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Businessman Donald Trump (New York) |
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Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida) |
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Dr. Ben Carson (Florida) |
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Governor Chris Christie (New Jersey) |
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US Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) |
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Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson (Mississippi) |
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Businesswoman Carly Fiorina (Virginia) |
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Former Governor Jim Gilmore (Virginia) |
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US Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) |
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (Florida) |
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Governor Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) |
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Governor John Kasich (Ohio) |
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Former Governor George Pataki (New York) |
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US Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky) |
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US Senator Marco Rubio (Florida) |
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Former US Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) |
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Permalink Reply by FreedomRider on
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True, good that he realizes that .
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October 01, 2015, 04:05 pm
Carson jokes about police
By Bradford Richardson
Ben Carson told a joke about throwing rocks at passing cars and running away from police as a kid in Detroit, saying that was “back in the day before they would shoot you.”
“Everybody did it because it was so much fun,” Carson said at the University of New Hampshire on Wednesday. “Because you know those old people, they would sometimes get angry and they would stop the car and they would get out and they would chase you and we would run slowly to encourage them.
“But you know, sometimes the police would come, always in unmarked cars,” he continued. “They’d be chasing us across the field and they would think they had trapped us. There were these fences that were about 10 feet tall. They had no idea how adept we were at getting over those fences.
“Now, that was back in the day before they would shoot you,” Carson said, laughing with the crowd. “I’m just kidding. You know they wouldn’t do that.”The GOP presidential hopeful followed up the joke by talking about his respect for police officers.
“I really have a tremendous amount of respect for the police because they put their lives on the line every day for us, and they are the very last people that we should be targeting,” Carson said.
The retired neurosurgeon also condemned violence against cops stemming from growing tensions between police and minority communities.Carson has repeatedly drawn fire for making comments perceived to be insensitive.
He recently remarked that a Muslim should not be president of the United States.http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/255669-carson-jok...
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October 01, 2015, 12:54 pm
Clinton's support down 18 points in new poll
By Jesse Byrnes
Hillary Clinton's support has dropped almost 20 percent, according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll, though she maintains a double-digit lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The former secretary of State has support from 41 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in the new poll, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), with 23 percent, and Vice President Biden, at 20 percent.The last USA Today/Suffolk survey in July found Clinton at 59 percent support, Sanders at 14 percent and Biden at 8 percent. Biden has since begun publicly mulling a White House bid.
Biden so far has not joined the race at this relatively late stage and is reportedly expected to skip the first Democratic debate hosted by CNN later this month.Clinton is now viewed unfavorably by 51 percent of likely voters, and 39 percent view her favorably. That's worse than in July, when the poll found those numbers at 43 percent to 47 percent.Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley combine for less than 2 percent support in the latest poll.The survey of 430 Democrats was conducted Sept. 24–28 via phone with a margin of error of 5 points. The poll of 1,000 likely voters has a margin of error of 3 points. -
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She will be at 0 and the communist are still going to try to get her to the finish line. She is Soros favored puppet.
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Bush vs. Rubio: The battle begins
By Jonathan Easley - 10/02/15 06:02 AM EDT
The long-simmering rivalry between Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio has finally spilled out into the open.
For months now, the Florida Republicans have battled behind the scenes. The campaigns have pushed opposition research, battled for activists and donors and taken countless implied swipes at one another.But as Rubio bested Bush in the last three national polls, Bush this week pulled back the curtain on the façade. Twice in two days, Bush publicly sought to draw a distinction between himself and Rubio, whose political star rose under Bush’s governorship.ADVERTISEMENT
“Marco was a member of the House of Representatives when I was governor and he followed my lead and I'm proud of that,” Bush said in an interview on MSNBC on Thursday.
“It’s not known,” Bush added, whether Rubio has the leadership skills needed to be president. Bush pointed to President Obama as an example of what happens when the country elects an inexperienced first-term Senator.Rubio has so far held his fire.
Supporters for Bush and Rubio seemed relieved that the tension has finally boiled over. Members of each camp believe they’re well-positioned to take the other head-on.
On the Bush side, donors, bundlers and campaign aides interviewed by The Hill said they were happy to see Bush flex his muscles against Rubio, who many view as his chief rival for the establishment mantle in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
“Jeb has been criticized for not being aggressive enough,” one prominent Bush bundler told The Hill. “You’re going see a more aggressive Jeb Bush from here on out...You’ll see him be more assertive and going after Rubio falls within that context.”
And Bush’s supporters believe he has keyed in on an effective line of attack against Rubio.
They believe that by relentlessly pitching himself as an experienced, reform-minded governor, that conservatives will coalescearound him once the outsiders fade and voters seek a mainstream Republican to lead the party.
“Jeb is easily the most prepared, so he needs to raise that issue. It’s easily the biggest difference between himself and Rubio,” one major Bush donor said. “It’s the biggest difference between any governor and senator. Governors have to make the decisions every day that prepare you to be commander-in-chief on day one.”
On the Rubio side, the message from supporters was similarly enthusiastic.
They say the attacks are evidence Bush is feeling the heat of a Rubio threat.
“I don’t know if he’s desperate, but it’s starting to stink like he is,” said Peter Brown, a top Rubio donor in South Carolina. “He’s on the verge of becoming invisible in this race and all of sudden, look who he’s going after.”Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), who is supporting Rubio for president, said Bush’s portrayal of Rubio as inexperienced won’thold.
“Do you really want to boil it down to who the more tenured politician is in an election cycle when voters have shown no interest in government experience?” he asked.
Regardless, Rooney argued, Rubio rose from city council in the Miami area, to House Speaker at the Florida statehouse, to an influential member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who will have a full term under his belt by the end of 2016.
Rooney said Rubio’s experience as Speaker “herding cats in a statehouse with term limits” required more leadership “than just saying what you’ll veto and won’t veto.”
“Look, Jeb doesn’t want to go after Marco,” Rooney said. “He was hoping Marco would be wallowing low in the polls and would have dropped out by now. But now the guy in fifth place has to go after the guy who is ahead of him. They wouldn’t bother with Marco if they didn’t think he wasn’t taking Jeb’s support.”
The jockeying comes at a critical juncture for both campaigns, which have been slowed by the rise of political outsiders.
Bush and Rubio are neck-and neck in the polls, and while they sit firmly in the second tier of candidates, they trail Donald Trump and Ben Carson by significant margins.
Rubio is in fourth place nationally at 9.5 percent support, while Bush is in fifth place at 9 percent, according to the RealClearPoltics average of polls.
However, Rubio appears to have the momentum. He’s surpassed Bush in the polls in the weeks since the last Republican debate, and looks more like the formidable challenger many believed he’d be all along.
“It looks like Bush has recognized that Rubio is the biggest threat to his campaign in terms of solidifying the establishment vote, so he’s trying to big-foot Marco,” said Republican strategist Ford O’Connell, who is unaffiliated. “It’s not vicious, it’s just a little jab.”
Bush has raised enormous sums of money, put together the most expansive campaign apparatus this side of Hillary Clinton and has landed countless endorsements. However, the conservative base has so far tuned him out, and he has not been the force in the race that many believed he’d be.
Rubio, meanwhile, has long been the darling of the conservative pundit class. But it’s taken him months to scratch his way up to this point in the polls, and overcoming Bush, who has far deeper political ties, will remain a heavy lift.
But following Scott Walker’s stunning decline, Bush and Rubio are now the favorites in the establishment lane of the race.
And even with the huge percentage of support currently owned by the outsiders, many still believe an establishment figure will emerge to challenge for the nomination.
“This fight is breaking out right now because of the way the field has emerged at this particular moment,” the Bush bundler said. “This rivalry between Jeb and Marco is going to drag on, so it was smart to get the conversation around them going now.”http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/255727-bush-hits-back-as-rubio...
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The war of the RINOs should be quite a show.
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October 02, 2015, 08:27 am
Trump: McCarthy might not have what it takes
By Mark Hensch
Getty ImagesGOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Friday that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is stumbling in his quest to be the chamber’s next Speaker.
“He’s not off to a great start,” Trump said on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe.” “I’d like to see someone who is very tough and can negotiate with the Democrats. I don’t know if he is that person.”
McCarthy incited outrage this week by suggesting the House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks is behind Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s falling poll numbers.“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee,” he said on Fox News’s “Hannity” Wednesday evening.ADVERTISEMENT
“What are her numbers today?” McCarthy asked. “Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable.”
“But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happened,” the House majority leader added.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have condemned McCarthy’s comments, with several leading Democrats calling for the committee to be dissolved and at least one prominent Republican demanding an apology.
Trump argued on Friday that McCarthy’s remarks are not helping make his case to replace current Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) at month’s end.
“I don’t know him [but] obviously that statement hurt him pretty badly,” he said.
Trump also revealed during Friday’s broadcast that he would have interest in adding fellow GOP White House hopeful Ben Carson to his potential administration.
“I would love to have him,” he said when asked if he would hire the retired neurosurgeon. “He’s a nice man. So far we’ve had a good relationship.”
Trump added, however, that Carson cannot beat his prowess at negotiating.
“I would say that’s not his wheelhouse,” the New York business mogul said. “[But] he’s running and, if he wins, qualified. He’s running because he’s qualified.” -
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They say he was Boehners right hand man so I am thinking he might NOT be the best choice!
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October 02, 2015, 07:30 am
Trump's silent majority wins in Boehner's resignation
By Gianno Caldwell, contributor
Francis RiveraDonald Trump has made the phrase "a silent majority" a popular one. He uses it to reinforce the fact that many Americans feel disenfranchised and lied to by their elected officials. This feeling is especially pervasive when some Americans think of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the highest-level elected Republican official in the country. He is also the face people see when the media discuss the dysfunction of Congress. Many believe that America needs a new school Speaker of the House: One who recognizes where our country is headed during this pivotal time, one who has the courage to say "no" and one is who is willing to work with both sides of the aisle for the common good — as the pope mentioned in his address to Congress. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) managed a new school Congress with an old-school strategy. Boehner, who is known to be reasonable and have a willingness to compromise, took his lead from the traditions of Congress. This willingness has created contention within the congressional GOP ranks. Why? Because Democrats are generally not seen as willing to compromise on their principles; case in point, ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood funding. In addition, Boehner was known to pass legislation with the help of Democratic votes on major issues when he couldn't find consensus within his party. The most conservative members of the House were often at odds with the Speaker's way of governing; this led to those members giving Boehner an ultimatum, that the Speaker should either focus on the issues the conservative members believed their constituents cared about or battle the conservative members in a race for the Speakership.
This push to remove Boehner from his role provided the momentum for Boehner to resign due to what many consider to be an unreasonable conservative caucus. His attempt to do what former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) did in 1994 with the GOP's "Contract with America" — by working in a bipartisan fashion to bring about some tangible changes like welfare reform, which proved to be effective in pulling people out of poverty — backfired. Boehner also wanted to ensure that the legislation pushed by Republicans wouldn't be viewed as so draconian to the mainstream that his caucus couldn't be reelected and maintain the majority. What the Speaker seemingly hadn't realized is the reason he was empowered five years ago was to change the tread of America. The Tea Party rose for the same reason Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are rising today: The general public is tired of the go-along-to-get-along old-school politics and they want drastic reforms. The landscape of America has changed dramatically since Obama's inauguration: ObamaCare, gay marriage, climate change policy, immigration and tax reform have made some who elected a Republican majority feel alienated. Furthermore, many Americans feel that their free speech and religious liberties are under attack. The balance was tough for the Speaker. Does the Republican majority — which gets unfairly blamed for everything that's wrong with Congress — make the tough decision to shut down the government until there is movement on the priorities of what Donald Trump calls the silent majority, or should the strategy be politics over principles?
The Democratic majority has demonstrated its willingness to put their principles above any and everything and not compromise with the GOP. We know this from President Obama's refusal to negotiate with Republicans on the Affordable Care Act during the last government shutdown. It wasn't the most auspicious moment for the president to take a stand, but he did. Republicans must be willing to do the same. So what's next? The conference will likely elect a Speaker who won't compromise on issues of principle. I believe Democrats will have no choice but to come to the table and compromise because they see the Tea Party's willingness to oust a leader who is perceived as too accommodating to the Democrats, which jeopardizes movement on any of their agenda items. The next leader must have the courage to stand up to any and every one, including the president. This individual must also be cogent when speaking to the American people about the congressional GOP agenda. The hyperpartisan environment that Congress has become will continue as many seek the role of Speaker of the House. Republicans have been winning elections but Democrats have been winning the congressional fight and public relations war; it's time for Republicans to win both.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/255739-trumps-s...
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