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Donald Trump Just Received a Totally Unexpected Endorsement

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23171891964_76bcee03ed_bDonald Trump is a rookie candidate — a potential superstar of vast promise, but making rookie mistakes. The nominee Republicans need for the fall campaign is often hard to make out amid his improvisations and too-harsh replies to his critics . . .

Should he win the nomination, we expect Trump to pivot — not just on the issues, but in his manner. The post-pivot Trump needs to be more presidential: better informed on policy, more self-disciplined and less thin-skinned . . .

Trump is now an imperfect messenger carrying a vital message. But he reflects the best of “New York values” — and offers the best hope for all Americans who rightly feel betrayed by the political class.

He has the potential — the skills, the know-how, the values — to live up to his campaign slogan: to make America great again.

For those reasons, The Post today endorses Donald Trump in the GOP primary. (Read more from “Donald Trump Just Received a Totally Unexpected Endorsement” HERE)

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Karl Rove-Backed PAC Warms to Trump

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25475724870_9fe3aeb6ee_bKarl Rove has publicly blasted Donald Trump as “a petty man consumed by resentment and bitterness” with little gravitas and almost no chance of beating Hillary Clinton.

But privately, the super PAC conceived by Rove is suggesting to its donors that it can help Trump win the White House and save Republican senators whose reelection bids could be jeopardized by having Trump at the top of the ticket.

The apparent warming of the American Crossroads super PAC and its sister groups to Trump has become evident in its recent communications with donors, including a Tuesday afternoon “investor conference call,” according to multiple sources familiar with the outreach.

The phone call — which featured Rove, Crossroads officials and a pollster — laid out swing state polling and electoral map analysis done by the group showing circumstances in which Trump could beat Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, in a general election, according to three sources briefed on the call.

One source, a high-level operative with the Koch brothers’ conservative advocacy network, characterized the conversation as heralding “a softening of the anti-Trump position” within the big-money GOP establishment. The source added of Crossroads’ stance on Trump, “It’s not that they support him, only that if he’s the guy, we can do something to stop Hillary.” (Read more from “Karl Rove-Backed PAC Warms to Trump” HERE)

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Almost Two-Thirds of Trump Supporters Want Third Party Run If He Loses Nomination

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maxresdefault (90)By Cathy Burke. Donald Trump has a double-digit lead in the GOP presidential primary as rival Sen. Ted Cruz closes in — and a big majority of Trump supporters say he should launch his own White House bid if he isn’t the party’s pick, a new poll shows.

The CBS News poll released Thursday has Trump with 42 percent support among GOP voters, the Texas lawmaker with 29 percent, and Ohio Gov. Kasich with 18 percent…

[I]f Trump loses the party’s nomination this summer despite having more delegates than his rivals, 63 percent of Trump supporters say he should run as an independent or third-party candidate, the poll shows. (Read more from “Almost Two-Thirds of Trump Supporters Want Third Party Run If He Loses Nomination” HERE)

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Dallas Morning News: Cruz Starting Quiet Running Mate Search

By Sandy Fitzgerald. Ted Cruz’s campaign is starting a quiet search for a suitable running mate to be in place should he pull out the GOP presidential nomination, but with the race still remaining unsettled, it’s not easy for him and rivals Donald Trump and John Kasich to plan too far ahead.

“It’s one of the complicating factors of having a protracted nomination,” Jason Johnson, Cruz’s chief strategist, told The Dallas Morning News in a Wednesday article. “We quickly approach the point where if we’re not thinking about those things, we’re neglecting our obligation to be prepared to be the nominee and beat Hillary [Clinton]”…

Johnson said that Cruz is not “negligent” by not yet naming any running mate choices, but “ultimately the goal is to beat Hillary, and in order to beat Hillary you have to have a running mate. Those things are being considered.” (Read more from “Dallas Morning News: Cruz Starting Quiet Running Mate Search” HERE)

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Donald Trump Is Right: The Republican Nominating Process Is a Scam

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maxresdefault (89)If Donald Trump arrives at the Republican National Convention with less than a majority of delegates bound to him, his message will be simple: I got way more votes than anyone else, and party insiders are conspiring against me to give the nomination to somebody else . . .

It is true that Trump’s campaign is doing badly at the small stuff, and it’s costing him delegates. Trump failed to organize for Colorado’s complex delegate conventions, in which voters never got to express a direct preference for a candidate. He has just started the process of selecting hundreds of delegate candidates in California. He has failed to stack relevant convention committees with his allies.

When Trump has called the nominating rules a “scam” and a “disgrace,” the response has been mainly that he should stop whining. Here’s Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee:

But here’s the thing: Democratic legitimacy is not just about following the rules as written. It’s about having a set of rules designed to produce a result in line with voter preferences. In some states, the Republican nominating rules are designed to ignore the will of the voters.

Trump is right: These states’ rules are a scam, and saying so is not whining. (Read more from “Donald Trump Is Right: The Republican Nominating Process Is a Scam” HERE)

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Spoiler Alert! Kasich out to ‘Deny Trump Nomination’

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25517125391_4b4e4c77e7_bIn an email to supporters Wednesday, the wife of Republican candidate John Kasich confirmed what many political observers have long suspected: A chief goal of the Kasich campaign is to deny GOP front-runner Donald Trump the party’s nomination.

“Friend, I’m going to be honest with you,” states the email blast from Kasich’s wife, Karen. “The stakes are high and it’s critical that we all pitch in to help John continue securing delegates and deny Trump the nomination.”

Then Mrs. Kasich assures supporters that her husband is running a “positive campaign” . . .

John Kasich has repeatedly insisted he’s not in the race to block Trump . . .

“I want to make something clear to people. I’m not in this to try to stop somebody,” Mr. Kasich told Fox News’ Chris Wallace on March 20. “I’m in this to tell people about my experience, my record, my vision, and my ability to bring – bring people together and to be a successful president of the United States. This is beginning to deteriorate into some sort of a political science class with a bunch of pundits trying to, you know, play a parlor game. I’m not interested in that.” (Read more from “Spoiler Alert! Kasich out to ‘Deny Trump Nomination'” HERE)

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Watch: An RNC Delegate Just Announced the Lengths She’d Go to Make Sure Trump Doesn’t Win

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hqdefaultHillary Clinton and the Democrat party are at war with Americans who pay taxes, are Christians, and use guns, and expect their private property and constitutional rights to be respected.

Yet Republicans, like RNC delegate Rina Bharara, say that they will vote for Hillary in November if Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee . . .

Anti-Trump “conservatives” constantly complain about how Trump is a liberal and not conservative enough, yet and in the same breath they state they will vote for Hillary.

Which one of their conservative principles does Hillary Clinton fall under?

This delegate says she’d pick Hillary because Trump is dangerous. Tell that to the families of the Benghazi victims, the women abused by the Clintons, and the families of Americans dead at the hands of illegals. (Read more from “Watch: An RNC Delegate Just Announced the Lengths She’d Go to Make Sure Trump Doesn’t Win” HERE)

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If Trump Gets Screwed by the GOP, the Third Party Will Be Bigger Than the GOP Fairly Soon

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24854169213_f2afeace89_bDilbert creator Scott Adams, the author and persuasion expert who correctly predicted the rise of Donald Trump, says the Republican party has a choice: strengthen itself with a Trump candidacy or face certain destruction with a contested convention.

In an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) question-and-answer session, Adams told “The Donald,” Reddit’s community for Trump supporters, that the GOP can only hurt itself if it “screws” with the billionaire frontrunner’s chances of securing the presidential nomination at July’s convention.

“If Trump is nominated, the GOP will grow stronger and become a bigger tent,” Adams wrote. “If Trump is denied after getting the most votes in the first round, the GOP will be done, one way or another.”

In his final post before logging off for the day, he reiterated this point. Asked whether a viable third party could rise, Adams responded, “If Trump gets screwed by the GOP, the third party will be bigger than the GOP fairly soon.”

He suggests the latest news cycle has helped Trump prepare this narrative, especially after the optics of Sen. Ted Cruz winning all of Colorado’s delegates while the public could not vote in a primary or caucus. (Read more from “If Trump Gets Screwed by the GOP, the Third Party Will Be Bigger Than the GOP Fairly Soon” HERE)

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Donald Trump Says Republican Rules Are ‘Stacked Against’ Him

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525148373_1280x720Donald Trump has claimed that the Republican party’s rules have been deliberately “stacked against” him as part of an establishment scheme to stop him winning the presidential nomination.

He made the accusation in a CNN town hall meeting on Tuesday ahead of next week’s Republican primary in New York which Mr Trump is expected to win easily, despite party grandees openly professing dismay at the prospect of him being the GOP candidate in November’s presidential election . . .

Mr Trump told Anderson Cooper, the CNN moderator, that the award was “very unfair” and happened because party leaders changed the rules to prevent him getting the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination – although he predicted he would still reach that figure, despite the “shenanigans” . . .

He dismissed suggestions that he had lost in Colorado because he was unfamiliar with the rules and that Mr Cruz had a better organisation on the ground.

“”I know the rules very well, but I know it’s stacked against me by the establishment,” he said. “They changed the rules a number of months ago. You know why they changed the rules? Because they saw how I was doing and they didn’t like it.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Says Republican Rules Are ‘Stacked Against’ Him” HERE)

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Donald Trump’s Possible VP Pick

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8567828196_810cd563d5_b[Donald] Trump assured [Kirsten Powers] that he is ready to “start building coalitions” at the right moment. “I’ll tell you what else is going to be soon. My whole life I’ve gotten along with people. … People you see excoriating me on TV … are calling my office wanting to get on the team. I actually asked a couple of them, ‘How can you do this after what you said?’ And they said, ‘No problem’” . . .

Could he build coalitions with people who had wronged him? Could he, for example, see appointing Sen. Marco Rubio to a position in his administration?

“Yes. I like Marco Rubio. Yeah. I could,” he answered. As for a potential Rubio vice president: “There are people I have in mind in terms of vice president. I just haven’t told anybody names. … I do like Marco. I do like (John) Kasich. … I like (Scott) Walker actually in a lot of ways. I hit him very hard. … But I’ve always liked him. There are people I like, but I don’t think they like me because I have hit them hard.”

He seems to have forgiven Rubio for his cringe-inducing attempt at stand-up comedy at Trump’s expense. “He made a mistake,” Trump said. “He became Don Rickles for about four days, and then I became worse than Don Rickles.”

I told Trump about a Hillary Clinton-supporting family member who, after watching a Trump speech, noted to me that he’d be very hard to beat. Everything Trump says — opposition to the Iraq War, criticism of trade and criticism of Washington — is right, she told me. (Read more from “Donald Trump’s Possible VP Pick” HERE)

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Liberal Media Targets Trump With Surprising New Tactic That Could Sink His Campaign

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images (89)Donald Trump has faced continuous criticism over the course of his political career over what some would call shifting political beliefs.

Numerous attempts have been made to shed light on Trump’s past and now the Washington Post is planning on releasing a comprehensive biography on Trump this August titled, “Trump Reveal.”

The biography will be led by executive editor of the Post, Martin Baron, who previously led investigations into the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal during his time at the Boston Globe.

According to Baron, the book will be released regardless of whether Trump wins the Republican nomination. As Baron sees it, Trump is a “major political figure and is expected to remain one,” making it relevant one way or the other . . .

The Washington Post has had a tumultuous relationship with Trump and the two are not exactly on friendly terms. Trump has routinely complained about unfair reporting standards against him and his campaign and has threatened to change libel laws against the press if he becomes elected. (Read more from “Liberal Media Targets Trump With Surprising New Tactic That Could Sink His Campaign” HERE)

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