If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s endorsement, the presumptive GOP nominee will have to make some changes.
“Think of it as a merger of two companies,” Kasich said in an interview Tuesday with Ohio reporters. “If the values are not somewhat similar, if the culture is not somewhat similar, it’s pretty hard to do a merger.”
Kasich, who in the past has said he may never get to the point where he would back Trump, later elaborated, noting his dislike for the way Trump will “run people into the ditch.”
“Unless I see a fundamental change in that approach, it’s really hard for me to do a merger,” he said. “If he changes, that’s a whole new ballgame. But if the cultures don’t change, mergers aren’t possible.”
During the interview session, Kasich, who suspended his presidential campaign after the Indiana primary, contrasted his approach with that of Trump, saying the billionaire made Americans out as victims without offering solutions.
“It’s easier to consider yourself a victim than it is to stand against the wind, particularly when you have people telling you it’s not your fault,” Kasich said. “And it wasn’t their fault. But when you create a scapegoat situation – ‘Well, the reason why you don’t have something is because someone else does’ – that is a message at this point in time that is more effective than, ‘Hey, we can work our way through this.’”
Kasich said he will write a book on his campaign experiences and use it to share his optimistic message of where the nation should go.
“It’s my message, and I don’t really think so much about how it fits into the Republican Party,” Kasich said. “I think people intuitively know that message is correct. But there’s a tug-of-war going on, I believe, in the country right now between people who are legitimately upset for a variety of reasons. Their concerns, fears, insecurities have to be acknowledged. The question is, do you stand against the wind and make the best out of what you have in life? Or do you go and become a victim?” (For more from the author of “Kasich Makes Announcement About Trump Endorsement” please click HERE)
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When Trump says “The Second Amendment is on the ballot in November,” he is right.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not a fan of the Bill of Rights provision that protects Americans’ natural right of self-defense.
She has campaigned to the left of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and hammered him for protecting the rights of gun owners in his home state of Vermont. If elected, it is clear that she will claim to support the Second Amendment while will taking actions to roll back those rights as far as a president can.
Donald Trump hammered Hillary for her stance on gun control when he argued over the weekend that “Crooked Hillary Clinton is the most anti-gun anti-Second Amendment ever to run for office.” He is spot on.
Hillary gave a gun control speech last week in which she rolled out her anti-gun agenda. In the past, she has called for Supreme Court justices to overturn two Supreme Court cases that protect the right to keep and bear arms. She merely pretends to support the Second Amendment while her campaign promises betray an intent to make that provision of the Constitution a dead letter of law.
Here are the facts:
According to Politifacts.com, Hillary has argued for the overturning one of the most important Second Amendment protection cases in our history:
Clinton said she disagrees with the the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller. In a 5-4 decision, the Court struck down Washington’s handgun ban and recognized that the Second Amendment applies to the individual’s right to bear arms.
‘The Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment,’ she said in a leaked recording of a private fundraiser.
That case stands for the simple proposition that the Second Amendment is an individual right rather than a collective one. Although Politifacts.com ruled Donald Trump’s statement that “Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment” false, her position regarding Heller shows that she would effectively ignore the core meaning of the natural right of self-defense.
Hillary also endorsed a compulsory buyback program implemented in Australia. She said, “Australia is a good example.” That program would not pass constitutional scrutiny in the United States.
It is ironic that the fact checkers fall all over themselves to defend Hillary because she pays lip service to protecting the Second Amendment, yet she has never mapped out a plan to protect it. Hillary will follow President Obama’s lead in trying to pack the Supreme Court with nominees overtly hostile to gun rights while claiming that she supports the Second Amendment — don’t believe it.
According to her own website, Hillary has rolled out a number of proposals that will chip away at gun rights:
A proposal to shut down gun shows by forcing background checks to accompany sales between private citizens;
A proposal to allow trial lawyers to sue the gun industry into submission;
A reinstatement of the so called “assault weapons ban”;
Use of the error-filled terrorist watch list to disenfranchise law-abiding citizens who were put on the list by mistake and cannot get their names removed.
None of these proposals have a chance of passing if Congress stays in Republican hands. Democrats would be reluctant to go down the road of gun control if they take over for fear of being booted out of office in 2018. The Left rolls out polls that indicate support for some of these measures, yet voters have a say and they tend to vote against candidates who support gun control.
If Hillary is so supportive of the Second Amendment, where are her proposals to protect gun rights? She has none. In stark contrast, Donald Trump has a number of ideas to expand gun rights. Now some on the Right will look skeptically at Trump’s proposals, because he was a one-time supporter of some gun control ideas. Yet he is clearly superior on the issue to the overtly-hostile Hillary Clinton.
According to NBC News, Trump has proposed ideas to expand gun rights:
Throughout his campaign, Trump has called gun bans ‘a total failure,’ opposed an expansion of background checks and called for concealed carry permits to be valid across all 50 states.
Trump has voiced opposition to any weapons bans and has rolled out a list of Supreme Court nominees who are not hostile to the Second Amendment. Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick, has a history of support for gun control. In 2000, Judge Garland supported the Clinton administration’s proposal to store gun-buyers’ records and tried to get the D.C. Circuit to reconsider the Heller case as it wound through the federal courts.
For those who treasure Second Amendment rights and don’t want to be playing defense for the next four years on Supreme Court nominees and gun control legislation, this fall’s election will have a significant impact on the government’s respect for the Bill of Rights. (For more from the author of “Who’s the Real Anti-Gun Radical Running for President?” please click HERE)
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As White House hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton pivot their campaigns toward the general election, polling continues to indicate the winner of the expected presidential contest is likely to be whichever candidate can convince voters that the other is more unlikable.
When Fox News released the results of a wide-ranging poll conducted this month, it became clear how steep the negatives against both the presumptive Republican nominee and likely Democratic nominee have become. The cable news network determined that voters see both Trump and Clinton as “deeply flawed candidates.”
Nationwide, a hypothetical contest between the two candidates shows Trump with the upper hand — but barely. The former reality television personality received a nod from 45 percent of those polled, while Clinton was the choice of 42 percent.
While the statistical difference is within the poll’s margin of error, the results show a precipitous decline in support for Clinton over the past month. The same poll conducted in April showed Clinton with a seven-point lead over her potential rival.
As in previous polls, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders performed better against Trump than Clinton. The Democratic candidate maintained a 46-42 percent lead over the billionaire, though that advantage was smaller than Sanders’ 14-point lead last month.
Meanwhile, 11 percent of Sanders’ supporters told pollsters that they would vote for Trump instead of Clinton should the general election ballot contain those two names.
Breaking down the results by demographics, it is clear which is Clinton’s most loyal voting bloc. The former first lady has a cavernous 81-point lead over Trump among blacks. Trump performed best among whites, with whom he has a 55-31 percent lead over Clinton. (For more from the author of “Fox News Poll Reveals Who Comes out on Top in Hypothetical Presidential Race” please click HERE)
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With the once-crowded Republican field winnowed down to presumptive nominee Donald Trump and likely Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton nearly 300 pledged delegates ahead of rival Bernie Sanders, the scene was set Tuesday for a West Virginia primary that would change little in the electoral landscape.
Though a default win for Trump was projected by the Associated Press with zero percent of the vote counted, the Democratic race took longer to tally after polls closed at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Early reports indicated a strong showing by Sanders as Clinton spent much of the last week attempting to walk back comments that hurt her among many voters in the state. NBC News projected Sanders the winner of the contest shortly after 8 p.m.
West Virginia has been in the news over the past several days following comments Clinton made regarding the coal industry. When the former first lady promised to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” many West Virginians — including elected officials and those who make their living in the industry — were incensed.
Logan Mayor Serafino Noletti went so far as to write a letter to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., asserting neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton were welcome in the small mining town. When the former president arrived for a rally anyway, he was met by vocal protests from upset locals.
According to ABC News’ preliminary exit polling, roughly 30 percent of Democratic voters told pollsters that their family included at least one coal worker.
While the results of Tuesday’s vote might have no direct impact on November’s general-election matchup, exit polling did provide a barometer of the state’s current mood. A clear majority — about 60 percent — of Democrats expressed concern about the nation’s economic future. That number is 50 percent higher than the party’s national average this election cycle. (For more from the author of “Projected Winners Announced in West Virginia Primaries” please click HERE)
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Former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal loves his country. He does not feel the same way toward Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. However, in an election where he — as with all Americans — must choose, he has done so, writing his endorsement for Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, “I’m voting for Trump, warts and all.”
“I think electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration’s radical policies,” Jindal wrote. “I am not pretending that Mr. Trump has suddenly become a conservative champion or even a reliable Republican: He is completely unpredictable. The problem is that Hillary is predictably liberal.”
Clinton looms large in Jindal’s column.
“I have no idea what Mr. Trump might do,” Jindal wrote, “while Mrs. Clinton is predictable. Both are scary, the former less so.”
Jindal argued that an election is a choice.
“I do not pretend Donald Trump is the Reaganesque leader we so desperately need, but he is certainly the better of two bad choices,” he continued. “Hardly an inspiring slogan, I know. It would be better to vote for a candidate rather than simply against one.”
Last week, as Indiana voters were going to the polls to give Trump the victory that unraveled his opposition, Jindal indicated he could support Trump against Clinton and noted a Trump victory would require soul-searching on the part of conservatives.
“We conservatives have to go back and do a better job of explaining our beliefs and principles to the voters,” Jindal told Politico. “I think Donald Trump is tapped into the middle class anxieties when conservatives say they’re for limited government, entitlement reform, free trade.
“Donald Trump is not for those things and doing well in part because voters are responding to what he’s saying. He’s saying, look he’ll fight for them,” he said.
Jindal has said Trump is not a genuine conservative — that is, against big government.
“I don’t think he’s opposed to big government; I just think he wants to be the one running big government. I do think he’ll be better than Hillary Clinton,” he said.
Jindal characterized Trump in harsher terms in a piece written for CNN last fall.
“Donald Trump is a shallow, unserious, substance-free, narcissistic egomaniac,” he wrote then.
“Like all narcissists, Trump is insecure, weak and afraid of being exposed,” Jindal added.
“We face a choice,” he continued. “We can decide to win, or we can be the biggest fools in history and put our faith not in our principles, but in an egomaniac who has no principles.” (For more from the author of “Donald Trump Receives Endorsement From Former Opponent” please click HERE)
There have been rumors about former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney jumping into the presidential race since late last year . . .
Longtime conservative stalwart William Kristol, founder of the Weekly Standard, confirmed to CNN that he met with Romney on Thursday to discuss third-party options.
Kristol, who is leading the charge to find an alternative to presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, joins many other prominent conservatives who have pledged to not support Trump’s bid for president under any circumstances, a movement that has now become known as #nevertrump.
The meeting, Kristol said, was to gauge Romney’s thoughts about the logistics of running a strong third-party candidate, who it might be and whether or not he “might be the candidate himself” . . .
For his part, not only has Romney said he would not seek the GOP nomination, he says he will not run as a third party, either.
However, it is worth wondering whether the former Massachusetts governor will ultimately change his mind now that Trump has all but won his party’s nomination. After all, it was Romney, the last man to run for president under the Republican banner, who delivered a blistering speech in March, in which he strongly derided Trump, calling him a “phony,” a “fraud,” and that he did not have the judgment or temperament necessary to be president. (Read more from “Secret Meeting Suggests Ex-GOP Nominee May Try Third-Party Run” HERE)
As Americans prepare to choose their next president, Mitt Romney said Thursday neither of the likely major party nominees meets the standards he has set for giving his support.
Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee who in March declared himself part of the #NeverTrump movement in the GOP, made his comments at the American Friends of The Hebrew University dinner Thursday night.
“I don’t intend on supporting either of the major party candidates at this point,” Romney said. Donald Trump this week became the presumptive Republican nominee; Hillary Clinton is leading the race for the Democratic nod.
“I see way too much demagoguery and populism on both sides of the aisle, and I only hope and aspire that we’ll see more greatness,” he said.
Romney said he will not enter the presidential race as an independent, but he seemed to hold out hope someone else will . . .
“I think it happens to be an inflection point in our history as we go through this dramatic change economically and militarily, socially, all those things. … And I happen to think that the person who is leading the nation has an enormous and disproportionate impact on the course of the world, so I am dismayed at where we are now. I wish we had better choices, and I keep hoping that somehow things will get better, and I just don’t see an easy answer from where we are.” (Read more from “Mitt Romney Makes It Clear Where He Stands on Clinton vs. Trump” HERE)
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(Editor’s note: links to the other top stories are below) Ben Carson added more fuel to the fire of suspicion about Donald Trump’s conservative bona fides, when he suggested the presumptive GOP nominee’s running mate could be a Democrat.
Trump tapped Carson to head up a committee, which will make recommendations to the candidate who would best to fill the vice president slot.
Carson told the Wall Street Journal, in an interview published Thursday night, among those choices could be a Democrat.
Trump’s former GOP rival also took himself out of the running for the No. 2 spot saying, “I’m not interested in doing that for a number of reasons,” he said. “I don’t want to be a distraction. I’m sure you remember how crazy the media was about me, I don’t want to be a distraction, it’s too important a time in our life” . . . .
In an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier Thursday night, [Trump] added that he would prefer that person to have experience moving legislation through Congress, which would seem to eliminate most of the potential gubernatorial possibilities. He specifically stated South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is not under consideration and strongly suggested Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is not either.
Fox News digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt named someone who would check both the Democrat and congressional experience boxes: former Virginia Senator and presidential candidate Jim Webb. “I would say that the correct running mate for Donald Trump, and I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, is Jim Webb. Military experience. Democrat. Bi-partisan,” Stirewalt said on Fox Radio Wednesday. (Read more from “Ben Carson Just Made This Major Announcement About Trump’s Vice Presidential Pick” HERE)
After a day of tensions between two of the nation’s highest-profile Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office announced Friday that Ryan will meet with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday . . .
I've invited @realDonaldTrump for a meeting with GOP leaders next week, and I look forward to the discussion.
“Having both said we need to unify the party, Speaker Ryan has invited Donald Trump to meet with members of the House Republican leadership in Washington on Thursday morning to begin a discussion about the kind of Republican principles and ideas that can win the support of the American people this November,” Ryan’s office said in a statement.
Trump, Ryan and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will also hold a separate meeting.
During the Republican presidential primaries, Ryan voiced displeasure with some of Trump’s proposals on immigration, in particular his proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
On Thursday, Ryan said he was “not ready” to support Trump’s campaign for president, and suggested that Trump needs to take the first steps to show he will unify the party. Later that day, Trump fired back a response saying he would not support Ryan’s agenda and suggesting that politicians should do what is best for the American people . . .
Trump said Friday that Ryan’s refusal to support him was “not a good thing” and “something the party should get solved quickly.” (Read more from “Republican ‘Unity’ Meeting Scheduled for Next Week” HERE)
By Newsmax. In a political jaw-dropper that would have been inconceivable just six months ago, billionaire industrialists and conservative GOP donors Charles and David Koch are weighing supporting Hillary Clinton in her battle with Donald Trump for the White House.
Politico reports that representatives of Koch brothers warn that they “could sit out the presidential campaign entirely — or even back Hillary Clinton.”
The Koch brothers’ discontent with Trump’s aggressive campaign style first emerged last month when Charles Koch told ABC News it was “possible” Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, would make a better president than Trump.
On Wednesday, Politico says, the Kochs would not rule out supporting the former secretary of state. (Read more from “Internationalist Koch Bros., Bush’s Apparently Think Hillary Is Better Than Trump” HERE)
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George W. Bush Sitting out Election With H.W., No Plans to Endorse Trump
By Clyde Hughes. George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, will be sitting out the presidential election and have no plans to endorse Donald Trump, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The Washington Post reported that it is the first time in five presidential election cycles that Bush 41 is not endorsing the Republican nominee.
A spokesman for his son, Bush 43, made a statement Wednesday evening after Ohio Gov. John Kasich followed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to the exit, noted The Guardian.
“President George W. Bush does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign,” said the spokesman for the two-term president before President Barack Obama. (Read more from “George W. Bush Sitting out Election With H.W., No Plans to Endorse Trump” HERE)
