Chris Christie bucks Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson by endorsing Donald Trump for president.
The failed Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie comes out for Donald Trump. This is a smack to the face of Marco Rubio, the establishment's choice for a nominee. This also is a smack to the face against John Kasich, the Ohio Republican governor.
"I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for president", says Chris Christie.
Christie, the current governor of New Jersey fought Donald Trump while he was running on the stage. Christie at first thought Trump was a joke. He said that Trump's policies aren't tested and we don't want a sideshow as our president.
I guess now he's having second thoughts. Or perhaps this is Christie's retribution against Rubio after he played dirty bull in the New Hampshire primary.
Trump had brought Christie to his press conference in Fort Worth, Texas. The governor said that Trump is the only candidate capable of beating Hillary Clinton.
This is a shocking announcement given that Christie is part of the establishment after he embraced President Barack Obama during his handling of Hurricane Sandy.
Many Republicans blamed Christie for ruining perennial loser Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
Christie is not well liked in his state. Despite landsliding his Democratic opponent in a state that trends even more Democratic, Christie pulled in Black and Hispanic voters. Christie who once had the halo over his head is now heading back to Trenton with his tail in between his legs.
Christie bowing out was a blow to the establishment. With Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Scott Walker and Rick Perry out the race, there's no candidate outside of John Kasich capable of mending the Republican Party together.
Rubio says that he, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson being on stage is a sign of diversity. He said that being endorsed by Nikki Haley and Tim Scott shows the Republicans are the party of diversity.
One thing I managed to catch at the Republican debate is the comments by Marco Rubio. He said that the Republican Party is the most diverse party because they have two Hispanic lawmakers and a Black neurosurgeon on stage.
Given the possibility the party may nominate another old White guy, Rubio desperately played the race card at the CNN debate.
Republicans are struggling to win Hispanics and Black voters. Despite the Republican candidate's bold claims about the party being the most diverse, the party is also too damn conservative and too damn White.
Rubio, Cruz and Ben Carson make up about 10% of the Republican Party's diversity. The party is 90% WHITE and 10% EVERYTHING else.
The Republican Party is White like cocaine. They may have minorities in the party, but the policies and their rhetoric isn't diverse. It's pretty damn condescending and outright bigoted.
Donald Trump's rise could bring Blacks and Hispanics voters into the fold. Some are tempted to vote for the controversial media mogul.
I see Donald Trump as Arnold Schwarzenegger. He will bankroll on his celebrity status to win. His bombastic and witty charm woos conservatives and some Democrats.
Given the possibility of Trump winning the election is strong. I don't want to believe it, but it could happen if you don't help the Democrat win. Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders aren't strong contenders and it's going to be a bumpy road for the Democrats. Given Obama fatigue and an inspired Republican voter base, the Democrats got to win back voters.
It's likely a Democrat could beat the Republican nominee. But given the circumstances, it's going to be a TOSS UP.
Trump has tapped into the populist rage that fuels the anti-government resentment towards lawmakers.
John Kasich, Marco Rubio and even Ted Cruz are considered establishment. Cruz calls himself the best choice to take on Washington. But he's been in Washington for two years and haven't really accomplish much since. He's been more of a talker and not a doer. That's hurting him in the race.
Rubio is also the same. Rubio won on the wave of insurgency. He and Rand Paul were elected in 2010 and they been in the senate for most of their term doing absolutely nothing. Even the compromise to immigration reform that was sponsored by Rubio was voted down by him.
When it comes to diversity the Republican Party has a long way to go before it can truly be a diverse party.
Remember the Democratic Party nominated and the American people elected twice the first Black president.
The first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice was picked by a Democrat.
The first Hispanic woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme court justice was picked by a Democratic president who happens to be Black. The first Black man and woman were nominated and confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States.
The first woman as the Speaker of the House is a woman.
The current front runner in the race is a woman. Her opponent is the first Jewish candidate to run.
The Democratic Party's chairperson is a lawmaker who is a woman.
Under a Democratic President who happens to be Black, marriage equality is legal in the United States.
Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz as well as Donald Trump and John Kasich aren't friends of the Black and Hispanic communities. They're a bunch of myopic dicks.
Shout out to comedian/talk radio host John Fugelsang for also catching the Rubio-Bot self-destruct!
Conservatives are mounting a war within itself. The Republican Party's extremist wing is going gaga for Donald Trump. The White extremists are down with Trump. David Duke, a former Grand Dragon of the Klan has endorsed Trump.
Another figure in Trump's corner, is the reclusive conservative agitator Matt Drudge.
Drudge joins Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jr., Joe Apraio, Dennis Rodman, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Alex Jones and Sarah Palin as fans of Trump.
Drudge is pushing kookspiracies about Hillary Clinton's health. He is trying to turn the narrative that Clinton's emails are as "HUGE" as Watergate.
His conservative Craigslist pulls 745,000 visitors a day. He is basically running the game in Republican politics. He's mainly responsible for the race stories and Trump themed stories.
Michael Tomasky of The Daily Beast is basically saying that Drudge is giving Trump favorable stories. Drudge is taking a populist stance towards politicians.
Is The Drudge Report In The Tank For Donald Trump?
Drudge is basically throwing Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson under the bus.
Trump is basically leading in a majority of the Super Tuesday primary states. Even in Texas, a state that Ted Cruz is devoting his entire campaign into, Trump is either leading or statistically tied to Cruz. The controversial senator is hoping that a key endorsement of Texas Republican governor Greg Abbot could slow Trump's lead in the state. He also facing a handful of birther lawsuits from kooks. Trump and Rubio managed to tarnish Cruz as a liar and it's stuck to him like glue.
Trump is leading in Florida, that's Rubio and Carson's backyard. The lead is huge and it's possible that Carson's implosion and Rubio's lousy record as a senator the reasons to why they're not even close to Trump.
Even in Ohio, Trump is beating John Kasich, the current governor of the state. Beetle Bailey Kasich, is hoping that people see him as the viable choice. After all, he's a "moderate". Kasich is being hammered for signing off a law stripping funds from Planned Parenthood. Also he is being hit for being a sexist for saying that women might as well be in the kitchen.
The Drudge Report is working overtime trying to get Trump nominated and elected as the president.
It's time to start treating Donald Trump as a threat to the nation. We can't allow this extremist win!
The racist right is rallying around Donald Trump. The former Grand Wizard of the modern Klan, David Duke has decided to end his abysmal campaign for president. The racist in a business suit says that Trump is speaking their language.
Duke and many of his "proud" White supporters are Trump fans.
On Wednesday, Duke encouraged his radio show listeners to volunteer for Trump's campaign. "Call Donald Trump’s headquarters [and] volunteer," he said on the "David Duke Radio Program." At Trump campaign offices, he said, "you’re gonna meet people who are going to have the same kind of mindset that you have.”
In Minnesota and Vermont, a white supremacist super PAC called the American National Super PAC has begun circulating a robocall in support of Trump.
White extremists prefer Trump over Cruz. Cruz is Hispanic. The racist right won't support their own.
"The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called 'racist,' says William Johnson, the leader of the white nationalist American Freedom Party. He goes on to bemoan "gradual genocide against the white race," and how few "schools anymore have beautiful white children as the majority." He signs off by telling recipients, "Don’t vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump."
Johnson is not affiliated in any way with the Trump campaign, and Trump has distanced himself from Johnson's views. Trump also promised to return a $250 contribution Johnson made to his campaign.
But Trump's response to the white supremacists backing him is hardly enough to put them off, said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that monitors hate groups.
"Trump has 'quote unquote' repudiated these groups, but only in the most milquetoast way imaginable," Potok said in an interview. "The fact is that white nationalists are mobilizing for Trump whether he likes it or not."
Trump's habit of retweeting messages posted by white supremacists, sharing them with his 6.4 million Twitter followers, hasn't helped matters.
Like Johnson, Duke framed the GOP primary as a contest between Trump and two people of color, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). “Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage,” Duke said Wednesday. And while he doesn't agree with everything Trump says, he told listeners, "I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action. I hope he does everything we hope he will do.”
Potok said Duke's backing carries a lot of weight in white supremacist circles. "David Duke is the most important self described white nationalist intellectual out there today, and what he says is still very influential."
Donald Trump's rise is contributed to White extremism. It's unfortunate that even though Cruz and Rubio's downfall is mostly due to their race. They're Hispanic lawmakers who act White.
President Barack Obama, Republican governor Sam Brownback, U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) were notified of the mass shooting at the Hesston Excel Industry plant.
Hesston is 40 miles from Wichita. Interstate 135 is the main highway that travels through the town of 4,000.
The terrorist was named Cedric Ford, as confirmed by CBS News. The terrorist killed multiple individuals and injured over 20 people.
The suspect is a Black male. Obviously, I expect the blame game to come forth. First the conservatives will label this terrorist a "liberal Obama supporter" or a "Black Lives Matter activist".
Of course, the fact that he was "the NICE GUY" with a gun is most troubling.
I expect the racial extremists Jim Hoft and Colin Flaherty will bring up Black-on-Whatever crime.
The Drudge Report will lay splash to the terrorist's background. The conservatives will say that "if the workers had firearms" or "If I was in this situation" hypothetical.
Then again, I see that the law managed to kill this terrorist after they told him to drop his arms. All the while, the Kalamazoo terrorist was arrested without incident. The terrorist in the Kalamazoo massacre was a White terrorist who worked for Uber.
Excel is a manufacture of riding lawn mowers.
The Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton says 4-7 people, including the shooter at Excel Industries in Hesston have been killed.
Walton said as many three people were killed. As many as 20 people were hurt. Walton said there are four to five crime scenes in this case.
Police have not said they have a motive for the shooting.
He lived in Newton, Kansas, the town where one of the shootings occurred. A trailer park there was swarmed by officers about an hour after the initial shootings.
This is the second most high profile mass shooting in the United States this year.
Who takes the blame for the Hesston mass shooting?
World News Today send our condolences to the victims of this senseless tragedy.
It's time to start treating Donald Trump as a serious candidate. It's a scary scenario that we could have the controversial business/media mogul become the next President of the United States.
CNN and Telemundo are now the hosts the umpteenth Republican debate. This debate was supposed to be sponsored by NBC/Univision. Republican chairman Reince Priebus fired NBC and the National Review out the cannon.
CNBC got hammered by the candidates and top Republicans after the debate. National Review wrote a scathing criticism of Trump and it led to the Republican Party boycotting it.
Now it's coming close to Super Tuesday. One of these five candidates would become the presumptive Republican nominee if the 10 primaries go in his favor.
Republicans in the establishment are mounting an all out war against frontrunner Trump.
Gas Bags!
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Ben Carson are mounting their last stand in Texas. The debate is being held in Houston and then comes Super Tuesday.
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Minnesota caucuses, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Republican caucuses: Alaska and Wyoming are holding it on March 1, 2016.
Trump clearly has a lead in Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia, Alaska and Wyoming. Colorado and Texas are very competitive. Cruz is placing his hopes that his home state would turn out in huge numbers for him. He has to win 50.1% in order to take a majority of the delegates.
There is a civil war within the Republican Party. They really fear that Trump's divisive rhetoric could doom the party. They can't stand Cruz because he's a gadfly. Most of the party is rallying around Rubio.
Rubio hasn't won any major states since he's become the establishment's last hope. With Rubio calling upon Kasich and Carson to drop out, the candidates all fail to score over 50% of the vote in most of these primaries and caucuses.
Obama might pick a Republican who might become the U.S. Supreme Court justice. It might destroy the party if they reject their own.
President Barack Obama and the Democratic members of the U.S. Senate say that it will happen and it will happen quickly.
The death of Antonin Scalia has become a political football for the partisans. The president has a constitutional duty to appoint a nominee a person to replace a justice to the Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama has a rare opportunity to get a third pick to the Court. Ronald Reagan was the last president to have an opportunity to nominee three to the Court.
Conservatives are fearing that the pick could sway the court.
Republican governor Brian Sandoval is the front runner in the SOTUS nomination.
The senate's Republicans including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are hoping that they can delay or refuse to accept any nominee to the Supreme Court. They vow to have another president pick a justice.
They're willing to shut down the government again. But the pressure is on. The party is facing intense scrutiny over this.
In their last stand, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have pledge to not support Obama's pick to the Supreme Court regardless of qualifications.
The delay of the Supreme Court nomination could screw up cases.
One in particular is the Supreme Court's hearing on five residents of the U.S. territory of American Samoa. They are fighting the U.S. government over citizenship.
The residents born in American Samoa are not U.S. Citizens. They are U.S. nationals and they can't get federal aid or veteran's assistance. They have to buy a U.S. passport with the status of national on it. They are saying that if they're born on U.S. territory the deserve automatic American citizenship.
Tuaua v. United States is going to be a major court case. If it goes in the favor of Lene Tuaua, then it may advocate U.S. citizenship and could open up presidential voting rights to those living in the U.S. territories.
The junk food media is reporting that the president is vetting Nevada's Republican governor Brian Sandoval. This may cause a rift within the party. For one thing, Sandoval is a Republican, he's a well liked governor and he's a Hispanic. If the Republicans oppose one of their own, then they may end up costing their chances in the presidential election.
