Candidate Donald J Trump will be holding two events in Iowa today. The first in Marshalltown at 6:00pm (Eastern), the second in Iowa City at 8:30pm (Eastern)
Mr. Trump is anticipated to have a few people joining him to give their endorsements and show their support. The first event is at the Marshalltown Community School District Roundhouse Gymnasium at 6:00pm:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream Link #2 – Alternate Live stream Link #3
..”We are not electing a pastor … We are electing a President to lead a nation”..
(Via U.S.A. Today) Donald Trump picked up an endorsement Tuesday from a prominent evangelical, Jerry Falwell Jr.
In announcing his endorsement of the businessman’s presidential bid, the president of Liberty University described Trump as “a successful executive and entrepreneur, a wonderful father and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.”
Politics is a risky business – a deliberate business – with very specific decisions; and as a direct consequence when you cross a particular line in opposition you point yourself in a very specific direction. Candidate Cruz has also now affirmed himself as a rigid ideologue.
At 6:30pm today, as a direct result of an official campaign position and not one stemming from a Super-PAC, candidate Ted Cruz officially put himself onto a singular path which leads to either:
A) his own victory, or B) a later endorsement of Jeb Bush/Marco Rubio.
The grand jury was charged with looking into whether or not Planned Parenthood violated the law as evidenced in the undercover videos. However, in an unexpected turn of events, the activists involved in the expose’ are now indicted.
(Via Fox News) A grand jury in Houston investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood allegations of misconduct instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the organization on Monday.
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in a statement that the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs.
Another center employee, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record. (more…)
This has definitely been on of the most interesting election cycles in the past 40 years, and it’s no where close to being over yet. However, once this primary is decided, it would be great to discover who thought combining Glenn Beck with Ted Cruz would be a good thing.
Here’s a video recap courtesy of Mr. Pinko from iOTW:
This gobsmackingly ridiculous stunt did a hundred fold more damage than anything Donald Trump, or any other candidate, could ever have accomplished.
Byron York – Dateline New Hampshire […] At the gathering’s dinner Friday night, I sat next to former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and his wife Nancy. When we talked about the presidential race — a race in a state whose ground-level politics Sununu knows better than almost anyone — Sununu must have said some version of “I don’t know what is going on” about a dozen times…. (more…)
Candidate Donald Trump takes a commanding lead (34%) in the latest Fox News Iowa poll (full pdf below). Ted Cruz comes in second at 23% and Marco Rubio 12%. No other candidate comes close.
However, additionally worth noting is the under representation of several electorate flags (ex. cell phone users) which would add confidence the impression that even with these results, the size of Donald Trump’s support is understated.
This baseline polling probability is enhanced when you review the Margin-of-Error for the sub-groups. Obviously, all of this is exceptional news for Donald Trump with a week left before Iowa caucuses… (more…)
Yesterday, well, actually Friday, the release of the information was yesterday, Vice-President Joe Biden met in Turkey with President Recep Erdogan. They met for several hours as reported in The Hill and the topic was an escalated U.S./Turkish military footprint against ISIS :
Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday said the U.S. and regional ally Turkey are prepared to seek a military solution in Syria to try to solve the nation’s five-year-long civil war.
Speaking after a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul, Biden stressed that a political solution to the problem would still be preferable.
“But we are prepared if that’s not possible to having a military solution to this operation and taking out Daesh,” he said, according to AFP, using another name for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Most of you knew this was going to be a wild ride. Heck, many knew back in June 2015 when candidate Donald Trump entered the race this was going to be unlike anything we’d ever seen. Boy howdy, was that ever an understatement
Going all the way back to the spring of 2014 those who didn’t fall into the emotional chasm, which surrounds candidate advocacy, saw the makings of a really strange situation possible. Today many of those possibilities are now front and center.
In Iowa…. candidate Ted Cruz takes to the stage next to Glenn Beck to accept a quickly structured endorsement to stem the electoral collapse. If pictures are worth a thousand words, the look on Senator Cruz’s face is, well, priceless:
And really, who can blame him….. poor Ted eh’?
After all, the endorsement comes from a man who uses a radio and media platform to continually decry “identity politics” yet uses the event to proclaim his anointed candidate based on what else, ethnic identity: (more…)
For the sake of brevity, I’m going to accept that most readers here are familiar with who is funding and directing Jeb Bush, and in larger, more consequential measures, the DC apparatchik in charge of U.S. Policy, ie. Wall street.
During the recent South Carolina debate, and in response to Trump pointing out a necessary shift in trade position (a shift to put American interests first – a shift to stop the dependency on cheap import goods – a shift to use China’s dependency on access to our market to OUR advantage), Jeb Bush came back with an example of Boeing manufacturing.
Donald Trump, responding to Jeb’s Boeing example, pointed out China is forcing Boeing to open a manufacturing plant in China. As typical from a candidate who is unfamiliar and unbriefed on the issue Jeb looked back incredulously and said:
“C’mon man”…
There you have it. (more…)