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Walker Sees Cruz Victory Over Trump in Wisconsin Resetting Republican Race

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said voters in his state are about to shift the dynamic of the Republican presidential race.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is on the verge of a victory in Wisconsin that would propel him to the nomination, Walker told Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in an interview set to air Friday on Bloomberg Television’s With All Due Respect.

“I really believe looking at the momentum in this state—and certainly we’ve tried to help create some of that—Ted Cruz wins on Tuesday,” Walker said. “That’s the momentum shift. I think that starts him down the path toward people seeing, hey, this has really devolved into a two-person race.”

A Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday showed Cruz with a 10-point lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin, where 42 delegates are up for grabs in Tuesday’s primary. Trump is leading the Republican race with 736 delegates, compared 463 for Cruz, the Associated Press estimates. A candidate needs 1,237 to win the nomination.

Walker, a Republican who has endorsed Cruz, declined to criticize Trump during the interview. Instead, Walker kept his focus on what he sees as Cruz’s positives. (Read more from “Walker Sees Cruz Victory Over Trump in Wisconsin Resetting Republican Race” HERE)

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Police: Anti-Trump Protester Wasn’t Sexually Assaulted

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Police in Janesville, Wisconsin have determined a 15-year-old girl was not sexually assaulted at a rally against Republican candidate Donald Trump despite her claims.

The unidentified girl was maced in the face after punching a Trump supporter. She screamed about being sexually assaulted before being maced and as she was led out of the protest.

Originally police stated they were looking for a suspect after the girl was allegedly assaulted but they have now changed their tune.

Police used videos and eyewitnesses to determine that the girl’s claims were false, according to local NBC affiliate TMJ4. (Read more from “Police: Anti-Trump Protester Wasn’t Sexually Assaulted” HERE)

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Donald Trump Just Got What Could Be His Most Important Endorsement Yet

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In what may be Donald Trump’s biggest endorsement so far in his race for the presidency, the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) has officially thrown its support to the Republican front-runner as the next president of the United States.

The announcement — which marks the first time the agency has endorsed a presidential candidate during the primary season — came in letter form and represents the will of its 17,000 border patrol members. Trump has promised to give more authority to the agents on the ground rather than allow bureaucrats and politicians to control the country’s border from Washington, D.C.

“Mr. Trump will take on special interests and embrace the ideas of rank-and-file Border Patrol agents rather than listening to the management yes-men who say whatever they are programmed to say. This is a refreshing change that we have not seen before – and may never see again,” wrote Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council.

The statement admitted the NBPC had maintained a long-standing tradition of not endorsing candidates while the primaries were still ongoing, but had decided to end that practice in favor of endorsing the candidate (Trump) they believed would more fully support the agency.

“The lives and security of the American people are at stake, and the National Border Patrol Council will not sit on the sidelines,” Judd wrote on behalf of the NBPC.

Directly criticizing President Barack Obama, Judd proclaimed, “America has already tried a young, articulate freshman senator who never created a job as an attorney and under whose watch criminal cartels have been given the freest border reign ever known.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Just Got What Could Be His Most Important Endorsement Yet” HERE)

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It’s Only Trump

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The only question for Republicans is: Which candidate can win states that Mitt Romney lost?

Start with the fact that, before any vote is cast on Election Day, the Democrats have already won between 90 and 98 percent of the black vote and 60 to 75 percent of the Hispanic and Asian vote. Unless Republicans run the table on the white vote, they lose.

If there’s still hope, it lies with Trump and only Trump. Donald Trump will do better with black and Hispanic voters than any other Republican. But it’s with white voters that he really opens up the electoral map.

A Republican Party that wasn’t intent on committing suicide would know that. But Stuart Stevens, the guy who lost a winnable presidential election in 2012, says it’s impossible for Republicans to get one more white vote — and the media are trying to convince the GOP that he’s right.

Stevens says Romney tapped out every last white voter and still lost, so he says Republicans are looking for “the Lost Tribes of the Amazon” hoping to win more white votes: “In 1980, Ronald Reagan won 56 percent of white voters and won a landslide victory of 44 states. In 2012, Mitt Romney won 59 percent of whites and lost with 24 states.” (Read more from “It’s Only Trump” HERE)

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30 Years of ‘Free Trade’ Brings 400% Trade Deficit With China

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There is much debate over the negative effects of massive trade deficits, and what the best strategy for correcting them might be, but it’s hard to deny the U.S. trade deficit with China is staggering in scale … and it got that way after just a few decades of old-school “free trade” orthodoxy.

Raul Amoros of HowMuch.net puts the issue in perspective:

The start couldn’t be more balanced: in 1985, the U.S. exported $3.9 billion to China, and imported goods and services for the exact same amount. But by 2015, there was a staggering imbalance, to China’s advantage, of $365.7 billion – an all-time record, not just for U.S.-China trade, but for any bilateral trade, ever.

It’s not that U.S. exports to China haven’t increased. They have, and by a lot. America exported an impressive $116.2 billion into China last year, 30 times more than in 1985. That makes China the U.S.’s third-biggest export market, nearly twice as important as Japan ($62.5 billion), in fourth place. But that’s still a lot less than U.S. exports to Canada ($280.3 billion) or Mexico ($236.4 billion). Meanwhile, Chinese exports to the U.S. have exploded. In 2015, China exported $481.9 billion to the U.S. – an amazing 123 times more than in 1985.

Amoros illustrated this with an animated GIF that shows billion-dollar blocks building into towers of trade for the U.S. and China. The American side of the graph rolls in and out like the tide a few times, while the Chinese tower climbs relentlessly upward to four times the American size. (Read more from “30 Years of ‘Free Trade’ Brings 400% Trade Deficit With China” HERE)

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This Is What Trump Suggests Should Happen to Women Who Get Illegal Abortions

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Donald Trump sparked a firestorm on Wednesday when he said women should be punished for getting illegal abortions.

“There has to be some form of punishment,” the GOP presidential front-runner told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during a combative interview.

Matthews had asked Trump whether he would seek to ban abortion and how he would enforce such a policy.

“The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said in the interview taped for a town hall forum airing later Wednesday . . .

Asked what a ban on abortion would entail, Trump said: “Well you know you’ll go back to a position like they had, where people will perhaps go to illegal places, but you have to ban it.” (Read more from “This Is What Trump Suggests Should Happen to Women Who Get Illegal Abortions” HERE)

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Trump Made It PRETTY CLEAR Who’s to Blame for Lack of Mideast Peace

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Arab regimes, Western liberal politicians, the mainstream media – they all like to blame Israel for the lack of peace and stability in the Middle East.

But Donald Trump seems to see things a little more clearly, or at least he’s willing to tell the truth without regard for “political correctness.”

In an interview with The New York Times published over the weekend, Trump insisted that it was the Palestinian leadership, NOT Israel, that is to blame for the failure to reach a two-state solution.

“Basically, I support a two-state solution on Israel. But the Palestinian Authority has to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. …[and they] have to stop the terror, stop the attacks, stop the teaching of hatred,” he said. (Read more from “Trump Made It PRETTY CLEAR Who’s to Blame for Lack of Mideast Peace” HERE)

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Watch: Ex-Miss Wisconsin Tears up Thanking Trump at Rally

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A Donald Trump supporter who claimed to be Miss Wisconsin 2005 thanked the GOP front-runner in an emotional moment at a Tuesday rally for his help as she struggles with an incurable disease.

She thanked Trump for sending her a handwritten note and said it lifted her spirits after she decided to sign a “Do Not Resuscitate” order as her condition worsened.

She also thanked Trump for the fame that came with her pageant experience, which she said helped her son secure a scholarship.

“I’m here right now to thank you in person because that is my biggest dream,” she said.

“Being able to stand on the stage with you in 2005, the outpouring of love that came from that ultimately provided my son when he graduates high school with a full ride to college.” (Read more from “Ex-Miss Wisconsin Tears up Thanking Trump at Rally” HERE)

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Why I Support Trump — and Resent the Elites Trying to Destroy Him

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Let me say up front that I am a lifelong Republican and conservative. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life and have voted in every presidential and midterm election since 1988. I have never in my life considered myself anything but a conservative. I am pained to admit that the conservative media and many conservatives’ reaction to Donald Trump has caused me to no longer consider myself part of the movement.

I would suggest to you that if you have lost people like me, and I am not alone, you might want to reconsider your reaction to Donald Trump. Let me explain why.

First, I spent the last 20 years watching the conservative media in Washington endorse and urge me to vote for one candidate after another who made a mockery of conservative principles and values. Everyone talks about how thankful we are for the Citizens United decision but seems to have forgotten how we were urged to vote for the co-author of the law that the decision overturned . . .

Second, it doesn’t appear to me that conservatives calling on people to reject Trump have any idea what it actually means to be a “conservative.” The word seems to have become a brand that some people attach to a set of partisan policy preferences, rather than the set of underlying principles about government and society it once was. (Read more from “Why I Support Trump — and Resent the Elites Trying to Destroy Him” HERE)

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Trump Won’t Say If He’d Rule out War With China

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As part of an extensive interview with The New York Times posted Saturday, the GOP presidential front-runner [Donald Trump] was asked about China’s aggressive island-building in the South China Sea, and what the U.S. response should be . . .

“I would use trade to negotiate,” he added. “Would I go to war? Look, let me just tell you. There’s a question I wouldn’t want to answer. Because I don’t want to say I won’t or I will… That’s the problem with our country.”

“A politician would say, ‘Oh I would never go to war,’ or they’d say, ‘Oh I would go to war.’ I don’t want to say what I’d do because, again, we need unpredictability. You know, if I win, I don’t want to be in a position where I’ve said I would or I wouldn’t. I don’t want them to know what I’m thinking.” (Read more from “Trump Won’t Say If He’d Rule out War With China” HERE)

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