Donald J. Trump’s series of victories on Tuesday extended his delegate lead and forced Senator Marco Rubio of Florida out of the presidential race. Mr. Trump’s path to winning enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination is not assured, but he is in a strong position.
Here are some ways the Republican nominating contest could unfold. Try adjusting the sliders to see how the outcomes change. Each line in the chart represents one possible outcome.
If Mr. Trump maintains his current level of support in the remaining races, he would almost certainly secure the nomination.
After Tuesday’s contests, no other candidate retains a real chance of capturing the delegates required to win the nomination outright. Mr. Rubio dropped out, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is too far behind, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas would need to win the vast majority of the remaining delegates — a near impossibility. (Read more from “Rubio’s Exit Leaves Trump With an Open Path to 1,237 Delegates” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-18 00:31:512016-04-11 10:51:25Rubio’s Exit Leaves Trump With an Open Path to 1,237 Delegates
Cleveland will be ready should Donald Trump’s prediction come true of riots at the Republican National Convention if he’s denied the presidential nomination, security officials say.
Though the Ohio city won’t say whether Trump’s remarks have it reconsidering security for the July 18-21 gathering, preparations for possible unrest are well under way. The convention is designated a national special-security event, like Pope Francis’s visit last year and the Democrats’ nominating meeting in Philadelphia in July.
“It’s going to be a secure event,” said Kevin Dye, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, the lead agency coordinating with federal, state and local law enforcement.
Trump, the billionaire New York developer whose popularity soared after he attacked Mexicans and Muslims, faces the prospect of a convention floor fight if he’s leading in delegates but falls short of a majority. Trump said Wednesday on CNN that he thinks “you’d have riots” if the party denies him the nomination despite a large lead in delegates. (Read more from “Cleveland One Step Ahead of Trump’s Convention Riots Prediction” HERE)
Documents recently obtained by WFXT-TV through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that 73 private employees at nearly 40 airports nationwide have been identified with potential ties to terrorists.
The 73 reportedly flagged employees still were allowed to work at the airports because the Transportation Security Administration did not yet have access to all of the terrorism-related databases used during the vetting process, a report from the Homeland Security Inspector General’s Office stated last year. Although this original 2015 report did not reveal where the 73 airport workers were employed, since its release, the TSA said that it has been given access to all terror-related databases, according to WFXT.
Charlie Leocha, chairman of the consumer traveler advocacy group Travelers United, told WFXT that the employees, whose identities have not yet been publicly released, could be anyone from a supervisor at an airport store to an airline employee with access to luggage . . .
Michael England, the TSA’s national spokesman, issued a statement in which he claimed that the compiled evidence does not suggest that the 73 DHS employees are on the U.S. government’s consolidated terrorist watch list. (Read more from “Documents Reveal That 73 U.S. Airport Employees Linked to Terrorists” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-18 00:30:122016-04-11 10:51:25Documents Reveal That 73 U.S. Airport Employees Linked to Terrorists
Former House Speaker John Boehner says he would back successor Rep. Paul Ryan to be Republicans’ presidential nominee if the party cannot settle on one from the remaining field of three during its July convention, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.
Boehner, who resigned in September 2015, voted Tuesday in the Ohio GOP primary for Gov. John Kasich and backs him for president right now.
But Boehner, a former Ohio congressman, said at a Futures Industry Association conference in Florida: “If we don’t have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I’m for none of the above. So I’m for none of the above. I’m for Paul Ryan to be our nominee,” as reported first by Politico.
Ryan, the Wisconsin lawmaker who succeeded Boehner, was the party’s 2012 vice presidential candidate. And he is frequently mentioned as the GOP establishment’s last, best-possible hope toward keeping outsider candidate Donald Trump from securing the party nomination. (Read more from “John Boehner Just Made His Presidential ‘Endorsement’… For Someone Who Isn’t Even Technically Running” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-17 01:40:152016-04-11 10:51:26John Boehner Just Made His Presidential ‘Endorsement’… For Someone Who Isn’t Even Technically Running
Da Noive! President Barack Obama has chosen to nominate United States Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
We are told he is a “moderate,” but we know how that works. The other “moderates” on the high court somehow manage to march their way in lockstep to the officially designated liberal position on every single major case. Can anyone name an exception?
But that is the least of my objections. Whatever his merits, Garland served as Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick’s “principal deputy” during the two most corrupt years in American political history – the years leading up to Bill Clinton’s reelection in 1996 – and that service alone should kill his candidacy . ..
My newest book on the subject, “TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-up, And the Conspiracy,” spells out Gorelick’s role in all its unseemly detail. The book will be published before the crash’s 20th anniversary in July, but I would be happy to share an advanced copy with any U.S. senator who wants to know the truth.
In sum, Gorelick and the Clintons pulled off the most successful cover-up in American peacetime history. As a reward, the otherwise unqualified Gorelick was named vice-president of Fannie Mae in 1997, in which job she made more than $25 million during the next six years. (Read more from “Obama’s Supreme Pick Tied to TWA 800, OKC Bombing” HERE)
After winning the Republican primary in his home state of Ohio Tuesday night, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich announced that he plans to stay the course. Glenn Beck had a few choice words for him.
“Kasich, I mean, excuse my language, but, you son of a bitch, the republic is at stake,” Beck said Wednesday on The Glenn Beck Radio Program. “This is not like a normal race. The republic is at stake.”
Continuing his criticism of Kasich, Beck, a top surrogate for Republican candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, argued that the Ohio governor is “delusional” if he thinks he can win. Additionally, he thinks the Ohio governor made his victory speech Tuesday night “about himself” instead of about the country . . .
Beck argued that as long as Kasich stays in the race, he essentially acts as a spoiler, effectively helping GOP contender Donald Trump, and if it’s between Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and Trump, a third-party candidate could emerge.
“If you put this together and it was an incredible third party, not establishment, an incredible third party, and said, ‘We’re not going to be the GOP anymore,’ I think you get a lot of independents voting for it,” Beck said. “Because the GOP, especially if the GOP throws their weight behind Donald Trump, if he wins the nomination and they throw their weight behind Donald Trump, it’s over.” (Read more from “Glenn Beck Just Unloaded on Kasich – Here’s the Reason Why” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-17 01:30:092016-04-11 10:51:27Glenn Beck Just Unloaded on Kasich – Here’s the Reason Why
Judicial Watch submitted to a federal court a plan to depose under oath seven former and current State Department officials and aides of Hillary Clinton regarding the unsecure home email system through which more than 2,000 classified emails were sent when Clinton was secretary of state.
The testimony of Clinton herself may also be required, Judicial Watch said in its filing with U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington . . .
Judicial Watch said it wants answers from:
Stephen D. Mull, executive secretary of the State Department from June 2009 to October 2012. He suggested that Clinton be issued a State Department BlackBerry, which would protect her identity and would also be subject to FOIA requests;
Lewis A. Lukens, executive director of the executive secretariat from 2008 to 2011. He emailed with Patrick Kennedy and Cheryl Smith about setting up a computer for Clinton to check her clintonemail.com email account;
Patrick F. Kennedy, under secretary for management since 2007 and the secretary’s principal adviser on management issues, including technology and information services;
(Read more from “The List of Hillary Officials Judicial Watch Plans to Subpoena” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-17 01:29:402016-04-11 10:51:27The List of Hillary Officials Judicial Watch Plans to Subpoena
By Newsmax. Donald Trump predicted “riots” if Republican power-brokers deny him the presidential nomination in Cleveland even if he’s leading in the delegate count.
The billionaire New York developer, who prevailed in three states that voted Tuesday, held a narrow lead in Missouri and lost Ohio, is faced with the prospect of a floor fight at the Republican convention if he’s leading in delegates but falls short of a majority, 1,237.
“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention, but I can tell you, if we didn’t and if we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody, I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically,” Trump said on CNN on Wednesday. “I think you’d have riots.” (Read more from “Trump Said THIS Will Happen If He Loses Nomination With Delegate Lead” HERE)
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Plouffe Predicts Trump Could Win National Election
By Sandy Fitzgerald. Donald Trump is a formidable presidential candidate who could win the swing vote, President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe said Wednesday, once people get past his “bluster and the bigotry.”
“There are a lot of things that he says that are sort of against Republican orthodoxy that he’s getting criticized about that a lot of swing voters will be open to,” said Plouffe on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program.
“He sucks all of the oxygen out of the room. He’ll say anything about anyone any time. That’s a tough thing to deal with, as we’ve seen.” (Read more from “Plouffe Predicts Trump Could Win National Election” HERE)
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Next Week’s GOP Debate Canceled After Trump Boycott
By Newsmax. Fresh off three more primary victories, Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to blow off the next Republican presidential debate and warned of “riots” if power-brokers deny him the nomination at the convention even if he’s leading in the delegate count . . .
“I think we’ll win before getting to the convention, but I can tell you, if we didn’t and if we’re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short and we’re at 1,100 and somebody else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody, I don’t think you can say that we don’t get it automatically,” Trump said on CNN on Wednesday. “I think you’d have riots.” (Read more from “Next Week’s GOP Debate Canceled After Trump Boycott” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-17 01:29:122016-04-11 10:51:27Trump Said THIS Will Happen If He Loses Nomination With Delegate Lead
A small group of U.S. senators say they will meet with President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Sen. Jeff Flake, and Sen. Susan Collins all have agreed to have a meeting with Garland, reports Politico.
Ayotte – who is running in a tight re-election race against incumbent New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan – said that she would meet with Garland to explain to him that she opposes any nomination during the 2016 presidential race. Prior to Obama actually naming his choice to take the seat of recently deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, Ayotte said she would not meet with the president’s nominee.
“He’s a current appeals court judge and out of courtesy and respect we will certainly meet with him if he would like to meet with me,” Ayotte said. “I would want to explain my position to the nominee…I would want to give him that courtesy.” (Read more from “GOP Senators Say They Will Meet With Obama SCOTUS Pick” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-17 01:27:162016-04-11 10:51:27GOP Senators Say They Will Meet With Obama SCOTUS Pick
Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz stated that “no one should be surprised that Donald Trump is trying to stir up riots” in reaction to Trump’s prediction that there would be riots if he was denied the nomination after being just shy of the necessary 1,237 delegates and challenged Trump to a debate when both are in Washington, DC for AIPAC’s conference on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.
Cruz said, “Well, listen, no one should be surprised that Donald Trump is trying to stir up riots. I wish we had a presidential candidate that bringing us together instead of encouraging such things. But let’s talk about the math, because a lot of people get the math wrong, to be the Republican nominee takes 1,237 delegates. There are only two candidates that have any plausible path to getting there, Donald Trump and me. Now, by the way, if Donald continues getting delegates at the same rate he has so far, he won’t get to 1,237.”
Earlier, Cruz commented on Trump skipping Fox News’ planned March 21st debate by telling host Megyn Kelly, “[F]or whatever reason, it seems that Donald Trump finds you a very, very terrifying person. He skipped the debate in Iowa because you were going to be moderating. And I guess he doesn’t like when anyone challenges him. You know, he was saying just a week ago that he was eager to get one-on-one with me. Well, this debate, the field is narrowed even more, and he could have had a direct debate with me, and yet Donald apparently is ducking, He’s afraid of being challenged. And I think that’s because the race has shifted to a terrain that is not favorable for him. Even though the media is already ready to put a coronation on him, the reality is going forward, the closer we get to a one-on-one battle, the worse Donald Trump does. He’s been benefited by having a wide field, and [Sen.] Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) decision to suspend his campaign last night was a bad blow for Donald Trump, because it means the opposition to Trump continues to unify, and Republicans continue to unify behind our campaign.” (Read more from “Cruz Just Called out Trump in a Major Way – Will Donald Respond?” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-17 01:26:492016-04-11 10:51:28Cruz Just Called out Trump in a Major Way – Will Donald Respond?
