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Former Governor Jeb Bush (Florida) |
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Dr. Ben Carson (Florida) |
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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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Yes the one that Jenny Beth told us to get behind is absolutely the worst choice!
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Trump roils GOP debate scheme
Getty ImagesBy Jonathan Easley - 11/02/15 06:00 PM EST
Donald Trump threw the Republican presidential campaigns for a loop on Monday, announcing that he’d break from a group seeking to gain control over the debate process and go it alone.
ADVERTISEMENTRepresentatives from nearly every campaign — including Trump’s — gathered at a Washington-area hotel on Sunday night to hash out a list of demands they hoped to extract from the networks hosting 2016 debates going forward.
As late as Monday afternoon, Trump campaign officials appeared to be on board with a group letter crafted by Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg, detailing how the campaigns expect the debates to proceed.
But The Washington Post first reported late Monday that Trump would reject the group letter and instead negotiate with the networks on his own.
“As we have for the previous three debates, the Trump campaign will continue to negotiate directly with the host network to establish debate criteria that will determine Mr. Trump’s participation,” a spokesman for the GOP front-runner said in an email to The Hill. “This is no different than the process that occurred prior to the FOX, CNN, and CNBC debates.”
Trump’s reversal on Monday came as news to the rest of the campaigns that, having wrested control of the process from the Republican National Committee, had gathered the night before in hopes of presenting a united front to the networks.
The Hill reached out to several campaigns in the wake of the breaking news, and all were learning about Trump’s decision for the first time.
“He was among one of the first candidates to pull us all together, it seems kind of strange that he’s jumping ship,” said one campaign aide.
Even Ben Carson’s campaign manager, Barry Bennett, who was instrumental in setting up the weekend meeting and pushing for changes to the process, learned about Trump’s withdrawal through media reports.
“From what I can tell, he wants to send his own letter on his own letterhead,” Bennett said, going through his email to see if he’d missed something.
Still, Bennett insisted little has changed and that the group would largely be moving forward as one.
He said he expected most of the campaigns would sign a letter within the next 48 hours that they’d send to the networks requesting information on the debate formats and outlining candidate expectations.
The letter, which is close to being finalized, demanded the candidates get at least a 30-second opening and closing statement and pre-approval of graphics displaying biographical information. It also moved to eliminate “lightning round” questions, which the candidates believe lack substance and contribute to “gotcha” moments.
The campaigns also wanted a pledge that the debates will not run longer than two hours, that the rooms will be kept at 67 degrees, and a general agreement from the networks that the moderators would focus on substantive issues and not pit the candidates against one another using personal attacks.
Sunday night’s meeting was spurred by furor from the candidates at CNBC’s handling of last week’s debate and anger at the RNC, which many candidates believed didn’t negotiate strongly enough on their behalf or communicate the details of the debate formats in a timely manner. A representative from the RNC was not on hand for the meeting.
But the united front the candidates hoped to put forth suffered a crack on Monday with Trump’s announcement.
The Trump and Carson campaigns have talked openly about how their lofty spots in the race earned gave them more negotiating leverage than the other campaigns have over the networks.
“The Trump and Carson campaigns have the opportunity to drive this forward in a good way,” Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told The Hill just hours before Trump backed away from the group. “These two [candidates] are far and away the front-runners, so that’s a factor in who has leverage.”http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/258896-trump-roils-gop-debate-...
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Obama mocks GOP hopefuls
Getty ImagesBy Jordan Fabian - 11/02/15 09:22 PM EST
President Obama on Monday mocked Republican presidential candidates as thin-skinned for lashing out at CNBC over the network’s handling of last week’s primary debate.
“They say, ‘when I talk to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, he’s going to straighten out,'" he said at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York City. "And then it turns out they can’t handle a bunch of CNBC moderators."
“If you can’t handle those guys, I don’t think the Chinese and the Russians are going to be too worried about you,” Obama added.
The high-dollar event at the Richard Rodgers Theatre featured a special showing of the Broadway musical “Hamilton.”
Obama, who took his daughters Malia and Sasha to see the critically acclaimed show in July, said he was “annoyed” he did not get to see it again.
“Michelle and I love this show. It also happens to be the only thing Dick Cheney and I agree on," he joked.
Republican presidential campaigns were furious over last Wednesday’s CNBC debate, accusing moderators of showing political bias, asking unfair questions and not giving candidates equal portions of speaking time.
The Republican National Committee announced last week it would pull out of a planned Feb. 26 debate hosted by NBC amid a revolt by the candidates.
Seeking to wrest control over debate process from the RNC, the campaigns gathered Sunday night to draft a list of demands they hoped to extract from debate hosts going forward.
But GOP candidate Donald Trump threw a wrench into that plan when he announced Monday he would negotiate with the hosts on his own.
The president pointed to the debate fracas as just one example of how the GOP candidates “occupy a different reality.” He criticized their positions on a whole host of issues, including immigration reform, climate change and his bailout of the auto industry.
“According to them, everything was going really great in 2008 … This apparently was the golden age, that I messed up,” he said. “And Obamacare, and immigrants, and taxes and deficits all just messed everything up. And they’re really so glum. They really are so frustrated.”
Obama’s comments could touch a nerve with Republicans, who have been deeply critical of Obama’s handling of the gruff Russian leader. Many GOP say Obama’s weakness in dealing with Putin has led him to expand Russia’s influence in Ukraine and Syria.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/258923-obama-mocks-gop-h...
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Guy Who Moans at Fox News Mocks Republicans over GOP Debate Complaints
President Barack Obama, who has spent seven years complaining about Fox News and talk radio, mocked Republicans at a fundraiser in New York Monday evening over their complaints about the GOP debate moderators.
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Yeah I remember him whining and bitching about Fox new coverage of him when it reported the truth about him. He is such narcissistic piece of work!
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Donald Trump’s Bold Negotiating Ploy for GOP Debate
Donald Trump has rejected the Republican campaigns’ joint effort to negotiate the terms of the GOP debate format with the major media networks, insisting he will negotiate independently.
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GOP searches for O-Care win
Greg NashBy Alexander Bolton - 11/02/15 08:35 PM EST
Senate Republicans are plunging into a difficult debate over ObamaCare as they seek to take up legislation before the Thanksgiving holiday that would repeal most of President Obama’s signature law.
The fight puts Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a difficult spot, between conservatives who are eager to send the repeal bill to the White House and centrists — including a senator vulnerable in 2016 — who are ready to defect over language in the House-approved bill.
House Republicans have already passed a reconciliation bill that would repeal parts of the healthcare reform law and are eager to see the legislation reach Obama’s desk ahead of the 2016 elections.ADVERTISEMENT
But Senate Republican sources say the House bill cannot pass the upper chamber without significant changes, with McConnell short of the votes he needs.
“The House opted to go a certain way. We don’t have to go that way. We have members here who may have different views on things,” said a senior Senate Republican aide. “If it’s not the exact same as what the House did, that’s OK.”
The reconciliation process allows Senate Republicans to bypass a Democratic filibuster. GOP leaders earlier this year promised the tactic would be used to get an ObamaCare repeal bill through Congress, forcing the president to defend the law with a veto.
But the package passed by the House has created two problems for McConnell.
For one, a pair of presidential hopefuls, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), are vowing to oppose any bill that stops short of repealing the Affordable Care Act in its entirety — something that could be exceedingly difficult to accomplish under reconciliation rules.
“Each of us campaigned on a promise to fully repeal ObamaCare and a reconciliation bill is the best way to send such legislation to President Obama’s desk,” Cruz, Rubio and Lee said in a statement.
“If this bill cannot be amended so that it fully repeals ObamaCare pursuant to Senate rules, we cannot support this bill.”
Without those three votes, McConnell would have just a bare majority of 51 for the reconciliation package — but that’s only if he can hold the rest of his conference together.
Several Republican centrists are already on record opposing the defunding of Planned Parenthood, a key piece of the House package that was included to win over conservatives.
GOP Sens. Mark Kirk (Ill.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) have all either voted against efforts to defund Planned Parenthood or stated they opposed them. Kirk is considered one of the most vulnerable Senate incumbents in the country this cycle.
The tug-of-war between centrists and White House hopefuls means November will be a tough month for the Senate majority leader, after having dodged the bullet of a federal default and government shutdown with the October budget deal.
“If you move it to the right to placate those guys running for president, you make it a worse vote for people running in purple and blue states in 2016. McConnell’s between a rock and a hard place,” said a Senate Democratic leadership aide.
Changing the legislation could be contingent on favorable rulings from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who will decide whether provisions in the legislation conform to the rules of reconciliation.
Some Senate conservatives are pushing for their chamber’s reconciliation package to include a one-sentence repeal of the entire law, but there’s an internal argument over whether such a blanket move would pass the procedural litmus test known as the Byrd Rule.
The Senate parliamentarian has provided early indications that the entire healthcare law — including parts that do not directly affect the deficit, such as the requirement that young adults be allowed to stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26 — cannot be repealed through reconciliation.
But she has not delivered a final judgment on the matter after hearing arguments from all sides, according to Senate sources.
The parliamentarian’s rulings could generate significant controversy, especially if Republicans are thwarted in their attempts to roll back parts of the law.
Cruz earlier this month said Republicans should not let the parliamentarian stand in the way of getting rid of ObamaCare.
“At the end of the day, the Senate parliamentarian is an employee of the Senate. Virtually every Republican campaigned promising full repeal,” the Texan said.
The House reconciliation bill takes a targeted approach to repeal, abolishing the employer and individual mandates for insurance as well as the “Cadillac tax” on expensive employer-provided health plans. The House bill also repeals the law’s excise tax on medical devices.
But Senate conservatives complain that it leaves the core of ObamaCare — primarily its hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies — intact, as well as many of the law’s new taxes.
“Many of the ObamaCare tax increases aren’t included in the House bill,” said one Senate aide. “It doesn’t include a repeal of the Medicaid expansion or the subsidies provided by the healthcare exchanges, which are certainly reconcilable.”
But repealing the subsidies, which help offset the cost of insurance for people under certain income limits, could be a tough vote for endangered Republican incumbents in battleground states.
Vulnerable members could also balk at rolling back some popular parts of the healthcare law, including the ban on insurers denying people for pre-existing conditions and the provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26.
“Why in the world are we here on the floor of the House of Representatives passing legislation that’s going to take away affordable healthcare to 15 million Americans, including 3 million children?” Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who is also running for Senate, said when the reconciliation bill passed the House last month.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/258920-gop-searches-for-obamacar...
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Clinton huddles with Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown Families
By Jesse Byrnes
Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met with family members of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown during a campaign swing through Chicago on Monday, according to a Clinton aide.
Clinton huddled with several African-American parents whose children have died in shootings. She is pushing for criminal justice reform and new gun control laws.
Among those family members, Clinton met with the mother of Martin, the 17-year-old killed in 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who was later acquitted, sparking protests.
Clinton also met with the mothers of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old fatally shot in Ferguson, Mo., last year, and Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old fatally shot in Cleveland, according to the aide. Brown and Rice were shot by police officers.
CNN, which first reported the meeting, said that is also included the family of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old African-American high school student who was shot at a gas station in 2012.
Protests over a string of shootings involving African-American men in the past few years, especially following the case of Brown, have evolved into the Black Lives Matter movement, which touches on criminal justice reform.
Activists from the movement have interrupted Clinton during her presidential campaigning, including during a rally late last week in Atlanta focused on criminal justice reform.
Clinton said Monday that the United States has "allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance.”
Monday's meeting underscored "the epidemic of gun violence which demands common sense gun reforms" as well as "the sense of distrust that too often exists between law enforcement and the communities they serve," the Clinton aide said.
"Hillary and the family members discussed the need to deliver real reforms that can be felt on our streets and that can rebuild the bonds of trust in our communities," the aide said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/258922-clinton-meets-with-famil...
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November 02, 2015, 03:53 pm
Cruz moves into third in Iowa polls
By Jesse Byrnes
Getty ImagesSen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has edged his way into third in the early voting state of Iowa, according to two new polls released Monday.
Ben Carson and Donald Trump continue to lead the crowded Republican field in the Hawkeye State, with 28 and 20 percent, respectively, in the KBUR/Monmouth poll.Cruz snags 15 percent support in the poll, with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) following at 10 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 9 percent.
A separate poll of Iowa released Monday by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling also found Cruz in third place behind Trump and Carson, with 14 percent support.
Cruz and Rubio have battled for third place in a series of polls in the state recently. Both received positive ratings after the GOP debate last week in Colorado aired by CNBC.But Cruz had perhaps the most memorable moment of the debate when he attacked the CNBC moderators for trying to turn the contest into a "cage match."The questions, he said, “illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.”Cruz was among several Republicans in Iowa over the weekend attending an annual pheasant-hunting fundraiser hosted by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). Rubio also held campaign events in the state over the weekend.The latest poll finds Carly Fiorina at 4 percent in Iowa and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) each at 2 percent.The survey of 874 likely Republican caucus-goers was conducted immediately after last week's debate Oct. 29-31 via landlines and cellphones with a margin of error of 3.4 percent. -
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A puppet master speaks, he is discouraged because he is not in control of the front runner......
Charles Koch: 'Discouraged' By 2016 Campaigns of 'Vitriol and Dishonest Attacks'
Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said Tuesday that he and his brother David are not yet backing any specific GOP candidate in the 2016 election, and for the most part, he has been "discouraged for a long time" over the state of politics when it comes to both parties.
"Listen, I made a vow," Koch told MSNBC "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in an exclusive, multi-part interview that aired Tuesday morning.
"I'm not going to publicly comment on any candidate. David said some nice words about [Wisconsin Gov. Scott] Walker and that was written up that we were giving millions to his campaign. Do you know how much we've given to his campaign? Zero."
Koch also denied that he and his brother gave money to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. "We haven't given any money to him, but another, some other people who support some of our things gave money," Koch said."[They] gave $15 million to him. That was attributed to us, [but] we had nothing to do with it."
Koch said he's been involved in fighting against corporate welfare and reducing debt for over 50 years, and for 40 of them, he was not involved in politics "because I was so disgusted with politics and both parties."
And then when George W. Bush came along, Koch said he thought that there was hope.
"By 2003, three years later, he was going the opposite way," said Koch. "He was one of the biggest spenders of all time, created more destructive regulations along with the Fed, pumping all this money into housing."
Also, he said that the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issues brought down the system, and the United States "was getting into these economy wars that made no sense to me at that time."
And while Koch said he is a Republican, he has also cast a Democratic vote now and then, and he told MSNBC that he doesn't care which party it is, but he just wants "somebody who's going to advance these ideas, to take us away from this two-tiered system, [from] getting involved in all sorts of unproductive things, and all this waste. Our total funded debt and unfunded liabilities are probably over $100 trillion now and going up to the sky, so we're headed for disaster."
But so far, he does not yet see a candidate "in great measure" who will support the ideals that he and brother back. Koch said he and his brother hope to raise $250 million for all elections, not only the presidential campaign, next year.
But reports that some 150 families nationwide are funding most presidential campaigns does not bother him, depending on the end result they're seeking. Meanwhile, there are two-year presidential campaigns that go on "because the government is picking winners and losers," and as people "want to be a winner more than you do a loser, you give to slant it your way."
Koch said that most of his money will go to his foundation to advance his ideas, and to get to "pick winners and losers, and then we won't have two-year presidential campaigns, because people will realize it's more important to run their own lives rather than control part of government."
And he does expect something in return for his money. "I would love to have the government stop this corporate welfare," he said. "That's what I want. I want the government to let companies, or require that companies only profit by helping make other people's lives better. That's what I want and that's what I'm working for."Koch also pushed back against the public perception that he and his brother buy influence, because "there's hundreds of billions being spent" to keep government big and re-elect incumbents, "and somebody's got to fight it...If we didn't do it, who would be trying to stop this racket? This is a huge racket, this wrecking the country."
But he said he is not worried about the public's complaints about his political influence.
"To get in this business, you've got to realize that Harry Truman is right, if you can't stand the heat, don't go in the kitchen," said Koch. "So I recognize that. I mean people aren't going to scare me off...I feel a moral obligation to help other people learn these and transform their lives."http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/koch-campaigns-dishonest-attacks/2...
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