How many people knew Ben Carson’s campaign manager, Barry Bennett, is a DC political consultant partnered with Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary Cheney?  “BKM Strategies”

Probably not many…. but do things at least make a little more sense now?

Today Ben Carson suspended his presidential campaign, well, sort of.

Carson didn’t technically “suspend” the campaign, his statement is:  he’s “pausing” the campaign.

The difference?

A suspended campaign stops fundraising, a paused campaign continues the legal ability to raise money; and therein you find the evidence of everything we previously researched and presented about the candidacy of Ben Carson.

For everyone around him, it was always about the money.

The strange thing is it’s still difficult to tell if Ben Carson was actually aware of the objectives or whether he was duped.  Recently he stated he wasn’t quite sure himself. (more…)

2/11/16

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(Via Bob Lonsberry) You’re not fighting Trump.

You’re fighting the people who are voting for him.

The anti-Trump effort being waged by the Republican Party is essentially a fight against democracy.

It’s not that this monster has raised himself up to threaten the ivory castles of the blue bloods, it’s that millions of people have stood up and said, “Enough is enough.”

It is they against whom the GOP establishment is fighting.

And that fight never turns out well.

Donald Trump isn’t Barry Goldwater in 1964, he is Andrew Jackson in 1828. He is going to storm the White House, and he is going to bring his unwashed hordes with him. The Trump campaign is built on the uniquely American premise that the people are sovereign, and that does not jibe with cozy arrangements of the country-club Republicans. For too long, the Republican Party has exploited its constituencies, instead of served them, and the beaten dog is about to bite. (more…)

The GOPe is entirely too predictable.  Former, and failed, presidential candidate Mitt Romney has announced his plan to deliver a full-throated attack upon the frontrunner of the 2016 presidential race in order to protect the party hierarchy from the continued grassroots uprising. (must watch video follows article).  

The Washington DC oligarchy must be protected at all costs.  Mitt Romney won six of 10 contests on Super Tuesday four years ago. In the Super Tuesday contests that took place this week, Trump won seven of 11 states.

BLOOMBERG – The rapidly intensifying effort by the Republican establishment to dislodge Donald Trump from the top of the party’s presidential nominating race will star 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who is preparing a speech for Thursday when he’ll lay out his case against the front-runner.

With Trump’s convincing victories on Tuesday, the single biggest day of voting in the Republican race, Romney was motivated to make a more formal case against him in hopes of keeping him from coalescing more support, according to a Republican source familiar with Romney’s plans. Romney has voiced criticism for Trump in recent months, including his attack last week on the New York businessman’s refusal to release his tax returns.  (more…)

Worth watching:

The election results are linked and discussed HERE, so we’re not going to go into depth and repeat the information other than to pull out some results to showcase the next phases.  Overall it was a good night for Donald Trump with seven state wins.

(Delegate Count Link) However, that’s done.  The more important aspects are: A.) what those results mean and B.) what comes next.

To grasp the meaning we must first remind and reinforce the basic structure of this election because everything is dependent on predicting the future by understanding the past; that means understanding the origin and intents of the GOPe design.

Always remember the various influencers of the next steps are the big money, Wall Street, financiers.  The Vested Interests. They direct legislative priorities, they are the ones with the real agenda which underpins the maneuvering of the GOPe, the Democrat party, and the DC power-brokers who are charged with maintaining the ultimate position of the stakeholders.

We must continually reset our paradigms away from the espoused political media and punditry narratives which are fed by those who coordinate the DC power constructs, ie. congressional and party leadership.  (more…)

MIDNIGHT – We anticipated the need for more than one Super Tuesday election results thread. Hence, we numbered them (as above).

♦√Alabama ♦ ΧAlaska ♦√Arkansas ♦√Georgia ♦ √Massachusetts ♦Χ Minnesota ♦ Χ Oklahoma ♦ √Tennessee ♦ Χ Texas ♦√Vermont ♦ √Virginia

….all had Republican Primary voting contests today.

◊ Politico Link To Results HERE

◊ Decision Desk HQ Link To Results HERE

Poll Close Times – Minimum Delegate Threshold

• Vermont 7:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Virginia 7:00pm (Eastern) Need 5% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Georgia 7:00pm (Eastern) Must get 20% for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Alabama: 8:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Massachusetts: 8:00pm (Eastern) 5% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Oklahoma: 8:00pm (Eastern) Need 15% vote for any delegates √ CRUZ WINNER
• Tennessee: 8:00pm (Eastern) 20% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Arkansas: 8:30pm (Eastern) Must get 15% vote for delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Texas: 9:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for any delegates √ CRUZ WINNER
• Minnesota: 9:00pm (Eastern) Must get 10% vote for delegates √ RUBIO WINNER
• Alaska: 12:00 midnight (EST) Must get 13% vote for delegates √ CRUZ WINNER

Delegate Counts and Distributions HERE

11:30pm We anticipate the need for more than one Super Tuesday election results thread. Hence, we will number them (as above) depending on the volume of inbound data.

♦√Alabama ♦ Alaska ♦√Arkansas ♦√Georgia ♦ √Massachusetts ♦Χ Minnesota ♦ Χ Oklahoma ♦ √Tennessee ♦ Χ Texas ♦√Vermont ♦ √Virginia

….all have Republican Primary voting contests today.

◊ Politico Link To Results HERE

◊ Decision Desk HQ Link To Results HERE

Poll Close Times – Minimum Delegate Threshold

• Vermont 7:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Virginia 7:00pm (Eastern) Need 5% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Georgia 7:00pm (Eastern) Must get 20% for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Alabama: 8:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Massachusetts: 8:00pm (Eastern) 5% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Oklahoma: 8:00pm (Eastern) Need 15% vote for any delegates √ CRUZ WINNER
• Tennessee: 8:00pm (Eastern) 20% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Arkansas: 8:30pm (Eastern) Must get 15% vote for delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Texas: 9:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for any delegates √ CRUZ WINNER
• Minnesota: 9:00pm (Eastern) Must get 10% vote for delegates √ RUBIO WINNER
• Alaska: 12:00 midnight (EST) Must get 13% vote for delegates

Delegate Counts and Distributions HERE

Live stream to Donald Trump Press Conference Below:

9:00PM We anticipate the need for more than one Super Tuesday election results thread. Hence, we will number them (as above) depending on the volume of inbound data.

♦ √ Alabama ♦ Alaska ♦ Arkansas ♦ √ Georgia ♦ √Massachusetts ♦ Minnesota ♦ Χ Oklahoma ♦ √Tennessee ♦ Χ Texas ♦ Vermont and ♦ √ Virginia all have Republican Primary voting contests today.

◊ Politico Link To Results HERE

◊ Decision Desk HQ Link To Results HERE

Polling Close Times – Minimum Delegate Threshold

• Vermont 7:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for any delegates
• Virginia 7:00pm (Eastern) Need 5% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Georgia 7:00pm (Eastern) Must get 20% for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Alabama: 8:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Massachusetts: 8:00pm (Eastern) 5% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Oklahoma: 8:00pm (Eastern) Need 15% vote for any delegates √ CRUZ WINNER
• Tennessee: 8:00pm (Eastern) 20% vote for any delegates √ TRUMP WINNER
• Arkansas: 8:30pm (Eastern) Must get 15% vote for delegates
• Texas: 9:00pm (Eastern) Need 20% vote for any delegates √ CRUZ WINNER
• Minnesota: 9:00pm (Eastern) Must get 10% vote for delegates
• Alaska: 12:00 midnight (Eastern) Must get 13% vote for delegates

Delegate Counts and Distributions HERE