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Donald Trump

Businessman Donald Trump (New York)
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Jeb Bush

Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida)
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/JebBush


Ben Carson

Dr. Ben Carson (Florida)
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrBenjaminCarson
Twitter: www.twitter.com/RealBenCarson


Chris Christie

Governor Chris Christie (New Jersey)
Campaign Site: ChrisChristie.com
Government Site: Office of Governor Chris Christie
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GovChrisChristie
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GovChristie


Ted Cruz

US Senator Ted Cruz (Texas)
Campaign Site: TedCruz.org
Government Site: Office of US Senator Ted Cruz
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TedCruzPage
Twitter: www.twitter.com/TedCruz


Mark Everson

Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson (Mississippi)
Campaign Site: MarkForAmerica.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarkForAmerica
Twitter: www.twitter.com/MarkForAmerica


Carly Fiorina

Businesswoman Carly Fiorina (Virginia)
Campaign Site: CarlyForPresident.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarlyFiorina
Twitter: www.twitter.com/CarlyFiorina


Jim Gilmore

Former Governor Jim Gilmore (Virginia)
Campaign Site: GilmoreForAmerica.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JimGilmore
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GovernorGilmore


Lindsey Graham

US Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Political Site: LindseyGraham.com
Government Site: Office of US Senator Lindsey Graham
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC


Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (Florida)
Official Site: MikeHuckabee.com
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee


Bobby Jindal

Governor Bobby Jindal (Louisiana)
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Government Site: Office of Governor Bobby Jindal
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/BobbyJindal


John Kasich

Governor John Kasich (Ohio)
Campaign Site: JohnKasich.com
Government Site: Office of Governor John Kasich
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JohnRKasich
Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnKasich


George Pataki

Former Governor George Pataki (New York)
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Facebook: www.facebook.com/GovGeorgePataki
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GovernorPataki


Rand Paul

US Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Campaign Site: RandPaul.com
Government Site: Office of US Senator Rand Paul
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RandPaul
Twitter: www.twitter.com/RandPaul



Marco Rubio

US Senator Marco Rubio (Florida)
Campaign Site: MarcoRubio.com
Government Site: Office of US Senator Marco Rubio
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/MarcoRubio


Rick Santorum

Former US Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania)
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Exclusive: Trump Calls Club for Growth ‘A Pack of Thieves’

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, GOP front runner Donald Trump is firing back at the Club for Growth.

“They’re a pack of thieves,” Trump told Breitbart News as he was leaving Nashville’s Rocketown facility. He had just finished delivering a high-energy speech to an overflow crowd of more than 1,000 people.

Trump was attending the annual convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, which describes itself as “the grassroots Republican wing of the Republican Party.”

“They [the Club for Growth] came to my office looking for money. I turned them down. That’s why they’re after me,” Trump told Breitbart News.

Earlier in the week, the Club for Growth attacked Trump for his proposal to penalize Ford Motor Company for putting a car manufacturing plant in Mexico rather than Tennessee.

“Donald Trump’s threat to impose new taxes on U.S. car companies will hurt the American economy and cost more American jobs,” David McIntosh, President of the Club for Growth, said in a statement.

“It should thrill liberals and Democrats everywhere that Trump wants to create new taxes and start a trade war to force American companies to work where he demands,” McIntosh added.

Trump stopped specifically to address Breitbart’s question as he moved down the exit aisles surrounded by throngs of supporters.

“I love Breitbart News. This is going to be a good question,” Trump said.

Trump did not pull any punches when asked if he had a message for the Club for Growth in response to its attacks.

Other candidates might shy away from calling out their critics so bluntly as “a pack of thieves,” but for Trump it was just another opportunity to take the battle to the opposition.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/29/exclusive-trump-...

Trump Wins Nashville Grassroots Straw Poll With 52 Percent

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — After delivering an energetic 50 minute speech using no notes or teleprompter, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump easily won a presidential straw poll conducted at the annual convention of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, garnering 52 percent of the votes cast.

Tea Party favorite

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
96%

finished second with 24 percent, and Dr. Ben Carson, another political outsider and Tea Party friend, finished behind Cruz in third.

The overflowing crowd of more than 1,000 attendees displayed a number of Trump signs, which they waved with enthusiasm . In his speech, Trump focused on his theme of making America great again through common sense, strength, and negotiations.

Trump showed a flair for personalizing his message, referring repeatedly to a new supporter, a 92-year-old woman in the audience, who told him that she was so impressed with his message that she had decided, for the first time in her life, that she would register to vote.

“And she’s going to vote for, me, I think!” Trump said.

Trump began his speech by praising the Tea Party movement.

“You have not been treated fairly. You know, people talk about the tea party, and you talk about marginalized? At least I have a microphone where I can fight back. You people don’t,” Trump told the enthusiastic crowd.

“The tea party people are incredible people,” Trump added.”These are people who work hard and love the country and they get beat up all the time by the media.”

Trump delighted the crowd with his frequent use of colorful phrases.

“I don’t want it to be about me. This is about common sense,” Trump said.

“Normally I wouldn’t say this, but I need your frickin’ votes!” he added as he smiled broadly.

The crowd seemed to appreciate his down-to-earth language and straightforward message.

Trump promised to “repeal and replace Obamacare.” He also criticized President Obama as a weak leader.

“Obama never read [my book] the Art of Deal,” he said.

Obama does not know how to negotiate, and that weakness is apparent, Trump said, especially in his dealings with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who clearly neither fears nor respects Obama.

The real estate billionaire also criticized Ford Motor Company for its recent decision to locate a new car manufacturing plant in Mexico, rather than Tennessee, which currently has a strong car manufacturing industry with three major companies — General Motors, Nissan, and Volkswagen — that currently have plants in the state.

Trump seems to be connecting with voters in ways the other Republican candidates are not.

When they attend the rallies of other candidates, they often emerge saying “yes, I agree with that.”

It’s different with Trump.

Voters, at least at the moment, seem to come out saying, “I want to go where he’s leading.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/29/trump-wins-nashv...

Trump: I’m winning because Americans are 'tired of being the patsies'

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he is leading the GOP race because he represents Americans who have had it with their nation coming up short.
 
“People in this country are smart,” he told listeners at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies’ 2015 conference in Nashville on Saturday.
 
“We’re tired of being the patsies for everyone,” Trump said. 
 
 
“There is a big, big, growing-by-leaps-and-bounds silent majority out there. [The 2016 race] is going to be an election based on competence.”
 
Trump argued he is surging in national polls because he represents the Tea Party supporters ignored by Democrats and betrayed by Republicans.
 
“I love the Tea Party,” Trump said. “You people have not been treated fairly. These are people who work hard and love their country, and then get beat up by the media. It’s disgusting.”
 
“At least I have a microphone and can fight back,” the outspoken billionaire added.
 
Trump indicated he envisions a much wider base for his campaign than traditional Republican voters next election cycle.
 
“You don’t know how big you are,” he told listeners. “The Tea Party has tremendous power. It’s Democrats, it is evangelicals, it is everybody.”
 
The New York business mogul also vowed he would not succumb to the prestige and power of Washington’s political establishment if he wins in 2016.
 
“They go to Washington and they get weak,” Trump said of Democrats and Republicans alike. “They get there and they see these beautiful, vaulted ceilings and they say, ‘Honey, I’ve made it.’ That won’t happen to me, I promise.”
 
Trump also said he intends on saving taxpayer dollars by focusing his energy on the nation’s capital if elected next year.
 
“I think I’d maybe never leave,” Trump quipped of the Oval Office. “I’d do the fundraisers in the White House. Whoever the [interview] host is would like it better – ‘Hey, we’re live from the White House.’”
 
“Do you know how much it costs to fuel those things?” he joked of jets like Air Force One.
 
“We have so many things to do to straighten out our country,” Trump added. “We can’t waste time.”
 
Trump’s address at the NFRA’s 2015 conference Saturday was attended by many notable figures from the original Tea Party movement.
 
The organization’s president is Sharron Angle, who unsuccessfully challenged Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2010.
 
The NFRA’s executive vice president is Ken Blackwell, a challenger for Ohio’s gubernatorial office who came up short against former Gov. Ted Strickland (D) in 2006.
 
The group is — despite its name — a grassroots network unaffiliated with the Republican Party that counts on Tea Party voters for its membership.
 
Trump is currently leading the race for the GOP presidential nomination across national polls
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Christie: Clinton caught ‘disease’ of lawlessness from Obama White House

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Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) said on Sunday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is careless for using a private email server at the State Department.

“No one is above the law,” Christie told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

 
“Unfortunately with the Obama administration, there has been lawlessness in this country,” said Christie, a 2016 GOP presidential contender. “Apparently Hillary Clinton has caught this disease as well.”

Christie argued on Sunday that Clinton’s actions as secretary of State flaunted her disregard for the laws governing transparency and national security.

He added that she is now presenting a haughty attitude while defending her technology habits on the 2016 campaign trail.

“The worst part about this is her arrogance,” Christie said. “You have to battle and fight questions from the press for the American people.”

“This is not royalty in the United States,” he said, referring to Clinton as “queen.” “This is not a familial ascendancy.”

“She’s wiped away tens of thousands of emails that have relevant information because she feels entitled to do that,” Christie added.

Christie then charged that should he win next year’s GOP presidential nomination, he would offer voters a more transparent presidency than Clinton.

“Everything I have done as governor has been an open book and available to people,” he said. “Hillary Clinton is the exact opposite of that.”

Clinton’s standing in multiple national polls is gradually dropping amid voter concerns over her private email server at State.

Christie, meanwhile, ranks 11th out of 17th among the GOP’s crowded presidential field according to the latest RealClearPolitics of national samplings.

Christie is all over Obama now just way too late , too many of us remember this.



Report: GOP Elites Plan to Take Down Trump With Deluge of Anti-Trump Ads After Labor Day


The GOP establishment is very concerned with Donald Trump’s enduring appeal with conservative voters.
The party elites are reportedly planning a deluge of anti-Trump ads following the Labor Day weekend.
trump scotland

CNN reported:

It’s no secret the Republican establishment is unnerved by Donald Trump and his lead in national and key state polls.

And now, after weeks of assuming his support would be fleeting, there is a debate about how to take aim at Trump — and just who should finance such an effort.

CNN’s Maeve Reston noted that most GOP strategists see risks in having the attacks come from the other candidates or their directly affiliated super PACs. So, she reports, there is conversation about what other group might raise money for anti-Trump TV ads.

“There are a lot of donors out there who see it as much too dangerous, obviously, for the candidates, or their allied super PACs, to go after Trump,” said Reston. “So they’re looking to more establishment PACs to potentially take him down in post-Labor Day ads.”

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/report-gop-elites-plan-to-t...


NEW Trump Online Ad: “This is No Act of Love as Jeb Bush Said”


Donald Trump released a new campaign ad today directed at Jeb Bush.
“This is NO act of love.”

bush act of love

The online ad contrasts Jeb’s statement on illegals coming to America as “an act of love” with photos of illegal immigrant killers.
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It is another effective Trump ad:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/new-trump-online-ad-this-is...

How Trump won summer of 2015

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The summer belonged to Donald Trump. 

The billionaire businessman and reality TV star cemented his standing as the GOP frontrunner in August, kicking off the month with a feisty and unapologetic debate performance and closing it out with direct attacks to Jeb Bush. 

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He heads into the fall with momentum after having orchestrated what Republicans are describing as a months-long clinic in the race for the presidential nomination. 

Trump is leading in the polls; blanketing the airwaves; relishing the role of attack dog against his opponents and the media, and forcing the other candidates to adapt to a race that’s being run on his terms. 

He has perfected a style and message that resonates with the conservative base’s long-simmering frustration with party leadership. And he’s owned the hot-button issue of immigration, successfully driving the policy discussion to the right. 

While Trump finished the month of July atop the polls nationally, few political watchers took his rise seriously. 

But with August in the bag, Trump has Republican strategists and pollsters talking about him as a legitimate threat for the nomination in a battle they now believe could stretch on far longer than GOP leaders intended when they compressed the primary schedule and cut back on the number of debates.

Many who previously dismissed Trump’s campaign as a sideshow and a media ploy are now describing his ascent as “masterful” and arguing that his influence extends to every aspect of the race. 

“The first tier of candidates is just Trump, nobody else,” said Republican strategist Matt Mackowiak. “He’s absolutely dominating.” 

Trump has led in every major national poll since mid-July, giving him about a six-week run atop the field. He leads by nearly 15 points nationally over the next closest contender, according to the RealClearPolitics average. 

Trump’s base of support is broad, with most polls showing him in the lead among men, women, Tea Party supporters, Evangelicals, and Republicans who describe themselves as very conservative, somewhat conservative, or liberal. 

In August, Trump led every poll of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The primary and caucus goers in the early-voting states have historically supported candidates from different points on the conservative spectrum, but all are currently aligned behind Trump. 

Perhaps most striking is how Trump has managed to reverse the negative views most Republican voters had of him before he entered the presidential race.

In a Bloomberg poll from May, only 27 percent of Republicans in Iowa viewed Trump favorably, while 64 percent said they had a negative view of him. In the latest survey released on Monday, those numbers have been flipped, with 60 percent viewing Trump positively and only 25 percent viewing him negatively. 

Furthermore, the Bloomberg poll from May found that 58 percent of Republicans said they would not consider voting for Trump under any circumstances. That percentage has been reduced to only 29 percent in the latest poll. 

“That turnaround is unprecedented,” said Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray. “You usually only see that when someone new bursts onto the scene. Trump has been known forever, so for a majority of Republicans to go from saying they’d never vote for him, to thinking that he’d make a good president is absolutely astounding.” 

Indeed, Trump began with an advantage, benefitting from near universal name recognition from decades in the spotlight both as a New York real estate mogul and as the star of his own reality TV show on NBC. 

In the early stages of the race, many pundits attributed Trump’s polling strength to his fame, arguing that the surveys are largely driven by name ID at this early point in the race. 

But Trump has used his fame and his experience as a showman on TV to whip up a media frenzy that has supercharged his rise in the polls while starving the rest of the huge field of Republican candidates of the airtime they need to gain traction. 

“It shows the state of presidential politics right now,” said Mark Meckler, one of the founders of the Tea Party movement. “It’s become a media show, and that’s something most politicians just aren’t that good at. You get a guy in that arena who is a media master and he’s going to compete with anyone.”

While benefitting from the exposure, Trump has ripped a page from the conservative playbook in attacking the media at every turn. He’s mixed it up with Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly, Univision’s Jorge Ramos, esteemed conservative pundits like George Will and Charles Krauthammer and anyone else who he believes treats him unfairly.

“He’s getting coverage on his own terms,” said Doug Heye, the former communications director for the Republican National Committee. “The only thing less popular than Congress or Washington is the media, so he’s winning when he’s on the attack there.” 

The net effect has the rest of the field struggling to adjust, and Trump has made that adjustment more uncomfortable by instigating political battles that his opponents were initially slow to respond to. 

Trump has mocked Sen. Rand Paul for being short. He routinely calls Jeb Bush “low-energy." He has warned Carly Fiorina not to speak ill of him; ripped Scott Walker’s record as Wisconsin governor, and boasts of his polling advantages over Rick Perry and Sen. Lindsey Graham, two of his fiercest critics. 

Trump ended the month of August releasing an ad attacking Bush's comment about illegal immigration being an "act of love".  

Several top contenders are now rebooting or reimagining their campaigns. 

Bush, who has called Trump the frontrunner, has gone from seeking to minimize his involvement with Trump to engaging in full-blown political combat with him.

Scott Walker has rebranded, touting his Washington-outsider bona fides in a bid to tap into the anti-establishment fervor that is buoying Trump and other outsiders. Others, like Paul and Perry, have essentially refocused their campaigns with the aim of taking down Trump. 

“He’s torn up the political playbook for all of these guys in a different way,” Murray said. “Remember – Chris Christie was once the straight talking candidate, and Walker was the guy who stood up to special interests. Now Trump is filling those roles. They all seem flummoxed by him.” 

Many Republicans still don’t believe Trump will be the party’s eventual nominee, arguing that once the race gets thinned, more voters will turn to more traditional candidates. 

They say Trump’s past support for liberal causes, his penchant for courting controversy, his low ceiling of support among Republicans, and his abysmal polling numbers in hypothetical general election match-ups will send the party rallying behind a candidate they view as more electable. 

But Trump has blown up their argument that his bad polling numbers in hypothetical general election match-ups would send the party rallying behind a candidate they view as more electable. In two recent polls, Hillary Clinton, who was once nearly 20 percentage points ahead of Trump in a hypothetical match up, now is only 4 or 5 points ahead. 

“In 2012 we saw a bunch of candidates have their time at the top,” said GOP strategist David Payne. “As voters get more serious about finalizing their decisions, it will become about who can win in the general election. Republicans have a huge opportunity in 2016. We’re angry and Boehner and McConnell, but we also know we need a candidate that can win against Hillary Clinton. We don’t want to nominate someone who will go down in flames.”

Still, many see a far greater threat in Trump heading into the fall than they did when the summer began. 

“He has celebrity, wealth, a message on immigration reform and trade that has found a place with about a third of the electorate, and an anti-establishment approach that has been very effective,” said Mackowiak. 

“That matters because even if you can undermine him in one of those areas, he’s still standing on three legs. I’m not convinced there’s one magic bullet can kill him. If he’s going down, it will be a slow bleed and take a series of things that build up over time.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/252379-how-trump-won-the-summe...

I like Donald Trump. No teleprompters and no donation begging. He is my kind of guy. So far he is a straight talker and that makes him very different from most or the others.Also I am sick of all the junk mail from others. I have no idea how most of these candidates got my email. I am wondering if sites are selling the addresses of their members to candidates or their campaign.

I like Donald Trump

Me too nice change huh?

GOP contenders just saying no to fight against pot

GOP presidential candidates are by and large staying away from the debate marijuana legalization, an issue once embraced by Republican occupants of the White House.

They have stayed largely silent as support for legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana has gained public support.
 
Fifty-three percent of adults nationwide say marijuana should be legal while 43 percent say the opposite, according to CBS News poll from April. 
 
A Pew Research Center poll from March found a similar margin.
 
Colorado, Washington State, Oregon and Alaska have legalized marijuana for recreational use while another five will vote on the question in 2016.
 
Only New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and long-shot candidate Rick Santorum support a federal crackdown on state policies legalizing cannabis, which is still classified as a Schedule I drug — the most dangerous category, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency.
 
Christie delivered residents of Colorado, which passed a legalization initiative in 2012, a blunt warning earlier this summer.
 
“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it. As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws. That’s lawlessness,” he said.
 
Other candidates have soft-pedaled the issue, preferring to focus on the economy, the federal deficit, national security and immigration.
 
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush opposed a medical marijuana ballot initiative in his home state last year but he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year that he supports the right of states to set their own policies.
 
Bush has admitted to smoking marijuana while attending Phillips Academy, an elite boarding school, in Andover, Massachusetts.
 
Front-runner Donald Trump supports granting access to medical marijuana and letting states decide the issue.
 
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is making a hard play for Tea Party and other base voters, say states’ rights should take precedence in deciding how to address the contradiction between federal and local policies.
 
“I actually think this is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the laboratories of democracy. If the citizens of Colorado decide they want to go down that road, that’s their prerogative. I don’t agree with it, but that’s their right,” he told conservatives at CPAC, echoing language used by Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who’s also alluded to “laboratories of Democracy.”

Dan Riffle, federal policy director at the Marijuana Policy Project, sees a trend emerging in crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls.

“Most of the field has been asked about this and has answered the question a couple of times and has said, ‘I personally am opposed to legalization but this is a state issue and states can set their own policy and I’m not going to use federal resources to go after them,” he said. 
 
He noted that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has equivocated on the issue.
 
“Every time Rubio himself has been asked, he’s kinda had it both ways by saying states can set their own policy but they can’t set federal policy and the federal government has to enforce federal law,” he said.
 
Richard Nixon launched the “war on drugs” in 1971, accentuating the divide between the anti-war flower power movement and the silent majority that he relied on to win a landslide election the following year.
 
First lady Nancy Reagan urged the nation to “just say no” during her husband’s first term, when prosecutions for drug-related crimes began to skyrocket.
 
Both Republican leaders drew a sharp contrast with Democrats of the time, such as Jimmy Carter, who favored decriminalizing marijuana.

Times have changed as attitudes about cannabis consumption have softened among the Republican base.
 
“What I’m seeing is most people are avoiding the issue,” said Alex Patton, a Republican political consultant and pollster. “In most polling I’ve seen, especially in Florida, it’s divided about a third, a third, and a third.
 
“A third says legalize it, a third says legalize it only for medical and a third is for no legalization at all. It’s a highly contentious issue,” he said of attitudes among the Republican base.
 
He also noted that the issue is much less salient among conservatives than it was in the 80s and 90s, when crime was a much bigger concern.
 
The current trend, as epitomized by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one White House hopeful, is toward criminal justice reform, as a growing number of experts recognize that high incarceration rates for non-violent drug offenders put a drain on state and local budgets and impact the ability of ex-felons to contribute to the economy and society.   

Paul has been the most outspoken GOP candidate in calling for the decriminalization of marijuana, even visiting Denver to hold a fundraiser with leaders of the multi-million-dollar cannabis industry.
 
He has teamed up with Democratic Sens. Cory Booker (N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) to end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana, which is now legal in 23 states.
 
He opposes the federal government getting involved in state legalization efforts and has repeatedly talked about the damage severe penalties can have on the lives of non-violent drug offenders and their ability to contribute to society.
 
He frequently tells reporters and potential supporters about an acquaintance from Kentucky who grew pot plants in college 30 years ago and still can’t vote.
 
Santorum, a staunch social conservative, is one of two outliers — along with Christie — in the Republican pack.
 
“The federal law is there for a reason, and the states shouldn’t have the option to violate federal law. As Abraham Lincoln said, you know, states don’t have the right to wrong,” he told conservative talk-show host Hugh Hewitt earlier this year.
 
Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist who worked on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, said Christie and Santorum, who are polling at 3- and 1-percent nationwide, are trying to gain traction.
 
“It’s not as strong a focal point issue for the Republican base,” he said. “It’s two candidates trying to grab oxygen that Trump has eaten up and trying to portray themselves as law-and-order candidates who will bring stability back to the nation.”
 
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has 11-percent support in an average of nationwide polls, has offered mild support for medical marijuana but has warned that it’s a gateway drug.  
 
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she supports decriminalization and letting states set their own policies.
 
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee opposes legalizing marijuana, even for medical use but said in 2008 he would probably not support federal raids on dispensaries.

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