Supporters of Rubio Claim This Is What’s Ruining His Chances at Becoming President

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Sensing an opportunity for an upset victory, Marco Rubio spent most of Friday in Kansas, where he picked up a series of high-profile endorsements that he hoped could help thrust him into contention.

Instead, he finished a disappointing third in the Saturday caucus in Kansas, repeating the same pattern as in some Super Tuesday states earlier last week: a big last-minute push, notable endorsements and a thud of a finish.

Those doing the endorsing, along with many other supporters, bemoaned the results, as well as the campaign that produced them.

I felt I had a dog in the fight, and it hurt me personally when I thought we were going to win,” said Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, another state where Rubio came in behind Cruz and Trump. “The thing is, when Rubio was there, the enthusiasm was so great, better than the others. He had a great reception. If everything had been equal in terms of appearances and organization, he would have won Oklahoma.”

Party leaders, donors and other supporters of Rubio portray a political operation that continues to come up short in its message, in its attention to the fundamentals of campaigning and in its use of a promising politician. The failures have all but doomed ­Rubio’s chances of securing the GOP nomination, leaving him far behind Trump and Cruz in both delegates and states won. (Read more from “Supporters of Rubio Claim This Is What’s Ruining His Chances at Becoming President” HERE)

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Trump Stays in Front as Cruz Raises Pressure With Split Decision

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Donald Trump and Ted Cruz got a split decision from Republican voters in four states Saturday that didn’t dramatically change the nomination race but did expose unrest among party conservatives who want an alternative to the celebrity real estate mogul as their presidential nominee.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, scored an overwhelming win over Bernie Sanders in Louisiana’s delegate-rich primary that lets her maintain a solid lead for the Democratic nomination even as the Vermont senator won caucuses in Kansas and Nebraska.

Trump defeated Cruz in the Louisiana primary by 41 percent to 38 percent and in the Kentucky caucuses by 36 percent to 32 percent, according to the Associated Press. Cruz prevailed in caucuses in Kansas by 48 percent to 23 percent and in Maine by 46 percent to 33 percent. Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich finished third or fourth in the states, prompting Trump to call for Rubio to drop out of the race.

The results of Saturday’s voting for both parties raises the stakes for Trump’s and Clinton’s challengers to make a stand in the next round of contests on Tuesday and the slate of five state primaries on March 15 . . .

While Trump held on to his front-runner status in the Republican race, Cruz’s wins show that he may be able to rally support from some conservatives who’ve been pushing back against Trump over his rhetoric and changing positions, said Ron Bonjean, a Republican political consultant who’s not aligned with any of the campaigns. (Read more from “Trump Stays in Front as Cruz Raises Pressure With Split Decision” HERE)

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Top Conservative Just Announced Shocking Plan To Take Down Trump… He’s Not Going To Like It

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Bill Kristol, founder and editor-in-chief of “The Weekly Standard,” has joined a growing group of politicians and pundits who are trying to persuade Republican voters and delegates not to let Donald Trump win the party’s nomination for president.

After the Super Tuesday results, Kristol tweeted, “Cruz and Rubio have won more delegates than Trump so far. So they just have to combine. Simple. Cruz-Rubio 2016. QED.”

In a recent interview with MSNBC, Kristol disavowed Trump and continued his anti-Trump dialogue. He said he thinks Trump would be “a terrible nominee and a terrible president.” He even went so far as to say that he would rather have Hillary Clinton as president than Trump.

Kristol reiterated his beliefs that Sen. Cruz and Sen. Rubio should join together to defeat Trump.

“The truth is, if Trump doesn’t win Florida and Ohio, it remains very much of an open race,” Kristol said, arguing that a brokered convention would allow Cruz and Rubio to work together to force Trump to lose the nomination.

Some of Kristol’s Twitter followers didn’t take kindly to his suggestion for Cruz and Rubio. One follower attacked him saying, “Get lost creep, you’ve been busying the establishment since Bush. You’re just bad for the American people. You outta touch snob.” (Read more from “Top Conservative Just Announced Shocking Plan to Take Down Trump… He’s Not Going to Like It” HERE)

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America’s Biggest Conservative Conference Just Announced Winner of Annual Presidential Straw Poll

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Ted Cruz won the 22nd annual presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.

Cruz’s win marks the first time in four years that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul did not win the straw poll.

Paul, along with his father Ron, has long been considered a darling among the CPAC faithful. The two libertarians have collectively won five of the last six straw polls conducted, as well as several other polls at similar conferences. (Read more from “America’s Biggest Conservative Conference Just Announced Winner of Annual Presidential Straw Poll” HERE)

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Schwarzenegger Endorses Candidate for President

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At a time when Ohio Gov. John Kasich is lagging far behind in the GOP primaries, he received a powerful boost from actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

As Kasich rallied voters in his home state, Schwarzenegger endorsed Kasich during a campaign rally in Columbus on Sunday, telling supporters Kasich “kicked some serious butt” during his time in Congress . . .

Schwarzenegger has business interests in Ohio, notably the three-day “Arnold’s Sports Festival,” which he started in 1989 and is held annually in Columbus. He also invested in a shopping mall. Schwarzenegger said he was first introduced to the Ohio governor when Kasich was first running for Congress in the 1980s.

“This is the land of opportunity; it is the greatest nation in the world, no matter what anyone says out there,” Schwarzenegger said. “And we need John Kasich to now take charge and be at the White House.”

Schwarzenegger’s endorsement comes just in advance of Ohio’s winner-take-all primary held on March 15. The vote is critical to Kasich as well as to efforts by Republican leaders to derail the candidacy of Donald J. Trump. (Read more from “Schwarzenegger Endorses Candidate for President” HERE)

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Voters Have Noticed Something Very off About the Ohio Primary Ballot [+video]

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iVoters.com, a self-proclaimed “non-partisan, independent” website posted a video Thursday in which they showcase a glaring problem with the Ohio Republican primary ballot.

While the Democratic ballot is simple and easy to understand, the Republican ballot is dangerously confusing.

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NY Times, Wash Post Criticized for Nancy Reagan Obituaries

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By Greg Richter. The New York Times and Washington Post both went for the negative early in their reporting Sunday on the death of former first lady Nancy Reagan, and conservative commentators made note of it.

Washington Times chief political correspondent Byron York was first to tweet about The New York Times’ obituary . . .

Meanwhile, Mediaite’s Joe Concha noticed that Lois Romano, the writer of The Washington Post’s obituary, was clearly no friend to the former first lady or to Republicans in general.

Romano appears from her Twitter account to loathe “the Republican party and also appears to have affinity for one female Democratic presidential candidate in particular going back years to her time at Politico,” Concha writes. “Just how she got the official nod to reflect on the life of Nancy Reagan by the powers that be at The Washington Post is an utter mystery.” (Read more from “NY Times, Wash Post Criticized for Nancy Reagan Obituaries” HERE)

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Michael Reagan: She’s With Her Ronnie Now

By News Max. After former first lady Nancy Reagan died Sunday, it didn’t take long for tributes from the political world to start pouring in.

Reagan died in her Los Angeles home of congestive heart failure. Political figures from her stepson, Michael, to Mitt Romney and Donald Trump quickly took to social media to remember the late actress-turned-first lady, calling on her take on the prevention of drug abuse and her love for husband Ronald Reagan.

“Nancy is where she has always wanted to be with her Ronnie,” Michael Reagan, a Newsmax TV analyst, wrote on Twitter.

“Now she is at peace,” added Reagan, who also is president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. (Read more from “Michael Reagan: She’s With Her Ronnie Now” HERE)

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Black Lives Matter Organizer Posts Guide to Riotwear… in Arabic

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A Black Lives Matter activist who was part of the Ferguson riots posted a visual guide to urban riot wear in both English and Arabic on Twitter.

The tweet is significant because it was posted by Ashley Yates, who uses the handle @BrownBlaze on Twitter. Yates is a prominent protest organizer in the Black Lives Matter movement who is an advocate for violence. The Guardian quoted her in 2014 during her involvement with the Ferguson protest:

“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” said Ashley Yates, a co-founder of Millennial Activists United, who was arrested last week while protesting in Ferguson.

Yates learned organizing when she was the political chair of the Legion of Black Collegians at the University of Missouri Columbia; the group who was behind last year’s campus uprising there. Yates was not with the group at the time of that protest, however . . .

The tweet from @BrownBlaze came shortly after she’d retweeted an article from Jason Leopold discussing Cleveland’s plans to buy riot gear in anticipation of the Republican National Convention.

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ISIS Posts Info of 55 New Jersey Police Officers

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ISIS hackers have threatened 55 New Jersey police officers by releasing their names, addresses, telephone numbers and working locations online.

The Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA), an ISIS-affiliated group of hackers that largely focuses on defacing websites and spreading propaganda, released an Excel spreadsheet containing the details of 55 New Jersey Transit Authority police Wednesday.

The Daily Mail understands that the information — which lists the details of employees from a probationary police officer up to a number of captains — was obtained by hackers on February 26 from a uniform laundering list.

Many of the addresses associated with the officers are station houses and headquarters, but when put into Google Street View, many others show residential homes. Telephone numbers include officers’ cellphones . . .

The file was uploaded to an Arabic-language file sharing site on Wednesday. By Saturday morning it had been downloaded 300 times. (Read more from “ISIS Posts Info of 55 New Jersey Police Officers” HERE)

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Wow: Look Who Was Just Officially ‘Drafted’ for President – It’s NOT Who You’re Thinking

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By Gerry Urbanek. The suspension of the Jeb Bush campaign last month, along with the poor performance of Sen. Marco Rubio on Super Tuesday, has caused panic amongst those who fear a Donald Trump nomination . . .

The newly created super-PAC, the “Committee to Draft Speaker Ryan,” officially filed its paperwork Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. The only information associated with the PAC is that David Satterfield is the organization’s founder, though more information is expected to be released soon.

As the name implies, the super-PAC will seek to draft current Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to run against Trump for the Republican nomination. Speaker Ryan, however, says he has no intention of doing this and has repeatedly declined requests to announce a candidacy.

In response to the creation of this new super-PAC, Ashlee Strong, a spokeswoman for the Speaker, said: “He is flattered, but not interested.”

Satterfield was previously the treasurer for the late Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who served as both a Democrat and a Republican during his time in office. Satterfield has also operated a super-PAC with ties to Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, in an effort to oppose President Obama. (Read more from “Wow: Look Who Was Just Officially ‘Drafted’ for President – It’s NOT Who You’re Thinking” HERE)

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Republicans in Tailspin, Group Forms to Draft Ryan for US President

By Doina Chiacu and Megan Cassella. With U.S. Republicans sharply split over a front-runner they cannot unite behind, a new group is trying to push the country’s top elected Republican, Paul Ryan, into the White House race.

The Committee to Draft Speaker Ryan filed papers as a Super PAC with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, adding to the groups of mainstream Republican leaders and donors with a shared goal: stopping Trump.

Ryan, the House of Representatives speaker who spoke out against Trump for not quickly rejecting white supremacist support, did not appear ready to take on the role.

“He is flattered, but not interested,” Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said in an email on Friday. (Read more from “Republicans in Tailspin, Group Forms to Draft Ryan for US President” HERE)

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