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Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson (Mississippi)
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Poll: Trump closing in on Clinton

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GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is narrowing Democrat Hillary Clinton’s lead over him among potential voters next year, a new poll found.

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Trump is now within 6 points of the former secretary of State, according to a CNN/ORC sampling released Wednesday morning.

The survey found Clinton currently tops the outspoken billionaire, 51 percent to 45 percent, among registered voters for the 2016 general election.

Trump trailed the former first lady by 16 points last month.

Trump’s rise in the polls is boosted by greater support among three key voting demographics, the new poll found.

Almost 80 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now support the New York business mogul, up from 67 percent in July.

Men now back Trump 53 percent, versus 46 percent a month earlier.

The poll also found that 55 percent of white voters are now picking the reality television star, up from 50 percent last month.

The latest CNN/ORC sampling found that Clinton remains the frontrunner for both the Democratic nomination and next year’s general presidential election.

Her lead is largest over former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, the poll found, currently at 53 percent to 43 percent among registered voters.

Trump is currently the runaway favorite for the GOP’s presidential nomination next year across multiple national polls.

Clinton, meanwhile, is struggling to maintain her lead among Democrats amid concerns over her transparency and trustworthiness among potential voters.

CNN found her support among Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters at 47 percent, down 9 points in the past month.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I), meanwhile, picked up 10 points since July, and now holds 29 percent support.

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Bush donors not panicking — yet

Hillary Refuses To Say Whether Or Not She Wiped Server Clean

Hillary Clinton refused to answer questions to whether or not she wiped her private server clean of emails.

Clinton, speaking at a press conference in Nevada on Tuesday after receiving constant pressure about wiping the server joked, “What, like with a cloth or something?”

Hillary Clinton: Well, my personal e-mails are my personal business, right? So I, so we went through a pain staking process and turned over 55,000 pages of anything we thought could be work related. Under the law that decision is made by the official. I was the official. I made those decisions. And as i just said, over 1200 of the e-mails have already been deemed not work related. Now all I can tell in retrospect, if I used a government account and I had said, you know, let’s release everything, let’s let everybody in America see what I did for four years, we would have the same arguments. So that’s all I can say. I’m, I have no idea. That’s why we turned it over.

Reporter: You were the official in charge of it? You were the one in charge. Did you wipe the server clean?

Clinton: What, like with a cloth or something?

Reporter: No, digitally. You know how it works digitally.

Clinton: Well, no. I don’t know how it works digitally at all. i do not have any.

Reporter: You did not try?

Clinton: Ed, I know you want to make a point and I can just repeat what I have said.

Reporter: It’s a simple question.

Clinton: In order to, in order to be as cooperative as possible, we have turned over the server. They can do whatever they want to with the server to figure out what’s there, what’s not there. That’s for the people investigating it to figure it out. We turned over everything that was work related. Every single thing. Personal stuff, we did not. I had no obligation to do so and did not.


Rush Limbaugh: Donald Trump Was Right – Mexico Is Sending Undesirables to US


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Two months ago during the launch of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump told his supporters Mexico was not sending its best people to America.

Trump argued,

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. And they’re bringing those problems with us (them.) They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And, some, I assume are good people.”

Today Rush Limbaugh confirmed that Donald Trump was right.
Mexico is sending undesirables here and when we sent them back, Mexican officials traveled here to complain.
Via the Rush Limbaugh website:

Jeff Lord, who writes for the American Spectator, also has a piece for the Conservative Review he has out now. He’s just been hired by CNN to do analysis and commentary, and he sent me a note late last night and he was digging around… He’s been intrigued by this kerfuffle that Trump started in which he claimed that Mexico is sending us their human debris. Mexico is purposely sending us their worst.

Mexico is getting rid of the people they don’t want; they’re sending them here.  And he said that he had a faint memory of a news story that would actual confirm this, and he searched and searched and he found it, and I’m now holding that story right here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.  It’s from the Associated Press. It was published atArizonaCentral.com, January 16th of 2008.  So almost eight years ago. Not 7-1/2 years ago, this story ran.

“A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora traveled to Tucson to make the case against Arizona’s new employer sanctions law[.] The lawmakers say it will have a devastating affect [sic] on the Mexican state. At a news conference Tuesday, they said Sonora cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers in Arizona return to their hometowns without jobs or money.” In other words, the Mexican government sent representatives, the equivalent of our state senators and representatives…

“The law, which took effect Jan.1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don’t have valid legal documents to work,” and those people get deported. “Businesses found violating the law face suspension or loss of a business license. The [Mexican] lawmakers were to travel to Phoenix Wednesday for a breakfast meeting with Hispanic legislators.” The Sonora delegation, rather, was going to “travel to Phoenix Wednesday for a breakfast meeting with Hispanic legislators. … ‘How can they pass a law like this?’ asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales. ‘There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,’ Amparano[-Gamez] said in Spanish.”

In other words, what Trump has been saying is right:  Mexico does actively send undesirables here.  When we send them back, Mexico sent a delegation to Arizona eight years ago to complain about our deporting them.  They don’t want them back.

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Trump and Bush go to war in New Hampshire

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Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are at war in New Hampshire.
 
The two Republican presidential candidates held town-hall events at the same time in the Granite State on Wednesday, separated by less than 13 miles. 
 
In Derry, Bush attacked Trump for having supported liberal causes like a single-payer healthcare system and higher taxes on the wealthy. 
 
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“Mr. Trump doesn’t have a conservative record,” Bush said. “He was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. He’s given more money to Democrats than he’s given to Republicans.”
 
Meanwhile, in Merrimack, Trump went on a an extended tirade, first at a press conference with reporters and later at the town-hall, in which he described Bush as “low-energy,” ripped him over the Iraq war, Common Core and immigration, and mocked him over a misstatement about women’s health.
 
“Right down the road we have Jeb,” Trump said. “Very small crowd. … You know what’s happening to Jeb’s crowd right down the street? They’re sleeping now.”
 
“I don’t see how he’s electable,” Trump concluded.
 
For Trump, it’s the latest in a series of broadsides against his rivals in the Republican presidential field. Over the weekend, he made fun of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for being short, warned Carly Fiorina against challenging him, criticized Scott Walker’s record as governor of Wisconsin, and called Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) weak on immigration.
 
But Wednesday, Trump’s focus was squarely on Bush.
 
“Jeb Bush is a low-energy person,” he said. “For him to get things done is hard. He’s very low-energy.”
 
“The reason I talk about Jeb is he’s supposed to do well in New Hampshire, but he’s gone down like a rock,” Trump added. “How in the hell does he do well?"
 
At a press conference with reporters before the town-hall, Trump began his criticism of Bush by focusing on Common Core education standards, which many conservatives believe could be the biggest hurdle for Bush with the base.
 
“I am not a Common Core person,” Trump said. “Jeb Bush wants Common Core. I want local education.”
 
While Bush supports Common Core, he also believes in local control of education, saying the federal government should play no role in creating or implementing education standards.
 
Trump then pivoted to recent comments Bush made about Iraq. Over the weekend, the former Florida governor said Iraqis must know that the U.S. is committed to seeing their nation succeed.
 
“They want to know that we have skin in the game, that we’re committed to this,” Bush said.
 
Trump responded Wednesday: “He said the other day one of the dumber things I’ve heard ever in politics in talking about Iraq. That we the United States, he said, have to show them we have skin in the game in order to go into Iraq. We have spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives, wounded warriors who I love all over the place, and he’s talking about we have to show them we have skin in the game?”
 
“For him to say we have to show them we have skin in the game is one of the real dumb statements,” Trump added.
 
That line of conversation reminded Trump of what he believed to be Bush’s “other dumb statement.” Trump recalled Bush’s now infamous remark that some illegal immigrants come to the U.S. out of an “act of love.”
 
Many conservatives point to that remark as evidence Bush is soft on immigration, although like all of the candidates, Bush supports stronger border security and does not support a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally.
 
“I’d say his other dumb statement is that illegal immigrants come here for an act of love,” Trump said. “That they come here for an act of love. I’d say between Common Core, his ‘act of love’ on immigration, and ‘skin in the game’ with Iraq, that’s the third one that we’ve added – I don’t see how he’s electable.”
 
In Derry, Bush slammed Trump’s immigration plan, which some analysts have estimated would cost $166 billion to implement. Bush also swiped at Trump for having described illegal immigrants as criminals and rapists.
 
“Even on immigration, the language is pretty vitriolic, for sure, but hundreds of billions of dollars of cost to implement his plans is not a conservative plan,” Bush said.

Surging Ben Carson looks to peel off Donald Trump's voters

Ben Carson has his sights set on Donald Trump.
 
The retired neurosurgeon is surging in the polls, but faces a huge hurdle in overcoming Trump, the runaway leader of a pack of 2016 presidenital candidates looking to tap into the anti-establishment fervor that is energizing the Republican base.
 

 
Trump still holds a big lead in the polls, but several recent surveys show Carson taking second place nationally and in Iowa.
 
In an interview, The Hill asked Carson if he believes he can convince those currently backing the celebrity businessman to give him a look. 
 
Carson responded by taking his first implied shot at the front-runner, saying that voters would consider a host of matters — including temperament — in making their decision.
 
“I believe the American people are smart enough to figure out what’s real, what’s not real, and what kind of temperament and intellectual endeavors are necessary to be president,” Carson said.
 
When pressed on whether he believes Trump has the temperament and intellectual curiosity to be president, Carson replied: “If he does have it, voters will be able to decide that and they’ll vote for him. If not, they’ll figure that out too.”
 
Carson has largely flown under the radar of the Washington political class, and few pundits believe he’ll make a serious run at the nomination.
 
His Aug. 6 Fox News debate performance was dismissed as unmemorable by political watchers on a night punctuated by Trump’s defiant posturing and party infighting between Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the federal government’s spy programs.
 
Yet interest in Carson is soaring. 
 
According to a Fox News survey released over the weekend — the first major national poll conducted since the  debate — Trump still holds a lead of more than 2 to 1 over the field with 25 percent support, but Carson was the biggest gainer, picking up 5 points to move into second place at 12 percent support. 
 
If Trump were removed from the equation, Carson would have been tied for first place in the poll with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), at 14 percent each. Carson leads in the poll as the candidate Republicans rate as the most likable.
 
Furthermore, A CNN-ORC poll of Iowa showed Carson all alone in second place and trailing only Trump. In several recent Iowa polls, Carson has caught or surpassed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who spent months atop the field in the state.

Carson’s rise has stoked increased attention from the media. He was booked on two Sunday news shows over the weekend: ABC’s "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos and "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
  
The early success has those close to Carson believing he’ll be in good shape to capitalize on the political momentum if Trump-mania ever subsides.
 
“The emergence of Donald Trump is very helpful for us,” said Terry Giles, who briefly managed Carson’s campaign but has left to help him raise money. “When I was actively involved in the campaign and traveling the country, I couldn’t believe the groundswell against the establishment. Trump has brought out that anti-establishment fervor.”
 
“Now, Trump may very well end up doing very well in the race,” Giles continued. “But if any Trump followers are going to leave him for another candidate, I think chances are good that person could be Dr. Carson.”
 
While both Carson and Trump are running as pure Washington outsiders pledging to upend the status quo, their styles could not be more different. 
 
Trump is riding a media frenzy sparked by his bombast, wealth, celebrity, refusal to apologize and populist straight-talk. Carson, meanwhile, is calm and quiet, methodically making the argument that the nation needs a more thoughtful, rather than politically experienced, leader.
 
“Voters are tired of the same old,” Carson said. “They know that any politician can get in front of them and talk a beautiful game, but they want people who have actually accomplished something. They see it as the only way out of this morass.”
 
The Carson campaign says it raised more than $1 million in less than a week following the debate and added tens of thousands of names to its email list.
 
Giles, who is raising money for a group that will likely one day become a pro-Carson super-PAC, said it’s a struggle to convince big donors to get on board with an unknown commodity like Carson, but that a few more rounds of strong polling could be a tipping point in his efforts.
 
Still, Carson faces considerable challenges.
 
Trump’s support has proven to be surprisingly durable, and there’s no evidence yet that he’s begun to fade.
 
And Carson will face competition from two other anti-establishment candidates who are similarly gaining traction.
 
Businesswoman Carly Fiorina was the consensus winner of the undercard debate earlier this month. She has since seen her standing improve in the polls nationally, as well as in Iowa and New Hampshire, and could be elevated from the early debate to the prime-time stage for the second GOP debate next month.
 
Cruz has raised more hard campaign dollars than any other candidate. He’s attracting big crowds on the campaign trail and barnstorming the South, setting up what he’s calling a “firewall” in the states that will vote in the early March 1 primaries.
 
Meanwhile, Carson’s momentum has shifted the bright political spotlight onto the newcomer — and he’s at times struggled to handle it.
 
For instance, Carson was critical of Planned Parenthood after videos surfaced of officials negotiating the cost of donated fetal tissue for medical research. Carson blasted the agency and has called for it to be defunded, but one of his former colleagues revealed last week that as a neurosurgeon, Carson used fetal tissue in his own research.
 
And Carson has stumbled on the question of abortion. Last week, he said he believes life starts when the heart starts beating, and he advocated the use of RU-486 — which anti-abortion-rights groups have dubbed a “chemical abortion pill” — in cases of rape and incest. 
 
This week, Carson said he believes life starts at conception and that he’s opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
 
Carson made a handful of other controversial remarks this week as well, grabbing headlines for saying Planned Parenthood was formed to control the black population and calling the Obama administration’s Iran deal “anti-Semitic.” 
 
Earlier in the cycle, he said he was making a deliberate attempt to put forth a disciplined message, believing that some of his controversial remarks were drowning out his message.
 
That’s becoming more difficult to control as Carson’s demand among media outlets increases. 

Carson blamed the media for obsessing over his views on abortion and race and said he believes he’s a target for his conservative views.
 
“I’m not terribly surprised,” Carson said. “For months now I’ve been going around the country and pulling large, enthusiastic crowds where people get to hear who I am, not who the media is trying to portray me as.”
 
“They’ve been coming after me since the beginning,” he said. “They say I’m irrelevant but spend more ink on me than anybody. It’s OK, I’d be disappointed if they didn’t, because it would mean I’m not relevant.”

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Keep Ben Carson away from the White House

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Published: 08/24/2015 at 8:09 PM

I’ve made it clear that I would not trust Ben Carson with the keys to the Oval Office, and I am now of the opinion I wouldn’t trust him with the keys to a Cabinet post, either. (See “Dr. Ben Carson for president: Not so fast,” Feb. 6, 2014.)

Carson is a without question one of the most gifted doctors in the history of medicine – but beyond that, he is either naïve, clueless, or he secretly supports an agenda or aspects thereof that have contributed to the racial divide in America. And as you will see, his disagreeable heterodoxy doesn’t end with a racial divide.

Carson, in a prepared comment pursuant to the recent passing of Julian Bond, the former chairman of the NAACP, said: “I am deeply saddened to learn about [the passing of] America civil rights leader Julian Bond. May we continue to honor him for his contributions to society.” (Aug. 16)

My question to Carson is: Just what contributions to American society did Julian Bond make? Does Carson suggest that hatred, racist diatribes, racist accusations, fomenting racial acrimony, messages of Leninist ideology that rivaled Du Bois, ad nauseum were in some way beneficial to America? I demand Carson enumerate just what Julian Bond did to improve America.

In my official capacity as chairman of the Racial Policy Center, a newly formed think tank that advocates for a colorblind society, I said: “The Racial Policy Center (RPC) would like very much to be able to mourn the passing of Julian Bond, the long-time board chairman of the NAACP. But unfortunately truth and factuality detract from Bond’s legacy rather than add to it. While the RPC recognizes Bond’s passing, it does so for his transpicuous record of fomenting racial acrimony and division. Julian Bond lived in a day and time when he could have moved America forward; instead, as an autocrat of animus and immiseration he led the NAACP into decline and contributed massively to creating a zeitgeist of racial acrimony.”

This is not the first time Ben Carson has made statements referencing a bête noire, i.e., a strongly detested person, who is a recognized racist calumniator. Carson said: “[Al] Sharpton and I have the same goal – to build a brighter, stronger America that provides equal opportunities and access to the underserved and forgotten.”

The very fact that Sharpton isn’t serving a lengthy prison sentence for the laundry list of racial melees he has instigated over the years suggests to me that Carson is either blindly or purposefully ignoring how good all people have it in America.

That Carson would make such a statement tells me he is another Colin Powell but this time disguised as renowned doctor. You will remember that immediately after Obama was elected Powell ceased his charade of being a conservative.

And as if the aforementioned isn’t troubling enough, writing for Townhall.com, Steve Deace noted: “There was Carson posting on Facebook that Easter wasn’t about Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for the sins of the world, and ensuing resurrection proving He was the only Son of God. Rather, Carson posted Easter was about ‘acceptance’ and said Christians and Muslims are children of the same God. That, of course, would be news to Christians and Muslims alike. Since one side says the basis for their faith is Christ’s resurrection from the dead, and the other side claims he was never crucified in the first place.” (“Ben Carson Claims He and Al Shaprton Have the Same Goal,” April 18, 2015)

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Hillary Clinton: The Spin, the Cover-Up, and the Crime

Hillary Clinton rolled the dice in Las Vegas with a hilariously awful press conference, in which she once again pretended to be a doddering old granny who doesn’t know much about these newfangled “computer” contraptions all the kids are playing with.

She probably didn’t set out yesterday evening with the intention of writing a new punchline into the political joke book, but that’s what happened when she responded to a question about wiping her server by warbling, “What, like, with a cloth or something?”

Bonus cringe points for showing up in an outfit that looked uncomfortably like an orange prison jumpsuit, and making an incredibly clumsy attempt to look innocently surprised that produced one of the most unflattering photos ever snapped of a presidential candidate. Who the hell is advising Clinton on how to handle this scandal, and can Republicans buy him or her a drink?

Presidential candidates usually take pains to avoid becoming punch lines. When you’re running for the highest office in the land, you don’t want to look like an out-of-touch boob who doesn’t understand the basics of the computer technology integral to modern American life.

“Out of touch” media torpedoes have been launched against Republican candidates for far less than this. Remember when propagandist Andrew Rosenthal cooked up a phony story at the New York Times about the elder George Bush supposedly being astounded by the sight of a grocery-store scanner, and it became the go-to myth about how the old man didn’t understand middle-class life? It was obvious that story was a lie from Minute One, but it didn’t matter to the media one little bit – they ran with it like a rookie receiver going for his first touchdown.

Well, now we’ve got Hillary Clinton explicitly claiming, in front of every news camera in the land, that she doesn’t understand what “wiping” a computer means. When can we expect that first story about how Hillary Clinton is an out-of-touch super-rich dilettante who doesn’t have a clue how the rest of us live our lives, New York Times?

Of course everyone knows Clinton is lying, extravagantly and shamelessly. The wiping of her server is a fact of the case established by her own legal team long ago. The people who did the wiping – ironically enough, a company that kept its servers in a bathroom closet at the time – didn’t nuke the Secretary of State’s hard drives because they were lounging around the office on a slow day and decided it would be fun.

The notion that anyone would authorize the destruction of that data without Madame Secretary’s express permission is ludicrous… and it would actually reflect even worse on Clinton, if we indulged her and pretended to believe it. She ran a shop so loose and reckless that staffers felt free to destroy subpoenaed data that included classified and Top Secret documents, kept on the Secretary of State’s personal mail server – a system unprecedented in all of American history – and now she expects us to trust her with the presidency?

Also, Clinton repeatedly stated in her very first press conference on the email scandal – the one where she laughably claimed to have created her shadow server because she though it was inconvenient to carry two cell phones – that she had erased everything on her server, after deciding which emails she thought were “official” and should be handed over to the State Department, courts, and Congress. It was big news in March when House Benghazi Committee Chairman

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
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announced Clinton’s lawyers had informed him her server, which Gowdy wanted an independent tech team to examine, had been “wiped clean,” using those very words.

Hillary Clinton is pretending she can’t remember her own words of not six months ago, and asking us to believe she’s completely unaware of headline-news developments in her own story, despite having a huge retinue of personal assistants and campaign operatives to keep her updated on such news. And she thinks people will respond by judging her fit to hold the Oval Office?

No thanks, Mrs. Clinton, we’ve just barely survived eight years of a guy who claims to be ignorant about everything his mega-government does, until he sees it discussed on TV news the next day. We’re not going to downgrade even further to someone who claims she doesn’t even watch TV news.

Doubtless what Clinton thinks she’s doing is positioning herself above the story, a haughty queen looking down from on high as grubby peasants squabble over matters long since discarded from her busy mind. That’s the last image Hillary Rodham Clinton should be projecting. It didn’t work when she tried to dump jokes about Snapchat being wonderful because it automatically deletes posts over the weekend, either. If we see items in the political papers soon about staff shakeups in the Clinton campaign, we’ll know which of her advisers came up with this ill-fated arrogance strategy.

After her Las Vegas “Orange Is the New Black” disaster, Clinton doesn’t look haughty or arrogant – she looks like an absolute buffoon, and it’s going to achieve a deadly level of pop-culture penetration. Those photos of her, and the unforgettable jackass quality of her “wipe my server with a cloth” line, are just too rich. They’ll capture the attention of people who weren’t following the server story, or most other political news. Those who began paying attention when the game-changing words “Top Secret” were uttered will smell blood in the water. Even disengaged news consumers grasp that politicians don’t normally try to make themselves look stupid, especially when they’re slipping badly in both primary and general-election polls.

Also, Hillary’s spin strategy is intrinsically insulting to her own supporters – she’s treating them like easily-herded livestock who can make themselves believe the alleged Smartest Woman in the World, the former Secretary of State, doesn’t know how computers work, and isn’t entirely certain what “classified” or “Top Secret” mean. That’s going to alienate even some of her bedrock supporters… as their further-left friends invite them to

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rallies, assuring them Bernie won’t treat them like brain-dead props in Spin Theater.

There’s an old saying in politics about the cover-up being worse than the crime. In Clinton’s case, the spin might be even worse than the cover-up. What does it tell you about the severity of this email scandal that she’s willing to burn her last gasp at the presidency to ashes, for merely the flimsiest layer of protection? She’s still pushing the silly, carefully-parsed line about how the emails weren’t marked as classified or Top Secret, which doesn’t actually matter under federal law, and doesn’t reflect very well on her competence as Secretary of State… but it does continue the process of setting up one of her aides to take the fall.

At this point, that’s so important to Hillary Clinton that she’s willing to act like a clown in front of news cameras, and then storm away in a huff when her act did not instantly satisfy a media that really doesn’t want to ask her tough questions.  It says a lot about the utter contempt she feels for Democrat voters that she thinks she can still run a viable presidential candidacy after making herself look this bad.

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Bush, Kasich Defend Common Core, Avoid Saying Its Name

Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and John Kasich worked hard to defend their continued support for Common Core education standards, while also trying to assuage the fears of Republican voters who view the standards as a federal takeover of education.

Six Republican candidates met in Londonderry, N.H. for a summit on education sponsored by the American Federation for Children. The six participating candidates were Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, Bobby Jindal, and Scott Walker. Each had a 45-minute one-on-one interview with Campbell Brown, a former CNN reporter who has become a leader in the education reform movement.

Bush, the first candidate to appear, was asked about Common Core at length, and while he didn’t disavow it, he did distance himself from some of its key aspects, including the “Common” part of its name.

“The commonality [of standards] is not as relevant as the highness of them,” he said. Bush said that states should feel no pressure to remain a part of Common Core.


Trump’s border plan splinters Republican field

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Donald Trump’s immigration plan is splitting the packed GOP presidential field, rekindling debate on an issue that has long vexed the Republican Party.

The businessman, who is leading the GOP field in most polls, unveiled his proposal earlier this week. Trump is calling for an end to birthright citizenship — a move that would arguable require an amendment to the Constitution — and the construction of a wall across the U.S. southern border — with Mexico picking up the tab.

A handful of Trump’s 2016 competitors quickly dismissed the plan as unworkable. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said it isn’t “grounded in reality,” while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called it “absolute gibberish.” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) suggested it wouldn’t survive Congress.

Others note that they’ve previously embraced the issue, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) saying that much of what Trump's plan was “contained within legislation that I filed years ago.”

Here’s where the Republican presidential field stands on the plan:

Jeb Bush: The ex-Florida governor quickly dismissed Trump’s plan suggesting that it wasn’t “grounded in reality.”

“There are like 10 things I would change in the Constitution with a magic wand," Bush told The Washington Post during a campaign stop in South Carolina. "But in the interim, we've got to control the border, we've got to enforce the rule of law, we've got to deal with extended stays on legal visas, we've got to have an e-Verify system that's verifiable, we've got to deal with sanctuary cities, we've got to forward-lean on the border.”

Bush posted his own plan on immigration ahead of the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month. That proposal includes a “rigorous path to earned legal status,” which earned the former governor quick conservative ire.

Separately, Bush defended birthright citizenship, telling CBS News’s Major Garrett that “we ought to fix the problem rather than take away rights that are constitutionally in doubt.”

Ben Carson: Carson, who is seeing a bump in the polls, weighed in on elements of Trump’s proposals during campaign stop in Phoenix, without specifically mentioning his Republican rival.

“What I have said consistently is that we need seal our borders,” he said. “We can use a whole series of things to do that, not just fences and walls, but electronic surveillance and drones.”

Carson added that it should be illegal to employ an undocumented immigrant, and that undocumented immigrants who are here should be given the opportunity to become “guest workers” but not citizens.

During a separate stop, he said that he supports ending birthright citizenship, which he called “stupid.”

"For a woman to be pregnant and say, 'I'm going to go to the United States and have my baby there so that I can have an anchor' is stupid," Carson said, according to a local TV station in Phoenix. "We can keep families together. If they came here and did that, we can still keep them together by packaging them up and sending them back."

Chris Christie: The New Jersey governor dismissed Trump’s proposal as “nothing new.”

“He's gonna build a wall, get the Mexicans to pay for. I mean, I think -- listen, we have a huge problem at our border, we need to address it, but it can't be addressed just for that wall. That's not gonna fix the problem,” Christie said during an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “I've never seen a wall that really determines human beings can't get over, under around.”

He argued that an immigration proposal also has to tackle employers who hire undocumented immigrants and that candidates should focus on “an entire reform package.”

Separately, Christie told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham last week that birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment should be “reexamined.”  

Ted Cruz: The firebrand senator, and perhaps Trump’s closest ally in the Republican field, praised the plan, saying that it is "forcing the mainstream media to talk about issues they don't want to talk about.”

But Cruz also suggested the proposal is similar to ideas he’s offered in the Senate for years.

“Virtually every element in the proposal he submitted is contained in legislation that I filed years ago,” he said during an interview with the Michael Medved Show, adding that he “led the fight against amnesty" in the Senate.  

Cruz added that he “absolutely” supports changing the 14th amendment, saying that “we should end granting automatic birthright citizenship to the children of those who are here illegally.”

Carly Fiorina: The former Hewlett-Packard CEO is walking the line on Trump’s proposal, saying that “parts of it make sense.”

“It makes sense to deport illegals who have committed crimes, it makes sense to have an employer verification system that actually works and that is mandatory,” she told ABC News. “It makes sense to hold sanctuary cities accountable.” 

Fiorina touted her focus on immigration, saying that she’s been “talking about all of these things for a long time. ...We know what we need to do. It’s about somebody who can get it done.”

But, separately Fiorina suggested to NBC News that ending birthright citizenship would be difficult and that “we should put all of our energies, all of our political will into finally getting the border secured and fixing the legal immigration.”

Jim Gilmore: The former Virginia governor is taking direct shots at Trump’s proposal.

Gilmore said that Trump’s plan "makes it pretty clear that Trump has been out in the Iowa sun too long without his hat,” according to the Washington Examiner.

He said separately while the United States needs to secure its border, it is “silly to ask Mexico to pay for it,” and that “every person born in this country has a right to citizenship.”

Lindsey Graham: The senator from South Carolina escalated his ongoing rhetorical battle with Trump, calling the businessman’s plan “absolute gibberish.”

“It is unworkable. Mitt Romney said his biggest mistake as a candidate for president was embracing self-deportation,” Graham told CNN’s “The Situation Room.” “That hurt our party. Donald Trump's plan is forced deportation. It's not going to work; it is unworkable.”

But Graham, considered more moderate than some of his Republican colleagues on immigration, said that he could support Trump on changing the 14th Amendment to revoke so-called birthright citizenship.

“I think it's a bad practice to give citizenship based on birth,” he added. “We have evidence of people buying tourist visas for the express purpose of coming over here and having a child. I don't think that's a good idea.”

Mike Huckabee: The former Arkansas governor said he hadn’t given much thought to Trump’s proposal, and is instead focusing on his own push for strengthened border security and a crackdown on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

But, Huckabee did push pack against Trump’s call to deport all undocumented immigrants.

“I don't see how that's realistic. I'm not sure that that's necessary. I don't think we ought to have amnesty. I don't know of any of the Republican candidates who advocate open amnesty,” he said during an interview with CNN’s “The Situation Room.” “But there's got to be first some confidence that we're controlling our borders, which there isn't any confidence.”

He added that changing the 14th Amendment would “require a little bit more discussion. ...The biggest issue is not changing so much how we interpret the 14th Amendment. It is making sure that we start enforcing our own laws.”

Bobby Jindal: The Louisiana governor quickly aligned himself with Trump, saying that “we need to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.”

Jindal also said last week that the United States needs to crackdown on sanctuary cities, those that don’t comply with federal immigration law, and “hyphenated Americans.”

"We're all Americans," he told Newsmax. "People want to come to our country, they should come legally. They should learn English, they should adopt our values and when they get here they should roll up their sleeves and get to work."

John Kasich: The Ohio governor declined to weigh in on Trump’s immigration plan during a campaign stop in Iowa, telling reporters “I have my own plan. I don't talk about other plans."

Earlier this week he backed building a wall to secure the border, though he didn’t specify who should pay for it.

“Finish the wall. And make it clear. Anybody that comes over that wall once we have done it, you're going back,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And then the 12 million that are here, legalize them, but make sure we don't have anybody —any of the criminal element here and have a guest-worker program. I think the country can unite around that."

Kasich, separately, is reversing his support for ending birthright citizenship, a move that puts him at odds with Trump. He told CNN’s “The Lead” last week that “I think we need to get over that. ...Let these people who are born here be citizens and that’s the end of it.”

George Pataki: The former governor of New York is boiling Trump’s plan down to “simplistic sound bites” meant to appease voters.

“When you think about [it], Mexico is not going to pay to build the wall. Yes, we have to secure the border -- but we're not going to send millions and millions of people going around America, rounding them up, putting them on buses, and sending them back somewhere,” he told CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday.

Separately, he told MSNBC that “I don't support amending the Constitution to kick out kids who were born here.”

Rand Paul: Paul argued that the proposal is both impractical and contradicts Trump's previous positions.

"His immigration policy, that seems to have won him a lot of attention, is to send 11 million people to Mexico?," Paul told the Independent Journal Review. "How is he going to practically do that? If he is going to take the time to do that then why is he all of the sudden going to re-admit them all?"

He added "someone should ask him some practical questions about… why his policies are the opposite of what they were just a few years ago.”

Paul previously teamed up with Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on a resolution to end birthright citizenship.

"Citizenship is a privilege, and only those who respect our immigration laws should be allowed to enjoy its benefits," Paul said in a statement at the time.

Rick Perry: The former Texas governor has avoided directly comment on Trump’s proposal, telling Fox News that he hasn’t “looked at all of his plan.”

Instead, Perry is focusing on border security, adding that, “what will work is putting the personnel in the right places on the border.  ...When I'm the president of the United States, I can promise you one thing. The will to secure the border will reside in the Oval Office every day.”

Perry suggested that the media and candidates were distracted with “side issues” including what to do on the undocumented immigrants currently in the country or whether the 14th Amendment should be changed.

Marco Rubio: The Florida Republican brushed off Trump’s proposal, suggesting that it wouldn't’ survive Congress.

“I haven’t read his plan. From what I’ve seen from press reports, there are a couple of ideas he shares with multiple people,” the senator told reporters after a speech in Iowa on Tuesday. “But most are really not something that I think has a chance to pass through Congress.”

Rubio has drawn conservative blowback over his role in the “Gang of Eight” and its 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill, which included a pathway to citizenship for some illegal immigrants. Trump, in his proposal, targets the legislation, referring to it as the “[Democratic Sen. Charles] Schumer-Rubio immigration bill.”

He added that he didn’t back Trump’s call to revoke birthright citizenship, but “I'm open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th Amendment.”

Rick Santorum: A spokesperson for the former Pennsylvania senator declined to comment on Trump’s proposal, noting that Santorum will outline his immigration proposal in Washington on Thursday.

But he’s tried to use the issue to break out of the crowded Republican field, saying earlier this month that as voters start to “drill down, they’re realizing Rick Santorum has the policy that is the most pro-worker immigration.”

“Other candidates, including Donald Trump, don't have very strong positions on immigration,” he told CNN’s New Day last week. “The rhetoric is tough, but if you look at their plans, we're the only one rated by the immigration groups with an A rating.”

Scott Walker: The Wisconsin governor quickly associated himself with Trump’s proposal, saying that while he hasn’t read it “the things I've heard are very similar to the things I've mentioned.”

“In fact earlier in the year I was on ‘Fox News Sunday’ and laid out what I thought we should do which is secure the border which means build the wall, have the technology, have the personnel to make sure it’s safe and secure,” Walker said during an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.’” “Enforce the law, which I’ve said for some time means enforcing the law, making sure we don’t have sanctuary cities and that people are here legally. And I’ve said no amnesty.”

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