Neil Bush, a brother of George W. Bush and Jeb Bush, was listed (along with his wife) as one of 13 new additions to Cruz’s national finance team. The campaign said the new additions are all former supporters of other candidates, including Bush, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Marco Rubio.
This follows the release last week of a list of several other previous Jeb Bush backers now supporting Cruz, whose hardline conservative approach is generally at odds with the one Jeb Bush took.
Last summer, former President George W. Bush told supporters at a private fundraiser for his brother’s campaign that Cruz was the GOP contender who most got under his skin. “I just don’t like the guy,” George W. Bush said at a Denver fundraiser. (Read more from “Bush Family Member Endorses Cruz” HERE)
The number of former Guantanamo Bay detainees suspected of re-engaging in terrorism or insurgency after being released by President Obama doubled from six to 12 in the six months through January, according to data released Tuesday by the administration.
Critics of Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo detention facility are certain to use the new totals to bolster their arguments that the recidivism rate is too high to continue releasing prisoners to foreign countries.
Of the 144 detainees released under Obama, the number now confirmed to be back in the fight is seven, according to the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The number of Obama-era releases suspected of re-engaging is now 12.
In addition, one more former detainee who was released under President George W. Bush is now suspected of rejoining the fight.
Overall, 118 of the 676 prisoners released under both presidents are confirmed to have participated in terrorism, while another 86 are suspected. (Read more from “Something Horrifying Was Just Revealed About More Ex-Gitmo Detainees” HERE)
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By Jack Davis. The brother of legendary civil rights activist Medgar Evers has two messages for America. One is that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is “the best candidate.” The other is that those obsessed with the past and the Ku Klux Klan have to “stop living in the past.”
“I believe in him first of all because he’s a businessman. I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi,” said Charles Evers, 93, whose brother was gunned down in 1963. Evers, a former leader in the NAACP, became a Republican and supported Ronald Reagan in 1980.
In an interview on National Public Radio, Evers said Trump would be a unifier.
“I think he’s the best candidate,” Evers said on NPR. “Number one, he’s independent. Number two, he speaks on what he thinks and not what some other politician may tell them. I like him as a person. He’s a self-made man, and he doesn’t have to take donations from Charles Evers, other people. Once he get elected, he won’t owe me a thing.” (Read more from “Trump Just Scored a Shock Endorsement That May Silence Those Calling Him Racist” HERE)
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Hillary Clinton Pledges to Never Let Donald Trump Become President
By Liz Kreutz. Hillary Clinton took direct aim at Donald Trump during a rally in Detroit tonight, vowing to never let the Republican front-runner become president as she continued to shift her focus away from Bernie Sanders and toward the GOP field.
“Because of the kind of campaign that the Republicans have been running, led by their front-runner, we have a lot of people who have been attacked, right?” Clinton asked the crowd of roughly 850 people at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
The reference to Trump prompted loud “boos” from her supporters, which seemed to fire up Clinton. “I mean, you got to say this about him, he is an equal opportunity attacker,” she said about her possible future opponent in the general election. “He’s attacked Mexicans, he’s attacked people with disabilities, he’s attacked women, he has attacked Muslims. He’s just gone after everybody.”
She added: “We will not let a person like that ever become president of the United States.” (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Pledges to Never Let Donald Trump Become President” HERE)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan has had conversations with Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the speaker’s office said Monday.
“Speaker Ryan has now had phone calls with Donald Trump and Senator Cruz to explain House Republicans’ plan to present a bold conservative policy agenda this year,” press secretary AshLee Strong said in a statement provided to TheBlaze.
She added, “He will have similar calls with Senator Rubio and Governor Kasich soon.” (Read more from “Paul Ryan Speaks With Trump and Cruz — Here’s What the Speaker Discussed With Them” HERE)
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During Monday’s Fox News town hall, Hillary Clinton repeated her outrageous claims that her private email server contained no classified material. Perhaps she could inform the FBI, the State Department, and various Inspectors General, which have designated more than 2,000 emails as classified, including 104 sent by Clinton herself, and 22 with a TOP SECRET designation.
During the town hall, Secretary Clinton faced a series of withering questions about her private email server. Among them was a quote from last year, in which Clinton claimed her private server contained no classified material.
On March 10, 2015, Secretary Clinton held a press conference at the United Nations in which she claimed that her private server contained no classified material.
CLINTON: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.
Clinton reiterated that outrageously false claim again today. But just last week, it was revealed Clinton’s email contained more than 2,000 classified emails, including 104 emails authored and sent by Clinton herself.
How stupid does Clinton think Americans are?
The answer, it would seem, very.
In fact, the American people have known for months that her private server contained classified material. With her willingness to tell baldface lies, it’s no wonder majorities of voters in primary states say they wouldn’t trust Clinton as far as they could throw her. (For more from the author of “SHE THINKS AMERICANS ARE VERY, VERY STUPID: Hillary Continues Shrieking Her ‘No Classified Emails’ Lies” please click HERE)
By B. Christopher Agee. Though the Florida senator has put much of his primary election stock in a strong home-state finish, CNN is reporting that some advisers within the Marco Rubio camp are urging the third-place candidate to drop out of the race prior to the March 15 Florida primary. The reports come just days after Rubio won his second primary, picking up all of Puerto Rico’s 23 delegates.
Quoting an unnamed campaign source, CNN reported that Rubio remains optimistic of his chances in the Sunshine State election even if some on his staff are starting to worry.
“He doesn’t want to get killed in his home state,” said the insider, suggesting a loss in Florida could “hurt his political future.”
Contradicting the network’s claims, however, was Rubio communications director Alex Conant, who appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room to call the story “fiction” and “100 percent false.”
Conant explained to host Wolf Blitzer that he “was sitting in a senior staff meeting planning out next week’s schedule” when he saw CNN’s claim. (Read more from “Advisers for This GOP Candidate Are Reportedly Urging Him to End His Campaign” HERE)
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Some Rubio Advisers Say Get out Before Florida
By Jamie Gangel and Tal Kopan. A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say.
Rubio himself is “bullish” on his odds of winning the critical primary, despite some advisers who are less hopeful and believe a loss there would damage him politically in both the short- and long-term.
Publicly, the campaign is maintaining they are still a contender in this race, touting a Sunday win in Puerto Rico’s primary that delivered Rubio 23 delegates. But privately, the campaign is having a debate about whether he should remain in the mix — even for his home state of Florida’s primary. (Read more from “Some Rubio Advisers Say Get out Before Florida” HERE)
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A case challenging the eligibility of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio to run for president will be heard in Broward County court at 11 a.m. Friday.
The crux of the case: the meaning of the phrase “natural born citizen” and how it applies to the two Republican senators. Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban immigrants who became citizens a few years later. Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban-born father and American mother, who moved to Texas when Cruz was four.
“These two candidates are naturalized U.S. citizens, or at the very least, simply fail to comply with the common law Supreme Court established definition of natural born citizen,” wrote Michael Voeltz in his court complaint.
Voeltz, a Broward Republican and inventory manager at a car dealership who is representing himself, wants the candidates’ names withdrawn from the Florida March 15 primary ballot.
The U.S. Constitution states that a presidential candidate must be a “natural born citizen.” Voeltz argues that the definition of “natural born citizens” refers to those born in the U.S. whose parents are U.S. citizens. (Read more from “Are Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Natural Born Citizens? Judge to Hear Case” HERE)
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Navy SEAL teams don’t have enough combat rifles to go around, even as these highly trained forces are relied on more than ever to carry out counterterrorism operations and other secretive missions, according to SEALs who have confided in Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
After SEALs return from a deployment, their rifles are given to other commandos who are shipping out, said Hunter, a former Marine who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This weapons carousel undercuts the “train like you fight” ethos of the U.S. special operations forces, they said.
Hunter said he’s been contacted by several SEALs, but he declined to provide further information about the weapons they use in order to protect their identities. (Read more from “Navy SEALs Tell Top House Lawmaker They Don’t Have Enough Combat Rifles” HERE)
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By Robert Barnes. The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law that threatened to close all but one of the state’s abortion clinics.
The court’s action came just two days after it heard oral arguments in a similar case from Texas, and abortion rights supporters treated it as a positive sign. It came just hours after the justices met to discuss the Texas case for the first time in their private conference.
The court gave no reason for its Friday order; only Justice Clarence Thomas noted that he disagreed and would have let the Louisiana law take effect.
The issue is whether clinic doctors who perform abortions must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. It was hotly debated during Wednesday’s oral arguments reviewing the Texas law.
Abortion providers say the requirement is medically unnecessary — hospitals accept any patient who developed complications after an abortion, they say, whether the doctor had admitting privileges or not. (Read more from “Supreme Court Blocks Pro-Life Legislation; Only One Justice Says He Disagrees” HERE)
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Lesbian ex-Girlfriend Backed in US Supreme Court Ruling on Custody
By Newsmax. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned an Alabama court order that had prohibited a lesbian from having contact with the three children she adopted and helped raise in neighboring Georgia while in a long-term relationship with their biological mother.
The 6-2 ruling reinforces gay rights less than a year after the court legalized same-sex marriage across the country. The justices didn’t hear arguments in the case, instead summarily reversing the Alabama Supreme Court.
The woman, identified only as V.L., has been battling the children’s biological mother, known as E.L. in court papers. The two women lived as a couple for 17 years in Alabama before gay marriage was legal in the state. V.L. adopted the children in 2007 after the pair set up a second residence in Georgia. The children were conceived by insemination from an anonymous donor. (Read more from “Lesbian Adoptive Mother Backed in US Supreme Court Ruling” HERE)
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By Jack Davis. Republican voters have put the party’s elite establishment on notice that any attempt to tamper with the will of the people will face a buzzsaw of anger.
Across the ever-expanding band of America the New York Times labeled “Trump Country” and beyond, voters reacted with anger to 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney’s Thursday speech to derail Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s candidacy. Romney spoke amid multiple reports of behind-the-scenes maneuvers to deny Trump the nomination at this summer’s Republican National Convention.
“I personally am disgusted by it — I think it’s disgraceful,” said Lola Butler, 71, of Mandeville, La., who voted for Romney in 2012. “You’re telling me who to vote for and who not to vote for? Please.”
Butler made it crystal clear how she felt.
“There’s nothing short of Trump shooting my daughter in the street and my grandchildren — there is nothing and nobody that’s going to dissuade me from voting for Trump,” she said . . .
“The furious campaign now underway to stop Mr. Trump and the equally forceful rebellion against it captured the essence of the party’s breakdown over the past several weeks: Its most prominent guardians, misunderstanding their own voters, antagonize them as they try to reason with them, driving them even more energetically to Mr. Trump’s side,” reads the Times article published Saturday and written by Michael Barbaro, Ashley Parker and Jonathan Marton. (Read more from “Republicans Just Revealed Something About Trump That Will Shake the Establishment to Its Core” HERE)
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Mitt Romney Would Vote for Write-In Candidate Over Donald Trump
By Jordan Fraiser. Former Gov. and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Donald Trump is “anything but presidential” and pledged to cast a write-in vote rather than support the Republican front-runner if he were to become this year’s GOP nominee.
During an interview on “Meet the Press”, Romney said. “I’m going to be voting, but I’ll vote for someone on the ballot that I think is a real conservative and who will make us proud and I may write in a name if I can’t find such a person.”
Romney stopped short of saying he regrets receiving Trump’s endorsement four years ago, but continued to condemn the Republican front-runner’s bombast and vulgarity. (Read more from “Mitt Romney Would Vote for Write-In Candidate Over Donald Trump” HERE)
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