2016 Election

Scott Walker Urges Other GOP Candidates To Drop Out And Focus On Stopping Trump [VIDEO]

Business Insider reports: “Today, I believe that I am being called to lead by helping to clear the field in this race so a positive, conservative message can rise to the top of the field. With this in mind, I will suspend my campaign immediately,” he said. Walker added: “I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to do the same so …

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Hillary Clinton Sends Biotech Stocks Tumbling After Tweeted Reaction To Drug Price Gouging Story

Hillary Clinton yesterday tweeted the above reaction to a New York Times story about drug price gouging. Then this happened: The former first lady’s comments clearly spooked investors. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) went from flat on the day before the Clinton tweet to closing down nearly 5%. Biotech stocks helped knock the Nasdaq into the red on what …

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This Is An Actual Thing: Ted Cruz Erotica

Available for download on Amazon is The Many Hues Of Ted Cruz: A Crayon Erotic Parody. From the description: “Senator Ted Cruz is on the Presidential campaign trail, but losing focus and fast thanks to a blossoming sexual obsession with the colors of the rainbow pride flag. While at wits’ end for satisfaction, he crosses paths with a box of …

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Cruz Rails About Marriage On Late Show [VIDEO]

Ted Cruz appeared on The Late Show last night where Stephen Colbert attempted to get him acknowledge some inconvenient facts about Ronald Reagan. And then, of course, things turned to gay marriage. NBC News reports: “It’s a matter of compromising,” Colbert said. “Will you be willing to compromise with the other side?” Cruz did not say yes, though he did …

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Hillary Clinton Dismisses Ben Carson On Muslim President: Yes, There Can Be One, Now Let’s Move On

Via Mediaite: In the 24 hours since Ben Carson said he does not believe a Muslim-American should be president of the United States on Meet the Press, there has been plenty of hand-wringing and equivocating from both his campaign and the rest of the GOP presidential field in response. But perhaps the most succinct and direct reaction came from Democratic …

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Walker Stops Running, Drops Out Of 2016 Race

The New York Times reports: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has concluded he no longer has a path to the Republican presidential nomination and plans to drop out of the 2016 campaign, according to three Republicans familiar with his decision, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mr. Walker called a news conference in Madison at 6 p.m. Eastern time. “The …

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Cruz Slams Carson On Muslim President

Ted Cruz would like to institute his own version of Christian Sharia, so it’s not surprising that he would denounce Ben Carson for saying that a president shouldn’t intertwine his religious views with his public life. Via the Huffington Post: It’s not every day that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) publicly breaks with one of his fellow Republican rivals for the …

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Ben Carson: Muslims Unfit To Be President

Ben Carson, who brings up Jesus every other minute, says we should never have a Muslim president because “their religion is very much a part of your public life.” Gosh, that’s not hypocritical. The Hill reports: Carson ignited a media firestorm in a Sunday morning interview with Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,” in which he said he “would not …

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Fiorina Surges In New CNN Poll [VIDEO]

CNN reports: Carly Fiorina shot into second place in the Republican presidential field on the heels of another strong debate performance, and Donald Trump has lost some support, a new national CNN/ORC poll shows. The survey, conducted in the three days after 23 million people tuned in to Wednesday night’s GOP debate on CNN, shows that Trump is still the …

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Trump To Fundies: I’m One Of You [VIDEO]

Waving his family bible, yesterday Donald Trump took the stage to tell attendees at an Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition event that he is definitely one of them.  The crowd ate it up, despite the growing distrust of Trump’s frequently proclaimed deep faith by some prominent evangelicals.  Trump followed up his entrance with a rambling rant about the continuing controversy …

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Fiorina Leads Trump In New Poll

The far-right Town Hall reports: Donald Trump will certainly want to take a closer ‘look at that face’ now that Carly Fiorina has surpassed him in a new New Hampshire poll. In a Voter Gravity survey conducted the day after Wednesday night’s second presidential GOP debate, Fiorina comes out on top: In Voter Gravity’s latest presidential flash poll through touchtone …

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Trump Responds To Obama-Muslim Flap

Yesterday Donald Trump flaked on the Heritage Foundation’s GOP candidate symposium in South Carolina, where he would likely have earned applause for not challenging a supporter who earned national headlines by declaring that Obama is a Muslim foreigner. This morning Trump defended himself on Twitter by claiming that HE is the victim. Because of course.

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Bernie Sanders: Call Me A Progressive [VIDEO]

During Bernie Sanders’ appearance on the Late Show, last night Stephen Colbert said, “You are a liberal and you are a socialist, and people call you a liberal and a socialist. Why will you not accept those two terms as the insults they are meant to be?” Sanders: “I prefer the term ‘progressive’.”

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Crazy Lady Talks Trump On CNN [VIDEO]

CNN’s interview with Women For Trump co-founder Paula Johnson took a ride on the crazy train this afternoon in what Mediaite calls “television magic.”  They write: Neither host Ashleigh Banfield nor Johnson’s fellow guest Dean Obeidallah were able to contain the magnificence that was this former alderman and state representative’s tenacious personality. The subject was Donald Trump‘s Thursday night rally, …

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Trump Snubs Heritage Foundation Event

All of the GOP presidential field will be bowing and scraping before the talibangelicals of the Heritage Foundation today. All of them EXCEPT Donald Trump, who just canceled his appearance for “business reasons.” As I’ve reported multiple times in recent weeks, fundamentalists are becoming much more open in their opposition to Trump, who repeatedly lobs platitudes about the bible being …

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Taiwanese Animators Take On GOP Debate

Clip recap: CNN hosted the second Republican party presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library on Wednesday night. While the first GOP debate on FOX had Donald Trump coming out on top, this second round of debates was pretty unspectacular. It was clear from the start, CNN loves Trump. Carly ‘the interrupter’ Fiorina dodged CNN’s first question while Trump dodged …

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Donald Trump Promises To “Look Into” Claims That President Obama Is A Foreign-Born Muslim [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday declined to address a claim by a supporter at a campaign rally that President Obama is a Muslim who was born abroad. Speaking at campaign rally in New Hampshire, Trump fielded questions from the crowd, and the first person he called on stood and declared: “We have a problem in …

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Matt Baume On Kim Davis At GOP Debates [VIDEO]

“Naturally, Kim Davis came up at the second GOP debate, but the candidates’ sound bites were fumbling, contradictory, and just outright gibberish. Here’s what a few of the presidential hopefuls had to say about LGBTs, and how they got it wrong.”

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#NotNancyReagan

So that happened shortly before the debate began. After a tweetstorm of mocking, Wolf Blitzer said, “By the way, we want to apologize to our viewers. We thought we saw Nancy Reagan here in the hall. We are now told that was not Nancy Reagan. We’re going to find out what exactly happened, but that’s an apology from all of …

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