Election 2016 and other NEWS

[Love of Country]

REPUBLICAN PARTY:

Businessman Donald Trump (New York) Campaign Site: DonaldJTrump.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump Twitter: www.twitter.com/RealDonaldTrump

Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida) Campaign Site: Jeb2016.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/JebBush Twitter: www.twitter.com/JebBush

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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Former US Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) Campaign Site: RickSantorum.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/RickSantorum Twitter: www.twitter.com/RickSantorum

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[Love of Country]

We already know where he stand on immigration , open borders and amnesty.

[FreedomRider]

They say Boehner was crying today as well, double your disgust. They need to be crying for the American people for all the times they have betrayed us and this country.

[Love of Country]

I agree... the last thing we need is thousands of Muslim refugees trashing  this country like they are doing in Europe.

[charles royer]

to get a Republican in the White House, the GOP needs to nominate a candidate favored by the grassroots. Too narrow? Well, trends in survey research show that anti-establishment sentiment is intense among GOP grassroots voters -- and not going away. Very simply -- and this is the hard reality -- the grassroots -- or a big portion -- aren’t going to turn out to vote for an establishment Republican (short of an existing or looming crisis).

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/the_bare_naked_trut...
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[marrand]

@charles: Don't you think that election of Hillary or Biden is a "looming crisis"???

[Love of Country]

8 GOP hopefuls to make their case to conservatives

 

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By Ben Kamisar - 09/25/15 06:01 AM EDT

Eight presidential candidates, including front-runner Donald Trump, will convene in Washington this weekend for the Values Voter Summit as they look to woo evangelical voters at a time when religious freedom issues dominate the GOP field.

 

With the religious right voting bloc one of the largest single constituencies in the Republican Party, the candidates hope to cement their status as the standard-bearer of religious freedom and win the event’s straw poll. About 2,500 are registered to attend the event.

“Religious liberty is going to become the central issue in this election cycle on domestic and even foreign policy,” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council which is sponsoring the event, told The Hill in an interview earlier this month.  

“Where do you stand on religious freedom? Is your view of religious freedom your ability to pick a church that you attend or is it the ability to live your life according to your faith? That’s going to be a big issue for conservative voters.”  

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson will likely be the belles at the ball, as they typically enjoy outsized support from Values Voter attendees. Cruz has won the straw poll for the past two years, winning 25 percent of the vote in 2014, while Carson finished second that year with 20 percent of the vote. 

But this year's results could be different. In polls this year, both Trump and Carson lead Cruz with evangelical voters nationally. 

Two new polls this week show Cruz trailing among evangelicals. A Fox News poll found Cruz in third place among evangelicals with 12 percent support, compared to 29 percent for Trump and 21 percent for Carson. He came in fourth in a new Quinnipiac University poll with 9 percent evangelical support compared to 25 percent for Trump, 24 percent for Carson and 11 percent for Carly Fiorina.

Sen. Marco Rubio, who was tied with Fiorina for fourth place in the Fox News poll, could build on that standing in his Friday speech. He has recently stressed his view that abortions should be completely illegal without exceptions for rape or incest and has sharpened his rhetoric against Planned Parenthood ahead of the government funding shutdown over the organization like many other rivals.   

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.),dogged in his support of Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses, also is scheduled to speak at this year’s event. He finished third in last year's Value Voters straw poll last year with 12 percent. But he had the support of only 3 percent of evangelicals in the Quinnipiac and Fox News polls.  

Other Republican candidates scheduled to speak are former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.), Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), Gov. Bobby Jindal (La.), and Trump, whose appearance wasn't confirmed until Wednesday. 

Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) had been slated to speak on Friday morning, but after dropping out of the presidential race earlier this year, he is no longer on the schedule.  Gov. Rick Perry (Texas), who dropped out earlier this month, still plans to speak on Friday afternoon.  

The guest list is also notable for the presidential candidates not attending. Former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.), Govs. Chris Christie (N.J.) and John Kasich (Ohio), and Fiorina all will not attend, although all were invited.  

The annual event comes at a pivotal point in the GOP primary as religious freedom issues have taken center stage. The candidates have all widely condemned Planned Parenthood after the release of controversial videos that have prompted a push to defund the organization that's evolving into a government shutdown fight. 

Huckabee and Cruz led the charge of candidates rushing to the defense of Davis, who was jailed for five days because of her religious objection to same-sex marriages. 

Davis will receive the “Cost of Discipleship” award from the summit on Friday night.

Also scheduled to speak at the event is David Daleiden, the anti-abortion activist who has been behind the release of controversial videos attacking Planned Parenthood.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/254826-8-gop-hopefuls-to-make-thei...

[Love of Country]

Waaaaaaaaa and Whatever! The puppet is complaining.

September 25, 2015, 07:54 am

Rubio: Establishment has tried to 'undermine' me

By Mark Hensch

 

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Thursday night that the GOP establishment has harassed him at every stage of his political career, digging in on his claim to be a party outsider.

Rubio argued in Davenport, Iowa, that he had seen meddling from the Republican elites in both his 2010 Senate campaign and his current 2016 presidential bid.

“Four years ago, for the United State Senate, the establishment was actively trying to undermine my candidacy,” Rubio told listeners, according to National Journal.

 

“The truth of the matter is, when I decided to run for the presidency, all the same people that told me not to run for the Senate came out of the woodwork again and said, ‘it’s not your turn; you haven’t been around long enough; we’re all going to line up behind somebody else,” he said.

“And that’s fine,” the Florida lawmaker said. “That’s OK.”

Rubio defied expectations in 2010 by defeating Gov. Charlie Crist in the race for Florida's open Senate seat that year.

Crist struggled with rallying conservative voters, eventually leaving the GOP and unsuccessfully challenging Rubio as an independent instead.

Rubio’s criticism of the establishment comes as political neophytes are resonating with Republican voters on the 2016 campaign trail.

Business tycoon Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina are the top three candidates for next year’s GOP presidential nomination across multiple national polls.

Trump leads the pack with 24 percent compared to Carson’s 16.3 percent, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of samplings.

Fiorina, meanwhile, receives 11.8 percent following her strong performance in last week’s second televised GOP presidential debate.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush edges out Rubio for the fourth-place slot with 9.8 percent among mean national surveys.

Rubio, Bush’s former protégé in Florida, takes fifth place out of 15 total candidates with 9.3 percent voter support of his own.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/254899-rubio-establishment-has-...

[DeeDee]

Yeah Rubio is part of the establishment since outsiders are doing well I guess he is trying to jump on that band wagon.  He fried his goose when he went for amnesty with the gang of 8.

[Love of Country]

Fundraising deadline will test 2016 field

 

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By Jonathan Swan and Harper Neidig - 09/25/15 06:00 AM EDT

The quarterly deadline for campaigns to report their finances is fast approaching, and will be a significant test for the GOP and Democratic presidential fields.

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Here’s what the candidates need to show in their upcoming statements, which will cover their earnings and expenses from July 1 to September 30.

The next deadline for independent super PACs to file reports with the FEC is January 31.

HILLARY CLINTON

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is raising a lot of money, but is also spending aggressively.

Clinton said one of the big lessons she took from her failed 2008 run for the White House was "organize, organize, organize,” and she is making good on that pledge, building a strong grassroots infrastructure in important early voting states like Iowa. Her campaign reported spending $18 million in her mid-year report, triple the amount of her nearest rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

That early spending has helped Clinton build a nationwide ground-game, but she’ll need to keep raking in the cash to keep it going and pay a staff that is larger than that of any other candidate.

That means expectations for Clinton are high. Even a $30 million haul – a good quarter by any other campaign’s standards – would be viewed by many as a letdown, according to Democratic strategist Joe Trippi.  

JEB BUSH

Bush has more money than any other Republican in the race, but has largely depended on the independent super-PAC Right to Rise.  

While that super PAC raised more than $100 million by mid-year — an unprecedented amount at this stage in a presidential cycle — Bush’s campaign team raised only $11.4 million in hard money. He needs to raise more to bolster confidence in his campaign.

Bush’s poll numbers have fallen, raising doubts about his strength. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker left the race as his own polls faltered and it became clear he could not raise the money to support his large campaign. Bush doesn’t want to have the same look on his campaign.

Raising hard-dollar funds is also crucial to Bush because his campaign needs the dollars to control its own messages, run an effective ground-game, travel widely and take advantage of the cheaper advertising rates given to candidates’ official campaigns.

“The most efficient dollars you can spend are campaign dollars,” said Stuart Stevens, the chief strategist of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.

Bush’s team, which is already trimming costs, will also want to demonstrate that they enjoy the support of thousands of small donors. It would be valuable public relations for Bush to be able to brag of broad donor support — and to fight off suggestions he’s the beneficiary of a few billionaires.

CARLY FIORINA

No candidate has benefited more from the Republican debates than Carly Fiorina, who jumped to second place in the recent CNN/ORC national poll.

Fiorina’s surge is expected to boost her campaign funds, which in the July quarterly report were only $1.7 million – a tiny sum that has forced the independent super-PAC “CARLY for America” to test legal boundaries and operate like an arm of Fiorina’s campaign.

Fiorina’s campaign has been promoting her performance in fundraising emails. It will need a strong quarter to convince hesitant donors that they should back Fiorina instead of other candidates in the race.

BERNIE SANDERS & BEN CARSON

Sanders and Carson are perhaps the only two candidates who can credibly claim to be raising their money from small donations.

Sanders, the Vermont Independent challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, is the only candidate currently running for president who rejects super-PACs. He’s raised more of his money in small donations than anyone else. 

In Sanders’s July quarterly report, 76 percent of his $14 million came in amounts of $200 or less. By comparison, less than 3 percent of Bush’s $11 million did so, while less than 17 percent of Clinton’s donations came from such small donors.

Sixty-eight percent of Carson’s money in his July report came from donations of $200 or less. Carson’s campaign claims those small donations have tumbled in at an unprecedented rate since his rise in the polls after the first Republican debate. 

The Sep. 30 figures will be the first test of Carson’s claims, and could influence whether bigger donors back him. Carson has lagged rivals in super-PAC support.

TED CRUZ & MARCO RUBIO

Rubio and Cruz both seem poised for a surge in the fall, and both will want to brag about significant hard-dollar contributions.

The two already enjoy support from strong super-PACs, but to continue their momentum Rubio and Cruz are vying to recruit top staff, donors, and fundraisers from the failed campaigns of Walker and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who both dropped out due to financial troubles.

A number of operatives and donors from both the Walker and Perry camps say they will hear the pitches of several candidates before deciding who to support.

The hard dollar fundraising totals will be key data used by the Cruz and Rubio campaigns to convince top Walker and Perry talent that their team has the best chance of staying in the race and winning the Republican nomination.

JOHN KASICH & CHRIS CHRISTIE

Ohio Gov. John Kasich might have more to prove than any GOP candidate.

A strong financial report would reassure Kasich's current super-PAC donors, who have been spending millions on his behalf to boost his polling in New Hampshire, where he hopes he can beat Bush and become the GOP establishment pick.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in a similar position after two solid debates.

But he also needs to do well in New Hampshire and is polling behind Kasich.

Christie’s super-PAC is pouring money into national advertising, and he needs to convince his big outside donors that he will not run out of campaign funds as Walker and Perry did.

Neither Kasich nor Christie has filed a campaign finance report yet, so the October numbers will give donors a first look at their relative strength.

“We are extremely confident and we will absolutely have the funds necessary to win,” Christie spokeswoman Samantha Smith told The Hill. 

DONALD TRUMP

The GOP front-runner has talked about spending $100 million to self-fund his campaign, but has so far used little money while benefiting from wall-to-wall news coverage.

If the media’s fascination with Trump ever fades, he may need to pump his own money into his campaign to repel attacks from rivals.

When asked on Face the Nation on Aug. 23 whether he was prepared to foot the bill for a general election campaign that will likely cost at least $1 billion, Trump said he was open to being funded at least partly by his supporters.

Trump’s July report – which covered a period of only two weeks after he announced his candidacy on June 16 – showed that he raised $92,000 from supporters and put $1.8 million of his own money into his campaign.

Trump has since boasted that his campaign has “a lot of money coming in” from "small contributors,” and that he would continue rejecting checks with “strings attached” from lobbyists and special interests.

The October quarterly report will give the clearest indication so far of how much grassroots money Trump can expect to support his campaign.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/254808-fundraising-deadline-wi...

[Love of Country]

[Debra Beatty]

There are many who are pushing for Socialism. They do not fully understand what that form of government is and is not. 

[Love of Country]

I agree however, if they had the urge to find out it is a simple internet search to see how it fails the people and is a very cruel master. I am amazed at how many people are too lazy to do the research.

This is how it works when it gets to the Dictator and total oppression part.