“Tea Party” Billionaire Sees Hillary As Better Pick Than GOP Nominee, Potentially

/21 Comments/in , /by

It’s a nightmare scenario for Republicans, but conservative billionaire Charles Koch says “it’s possible” Hillary Clinton could make a better president than the remaining candidates in the GOP primary.

Koch, one of the most influential and controversial forces in Republican politics, said in an exclusive interview with ABC News to air Sunday on “This Week” that he believed Bill Clinton was a better president “in some ways” than George W. Bush.

“In other ways, I mean [Clinton] wasn’t an exemplar. But as far as the growth of government, the increase in spending,” Koch said. “It was 2.5 times [more] under Bush than it was under Clinton.”

In his interview, Koch said that is a result of his disgust with the rhetoric in the Republican primary, and he even suggested Clinton could be a better choice for the country than the remaining crop of GOP candidates.

“It’s possible,” Koch said, but didn’t say whether he could see himself supporting Clinton in the 2016 cycle. (Read more from “Billionaire Sees Hillary as Better Pick” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Photo credit: DonkeyHotey

Polls Show GOP Nomination Picture Becoming More Clear After Upcoming Primaries

/2 Comments/in , /by

With new polls showing Donald Trump forging a lead in Indiana and receiving more support in California than his two rivals combined, the GOP front-runner is closing in on a number that a few weeks ago seemed out of reach.

“The latest polling numbers show that Trump will easily hit the 1,237 delegate threshold,” The Gateway Pundit boldly reported Saturday.

A Fox News poll in Indiana shows Trump with 41 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at 33 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 16 percent. A Fox poll in California showed Trump at 49 percent Cruz is at 23 percent and Kasich at 20 percent.

Trump also leads in the states that vote Tuesday, according to polls cited by The Business Insider . . .

As Trump gathers more states, he becomes harder and harder to deny as the nominee regardless of the delegate math, wrote Brian Beutler in the New Republic.

“No matter how short of 1,237 Trump falls, his argument at the convention will be simple, and completely intuitive: I might not have won in a way that requires the Republican Party to give me the nomination — but I won a moral victory. It’s in your power to deny me the nomination, but woe betide the GOP if you do,” he wrote. (Read more from “Polls Show GOP Nomination Picture Becoming More Clear After Upcoming Primaries” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Cruz Teams up With Pro-Amnesty, Pro-Homosexual Kasich

/6 Comments/in , /by

24393777619_7e3344101c_kThe campaigns for Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced in statements tonight that each candidate will cede states in the 2016 presidential race to one another in an effort to stop GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

Cruz’s campaign manager Jeff Roe said in a statement that “to ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead.”

Kasich’s campaign manager John Weaver wrote in a memo that, “We are very comfortable with our delegate position in Indiana already, and given the current dynamics of the primary there, we will shift our campaign’s resources West and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana.”

Officials in both the Cruz and Kasich campaigns told ABC News that the campaigns coordinated on the decisions announced tonight.

Trump tweeted Sunday night after the two announcements, “Wow, just announced that Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!”

(Read more from “Cruz Teams up With Pro-Amnesty, Pro-Homosexual Kasich” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

TRUMP CAMPAIGN CHIEF/LOBBYIST MANAFORT: Yeah, We’re Secretly Working With Mitch McConnell

/2 Comments/in , /by

Paul Manafort is the new head of Donald Trump’s campaign. A longtime Washington insider and heavy duty lobbyist for third world dictators, Manafort appeared this morning on Fox News Sunday and inadvertently let slip some revealing truths.

MANAFORT: …What we’re trying to do right now is work with the Mitch McConnells who we didn’t depose in Kentucky even though he won the election and we worked with him to put a unity slate together. We’re trying to bring the party together. That’s what —


WALLACE: Wait, because I think this is interesting. You’re saying that you’re working with the Senate majority leader, who to a lot of the grassroots is a symbol of the problem?

MANAFORT: We’re working with party officials and that was an example on Saturday where we could have — we won the state. We could have gone in there and tried to be disruptive as Cruz does in these states.

Manafort’s lobbying firm has been termed “the torturer’s lobby”, having represented Filipino dictator Marcos, Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, ousted Ukrainian president and Putin ally Victor Yanukovych, to name but a few.

Yes, Donald Trump would be vastly superior to Hillary Clinton, because a malfunctioning pencil sharpener would be vastly superior to Hillary Clinton.

But anyone expecting Trump to fight the McConnells and Ryans and the Chamber of Commerce is going to sorely disappointed. Trump has surrounded himself with Beltway cronies, lobbyists and insiders. He is a longtime Democrat and liberal.

That is what he is and will always be. Caveat emptor. (For more from the author of “TRUMP CAMPAIGN CHIEF/LOBBYIST MANAFORT: Yeah, We’re Secretly Working With Mitch McConnell” please click HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

The Governor of Maine Just Made a Major Accusation Against the Cruz Campaign

/1 Comment/in , /by

8571623018_3c19ac1680_bBy Harper Neidig. Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Donald Trump supporter, accused the Ted Cruz presidential campaign of reneging on a deal to support a “unity slate” of the state’s primary delegates, according to CNN.

“We reached a deal with Cruz’s national campaign to put up a unity slate that would honor the wishes of the thousands of Mainers who voted at caucus,” LePage said in a statement. “But Cruz’s Northeast Political Director David Sawyer lied to us and broke the deal. Sawyer stabbed us in the back, reneged on the unity slate, and betrayed the people of Maine.”

The Maine governor suggested the incident was part of a larger trend of deceit from the Cruz team.

“As we have seen throughout the country, Cruz’s national campaign is run by greedy political hooligans,” he said. (Read more from “The Governor of Maine Just Made a Major Accusation Against the Cruz Campaign” HERE)

_________________________________________

Ted Cruz Wins Almost All of Maine’s Delegates at Convention

By David Wright. Once again, Ted Cruz’s campaign has used the Republican Party delegate selection process to outperform his results on Election Day in hopes of wrangling a nomination during the national convention in Cleveland this summer.

This time, in Maine, Cruz secured 19 of 20 delegate slots filled at the state convention over the weekend. The sweep frustrated rivals Donald Trump and John Kasich — as well as Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Trump supporter — and prompted accusations of backstabbing and deception after an effort to agree to a “unity slate” of national convention delegates fell apart . . .

While the Maine GOP awarded 23 total delegates proportional to the vote in the state’s caucus on March 5 (12 to Cruz, 9 to Trump, 2 to Kasich), those delegates are bound to a presidential candidate only on the first nominating ballot at the national convention. (Read more from “Ted Cruz Wins Almost All of Maine’s Delegates at Convention” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Aspiring Campaign Worker’s Murder Leads to Retaliatory Killing in Philadelphia

/2 Comments/in , /by

elections-536656_960_720The execution-style killing of a Philadelphia man who was speaking to a political candidate about volunteering for his campaign led to a retaliatory shooting that left one teenager dead and another wounded, police said late Sunday.

“We do believe these are two rivaling factions,’ Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters. “What they’re fighting over we haven’t pinned that down right now, but we are not going to let this pass us by, by not assuming that it’s gang related because everything suggests that it is.”

The first shooting took place at around 3:30 p.m. in the Cedarbrook section of the city. Witnesses said the unidentified 21-year-old victim was talking with Chris Rabb, a Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives when someone approached the victim from behind and shot him.

Chris Visco, Rabb’s campaign manager, told Philly.com the victim had told Rabb he was going to be a poll worker during Tuesday’s primary election, but also expressed interest in volunteering for Rabb’s campaign. Visco added the victim died with a piece of Rabb campaign literature in his hand.

“One of the people that was with (Rabb) handed him a piece of literature, took his phone number, and another young man came up behind him and shot him execution style in the head,” Visco told WPVI. (Read more from “Aspiring Campaign Worker’s Murder Leads to Retaliatory Killing in Philadelphia” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Sanders Campaign’s New Strategy on Superdelegates Leaves Some Unimpressed

/1 Comment/in , /by

21668553091_35c4f5815b_b (1)By Joseph Tanfani. Retired teachers Rosie Skomitz and Ron Stouffer, part of the raucous crowd that packed an old theater here last week to cheer on a Bernie Sanders revolution, have no love for Democratic superdelegates, the party insiders who have helped Hillary Clinton pad her lead in the race for the nomination for president.

“It takes votes away from people and gives them to the elite,” Skomitz said, summing up the typical complaint from the Sanders faithful that the nomination process is undemocratic.

But as Sanders falls further behind Clinton in amassing delegates who will choose the nominee, some of his supporters have replaced their criticism and occasional outright virulence with appeals to those Democratic elites — some of whom have long memories.

“You’re trying to woo us now, but we remember when you were trashing us,” said former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, one of 21 superdelegates from the state, the largest of five that hold primaries Tuesday.

When Sanders was winning primaries in places like Michigan and Colorado, he and his supporters criticized superdelegates — Democratic leaders who can support a candidate of their choosing — as exemplary of a rigged system that robbed voters of their voice. In petitions, emails and some nasty messages on social media, thousands of Sanders backers demanded that those delegates follow the lead of their states’ voters. (Read more from “Sanders Campaign’s New Strategy on Superdelegates Leaves Some Unimpressed” HERE)

_____________________________________

Sanders Pressured to Quit White House Race as Clinton Weighs VP Picks

By Jim Mannion. Bernie Sanders fended off pressure Sunday to bow out of the race for the White House, as his rival, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, weighs potential runningmates.

The New York Times reported that Clinton’s advisers and allies have begun extensive discussions on a potential vice presidential candidate, and are putting together a list of 15 to 20 prospects.

Clinton has described what sort of person would fit the bill, and has set objectives for the search, the Times said.

And although her options vary depending on who her Republican opponent is and other factors in a still fluid race, she is open to an all-female ticket, advisers told the Times.

Team Clinton has not ruled out for consideration is Senator Elizabeth Warren, a darling of the left who has yet to endorse Clinton, advisers told the Times. (Read more from “Sanders Pressured to Quit White House Race as Clinton Weighs VP Picks” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Fox News Host Just Revealed Trump’s ‘Only’ Pick for VP

/13 Comments/in , /by

hqdefaultFox News host Bill O’Reilly believes he has the perfect candidate for Donald Trump to choose as a vice president if Trump wants to win the November general election.

Former Pres. George W. Bush press secretary Dana Perino was a guest on O’Reilly’s program Thursday. She was asked who Trump’s vice president choice should be . . .

The O’Reilly Factor host then jumped in and offered emphatically who that person should be.

“There’s only one choice for vice president if Donald Trump wants to win the White House. Only one person,” O’Reilly said. “Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico. That is the only choice if Mr. Trump, with all due respect, wants to be president. He must give it to the governor of New Mexico” . . .

“She’s very bright, she is a Republican conservative in a state that would go, you know, it’s not a lot of electoral votes, but if he can convince Gov. Martinez to be on the second, that will help him immensely,” O’Reilly said . . .

As O’Reilly observed, Martinez could help Trump in two demographics where he is weak — with women and with Hispanics. A Gallup poll published earlier this month found 70 percent of women holding an unfavorable view of the GOP front-runner. Additionally, in a Washington Post/Univision poll taken earlier this year, 80 percent of Hispanic voters have an unfavorable opinion about Trump. (Read more from “Fox News Host Just Revealed Trump’s ‘Only’ Pick for VP” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Cruz Says Trump Deserves This New Campaign Slogan After Criticizing NC Bathroom Bill [+video]

/26 Comments/in , /by

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump created his campaign’s latest controversy when he opined that a recent North Carolina law might be unfair to transgender Americans.

“North Carolina did something that was very strong,” Trump said in an interview on Thursday morning. “And they’re paying a big price; and there’s a lot of problems.”

He went on to say that the state should have left the issue alone, allowing men and women to use whichever restroom they prefer.

“People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate,” the brash billionaire suggested. “There has been so little trouble. And the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife and the economic punishment that they’re taking” . . .

Cruz further lambasted Trump’s take on the issue, offering his pick for a new campaign slogan.

“A few months ago,” he said, “Donald told us he could be the most politically correct person on Earth. Now, I guess he’s showing us what that looks like. I am waiting with anticipation for the new baseball caps that say ‘Make PC Great Again.’” (Read more from “Cruz Says Trump Deserves This New Campaign Slogan After Criticizing NC Bathroom Bill” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Illegal Alien Families Entering US at ‘Record’ Rate

/1 Comment/in , /by

Immigration_Reform_Leaders_Arrested_7 (1)Statistics released by Border Patrol this morning indicate that illegal immigrant families are now crossing into the United States at a record rate. The Border Patrol reports that more than 32,000 family units have been caught trying to enter the United States, which according to the Washington Times is “nearly a 40 percent” increase from 2014.

Stephen Dinian, writing for the Washington Times:

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson had thought he’d licked the problem two years ago, after surging manpower to the border. And indeed the numbers did drop in late 2014 and early 2015.

But the pace of both families and unaccompanied children picked up last summer, just as Mr. Johnson announced new relaxed rules for detaining illegal immigrants, and it has remained high ever since.

This report follows another report from Conservative Review’s Daniel Horowitz that revealed 80% of Central American children flooding the Southern border are being housed with fellow illegal aliens.

Horowitz will discuss the implications of rampant illegal immigration for United States citizens in his new book “Stolen Sovereignty,” out this July. (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien Families Entering US at ‘Record’ Rate” please click HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.