Establishment Mouthpiece Tells GOP, ‘Reject Trump Even If He’s Nominee’

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maxresdefaultBy George Will. Donald Trump’s damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun. Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party’s history. These collaborationists will render themselves ineligible to participate in the party’s reconstruction.

Ted Cruz’s announcement of his preferred running mate has enhanced the nomination process by giving voters pertinent information. They already know the only important thing about Trump’s choice: His running mate will be unqualified for high office because he or she will think Trump is qualified.

Hillary Clinton’s optimal running mate might be Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a pro-labor populist whose selection would be balm for the bruised feelings of Bernie Sanders’ legions. Running mates rarely matter as electoral factors: In 2000, Al Gore got 43.2 percent of the North Carolina vote. In 2004, John Kerry, trying to improve upon Gore’s total there, ran with North Carolina Sen. John Edwards but received 43.6 percent. If, however, Brown were to help deliver Ohio for Clinton, the Republican path to 270 electoral votes would be narrower than a needle’s eye.

Republican voters, particularly in Indiana and California, can, by supporting Cruz, make the Republican convention a deliberative body rather than one that merely ratifies decisions made elsewhere, some of them six months earlier. A convention’s sovereign duty is to choose a plausible nominee who has a reasonable chance to win, not to passively affirm the will of a mere plurality of voters recorded episodically in a protracted process. (Read more from “Establishment Mouthpiece Tells GOP, ‘Reject Trump Even If He’s Nominee'” HERE)

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Eyeing an Indiana Victory, Trump Says, ‘It’s Over’

By Steve Holland and Valerie Volcovici. Front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will have essentially sealed the Republican U.S. presidential nomination if he wins Tuesday’s contest in Indiana, where he holds a big lead over chief rival Ted Cruz.

A new NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist opinion poll showed Trump with a wide lead in Indiana, 49 percent to 34 percent for Cruz and 13 percent for a third candidate, Ohio Governor John Kasich.

Trump, a 69-year-old billionaire real estate developer, sounded confident in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” when asked whether Indiana would basically end the long-running Republican race in his favor.

“Yes, it’s over,” Trump said. “It’s already over.”

The poll showed the depth of the challenge facing Cruz, a conservative U.S. senator from Texas who is trying to prevent Trump from winning the 1,237 delegates needed to seal the nomination. (Read more from “Eyeing an Indiana Victory, Trump Says, ‘It’s Over'” HERE)

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Amid ‘Cry of Change,’ Sanders Supporters May Back Another Outsider

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Bernie_Sanders_2015_(1)_(cropped)If Donald Trump emerges as the Republican presidential nominee to face Hillary Clinton, he will receive support from backers of Clinton’s Democratic rival — at least that’s the prediction of Bill Maher.

“Some Bernie voters are going to vote for Trump,” Maher said Friday during his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher.

“Absolutely,” said Kellyanne Conway, who runs a super PAC that supports Sen. Ted Cruz. “Based on trade. Based on outsider, absolutely. No money in politics, same view.”

“I think Bernie Sanders is too poor to be bought, and I think Donald Trump is too rich to be bought by special interests,” said Royce Gourley, a real estate investor, who gave $2,500 to Sanders and $2,700 to Trump, Federal Election Commission filings show.

Trump has indicated he will seek the support of Sanders enthusiasm backers if the general election pits him against Clinton.

“You have two candidates in Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders which have reignited a group of people who have been disenfranchised and disappointed with the way Washington, D.C. and career politicians have run the country,” said Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. “Bernie Sanders has large crowds — not as large as Mr. Trump’s, but large crowds — and so there is a level of excitement there for people about his messaging and we will bring those people in.” (Read more from “Amid ‘Cry of Change,’ Sanders Supporters May Back Another Outsider” HERE)

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Calling on Lucifer to Hurt Trump and Cruz, Just More Evidence Establishment Wants to Destroy Both

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hqdefaultRINO Lindsey Graham Uses Lucifer Analogy on Trump

By Cathy Burke. Donald Trump’s poll numbers are so bad, Satan himself would likely give him a run for his money in a general election, Sen. Lindsey Graham declared Sunday.

In an interview with CBS News ‘ Face the Nation,’ the South Carolina lawmaker, who is supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the contentious GOP primary, said Republicans embracing the real estate billionaire are “destroying conservatism.”

“You will make it hard for this party to ever regain footing with Hispanics because his immigration proposal is unworkable, is hateful,” he said. “When it comes to women, we’re alienating women who should be coming our way after eight years of [President Barack] Obama,” adding: “If you think his foreign policy is sound, you are obviously not listening to the same man I’m listening to” . . .

“There’s been a lot of talk about Lucifer,” Graham continued, referring to recent remarks by former House Speaker John Boehner that Cruz was Lucifer in the flesh.” “I think Lucifer may be the only person Trump could beat in a general election. When it comes to women and Hispanics, Trump polls like Lucifer. This is a contest between conservatism and Trumpism and Trumpism will get creamed at the ballot box.” (Read more from “Calling on Lucifer to Hurt Trump and Cruz, Just More Evidence Establishment Wants to Destroy Both” HERE)

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Cruz: Boehner Let out His ‘Inner Trump’ When He Called Me Lucifer

By Sara Jerde. Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Sunday that former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) let out his “inner Trump” when he called him “Lucifer in the flesh” . . .

“Well, you know, I think Boehner kinda let out his inner Trump. And you know, had some colorful imagery there,” Cruz said. “But it’s interesting when Boehner was attacking me, he praised Hillary Clinton he thinks she’s terrific and he praised Donald Trump, he said Donald Trump is his friend, texting buddy, golfing buddy, there’s a reason — if you want to see the next president as a John Boehner Republican, then Donald Trump is your man.” (Read more from “Cruz: Boehner Let out His ‘Inner Trump’ When He Called Me Lucifer” HERE)

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Cruz Delegates Waver as Trump Gains Momentum

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10664313236_b106846413_b (1)By Brendan Bordelon. Down in the polls and with zero margin for error heading into Tuesday’s crucial Indiana primary, Ted Cruz could be forgiven for seeing a silver lining in his apparent strength with unbound Republican delegates. Until Donald Trump’s romp through the Northeast last Tuesday abruptly changed the subject, the political world was captivated — and Trump supporters were infuriated — by the Cruz campaign’s successful effort to elect large blocs of friendly delegates at a series of state-party conventions.

But friendly delegates are as subject to shifts in the race’s momentum as anyone else, and Cruz’s strength with some of these crucial first-ballot convention voters may be overstated — particularly in North Dakota, where his campaign declared victory after filling 18 of 25 unbound delegate slots with its chosen candidates at the April 3 convention. Those delegates are vital to Cruz’s quest to deny his rival the 1,237 delegates he’ll need on the first ballot in Cleveland. But as they’ve watched Cruz struggle to tread water in a primary increasingly dominated by Trump, many of them, wary of a bitter convention battle that could rend the party at its seams, are rethinking their commitment to the Texas senator . . .

“I think [last Tuesday’s vote] spooked a lot of people,” says Jim Poolman, a North Dakota delegate who had previously committed to a first-ballot convention vote for Cruz. “But I want to be clear, I think the will of the people does mean something, as well,” he says. “Donald Trump has gotten a lot of support across the country, and just [last Tuesday], winning five [states] is one heckuva showing.” Poolman now says he will opt to see how the remaining primaries play out, and is “not necessarily” a first-ballot vote for Cruz. (Read more from “Cruz Delegates Waver as Trump Gains Momentum” HERE)

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Ted Cruz’s Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted

By Jeremy W. Peters. Even as Donald J. Trump trounced him from New Hampshire to Florida to Arizona, Senator Ted Cruz could reassure himself with one crucial advantage: He was beating Mr. Trump in the obscure, internecine delegate fights that could end up deciding the Republican nomination for president.

“This is how elections are won in America,” Mr. Cruz gloated after walking away with the most delegates in Wyoming last month.

Now, as he faces a potentially candidacy-threatening contest on Tuesday in Indiana — where a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, released Sunday morning, showed him trailing Mr. Trump by 15 percentage points — Mr. Cruz can take little solace from his vaunted delegate-wrangling operation even if he prevails there. (Read more from “Ted Cruz’s Support Softens Among the Delegates He Courted” HERE)

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Cruz Denies an Indiana Loss Would End Campaign

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8571614768_c26c0ebc57_bRepublican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said on Sunday he would continue his campaign if he lost the critical Indiana primary on Tuesday.

“If you don’t win in Indiana under these circumstances, is this race over?” asked “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace.

“Of course not,” Cruz said. “It’s going to be a battle to see who can earn a majority of the delegates elected by the people at the convention. And the reason Donald is so frantic to say the race is over … is because Donald knows he cannot earn a majority of the delegates that were elected by the people . . .

Cruz in the days leading up to the primary has announced former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate and gained the endorsement of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R).

He also cut a deal with rival Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the hopes of boosting his chances in the Hoosier State. In exchange for Kasich pulling out of Indiana, thus helping Cruz gain more support in the state, the Texas senator would forgo campaigning in New Mexico and Oregon to pave the way for Kasich to best Trump in those states. The deal was struck in an attempt to stop Trump from securing the GOP nomination. (Read more from “Cruz Denies an Indiana Loss Would End Campaign” HERE)

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NSA Pins Another ‘Badge of Honor’ on Snowden

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hqdefaultIf the Director of National Intelligence “’blames” you for something, is that bad, or is it a badge of honor?

That would be the latter for Edward Snowden… again.

This time, he’s not getting the blame for a massive data dump proving that nefarious governments have been using computer technology to invade individuals’ privacy.

The director doesn’t like that Snowden’s recent revelations were an impetus for speeding up encryption technology. I would have praised Snowden, but Director James Clapper said in The Intercept recently:

“As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years,” James Clapper said during a breakfast for journalists hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. (Read more from “NSA Pins Another ‘Badge of Honor’ on Snowden” HERE)

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Secret Agenda for the 2016 Democratic National Convention Revealed!

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20080825_Craig_Robinson_Introducing_his_sister_at_Democratic_National_ConventionCub Reporter Biff Spackle scoops the world with this exclusive, tippity-top secret agenda for the DNC.

2016 Democrat National Convention
Schedule of Events

7:00 pm OPENING FLAG BURNING
7:15 pm PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED NATIONS
7:20 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Hillary Clinton

7:25 pm OPENING ISLAMIC PRAYER – Rep. Keith Ellison
7:45 pm CEREMONIAL TREE HUGGING – Leonardo DiCaprio
7:55 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Joe Biden
8:00 pm MUSICAL INTERLUDE ON GLOBAL WARMING: John Kerry and James Taylor
8:30 pm TRANSGENDER WEDDING PLANNING – Caitlyn Jenner
8:55 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Hillary Clinton
9:00 pm CLOSING GITMO: WHAT COULD GO WRONG? – Barack Obama
9:30 pm MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN – Cindy Sheehan and Sean Penn
9:55 pm SECURING YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL SERVER – Bryan Pagliano
10:00 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO the late VP Joe Biden
10:05 pm COLLECTION DRIVE FOR THE OSAMA BIN LADEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND – Barbra Streisand
10:30 pm FREE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY – Barack Obama
11:00 pm OVAL OFFICE AFFAIRS – A POEM BY William Jefferson Clinton
11:45 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Nancy Pelosi’s Rack
11:50 pm A PLEA FOR MASS PARDONS OF VIOLENT FELONS – Howard Dean
12:15 am FREE THE MINUTEMEN UNLAWFULLY IMPRISONED IN GITMO – Michael Moore
12:25 am Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Beyonce
12:30 am SATELLITE ADDRESS – Vladimir Putin
12:45 am NOMINATION OF HILLARY CLINTON – Senator Chuck Schumer
1:00 am Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy SINGS NATIONAL ANTHEM
1:05 am CORONATION OF HILLARY CLINTON
1:30 am Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Mary Jo Kopechne
1:35 am Bill Clinton asks actor Portraying Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home.

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Rubio Just Declared Something Huge About Trump

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22085817183_f7dff21b63_bSen. Marco Rubio and Donald Trump were not exactly the best of friends earlier in the presidential primary process. Now, however, it seems as though Rubio might be warming to the Republican front-runner.

According to the Palm Beach Post, Rubio said Trump’s “performance has improved significantly.”

Rubio also recently called on the GOP to avoid division over the upcoming nomination. The senator, speaking to Miami radio host Jimmy Cefalo, said, “I do think it’s valid to argue to delegates, ‘Look, let’s not divide the party. You have someone here who has all these votes, very close to 1,237 [delegates]. Let’s not ignore the will of the people or they’re going to be angry.’ Delegates may decide on that reason that they decide to vote for Donald Trump, but if they don’t it is not illegitimate in any way.”

Rubio added, “I’ve always said that I will support the Republican nominee, and that’s especially true now that it’s apparent that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee.” (Read more from “Rubio Just Declared Something Huge About Trump” HERE)

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Judith Miller Just Revealed How GOP Senators Really Feel About Ted Cruz

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9421855074_e3700f2bc8_bBy Pam Key. Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Judith Miller said Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz “was so disliked in the Senate,” because “he was not a man of his word,” and would “stab you in the back.”

Miller said, “Cruz was so disliked in the Senate, and Boehner was a charter member of that club. So, you could just see the politicians hated Cruz for reasons, by the way, that still have yet to be fully reported.”

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Ted Cruz: ‘The Entire Country Is Looking to Indiana’

By Sally Bronston. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, seems to be going all in on Indiana. With the state’s primary just days away, Cruz declared in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, “The entire country is looking to Indiana. And I think the country is really depending on Indiana to choose the direction of this race.”

While stressing the importance of the Hoosier state, Cruz refused to say he would drop out of the race if he loses there Tuesday. “Indiana is an important state, we are competing hard,” Cruz said.

He also dismissed the idea that a loss in Indiana would be a rejection of the conservative policy solutions he’s campaigning on. “I don’t believe so. I think the support we’re seeing is surging,” the Texas senator said. (Read more from “Ted Cruz: ‘The Entire Country Is Looking to Indiana'” HERE)

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Target Boycott Crosses 1 Million Signers

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13944980767_ed74fd413b_bMore than 1,000,000 people have signed the boycott pledge against Target, following the secretive decision by executives to open all of their stores’ bathrooms and changing rooms to people of both sexes.

Late Thursday night, roughly 75 people a minute were adding their name to the petition as it clicked over 1 million, just after 10:30 pm Eastern Time.

“That’s a million families who are going to spread the word about Target, so they may not get those customers back,” or their money, said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, which has hosted the boycott.

Target’s “management is just going to have step up here [and] say ‘We’re selling hammers and hats, we’re not into social engineering,’” he said.

The boycott was announced April 20 by the association, one day after Target revealed its decision to favor its few transgender customers and staff over the rest of the population. A study of the 2010 census data suggests that only about 1 in 2,400 adults change their names to match names used by the other sex. (Read more from “Target Boycott Crosses 1 Million Signers” HERE)

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