Marco Rubio has withered under attacks from Teabagistan and says he will now attend CPAC 2016. I believe some of you called this earlier this week. From the right wing Hot Air: What took so long? Team Rubio made it clear that they weren’t averse to speaking at CPAC — Rubio has spoken there for the last few years — …
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Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: While speaking today with televangelist Pat Robertson at Robertson’s Regent University, Trump specifically praised Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, the two most conservative justices on the Supreme Court. “Justice Thomas doesn’t get enough credit,” Trump said. “He’s a wonderful man, he’s a wonderful guy.” After criticizing Chief Justice John Roberts as not being …
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The Buffalo News reports: Rep. Chris Collins, a mainstream Republican from Clarence, on Wednesday became the first sitting member of Congress to endorse bombastic billionaire Donald Trump for president. “Donald Trump has clearly demonstrated that he has both the guts and the fortitude to return our nation’s jobs stolen by China, take on our enemies like ISIS, Iran, North Korea …
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“There is a storm coming of biblical proportions, a storm coming beyond your recognition. When the economy collapses, when our currency is worth toilet paper, who do you want, who do you want handling our nation? You want somebody who has divided us, who is grooming Brownshirts? I was at the caucus last night. I had never seen anything like …
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The BBC reports: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has thanked the poorly educated for his decisive victory in the US state of Nevada on Tuesday evening. He also celebrated securing the backing of the state’s Hispanic voters. Mr Trump secured a double-digit lead over his rivals, with nearly 44% of the vote. The billionaire real-estate mogul will now be looking …
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Politico reports: Donald Trump crashed the Nevada caucus location at which conservative talk show host Glenn Beck was speaking Tuesday night on behalf of Ted Cruz. MSNBC was broadcasting a live look at the caucus site, Palo Verde High School in Summerlin, when Trump suddenly showed up and made an impromptu speech of his own. “We are going to have …
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And another third place finish for Ted Cruz. Via CNN: Donald Trump notched a resounding win in the Nevada caucuses Tuesday, channeling the roiling anger of Republican voters against the establishment and sweeping almost every category of the electorate to build his dominance in the delegate count. It was a stunning show of momentum for his campaign, one that made …
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face the voters tonight in a town hall meeting due to start at 8PM Eastern in Columbia, South Carolina. Hosting tonight is CNN, who will be live-streaming on their website with your local cable provider login. A bootleg live-stream from YouTube is embedded below. Watch along with us and weigh in.
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Marco Rubio will be the sole GOP presidential candidate to skip this year’s wingnut fest at CPAC 2016. The news was breathlessly reported this afternoon over at Trump World Headquarters (AKA Breitbart), where they have posted a reaction from CPAC’s organizers: Although, Marco Rubio has built a conservative record and has a high ACU rating, he and his campaign have …
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CNN reports: Donald Trump unleashed tough rhetoric against his rivals as well as a protester at a Monday night rally, the even before the Nevada caucuses. “I’d like to punch him in the face,” Trump said, remarking that a man disrupting his rally was escorted out with a smile on his face. “He’s smiling, having a good time.” Trump claimed …
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Marco Rubio has picked up a slew of endorsements from GOP leaders who are continuing to panic as Trump increasingly seems unstoppable. The Hill reports: Jeb Bush, Rubio’s former mentor and chief competition for establishment Republicans, left the race after a poor showing in South Carolina on Saturday. Rubio finished second in the Palmetto State, edging Cruz, who finished a …
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“I want to make sure that you hear this because the media will spin this out of control and they’ll make it into another crazy conspiracy theory, but I just want to point out: 1999, I talked about Osama bin Laden in New York and said that their would be blood and bodies in the streets and the signature would …
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Ted Cruz today fired his campaign’s communications director Rick Tyler – the guy in charge of social media, among other things – for claiming that Marco Rubio had renounced his Christianity by mocking the bible. The Cruz campaign has repeatedy lied about his GOP rivals and all of those lies resulted in nothing more than shrugs and more lies by …
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Wingnut commentator Erick Erickson is echoing what we’re hearing from a lot of evangelical leaders. He writes: Donald Trump believes the federal government should fund Planned Parenthood. Donald Trump believes there are good things the child killers do. What is most damning is how so many are willing to be compromised by Donald Trump. For eight years the conservative movement …
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Two weeks ago I launched a twice-monthly column for the website of Britain’s Pride Life magazine, a quarterly LGBT rights and lifestyle magazine. Today’s second installment picks up on last week’s rundown of the leading GOP presidential candidates, their varying anti-LGBT positions, how they fared in the early primaries, and their unified calls to block President Obama from appointing the …
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The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging leading Republican presidential candidates behind Donald Trump to unite in an effort to bring down the GOP front-runner. “I think a Kasich-Rubio ticket would be great,” Graham said late Sunday during an interview with Rita Cosby on WABC, describing Kasich as a “terrific” governor of Ohio and Rubio as a “very, very …
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Oh brother. Via Mediaite: According to an article pushed by the Ted Cruz campaign Sunday, Marco Rubio casually renounced his Christianity in a roomful of people yesterday. In a video posted by the University of Pennsylvania student paper The Daily Pennsylvanian, Rubio runs into Ted’s father Rafael Cruz and a Cruz staffer while the campaigns were both staying in the …
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From Freakout Nation: The Donald Trump rally in Atlanta today was weird, well because it was a Donald Trump rally and all of the rules are just tossed out the window all willy nilly. First, Katy Tur of NBC reported on Twitter that, “Trump trashes press. Crowd jeers. Guy by press ‘pen’ looks at us & screams “you’re a bitch!” …
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NBC News reports: With Jeb Bush out of the race, Donald Trump was in need of a new straw man. On Sunday, the day after a big, “beautiful” win in South Carolina’s primary, Trump found at least a temporary way to fill the Bush void when the lights suddenly went out during his speech. “Oh, I like that much better,” …
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Donald Trump appeared on ABC’s This Week today, telling host George Stephanopoulos that he’s now “not sure” if Marco Rubio is eligible to be president. Stephanopoulos pressed the issue because Trump yesterday retweeted a supporter’s claim that “BOTH Cruz AND Rubio are ineligible to be POTUS! It’s a SLAM DUNK CASE!!” As he typically does, Trump shrugged off the retweet. …
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