Trump Faces New Headaches in Behind-Scenes Battle for Delegates

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While North Dakota is a most unlikely place for the Republican presidential campaign to take a critical turn, it nonetheless delivered an apparent setback over the weekend to front-runner Donald Trump in the behind-the-scenes battle for delegates, as Ted Cruz declared victory at the northern border state’s GOP convention.

Like most states where Cruz has claimed victory, North Dakota is relatively light on delegates. Trump’s wins in delegate-rich primary states have kept the billionaire businessman well ahead, and the events in Fargo won’t change that.

But the North Dakota showdown speaks to the organizational headwinds Trump is facing – something he’s also dealing with in Wisconsin, which holds its primary Tuesday and where Cruz is polling in front. And if nothing else, the North Dakota convention results could put Cruz in a better position at the party’s July convention if the nomination is still open going into Cleveland.

“I’m thrilled to have the vote of confidence of Republican voters in North Dakota who delivered such a resounding victory today,” Cruz said in a statement. “Whether we defeat Donald Trump before the convention or at it, I’m energized to have the support of the vast majority of North Dakota delegates.”

The vote in North Dakota was not a traditional primary or caucus, but a convention. Delegates chosen over the weekend through an internal party process will not be “bound” to any candidate. For that reason, there technically was no winner from the weekend’s gathering. (Read more from “Trump Faces New Headaches in Behind-Scenes Battle for Delegates” HERE)

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People Instantly Notice Something About This Photo of Bill Clinton at Hillary Campaign Event

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By Jack Davis. The man who was once the leader of the free world and who commanded the awesome power that comes with the office of President of the United States is now not able to attract enough attention to fill a room.

This was the reality shown by photos from a Clinton rally held Friday at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., with former President Bill Clinton as the main speaker.

After one organizer tweeted a picture showing the small crowd, other tweets followed focusing on the people who did attend and suggesting the rally was a success.

“… that just doesn’t appear to be the case,” wrote Andrew Mark Miller on Young Conservatives. “And even if it was, say the room was packed to the brim, it wasn’t a very big room to begin with. This guy was the president and he can’t even fill that room? I’ve seen Kasich fill rooms three times that big on the trail and Trump could fill that in an hour” . . .

“Team Hillary should be extremely worried,” wrote Zira on Democratic Underground. “It’s not just that she has suffered landslide losses in the past five caucus states. It’s that she’s overwhelmingly lost the youth vote of all colors, everywhere, and she’ll never get it back.” (Read more from “People Instantly Notice Something About This Photo of Bill Clinton at Hillary Campaign Event” HERE)

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Bill Clinton Struggles to Fill Small Room on Campaign Trail

By Andrew Mark Miller. Hillary Clinton is giving it her best shot but no matter how hard she tries she just can’t manage to create any excitement around her campaign.

How many people have you come across that tell you they are excited to vote for Hillary in November?

I’m going to guess not very many. And by that I mean zero.

Part of the reason is that her and her esteemed husband have been on the scene for decades so it’s difficult to create the outsider illusion.

Bill has been on the campaign trail trying to help but he seems to be creating more controversy than he is support. (Read more from “Bill Clinton Struggles to Fill Small Room on Campaign Trail” HERE)

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Hillary and Bernie Vilify Sheriff Joe Arpaio for His Hard-Fought Battle Against Illegal Immigration

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The Democrats don’t like Arizona’s popular Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his strong enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration. He’s one of their poster children for Republican white men who don’t care about people, especially immigrants. Even better, he’s what The New York Times called an “immigration proxy” for Donald Trump: an attack on Arpaio is also an attack on Trump, and they don’t even have to say Trump’s name.

Hillary Clinton said at a rally with numerous Latino supporters that Arpaio had treated his “fellow human beings with disrespect and contempt,” referring to his tough stance on illegal immigration. She went on, “It just makes my heart sink. We are better than that.”

At a rally in Flagstaff, Sanders warned, “It is easy for bullies like Sheriff Arpaio to pick on people who have no power. If I’m elected president, the president of the United States does have power. Watch out, Joe.”

Sanders’ wife went to tour Arpaio’s outside jail in the desert last month, known as “Tent City,” where she got into it with him. She asked him about the charges of racial profiling he’s facing now in federal court for arresting illegal immigrants, and complained about how hot it was in the tents. He ignored her question, and said that the conditions are similar to those endured by members of the U.S. military “fighting for our country” overseas, who are also living in tents in desert regions.

Not surprisingly, Arpaio supports Donald Trump for president (even though, as I’ve written previously, Ted Cruz has a stronger record on border security). “None of the candidates were talking about immigration as an issue until he brought it up,” Arpaio said at a rally for Trump in his home town of Fountain Hills last month. “He has opened the door to get people talking. Maybe something will get done about it.” He agrees with Trump that Mexico will pay for a wall on the border with the US.

The two became friends when they worked together in 2012 to retrieve President Obama’s birth certificate to determine whether he really was a natural born citizen and eligible to be president. “I’m not trying to say he copies me,” Arpaio said about the relationship recently. “It just so happens we see eye to eye. He’s somewhat like me. Or I’m like him. I don’t know which way it goes.”

Who’s the Bully?

Sanders called Arpaio a bully. Arpaio’s supporters would ask who’s the bully when people force their way over a border and overload limited federal safety net resources in a country drowning in public debt, and who commit crimes at a far higher percentage than the population at large? It is true that most illegal immigrants aren’t dangerous and are just looking for a better life, but it is also true that there is no more money left to provide additional benefits to millions of unskilled immigrants, and many dangerous illegal immigrants aren’t being prosecuted or deported.

Conservative observers in Arizona believe the legal proceedings against Arpaio for racially profiling are really an attempt to stop him from arresting, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The fact that he is 83 years old and continues getting elected is evidence the people of Arizona — and the people around the country they represent — support his efforts to secure the border.

Clinton may describe them the way she does, but these people have common-sense concerns about the number of people sneaking into this country and the problems that come from illegal immigration. When the Democratic candidates use Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a punching bag, they’re punching a lot of voters at the same time. (For more from the author of “Hillary and Bernie Vilify Sheriff Joe Arpaio for His Hard-Fought Battle Against Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)

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Former Radical Black Panther Gets Candid on Obama, Race Relations

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Clarence Mason Weaver was once so filled with hatred towards white people in America that he broke up with a girlfriend who had a white dog, the now-conservative told The Daily Caller New Foundation in this exclusive video interview.

A formerly hate-filled Berkeley Black Panther liberal, Weaver is a black conservative who now holds strong views on Black Lives Matter, the first black president and how America can heal its racial divide.

From humble beginnings, Weaver served his country in Vietnam working as a pipefitter in the Navy. It was an incident on August 11, 1971 that changed his life forever: A white racist tried to kill him just because of his skin color.

Retelling a riveting transformational story, Weaver explains how even in the midst of running with radical U.S. haters, he realized “he loved America” and only wanted a chance to compete fairly in the country.

Today, when asked what he thinks of the emergence of Black Lives Matter, he passionately says, “It really means black lies matter.” He explains that this group believes in white superiority since they demand white society give them concessions out of guilt. Mason says, “What happened to you white folks? Where are the Vikings? You guys are cowards!”

As to his views on the first black president, Weaver continues his bold, unique tirade with “Barack Obama hates America.”

“His job is to divide by differences and manage our differences,” he says. “He has done nothing but drive us apart. [He] hates America.” Weaver then adds, “It doesn’t matter what color the pimp, the drug dealer, the con artist is.”

In this 31-minute video interview, Weaver explains that God helped him realize that “anger was much heavier than a ton and a half of steel,” which altered his physical and emotional life in 1971.

“What would happen in black America if we forgave, real or imagined, the wrongs that we have?” he asks. “As a Swahili-speaking, black history-studying, militant, Black Panther-hanging out man. As a black man, wearing my dashiki and my black beret,” he notes. “What would happen is healing, progress and success with family reunification.”

Since he left liberalism and became so vocal, Weaver has been called all the epithets that black conservatives incur. Weaver explains why black conservatives are so maligned and hated by those he says are “running today’s plantations” with destructive liberal policies. Liberalism, he says, “destroys people, like a drug dealer, a pimp who manages you and wants to keep you down. Liberalism is slavery, always has been and always will be.”

As for how to change other people’s minds, he warns, “some have a vested interest in staying stupid.” Those who won’t hear or listen “have the right to be stupid.” (For more from the author of “Former Radical Black Panther Gets Candid on Obama, Race Relations” please click HERE)

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Trump Just Exposed 1 Big Thing Ted Cruz Did, and Will ‘Do Again’ as President — Many Won’t Like It

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Friday that because Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “controlled by the people that give him money,” he will support the controversial Obamatrade legislation after the election and implement Obama’s trade agenda if elected president.

“Now, he’s going to vote for it again,” said Trump, targeting Cruz, who has received the support of a wide range of GOP establishment supporters seeking to block Trump’s path to the GOP presidential nomination. “He’s going to vote for it again. He’s just waiting for after the election. He will vote for it –because the people who give him campaign contributions want it. He will vote for it right after the election.”

Cruz aligned himself with House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2015 in supporting the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which is a change in the procedures Congress uses to ratify trade deals.

TPA lowers the vote threshold for passage of a trade deal out of the Senate to a simple majority. It also eliminates the ability for Congress to amend any such trade deals. Approving TPA would allow other parts of the Obamatrade agenda to move through Congress.

“Ted Cruz is so far behind me in trade that he put a phony ad talking about how he’s going to get tough on trade,” Trump said Friday in an interview with Breitbart News. “Number one, he’s in favor of the Trans Pacific Partnership — which is going to be worse than NAFTA. And it’s going to absolutely destroy businesses in our country and businesses in Wisconsin.” (Read more from “Trump Just Exposed 1 Big Thing Ted Cruz Did, and Will ‘Do Again’ as President — Many Won’t Like It” HERE)

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Near Slaughter in Dallas as Armed Anti-Islam Protesters Clash With Armed Black Panthers Outside TX Mosque

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Racial tensions erupted during an armed demonstration outside a Nation of Islam mosque in Dallas on Saturday.

Anti-radicalization protesters from the Bureau of American Islamic Relations turned up with semi-automatic rifles and clad in skeleton masks as they confronted members of the New Black Panther Party.

Hundreds of black activists meant the group was outnumbered as they lined up behind barricades on Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard . . .

In a Facebook post about the counter-protest, one of the organizers wrote: ‘We have decided to Protest the Nation of Islam for promoting violence against Americans openly and publicly. This is NOT about color of skin, not a white vs black thing, (not for us anyway).

‘This is about RADICAL ISLAM. They have threatened to continue killing Cops, Random White People and their children to further their agenda of hate and dominance through violence. (Read more from “Racial Tensions Erupt in Dallas as Armed Anti-Islam Protesters Clad in Skeleton Masks Clash With the New Black Panther Party Outside a Nation of Islam Mosque” HERE)

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120 Major Business Leaders Team up With Gay Lobby to Pressure North Carolina

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In a situation reminiscent of last year’s religious freedom fight in Indiana, and the more recent one last week in Georgia, powerful politicians and CEOs across America are teaming up with the LGBT lobby to pressure North Carolina to overturn its new law protecting privacy in restrooms and similar facilities.

Inside the state, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has refused to back down on his signature of the measure, despite pressure from Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, who is running a campaign against McCrory.

The Republican governor signed the law last week after a statewide outcry against a Charlotte ordinance requiring all businesses and public buildings to allow citizens identifying as transgender to use their preferred bathrooms, locker rooms, and similar facilities.

The bill overrode the Charlotte ordinance, but included exemptions that allow public entities to make their own internal hiring policies, and allows transgendered individuals who have legally changed their gender on their birth certificates to use restrooms and other facilities of the opposite sex.

Calling the law “a national embarrassment,” Cooper has said he will not defend it, and on Tuesday he declared that “this new law provides for broad-based discrimination” and that “the LGBT community is targeted.” He also said the law conflicts with the employment policies of the Attorney General’s office, and thus “in order to protect our non-discrimination policy and employees, along with those of our client, the State Treasurer’s Office, part of our argument will be that HB2 is unconstitutional.” (Read more from “120 Major Business Leaders Team up With Gay Lobby to Pressure North Carolina” HERE)

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Federal Judge Refuses to Allow Nationally-Known, Conservative Lawyer to Defend Cliven Bundy

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Nevada’s chief federal judge has refused to let nationally known conservative lawyer Larry Klayman join Cliven Bundy’s defense team.

In a three-page order, Gloria Navarro questioned Klayman’s candidness with her about the outcome of professional disciplinary proceedings against him in Washington, D.C. . .

Klayman, the founder of the Washington-based public interest groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, is known for his tenacious pursuit of litigation, mostly in support of a wide range of conservative and libertarian issues. . .

Last week, Klayman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the Bundy family had asked for his legal help. Bundy, 69, who is in federal custody, is facing criminal charges stemming from the April 12, 2014, armed standoff with law enforcement near his ranch in Bunkerville.

Bundy is now represented by Las Vegas attorney Joel Hansen, who is active in the ultraconservative Independent American Party of Nevada. (Read more from “Federal Judge Refuses to Allow Nationally-Known, Conservative Lawyer to Defend Cliven Bundy” HERE)

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BP Council Says ‘Catch and Release’ Policy Continues Fueling Illegal Immigration

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Officials last week spoke up about the Obama administration’s so-called “catch and release” policies blamed for hindering Border Patrol operations and encouraging illegal crossers from coming into the United States.

A recent letter from the National Border Patrol Council states a high-ranking member of the Obama administration confirmed to Border Patrol agents they have no intention of removing illegal border crossers that are being released with an order to appear in court.

Brandon Judd, president of the American Federation of Government Employees National Border Patrol Council, states in the letter published on March 21 he and two other Border Patrol agents met with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to discuss concerns about the administration’s policy of releasing illegal crossers into the United States.

During the meeting, which took place on August 26, 2015, Mayorkas confirmed to the agents that the administration has no intention of removing immigrants coming across the border illegally as part of the ongoing surge, according to the letter.

“Why would we NTA [issue a Notice to Appear to] those we have no intention of deporting?” said Mayorkas, according to the letter. “We should not place someone in deportation proceedings, when the courts already have a 3-6 year backlog.” (Read more from “BP Council Says ‘Catch and Release’ Policy Continues Fueling Illegal Immigration” HERE)

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This Big Rumor Is Circulating About Rubio’s Next Career–It’s the Last Thing You’d Expect

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When Sen. Marco Rubio chose to run for Republican presidential nomination, one of his campaign promises was that he would not seek another term as a U.S. senator from Florida.

Rubio’s campaign got off to a great start, but when the one-time senator lost the primary in his home state to billionaire Donald Trump, he apparently saw the writing on the wall and suspended his campaign for president.

Some may have wondered in what direction Rubio’s career would take him post-race. According to the New York Post, rumors were circulating he would join the Miami Dolphins in an executive role for the team . . .

Citing insiders within the Rubio campaign, the Post reports Rubio is still considering another White House bid in 2020, all the while lobbying to keep the delegates he won in 21 different states, asking delegates not to release them to the three remaining candidates.

With the possibility of an open GOP convention, Rubio is still active behind the scenes. The Post acquired a letter written to the Alaska Republican Party. In it Rubio reportedly wrote, “It is my desire at this time that the delegates allocated to me by your rules remain bound to vote for me on at least the first nominating ballot at the National Convention.” (Read more from “This Big Rumor Is Circulating About Rubio’s Next Career–It’s the Last Thing You’d Expect” HERE)

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