sources: CNN, MSNBC, Daily Mail, Reuters, YouTube
Highlights:
Just ahead of the June 7th California primary, 2016 presumptive GOP nominee Donald J. Trump has challenged Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton's Democrat opponent, to a debate on the issue of Women's Health.
According to news reports Sanders has wisely accepted this politically electrifying challenge.
However strangely enough Hillary Clinton has declined to participate.
Trump has pledged all donations raised for this debate to Women's Health Organizations.
Choosing to debate Sanders on the issue of Women's Health can only help Trump with 2016 Women voters, it certainly won't hurt.
Over the course of the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off in 9 debates and 13 forums, each of which were televised nationally.
When Sanders recently pushed for yet another showdown – this time, for some reason, on Fox News – Clinton surprised no one by declining. The Democratic frontrunner, after all, is gearing up for the general election.
But what about a debate featuring Sanders and that other presidential candidate?
In the latest twist to this unpredictable 2016 presidential race, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders independently agreed Wednesday night to debate each other.
On ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Trump was asked if he would consider holding a debate with Sanders.
“Yes, I am,” the presumptive Republican nominee replied. “How much is he going to pay me? If I debated him, we would have such high ratings, I think I should take that money and give it to charity.”
Soon after, Sanders published a tweet that said, “Game On. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7th primary.”
It’s probably worth pausing to note this gathering seems unlikely. Trump makes all kinds of odd comments, especially during talk-show appearances, and it’s very difficult to know when he’s being serious given how little he thinks things through. I don’t doubt that Sanders is sincere about his interest in such a debate, but Trump may not be.
Or maybe he is. It’s a bizarre year, and unlike most recent election cycles, it’s generally a good idea to expect the unexpected.
In case it’s not obvious, there’s no precedent for anything like this in modern American history. After a major-party candidate wraps up his party’s nomination, he’s always shifted his attention to the general election, not debating the second-place candidate in the other party who’s effectively mathematically eliminated from contention.
Of course, there’s also no precedent for a major party nominating a nativist reality-show personality to be president of the United States, so anything’s possible.
The question, though, is what the candidates would hope to gain from such an event. For Sanders, a debate like this might mean a high-profile platform for his ideas – which was originally the point of his presidential candidacy – and an opportunity to participate in an event in which Hillary Clinton was attacked from both the left and the right at the same time.
For Trump, this rationale for such a debate would be more complicated. He has literally no incentive whatsoever to criticize Sanders, which means the Republican would probably use this opportunity to agree with the senator as much as possible, downplay their differences, make some appeals to some of Sanders’ most ardent supporters, and tell the Vermonter how unfairly he’s been treated, all while encouraging him to run as an independent.
In other words, for Trump, this debate, were it to happen, would be a historic opportunity to use Sanders to move Trump closer to the Oval Office.
YES THERE IS A WAR ON POLITICIANS WHO DARE TO UPLIFT BLACK COMMUNITIES.
Sources: AP, CBS, Charlotte Observer, Youtube
In April 2016 Democrat Congress Chaka Fattah 59 was defeated during a Primary by a 36 yr old challenger by the name of Dwight Evans.
Fattah an 11-term Black member of Congress, is currently facing an Indictment for Corruption charges which stem all the way from 2007.
Ironically 2007 is the same year Pres Obama launched his first term bid for US President.
I've never heard anything bad about Congressman Fattah until now.
Nevertheless Congressman Fattah now faces the same fate as Incarcerated Black
former Charlotte mayor Patrick
Cannon, also a Democrat.
In 2014 Patrick Cannon was imprisoned on Corruption charges for accepting Bribes.
***** Indicted Rep. Fattah loses Pennsylvania Democratic primary Indicted Pennsylvania congressman Chaka Fattah, facing his first primary fight in two decades, has lost the Democratic primary just before the start of his federal corruption trial.
Fattah, an 11-term U.S. representative, had been outspent in the race as he struggled to raise funds for both the campaign and his defense lawyers. He was ousted on Tuesday by a 36-year state lawmaker, Rep. Dwight Evans, in his first primary fight in two decades.
"There were forces arrayed against us tonight of very powerful and influential people," Fattah said in conceding before supporters at a union hall in Philadelphia.
Fattah has represented the Philadelphia region in Washington for two decades and served on the powerful Appropriations Committee.
He's accused of accepting bribes and misusing campaign funds and charitable grants to enrich his family and friends. He has called the seven-year FBI probe that's ensnared his son and close aides a political witch hunt. He says he has done nothing wrong.
Jury selection in his trial starts next week. Opening statements are set for May 16.
The 2015 indictment describes four schemes, two involving efforts to erase $1 million in debts from Fattah's failed 2007 bid for Philadelphia mayor. The indictment also charges four associates, including former staff members, with crimes and accuses Fattah's wife of being linked to an $18,000 sham sale of a luxury car.
Fattah had three opponents in his heavily Democratic Philadelphia-area district.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Gov. Tom Wolf backed Evans.
But Fattah had the support of other key players, including black ward leaders and other local officials.
Fattah, who's 59, had won the office at 37 and soon became a fixture as the state's only black congressman, representing the only predominantly black district in the state. He flew on Air Force One with President Barack Obama and brought home millions of dollars in federal funds for housing, scholarships, transportation and crime prevention.
However, the White House on Tuesday distanced itself from a robocall that used archival audio of Obama's voice to urge voters to support Fattah and said it didn't approve. In the clip, Obama was acknowledging Fattah at an event for his work on neuroscience research.
White House spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman said Obama hadn't endorsed a candidate in the race. A Fattah campaign representative said she was seeking more information about the issue.
Fattah and his wife, former TV news anchor Renee Chenault Fattah, had long been a power couple on the Philadelphia scene.
But she left her job after the indictment, when prosecutors painted her as a participant in the sham sale of her Porsche to a lobbyist. She, like her husband, has said she did nothing wrong.
Ted Cruz is projected to come in third in New York’s GOP presidential primary, behind Donald Trump and John Kasich, Fox News and MSNBC are reporting.
Cruz, who may end up getting zero delegates from New York state, was not helped by his attacks on "New York values."
The New York values line — first delivered in January as a critique of Manhattan's liberal culture — played well among evangelicals in Iowa but came back to bite Cruz when he had to face Empire State voters.
Cruz drew loud protests as he campaigned in the Bronx and tried to reframe the comment as an attack on New York Democrats. But returns from Tuesday show no evidence he made inroads with voters.
Trump is on track to win more than 50 percent of the New York vote statewide and could come close to winning all 95 delegates there.
Both Clinton and Sanders would beat any GOP candidate in the state in November, poll shows.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have significant leads ahead of the primaries in their home state of New York next month, a poll released Thursday showed.
Mrs. Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York, tops her Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, 54% to 42% among likely Democratic primary voters, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.
Mr. Trump, a Manhattan real-estate developer, leads with 56% among likely GOP primary voters, followed by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas with 20% and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio with 19%, the poll showed.
“The home-court advantage helps both party’s front-runners in the presidential primaries in New York,” said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Among Democrats, women favored Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Sanders, while white primary voters were divided with 48% for Mrs. Clinton and 47% for Mr. Sanders. Mrs. Clinton continues to dominate Mr. Sanders with black voters, beating him 66% to 31% in the state.
In the GOP, Mr. Trump holds double-digit leads among both genders.
The poll found both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders would beat any of the Republican candidates in the November general election.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points on the Democratic side and plus or minus 4.6 percentage points on the Republican side.
Donald Trump romped to a landslide victory Tuesday in Florida, dealing a devastating blow to home-state Sen. Marco Rubio, who abruptly quit the race and removed one more obstacle to the businessman’s march toward the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump also won the Illinois and North Carolina primaries, networks projected, but Ohio Gov. John Kasich prevailed in his home-state, fueling the hopes of those seeking to stop Trump and throw the race open at a contested convention this summer.
In a concession speech delivered less than half an hour after the Florida polls closed, Rubio congratulated Trump, wagging a finger and shushing members of the audience who booed his kind words.
But then he devoted the bulk of his remarks to warn against the anger and frustration that has fueled Trump’s political rise.
“The politics of resentment against other people will not just leave us a fractured party,” Rubio said, as disconsolate family members stood by onstage in Miami. “They’re going to leave us a fractured nation.”
The son of Cuban immigrants and, at age 44 the youngest candidate in the field, Rubio was seen as one of the GOP’s rising stars, with a capacity to broaden the party’s support among millennial voters and the fast-growing Latino community.
But he failed to win more than a handful of contests and was never seriously competitive in his home state. Trump took all 99 delegates in Florida’s winner take-all-primary, padding his already substantial lead.
Voters in five states went to the polls Tuesday, with balloting brisk in Florida and Ohio as well as Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina,, a reflection of the excitement and passions stirred by Trump — for and against — that have animated Republicans across the country.
More than 350 delegates were at stake, or about a third the number needed to clinch the GOP nomination ahead of the party’s national convention this summer in Cleveland. The cache made it the second-biggest day of balloting on the 2016 primary calendar.
Before the first polls even closed, Trump notched a victory with a landslide in the Northern Mariana Islands. He won all nine delegates from the U.S. territory.
But as important as the delegate count was, the day’s significance turned more on the fates of Rubio and Kasich. Both were facing win-or-get-out contests in their home states, the first of this primary season to award delegates on a winner-take-all basis. Trump picked up 99 delegates in Florida, and Kasich won 66 in Ohio, the first state he has won.
If Trump had managed to carry both, he could have been unstoppable.
The real estate magnate and reality TV star started the day with 460 delegates, nearly 100 more than Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and more than twice as many as Rubio and Kasich combined.
In Berea, a suburb of Cleveland, Kasich told cheering supporters that he would “not take the low road to the highest office in the land.” He also conceded he faces an uphill struggle.
“This is all I got,” Kasich said, tugging on the lapels of his jacket.
The balloting followed one of the oddest, most contentious weeks in a campaign that has been filled with strange and surreal moments.
The precipitating event was a racially charged near-riot at a Trump rally Friday night in Chicago, which was canceled out of security concerns.
Trump’s opponents quickly seized on the moment and the violent imagery that played around the world to once more challenge his temperament and fitness to be president. They accused him of fomenting the unrest through belligerent remarks that seemed to egg his audiences into physically confronting dissenters.
Kasich and Rubio both suggested they were having second thoughts about their promise to back Trump should he be the GOP nominee. Cruz, while criticizing Trump, would not go that far.
Trump denied any responsibility, blaming the violence on what he called professional agitators linked to Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders. He said the protesters provoked his supporters and were stifling their rights to free speech and assembly. “I don't condone violence,” Trump said repeatedly, though he sympathized with backers who chose to “be effective” with protesters in the audience. (Previously he used more pugilistic language.)
Trump said he might even pay the legal fees for a supporter who sucker-punched a demonstrator at a North Carolina rally, another moment caught on camera and widely broadcast.
For weeks, increasingly desperate Republican opponents have mounted an effort to stop Trump, to little seeming effect. More than $10 million in negative ads blazed across the Florida airwaves in just the last week alone, attacking Trump for his ethics, the failings of his business empire and his all-over-the-map political ideology.
Those meant nothing to Mark Owens, who stepped into the Miami Beach sunshine Tuesday and lit a cigar after casting a ballot for the political neophyte.
“I just think he's better prepared to help America economically,” said Owens, who owns several companies. Echoing the candidate, he suggested Trump would be a better “deal-maker” than previous presidents, whether it comes to trade or foreign relations.
“We've trusted politicians for 200 years to run our country,” Owens said. “It's time to give someone else a shot.”
With polls suggesting Florida was firmly in Trump’s grasp, much of the campaign focus turned to Ohio, a perennial fall battleground that was positioned to play a key role in the Republican nominating contest as well.
Trump laid on extra events, including an election-eve rally outside Youngstown in place of a planned Florida appearance, and turned his attention to attacking Kasich after long ignoring the Ohio governor.
He assailed him for his support as a congressman for the North American Free Trade Agreement, a pact with Canada and Mexico that, Trump said, devastated the state’s economy. He also laid on personal insults in a bid to snatch a victory in Kasich’s home state and clear the governor from the race.
Kasich, whose strategy centered on staying above the salvos flying between other candidates, accused Trump of creating a “toxic” political atmosphere and, wrapping himself in the establishment mantle, spent Monday stumping alongside Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee.
He also campaigned extensively around the Chicago area in a play for support in Illinois, a state with a tradition of supporting more moderate Republicans.
Giving up on every other contest, Rubio camped out in his home state, conducting what amounted to a Florida-wide apology tour. He repeatedly expressed his regrets for stooping to Trump’s level with jokes about his hair, his artificial tan and, winkingly, the size of his penis.
Rubio insisted that whatever happened Tuesday his campaign would press on, but it would have been difficult to continue having lost Florida, another important swing state in the fall.
While others focused on Ohio and Florida, Cruz carved his own path, campaigning throughout Missouri, Illinois and North Carolina.
Before Tuesday, he had won the most states after Trump and trailed him by 90 delegates. His uncompromisingly conservative ideology and go-it-alone stance in Washington have been a large part of his attraction to Republican voters but antagonized many party leaders who believe those qualities limit his appeal in a general election.
At one point, as part of a divide-to-conquer strategy, Rubio suggested his Ohio supporters back Kasich in hopes of beating Trump there and slowing his momentum.
But Kasich disavowed the tactic, and Cruz said it was an example of the insider self-dealing he was campaigning against.
“No, we’re not engaged in this delegate-denial strategy that came out of the Washington establishment because they have dreams of a brokered convention, dropping their favorite Washington candidate in to win,” Cruz said on NBC. “That would be a disaster. The people would revolt.”
TRUMP GRABS FLORIDA BECAUSE RUBIO HAS FALLEN AND CAN'T SEEM TO GET UP:
HAVE ROMNEY & OTHER GOP ESTABLISHMENT LEADERS RUINED RUBIO'S POLITICAL FUTURE?
Sources: Washington Post, Youtube
After listening to GOP establishment leaders and strategists who advised him to pummel 2016 presidential Frontrunner DONALD TRUMP with silly insults, it now appears as if Trump's challenger U.S. Senator MARCO RUBIO has taken a nosedive.
Rubio's plan to destroy Trump with insults has backfired terribly and made him appear like a desperate career politician willing to do anything to win.
It's no doubt Rubio is finished on the 2016 presidential campaign trail but what about his future political endeavors?
Many people predict that Rubio won't even be able to carry his home state during the Florida Primary on March 15.
So is Rubio finished and destined to return to the private sector?
Marco Rubio had suffered three electoral thumpings in a row when the senator from Florida and his image-makers abruptly shifted strategy. The aspirational candidate, whose presidential campaign was built on a promise of generational change and Republican unity, would morph overnight into Donald Trump’s chief assailant.
Rubio launched what he and his team felt was an imperative assault on the front-runner at the Houston debate on Feb. 25.
The next morning at a Dallas rally, he mocked Trump mercilessly. Rubio whipped out his iPhone and, with boyish glee, read aloud the billionaire mogul’s misspelled tweets. He made fun of Trump’s makeup and “sweat mustache,” and suggested the mogul had wet his pants.
For the next three days, Rubio’s crude schoolyard taunts continued: over Trump’s made-in-China suits, his “horrible spray tan” and his small hands — a quip that, as Trump would later explain on the debate stage in Detroit, implied something else was small, too.
Rubio's benefactors were aghast to see their candidate practicing Trump’s gutter politics. “Everyone went, ‘What?. . . Why are you going down to that level?’ ” recalled one fundraiser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly. “You might as well support Trump.”
Looking back, Rubio’s supporters see these fateful days as central to his unraveling.
A strategy designed to get under Trump’s skin and force him on the defensive instead backfired on Rubio, diminishing the 44-year-old senator who had spent years trying to demonstrate presidential gravitas. At rally after rally, Rubio was unintentionally personifying the caricature that Trump was perpetually drawing of him: “Little Marco.”
The results were not pretty. Rubio lost 18 of the next 20 contests, with his only wins in Minnesota’s caucuses and Puerto Rico’s primary. The ultimate humiliation came on Tuesday, when Rubio performed so poorly in four states — he got just 5 percent in Mississippi — that he was shut out from gaining any delegates.
A reflective Rubio expressed regret Wednesday over his name-calling of Trump, saying at an MSNBC town hall that the insults had upset his children.
“In terms of things that have to do with personal stuff, yeah, at the end of the day it’s not something I’m entirely proud of,” Rubio said. “My kids were embarrassed by it, and if I had to do it again, I wouldn’t.”
A cloud of fatalism
Rubio vowed to soldier on into next Tuesday’s must-win Florida primary. “I will campaign as long and as hard as it takes,” the senator, joined by wife, Jeanette, said at a Wednesday evening rally in Hialeah, a heavily Cuban American city outside of his Miami home town.
But a cloud of fatalism now hovers over his campaign. Aides on Wednesday tried to beat back rumors he would quit the race — perhaps before Thursday’s CNN debate in Miami. Donors exchanged grim messages about Rubio’s fate in Florida, where his campaign, short on cash, is running no advertisements. New polls showed him trailing Trump here badly.
Supporters in the small and subdued Hialeah crowd all but conceded defeat. “I’ve been around for a long time,” said Sal Pittelli, 70. “And you can smell the flop sweat.”
Meanwhile, rival Ted Cruz of Texas, campaigning in Miami, needled Rubio by arguing that his was the only “credible path” to deny Trump the nomination.
It's certainly a possibility that he could lose on Tuesday, and perhaps by double digits,” said John McKager “Mac” Stipanovich, a Tallahassee lobbyist and Rubio supporter. “He’s sworn to win, which might take some divine intervention, but that’s what he’s said, and he’s trying to persuade the people who love him and follow him that that’s the case.”
There was evidence of some Rubio enthusiasm in South Florida. Blue “Florida Is Marco Rubio Country” signs adorn many lawns and busy intersections, and the campaign has secured valuable airtime on Radio Mambi, an AM station that is popular among the region’s Cuban Americans. Rubio aides host 15-minute segments each morning.
Adam Hasner, Rubio’s Florida campaign co-chairman, dismissed the suggestion that Rubio might drop out before the primary. He noted that Rubio plans to attend a series of Florida fundraisers on Friday and would campaign hard across the state.
“He has demonstrated that he has a message that resonates and he’s the right messenger,” Hasner said. “He’s come so far in six years, to leave it a couple of yards from the goal line and taking a knee on third down? It’s just not who Marco Rubio is.”
Rubio’s major donors are descending on Miami for a finance retreat. They will be joined for lunch Thursdayby New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, an endorser, and by Rubio at breakfast Friday.
Rubio’s backers on Capitol Hill tried to show a united front of optimism amid the negative chatter.
“I hope Marco wins. I know he’s working really hard. I’m with him on this,” said Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.). But she declined to address next steps if Rubio does not win Florida. “We’re positive,” she said. “I think he’s the guy, going to keep supporting him. We’ll find out next week.”
Other Rubio associates were downright despondent. They were reticent to speak openly because they did not want to damage their friend’s prospects, but one confessed privately, “I don’t see how this campaign continues.”
Miami locals who know Rubio and his family and have supported his campaigns over the years said they blame Rubio’s advisers for improperly managing what seemed to them only a few weeks ago like a sure thing.
“Up until he started talking about how Trump has a small penis, it was brilliant,” said the same friend, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly. “Focusing on the size of his hands or the color of his skin — that was stupid.”
‘Pretty much finished’
There are a multitude of reasons to account for Rubio’s collapse: He is a career politician in a season when GOP primary voters crave outsiders; he was the subject of tens of millions of dollars in negative advertising from former Florida governor Jeb Bush’s super PAC; he could not raise enough money to keep up his own ad blitz; his ground game was weak; and his Senate work seeking comprehensive immigration reform constituted apostasy to many conservatives.
Yet another reason is that Rubio has no natural base. In the sprawling field, he was never the most experienced establishment-friendly candidate (that was Bush), nor the most conservative ideological warrior (Cruz), nor the rebellious outsider (Trump).
“Beyond the appeal of his personal story, I’m not sure Marco ever grew a constituency that would carry him to the finish line,” said Stipanovich, who initially supported Bush.
Interviews with more than a dozen Rubio advisers, fundraisers and other supporters suggest that perhaps the key inflection point came in that late-February change of strategy on Trump, when Rubio sacrificed the uplifting message that had won over late-deciding voters in Iowa and South Carolina for an all-out brawl.
was when private pollsters tracking the race began to see Rubio’s favorability rating and his standing in the horse race stall out and soon erode.
Consider Kansas, where one private poll showed Cruz, Rubio and Trump in a virtual tie a week before the caucuses there. Rubio lunged for the win: He trumpeted the endorsements of Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts, as well as the revered former Senate leader Robert J. Dole, and campaigned hard there for a full day. But in last Saturday’s voting, Rubio ended up a distant third with 16.7 percent; Cruz won with nearly half of the vote.
Rubio found himself locked in a downward spiral. He kept arguing on the stump that he was the most electable candidate and could unite all factions of the Republican Party. Yet electable candidates are expected to win — and Rubio was mostly losing.
“Those exchanges with Mr. Trump were damaging,” Al Cardenas, a conservative activist who is a Bush friend and a former Rubio employer, wrote in an email. “Perhaps not as damaging as the dismal results in Kansas, Maine and Louisiana. If you finish under 20 percent in the South, Midwest and Northeast, this far out in the campaign, you are pretty much finished.”
‘It was a conscious decision’
Rubio’s pivot to Trump was by all accounts deliberate and carefully planned. With the exception of his debate meltdown in New Hampshire — when he was mocked for robotically repeating talking points — Rubio had a strong early February, slowly gaining momentum, money and high-wattage endorsements. Once Trump beat him and Cruz in South Carolina and Nevada, however, Rubio’s supporters agitated for him to take a more aggressive stance or risk letting Trump run away with the nomination.
Randy Kendrick, an influential conservative donor, said she and her husband, owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, encouraged Rubio to go on the offensive, “defining Trump.”
“Stand up for what we believe in,” she said. “If we lose, okay. But he will be able to say, ‘We did the right thing.’ ”
As the Houston debate approached, the senior leadership of Rubio’s campaign decided to go after Trump. They fed the candidate a mountain of opposition research about Trump’s business dealings and past liberal positions. Senior adviser Todd Harris, who runs Rubio’s debate preparation sessions, helped him develop specific lines of attack that would serve Trump some of his own medicine.
“Rubio felt he needed to point out some of Trump’s massive inconsistencies — and to try to do it with a little bit of humor,” said one Republican with knowledge of the preparations, who requested anonymity to speak candidly. “It was a conscious decision.”
In the post-debate spin room, Rubio’s team boasted that their candidate had finally found Trump’s Kryptonite.
“Donald Trump has always been effective at picking up someone’s perceived weakness, and really exploiting it,” campaign manager Terry Sullivan told reporters. “Well, guess what? Marco has Donald’s number. And it’s that this is a joke.”
Harris told reporters that Rubio had proved he could “mix it up” by mocking Trump. “Was it a substantive argument? No,” he admitted. “But as we’ve seen from most of, if not all of, the media coverage over the past eight months, trying to wage a battle of substance against Trump is a pretty futile effort.”
At that point, Harris described the petty attacks as a tactic, not a new strategy. “We’re not going to go chase all of these little temporary narratives, temporary media trends, and whatever seems to be trending on Twitter,” he said. “The overwhelming majority of Marco’s stump speech is positive, and that’s not going to change.”
Not 12 hours later, Rubio’s stump speech had changed — dramatically. At a rally in downtown Dallas, Rubio spent close to eight minutes taking potshots at Trump, even as his audience’s titters turned to nervous unease.
“First [Trump] had this little makeup thing applying, like, makeup around his mustache because he had one of those sweat mustaches,” Rubio said. “Then, then he asked for a full-length mirror. . . . He wanted a full-length mirror, maybe to make sure his pants weren’t wet — I don’t know.”
The speech was carried live on cable news. Donors swamped Rubio and his advisers with messages urging him to abandon the insult-fest. Eventually, after he lost 10 of 11 states on Super Tuesday, Rubio dropped the line of attack.
In the days that followed, Rubio insisted his swipes at Trump did not define his candidacy. Trump is a bully, he said, and bullies must be stood up to. Then at Wednesday’s MSNBC town hall, Rubio not only voiced regret, but also blamed the insult-spewing front-runner for setting a juvenile tone for the entire race.
“I don’t want to be that,” Rubio said. “If that’s what it takes to become president of the United States, then I don’t want to be president.”
Sources: Dallas News, Daily Beast, Fox News, YouTube
As the two Cubans on the 2016 GOP campaign trail continue to battle for voters & donors, after Nevada & Texas only one will stand alongside Frontrunner Donald Trump.
Many Political Strategists predict GOP establishment favorite Marco Rubio will soon claim that position.
If Ted Cruz loses Texas will he immediately concede as Jeb Bush did when he lost South Carolina?
“Electability” was the deciding factor, Patterson said. “Who will win in November against a Democrat.”
In his view, Rubio and Cruz tout similar priorities — namely protecting the Second Amendment and religious freedom.
“Trump doesn’t have a clue what he knows or rather what he doesn’t know,” Patterson said.
Patterson said he had to disregard Trump’s status and take a close look at Rubio and Cruz when making his endorsement decision.
“Ted is impressive,” Patterson said in a written statement. “He’s remarkably intelligent. He knows the issues. He’s a great debater.”
But Cruz’s shifting status on immigration is “too cute, too clever,” Patterson said.
Cruz proposed an amendment in 2013 to an immigration bill backed by Rubio and seven other senators dubbed the “Gang of Eight.” The bill required more border security and a path for unauthorized immigrants to pursue legal status after undergoing background checks, waiting periods and paying fines and back taxes.
Cruz’s amendment would have stripped the citizenship provision from the bill while still allowing immigrants to apply for a work permit, and after 10 years enable them to apply for permanent residency.
Rudio earned a second Texas endorsement Sunday evening from Elizabeth Ames Jones Coleman, who served two terms representing Bexar County in the Texas House and was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to chair the the Texas Railroad Commission from 2005 until 2012. She is a partner at EnergyNorthAmerica, LLC, a Washington D.C.-based energy consulting firm.
Coleman said in a written statement that Rubio is the candidate who “best understands the importance of our domestic energy industry.”
In his energy plan, Rubio calls for immediate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, expedited approval for American natural gas exports and returning control energy development efforts to the states.
“He will claw back the confiscatory tax schemes and crippling government regulations that hamstring entrepreneurs and job creators,” Coleman wrote. “I am convinced that Marco Rubio is the man for the job.
Sources: Bloomberg News, Fox News, Meet The Press, NBC, Raw Story, YouTube
It appears the GOP presidential nominee race has finally come down to Trump and Rubio.
Trump represents the Anti-Establishment, Military Vets, Evangelical voters, Disgruntled BLACK voters, and Business Leaders.
Rubio represents Establishment leaders Young Anti-Establishment voters, Evangelical voters, Conservative BLACK voters and Latinos.
Although Ted Cruz is still currently hanging on by a thread, several Political Strategists have predicted that if Cruz loses Texas to Rubio, he's finished.
Once Cruz drops out its a dead heat race to the Nomination for Trump & Rubio.
I'm praying Trump and Rubio will join forces to become the 2016 GOP Ticket Dream Team.
Trump & Rubio coming together before the November election will dispel divisive rumors of a GOP "civil war" and RNC Brokered Convention Plots. I'm just saying.
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