The Donald Trump campaign has confirmed -to the New York Times- that Sarah Palin will officially be endorsing Donald J Trump for president.

STORY HERE

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UPDATE:  25-year-old staff volunteer, Braden Joplin, has died from his injuries:

BREAKING: Ben Carson campaign volunteer, Braden Joplin, dies of injuries sustained in Iowa car crash today, per hospital. He was 25.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 20, 2016

OMAHA — A Ben Carson campaign volunteer died in a hospital here after a car crash in western Iowa Tuesday morning. (more…)

Candidate Donald Trump’s second Iowa event of the day will take place at 12:00pm CST (1:00pm EST approx) with a speech at the 10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona Iowa.

The tightly scheduled post-luncheon speech takes place at  The Meadows Conference Center at Prairie Meadows, Altoona Iowa.   Live Stream Link

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Candidate Donald Trump has a VERY FULL schedule today with three campaign stops in Iowa: Winterset 10:30am, Altoona 12:00pm, and Ames 5:00pm.  (Central Times)

The Ames event is probably the most anticipated event of the day because Trump has promised a “special announcement” and “Mystery Guest”.  However, the day begins in Winterset with an outside event at the John Wayne birthplace museum.

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A recent Florida poll conducted after the South Carolina GOP debate is almost identical to the last South Carolina poll (Trump leads with 32%).

In Florida Donald Trump holds a commanding lead with 31%, Cruz second with 19%, Bush 13% and Rubio 12%.   Rubio/Bush combined total 25%, still behind Trump.

The jump into Third Place for Jeb Bush is an important part to watch.  As we have previously shared, we should expect to see Bush begin inching out his own GOPe teammates.

Also, as previously explained, Bush/Rubio support should be considered a combined UniCandidate total.   One will endorse the other, depending on timing – our prediction remains that Rubio will defer to his mentor Bush, eventually (either during the mid to late stages of the race, or at the convention).

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Donald Trump delivered a resoundingly well received speech yesterday at Liberty University.  Last night the President of Liberty U, Jerry Falwell Jr. spoke about a history of Donald Trump; a history that few know, and he felt compelled to tell everyone.

Remarkable praise:

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The Junior Canadian Senator is actually trying to re-write history and claim he is strong on immigration issues.

“I like Donald Trump, I respect him personally, and in this campaign he’s talked a lot about illegal immigration and amnesty,” Cruz told the crowd. Going on to detail the 2013 immigration reform battle in Congress — legislation he opposed — Cruz continued, “We were on the verge of losing this fight, and 12 million people here illegally would be granted amnesty. And yet when that fight was being fought, Donald was nowhere to be found.” (link)

An incredulous claim coming from a Senator who took office a mere two years ago, while still holding Canadian citizenship, and who has failed to win a single battle on any legislation, including immigration. (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.

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For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Many people are becoming familiar with a common ‘truth-stretching trait‘ of Ted Cruz that appears to be infecting his followers and supporters.

In addition to Cruz’s eligibility concerns (which are contingent upon evolving his interpretations of the constitution), and in addition to the sunlight now beginning to reach his sketchy Wall Street financial and globalist background, Cruz is having to make claims out of loin cloth to protect his increasingly unstable candidacy.

Yesterday, in an effort to protect himself, Cruz was reduced to calling Kansas Senator Pat Roberts a liar.  The wheels are increasingly wobbly on the lonely Cruzin’ bus.  So it should come as no surprise to see his supporters doing the same.

Example:

As you can see above, a Ted Cruz supporter claims to have attended a Donald Trump rally (Scott Brown’s No BS BBQ event) in Portsmouth New Hampshire and been paid by $50 by the Trump campaign for attendance.

WHAT?  Donald Trump is paying people to attend his rallies?  Oh dear.

The Cruz Social Media team “Women for Conservative Leaders” jumped at the opportunity to promote and display the claim.  However,…..

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