Republicans Just Sent Trump This HUGE Message the Establishment Won’t Want You to See

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By Fred Maxwell. Should front-runner Donald Trump fail to obtain the necessary 1,237 delegates to clinch its nomination, the Republican Party may have a contested convention.

According to a poll released Wednesday by Monmouth University, 54 percent of those expected to vote Republican believe if a contest convention takes place, Trump should receive the Republican presidential nomination.

When asked if another person should be nominated if Trump failed to garner the delegates needed, 34 percent said yes. When asked who should win the nomination in the event of a contested convention, 33 percent chose Sen. Ted Cruz, while 23 percent went for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Sen. Marco Rubio earned 10 percent of the vote.

If Trump should fall short of the mark by a narrow margin, he has predicted his supporters would riot as well as sit out the election if he is not given the party’s nomination.

However, 43 percent of those polled said that even though they support Trump, they would cast their vote for whoever is the Republican nominee.

Trump has remained in the lead of the majority of preference polls for months, and according to the Monmouth survey, leads the overall Republican field with 41 percent of the support, followed by Cruz at 29 percent and Kasich with 18 percent. (Read more from “Republicans Just Sent Trump This HUGE Message the Establishment Won’t Want You to See” HERE)

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John Kasich Rejects a G.O.P. Call to Quit to Block Donald Trump

By Trip Bariel. Republicans desperate to stop Donald J. Trump from capturing the presidential nomination increased the pressure Wednesday on Gov. John Kasich of Ohio to quit the race, with Jeb Bush joining the growing number of party figures throwing their weight behind Senator Ted Cruz.

Mr. Kasich refused, saying that he, not the Texas senator, was the best option to stop Mr. Trump. But his argument was undercut by his dismal showings Tuesday in Utah and Arizona, where he won no delegates — as well as by the surprise endorsement Wednesday morning by Mr. Bush of Mr. Cruz.

Mr. Bush, who dropped out of the presidential race last month, is the latest mainstream Republican — following Mitt Romney and Senator Lindsey Graham — who is ideologically closer to Mr. Kasich, but whose embrace of Mr. Cruz is a strategic calculation that he has a better shot at stopping Mr. Trump. (Read more from “John Kasich Rejects a G.O.P. Call to Quit to Block Donald Trump” HERE)

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Scott Walker Hints at Endorsing This Candidate

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker hinted at a possible Ted Cruz endorsement Wednesday, adding that Cruz would be the strategic choice to beat Donald Trump for the nomination.

In the interview with radio host Charlie Sykes, Walker fell short of an official endorsement, however, saying that he is still deciding between Sen. Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Gov. Walker said he would make an endorsement within the week so as to have the “maximum impact” before his state’s primary April 5th – the only voting state on the calendar over the next month.

Continuing on, the former presidential hopeful spoke positively about the prospect of an “open convention”:

“And I stress open convention. Some in the media call it a brokered convention. It’s not a brokered convention. Republicans don’t have the capacity to have a brokered convention by our laws because it’s either the voters pick delegates who pick the nominee, or delegates, when it’s wide open, pick.”

Walker, once a top candidate for president, became one of the first to end his bid calling on others to do the same in hopes an alternative to Trump would emerge.

Still very popular among conservative Republicans, Walker could potentially be a vice presidential nominee. In response to that assertion Walker indicated to USA Today that he wouldn’t rule it out but, smiling, added, “That’s just way too premature.” (For more from the author of “Scott Walker Hints at Endorsing This Candidate” please click HERE)

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John McCain Just Revealed BEST Person to Take on ISIS–It’s Not Who You’d Expect

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When a reporter from TMZ caught up with Sen. Jon McCain in the Los Angeles airport, McCain added an element to his existing list of policy steps to fight ISIS: the man who should be in charge of that effort.

“John McCain,” the senator replied when asked who should lead the fight to take out ISIS.

“John McCain running for president!” the reporter then exclaimed.

“I’m staying out of that part of it,” McCain replied with a smile.

McCain referenced a number of statements and on-the-record pieces he’s authored on how to defeat ISIS. One was issued Wednesday on the site Globalo.

“ISIL has now created a terrorist safe haven in Iraq and Syria that has attracted thousands of foreign fighters, including hundreds from Western Europe and the United States. This poses a direct risk to U.S. national security and threatens to erase the gains in Iraq that nearly 4,500 brave young Americans have given their lives to achieve,” McCain wrote. (Read more from “John McCain Just Revealed BEST Person to Take on ISIS–It’s Not Who You’d Expect” HERE)

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Desperate GOP Establishment Turns to Ted Cruz

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The Republican establishment is sending in the cavalry for Ted Cruz, the latest unexpected twist in a presidential race that has defied all expectations.

Many prominent members of the GOP establishment intensely dislike Cruz. But they now acknowledge that he is the best option — perhaps the only option — to deny Donald Trump their party’s nomination.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush jumped on the bandwagon on Wednesday with a surprise endorsement of Cruz, describing the Texas senator as “a consistent, principled conservative” in a Facebook post.

Bush’s admiration for Cruz was noticeably lacking during the Floridian’s own run for the White House, when he mocked the Texan for political expediency. During one town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Bush said that Cruz had believed in immigration reform “until he went into the witness protection program” . . .

Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, urged voters in Utah — a state in which he has deep roots — to support Cruz in caucuses Tuesday night. Though Romney stopped short of a full endorsement of Cruz, he went as far as to record robocalls on the senator’s behalf in which he said that it was “time for Republicans across the spectrum to unite behind Ted.” (Read more from “Desperate GOP Establishment Turns to Ted Cruz” HERE)

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Border Patrol Union Chief Says Arrests of Afghans and Pakistanis Have Skyrocketed This Year

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The number of arrests made at the border of people from Afghanistan and Pakistan is up significantly this year compared to last, the president of the National Border Patrol Council said when he testified during a House hearing on Tuesday.

Brandon Judd, who has also served as a Border Patrol agent for nearly 20 years, also told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security that he has witnessed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials fudge alien apprehension statistics by low-balling the number of “got aways” — illegal border-crossers who enter the country but avoid being apprehended by border agents.

Judd began by denying what he says is the Obama administration’s claim that “the border is more secure today than it’s ever been.”

“As a Border Patrol Agent, I will tell you the exact opposite,” Judd said.

The Obama administration fails “to give the American public key indicators such as the number of arrests of persons from countries with known terrorist ties or from countries that compete economically with our interests,” he added. (Read more from “Border Patrol Union Chief Says Arrests of Afghans and Pakistanis Have Skyrocketed This Year” HERE)

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Officials Just Announced Something Horrifying About Guantanamo Transfers

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Americans have been killed by prisoners released from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Defense Department official told lawmakers Wednesday, triggering sharp criticism from Republicans opposed to shuttering the facility in the wake of deadly attacks by the Islamic State group in Brussels and Paris.

Paul Lewis, the Pentagon’s special envoy for Guantanamo detention closure, declined to provide the GOP-led House Foreign Affairs Committee with details. He would not say whether the incidents occurred before or after President Barack Obama took office in January 2009.

“What I can tell you is unfortunately there have been Americans that have died because of (Guantanamo) detainees,” Lewis said during an exchange with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. (Read more from “Officials Just Announced Something Horrifying About Guantanamo Transfers” HERE)

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SCOTUS Just Killed a Favorite Liberal Argument Against the 2nd Amendment

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In a hasty move this week, the Supreme Court gutted liberal arguments that the 2nd Amendment was only intended to protect the American right to bear primitive firearms like the muskets in common use at the time of its writing.

The case came after Jaime Caetano, a homeless woman with an abusive ex-boyfriend, was arrested for defending herself from the abuser with a stun gun after police failed to keep him away pursuant to the multiple restraining orders she had filed against the man. Prosecutors charged that Caetano had broken the law by defending herself with the stun gun because the devices were illegal under Massachusetts law and not protected by the 2nd Amendment.

The Supreme Court cited Heller earlier this week as it unanimously overturned a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the case which maintained that stun guns are not protected as self-defense weapons under the 2nd Amendment because they “were not in common use” when the Bill of Rights was composed.

That, as you know, is also a common refrain from anti-2nd Amendment Americans who don’t believe law abiding citizens should have access to semi-automatic firearms and high capacity magazines. (Read more from “SCOTUS Just Killed a Favorite Liberal Argument Against the 2nd Amendment” HERE)

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Trump Just Doubled Down on Terror Comments by Calling on These US Laws to Be Changed

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Hours after a deadly Islamic terror attack in Brussels, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was asked by CNN host Wolf Blitzer to share his prescription for increased threats of violence in the U.S. and around the world. Building on several previous controversial statements, Trump confirmed on Tuesday that he wants to see members of the U.S. military permitted to engage in the torture of terror suspects.

Speaking specifically about Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in last year’s Paris attacks, the brash billionaire said he would “be talking a lot faster with torture.”

Trump went on to theorize that introducing, or re-introducing, certain intense interrogation techniques could be the key to fighting global terrorism. He did acknowledge, however, that there are some people for whom he believes torture should be off limits.

“You’re going to make certain exceptions,” he told Blitzer, “and exceptions on heads of state and some of these people, and I’m not saying we don’t do that. But we have a real problem and people don’t have any idea what’s going on” . . .

“We’re fighting by different rules,” he complained. “They have no rules or regulations and can blow people up, and have bombs so vicious with the nails and the glass and all the things come spewing out, blinding people and destroying people. And we have rules and regulations and we can’t waterboard because it’s a little bit of a tough thing.” (Read more from “Trump Just Doubled Down on Terror Comments by Calling on These US Laws to Be Changed” HERE)

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The Winner of Arizona Republican Primary Is…

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump captured the Arizona Republican primary on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press and news networks, as GOP candidates battled there and in caucuses in Utah.

Tuesday’s contests came a week after Trump expanded his advantage in the Republican presidential race to more than 250 delegates after primary wins in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina.

Trump had been favored in Arizona, which, as a winner-take-all state, will award all of its 58 delegates to the New York billionaire.

“It looks like we’re doing very well in Arizona, and very well pretty much everyplace else,” Trump said Monday at a news conference in Washington. The New York billionaire held large rallies Saturday in Fountain Hills, Ariz., and Tucson . . .

Trump, the Republican front-runner who already had been running TV ads in Arizona touting his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from traveling to the United States, tweeted: “I have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than anybody- and it’s not even close. Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today!” (Read more from “The Winner of Arizona Republican Primary Is…” HERE)

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PRISON IS CALLING LOIS LERNER: Still No Justice for the Victims of the Obama’s Weaponized IRS

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The Capital Research Center recently released a report on the IRS non-profit conservative targeting scandal. The IRS Attacks the Tea Party highlights Lois Lerner’s corrupt behavior. Current agency chief John Koskinen’s aid in covering the targeting scandal has only furthered the agency from accountability.

The report reminds us of the scandal:

“Before examining the role that those left-wing nonprofits played in the saga, some background is necessary. In the lead up to the 2012 election, many conservative organizations and Tea Party groups that had sought tax-exempt status from the IRS were frozen in limbo, unable to participate fully in election season because they were wasting away on an IRS waiting list specifically created to stymie right-leaning groups hostile to President Obama’s radical left-wing agenda.”

“The very fact that Lois Lerner isn’t in prison right now is proof of political interference at the highest levels. Lerner lied to congress, committed, contempt, and engaged in obstruction of justice on a massive scale. Yet nothing happen to her.”

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), noted that the “Obama administration continues to refuse to hold anyone accountable at the IRS.” This comes after an interview in which President Obama said that not even “a smidgen of corruption” would be found during the investigation into the IRS scandal.”

The CRC report concludes:

“The Left’s ‘accountability’ actions focus on harassing and intimidating political enemies, disrupting their activities, and forcing them into waste resources dealing with activist’s provocations… They want to shut down, humiliate, and silence those who won’t quietly submit to their policy agenda.” (For more from the author of “PRISON IS CALLING LOIS LERNER: Still No Justice for the Victims of the Obama’s Weaponized IRS” please click HERE)

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