IMMIGRATION REFORM THAT WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
The three core principles of Donald J. Trump's immigration plan
When politicians talk about “immigration reform” they mean: amnesty, cheap labor and open borders. The Schumer-Rubio immigration bill was nothing more than a giveaway to the corporate patrons who run both parties.
Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first – not wealthy globetrotting donors. We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own. That must change. Here are the three core principles of real immigration reform:
1. A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.
2. A nation without laws is not a nation. Laws passed in accordance with our Constitutional system of government must be enforced.
3. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation. Any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.
Make Mexico Pay For The Wall
For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country (as well as in other Latin American countries). They have even published pamphletson how to illegally immigrate to the United States. The costs for the United States have been extraordinary: U.S. taxpayers have been asked to pick up hundreds of billions in healthcare costs, housing costs, education costs, welfare costs, etc. Indeed, the annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011. The effects on jobseekers have also been disastrous, and black Americans have been particularly harmed.
The impact in terms of crime has been tragic. In recent weeks, the headlines have been covered with cases of criminals who crossed our border illegally only to go on to commit horrific crimes against Americans. Most recently, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, with a long arrest record, is charged with breaking into a 64 year-old woman’s home, crushing her skull and eye sockets with a hammer, raping her, and murdering her. The Police Chief in Santa Maria says the “blood trail” leads straight to Washington.
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
Meanwhile, Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
In short, the Mexican government has taken the United States to the cleaners. They are responsible for this problem, and they must help pay to clean it up.
The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices.
Mexico must pay for the wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico [Tariffs and foreign aid cuts are also options]. We will not be taken advantage of anymore.
Defend The Laws And Constitution Of The United States
America will only be great as long as America remains a nation of laws that lives according to the Constitution. No one is above the law. The following steps will return to the American people the safety of their laws, which politicians have stolen from them:
Triple the number of ICE officers. As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.
Nationwide e-verify. This simple measure will protect jobs for unemployed Americans.
Mandatory return of all criminal aliens. The Obama Administration has released 76,000 aliens from its custody with criminal convictions since 2013 alone. All criminal aliens must be returned to their home countries, a process which can be aided by canceling any visas to foreign countries which will not accept their own criminals, and making it a separate and additional crime to commit an offense while here illegally.
Detention—not catch-and-release. Illegal aliens apprehended crossing the border must be detained until they are sent home, no more catch-and-release.
Defund sanctuary cities. Cut-off federal grants to any city which refuses to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa. Millions of people come to the United States on temporary visas but refuse to leave, without consequence. This is a threat to national security. Individuals who refuse to leave at the time their visa expires should be subject to criminal penalties; this will also help give local jurisdictions the power to hold visa overstays until federal authorities arrive. Completion of a visa tracking system – required by law but blocked by lobbyists – will be necessary as well.
Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs like MS-13 and the 18th street gang, which have terrorized the country. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported. Again, quoting Chris Crane: “ICE Officers and Agents are forced to apply the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Directive, not to children in schools, but to adult inmates in jails. If an illegal-alien inmate simply claims eligibility, ICE is forced to release the alien back into the community. This includes serious criminals who have committed felonies, who have assaulted officers, and who prey on children…ICE officers should be required to place detainers on every illegal alien they encounter in jails and prisons, since these aliens not only violated immigration laws, but then went on to engage in activities that led to their arrest by police; ICE officers should be required to issue Notices to Appear to all illegal aliens with criminal convictions, DUI convictions, or a gang affiliation; ICE should be working with any state or local drug or gang task force that asks for such assistance.”
End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Put American Workers First
Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”
The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”
Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.
Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
I certainly don't think Aki was "lily white", whatever that means. But he was attacked, stalked, and bullied down here. So is Finchy, with idiots posting his supposed real name, and his supposed real location. If he wanted his real name out there, he'd use it as his handle. But in this sick place, where up is down, he's The Bully??
hno:RR lied about the crowd. Deal with it. I hardly ride him about it, but he lied, and it is what it is. RR has 20 posters that have his back, you included. Finchy has maybe 2, maybe, and you stupidly accuse HIM of being a bully, and falsely accuse me of being narrow minded? Those "detective" skills that you sometimes like to brag about are letting you down big time tonight again.
I didn't say Finchy is taking the high road. I said he's making y'all look like monkeys BEGGING him to respond about the parody.
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[h=1]VETERANS ADMINISTRATION REFORMS THAT WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN[/h]The Goals Of Donald J. Trump’s Veterans Plan
The current state of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is absolutely unacceptable. Over 300,000 veterans died waiting for care. Corruption and incompetence were excused. Politicians in Washington have done too little too slowly to fix it. This situation can never happen again, and when Donald J. Trump is president, it will be fixed – fast.
The guiding principle of the Trump plan is ensuring veterans have convenient access to the best quality care. To further this principle, the Trump plan will decrease wait times, improve healthcare outcomes, and facilitate a seamless transition from service into civilian life.
The Trump Plan Will:
Politicians in Washington have tried to fix the VA by holding hearings and blindly throwing money at the problem. None of it has worked. In fact, wait times were 50% higher this summer than they were a year ago. That’s because the VA lacks the right leadership and management. It’s time we stop trusting Washington politicians to fix the problems and empower our veterans to vote with their feet.
Under a Trump Administration, all veterans eligible for VA health care can bring their veteran’s ID card to any doctor or care facility that accepts Medicare to get the care they need immediately. Our veterans have earned the freedom to choose better or more convenient care from the doctor and facility of their choice. The power to choose will stop the wait time backlogs and force the VA to improve and compete if the department wants to keep receiving veterans’ healthcare dollars. The VA will become more responsive to veterans, develop more efficient systems, and improve the quality of care because it will have no other choice.
The Trump Plan Treats The Whole Veteran
We must care for the whole veteran, not just their physical health. We must recognize that today’s veterans have very different needs than those of the Greatest Generation.
The Trump Plan Will:
The Trump Plan Will Make The VA Great Again
The VA health care program is a disaster. Some candidates want to get rid of it, but our veterans need the VA to be there for them and their families. That’s why the Trump plan will:
[h=1]VETERANS ADMINISTRATION REFORMS THAT WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN[/h]The Goals Of Donald J. Trump’s Veterans Plan
The current state of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is absolutely unacceptable. Over 300,000 veterans died waiting for care. Corruption and incompetence were excused. Politicians in Washington have done too little too slowly to fix it. This situation can never happen again, and when Donald J. Trump is president, it will be fixed – fast.
The guiding principle of the Trump plan is ensuring veterans have convenient access to the best quality care. To further this principle, the Trump plan will decrease wait times, improve healthcare outcomes, and facilitate a seamless transition from service into civilian life.
The Trump Plan Will:
- Ensure our veterans get the care they need wherever and whenever they need it. No more long drives. No more waiting for backlogs. No more excessive red tape. Just the care and support they earned with their service to our country.
- Support the whole veteran, not just their physical health care, but also by addressing their invisible wounds, investing in our service members’ post-active duty success, transforming the VA to meet the needs of 21st century service members, and better meeting the needs of our female veterans.
- Make the VA great again by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our veterans down, by modernizing the VA, and by empowering the doctors and nurses to ensure our veterans receive the best care available in a timely manner.
Politicians in Washington have tried to fix the VA by holding hearings and blindly throwing money at the problem. None of it has worked. In fact, wait times were 50% higher this summer than they were a year ago. That’s because the VA lacks the right leadership and management. It’s time we stop trusting Washington politicians to fix the problems and empower our veterans to vote with their feet.
Under a Trump Administration, all veterans eligible for VA health care can bring their veteran’s ID card to any doctor or care facility that accepts Medicare to get the care they need immediately. Our veterans have earned the freedom to choose better or more convenient care from the doctor and facility of their choice. The power to choose will stop the wait time backlogs and force the VA to improve and compete if the department wants to keep receiving veterans’ healthcare dollars. The VA will become more responsive to veterans, develop more efficient systems, and improve the quality of care because it will have no other choice.
The Trump Plan Treats The Whole Veteran
We must care for the whole veteran, not just their physical health. We must recognize that today’s veterans have very different needs than those of the Greatest Generation.
The Trump Plan Will:
- Increase funding for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury and suicide prevention services to address our veterans’ invisible wounds. Service members are five times more likely to develop depression than civilians. They are almost fifteen times more likely to develop PTSD than civilians. This funding will help provide more and better counseling and care. More funding will also support research on best practices and state of the art treatments to keep our veterans alive, healthy and whole. With these steps, the Trump plan will help the veteran community put the unnecessary stigma surrounding mental health behind them and instead encourage acceptance and treatment in our greater society.
- Increase funding for job training and placement services (including incentives for companies hiring veterans), educational support and business loans. All Americans agree that we must do everything we can to help put our service men and women on a path to success as they leave active duty by collaborating with the many successful non-profit organizations that are already helping. Service members have learned valuable skills in the military but many need help understanding how to apply those skills in civilian life. Others know how to apply those skills but need help connecting with good jobs to support their families. Still others have an entrepreneurial spirit and are ready to start creating jobs and growing the economy. The Trump plan will strengthen existing programs or replace them with more effective ones to address these needs and to get our veterans working.
- Transform the VA to meet the needs of 21st century service members.Today’s veterans have very different needs than those of the generations that came before them. The VA must adapt to meet the needs of this generation of younger, more diverse veterans. The Trump plan will expand VA services for female veterans and ensure the VA is providing the right support for this new generation of veterans.
- Better support our women veterans. The fact that many VA hospitals don’t permanently staff OBGYN doctors shows an utter lack of respect for the growing number female veterans. Under the Trump plan, every VA hospital in the country will be fully equipped with OBGYN and other women’s health services. In addition, women veterans can always choose a different OBGYN in their community using their veteran’s ID card.
The Trump Plan Will Make The VA Great Again
The VA health care program is a disaster. Some candidates want to get rid of it, but our veterans need the VA to be there for them and their families. That’s why the Trump plan will:
- Fire the corrupt and incompetent VA executives that let our veterans down.Under a Trump Administration, there will be no job security for VA executives that enabled or overlooked corruption and incompetence. They’re fired. New leadership will focus the VA staff on delivering timely, top quality care and other services to our nation’s veterans. Under a Trump Administration, exposing and addressing the VA’s inefficiencies and shortcomings will be rewarded, not punished.
- End waste, fraud and abuse at the VA. The Trump plan will ensure the VA is spending its dollars wisely to provide the greatest impact for veterans and hold administrators accountable for irresponsible spending and abuse. The days of $6.3 million for statues and fountains at VA facilities and $300,000 for a manager to move 140 miles are over. The Trump plan will clean up the VA’s finances so the current VA budget provides more and better care than it does now.
- Modernize the VA. A VA with 20th century technology cannot serve 21stcentury service members and their needs. The VA has been promising to modernize for years without real results. The Trump plan will make it happen by accelerating and expanding investments in state of the art technology to deliver best-in-class care quickly and effectively. All veterans should be able to conveniently schedule appointments, communicate with their doctors, and view accurate wait times with the push of a button.
- Empower the caregivers to ensure our veterans receive quality care quickly.Caregivers should be able to easily streamline treatment plans across departments and utilize telehealth tools to better serve their patients. As we have seen from the private sector, the potential for new, innovative technology is endless. Abandoning the wasteful and archaic mindset of the public sector will give way to tremendously effective veteran healthcare.
- Hire more veterans to care for veterans. The more veterans we have working at the VA, the better the VA will be. They understand the unique challenges facing their community. To increase the number of veterans hired by the VA, this plan will add an additional 5 points to the qualifying scores of veterans applying for VA jobs.
- Embed satellite VA clinics in rural and other underserved areas. The Trump Administration will embed satellite VA clinics within hospitals and other care facilities in rural and other underserved areas. This step will ensure veterans have easy access to care and local hospitals and care facilities can handle the influx of patients without backlogs while tapping the specialized knowledge of VA health specialists.
I certainly don't think Aki was "lily white", whatever that means. But he was attacked, stalked, and bullied down here. So is Finchy, with idiots posting his supposed real name, and his supposed real location. If he wanted his real name out there, he'd use it as his handle. But in this sick place, where up is down, he's The Bully??
RR lied about the crowd. Deal with it. I hardly ride him about it, but he lied, and it is what it is. RR has 20 posters that have his back, you included. Finchy has maybe 2, maybe, and you stupidly accuse HIM of being a bully, and falsely accuse me of being narrow minded? Those "detective" skills that you sometimes like to brag about are letting you down big time tonight again.
I didn't say Finchy is taking the high road. I said he's making y'all look like monkeys BEGGING him to respond about the parody.
- [h=4]lily-white adjective (CHARACTER)[/h]
You are beating a dead horse with RR, let it go it was a mistake and he owned up to it...hardly a hard core liar. You guys latch on to one or two instances and ride it til they are ragged...same old shit. New material would help your cause
More could be posted about Finch but that will never happen, that you can put in the bank.
Where I grew up people like finch were bullies. Always like facing them in here and in the real world
Defensive. I wasn't even thinking of it along racial lines. Quit while you are ahead.
I said RR lied. That's it. I'm hardly beating a dead horse with him. There are FAR FAR FAR Worse liars than him, that do it constanly, down here.
When it's 1 on 20, the 1 isn't the Bully, unless it's Andre The Giant against 20 5 year olds. I agree that mentally Finchy does tower over some of the 20, but he ain't the Bully.
Too much has already been posted about Finchy's supposed real name and supposed real location. How nice that "more" won't be posted. That seems like the same type of veiled threat Aki was subject to, before the sickos did their thing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/flora-...b_8295908.html
LONG overdue, I'm so tired of being thinking that he was qualified to be POTUS because of that title, like the one has much to do with the other. Notice he won the bat crazy poll tied with several others.
Ben Carson Loses Brain Surgeon License After Making Numerous Brainless Comments
Posted: 10/14/2015 5:20 pm EDT Updated: 5 minutes ago
Photographer: Gage Skidmore
The Medical Boards for all 50 States in the Union announced today that they have revoked Ben Carson's medical license and will no longer allow him to operate as a brain surgeon any where in the U.S. And they cited as their reason Carson's mental and intellectual challenges -- otherwise known as the propensity to sound like a total and utter nutcase.
In a joint statement, the Medical Boards said: We have been increasingly concerned about the gibberish emanating from Mr. Carson's cerebrum. We cite by way of example his belief that the holocaust could have been prevented by armed German citizens, that straight people go into prison and come out gay, and that Obamacare is the worse thing to happen to the country since slavery.
We are therefore suspending his medical license in any state where he is qualified to practice. And should he choose to come out of retirement and re-apply for credentials, we will not allow him to operate on people's cerebrums, or indeed cerebullums, limbic systems and brain stems, until he can demonstrate that his own are in fully working order."
While appearing on The Really Bad Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Ben Carson said: "I'm very disappointed to hear this news and I categorically deny I'm crazy. I think this is a concerted effort by Dr. Gregory House, Dr. No, Dr. Who and Dr. Doolittle to undermine my candidacy for the Presidency and I am therefore going to ignore it and carry on with my campaign regardless."
In his defense, Carson also highlighted comments made by other Republican candidates for the Presidency too. "Listen, Donald Trump thinks he can deport 11 million people back to Mexico and then get Mexico to pay for a wall to stop them coming back in.
Carly Fiorina believes she can run the entire United States of America even after running little old HP into the ground.
And Ted Cruz doesn't want to work with Democrats to get things done, and yet he told Fox News in 2012 that he's prepared to work with Martians! I mean seriously, if I'm a loony tune, these folks must be too."
Unfortunately for the Republican party, Carson's assertions have been borne out by the latest Real Clear Polidicks opinion poll. On the question of which Republican candidate is the most "bat shit crazy", Ben Carson is tied in equal first place with Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Rand Paul.
The poll was conducted earlier this week, it had 330 million respondents and no margin for error.
Also on HuffPost:
You seem to labor under the delusion that I give a rat's ass what a pig fucking hillbilly thinks. Here's a clue: I don't. You can post that all you want, and I'll keep pointing out how Road Kill is a lying, deluded turd, and how all you right wing assholes keep gnashing your teeth while you take it in the ass politically. Now, run along and lay some more pipe with Mama Hillbilly.cockingasnook()Loser!@#0Slapping-silly90))^^
:trx-smly0:kissingbb:bigfinger:madasshol:Countdown:fckmad:[h=1]Ted Cruz and John Kasich team up in deal to stop Trump[/h]
The Ohio governor will give the Texan senator a free run in Indiana in exchange for the same favor in Oregon and New Mexico
[h=1]Ben Jacobs[/h]Ben Jacobs is a political reporter for Guardian US based in Washington DC. He was previously a reporter for the Daily Beast. Follow him on Twitter @bencjacobs
Ted Cruz and John Kasich have announced that their campaigns will cede certain states in an attempt to keep Donald Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination.
In a pair of coordinated statements released on Sunday night, the Cruz and Kasich campaigns said that the Texan senator would concentrate his resources in Indiana while the Ohio governor would put all his effort into Oregon and New Mexico.
Both have already stated that they expect there to be a contested convention in Cleveland in July and are already preparing for a second ballot.
However, for that scenario to come to pass, they first need to stop Trump. This apparent agreement seems to be an admission that only way to do so is for his opponents to finally cooperate against him. Under current rules, delegates are only bound by the results of their state’s primary or caucus for the first ballot. On any subsequent ballot, delegates are free to vote their conscience and, since delegate selection is often an entirely separate process from a primary, there is likely to be a significant shift in votes on a second ballot.
Jeff Roe, Cruz’s campaign manager, went first. He said “our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead”.
Cruz has already shifted resources to focus entirely on Indiana, whose 30 winner-take-all statewide delegates represent the biggest individual haul remaining. The state, which holds its primary on 3 May, also allocates three delegates to the winner of each of its nine congressional districts. Polls in the Hoosier State had Trump with a narrow lead ahead of Cruz with Kasich lagging behind. One campaign source indicated that internal polls showed Kasich was dividing the anti-Trump vote in Indiana and serving as a major hindrance to Cruz’s prospects.
The Cruz statement was followed minutes later by a statement from Kasich strategist John Weaver. The veteran operative said “due to the fact that the Indiana primary is winner-take-all statewide and by congressional district, keeping Trump from winning a plurality in Indiana is critical to keeping him under 1,237 bound delegates before Cleveland. We are very comfortable with our delegate position in Indiana already, and given the current dynamics of the primary there, we will shift our campaign’s resources west and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana”.
Weaver added that “in turn, we will focus our time and resources in New Mexico and Oregon, both areas that are structurally similar to the north-east politically, where Governor Kasich is performing well. We would expect independent third-party groups to do the same and honor the commitments made by the Cruz and Kasich campaigns”.
Although the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment, the candidate responded in a late night tweet: “Wow, just announced that Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!”
The statement come just days after Cruz suggested in Florida that Kasich was only staying in the presidential race because “it may be John is auditioning to be Donald’s vice president”. The Texas senator also said earlier on Sunday that the Ohio governor did not have “a plausible path” to the nomination.
Tim Miller, a spokesman for Our Principles PAC, an anti-Trump superPAC said he found the apparent alliance “encouraging.”, when asked for comment via e-mail. He added “See you in Cleveland.”
Oregon, which holds its primary on 17 May, and New Mexico, which votes on 7 June, each have relatively proportional primaries. Oregon allocates its 28 delegates in purely proportional manner while New Mexico has a threshold that requires a candidate to get 15% of the vote.
Both campaigns made it clear that they would compete against each other in all of the remaining primary contests.
Cruz’s campaign chief said: “In other states holding their elections for the remainder of the primary season, our campaign will continue to compete vigorously to win.”
The deal comes more than a month after Kasich squelched an overture from Marco Rubio to engage in strategic voting in their home-state primaries on 15 March. While a Rubio spokesman urged supporters of the Florida senator to vote for Kasich in the Ohio, the Kasich campaign declined to return the favor in Florida.
The deal between the two campaigns came 36 hours before the opening of polls in the so-called Acela Primary, comprising five states in the northeast and mid-Atlantic. Trump is expected to dominate in these states and both Cruz and Kasich are likely to be shut out in the bound-delegate chase in at least three of the states holding contests on Tuesday. However, because 54 of the 71 delegates elected in Pennsylvania will be unbound and free to vote for any candidate, Trump’s rivals could still gain there.
The Ohio governor will give the Texan senator a free run in Indiana in exchange for the same favor in Oregon and New Mexico
[h=1]Ben Jacobs[/h]Ben Jacobs is a political reporter for Guardian US based in Washington DC. He was previously a reporter for the Daily Beast. Follow him on Twitter @bencjacobs
Ted Cruz and John Kasich have announced that their campaigns will cede certain states in an attempt to keep Donald Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination.
In a pair of coordinated statements released on Sunday night, the Cruz and Kasich campaigns said that the Texan senator would concentrate his resources in Indiana while the Ohio governor would put all his effort into Oregon and New Mexico.
Both have already stated that they expect there to be a contested convention in Cleveland in July and are already preparing for a second ballot.
However, for that scenario to come to pass, they first need to stop Trump. This apparent agreement seems to be an admission that only way to do so is for his opponents to finally cooperate against him. Under current rules, delegates are only bound by the results of their state’s primary or caucus for the first ballot. On any subsequent ballot, delegates are free to vote their conscience and, since delegate selection is often an entirely separate process from a primary, there is likely to be a significant shift in votes on a second ballot.
Jeff Roe, Cruz’s campaign manager, went first. He said “our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico, and we would hope that allies of both campaigns would follow our lead”.
Cruz has already shifted resources to focus entirely on Indiana, whose 30 winner-take-all statewide delegates represent the biggest individual haul remaining. The state, which holds its primary on 3 May, also allocates three delegates to the winner of each of its nine congressional districts. Polls in the Hoosier State had Trump with a narrow lead ahead of Cruz with Kasich lagging behind. One campaign source indicated that internal polls showed Kasich was dividing the anti-Trump vote in Indiana and serving as a major hindrance to Cruz’s prospects.
The Cruz statement was followed minutes later by a statement from Kasich strategist John Weaver. The veteran operative said “due to the fact that the Indiana primary is winner-take-all statewide and by congressional district, keeping Trump from winning a plurality in Indiana is critical to keeping him under 1,237 bound delegates before Cleveland. We are very comfortable with our delegate position in Indiana already, and given the current dynamics of the primary there, we will shift our campaign’s resources west and give the Cruz campaign a clear path in Indiana”.
Weaver added that “in turn, we will focus our time and resources in New Mexico and Oregon, both areas that are structurally similar to the north-east politically, where Governor Kasich is performing well. We would expect independent third-party groups to do the same and honor the commitments made by the Cruz and Kasich campaigns”.
Although the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment, the candidate responded in a late night tweet: “Wow, just announced that Lyin’ Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!”
The statement come just days after Cruz suggested in Florida that Kasich was only staying in the presidential race because “it may be John is auditioning to be Donald’s vice president”. The Texas senator also said earlier on Sunday that the Ohio governor did not have “a plausible path” to the nomination.
Tim Miller, a spokesman for Our Principles PAC, an anti-Trump superPAC said he found the apparent alliance “encouraging.”, when asked for comment via e-mail. He added “See you in Cleveland.”
Oregon, which holds its primary on 17 May, and New Mexico, which votes on 7 June, each have relatively proportional primaries. Oregon allocates its 28 delegates in purely proportional manner while New Mexico has a threshold that requires a candidate to get 15% of the vote.
Both campaigns made it clear that they would compete against each other in all of the remaining primary contests.
Cruz’s campaign chief said: “In other states holding their elections for the remainder of the primary season, our campaign will continue to compete vigorously to win.”
The deal comes more than a month after Kasich squelched an overture from Marco Rubio to engage in strategic voting in their home-state primaries on 15 March. While a Rubio spokesman urged supporters of the Florida senator to vote for Kasich in the Ohio, the Kasich campaign declined to return the favor in Florida.
The deal between the two campaigns came 36 hours before the opening of polls in the so-called Acela Primary, comprising five states in the northeast and mid-Atlantic. Trump is expected to dominate in these states and both Cruz and Kasich are likely to be shut out in the bound-delegate chase in at least three of the states holding contests on Tuesday. However, because 54 of the 71 delegates elected in Pennsylvania will be unbound and free to vote for any candidate, Trump’s rivals could still gain there.
Like I said, you "blindly weighed" into this thread just as much as I did.
I find it hysterical that you guys constantly try to get Finchy to respond to his posted Parody. He's not going to, he's laughing at you guys, and you keep on doing it. You look foolish. I am allowed to have that opinion and to post it, last I checked.
Good that you're not one of the sick stalkers.
Published on 24 Apr 2016
Speaking at New Jersey’s Kean College in 1992, the Rev. Al Sharpton delivered a scathing rant on police misconduct that has left big questions in today’s political landscape.
“’I believe in offing the pigs.’ Well, they got pigs out here,” said Sharpton.
“You ain’t offed one of them. What I believe in, I do. Do what you believe in. Or shut up and admit you’ve lost your courage and your guts to stand up.”
Was Sharpton's speech inflammatory? Jesse Watters tracked down the Reverend at his National Action Network convention to get answers.
“Would you like to apologize for that?” asked the Watters’ World host.
“You don’t have footage saying that,” said Sharpton. “You had me where I said that a guy was talking about ‘offing pigs’ and I said, ‘you ain’t gonna do nothing,’ and I mocked him.”
“You said, ‘if you’re gonna talk about it, do it,’” Watters countered.
“Wait a minute. Now you’re changing what you’re saying,” Sharpton replied.
Watters offered up the transcript. "Facts are facts,” he said.
“I don’t need the transcript. I know what I said,” said Sharpton. “We’ll see if you got enough guts to show that.”
“I’ll show the whole thing,” Watters answered.
[h=1]Trump lashes out at 'weak and desperate' Cruz and Kasich as they say they will co-ordinate campaigns in different states to stop him – and Ted aide admits he can't win[/h]
Donald Trump launched a series of attacks on his two remaining Republican rivals Monday morning, calling them 'weak and desperate' after they announced a strategic pact to deny him votes in the coming weeks.
Trump said in astatement issued just before 1 o'clock in the morning that the Cruz–Kasich pact smacks of 'collusion,' a loaded term commonly applied to 'price fixing' that illegally coordinates and manipulates commercial markets.
Republican Party rules, however, don't prohibit strategically ganging up on a front-runner – and the GOP's leadership may welcome the move if it weakens Trump, who has been a thorn in the establishment's side since he launched his campaign in June 2015.
Trump also called it 'sad' that 'two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months,' and then turned a common Cruz talking point back on his challengers.
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SAD! Donald Trump is lashing out at Ted Cruz and John Kasich after their campaigns announced a coordinated strategic partnership designed to deny him primary victories and delegates
Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring admitted to CNN Monday that a Cruz win on the first ballot at the convention is "not going to happen," event though Cruz has said previously the ultimate goal was to win an outright majority of delegates.
'A smart political campaign is one that adapts to the strategic realities that are on the ground today. When we set out this campaign our goal of course was to reach a flat out majority at the convention. That was always the goal – it was the best scenario for us … But that’s not going to happen,' Nehring said.
Nehring said Trump 'can’t consolidate the base going forward' and therefore shouldn't be the nominee.
'We want to make sure that by some accident – by some fluke of the rules whereby Donald Trump could gain more delegates than he has earned the share of the vote – he doesn’t’ become the Republican nominee and lead this party to a disaster," he said.
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'COLLUSION': Trump framed the Cruz-Kasich partnership as an illegal business deal after they said they will coordinate primary strategies to deprive him of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination
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DYNAMIC DUO? Kasich (left) and Cruz (right) will each pull out of states where they're weak in order to give the other a clear field to challenge Trump's dominance
The Texan has said repeatedly that Trump shouldn't be the Republican presidential nominee because two-thirds of GOP voters chose other candidates in their state primaries and caucuses – especially because the field was as large as 17 candidates in the early going.
That number, though, is higher for Cruz and Kasich.
'Approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him,' Trump said of Cruz, adding that '85% of Republican voters are against Kasich.'
And, he claimed, the 'millions of new voters he has attracted to the Republican primary process 'will drop out if I am not in the race.'
Cruz and Kasich issued near-simultaneous statements Sunday night while much of institutional Washington was watching 'Game of Thrones,' outlining an power-sharing agreement that's highly unusual in modern American politics.
The Kasich campaign will give Cruz 'a clear path in Indiana'. In return, the Cruz campaign will 'clear the path' for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico, Cruz's press release read.
Trump first responded to the arrangement on Twitter shortly before midnight: 'Wow, just announced that Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!'
'Lyin' Ted and Kasich are mathematically dead and totally desperate. Their donors & special interest groups are not happy with them. Sad!' he later added.
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BATTLE PLAN: The Kasich campaign will give Cruz 'a clear path in Indiana', and in return, the Cruz campaign will 'clear the path' for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's campaign said Sunday night that it is pulling out of Indiana to clear the field for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz – who is in turn stepping aside in Oregon and New Mexico where Kasich is stronger.
'Lyin' Ted Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are unable to beat me on their own so they have to team up (collusion) in a two on one. Shows weakness!' Trump tweeted Monday morning.
'Shows how weak and desperate Lyin' Ted is when he has to team up with a guy who openly can't stand him and is only 1 win and 38 losses,' a second tweet read.
The digital moment marks the first time Trump has applied a derogatory nickname – '1 for 38 Kasich' – to the candidate who had been a minor irritant in the race.
'1 FOR 38 KASICH': The Ohio governor's hail-mary gambit has earned him a nickname from Trump, who already calls Cruz 'Lyin' Ted' and the Democratic front-runner 'crooked Hillary' Clinton
Cruz has been 'Lyin' Ted' for nearly two months. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton turns up Frequently in Trump speeches as 'crooked Hillary.'
The arrangement does not address the five Northeastern state set to vote on Tuesday, where Trump is expected to add to his already overwhelming delegate lead.
Kasich and Cruz had already retreated to Indiana, which holds its primary on May 3.
Yet the shift offers increasingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to halt the former reality television star's unlikely rise.
'Having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for Republicans,' Cruz's campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said in a statement explaining the new plans.
'Not only would Trump get blown out by Clinton or Sanders, but having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation,' he added.
Kasich's chief strategist, John Weaver, said: 'Our goal is to have an open convention in Cleveland, where we are confident a candidate capable of uniting the party and winning in November will emerge as the nominee.'
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TRY ME: Trump warned in a statement that the 'millions' of new voters he has attracted to the Republican primary process 'will drop out if I am not in the race.'
The announcement marks a sharp reversal for Cruz's team, which aggressively opposed coordinating anti-Trump efforts with Kasich as recently as late last week.
And it only applies to Indiana, Oregon and New Mexico - three of the 15 states remaining on the Republican primary calendar.
The announcement came less than 48 hours before voting begins across five Northeastern states where the New York billionaire leads in many polls.
Trump campaigned on Sunday in Maryland, which will vote on Tuesday along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Speaking to several thousand people in an airplane hangar in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Sunday evening, Trump stressed repeatedly that he expects to win the 1,237 delegates needed in the first round of voting to stave off a contested convention.
'I only care about the first. We're not going for the second and third and fourth and fifth,' said Trump.
As Kasich backs out of Indiana, Cruz promised to not compete in primary contests in Oregon on May 17 and New Mexico on June 7.
'We will focus our time and resources in New Mexico and Oregon, both areas that are structurally similar to the Northeast politically, where Gov Kasich is performing well,' Weaver said.
As recently as three days ago Kasich's campaign announced investments in Indiana, including the opening of two offices and the creation of a campaign leadership team.
His campaign on Sunday night canceled a town hall and gathering in Indianapolis scheduled to watch the results of Tuesday's primaries.
Like Cruz's campaign, Kasich's campaign encouraged allied super PACs and other outside groups to 'honor the commitments'.
In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly denounced the GOP's presidential nominating system as 'rigged'. That criticism is likely to intensify in the coming days.
There was far less drama on the Democratic side Sunday.
Underdog Bernie Sanders rallied thousands of voters in two New England states, seeking momentum even as he offered mixed signals on how hard he would push his differences with front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The Vermont senator largely steered clear of Clinton at a Rhode Island park, but hours later ramped up his critique before more than 14,000 supporters in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sanders reiterated his call for Clinton to release transcripts of lucrative Wall Street speeches she delivered after leaving the State Department in early 2013.
'This campaign, unlike Secretary Clinton's, has not raised $15 million from Wall Street and millions more from other special interests,' he said as the crowd booed at the mention of Clinton's name.
Clinton eyed victories in four or five of Tuesday's contests, which would all but cripple Sanders' White House bid.
The former secretary of state went to two Philadelphia church services attended largely by African-Americans ahead of the primary in Pennsylvania, Tuesday's top delegate prize.
She declined to attack her Democratic rival by name in the morning appearance and a subsequent stop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, focusing on the GOP candidates.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz downplayed tensions between Sanders and Clinton, whose rivalry has become increasingly nasty in recent weeks.
'Regardless of the intensity of what's played out here... we are going to be unified,' she declared.
- Ted Cruz and John Kasich said they will coordinate primary strategies in upcoming states to deprive Donald Trump of delegates
- Kasich campaign said it will give Cruz 'a clear path in Indiana'; Cruz campaign will 'clear the path' for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico
- As Kasich backs out of Indiana's May 3 contest, Cruz promised to not compete in contests in Oregon on May 17 and New Mexico on June 7
- An angry Trump responded early Monday morning: 'Lyin' Ted Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are unable to beat me on their own so they have to team up'
- He called it 'collusion,' a legal term that suggests illegal coordination, although there's nothing in Republican party rules prohibiting it
- '1 for 38 Kasich' finally gets his own Trump nickname!
Donald Trump launched a series of attacks on his two remaining Republican rivals Monday morning, calling them 'weak and desperate' after they announced a strategic pact to deny him votes in the coming weeks.
Trump said in astatement issued just before 1 o'clock in the morning that the Cruz–Kasich pact smacks of 'collusion,' a loaded term commonly applied to 'price fixing' that illegally coordinates and manipulates commercial markets.
Republican Party rules, however, don't prohibit strategically ganging up on a front-runner – and the GOP's leadership may welcome the move if it weakens Trump, who has been a thorn in the establishment's side since he launched his campaign in June 2015.
Trump also called it 'sad' that 'two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months,' and then turned a common Cruz talking point back on his challengers.
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SAD! Donald Trump is lashing out at Ted Cruz and John Kasich after their campaigns announced a coordinated strategic partnership designed to deny him primary victories and delegates
Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring admitted to CNN Monday that a Cruz win on the first ballot at the convention is "not going to happen," event though Cruz has said previously the ultimate goal was to win an outright majority of delegates.
'A smart political campaign is one that adapts to the strategic realities that are on the ground today. When we set out this campaign our goal of course was to reach a flat out majority at the convention. That was always the goal – it was the best scenario for us … But that’s not going to happen,' Nehring said.
Nehring said Trump 'can’t consolidate the base going forward' and therefore shouldn't be the nominee.
'We want to make sure that by some accident – by some fluke of the rules whereby Donald Trump could gain more delegates than he has earned the share of the vote – he doesn’t’ become the Republican nominee and lead this party to a disaster," he said.
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'COLLUSION': Trump framed the Cruz-Kasich partnership as an illegal business deal after they said they will coordinate primary strategies to deprive him of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination
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DYNAMIC DUO? Kasich (left) and Cruz (right) will each pull out of states where they're weak in order to give the other a clear field to challenge Trump's dominance
The Texan has said repeatedly that Trump shouldn't be the Republican presidential nominee because two-thirds of GOP voters chose other candidates in their state primaries and caucuses – especially because the field was as large as 17 candidates in the early going.
That number, though, is higher for Cruz and Kasich.
'Approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him,' Trump said of Cruz, adding that '85% of Republican voters are against Kasich.'
And, he claimed, the 'millions of new voters he has attracted to the Republican primary process 'will drop out if I am not in the race.'
Cruz and Kasich issued near-simultaneous statements Sunday night while much of institutional Washington was watching 'Game of Thrones,' outlining an power-sharing agreement that's highly unusual in modern American politics.
The Kasich campaign will give Cruz 'a clear path in Indiana'. In return, the Cruz campaign will 'clear the path' for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico, Cruz's press release read.
Trump first responded to the arrangement on Twitter shortly before midnight: 'Wow, just announced that Lyin' Ted and Kasich are going to collude in order to keep me from getting the Republican nomination. DESPERATION!'
'Lyin' Ted and Kasich are mathematically dead and totally desperate. Their donors & special interest groups are not happy with them. Sad!' he later added.
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BATTLE PLAN: The Kasich campaign will give Cruz 'a clear path in Indiana', and in return, the Cruz campaign will 'clear the path' for Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's campaign said Sunday night that it is pulling out of Indiana to clear the field for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz – who is in turn stepping aside in Oregon and New Mexico where Kasich is stronger.
'Lyin' Ted Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are unable to beat me on their own so they have to team up (collusion) in a two on one. Shows weakness!' Trump tweeted Monday morning.
'Shows how weak and desperate Lyin' Ted is when he has to team up with a guy who openly can't stand him and is only 1 win and 38 losses,' a second tweet read.
The digital moment marks the first time Trump has applied a derogatory nickname – '1 for 38 Kasich' – to the candidate who had been a minor irritant in the race.
'1 FOR 38 KASICH': The Ohio governor's hail-mary gambit has earned him a nickname from Trump, who already calls Cruz 'Lyin' Ted' and the Democratic front-runner 'crooked Hillary' Clinton
Cruz has been 'Lyin' Ted' for nearly two months. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton turns up Frequently in Trump speeches as 'crooked Hillary.'
The arrangement does not address the five Northeastern state set to vote on Tuesday, where Trump is expected to add to his already overwhelming delegate lead.
Kasich and Cruz had already retreated to Indiana, which holds its primary on May 3.
Yet the shift offers increasingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to halt the former reality television star's unlikely rise.
'Having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for Republicans,' Cruz's campaign manager, Jeff Roe, said in a statement explaining the new plans.
'Not only would Trump get blown out by Clinton or Sanders, but having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation,' he added.
Kasich's chief strategist, John Weaver, said: 'Our goal is to have an open convention in Cleveland, where we are confident a candidate capable of uniting the party and winning in November will emerge as the nominee.'
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TRY ME: Trump warned in a statement that the 'millions' of new voters he has attracted to the Republican primary process 'will drop out if I am not in the race.'
The announcement marks a sharp reversal for Cruz's team, which aggressively opposed coordinating anti-Trump efforts with Kasich as recently as late last week.
And it only applies to Indiana, Oregon and New Mexico - three of the 15 states remaining on the Republican primary calendar.
The announcement came less than 48 hours before voting begins across five Northeastern states where the New York billionaire leads in many polls.
Trump campaigned on Sunday in Maryland, which will vote on Tuesday along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Speaking to several thousand people in an airplane hangar in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Sunday evening, Trump stressed repeatedly that he expects to win the 1,237 delegates needed in the first round of voting to stave off a contested convention.
'I only care about the first. We're not going for the second and third and fourth and fifth,' said Trump.
As Kasich backs out of Indiana, Cruz promised to not compete in primary contests in Oregon on May 17 and New Mexico on June 7.
'We will focus our time and resources in New Mexico and Oregon, both areas that are structurally similar to the Northeast politically, where Gov Kasich is performing well,' Weaver said.
As recently as three days ago Kasich's campaign announced investments in Indiana, including the opening of two offices and the creation of a campaign leadership team.
His campaign on Sunday night canceled a town hall and gathering in Indianapolis scheduled to watch the results of Tuesday's primaries.
Like Cruz's campaign, Kasich's campaign encouraged allied super PACs and other outside groups to 'honor the commitments'.
In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly denounced the GOP's presidential nominating system as 'rigged'. That criticism is likely to intensify in the coming days.
There was far less drama on the Democratic side Sunday.
Underdog Bernie Sanders rallied thousands of voters in two New England states, seeking momentum even as he offered mixed signals on how hard he would push his differences with front-runner Hillary Clinton.
The Vermont senator largely steered clear of Clinton at a Rhode Island park, but hours later ramped up his critique before more than 14,000 supporters in New Haven, Connecticut.
Sanders reiterated his call for Clinton to release transcripts of lucrative Wall Street speeches she delivered after leaving the State Department in early 2013.
'This campaign, unlike Secretary Clinton's, has not raised $15 million from Wall Street and millions more from other special interests,' he said as the crowd booed at the mention of Clinton's name.
Clinton eyed victories in four or five of Tuesday's contests, which would all but cripple Sanders' White House bid.
The former secretary of state went to two Philadelphia church services attended largely by African-Americans ahead of the primary in Pennsylvania, Tuesday's top delegate prize.
She declined to attack her Democratic rival by name in the morning appearance and a subsequent stop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, focusing on the GOP candidates.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz downplayed tensions between Sanders and Clinton, whose rivalry has become increasingly nasty in recent weeks.
'Regardless of the intensity of what's played out here... we are going to be unified,' she declared.
[h=6]- APRIL 24, 2016 -[/h][h=1]DONALD J. TRUMP RESPONSE TO CRUZ AND KASICH CAMPAIGNS[/h]It is sad that two grown politicians have to collude against one person who has only been a politician for ten months in order to try and stop that person from getting the Republican nomination.
Senator Cruz has done very poorly and after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he is in free fall and as everyone has seen, he does not react well under pressure. Also, approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him. Governor Kasich, who has only won 1 state out of 41, in other words, he is 1 for 41 and he is not even doing as well as other candidates who could have stubbornly stayed in the race like him but chose not to do so. Marco Rubio, as an example, has more delegates than Kasich and yet suspended his campaign one month ago. Others, likewise, have done much better than Kasich, who would get slaughtered by Hillary Clinton once the negative ads against him begin. 85% of Republican voters are against Kasich.
Collusion is often illegal in many other industries and yet these two Washington insiders have had to revert to collusion in order to stay alive. They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets of donors and special interests, how truly weak they and their campaigns are. I have brought millions of voters into the Republican primary system and have received many millions of votes more than Cruz or Kasich. Additionally, I am far ahead of both candidates with delegates and would be receiving in excess of 60% of the vote except for the fact that there were so many candidates running against me.
Because of me, everyone now sees that the Republican primary system is totally rigged. When two candidates who have no path to victory get together to stop a candidate who is expanding the party by millions of voters, (all of whom will drop out if I am not in the race) it is yet another example of everything that is wrong in Washington and our political system. This horrible act of desperation, from two campaigns who have totally failed, makes me even more determined, for the good of the Republican Party and our country, to prevail!
Senator Cruz has done very poorly and after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he is in free fall and as everyone has seen, he does not react well under pressure. Also, approximately 80% of the Republican Party is against him. Governor Kasich, who has only won 1 state out of 41, in other words, he is 1 for 41 and he is not even doing as well as other candidates who could have stubbornly stayed in the race like him but chose not to do so. Marco Rubio, as an example, has more delegates than Kasich and yet suspended his campaign one month ago. Others, likewise, have done much better than Kasich, who would get slaughtered by Hillary Clinton once the negative ads against him begin. 85% of Republican voters are against Kasich.
Collusion is often illegal in many other industries and yet these two Washington insiders have had to revert to collusion in order to stay alive. They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets of donors and special interests, how truly weak they and their campaigns are. I have brought millions of voters into the Republican primary system and have received many millions of votes more than Cruz or Kasich. Additionally, I am far ahead of both candidates with delegates and would be receiving in excess of 60% of the vote except for the fact that there were so many candidates running against me.
Because of me, everyone now sees that the Republican primary system is totally rigged. When two candidates who have no path to victory get together to stop a candidate who is expanding the party by millions of voters, (all of whom will drop out if I am not in the race) it is yet another example of everything that is wrong in Washington and our political system. This horrible act of desperation, from two campaigns who have totally failed, makes me even more determined, for the good of the Republican Party and our country, to prevail!
