Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 21, 2015 at 9:29pm

Team Trump Lays Out Path to Victory

Seth Wenig/AP

by Breitbart News21 Aug 20151385

USA Today takes a look at the Trump political team’s path to the nomination:

For Donald Trump and his followers, the path to victory is fairly clear.

First, consolidate the leads he enjoys in Republican polls; then turn out enough supporters to win early state contests; then ride a wave of new and energized anti-establishment voters to the Republican Party presidential nomination and beyond. In interviews with activists, analysts and Trump supporters in early voting states, a complicated picture emerges of what it would take to transform the billionaire real estate developer from a front-running candidate to a plausible nominee.

Although not many people beyond Trump’s orbit see it playing out that way, what is clear is that Trump has significant appeal with core GOP voters — and significant hurdles that may prove difficult to overcome.

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Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 22, 2015 at 6:45am

Sweet Home Alabama: Donald Trump Draws Unprecedented Crowd in Mobile

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by Jeff Poor21 Aug 2015222

MOBILE, AL — Friday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on a humid night with the threat of inclement weather, real estate mogul Donald Trump entertained, excited and energized a crowd of approximately 20,000 people.

Trump hit the stage to Lynyrd Skynrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” thanking the crowd and likening the experience to how evangelist Billy Graham might have felt during one of his famous stadium sermons.

During his 45-minute speech, the Republican presidential front-runner took shots at Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, his opponent former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), and Macy’s while doubling on his prior statements about the 14th Amendment and “anchor babies.”

Trump also had a number of elected officials offer endorsements, including Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), who explained to Breitbart News how Trump won him over.

“I think we got to get back to what made the nation great, and that’s free markets,” Moore said. “Political correctness is the problem with the country. It’s not going to cure anything until we go back our conservative values and get with the Constitution and do what this country was made to do and that’s create opportunity for everybody.”

Perhaps the highlight of the evening, however, was an appearance from

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

80%

, welcoming Trump, who spoke favorably of the junior Alabama senator, to his hometown.

“Donald, welcome to my hometown, Mobile, AL,” Sessions said. “The American people, these people, want somebody in the presidency who stands up for them, defends their interests, and the laws and traditions of this country. We welcome you here. Thank you for the work that you put into the immigration issue. I’m really impressed with your plan. I know it will make a difference. And this crowd shows a lot of people agree with that. Congratulations. Welcome, and God bless.”

Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions at Mobile Rally, 8/21/15

Earlier in the week, Trump’s campaign announced he would be holding a campaign event in Mobile at the theater in the city’s civic center, a venue that holds less than 2,000 people.

However, as ticket requests increased, the venue was changed to another room at the same venue, which holds 10,000 people. Late Wednesday, however, that venue was determined to be insufficient and it was moved to the city’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium, which has a capacity of 40,000 and hosts University of South Alabama football games, the Senior Bowl, and the GoDaddy.com bowl.

People were lined up outside of the event’s venue at 12:30 pm local time in anticipation of Trump’s appearance.

Line before Mobile, AL Trump event at Ladd-Peebles Stadium

Alabama will host its presidential primary on March 1’s Super Tuesday, part of the so-called SEC primary, which includes the other southern states of Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Although Alabama isn’t delegate rich, it is uniquely positioned as centrally located to most of those places, and just a stone’s throw from the Florida state line, which hosts it hotly contest primary on March 15, two weeks after Alabama’s

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/21/sweet-home-alaba...

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 22, 2015 at 6:46am

Perhaps the highlight of the evening, however, was an appearance from

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

80%

, welcoming Trump, who spoke favorably of the junior Alabama senator, to his hometown.

“Donald, welcome to my hometown, Mobile, AL,” Sessions said. “The American people, these people, want somebody in the presidency who stands up for them, defends their interests, and the laws and traditions of this country. We welcome you here. Thank you for the work that you put into the immigration issue. I’m really impressed with your plan. I know it will make a difference. And this crowd shows a lot of people agree with that. Congratulations. Welcome, and God bless.”

I love Jeff Sessions!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 23, 2015 at 7:38am

Oops! Jeb Bush Sends Out Poorly Photoshopped Mailer With Extra Black Man’s Hand

Jim Hoft Aug 22nd, 2015 2:44 pm 83 Comments

You’d think with all that big donor cash they could afford to hire someone who knew how to Photoshop?

The Jeb Bush campaign sent out 86,000 flyers to Iowa voters this weekend.

86,000 flyers!

But look what they missed…
Via Downtrend:

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Zeke Miller ✔ @ZekeJMiller

um... photoshop much? https://twitter.com/r2rusa/status/634401700346884096 …

They forgot to erase the black man’s hand when they photoshopped Jeb into the picture.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/jeb-bush-sends-out-poorly-p...

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 23, 2015 at 7:45am

GOP Consultant Lays Out New Genius Plan to Take Down Trump: ‘How Brutus Killed Caesar,’ Get Close Then ‘Shiv Him in the Ribs’

Julius Caesar (1953)

by Matthew Boyle22 Aug 2015Washington, DC3357

The geniuses in the Washington, D.C.- centered GOP establishment have a new plan to take down 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump: Infiltrate his inner circle posing as an ally, then use their fabricated support of him to secretly plot to take him down.

But now they all admit: They were wrong, Trump is real, and he has a serious shot at winning this thing.

“Just like Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca, I was misinformed,” Alex Castellanos, one such consultant, said of Trump in an interview with Bloomberg Politics on Friday. “He’s grown. He started off as the anti-Washington candidate, the angry man’s candidate, now he’s becoming not just an anti-them vote but a pro-him. He’s becoming the Make America Great Again candidate and that gives him room for growth.”

“Anybody who discounts Donald Trump—he’s going to be around through the convention now—I think is making a mistake,” Castellanos added.

From there, the conversation turned to how Castellanos thinks Trump might be taken down—and who might do it. He said:

Well you have two angles to look at that—he’s sitting on a bunch of people down there on the conservative side. He’s sitting on

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
96%

. I doubt Ben Carson is going to do anything about that, but at some point Ted Cruz is going to wake and figure ‘this race is going to end and I’m never going to catch up.’ Then on the other side, the establishment side, you can wait a little longer. Whether it’s a Carly Fiorina or a Jeb Bush or a

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
80%

, don’t stand in front of the tsunami right now and just coalesce—become a better, stronger candidate so you can be in the lead when everyone turns not to Trump but to the anti-Trump.

WATCH: CASTELLANOS DETAILS NEW PLAN TO TAKE OUT DONALD TRUMP

When asked, if he were running strategy for those wanting to take Trump down, how he would do it, he compared the effort to how Brutus murdered Caesar. ” Castellanos said:

The best way to do it is how Brutus killed Caesar. Get real close, snuggle up, and shiv him in the ribs. In other words, hug the message but not the messenger. ‘We understand the frustration in America, we know why you hate Washington. Your country is on the verge of decline, it’s going over a cliff, and nobody’s doing anything about it. We get it. Donald Trump and I agree on that, but let me tell you now what we’re going to do.’ Take his energy, take his heat, and use it to fuel your engine. Turn his heat into your action and be there, you hope, when voters actually get serious about this and say ‘you know what, I agree with him but he’s not a president.’

This is the same Castellanos who just a few days earlier called for a “cleansing” of the Republican Party after what he then expected would be an inevitable collapse of Trump’s campaign. Just a few days later, Castellanos has clearly changed his tune.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/22/gop-consultant-l...

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 23, 2015 at 7:52am

Reuters: Trump Widens Lead in Poll to 32% After ‘Hard Line Immigration Stance’

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by Breitbart News22 Aug 20151697

(REUTERS) – Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party’s U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.

Republican voters show no signs they are growing weary of the brash real estate mogul, who has dominated political headlines and the 17-strong Republican presidential field with his tough talk about immigration and insults directed at his political rivals. The candidates are vying to be nominated to represent their party in the November 2016 general election.

Nearly 32 percent of Republicans surveyed online said they backed Trump, up from 24 percent a week earlier, the opinion poll found. Trump had nearly double the support of his closest competitor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who got 16 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was third at 8 percent.

Even when Trump was pitted directly in the poll against just his top two competitors, 44 percent backed him. Bush won about 29 percent of respondents, and Carson 25 percent.

Read the rest of the story at Reuters.

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 23, 2015 at 7:53am

Reuters: Hillary Clinton Below 50 Percent in National Dem Poll

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by Mike Flynn22 Aug 2015157

A new poll from Reuters shows Hillary Clinton dipping below 50 percent support in her race for the Democrat nomination. Just over a week ago, Hillary was pulling 55 percent support from Democrat primary voters. In Friday’s poll, her support had dropped to 49 percent.

Vermont

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

16%

registered his highest support ever in the Reuters poll, winning the support of 23 percent of Democrats. Vice-President Joe Biden, who isn’t a candidate (yet), earns the support of 12 percent of Democrats. Almost 10 percent of Democrats say they wouldn’t vote in the primary, given the current choice of candidates.

In other words, “none of the above” is currently running 4th in the Democrat primary, just behind a candidate who isn’t running and ahead of three who are.

To say that Hillary Clinton has every institutional advantage for the nomination is an understatement. She has the backing of almost every Democrat elected official, an expansive political network built up over 20+ years on the national stage and an overwhelming fundraising edge.

Clinton remains the prohibitive favorite for the nomination, but, currently, Sanders, Biden and “none of the above” together poll almost equal to her among Democrats.

Interestingly, on August 22, 2007, Gallup showed Hillary earning a similar 48 percent among Democrats. Then-Sen. Barack Obama was polling 25 percent, around where Sanders is almost exactly eight years later.

That year, there were a total of 8 declared Democrat candidates. When Gallup polled a hypothetical two-person race, Hillary had 61 percent support against Obama’s 34 percent. Hillary, at this stage in the campaign, is faring worse against Sanders than she was against Obama in 2007.

In fact, in early September 2007, hard progressives were resigning themselves to a Hillary nomination. From Democrats.com:

There has been no change in the relative positions of the candidates in nearly a year, and in the past few months Hillary has only increased her solid lead. I know national polls don’t predict the results of state primaries, but haven’t seen any state-by-state scenario with a serious likelihood of nominating someone other than Hillary.

For most progressives, Hillary Clinton is our least-favorite candidate because she will not take on the powerful special interests on the issues we care about most. So is there anything we can do to beat her?

Among the biggest bloggers, only Chris Bowers of OpenLeft.com has tried to find a way. His strategy has been to highlight her unacceptable position on Iraq and try to rally anti-war progressives against her.

But there is a simple rule in politics: you can’t beat somebody with nobody. Bowers hasn’t picked his favorite candidate, and most of the biggest bloggers haven’t either. And that’s because there isn’t a perfect progressive candidate.

It is hard to remember now, but in late Summer 2007, Barack Obama was not the obvious, nor chosen, progressive challenger to Hillary. That would emerge later, as the campaign got underway in earnest.

Hillary’s position today, in many ways, is fundamentally the same as it was in 2007. Arguably, however, it is worse. Back then, she was drawing 48 percent, but she was running against two credible opponents, one of whom had been the Democrat Vice-Presidential candidate four years earlier.

Her relative weakness today is not due to a splintered vote in the primary, but her own inability to close the sale with Democrats. Her recent dips in the polls haven’t come from campaigning by opponents, but revelations about her own conduct. Her own scandal is bringing down her numbers. Imagine what will happen when she faces actual opposition.

Exactly eight years ago, hard-left Democrats lamented that they didn’t have a challenger against Hillary. In the subsequent months, one most definitely emerged.

Hillary supporters may face another somber Democrat convention next summer.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/22/reuters-hillary-...

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 23, 2015 at 7:56am

Trump mocks Sanders for protester interruptions

By Mark Hensch

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is taunting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for his recent incidents with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Trump on Saturday said Sanders’ concessions to the group’s activists show he is a weak option for the White House in 2016.

“How is Bernie Sanders going to defend our country if he can’t even defend his own microphone?” he tweeted.

Trump also took issue with reports that Sanders outdrew him when the two men held events days apart in Phoenix in July.

“I had 15,000 people in Phoenix but @politico said ‘the room’s capacity is just over 2000,’ ” he tweeted. “But said Bernie Sanders had 11,000 in same room.”

Trump attracted more than 4,200 supporters at the Phoenix Convention Center during a stop there last month, according to The Phoenix Business Journal.

Sanders, the report said, drew a crowd of at least 11,000 listeners a week later by appearing in a larger room at the same venue.

Trump’s attacks on Sanders comes as the Vermont lawmaker has repeatedly struggled with race relations on the campaign trail.

Protesters affiliated with Black Lives Matter interrupted Sanders during public appearances in Phoenix and Seattle earlier this summer.

He has since redoubled his efforts on reaching minority voters, all while reiterating his long history of civil rights activism.

“The bad news is that racism still remains a much too real part of American life,” Sanders told listeners in Columbia, S.C., on Friday.

“There is no one who will fight harder not only to end institutional racism, but to make fundamental changes in our broken criminal justice system,” he added.

Sanders plans on meeting privately with black leaders while in South Carolina this weekend.

He is also speaking face-to-face with a representative of the Black Lives Matter coalition next week.

Black Lives Matter announced Friday that it has an official platform for curbing police violence and reforming criminal justice in the U.S.

Its new website, Campaign Zero, calls for sweeping legislative reforms at the federal and state levels.

The coalition is pushing for restrictions on the use of deadly force by law enforcement, outlawing military supplies to police departments and training against racial bias.

It is also stumping for a federal database documenting all incidents featuring police brutality, the website said.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/251734-trump...

Permalink Reply by Love of Country on August 23, 2015 at 7:58am

Fiorina supporters slam 'ludicrous' CNN debate methodology

By Kevin Cirilli

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Fox News

Carly Fiorina supporters are criticizing CNN's debate criteria that could prevent the former Hewlett-Packard CEO from grabbing a spot on the main stage at the second debate despite her surging poll numbers.

They say that CNN's decision to include polls from before the first presidential debate will work against Fiorina, who didn't make the main stage at the Aug. 6 Fox News debate in Cleveland but surged after a strong performance during the undercard debate.

"Ludicrous," was how Katie Hughes, communications director for CARLY for America super-PAC supporting Fiorina's campaign, termed it.

"The political class is *still* trying to keep her off the main debate stage, if you can believe that," argued Sarah Isgur Flores, Fiorina's deputy campaign manager, in a fundraising email to supporters on Friday.

A CNN spokesperson could not be reached for comment.

Hughes said "the polls used should at least reflect the most recent attitudes of voters -- to not do so is ludicrous."

Two separate CNN and Fox News polls released earlier this week showed Fiorina in the middle of the pack of the crowded field with 5 percent in each poll.

Fiorina lacked significant national name recognition and was hovering at about 1 percent in most polls before the first debate.

Officially, Fiorina campaign spokeswoman Anna Epstein said that they "aren't weighing in on this topic right now."

"We're in New Hampshire this week and Iowa next week," she said, noting Fiorina's aggressive campaign schedule in the early primary and caucus states.

Hughes criticized the emphasis on national polling, saying that they "support returning control to those who vote in the early primary states."

"Nobody is running nationally," Hughes said. "Placing so much importance on national polling -- especially this early in the process -- starts to take away the vital role that the voters of these early states play."

It's a similar argument that Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, has made. He said that CNN's methodology isn't just hurting Fiorina -- but also other candidates who weren't on the main stage at the first debate.

"My proposal is for two debates, regardless of the sponsoring network, both in prime-time, back to back, with the participants in each selected by lottery on the day of the debating to introduce unexpected spontaneity while treating all candidates fairly," Sabato said.

"In a couple months, if natural winnowing doesn’t occur, then a polling mechanism can be introduced—followed by a cutoff consisting of real votes received, once the caucuses and primaries commence."

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Trump: Immigrants 'walk right past' Border Patrol

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday that border security is so lax that nothing is preventing illegal immigration.

"People are walking across the border right now, right in front of these great people we have,” Trump told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We have wonderful Border Patrol people,” he said. “They can do their job, but they’re not allowed to do the job.”

“People are walking into the country [and] nobody even knows where they come from,” he added. “They walk right past guards that are told not to do anything.”

Trump argued on Sunday that the government’s incompetence on immigration extends to its handling of the undocumented immigrants already in the U.S.

“The government has no idea,” he said. “We have lost control of our country. We have lost control of our borders. The government has no idea how many illegals are here.”

Trump additionally reiterated he favors the immediate deportation of illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds.

“There are people coming, and many of them, you look at what’s happening with the crime,” the outspoken billionaire said. “Many of them are really causing tremendous problems.”

“And they would be out really fast, immediately,” he added of criminal illegal immigrants.

Trump released his official immigration policy platform last weekend.

The New York business mogul has repeatedly called for stricter border security, ending birthright citizenship and forcing Mexico into building a wall on America’s southern border.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-immigrants-walk-right-...

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