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Trump Just Made a Comment About Transgenders That Will Outrage Average Americans

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Republican Donald Trump, appearing on Thursday’s “Today” show, said transgenders should be allowed to “use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate.”

“So if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?” host Matt Lauer asked Trump.

“That is correct,” Trump said.

Asked for his view on the North Carolina bathroom controversy, Trump said the state has “paid a big price” for requiring transgenders to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex . . .

“One of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday, saying ‘Leave it the way it is right now.’ There have been very few problems. Leave it the way it is. North Carolina, what they’re going through with all of the business that’s leaving and all of the strife, and that’s on both sides — you leave it the way it is. (Read more from “Trump Just Made a Comment About Transgenders That Will Outrage Christians” HERE)

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Ted Cruz’s Father Just Said Something Appalling When Comparing Hillary and Trump

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8555644389_7a46af4855_bThe father of Sen. Ted Cruz said in a interview published Tuesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be a better choice for president of the United States than Donald Trump.

Rafael Cruz, who has been very active on the campaign trail for his son, told Breitbart that the billionaire businessman “would be worse than Hillary Clinton” as president.

“We’ve got to realize, Donald Trump is more of a Democrat than a Republican,” Cruz said. “He has been funding Democrats like [New York Sen.] Chuck Schumer, like Sen. Harry Reid, like Anthony Weiner, like [New York Mayor Bill] de Blasio and many others.”

The elder Cruz, an evangelist, added, “For 40 years he has been supporting all these ultra-liberal politicians. He would be worse than Hillary Clinton, but he cannot beat Hillary Clinton. … Polls show that Donald Trump would lose and would lose by a landslide.”

Cruz doubts that the GOP front-runner will reach the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination prior to the convention, and if he does not, the father of Trump’s closest GOP rival does not believe Trump will win it Cleveland.

Not surprisingly, the elder Cruz thinks he knows who the winner will be. “I believe that my son will get the nomination, if not by the second ballot, maybe by the third ballot. As we get into the convention and delegates are released, we’ll see Sen. Cruz’s support increase more and more. And I am convinced that he will get the nomination,” Cruz said. (Read more from “Ted Cruz’s Father Just Said Something Appalling When Comparing Hillary and Trump” HERE)

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Victory Speech Has ‘The View’ Calling Trump More Presidential [+video]

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8567822300_e2320094d4_bAs on so many other occasions in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, his words were dissected after his victory speech.

On a show where the scalpel of analysis is often cut cruelly, came a very different word used to describe the GOP’s front-runner.

After hearing Trump’s speech after his huge win in the New York primary, host Sunny Hostin of The View said Trump seemed “much more presidential this time” . . .

However, Hostin is not alone in her evaluation.

“If you are a Republican who doesn’t want Trump to be the nominee, the Donald Trump who just spoke should scare you,” tweeted Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post Tuesday night.

“After he won New York’s GOP primary by a massive and larger-than-expected margin, Trump was uncharacteristically subdued, setting aside the braggadocio (his word) we’re used to seeing from the real estate billionaire. And this somewhat-new, more-polished Trump — if we are indeed witnessing that — should worry Republicans who hope Trump will eventually gaffe himself out of the race,” wrote Amber Phillips of The Washington Post. “We’ve been wondering since he started leading in the polls when Trump would act more like a politician.” (Read more from “Victory Speech Has ‘The View’ Calling Trump More Presidential” HERE)

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Clinton vs. Trump – the Hand We’ve Been Dealt

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maxresdefault (99)The presidential contest that no one ever expected and many claim not to want is back on track and coming to your ballot box this fall.

Hillary Clinton rebounded from seven straight primary losses to Bernie Sanders to win big in yesterday’s New York Democratic primary. Donald Trump is sure to regain his momentum in the Republican presidential contest with his blow-out victory in the Empire State; Ted Cruz was a far, far distant third, suggesting he has little or no chance of winning states in the more diverse northeast and putting an enormous question mark next to his bid to be president.

Next Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware and Rhode Island all appear much friendlier to Clinton and Trump than to their rivals.

Even before yesterday’s primary, Clinton was seen as the likely nominee by 91% of voters in her party, with a record high 62% saying her nomination is Very Likely. Republican voters still view Trump as their likeliest nominee, although he has lost ground in recent weeks, but this Friday’s Trump Change survey is sure to show a turnaround for the billionaire businessman following his biggest primary win to date . . .

If Trump keeps winning primaries and adding delegates, it’s equally difficult to imagine the GOP elders denying him the nomination at the party’s national convention in July even if he’s a few votes short of the 1,237 total needed to claim victory. Cruz, who is nothing if not politically astute, is unlikely to see a path to victory in November by snatching delegates away from Trump at the convention after coming in second or third in most of the remaining primaries. (Read more from “Clinton vs. Trump – the Hand We’ve Been Dealt” HERE)

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The Confidential Memo Behind a Ted Cruz Victory Over Donald Trump Supporters

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6236460903_2a8ff49c7e_bBy Jim Galloway. On Saturday, Harry Abrams was a member of the five-member nominating committee for [Georgia’s] 11th District GOP convention. The committee had spent the previous week interviewing 61 applicants for the three delegate and three alternate spots the convention was to hand out.

In the end, the committee produced a six-person slate that led with a Donald Trump supporter, Lori Pesta of Cherokee County. But on a motion from the floor, the slate was dumped and the elimination of Trump supporters began.

In an after-action report, Abrams sent out the confidential blueprint that Ted Cruz supporters received on Friday night, and operated from on Saturday morning. The four-page memo is somewhat faint, but the detail is worth the squinting.

Writes Abrams in an introduction:

Was anything illegal done? I would have to say no. Was the Convention Packed. I would say yes. Under our “rules” was anything done that was illegal? No.

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Cruz to Win Half of Pennsylvania’s Delegates

By Ian Schwartz. NBC’s Hallie Jackson reports Cruz has changed his focus to Pennsylvania and making a play for the state’s unbound delegates. Jackson, the network’s Cruz correspondent, said even if Cruz has a third place finish in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary, he’ll win more than half the delegates.

“It’s very telling that’s Ted Cruz tonight is not in Brooklyn or Manhattan or any of the boroughs or state. He’s in Pennsylvania,” reported Jackson.

“He’ll be in Philly for his watch party tonight,” Jackson said. “That’s indicative of where he and his campaign see this race going, to Pennsylvania, where they are looking to make a play for these unbound delegates. Even if they come in a distant third, a top campaign aide tells me, they will still, they believe, pick up more than half the delegates there.”

“They’re looking at more than 30,” Jackson said. (Read more from “Cruz to Win Half of Pennsylvania’s Delegates” HERE)

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Watch: Trump Discusses 9/11 During Speech in New York — but Makes This One Big Mistake

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Just hours before the polls open in New York, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump mistakenly mixed up 9/11 with the convenience store 7-Eleven, the chain known for its Slurpees and Big Gulps.

“I wrote this out, and it’s very close to my heart,” he told supporters at a Buffalo, New York, rally. “Because I was down there and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action.”

Trump did not catch the mistake during the speech and had not yet acknowledged the flub at the time of publication.

The real estate mogul was using the opportunity to discuss the “New York values that we all know so well,” praising the construction workers, bystanders and first responders for their bravery during the 9/11 attacks. (Read more from “Trump Discusses 9/11 During Speech in New York — but Makes This One Big Mistake” HERE)

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Jab at Trump? McConnell ‘Optimistic’ About Contested Convention

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5435150785_cd4c33b4fa_bSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in an implicit jab at Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump, said he is “increasingly optimistic” that voting at the Republican National Convention in July will go to a second ballot.

The comments, made over the weekend to WHAS-TV in Louisville, represent a break of sorts for the Kentucky Republican who has sought in public to remain neutral on the race. While McConnell did not openly criticize any candidate, the senator seemed to be rooting for a contested convention – something Trump is battling to avoid, as he tries to lock up the nomination outright before July.

“I’m increasingly optimistic that there actually may be a second ballot,” McConnell told WHAS-TV.

“I want somebody who can win in November and the whole process is about trying to beat Hillary Clinton in November,” he said. “And I think our delegates, if they end up actually having the latitude to make a decision, which would occur on the second and third ballot, are going to be interested in who can win.”

A candidate would have to amass the support of 1,237 delegates in order to clinch the nomination. While it’s still possible for Trump to reach that number ahead of the GOP convention in Cleveland, it’ll be tough. If Trump cannot reach that threshold, voting would proceed to a second ballot at the convention, with a majority of delegates free to vote for whomever they choose. (Read more from “Jab at Trump? McConnell ‘Optimistic’ About Contested Convention” HERE)

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See How Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski Responds When Asked If He Will ‘Apologize’ to Ex-Breitbart Reporter

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hqdefaultWhen “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Corey Lewandoski on Sunday if he would like to offer an apology to former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields — even if only to avoid potential litigation — Lewandowski once again refused to validate Fields’ claims of assault.

Lewandowski, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign manager, discussed the recently-dropped battery charges that Fields brought against him following their encounter at a March press conference that was caught on camera. Although Lewandowski could be seen grabbing Fields’ arm in the footage, Trump’s campaign manager maintains that the reality of the situation did not match Fields’ violent allegations against him.

“What I acknowledge is, the sum total of my relationship with Ms. Fields was caught on that video tape,” Lewandowski told Wallace. “She’s an individual I had never met before, had never spoken to before, and candidly, I didn’t remember the incident. The whole incident lasted less than three seconds, and it was me moving from one location to another location. I would have remembered if I tried to violently throw someone to the ground, or if there was an incident which would have been memorable. And there wasn’t.”

Lewandowski also maintained that he had tried to call Fields after he read about the allegations against him from Fields’ boyfriend on Twitter, although Fields says that she has no records of a call or of any message being left for her. (Read more from “See How Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski Responds When Asked If He Will ‘Apologize’ to Ex-Breitbart Reporter” HERE)

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Donald Trump Just Revealed His Favorite Bible Verse – Many Christians Left SPEECHLESS

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16678805005_028e7f98d3_b (1)In the latest example of Donald Trump making a controversial faith-based statement on the campaign trail, the unconventional Republican presidential front-runner recently offered his pick as the Bible’s most memorable lesson.

WHAM’s Bob Lonsberry asked the brash billionaire if he has “a favorite Bible verse or Bible story” responsible for shaping his character.

“Well, I think many,” Trump began. “I mean, when we get into the Bible, I think many, so many.”

When he started to mention specifics, many Christians in the audience were taken aback.

“Some people, look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that,” Trump said. “That’s not a particularly nice thing.”

Several of Trump’s detractors expressed their concern with the self-described “strong Christian” selecting the harsh Old Testament teaching as the one he wanted to highlight in the interview. (Read more from “Donald Trump Just Revealed His Favorite Bible Verse – Many Christians Left SPEECHLESS” HERE)

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Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency

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MarkZuckerberg-cropThis week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to publicly denounce the political positions of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the keynote speech of the company’s annual F8 developer conference.

“I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others,’” Zuckerberg said, never referring to Trump by name. “I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases, even for cutting access to the internet.”

For a developer’s conference, the comments were unprecedented—a signal that the 31-year-old billionaire is quite willing to publicly mix politics and business. Zuckerberg has donated to campaigns in the past, but has been vague about which candidates he and his company’s political action committee support.

Inside Facebook, the political discussion has been more explicit. Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask Zuckerberg whether the company should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017.”

Every week, Facebook employees vote in an internal poll on what they want to ask Zuckerberg in an upcoming Q&A session. A question from the March 4 poll was: “What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?” (Read more from “Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency” HERE)

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