5:00pm We anticipate the need for more than one Super-Saturday election results thread. Hence, we will number them (as above) depending on the volume of inbound data.
Team Marco Rubio held a campaign rally today at the Tampa Bay Convention Center in Florida. Only 300 people showed up (max), so the campaign just held the rally in one collapsible room about the size of a hotel lobby. (see pictures of event here)
TAMPA – Marco Rubio is in a bind. He’s down in the polls in his home state against Donald Trump, and if he doesn’t win Florida, he could be finished. The Florida senator is putting it all on the line this week.
The crowd inside the Tampa Convention Center was small, but energetic, and it’s that energy that Rubio says is going to push him over the edge to win his home state.
Rubio brought a positive message, taking the high road in his bitter battle with Trump on his home turf. Before the rally, 10News political reporter Mark Rivera asked about a new Monmouth poll that shows Rubio just 8 points behind Trump in Florida — within shooting distance. (read more)
Only 300 people showed up to #Rubio Rally at #TampaConventionCenter. They expected 5000. Im outside talking to people. 😂😂😂@realDonaldTrump
— The Formidable ☀️Floridian (@FLgirlalwaysUSA) March 7, 2016
A few months ago we shared the entire back story of how the legislative gang-of-eight amnesty bill was structured and blocked at the last minute. After that revealing information was disclosed, research also identified a hidden corporate agenda within Fox News to promote the Amnesty agenda.
Then last week, another story emerged within the New York Times showcasing how various conservative radio hosts were also lobbied, and recruited, to push a more favorable narrative for the Washington DC objectives. All of the activity was kept from the consuming audience by the participants – all of them attempted to justify their willful blindness.
This week a Salem Communications insider steps forth (via email) to affirm all of the previous reports, and add details specific to the instructions from Salem Broadcasting and Salem Communications group:
In 2014 (sorry, cannot recall the date), Salem Radio hosted a conference call with Senator Marco Rubio to address the Gang of Eight legislation and “set the record straight.” All national and local talk hosts were urged to take part. I am one of their local hosts, and what I heard that day was troubling.
Ohio is Governor John Kasich’s home state, and he should do very well there while he controls the Republican apparatus. (full pdf below)
OHIO – […] The bottom has really fallen out on Marco Rubio’s image. For much of the year he’s been among the best liked of the Republican candidates, even if he wasn’t voters’ first choice. Now he’s the least popular candidate, with only 33% of voters seeing him favorable to 51% who have an unfavorable opinion. Even when you combine first and second choices Rubio’s still in a distant last place with 22% to 55% for Kasich, 46% for Trump, and 28% for Cruz. (more…)
Just about every political enterprise in the known universe is spending millions on negative attack ads against Donald Trump in Florida. Some reports put the spending over $50,000,000 per week.
Approximately 14-18% of all broadcast commercials -depending on media market- are targeting Trump. For perspective that’s approximately one-tenth the money spent by Mitt Romney in 2012 attacking Newt Gingrich – and that level alone was brutal.
Today candidate Donald Trump began to push back:
.@MittRomney: I am supporting 3 of the candidates right now. @tedcruz @marcorubio & @JohnKasich #FNS
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) March 6, 2016
Staying focused on the Bigger Issues being skipped by Presidential candidates.
Obamacare was never about providing more coverage or lowering the cost of said coverage. Obamacare was constructed in 2009/2010 for one reason and one reason only, to shift the cost of healthcare away from the private sector and into the hands of government.
The cost of union healthcare coverage was rising at an unsustainable rate. Union contracts were historically negotiated with exceptionally generous terms for Health Care Insurance plans and healthcare benefits as a whole.
In the short-term these contracts were great, however in the longer term these contracts were unsustainable.
Enter SEIU President Andy Stern, the 2009/2010 most frequent visitor to the White House. Stern, as head of the Service Employees International Union, was in a desperate situation – the pension and retirement benefits of his unionized workers was beyond the scope of receipts to keep pace. (more…)
For those who missed last nights Democrat debate, there was a very substantive back-and-forth between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton regarding the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership deal (TPP).
Bernie Sanders has been a long-time opponent to TPP, and Hillary Clinton only recently opposing it. Some would say: predictably due to the poll-tested opposition amid the party.
As Bernie pointed out Hillary’s ‘come-to-Jesus-moment’ on the issue, he also brought a secondary and semi-related subject into the foray by discussing the Import/Export bank authorization (part of the Omnibus financial deal).
Sanders voted (in the minority position) against the Import/Export bank reauthorization as a matter of principle. Readers will note that Senator Ted Cruz, and a majority of ‘conservatives’ also don’t like the crony capitalism within the I/E bank.
Ted Cruz’s opposition to the I/E reauthorization was/is so strong, it was the basis for him claiming a complete reversal of advocacy for the TPP deal.
Senator Mitch McConnell purchased the votes for the TPP deal (in June) by promising several Democrats he would reauthorize the I/E bank funding in the Omnibus (December) spending bill. This McConnell quid-pro-quo arrangement was “The Lie” that Ted Cruz pointed out on the Senate floor.
Just to be clear, Senator Ted Cruz was for TPP (his own bill) until McConnell added I/E reauthorization promises; at which time Cruz was no longer in favor of TPP.
Senator Ted Cruz supported TPP, but opposed funding the Import Export bank.
Last year when we were begging people to vet Ted Cruz, we stated the GOPe (Rove) would destroy Cruz via his affiliations with religious bigotry.
Donald Trump crushed the GOPe road-map, wiped out their splitter strategy, and stopped the GOPe team from deploying their pre-scripted weapons against Cruz. It became more useful to keep Cruz in the race than eliminate him and face a certain Trump nomination.
However, that doesn’t mean those same strategies are still not waiting to be used.
Tomorrow pastor Ted Cruz is actually going to rally in Ellisville Mississippi with far-right religious nutter Brian Fischer who is a proponent for arresting gays and lesbians, and enacting the same laws as Russia banning homosexuality.
Fischer is way, way out there. Apparently there’s no extremist too severe for Ted Cruz. (more…)
The progressive media embed who relishes undermining American sovereignty, Chris Wallace, scripted the Sunday conversation with Rush Limbaugh and Mitt Romney. (Two videos below).
In the first segment Wallace discusses the severely fractured Republican party with Rush Limbaugh; who, as always, finds a way to obfuscate, and weave, in and out of intellectual honesty and propaganda – the consummate squish providing just enough evidence to keep the sheeple audience protecting his ridiculous positions.
In the first part of the Limbaugh segment, Rush rightly points out the goal of the GOP party apparatus is always to retain ownership of a small controllable tent. This is why the GOPe want independent-minded, “common sense” folks to consistently feel marginalized and leave the Republican party. The GOPe controls their side of the UniParty equation much easier without those pesky unwashed masses disrupting their banquets.