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- Smoking Guns
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Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Not really. The ONLY reason Kasich looks good is because of the clown show field he's running in. He was a big exec with Lehman Brothers and had a hand in almost destroying our economy, not only that, but legislates on his faith, which is VERY concerning. Also, here is what a Ohio journalist said:
"“He is a climate change denier, he has had a scandal in his heavily championed support of charter schools, unemployment has gone down but poverty has risen in the state, we have a terrible infant mortality rate for African American babies – I could go on. Maybe the middle has moved so far to the right that there is no genuine moderate in the Republican race anymore,”
He would not do well in a GE.
But of all candidates he is probably the most moderate. We are so fucked. I pray Hilary can hold off Sanders. The Millenials want Bernie BAD.
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
During last night’s Democratic debate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was pressed on his past praise for Fidel Castro. The self-identified democratic socialist refused to retract his remarks about Cuba’s legendary communist dictator.
The moment came when moderator Maria Elena Salinas was questioning the candidates about their views on President Obama’s easing of relations with Cuba. Hillary Clinton called the Castro regime “authoritarian and dictatorial.”
When the question was posed to Sanders, however, Salinas instead asked about the candidate’s previous praise for Fidel Castro and his communist revolution. The network then played this video of Sanders in 1985, lauding Castro as a man who gave Cubans healthcare and “totally transformed society.”
Hillary Clinton saw blood in the water and sank her teeth in, noting that Sanders had also said in the same interview that the rise of communism in Cuba represented “a revolution in terms of values.” Clinton got big cheers when she added, “that is not the kind of revolution of values I want to ever see anywhere.”
Sanders, when asked to retract the statements he made over 30 years ago, actually refused to.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
I will say this about the Bern, he found a way to never have a real job, live in his mom's basement until his late 30's and still have a viable candidacy to be president of the greatest country the world has ever known. Who knew this was even possible?
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
I will say this about the Bern, he found a way to never have a real job, live in his mom's basement until his late 30's and still have a viable candidacy to be president of the greatest country the world has ever known. Who knew this was even possible?
Sounds like George W Bush. 
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Donald Trump on Saturday called for protesters who disrupt his rallies to be arrested, one day after altercations and protests forced him to cancel a campaign rally in Chicago.
The comments capped a tumultuous day on the campaign trail in which a demonstrator rushed a stage where Trump was speaking.
Trump also accused Bernie Sanders' supporters of sowing unrest at his events and the GOP front-runner refused to back down from his rhetoric that some have cited as the cause of heightened tension at his rallies.
Trump's call to arrest protesters came at a campaign event in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was repeatedly interrupted at the beginning of his address.
"I'm going to ask that you arrest them," Trump said to the police. "I'll file whatever charges you want. If they want to do this ... we're going to go strongly for your arrests."
Trump said arresting protesters would "ruin the rest of their lives" by giving them a "big arrest mark."
"Once that starts happening, we're not going to have any more protesters, folks," Trump said.
As dozens of protesters disrupted Trump's rally inside a Kansas City theater, crowds of demonstrators gathered outside.
Lining the sidewalks and four corners of the nearest intersection to the theater, the protesters voiced their opposition to Trump's policies and rhetoric, which many characterized as racist, xenophobic and fear-mongering.
Police used pepper spray at least twice Saturday night, with the Kansas City Police Department tweeting that "we had to use pepper spray 2 times outside Trump rally and arrested two people who refused to follow law."
As Trump supporters left the venue, protesters shouted and cursed at them -- and any passersby coming from the direction of the theater -- calling them "f***ing racists."
Alicia Valeanzela, who was shouting those words at people she believed to be Trump supporters, said she believed anyone supporting Trump supports a racist, xenophobic ideology.
"He's a f***ing bigot. He's an a**hole," she said.
"It's not right I'm not gonna let somebody ruin our country like that," said the 21-year-old native of Venezuela. "People need to know that they cannot vote for Trump, and Trump cannot become our President."
Among those targeted by the protesters' cries were the Toates family: father Phillip, his wife and their three children, including a 10-year-old son.
"How do they know I even attended the rally? They say Trump's all about hate, but we have not been about hate and that's the way we got treated when we came out," said Phillip Toates, who said he is leaning toward supporting Trump but is still undecided.
"It's not the way I expected to be treated coming out of a rally," he said.
Trump began the day by blaming supporters of Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, of disrupting his Chicago event, where many in the audience chanted the senator's name after the rally was called off.
"Some represented Bernie, our communist friend," Trump said in Dayton, Ohio, his first campaign appearance since the Chicago event was postponed.
Later in the day, Trump said protesters at his Cleveland event are "Bernie's crowd."
"You know Bernie was saying Mr. Trump should speak to his crowd," Trump said. "You know where they come from? Bernie's crowd. They're Bernie's crowd."
And when a protester momentarily disrupted Trump's rally, the GOP front-runner again said the demonstrator was a "Bernie person."
"Get your people in line, Bernie," Trump said.
Sanders, however, pushed back against Trump, calling on him to denounce violence at his rallies and labeling him a "pathological liar."
The progressive group MoveOn.org, which has endorsed Sanders, said in a statement Saturday that it helped students print signs for the protests at the Chicago rally and recruit members to attend the "student-led protest."
Sanders on Saturday said his supporters were not to blame for the unrest.
"I don't think our supporters are inciting. What our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways, encouraged violence," Sanders said at a news conference in Chicago. "When he talks about ... 'I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head.' What do you think that says to his supporters?"
Sanders also referred to an incident this week in which a black protester was sucker-punched by a Trump supporter as he was being led out of a rally.
"So the issue now is Donald Trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and to end it," Sanders said.
In a statement issued later Saturday, Sanders added: "As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar."
Clashes broke out Friday night between protesters and Trump supporters after the campaign announced the rally would be canceled more than 30 minutes after it was scheduled to start. Hundreds of protesters had packed into the University of Illinois at Chicago venue for the rally, prompting the campaign to call off the event.
Four people have been charged following the event in Chicago, with charges ranging from aggravated battery to resisting arrest, Chicago Police Department said in a statement.
The protests and fights in Chicago were the latest in a string of increasingly heated and at-times violent confrontations breaking out at rallies for the front-runner in the Republican presidential race. And they come as Trump has repeatedly suggested protesters should face more violent repercussions for disrupting his rallies.
"We're all together and we want to get along with everybody, but when they have organized, professionally staged wise guys, we've got to fight back, we've got to fight back," Trump said Saturday in Dayton.
As he did the previous night in a round of phoned-in TV interviews, Trump didn't walk back any of his rhetoric Saturday. He again claimed that neither the tone of his campaign nor his supporters were to blame for any violence at his rallies.
"They want me to tell my people please be nice, be nice. My people are nice," Trump said Saturday.
"They were taunted, they were harassed by these other people."
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Donald Trump has suffered a comprehensive defeat by Marco Rubio in Washington DC, where the divisive billionaire hopes to occupy the White House from January next year.
Rubio won Saturday’s Republican presidential primary in the District of Columbia, edging out John Kasich and comfortably beating national frontrunners Trump and Ted Cruz.
The Florida senator took 37.3% of the vote, giving him 10 delegates, while former Ohio governor Kasich’s 35.5% earned him nine delegates. Trump and Cruz left empty handed, as had been widely expected in the US capital, which is home to some former administration officials and has traditionally favoured establishment candidates.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 … al-primary
Guess we know who's deepest in the establishment pocket.
