Today virtually all top GOP figures denounced Donald Trump including RNC chairman Reince Priebus, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and most of the GOP presidential field. (Notable exception: Ted Cruz.) Trump reacted this afternoon by once again hinting at an independent run. Please, please, please White Jesus, make it so.
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NBC News reports: White House press secretary Josh Earnest sharply denounced Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying that his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States is “disqualifying” and calling on all other Republicans to renounce any support for the real estate mogul even if he becomes the GOP nominee. “What he said is disqualifying,” Earnest said of Trump. …
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For years American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer has called for banning Muslim immigration and for banning Muslim-Americans from holding public office or serving in the military. So it comes as no surprise that Fischer’s AFA colleague-in-hate Sandy Rios has backed Donald Trump’s proposed ban. Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: American Family Association official Sandy Rios doesn’t …
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As he does nearly every day, Donald Trump has reacted to a negative news report by declaring that the source is biased and unprofitable. Yesterday he accused Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos of running a tax dodge to benefit Amazon, which Bezos founded. Bezos, conveniently enough, is also owner of the Blue Origin rocket.
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Saying that he typically does not comment on the presidential race, this morning newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan held a press conference is which he forcefully denounced Donald Trump and the call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. Watch below. Ryan’s message is, of course, being met with scorn and ridicule at Breitbart.
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Donald Trump is calling into all of the morning shows today and his exchange with CNN’s Chris Cuomo really got heated. Mediaite recaps: Chris Cuomo‘s interview with Donald Trump went completely off the rails this morning on CNN’s New Day as they battled over the implications of his extreme call from yesterday to ban all Muslims from coming into the …
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This morning Donald Trump called into Good Morning America where host George Stephanopoulos asked if he is bothered by comparisons to Adolf Hitler. Trump: “No.” Watch below. Trump went on to dismiss the Philadelphia Daily News, which today shows him in a Hitler pose, as “another newspaper going out of business.”
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In last night’s report about Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, Rachel Maddow wondered if Trump is purposely trying to “blow up his presidential campaign.” Maddow: “Is he trying to get himself effectively kicked out of the Republican party so there’s no longer a threat he might actually get nominated as that party’s nominee …
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Despite many inquiries from the press, Ted Cruz has continued to refuse to denounce Pastor Kevin Swanson’s calls for the genocide of LGBT Americans. Last month Cruz was interviewed by Swanson on the same stage from which Swanson twice endorsed the biblical call to execute homosexuals. Yesterday the right wing Washington Examiner got a quote about the controversy from the …
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The Philadelphia Daily News has earned international attention this morning for today’s front page. The UK’s Independent reports: Donald Trump has been likened to the historical far-right as his campaign is backed by neo-Nazi fascists, in the wake of remarks calling for all Muslim immigration to be banned. The Tuesday edition of the Philadelphia Daily News, a tabloid with a …
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“The signatories believe Donald J Trump should be banned from UK entry for his continued, unrepentant hate speech and unacceptable behaviour. His unacceptable behaviour is well documented, and we feel it foments racial, religious and nationalistic intolerance which should not be welcome in the UK. The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech. This same principle should …
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Donald Trump today called for ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States. The message was delivered in a rare written statement from the Trump campaign. It reads in full: Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on. According …
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Mark David Stern applauds at Slate: On Sunday, Hillary Clinton released a campaign ad touting her record as an advocate for LGBT rights. The 70-second spot is a pretty low-budget affair, interweaving Clinton’s pro-LGBT speeches (including her landmark Geneva address) with clips of lovey-dovey gay couples. Democratic candidates release stuff like this all the time, and the ad would be …
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Ted Cruz has taken his first polling lead in an early state. CNN reports: Ted Cruz has overtaken Donald Trump in Iowa, according to a Monmouth University survey of Iowa Republicans released Monday. If the caucuses were held today, Cruz would win with 24% support to Trump’s 19% backing. Marco Rubio comes in a close third with 17% and Ben …
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Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has pledged to reverse President Obama’s executive order barring anti-LGBT workplace discrimination among federal contractors, saying faith-based businesses are “being compelled to sin by government in their business conduct.” Rubio made the remarks during Thanksgiving week in the same interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network in which he …
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TIME Magazine reports: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the online readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year, topping some of the world’s best-known politicians, activists and cultural figures as the most influential person of 2015 among those who voted. The Vermont Senator won with a little more than 10% of the vote when the poll closed Sunday …
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Donald Trump says he has the “greatest memory in the world” but he can’t remember a disabled reporter who interviewed him many times and he definitely can’t think of any Muslim sports heroes, not even the ones that he sits with at fancy events and calls his “good friend.”
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Speaking yesterday at an Iowa town hall event, Ben Carson pined for the good old days of DADT and denounced soldiers who “have to go around flouting their sexuality.” Carson’s statement was triggered by a question about military service for transgender Americans. “You know, we have too many important things to do,” Carson said at a “Veterans and Military Town …
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Gawker has compiled a slew of outtakes from hours of footage that one day, probably, will become a Cruz campaign commercial. They write: Thanks to the (few) rules governing campaign Super PACs, candidates aren’t technically allowed to coordinate with them. Which means candidates can’t technically feed them hours and hours of raw video footage for future campaign ads. Candidates can …
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The New York Daily News reports: The GOP front-runners are reloading in their defense of the gun lobby after the latest mass shooting. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Iowa) pushed forward with unveiling his “National 2nd Amendment Coalition” at a shooting range in Iowa, mocking those who call him “insensitive” for defending guns after the San Bernardino massacre. “I really don’t view …
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