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Question: when we cast our vote for president are we actually voting for the president we choose?
Question: How many delegates does a presidential nominee get if they were the popular vote in a state?
Question: Are we still following the U.S. Constitution in the way we vote?
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Should We Change The Way We Elect Our President? (KQED)
The Republican Party Leadership’s Dirty War Against Donald Trump
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The Republican Party Leadership’s Dirty War Against Donald Trump
Don’t Worry About The Electoral College Math…yet Harry Eaton of the polling website FiveThirtyEight answers the question that must be on millions of American voters minds already – what if the finish to the presidential race in November is too close to call? I have searched the Internet to find the best answer to that question. And though I will make a couple of comments while I read it, it is an excellent article for those who are concerned. Join me while I share it. – Ray
New York Values Trump and Hillary Donald Trump has already made his victory speech less than an hour after polls closed in New York. 128,000 votes have gone missing in Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders birthplace. Join Ray for the details right now.
YouGov Predicts Ted Cruz Will Beat Donald Trump in Wisconsin Today
The citizens of Wisconsin call themselves “Cheeseheads” because just like there is a lot of oil in Texas, Wisconsin is the land of cheese. So it is right to say a very large amount of Cheeseheads will be voting today.
As a happy member of YouGov (I’ve taken their surveys for more than six years), I was highly interested in a report they’ve written that if you’ll join me, I’ll share with you now.
YouGov Predicts Ted Cruz Will Beat Donald Trump in Wisconsin Today
Hillary Clinton said one year ago today that she had no classified information in any of her emails, and that all her Secretary of State-related emails had already been turned over to the FBI.
A couple of weeks later, David Kendall, Hillary’s attack lawyer, wrote a letter to a Representative you might not have heard of before then – Trey Gowdy – saying that all issues concerning her server were over because it had been wiped clean.
Shortly after that, David Kendall wrote another letter – to a House investigative committee, headed by Trey Gowdy, repeating that there were no more emails from Hillary’s “tenure as Secretary of State on the server for any review, even if such review were appropriate or legally authorized.”
In that letter, Kendall went on to say there was nothing that Hillary did that was worth investigating – in other words, her lawyer was saying that any supposed scandal related Hillary’s emails was much ado about nothing.
Kendall continued by stating what Hillary had done was “not an arrangement that is unprecedented or unique, but was a normal procedure carried out by tens of thousands of agency officials and employees in the ordinary course of their duties.”
Very soon, much of the media began to brand what was happening in the House investigation was nothing but a Republican witch hunt – a totally vicious attempt to throw a Republican pile of dirt on Hillary’s campaign for president.
Of course, Hillary’s lawyer doesn’t lie anymore than Hillary does. But what a difference a year makes!
What David Kendall wrote to the House investigative committee has proven to be totally false.
The problem seems to have started with a BlackBerry – something of her own that she wanted to keep and use so that she could manage the massive amount of email she received every day from everyone from supporters to colleagues to her personal friends.
It was her first day in office as Secretary of State and she told the Diplomatic Security Bureau of her desire.
They said no. They were concerned about hackers in foreign intelligence services that could easily find a way to hack her phone, and once hacked, could listen to all her calls.
But Hillary’s aides, the closest to her being Cheryl Mills and Huma Abrdeen, were and still are BlackBerry addicts. They tried every way they knew to fulfill their boss’s request.
As you’ve probably seen on television, an angry Hillary Clinton is not a pretty sight.
On February 17, 2009, Security Bureau members, technology specialists and national intelligence representatives met with Hillary to discuss how they could at all accommodate her.
Donald Reid, the Bureau’s senior coordinator for security infrastructure explained “The issue here is one of personal comfort for Hillary”.
No conclusion satisfied Hillary that day and the legal ban continued on her BlackBerry. Hillary, nevertheless continued to use it.
The server connected with her BlackBerry was in the basement of her home. It was totally vulnerable.
It was, surprisingly, The New York Times that broke the story about Mrs. Clinton’s email usage a year ago.
Almost immediately, the Associated Press exposed the use of her server.
From that time on, it is been all over the media.
There are several lawsuits from private groups against Hillary for violation of the Freedom of Information Act.
Hillary Clinton’s emails were not private at all.
The moment that was realized, the FBI became involved. In July of 2015, they recovered all but thirty thousand of her emails and then discovered a huge amount of classified material on Hillary’s “homebrew” server.
They recognized immediately that the way she had used her server had no precedent, was absolutely unique and had put many lives in stark danger.
All through the FBI investigation, Hillary Clinton has declared herself innocent of all wrongdoing.
In fact, Hillary points to her years as Secretary of State with pride and declares she has the whole world in her hands.
That just might be true. Considering the many millions of dollars our enemy nations have sent to the Clinton Foundation, she seems very much in touch with the whole world.
The biggest thing voters should think through is if they think those running for president who receive money from lobbyists know that they owe the lobbyists something big in return when they get into office, how much more does Hillary Clinton owe those same enemy countries of ours?
Nevertheless, have you been wondering, like I have, if Hillary Clinton is going to be indicted for her mishandling of emails while she was Secretary of State?
Well, this week I’ve done more than wonder. I’ve spent many hours doing research on everything that has unraveled so far with computergate that you, as a voter choosing the next president of the United States, should be fully made aware of.
The question I intend to answer because of what I’ve found is: “Should Hillary Clinton be indicted?”
Phrased another way “Should Hillary Clinton be elected to the highest leadership role in the world for the next four years as President of the United States?”
It is just possible Barack Obama was looking for a basketball player who would make a good challenge for him on the court. James Comey is 6 foot 8.
President Obama knew James Comey had also given a lot of money to John McCain and Mitt Romney in their separate failed bids to be president.
Part of the reason for that is that Comey is rich. Still another big reason for that is that James Comey is a Republican – a dyed in the wool Republican.
So why would President Obama appoint a dedicated Republican as the director of the FBI if it wasn’t that Barack wanted to improve his basketball skills?
Our president may have wanted him on the basketball court, but didn’t he know that James Comey might take Hillary Clinton to a court of Justice?
It was in 1913 that President Obama appointed James Comey to office. It goes without saying that being the Director of the Federal Bureau of investigation is a highly vital as well as prestigious position.
Comey’s assignment was well-deserved. He has been a tremendously successful prosecutor who is famous for bringing down high profile individuals for obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.
James Comey has been doing that for more than forty years. His current focus of investigation is Hillary Clinton.
On January 22, 2009, one day after she became Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton signed what is called a “Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement”.
That agreement outlined criminal penalties and blocked any future government emails from “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information.
To make it even clearer, every official email Hillary handled as Secretary of State was to be Top Secret.
Almost any American knows the name “Benghazi.”
On the very significant day of September 11th in 2012, only a few weeks before President Obama was elected for a second four years in office, a highly coordinated terrorist attack was launched against America’s Embassy compound in Benghazi, Libya.
The terrorists that night tortured and murdered our United States Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. They also killed Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, plus two CIA contractors, Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty.
Only a few hours after their murders, Hillary sent a note from her personal, unclassified email server to her daughter Chelsea. It read “two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Qaeda like group.”
On the night of the murders, Hillary Clinton said directly to Libya’s president “Ansar as-Sharia is claiming responsibility.”
Although extremely clear videos of the attackers were shot while the terrorists burned our embassy down, only one man has ever been arrested for the attacks. He is Ahmed Abu Khatallah, al-Queda’s senior leader in Benghazi.
But Hillary, nor anyone else in the Obama administration, then told America what she told Chelsea, that an organized “Al Qaeda-like group” had been responsible for the four men being murdered.
Instead, a spin was put on the whole massacre in order to keep President Obama looking strong, since he and Joe Biden had been constantly boasting during their second campaign that they had Al Queda, and all the other groups like them, on the run. So, the Obama administration were all taught to tell the same lie. Namely, that a bunch of wild Libyans had been angered by a YouTube video that they belived dishonored Mohammed and so they attacked our Embassy compound and killed our four men.
That was what everybody who surrounded the highest office in the land was told to tell America.
And President Obama was reelected.
The private email Hillary sent Chelsea on her personal unclassified email server about the terrorists sat silently on her computer for several years.
Just a very few months into Obama’s second term, James Comey was appointed Director of the FBI.
Republicans were delighted to confirm one of their own to hold that high office.
Comey took to his job like a duck to water.
His track record is amazing. James Comey began his career as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the US Attorneys office for the Southern District of New York.
In that distinguished role, among other notable victories, he helped prosecute the Mafia kingpins – the Gambino family.
In 2003, Comey led the Department of Justice in convicting Martha Stewart for obstruction of justice and she did prison time.
He told told the New York Times “This criminal case is about lying – lying to the FBI, lying to the Security Exchange Commission and lying to investors. He said “Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is, but because of what she did.”
As I’m speaking, Hillary Clinton could at any moment be indicted by the FBI for releasing Top Secret classified information which the federal government defines as “information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”
Any disclosure of Top Secret information is a serious criminal matter that would cause normal Americans to face prosecution and substantial jail time for perpetrating – putting national security in jeopardy, putting many lives in grave danger, and lying to the FBI.
That’s exactly what former four-star General David Petraeus, a distinguished hero in Aghanistan, was charged with when he “leaked” classified information to his mistress and biographer. For that, Petraeus was stripped of his four stars, put on 2 years probation and fined a hundred thousand dollars.
Twenty-two of Hillary’s emails included “operational intelligence” that involves espionage sources and methods. and that lives have been put at risk by Hillary’s mishandling of this information.
More and more classified Top Secret information has been retrieved from Hillary’s bathroom server – information that Hillary denied was on any of her servers at all.
Most countries with any power have spies. America is no exception. Every country with spies in other countries does everything they can to keep those spies from being found out.
But Hillary ignored doing that. Her emails included the true names of undercover Central Intelligence officers.
Worse, if things could be worse than that, Hillary exposed names of people working closely with the CIA, but not part of its paid staff. The danger she put them in can’t be overstated. And every time she did it as our Secretary of State she was in total violation of United States Federal Law.
Jack Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, was recently released from two years in prison for his disclosure of classified information which, in part, exposed the name of an Agency colleague who was working undercover.
If Hillary is indicted, it won’t be for who she is, but because of what she did.
CIA officials have said Hillary’s emails also included the names of foreigners who are on the CIA payroll.
About this, a senior Intelligence Community official said “It’s a death sentence. If we’re lucky, only agents, not our officers, will get killed because of this.”
You know, it makes me scratch my head and wonder, how any person who did that, whether they were running for president or not, could use the fact that they were Secretary of State as proof that they know how to do things overseas or at home.
At the very least from what she’s done, Hillary Clinton has blown the cover of many undercover agents overseas, careers have been threatened, and she has made many American secret agents and foreigners working with them absolute targets for the terrorists.
I’m asking you whether you are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Independent, is the person who did these things the person you really want in office as the next president of the United States?
It is possible that America is about to see another Watergate kind of showdown.
If the Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch overrules an FBI recommendation to indict the Democratic frontrunner, a “new Watergate” certainly could erupt that would give Hillary Clinton the strong possibility of doing time.
And knowing what we all know about Hillary’s kind of “What difference does it make?” attitude, she won’t go gently into the night.
Joseph DiJenova, formerly the District of Columbia’s United States Attorney has said “The FBI is going to make a recommendation that people be charged and then Loretta Lynch is going to have to make the decision of a lifetime.…
I believe that the evidence the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless Lynch agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an Attorney General. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable.”
When the Watergate scandal broke on October 20, 1973, Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, Attorney General Elliott Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned in protest, thoroughly disgusted with the lies President Nixon had been telling to keep the break-in secret.
There is absolutely no doubt that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a BlackBerry as her private email account and a home–brew server that she kept in her New York basement so that she could conduct official business while serving as America’s chief diplomat between 2009 and 2013.
Several, not just one, of her closest aides also used Hillary’s private server. Federal laws forbid this, but the laws were completely ignored.
The federal law requires government officials to strictly use government computers and government email accounts when conducting official business.
Hillary knew that and had sworn to agree with it.
Further, federal law demands that all government officials carefully, and in total privacy, preserve all official business.
When the discovery concerning Hillary’s emails came to light, Hillary absolutely denied that she had handled classified information on her computer.
But this immediately proved to be a lie.
In fact, more than a thousand of her emails were soon found to be classified.
That number is significant because as a Secretary of State who previously had had 25 years or more of handling classified emails, she knew what she was doing and that it was fully against the law.
In 2009, Hillary signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement that in part states “Sensitive Compartmented information that involves or derives from intelligence sources or methods that is classified or is involved in a classification determination…”
The truth is that Hillary Clinton and several of her closest aides read information “derived from intelligence sources or methods” nearly every day.
Another statement in the document she signed in 2009 reads “Nothing in this agreement constitutes a waiver by the United States of the right to prosecute me for any statutory violations.”
In short, Hillary Clinton is is far more guilty than Martha Stewart or David Patreus ever was.
Hillary, not Martha, carelessly put many human lives in grave danger because she has always lived beyond the law and didn’t care.
You may believe that I have been extremely harsh with this report. But not only do you need to know these things when you are voting, but they can all be proven without a shadow of a doubt.
And remember: Hillary successfully annihilated 30,000 emails the CIA or no one else will ever have access to.
One frustrated and furious Pentagon counterintelligence official said “everybody is mad as hell right now. The worst part is that Moscow and Beijing have that information, but the United States Intelligence Community maybe never will.”
So, will Hillary Clinton be indicted for what she’s done, knowing that she should be?
Well, remember that former President Clinton and Hillary are both very shrewd lawyers, and that Hillary is running for the highest office in the land. Both the Clinton’s have always lived way beyond the law.
As Bill famously said in defense of himself during his unsuccessful impeachment “It depends on what the word is is”.
This is Ray Mossholder at the Special Report news desk in Fort Worth, Texas. I’ll be back with more of Campaign 2016 soon.
Bernie Sanders blew Hillary Clinton off three state maps tonight.
Democrat caucuses in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state voted Bernie all the way.
Just listen to these numbers:
Alaska: Sanders 81.6%/Clinton 18.4% Hawaii: Sanders 70.6%/Clinton 29.2% Washington state Sanders 72.7%/Clinton 27.1%
Bernie’s prediction a week ago was that since Hillary was no longer getting enough Southern black votes, he was going to win the victories in future states.
He is having the time of his life, so far proving his point.
Bernie Sanders picked up 36 more delegates, and in her defeat Hillary Clinton still picked up 11.
Totaling it up – Hillary has 1,243 delegates, plus 469 Superdelegates, for a total of 1,712. Bernie has 975 delegates, plus 29 Superdelegates = 1,004
To put that into perspective – Hillary needs just 671 more delegates to win the nomination. Bernie needs 1,379.
Hillary would have to be out of gas completely to lose now.
But in a humiliating night like this, her car definitely sputtered!
Trump, Cruz, Bernie, Hillary, all Win and Lose Results are finally in from Arizona, Utah and Idaho. It was an interesting night and since Utah voted by computer, the polls closed there just a couple of hours ago. Who won? Who lost? What, why, when, how, and who? Ray has all the answers. Join him now.
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It’s official.. Bernie Sanders has won the Idaho Democratic caucus by a humongous amount and is also defeating Hillary Clinton in Utah.
Ted Cruz is overwhelmingly winning in Utah with only 60% of the vote counted, and Donald Trump has won in Arizona.
Hillary Clinton won only in the state of Arizona tonight.
Hillary was riding high last week when she swept five states, but the Vermont Senator tonight took some of the wind out of her sails.
Bernie’s two victories keeps him very much in the Democrat race, especially if he keeps on winning Western states with far less of a black vote.
Who would have ever thought socialism would be that popular in Mormon Utah?
One of the things that is giving Ted Cruz a huge boost in in Utah is his endorsement from Donald Trump’s arch-enemy Mitt Romney.
One of the things that may have cost Trump many votes there was when he quipped that Romney wasn’t a real Mormon. Mitt Romney is a hero in Utah.
Ted Cruz has so far received 69% of the Utah vote. And even John Kasich is beating beat Trump in that state with 16.8% for Kasich and a mere 14% for Trump.
The major issue that gave Donald Trump his victory in Arizona is his strong stance on building the wall to keep illegal aliens out.
It’s significant that Donald Trump’s unkind statement that he made about Senator John McCain not being a war hero appeared to have very little effect in Arizona.
With the endorsements of former governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Aiello, Donald Trump had a great night in that border state.
The Donald won 47% of the Arizona vote, Ted Cruz 24% and John Kasich 10%.
This means that Donald Trump won almost 2 votes in Arizona to every 1 for Cruz in a state with a very large Latino population.
In winning Arizona, a winner–take–all state, Donald J Trump picked up 58 more delegates. That means he now has 738.
Hillary Clinton won 75 more delegates by receiving 58% of the vote in Arizona to Bernie’s 39%. But Bernie swamped Hillary in the Idaho caucus, winning 78% of the vote compared to Hillary’s 21%.
Get out of there some of the pitch
So, where do they all stand tonight: The magic number for the Republican candidates 1,237. With tonight’s votes counted so far, remembering that Utah’s polls only closed a bit more than an hour ago….
Donald Trump has 738 delegates and needs another 499 votes to win on the first ballot at the Republican convention IF the Republican elites don’t change the rules at the last minute.
Ted Cruz still leads 774 delegates to outright win the Republican nomination. That’s more needed than Donald Trump has won already.
And John Kasich has no way to win the 1,094 delegates that he still needs. There are that many delegates left if he won every state from now on.
Hillary Clinton still has the need for the 1,169 delegates, since the Democrat magic number is 2,383. That, of course, isn’t counting her Super delegates.
And Bernie Sanders still needs 1,482 delegates.
Hillary has 362 Super delegates and Bernie has only 8.
And here’s where, since all of the attention by the media has centered on whether Trump and the large majority of American voters will be denied the nomination because of unfair rule changes….
The Democrats could care less how America votes because Super delegates are Democrat elected officials and other party insiders who are allowed to support which ever candidate they prefer, no matter who America’s voters want.
With no way to argue otherwise, the Democratic Party is profoundly unfair to its voters.
That’s because the Democrat elites believe they know far better than YOU do when it comes to picking the winning donkey.
Superdelegates of the Democrats can vote anyway they want to even on the first ballot.
One thing to watch for is a coming winning streak for Bernie Sanders. IF that happens, the Superdelegates might switch their votes from Hillary to Bernie.
That would lead Hillary Clinton did the exact kind of coronation loss that she had in 2008 when the Superdelegates voted for Barack Obama instead of her.
That’s why none of this will be over until the fat lady sings. And Hillary is working hard to keep the weight off.
And finally… Children are often confused by adults. Imagine their confusion inside a Jersey City, New Jersey, mall brawl.
The Easter Bunny was happy to have a child on his lap while a photo was being snapped.
But suddenly something else snapped and the little girl fell out of the Easter Bunny’s lap.
(If any children are listening right now, please know it wasn’t the real Easter Bunny, but just a man wearing an Easter Bunny suit.)
When the child fell on the floor and began to cry, Juan Jiminez-Guerrero began cursing at the man with the long white ears and then jumped on him.
The Easter bunny fought back.
You can see this whole brouhaha on Twitter.
Kassim Charles, alias the Easter Bunny, threw off the whole top half of his costume and his white bunny gloves and began punching while the little girls dad engaged in fisticuffs with him.
The punching continued even after a security guard tried to separate them.
Can you imagine what the little girl saw from the floor? And the rest of the kids thought were waiting in line to sit on his lap of this raging rabbit?
I mean, how many kids ever see their dad fighting the Easter Bunny? Especially an Easter bunny that can shed its skin.
Police had to break up the two. Both were charged with aggravated assault and disorderly conduct.
At the jailhouse it was discovered that both men also had prior warrants for their arrest.
As I said, children are often confused by adults.
I wonder if this little girl will trust Santa Claus this year, or if any of the other kids will.
Arizona, Utah, and Idaho are voting today. Idaho is strictly for Democrats because the Republicans already have gone through a caucus there. How important is all this anyway? Ray has the answer. Join him now.
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I remember the day I was playing hide and go seek with Jimmy and Teddy Llewellyn. I was ten.
We were playing indoors and I have found a great place to hide. At least I thought it was.
Much slimmer than I am today, I was able to scoot under the Llewellyn’s living room couch.
But as I did, I struck a hard object also under that couch.
Wondering what it was, I climbed back out from under the couch, dragging it with me.
It was just what I’d asked for for Christmas – a beautiful white scooter.
There was a label on that scooter and I read it.
“From mom and dad to Ray”.
I quickly scooted it back under the couch.
On Christmas Day, I didn’t want to disappoint my parents.
I let them sit down at the Christmas tree before I came out to join them.
That may have been the day that I became an actor.
I dropped my mouth open and exclaimed “Oh, a scooter!” and continued my performance to both my parents joy.
They were happy. I was happy to get the scooter. But in reality, I already knew I would have it and it kind of spoiled things for me. The element of surprise was gone.
I’ve told that whole story to tell you that the element of surprise is gone in the voting being done today in Utah and Arizona.
Few people will be glued to their TV sets to watch the inevitable. Donald Trump will win Arizona by more than twenty points and Ted Cruz will win Utah by the same amount of points.
Still, unlike my scooter, there is a surprise element yet to be uncovered.
Will Ted Cruz get 50% of the vote in Utah?
If he does, he will win all of the states forty delegates. And he needs them badly.
Beginning today, Ted Cruz has to win 80% of all the remaining states that haven’t voted in order to have enough delegates to win the nomination up right on the first ballot at the Republican convention.
Donald Trump only needs 54% of the remaining states to sew up his nomination UNLESS the Republican elites change the rules at the very last moment.
And that is a possibility.
But for today, in the winning the state of Arizona, he will receive fifty-eight more delegates to add to his vital treasure chest of delegates already pledged to him for the first convention ballot.
And if Cruz had come up with 50% of the vote or more, Trump will get some of the delegates, however few, from Utah.
Part of Donald Trump’s vote loss in Utah will be because of his committing the unpardonable sin.
He said that Mitt Romney wasn’t really a Mormon.
Joke or not, Utah takes Mitt seriously, and Trump’s remark sat very poorly with many Romney admirers.
Isn’t it amazing how little it would take to cause any candidate to lose and for us to end up with a very different president.
Ironically, two huge states that vote very late in the process could be the deciders of Donald Trump’s future – the state of California and the state of New York.
Both have a huge amount of delegates to release and this horserace is far from over.
California is a winner take all state and offers 172 delegates to the highest Republican vote getter.
New York offers 95 delegates and again splits its districts then divvies up the delegates according to the results in each district.
One state is only holding a Democrat caucus since the Republican caucus there occurred on March 8. Idaho.
The Potato State hasn’t had a poll taken on it in over a month. That’s like having none at all.
Either Hillary or Bernie could win there.
I’ll have results in these three for you races when they are all in.
From the Conservative Daily
A lot of people have brought up the fact that they won’t vote for Trump if he’s the eventual nominee. I just want to put something in perspective.
Justice Scalia’s seat is vacant. Ginsberg is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after 75.
These are 5 vacancies that will likely come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology.
Think about that… 7-2. If the next President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme Court for an entire generation. 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than 5-4 decisions which are seemed to be lacking in mandate.
Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period.
Everyone saying that they won’t vote for one candidate or the other if they are the GOP nominee, please realize this. If Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of your life. Ever. Now, this is scary!
If you are a Conservative, a vote for anyone but the GOP nominee, whomever that will be, is a vote for Hillary Clinton.
And finally….It was in Switzerland that I ate my one and only serving of escargot.
I was told by the waiter before I ordered them that escargot – which comes on your plate looking exactly like garden snails – are actually specially grown for eating.
My friend with me at the table was gulping them down as if they were better than Switzerland’s best wine.
I found they basically tasted like garlic. Though it ate the plateful, I wasn’t really grateful.
I felt the same way about caviar.
I was a drama teacher in Walnut Creek, California, and one of the other teachers on a French restaurant in Berkeley.
He brought the caviar for a special occasion among us teachers.
I watched several of them take a cracker or some bread after putting some caviar on their plates, dipping into it and knew that they were happy as clams (if clams are happy!)
I did the same thing with my plate, dipped bread into it, and gagged.
I’ve never had caviar again nor would I.
But now I’ve found something that rich people say tops both escargot and caviar. Fried cow brains!
This is the new rage in Rome among the elite. But it has spread to the commoners (not cow maneuers, commoners).
Food outlets are now selling it to a demanding crowd.
The elite call it a gastronomical delight. They can’t get enough of it.
And since you cannot buy it on the street from food vendors, fried cow brains are at the top of Italy’s charts.
I am sure that no matter how good the taste, I will never try cow brains.
Why not, you ask. Because “You are what you eat.” And not one Italian has claimed to be any smarter because of eating them.
Let me put it this way: I will never be in the mooooed for cow brains.
This is Ray Mossholder at the Campaign 2016 news desk in Fort Worth, Texas. I’ll be back with a full report on today’s voting sometime tonight. This is Ray Mossholder.
Big Wins and Big Losses in the Second Super Tuesday
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The unexpected happened as usual. One of the Republican candidates is now hanging by a fingernail. Michigan, Mississippi, Hawaii and Idaho have been heard from. Ray has the details most other news reporters are missing. Join him now.
For the Republicans, last night was a HUGE upset for the good old boys, the leaders of the Republican Party, especially Mitt Romney. All of them must of had to take aspirin.
Everything from the lawnmower to the kitchen sink had been thrown at Donald Trump this past week by the Karl Rove-ites. But that only seemed to help him. Americans love underdogs and people being bullied
Mitt Romney must feel like an absolute fool this morning after sending out Robo calls to all four states involved in the second Super Tuesday.
Mister Trump won three out of four states that Romney had blanketed with a plea to vote for anyone but Trump.
It must be extremely embarrassing to him to realize only Idaho may have listened. Responded while at least a million dollars was spent by his Super PACs smearing the Donald with everything from television ads to media writers.
To make things dreadfully worse for the big-time spenders who wanted Trump to lose. But not only did Trump win easily in Mississippi but he did something only two other candidates have done in this modern era – with that win Trump, like only Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, totally swept The Deep South states – first in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
And to rub salt in the wounds of the money machines – in four of those five states, Trump won by double digits!
Hillary did the same thing last night, though it’s far more common for Democrats to sweep the Deep South.
Ted Cruz cruised to victory in Idaho, proving that he can win Western states. He is looking better than Kasich and FAR better than Rubio whose percentages made him the loser of the night.
In fact, those who voted for Marco was so few it is probable that he will walk away (or RUN!), finishing fourth out of four states among four candidates.
That means the wind is completely out of his sails as he faces the state where he is Senator – Florida – the state political experts say Rubio must win or he should drop out.
That brings up the question, how do you sell yourself as a winner to those in your home state, when another candidate – in this case Trump – when your opponent is 20% ahead of you and statewide polls?
Polls can be wrong, but seldom by that much.
On the Democrat side, with the one exception that Nevada, Hillary Clinton still hasn’t proven that she can carry anything but southern states. Bernie Sanders might as well not even have shown up in Mississippi. Hillary waxed his skis even though there were no snowy mountains. Final results in Mississippi 83% for Hillary, 17% for Bernie. That really was a wipeout.
But Bernie got even with Mrs. Clinton. Hillary was ahead in all the Michigan polls by many points, but that’s what everyone needs to understand about political polls.
No matter how large the survey is, most people in the geographical area being polled are never included. among those not asked that polls can be proved wrong. Still, as entire state contests go, it could be considered a squeaker. Bernie got 50% of the vote to Hillary’s 48%.
Let’s get more specific. Here’s how last night’s voting played out:
Hawaii: Donald Trump 42%, Ted Cruz 33%, Marco John Rubio 13%, Kasich 11%. Bernie Sanders 50%, Hillary Clinton 48%.
Mississippi: Donald Trump 47%, Ted Cruz 36%, Marco Rubio 5%, John Kasich 9%. Hillary Clinton 83%; Bernie Sanders 17%.
Idaho: Ted Cruz 45%, Donald Trump 28%, Marco Rubio 16%, John Kasich 7%.
Michigan: Donald Trump 37%, Ted Cruz 25%, John Kasich 24%, Marco Rubio 9%
(Idaho and Hawaii involved Republicans only)
Of course, as important as all that voting is, the more important issue is how many delegates does each candidate have now?
On the Republican ticket, remembering that it takes 1,237 delegates to win the nomination: Donald Trump has 458, Ted Cruz is second with 359 delegates, Marco Rubio’s third with 151 delegates, and John Kasich so far has just 54 delegates.
In the two-way Democrat race, remembering that it takes 2383 delegates to win the nomination: Hillary Clinton has 760 and Bernie Sanders has 546.
One thing to keep in mind also is that this does not count the Superdelegates among the Democrats that boost Hillary quite a bit more above Bernie.
Exit polls are always interesting to see what America is thinking and why they are voting a certain way. The number one issue among the four states last night were 1. The economy; 2. Immigration; 3. Anger at the federal government; and 4. They want a president who is a political outsider.
One question was asked of Michigan voters as they were exiting: “How do you feel about temporarily banning Muslims who are not US citizens from entering the United States? 62% said they favored keeping the Muslims out. 32% said they were opposed to that idea. That’s a large majority in favor of temporarily banning Muslim entrance.
A second question specifically asked of those exiting after voting was “Do you believe Donald Trump is honest and trustworthy?” Mississippi voters gave Trump a 46% answer yes to that question.
Then a second question was asked: “If Donald Trump is elected president, would you be satisfied?” 1 out of 2 in Michigan said yes (50%), and 58% said yes in Michigan.
Donald Trump obviously got most out of the second Super Tuesday. Nevertheless, Ted Cruz winning Idaho and coming second to Trump in all three other races, certainly can’t be counted out. Trump trumped, but Cruz can remain on cruise control.
So, what’s next? Guam holds a Republican convention on March 12th. On that same day – this coming Saturday – the Northern Marianas holds a Democrat caucus while the District of Columbia (better known as Washington DC)
holds a
Republican caucus.
And finally… Have you ever done something and then wished you had done something else instead? In (Redding), Pennsylvania there’s a guy that must feel that way. He was sitting in the backseat of a taxicab wearing a Lone Ranger mask and a white hoodie and he pulled a gun on the driver whom he planned to rob. But it was a case of really bad timing. It seems the taxidriver froze and when a stoplight turned green, he didn’t budge. A Sheriff saw that the taxi wasn’t moving, so he turned his red light on
The dialogue went like this: “Give me all your money, man. I need it right now if you don’t want to die.” The panicked driver yelled “There’s a cop behind us”. The would–be thief then tried to jump out of the taxi. Deputy Terry Ely drew his gun, called for backup, and quickly arrested eighteen-year-old wearing what looked like a Halloween costume. Victor Martinez–Herrera sits in a jail cell today, wishing he had done something else instead.
Big Wins and Big Losses in the Second Super Tuesday
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For the campaigns of the Republicans and Democrats who were running for the nomination to become President of the United States, two of the Republicans did really good, one did mediocre, and one did poorly. Who did what, and what will it all mean?
Imagine that you were a debater and the debate was being broadcast over international television. You and your opponent come onto the stage, but suddenly two other well-known debaters come on stage too. And when the debate begins, the two debaters to either side of you begin heckling you and denying everything you say. Meanwhile, the other debater has no one heckling him. The debate goes on for two full hours and you have a very hard time making your points because you are interrupted so often by the two hecklers. How would you look to those watching?
I’ve just described last night’s Republican debate. You would be Donald Trump. The hecklers who would also be running for president – Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio – who contradicted Trump time and time again, while, when he could get a word in edge wise, he showed them where they were wrong. To those watching the debate whether in the audience or over TV, the three candidates looked like they were having a food fight. And that’s why John Kasich could say at one point in the debate “I’ve been called ‘the only adult on the GOP debate stage”.
Put yourself in the shoes of Donald Trump. What would you do in his same position. Of course, Cruz and Rubio are desperately trying to climb with the voters so that one of them will be elected president. The real question is: Do they both have to act like barking dogs in order to do it? Could you stand on a stage in front of millions of people while two of them yelled in your ears while you were trying to talk? Ted Cruz went so far as to mock Donald Trump by telling him “Just take a deep breath Donald. Take a deep breath.” Cruz didn’t see that just one time, but on two different occasions. After the second time, Marco Rubio mocked “I want to speak when the yoga session is over!”
I started looking at the Fox News website following last night’s debate. It’s bylines were rude to only one candidate. It has banners like “Trump deflects Fox’s questions; rivals fail to capitalize in Detroit.” Here’s another: “A rattled Trump debates in Detroit: Kasich, Cruz, are nights winners.” And still another: “Trump shocks and entertains at debate. But are voters growing tired of the circus act?” Then I began looking at the other news sources. They are all attacking Trump. I don’t know about you, but it makes me angry when someone is picked on unfairly while others who were even more guilty get off Scott free.
At the beginning of last night’s debate, Donald Trump made reference to the crude remark Marco Rubio made to his rally crowd on Wednesday – a remark that I shared with you on Wednesday’s newscast, about the size of the Donald’s hands. But Rubio didn’t stop there. He very clearly pointed to below his own belt and indicated that Donald Trump had another part of his anatomy that was tiny. When Mister Trump made mention of the fact that Marco was wrong about both his hands and other parts, in interviews afterward among Fox news anchors, they blamed the Donald for making a crude joke last night. Marco got no blame at all for his crude joke that prompted Donald Trump’s response.
Bill O’Reilly made the remark following the debate that he has never seen anything like this in all of his thirty-five years in television news. I can extend that. I’ve never seen anything like it in my much longer lifetime. Whether Donald Trump ends up the Republican nominee or not, he is being unfairly treated by his two hecklers on stage, by the news anchors interviewing him last night, on many news channels and talkshows, and by much of the rest of the mass media. Why? Mitt Romney made it extremely clear today. Mitt, speaking at the University of Utah, sounded like he wanted to get into the food fight too. What needs to be understood is that Mitt Romney is now a Republican good old boy – a Karl Rove-ite – ready to play one of the dirtiest roles ever in the Republican Party. That group, with Mitt as their superstar, wants to replace Trump with Mitt at the Republican Convention in July. It is dirty politics at its very lowest and the only way that Donald Trump can be assured of having enough delegates by the time the convention comes, so that he isn’t replaced, is to win solidly for the next two weeks.
What the Republican leadership is proving is that they have absolutely no care at all about what American voters want to put in office. They want to elect someone they know they can control . You don’t matter to them, however you vote.
Today we received in the mail a letter from the Republican National Committee asking for a donation. They also asked for a stamp to be put on their envelope so that it would save them the money for that. Georgia wrote in the letter that she sent back to them “You won’t get a dime from me until you quit attacking Donald Trump.” Oh, and she didn’t put a stamp on the envelope, so they will pay for it. You don’t have to be for Donald Trump to do that. You just have to be for honest elections. I highly recommend you do the same thing the next time you get anything in the mail from the Grand Old Party.
I promise to keep you posted on all of this.
For now, there are several stories breaking this morning about the 2012 loser, Mitt Romney. Although he will not have appeared in any of the debates this year, Romney wants another try for the Oval Office while totally skipping the debates. Mitt’s closest advisers are working on changing Republican convention rules so that he can step in as the hero and send Donald Trump packing.
Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to lock up the nomination. Romney is absolutely dedicated to seeing but that never happens. Romney has already stated too that again he wants House Speaker Paul Ryan as his running mate again.
Yesterday Mitt Romney lashed out at Trump and urged voters to vote for anyone but him. Romney said if he were voting in Florida, he would definitely vote for Marco Rubio. Romney will not stop there, but you can count on seeing him say anything and everything to stop the needed delegates to vote for Trump. Mitt sounded like he was already pulling all stops when he said “His bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men and women who worked for them. He inherited his business, he didn’t create it. And whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there’s Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump mortgage? A business genius he is not.” … For a different look at what Mitt Romney said, go to reachmorenow.com’s front page or Reach More Now YouTube’s playlist and find the latest Larry and Ray Show titled Donald Trump and the 2016 Campaign.
Until we Americans wake up and realize the corruption that is happening before our eyes, the corruption will grow worse and worse until our nation is destroyed. Mitt Romney proves the point. It’s way past time for all of us to open our windows and shout those words from the movie Network: I’m mad as hell, and I won’t take this anymore!” And for those of you who think Christians shouldn’t talk about what, just take a look at Jesus when he went into God’s Temple and overturned the money changers. Righteous anger is always right.
Since I’ve gone that far, if you watched the debate have you been wondering what that white spot was on Ted Cruz’s lip about twenty minutes after the debate got started? England’s newspaper says it came from his nose and that he ate it. Twitter has gone viral ever since. My favorite tweet was from a man named Dan Rollins who tweeted Donald Trump “Please remind Ted Cruz to say grace this morning. He clearly forgot to last night before he ate that booger.”
This is Ray Mossholder from the Reach More Now news desk in Fort Worth, Texas, with Campaign 2016. More by this evening. Until then, have a beautiful day.
What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?
This is Ray Mossholder
The very liberal New York Times’ headline says it well this morning: Trump Overwhelms GOP Rivals on Super Tuesday. And underneath that line was this one: Minority Voters Push Clinton to Victories Across the South.
Voters must have thought Super Tuesday was Black Friday because they came out in each state in numbers that were HUGE! If we follow that analogy, Donald Trump got the vacuum cleaner and swept up first place in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Ted Cruz got the lawnmower and mowed down Trump in the Lone Star State of Texas, Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, and Alaska (in spite of Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump). … And Marco Rubio won a state, his first, from leftist Minnesota. Rubio needed that in order to still be considered for the three-man race that will be run in Florida two weeks from now. Donald Trump leads Marco by double digits in Florida today. Watch for Rubio to try to erase those digits with the Republican Karl Rove-ites getting in all the help that they can give him in the next two weeks. Trump is way ahead in the Sunshine state but it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Even before the Florida vote on March 15th, nine more states beyond last night will have already voted. Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Maine will vote just two days from now on March 5th. Then three days later, on March 8th, Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan and Mississippi, will cast their votes. Then four days after that on March 12th, Washington DC will get into the act. Just to round this out, when Florida does vote three days after that, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Governor John Kasich’s Ohio, will be voting too. By that time, the Republican Party should know who their presidential candidate will be. Many in the media are already declaring it will be Donald Trump. But their predictions go further. They are reporting that there easily could be a brokered convention that would replace votes by those who favor the Donald with an altogether delegates switching their votes. If that happens, how will you react?
The Afro-American vote, plus the Latino vote, gave Hillary Clinton victories in Texas, Virginia, and all across the South – Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Bernie Sanders won in Vermont, the state he has been representing as an Independent Senator until turning Democrat to run in this election last year. He also won in Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plane, Colorado and Minnesota.
Right now the appearance is that the final race for the White House will be between Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. Who would’ve thought it? And by the way, when CNN tells you that either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would beat Donald Trump if the presidential election was held today, please take that with a HUGE dose of salt. Realize ALL stops are now being pulled to cause Donald Trump to lose. That will continue until someone is nominated by the Republicans. Trumped up scandals, bare-faced lies, and spinning the truth on it’s ear, will come from newspeople that you generally trust, the lamestream media, and from some of the Republican elite who would tie themselves to train tracks if it would be sure Trump won’t be nominated. Some have already sworn to vote for Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump becomes their final presidential candidate because they know they all may be evicted if there is a President Trump. Everything you hear from now until the election about Donald Trump should be listened to or seen with a warning that forever is fixed in your mind “The story they are telling you has an extremely good chance of NOT being true.”
Hillary sounded ecstatic tonight as she said at her victory rally “What a Super Tuesday!” At another part of her speech, Mrs. Clinton said “It is clear that the stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we’re hearing on the other side has never been lower. Trying to divide America between us and them is wrong, and we’re not going to let it work. Whether we like it or not, we’re all in this together, my friends, and we all have to do our part.” Hillary beat Bernie last night in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Bernie won in Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Vermont. Bernie has sworn he will stay in the race all the way to the Democrat convention. But as of tonight, remembering that it requires 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has 1,001 delegates pledged to her, while Bernie Sanders has 371 in spite of how states have voted so far.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump held a press conference rather than a rally and changed his tone to one that was very presidential, answering the medias questions as best he could. There were no verbal attacks by the Donald. Instead, he congratulated Ted Cruz for his victories tonight. Surprising to some is the fact that Ted Cruz did not win the evangelical vote. That went to Trump. And the pundits favoring Cruz’ had predicted that many of the Southern states would have chosen Cruz at the end of the evening. But again they went strongly to Trump.
Now that Super Tuesday’s votes have been counted, remembering that it takes 1,237 delegates to elect a Republican as their official presidential candidate, there is still a long way to go. Right now Donald Trump has 285, Ted Cruz has 161, Marco Rubio has 87, John Kasich has 25, and Doctor Ben Carson has 8. What it means is that Donald Trump still needs almost 1,000 delegate votes to win. So though many political pundits are saying that Donald Trump has the Republican nomination all sewed up, that seems an exaggeration with so many states yet to vote and so many delegates still needed by him.
Another note: In spite of all the states Donald Trump won this Super Tuesday, he didn’t do as well as most polls predicted. And John Kasich gave Trump a real run for his money in Vermont where the two placed first and second. Is there a chink in Donald Trump’s armor? Time will tell. By the end of this month, whatever happens and if all is done fairly, we should know who the two are that will be running for president against each other.
And finally, on a totally different subject:
If you think you can trust a self–driving car to keep you accident free, well, think again my friend. You may not have heard about this, but the invincible Google and their invincible self driving car were partially to blame for an accident on Valentine’s Day – an accident not with another car, or even a truck, but with a city bus! Google now admits their cars have been involved in 17 minor accidents, but claimed none of them were their car’s fault. The city bus was in Mountain View, California, the home sweet home of Google.
The Valentine accident happened when their test driver, who was going about 2 miles an hour, thought the bus was going to yield and the car guessed wrong (can cars really guess?) Google reported that their car sustained minor injuries to its left side. The bus was going about 15 miles an hour and Google didn’t report how much damage was done do it. The accident is being listed as a fender–bender.
Google said its driverless cars have driven more than 1 million miles. They call it “autonomous driving”. After this accident, a spokesman reported “Since February 14th we have made changes in our software to avoid future accidents like this in the future. From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses and other large vehicles are less likely to yield to them than to other types of vehicles. ”
This is Ray Mossholder and I’ve got to tell you, cars that can guess and can understand, give me the willies.
From the news desk of Reach More Now in Fort Worth, Texas, I’ll be back with more reports from Campaign 2016 very soon.
What Happened To The Republicans and Democrats on Super Tuesday?
The adventures of SUPER TUESDAY! Today will see the highest amount of states voting who will be voting during the entire 2016 campaign. Ever since the Republican debate, the father of lies has been super busy. Donald Trump has been by far the main target of attack. He’s now being called a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer because David Duke said he will be voting for Trump. Not endorsing him, but just like anybody else, voting. Ted Cruz has suggested the Donald might be a member of the Mafia. “Might be,” Ted said, without any real evidence at all. And here’s a biggie: Marco Rubio says Donald Trump has “small hands”. (That ought to stop Trump!) Like the gunfight at the O K Corral, Ted and Marco know that somebody’s going down and not getting back up. They are throwing pennies in a wishing pond and hoping against hope that it won’t be them.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, according to all reliable polls, is going to change the adventures of Super Tuesday into the adventures of Superman! He is ahead in the polls everywhere except deep in the heart of Texas. But it is not clear yet that Ted Cruz will win Texas where he served as their Attorney General. Though Cruz was born in Canada, many Texans do consider him a favorite son. If Ted Cruz doesn’t win his favored state or the nearby state Oklahoma or Arkansas, he will have the smallest chance among the gang of three – Trump, Rubio, and Cruz – to be the next president of the United States.
And Marco Rubio has to win at least one of the eleven states to be taken seriously by American voters. And if he doesn’t, the Republican Convention in July is predicted to be where the fireworks will blow the roof off. Billions of dollars – that’s “billions” with a B – are being gathered right now to force a brokered convention and elect anyone as the Republican candidate except Donald Trump. Marco Rubio didn’t just say that Donald Trump had small hands, he said Donald had “shrimp fingers” then followed that with a sharp jab below his belt, indicating that it wasn’t just Trump’s fingers that were tiny. His crowd laughed uneasily at that. But you can still bet on him because he is the good old boy’s poster child for president. And it doesn’t matter to them who you, as a voter, want in the White House. Like spoiled little brats, they have always gotten their way. Only you will decide whether they do this time. This is a great moment to call the congresspeople who represent you and let them know in no uncertain way who your candidate is and that it is “We the people” who are legally to decide who our next president will be, not party heads.
As for the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton is getting a fresh makeover, knowing that unless the polls are entirely wrong, she will be ahead in several states that will make her the odds-on favorite for Queen of the Democrats. Still, unlike Trump, Hillary will have scarcely any way that she could sweep the tables and win every state. It’s expected that Hillary will win states where there is a large population of African-Americans, and that Bernie Sanders will win states like Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee, because of their large population of suburban and college-graduates. The women’s vote will be especially interesting to watch to see if Hillary really is most of their choice to be the first woman president, or if Bernie will sweep both the millennial’s, including the women’s vote too.
Another question that will get settled shortly after Super Tuesday’s votes are all counted tomorrow night is whether Doctor Ben Carson or John Kasich will drop out of the race. The possibility looms high that the two of them will end up fourth or fifth in every state. Behind them in the shadows stand the Karl Rove-ites who want both of Carson and Kasich to resign so they can then thrust Mario to the side of Donald, making it a two man race, unless Mario flames out now. If Super Tuesday ends up with Marco out of gas, Republican elites will possibly turn to Ted Cruz and offer him the crown. The trouble is, Ted Cruz is unpopular with the good old boys too. As Donald Trump pointed out in the last Republican debate, Ted Cruz is a senator and yet not one of their senator has endorsed him. He isn’t well liked by his peers.
Kasich pledges to stay alive in the race until he reaches his home state of Ohio. He intends to win that state on March 15th. Watch at that time whether Donald Trump, or whoever the final poster boy for the Republican good old boys is, comes second in Ohio. It’s a lot less funny to say Donald Trump has shrimp fingers than to consider assassination that is now being subtly suggested by the New York Times.
And as for Doctor Ben Carson, his soft-spokeness and gentlemanly ways are out of sync in 2016. Many are asking why, with all the troubles and election losses that he has had, he insists he’s going to remain in the race. He explained his reason in a letter that he wrote today which in his large and carefully chosen words says he refuses to be bought out by the good old boys. Carson realizes what a great change is desperately needed in our government that is so full of corruption it is rotting. It is his greatest pain. And he is SO right.
Doctor Ben Carson is Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery at John Hopkins University and through the years has won all kinds of honors for his extremely outstanding character. I’m going to conclude this newscast with a letter that I’ve mentioned:
It seems like the only thing that’s guaranteed in this year’s election is the litany of punditry after every primary. This undiscussed industry has helped make politics more blood sport than democratic exercise.
It seems to get nastier at every turn, as campaign flacks dressed up as journalists line up to savage candidates whose campaigns they see as a threat to their preferred politician. Some have even gone so far as to question my faith, integrity or party loyalty because I won’t kowtow to their demands to step away from the primary process.
Is this what has become of politics in the world’s greatest democracy?
Whether establishment or outsider, conservative or moderate, a cottage industry has arisen around gaming and controlling the primary process. And that business is booming.
Unfortunately, these pundits have gotten too lost in the gladiatorial spectacle to see what truly matters: the will of “We the People” of America.
With every call to drop out, pundits and political operatives salivate over polling percentages — as though the people they represent were commodities to be bought and bartered in the backrooms of D.C.’s exclusive political clubs. This mentality is driving voters away from the political system they have so long supported.
The commoditization of the electorate is precisely what drove me into this race. Hundreds of thousands of supporters drafted me to run, and hundreds of thousands more continue to push me onward. They do not belong to my campaign. On the contrary, my campaign is beholden to them. However, the gears that turn the political machine no longer recognize “We the People.” Instead they see a mass of voters to be prodded, lured or strong-armed into their camp.
Sadly, this juxtaposition of power isn’t just a product of election season, it’s the very nature of what our government has become, and what I intend to change. Career politicians are serving their special interests over the people who elected them, returning home often only to beg for money or votes.
I trust that the American people will soon wake-up and realize that leadership is not about how one speaks, but rather the life one leads.
My candidacy is about restoring the principles of self-government by running as a true citizen-statesman who is accountable to all and beholden to none.
A ballot cast for me is a vote for uniquely qualified and principled leadership; an innovative problem solver with sound judgment and solid plans for solving the myriad problems faced by American families and society; and a role model for future generations for whom the American dream needs to be restored.
I have run a campaign built around faith, integrity and common sense, because I believe that how we run this race is indicative of how we would run the country.
Despite what you may read in the media, millions of people have already stood up in agreement. This campaign has gained momentum, and I continue to be honored and humbled by the many people who put their faith in me.
On the day before the Super Tuesday contests — so far only four states have had their say in this election and just five percent of delegates have been assigned — I offer the people a different choice from the other candidates, one they deserve to be able to make for themselves, as they support the principles in which they really believe.
That is why I won’t listen as the pundits and politicians decree from on high. I refuse to play by Washington’s political rule book, or subjugate myself to the whims of the political class.
At times this decision has put me at a disadvantage, subjecting my supporters to underhanded tricks from other campaigns. No doubt my refusal to play the typical Washington games feeds into why so many D.C. pundits think I should leave the race.
Fortunately, it is not up to any pundit or political operative to pick our president. No matter how much they think they could do a better job than the American people, we know better, and they deserve better.
Our nation is best served when the people have free choice. If a reporter wants to change a person’s vote, they should give him or her a compelling reason, not take away their options.
It is a fundamentally undemocratic response to insinuate that people should be stripped of their choice “for the good of the party.” That’s why I’ve vowed to continue our campaign as long as we have revenue and support, until the people have decided.
It’s not vanity that drew me into this race. Like so many people across the country, my interest in this election comes from a deep concern over the future of our country.
It isn’t just the obvious problems that affect us all, such as education, our weak economy, our ballooning federal debt and our national security, including the expanding threat of ISIS. We must also be careful guardians of our liberty, fighting the influences of special interests and an entrenched political elite that believe they can decide elections for us.
The “Great Experiment” of American democracy has proven successful since our founding. Only “We the People” can ensure it continues to be so.
Many are starting to take a stand, refusing to allow the pundits and political class to continue to manipulate them, seeking instead to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.
Super Tuesday. This is a day that the Lord has made.
This is Ray Mossholder from the Reach More Now news desk in Fort Worth, Texas. If you are part of the eleven states affected by Super Tuesday, be sure you know who you’re voting for and why. Check it out with God. Then vote.
Donald Trump and the 2016 Election (Larry and Ray) The Larry and Ray Show Larry and I discuss everything from Trump University to Trump’s current unreleased tax audit. We cover all the other candidates too. If you don’t even like politics, I think you’re going to like this a lot. Fun straight ahead and some shocks too!
Donald Trump and the 2016 Election (Larry and Ray)
I admit it. There are certain things I just don’t like. Make me ride on a roller coaster and I’ll throw up! Feed me cottage cheese and I’ll throw up! I will not sit through a horror movie. I will not ride a motorcycle. I will not go to an acid rock concert. I will not run a marathon. I refuse to learn to ski or bungee jump. I will not pitch in the World Series. I don’t like to be wakened even to music. I will never read a technical journal. And this one may surprise you, I don’t like German chocolate cake. Now, you may like all of these things and done them. There is no accounting for taste, even my own. Oh, and there’s something else I will never do. I will never vote for Hillary Clinton as president, and I’m going to tell you why. But before I do, let me apologize immediately to those who might be Hillary Clinton fans who are watching. You are entitled to your vote and I will defend you all the way to the ballot box so that you can cast it. But before I sound like I’m going on a tirade, here’s a quote from the very liberal New York Times.
In an article called “The Women Who Should Love Hillary Clinton” writer Gail Sheehy wrote about the former Secretary of State who “has always counted on women of her generation as a rock–solid base. But ambivalence is seeping in about her authenticity and the power of her symbolism as a woman. Among those unlikable’s consistently repeated to me by women who are conflicted about her: not authentic; can’t trust her; she lies; she’s establishment; she’s a hawk.”
The facts are that in July 2015, Hillary Clinton, being a woman, was winning her big points. As the New York Times story reported, in that month, 71% of women voters who leaned Democrat said that they were likely to cast ballots for her when the time came. But by September, her support from the same female voters had dropped by nearly 30 points, largely due to how she handled her emails as Secretary of State and deep concerns about her honesty.
The Nation.com, a left-leaning online website that usually supports Hillary over Bernie Sanders, two weeks ago, specifically on February 10, published an article by author Michelle Alexander titled “Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote: From the crime bill to welfare reform, policies Bill Clinton enacted – and Hillary Clinton supported – decimated black America.” In it Michelle wrote “Hillary Clinton’s support for the 1994 crime bill, for example…used racially coded rhetoric to cast black children as animals. Hillary said “They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super–predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel."”
Black Lives Matter broke into one of Hillary’s speeches in Atlanta, Georgia, last October. They earlier had unsuccessfully tried to crash into Hillary’s speech on August 11, 2015, in Keene, New Hampshire. Black Lives Matter tweeted six days later “Hillary Rodham Clinton lobbied to expand the drug war and mass incarceration in ways that still impact black and brown people today. As of today, the platform on her website still calls for ‘restoring balance’ to the criminal justice system.”
Black lives do matter, but it’s not just Afro-Americans who are beginning to see through the thin veneer of Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump stopped Hillary’s attack on him as Trump being “anti-woman” by pointing out that it is Bill who is the womanizer and the she was like an attack-dog with any woman who accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault. Kathleen Wiley, one of Bill’s victims, has said that she intends to appear at every Hillary Clinton campaign event if Hillary wins the Democratic Party’s nomination. She has said several times “Hillary Clinton will have to have me shot to stop me. I’m determined to tell the truth about the Clintons as sexual predators, and I’m not in fear of losing my life. Wiley’s book Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton” tells of the Chicago mob-style threats by Clinton operatives to make her stay silent. Now, Wiley and her supporters have filed with the Federal Committee the Rape Account Project for EDUCATION PAC which is usually shortened to “Rape PAC,” with a project called “Women vs. Hillary.” Wiley calls Bill and Hillary serial sexual predators.
In 2007, WND reported a private investigator admitted that he was hired by Hillary Clinton to investigate Wiley, and that he bore responsibility for acts of harassment and intimidation that were designed to silence her. Wiley said she was threatened by a “mysterious jogger” just two days before she testified in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Kathleen said “I went over the edge first when that jogger threatened my children, mentioning them by name and where they lived. Any mother or grandmother like Hillary who would threaten another woman’s children is as low as a person can get.” She added “Only women can defeat Hillary Clinton.”
From Hillary’s millions given to her by the Communist George Soros; another voice that’s about to speak – Gennifer Flowers; Hillary shouting at President Obama with the words “Call off your f (censored) dogs!”; I could say so much more, but that should be sufficient to let you know why I would never vote for Hillary. If she is nominated, I will say much more about her. I am not a scandal monger nor her judge, or Bill’s judge either. I have presented facts, but it is your place to vote for whomever you choose. To me, Bill and Hillary Clinton are enigmas. To you, they may be the most fascinating couple in the world. They are fascinating to me too, but for a totally different reason. I think, “How can two people with reputations of being serial sexual predators; financial gangsters who have gathered millions of dollars from our enemy nations for their piggy bank called The Clinton Foundation; who are known to be liars from Benghazi to her emails; even be considered a woman other women would want Hillary Clinton as your role model? As the first woman President?
This is Ray Mossholder from the news desk of Reach More Now in Fort Worth, Texas, with Campaign 2016. I’ll next feature John Kasich and ask “Do we really want a deeply committed politician of many many years in the White House this time?”
