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September 23, 2015, 04:26 pm
Poll: Rubio passes Jeb for second place in Florida
By Mark Hensch
Getty ImagesSen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has passed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush for second place in their home state’s GOP presidential primary, according to a Florida Atlantic University poll.Rubio got 19.2 percent support in the Sunshine State, ahead of Bush's 11.3 percent. Businessman Donald Trump leads the poll with 31.5 percent."Marco Rubio being that far ahead of Jeb Bush is surprising,” Kevin Wagner, an associate professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University, told The Sun Sentinel. “Some of the early Florida polling suggested that Bush was in a stronger position.”ADVERTISEMENTRetired neurosurgeon Ben Carson checks in fourth in FAU's sampling, with 10.3 percent support, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina follows at 8.3 percent.The poll, taken after last week’s Republican presidential debate in Simi Valley, Calif., surveyed 352 likely Republican primary voters in Florida from Sept. 17-20 with a 5.2 percent margin of error.Bush is trying to hold off Rubio for third place in national polls, behind Trump and Carson.The former governor takes 7.8 percent support in a RealClearPolitics average of national surveys, ahead of Rubio's 7.3 percent.Trump leads the RealClearPolitics average with 28.5 percent, and Carson sits in second with 18.8 percent. -
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These two are of no interest to me at all.
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Dems want bigger role for Bill Clinton
By Amie Parnes - 09/23/15 08:49 PM EDT
Democratic fundraisers are urging Hillary Clinton to make Bill Clinton a bigger part of her presidential campaign, particularly when it comes to fundraising.
The donors, who have contributed some of the biggest checks to President Obama and the Democratic Party, are disappointed by the lack of face time, overall communication and gratitude from Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail.
“Fundraising is not a natural strong suit for Hillary,” one top Democratic fundraiser bluntly said.ADVERTISEMENT
Hillary Clinton is “lacking a certain personal touch,” the person said. The source added that the former secretary of State “publicly, is a little stiff.”
Donors think Bill Clinton, who so far has been on the sidelines of his wife’s presidential bid, could fill a void for the campaign.
“She doesn’t come across as naturally comfortable in these settings,” the donor said. “Bill Clinton is the complete opposite. The more social an environment, the more at ease he feels.”
Bill Clinton is starting to make the rounds at fundraisers — he attended his first two big-dollar events in Chicago last week. And the Clinton campaign says there are plans for the former president to appear at more fundraisers for his wife this fall.
Clinton — who famously opened up the Lincoln Bedroom during his presidency — is also set to attend fundraisers for Priorities USA, the super-PAC backing his wife’s bid.
After playing a huge role in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, the “explainer in chief” has seldom appeared alongside his wife at campaign events in this cycle.
It’s all part of a strategy by the Clinton campaign, particularly at the beginning of the presidential race, to avoid a repeat of 2008, when Bill Clinton overshadowed his wife at times and made some controversial comments that caused unneeded headaches for her campaign.
This time, the idea was to put Hillary Clinton front and center for voters.
“I think it’s important, and Hillary does too, that she go out there as if she’s never run for anything before and establish her connection with the voters,” the former president told Town & Country magazine in April. “And that my role should primarily be as a backstage adviser to her until we get much, much closer to the election.”
J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire venture capitalist and longtime Clinton donor who hosted the Chicago fundraiser that Bill Clinton attended last week, said in an interview on Tuesday that he has not heard the consternation from those in the donor world.
Calling the donors who voiced complaints “outliers,” he said most want to hear from Hillary Clinton herself.
“She’s listening to the voters and putting her views out there on her own,” Pritzker said. “She’s running as her own candidate.”
“I don’t think it has been a hindrance to the campaign that he hasn’t been out there,” he said of the former president.
But a number of donors contacted by The Hill say a campaign criticized as lackluster so far could use Bill’s personal touch.
Since the start of the campaign in April, there has been very little, if any, interaction in person with either Clinton, particularly for Obama’s biggest fundraisers, they say.
Face time with the candidate has been limited to brief grip-and-grins in photo lines after an event, with no phone calls and few meetings with small groups.
The sentiment that Hillary Clinton isn’t doing enough for donors is echoed far and wide among the relatively small circle of people who like to feel appreciated not only for writing large checks but for their countless hours fundraising for the candidate.
The former secretary of State has attended a number of fundraisers around the country, including one Tuesday in Dallas, where hosts Marc and Wendy Stanley raised more than $27,000, according to a campaign official.
But that hasn’t been enough, say unhappy fundraisers, who also warn they could flock to Vice President Biden if he decides to enter the Democratic race.
“The assumption is that everyone is just going to get behind them because they’re the only game in town,” the donor said. “But this is why there’s an opening for someone like Joe Biden.”
“If this was a business, you’d never run it that way,” the donor said. “I’ve been unbelievably shocked by the lack of basic courtesy.”
A second donor, who has given money to the Clinton campaign, agreed. “There needs to be more than a 10-second
photo-op in a long photo line. The campaign needs someone to cultivate these relationships. The person who can do that ably is Bill Clinton.”Pritzker conceded that Bill Clinton “may be one of the best retail politicians in my lifetime, so that makes him one heck of a good surrogate.”
He said the former president’s first two fundraisers last week in Chicago were successful and “very well attended,” and he expects that his presence at other big-dollar events will only help.
“There is no better surrogate for a candidate,” he said. “He is out there now and he is helping and it can only be a big plus for the campaign.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/254724-dems-want-bigger-role-f...
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Proof Democrats are very desperate.
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September 23, 2015, 04:23 pm
Cruz: Republicans can win shutdown fight
By Jordain Carney
Greg NashSen. Ted Cruz is doubling down on his shutdown strategy, suggesting Republicans can win the battle on defunding Planned Parenthood if they hold the line against President Obama."If Republican leadership actually tried to win, we would vote on one bill after another funding specific parts of the federal government," the Texas Republican wrote in a Politico op-ed Wednesday. "After President Obama forced the 2013 shutdown over Obamacare, predictions of electoral calamity proved false; instead, Republicans won a landslide victory in 2014."
Cruz, who is running for president, wants to use a government spending bill to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of a series of controversial videos. He's also urged his colleagues to promise to vote no on a short-term spending bill that funds the organization, though he sidestepped a question this week about if his colleagues had signed onto his letter.
A procedural vote on Thursday to move forward with a spending bill that defunds Planned Parenthood is expected to fail to get the 60 votes needed. After that, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to tee up a "clean" spending bill, though he's remained tightlipped about his plans.
Cruz suggested the government spending fight is the latest example of Republican leadership responding "to every challenge by surrendering at the outset."
"The core of this capitulation comes from Republican leadership’s promise that 'There will be no government shutdown,'" he added. "On its face, the promise sounds reasonable. Except, in practice, it means that Republicans never stand for anything."
Wednesday's op-ed is by no means the first time Cruz has publicly criticized McConnell's strategy in the battle over Planned Parenthood and how to avert a potential government shutdown ahead of an end-of-the-month deadline.
He said Tuesday that "the position of Republican leadership boils down to this: They will support 100 percent of the priorities of Democrats."
"Today, the leader in the Senate is Harry Reid because Republican leadership has said nothing will pass without Harry Reid's support," he added. "Today, the leader in the House is Nancy Pelosi."He added on Wednesday that Republican leadership "loves show votes" and "wants and expects grassroots voters to be satisfied with these meaningless show votes."Cruz suggested that there's a separate path where Republicans "actually do what we said we would do," and if Obama — whom he compares to the Terminator in relentlessness — upholds his pledge to veto a spending bill that defunds Planned Parenthood, "we should force him to defend that radical position."
Congress has until Oct. 1 to pass a government spending bill, but Cruz's rhetoric is already drawing criticism from his Senate Republican colleagues.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), who voted earlier this year to move forward with legislation to defund Planned Parenthood, said Tuesday that she's "tired of the people on my side of the aisle who have been pushing this strategy."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/254692-cruz-...
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I hope they get planned parenthood defunded. Cruz sure steps up to the plate when he needs to.
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September 23, 2015, 06:23 pm
Carson: Black people treated 'extremely well' in the GOP
By Mark Hensch
Getty ImagesGOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Wednesday that Republicans have “done a far better job than Democrats in getting over racism.”
“I find black Republicans are treated extremely well in the Republican Party,” Carson said during a campaign stop in Jackson, Mich., according to The Detroit Free Press.
“I hear a lot about what you believe and the kind of principles you’re espousing,” Carson said of the party. “I think that’s far more important.
Carson also weighed in on same-sex marriage during the campaign event.
“I have nothing against gay people whatsoever, but I’m a pragmatic person and I realize that if you change the definition for marriage for one group, what right do you have to stop changing it for the next group and the next group?” he asked.
“Any two adults, regardless of orientation, if they want to live together, draw up documents to share property — so be it,” Carson added. “But why do you need to impose your values on everybody else?”
Carson additionally addressed the recent controversy surrounding his remarks about Muslim presidential candidates.
He argued on Wednesday that his remarks on Islam were about its adherents placing their faith ahead of Constitutional law.
“We have an American culture and an American Constitution, and anybody who’s going to occupy the White House should be living in a pattern that is consistent with our Constitution and with our culture,” Carson said.
“There is something that is known as the American way, the American dream,” he said. “Why in the world would we want to give away our principles and values for the sake of political correctness?”
“That would be the biggest mistake we could ever make,” he added.
Carson on Sunday said he would not support a Muslim seeking the Oval Office.
“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that morning. “I absolutely would not agree with that.”
Carson has since repeatedly said that he merely opposes the idea of Islam’s Sharia law guiding presidential candidates instead of the Constitution.
He ranks second in the race for next year’s GOP presidential nomination with 18.8 percent, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of samplings.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/254692-cruz-...
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TRUMP GOES OFF – BLASTS RICH LOWRY After Conservative Pundit Talks About “His Balls” on Kelly File
This deserves a separate post—-
National Review editor and FOX News contributor, Rich Lowry attacked Donald Trump again tonight on The Kelly File.
Lowry attacks Trump frequently on FOX News. Tonight, Lowry said Carly Fiorina cut off his balls with the precision of a surgeon.
Look Trump attacks everyone but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here is that last debate. Let’s be honest, Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon.
Via The Kelly File
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Globalist Murdoch is going full bore against Donald for all the good it will do. He will not be backing down on that we can rely.
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September 24, 2015, 07:56 am
Trump goes into attack mode
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump went on the offensive on Thursday morning, attacking cable networks, slamming several presidential rivals and pushing back on Pope Francis.
Trump reiterated claims that Fox News had treated him unfairly before knocking "another hit job" from a CNN reporter covering an event on Wednesday in South Carolina
"It was sort of interesting yesterday. Your reporter in South Carolina was absolutely terrible," Trump told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day."
Trump was pushing back on the network's reporting that noted sparse attendance at the South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce event and low turnout among black supporters.
"The room was full, every seat was full," Trump said.
"When I went to the stage, everybody rushed forward ... they all rushed to the front of the room," Trump said on CNN. "When they did that, you had half the seats in the back empty because everybody was standing in the front."
"You can tell Jeff Zucker, I think it was terrible and disgusting reporting," Trump added, referring to the network's president.
Trump also knocked GOP presidential rival Marco Rubio, 44, describing the Florida senator from as a "kid," adding on CNN that "I know about Syria more than Marco Rubio knows about Syria."
During another phone interview Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the real estate tycoon also clarified his attack from the previous day on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as "shrill," saying the term didn't apply only to women, saying it also applied to rival Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Trump has maintained his position atop the crowded GOP field in several recent polls, though he has slipped 3 percentage points to 25 percent in a new Quinnipiac University poll.
During the CNN interview, Trump was also asked about Pope Francis's speech before U.S. bishops at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. the previous day in which he spoke warmly of immigrants to the America.
"Perhaps it will not be easy for you to look into their soul; perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity. But know that they also possess resources meant to be shared. So do not be afraid to welcome them," Francis said in his speech.
"I think his words are beautiful and I respect the pope and I like the pope very much," Trump said, before pushing back on his support for immigrants, saying "we cannot afford this process" of immigration and highlighting crime being imported by those in the country illegally.
Trump also pushed back on the pontiff's remarks encouraging action on climate change, saying on CNN, "I think that clean air is a pressing problem ... I am not a believer in climate change."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/254758-trump...
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Got to admire him he is not taking any crap and not backing down.
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