The #12 republican primary GOP debate is tonight at 8:30pm EST on CNN.  The stakes are high for all of the candidates.  Florida is the home state for Senator Marco Rubio and he’s currently behind in most polls.

The Florida primary is March 15th along with Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina. Those five (“Super-Tuesday 2.0”) states will deliver winner-take-all delegates which could effectively end the candidacy of almost all current contenders.

CNN is broadcasting the debate live at 8:30pm.  The debate is sponsored by CNN, The Washington Times and The Salem Media Group.

• CNN is the propaganda outlet for modern progressive thought.
• The Washington Times represents the DC professional machine.
• Salem Media Group (Hugh Hewitt) is an advocacy group for Marco Rubio.

Senator Ted Cruz is anticipated to once again tag-team with Senator Marco Rubio and go nasty toward candidate Donald Trump.  John Kasich will attack as needed.

Following a meeting of Wall Street donors and DC political strategists, the Cruz campaign has shifted strategy and announces a “Stop Trump” focus on North Carolina, Missouri and Illinois.

CNN shares some of in insider details as provided by Kellyanne Conway a CNN contributor, pundit and current head of the pro-Cruz Super-PAC Keep the Promise.

(Via CNN) […]  Keep the Promise, the main cluster of independent groups backing Cruz, is preparing to spend $4.1 million in a quartet of states that vote on March 15: Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina. It is passing entirely on Florida, Rubio’s home state, where he trails national frontrunner Donald Trump badly in polls.

“We’re no longer doing anti-Rubio ads in Florida, because it appears he can lose Florida all by himself,” said Kellyanne Conway, the group’s president. “He doesn’t need our help.”

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From the outset the broadcast media have intentionally not mentioned the weak technical campaign strategy of Ohio Governor John Kasich.  The foundational reason for the lack of ground-work was simply that Kasich was never supposed to be a national GOPe candidate.

Just like Rubio in Florida, Pataki in Illinois, Gilmore and Fiorina in Virginia, Perry in Texas and Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, Kasich’s role was to block a momentum candidate by splitting the voting base in Ohio.  Each of these candidates had a role to play in the GOPe road map for Jeb Bush.

However, when Donald Trump overwhelmed the “splitter strategy“, and eventually when Bush was forced to drop out of the race, the GOPe road-map shifted from “splitting” to “blocking“.   John Kasich’s role shifting accordingly.  Unfortunately, Kasich is not on all the ballots where the GOPe need has shifted.  (more…)

Stuttering candidate Ted Cruz takes his GOPe rhetoric to new lows and tells CBN during an interview that Donald Trump supporters are “low information” and “not engaged”.

“Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice.” (link)

It would appear lyin’ Ted is increasingly growing desperate as his odds of winning the GOP nomination are diminishing.  Now we begin to see the true colors of a progressive DC insider who has stepped out from behind his mask.

In the past several days the attachment of Ted Cruz to the GOPe UniParty has been increasingly exposed to sunlight. (more…)

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

Florida Early Voting Happening NOW !

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CNN has provided the full interview in a few segments.

Part One:

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Ignore the last two Fox News polls being pushed today – FLORIDA HERE and OHIO HERE – You’ll note the architect of both polls is “Shaw and Company Research”.

The “Shaw” in Shaw and Company is Daron Shaw, a former operative of the Rick Perry campaign and entrenched political PR consultant for the DC GOPe apparatus.  Both of these polls are “agenda polls”; the professional political apparatus are trying desperately to influence the election and create a media narrative.

It is doubtful the numbers on Trump, Rubio or Kasich are accurately represented in either data-set.   Yes, Donald Trump is doing very well against the severely collapsing campaign of Marco Rubio in Florida.  However, it is difficult to measure given current events.

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“Released after an ICE error”? – Five people were killed by a man named Pablo Serrano-Vitorino.  Most of the media have refused to identify Vitorino as an illegal alien with repeat deportations.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Mo. — After a massive manhunt, Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, suspected of four Kansas City, Kan., murders and another one in New Florence, Mo., was found in Montgomery County and taken into custody early Wednesday morning.  Montgomery County is located between Columbia and St. Louis.

“Released after ICE error”  ?

Serrano-Vitorino, 40, has been charged with four counts of first degree murder in Wyandotte County for allegedly shooting four men in KCK late Monday night. The victims are Clint Harter, Austin Harter, Mike Capps and Jake Waters. They were all killed at a home in the 3000 block of South 36th Street around 11 p.m., Monday.   (more…)