Candidate Donald Trump is holding two events in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania today. A Town Hall event with Sean Hannity and a campaign rally at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center beginning at 7:00pm EDT:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is lashing out at opponents to his Puerto Rico bailout bill demanding they stop calling it a “bailout”. Instead Ryan demands his opposition use the gaslighting term “restructuring”.
Hogwash.
A bailout by any other name is still a bailout. A taxpayer funded restructuring of debt is still a bailout. Puerto Rico brought this upon themselves. Let them go insolvent and be forced to sell off their assets (ie. land, etc.) to pay back the bondholders.
Ryan’s position contends that if the U.S. government does nothing, then eventually the U.S. government will be forced to purchase all the debt and bail out Puerto Rico (ie. Wall Street bondholders/investors) entirely. More hogwash.
What’s really being done here is Speaker Ryan setting up precedent. Ryan is establishing the very first federal intervention into unsustainable state debt bailout. Effectively if this happens the entire system of U.S. republicanism collapses. (more…)
The latest Maryland Poll (full pdf below) shows candidate Donald Trump leading in all congressional districts and well positioned for a clean sweep of the state’s 38 republican delegates. Maryland Primary April 26th.
Donald Trump with 47% support, Governor John Kasich 27%, and the polarizing Senator Ted Cruz rejected by 81% of Maryland voters holding a mere 19% support.
(Via Politico) […] Trump leads in all congressional districts, though by larger margins in the two eastern districts bordering the Chesapeake Bay, where he leads Kasich 54 percent to 24 percent and just 11 percent for Cruz, and in two western districts, where he holds a 44 percent to 25 percent advantage over the Ohio governor and 23 percent for Cruz. In the remaining districts along the Baltimore-Washington corridor, Trump’s lead is smaller, with 43 percent to Kasich’s 31 percent and Cruz’s 20 percent. (more…)
Candidate Donald Trump appeared together with his family for a CNN Town Hall event on Tuesday 4/12/16. Here’s the full video of the interview and audience questions:
Donald Trump’s delegate and convention manager, Paul Manafort, interviewed by Sean Hannity last night:
One of the interesting aspects to this interview is Ann Coulter discussing the scope of the random support she encounters for Donald Trump from ordinary people. This is a vastly underreported aspect for an intentional reason.
The financially dependent entities (political and media) don’t want the media discussion to contain any indications of the size and scope of Trump’s broad-base coalition. Their unified interests are better protected if the consuming audience are kept oblivious to the vast support Donald Trump holds.
Increasingly, we are fine-tuning our antenna to this critical and overlooked point. Much like Florida, in the run-up to the March 15th primary, there’s an intentional decision by the media to dilute/cloud the appearance of Trump’s support. However, you might remember -despite their efforts- Trump won Florida by over 20 points; and won every county in the state except Miami-Dade.
Somewhat quietly, though not without some water-cooler discussion, the Republican Party Leadership is warning membership to stay away from the upcoming Cleveland Ohio convention.
The media is describing the issue as centering around those elected politicians who may want to avoid the potential for divisive controversy. However, if you look at the actual landscape, and then look at the political ideology of those who are openly saying they are staying away, what you’ll notice is the RINO caucus, the ‘Decepticons’, are the most cautious.
If you spend some time digging through the professional GOPe messaging, what you’ll note is the party leadership seems fully aware something very dangerous might just come to fruition. Not dangerous in a violent way per se’, but rather dangerous in a very political and contentious way; there’s very good reason for this. (more…)
CNN is hosing the Trump Family for a Town Hall Style Q & A Tonight 9:00pm:
Candidate Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in Rome, New York at Griffiss International Airport beginning at 4:00pm EDT:
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