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AUGUST 30, 2016
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On Thursday night the Trump Campaign website crashed following his immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona.
The donations page is down due to “unusually high volume of traffic.”
The presidential race and U.S. Senate contest have tightened in Wisconsin, according to Thursday’s Marquette University Law School Poll.
In the race for the White House, Democrat Hillary Clinton led Republican Donald Trump by 42% to 37% among registered voters. Clinton also led Trump, 45% to 42% among voters who said they are certain to go to the polls in the fall.
…Three weeks ago, Clinton held a 10-point lead over Trump among registered voters and a 15-point lead among likely voters.
Essentially, the presidential race is close to where it was before the two parties held their national conventions, Franklin said.
In July, Clinton led Trump by 6 points among registered voters and 4 points among likely voters.
In a four-way presidential race, Clinton has 37%, Trump 32%, Libertarian Gary Johnson 11% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 7% among registered voters. Among likely voters, Clinton is at 41%, Trump at 38%, Johnson at 10% and Stein at 4%.
…The survey of 803 registered voters — and 650 likely voters — was conducted Thursday through Sunday by landline and cellphone. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for registered voters and plus or minus 5.0% for likely voters.
Including independents who lean to a party, 45% identified as Republicans and 46% as Democrats.
“Leaners are tilting a little more Republican in this sample,” Franklin said.
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WHAT SOFTENING?
NOV. 8 LAST CHANCE TO SEAL BORDERL
JOBS FOR IMMIGRANTS BLACK, LATINO AMERICANS
MAGIC WORD: ‘ASSIMILATE’
SAYS COULD BE 30 MILLION ALIENS IN USA
NATIONS WILL TAKE THEIR CRIMINALS BACK
Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald on why the media is wrong to call Donald Trump a racist. Aug. 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton tried to tar Donald Trump as a racist last week by associating him with the “alt-right.” Yet it is Mr. Trump who has decried the loss of black life to violent crime—and has promptly been declared biased for doing so. Whether intentionally or not, Mr. Trump has exposed the hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter movement and its allies.
Speaking in West Bend, Wis., on Aug. 16, only days after the recent riots in Milwaukee, Mr. Trump observed that during “the last 72 hours . . . another nine were killed in Chicago and another 46 were wounded.” The victims, as in other cities with rising crime, were overwhelmingly black.
Bringing safety to inner-city residents should be a top presidential priority, Mr. Trump said: “Our job is to make life more comfortable for the African-American parent who wants their kids to be able to safely walk the streets and walk to school. Or the senior citizen waiting for a bus. Or the young child walking home from school.” Mr. Trump promised to restore law and order “for the sake of all, but most especially for the sake of those living in the affected communities.”
Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Jason Riley on why Donald Trump was smart to shun the civil-rights group. The reaction was swift. The progressive website Crooks and Liars deemed Mr. Trump’s speech a “mashup of Hitler and George Wallace.” On CNN the activist and former Obama adviser Van Jones called it “despicable” and “shocking in its divisiveness.” Historian Josh Zeitz told USA Today that “the term law and order in modern American politics is, ipso facto, a racially tinged term.”
Mr. Trump’s acceptance speech in July at the Republican National Convention provoked similar dismay. “Young Americans in Baltimore, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Ferguson,” he said, have “the same right to live out their dreams as any other child in America.”
This defense of black children was too much for Alicia Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. “The terrifying vision that Donald J. Trump is putting forward casts him alongside some of the worst fascists in history,” Ms. Garza said. The executive director of the Advancement Project, Judith Browne Dianis, complained that “the speech lends itself to be interpreted as isolating and scapegoating of communities of color.” Political commentator Sally Kohn wrote in Time that Mr. Trump “has basically recycled Richard Nixon’s version of dog whistle racism by insisting he is the ‘law and order candidate’—implicitly protecting White America.”
Why this frenzied effort to demonize Mr. Trump for addressing the heightened violence in inner cities? Because the Republican nominee has also correctly identified its cause: the false “narrative of cops as a racist force in our society,” as he put it in Wisconsin.
Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement burst onto the national scene in 2014, following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., violent crime has surged in urban areas. In America’s largest 56 cities, homicides rose 17% last year, the largest one-year increase in more than two decades. In Washington, D.C., homicides jumped 54%; in Milwaukee, 73%; in Cleveland, 90%.
The reason is a drop-off in the proactive policing that activists and academics denounce as racist. While cops continue to rush to 911 calls in minority neighborhoods, they are making fewer pedestrian stops and engaging in less public-order enforcement. Backing off such activity is presumably what Black Lives Matter supporters, including President Obama, want.
Yet the victims of the resulting crime surge are almost exclusively black; whites have largely been unaffected. In Baltimore, 45 people were killed in July 2015, 43 of them black. In Chicago, 2,460 blacks were shot last year, lethally or non-lethally, according to the city’s police department. That’s nearly seven a day. Seventy-eight white residents were shot in 2015, though the white share of the Chicago population is about the same as the black share. Blacks in Chicago were 18 times more likely to be killed last year than whites, up from eight times more likely in 2005.
Police shootings are a minute fraction of this carnage. So far this year in Chicago, they account for about 0.5% of all shootings. Four studies published this year alone have further undercut the claim that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased policing shootings. Harvard economist Roland Fryer, for example, examined data from Dallas, Austin, Houston, Los Angeles and six Florida counties. He found no evidence of racial discrimination in police shootings; officers in Houston were nearly 24% less likely to shoot blacks than whites.
When Mr. Trump pledges to restore law and order, he is not promising to “protect White America,” in Sally Kohn’s words. He is addressing a problem that whites could easily ignore, if they were the bigots that the Black Lives Matter movement and nearly the whole of academia make them out to be.
Strangely, it is Mr. Obama and Black Lives Matter sympathizers who have turned their eyes from the rising black victimization. FBI Director James Comey warned last October that the “chill wind blowing through American law enforcement” was leading to a “huge increase” in urban homicides and shootings. Mr. Obama promptly accused him of “cherry-picking data” and having a “political agenda.”
After Mr. Trump drew attention in his convention speech to the rising urban violence, President Obama again dismissed the casualties as merely an “uptick in murders and violent crime in some cities.” It is hard not to translate this is as: white lives matter; black lives, not so much.
Mr. Trump’s call to restore law and order recognizes the right of inner-city residents to enjoy the same freedom from fear that the rest of America now takes for granted, thanks to the 20-year decline in crime brought on by the proactive policing revolution of the 1990s. Mr. Trump has issued a much-needed warning that the antipolice narrative is putting black lives in jeopardy and undercutting the foundation of a civilized society. It is a message he should amplify.
Ms. Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of “The War on Cops.”
If you are a racist, giving JJ office space is the LAST freakin thing you would do!!!!
(1) Trump did not "blink" and his "hunker down" comment resonates and is much more effective with non-Trumpsters (like me) in selling his political anchor point. Yes, I think he’s a buffoon, but will vote for him because the alternative is far more (SCOTUS) disturbing.
(2) Hilary wears many hats, depending on the day and which voting group she’s trying to reach; one of which is a giant sombrero. Most of us know they’re there; it’s just that many can’t see them because she’s always wearing them and her head is on the other side of her sphincter.
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PHOENIX, Arizona — Hours after returning to the United States from Mexico, where he met with that country’s president, GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump doubled down on his America-first immigration plan with a central focus on security for the country. In the lengthy, policy-laden, specifics-heavy speech, Trump—whom many in the progressive media had speculated for over a week would “soften” his tone and policies on the core campaign issue of immigration—once again shocked the political world with a detailed plan to protect the country from threats associated with uncontrolled mass migration into America.
Trump opened the presidential-style address before thousands of Arizonans here by talking about his earlier Wednesday meeting with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto. He said:
I have just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico – a man I like and respect very much, and a man who truly loves his country. Just like I am a man who loves the United States. We agreed on the importance of ending the illegal flow of drugs, cash, guns and people across our border, and to put the cartels out of business. We also discussed the great contributions of Mexican-American citizens to our two countries, my love for the people of Mexico, and the close friendship between our two nations. It was a thoughtful and substantive conversation. This is the first of what I expect will be many conversations in a Trump Administration about creating a new relationship between our two countries. But to fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington. There is no other way.
In a joint press conference with Pena Nieto earlier in Mexico City, the Mexican president and U.S. presidential hopeful detailed how they agreed that the United States has a right to build a wall on the border with Mexico and that the U.S. and Mexico should renegotiate the failed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
NAFTA, which was signed by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s husband former President Bill Clinton, has decimated America’s manufacturing sector, draining jobs from America’s heartland and rustbelt into Mexico. Trump’s push to renegotiate the deal, and Pena Nieto’s agreement with him that it must be renegotiated, is a major coup for the GOP presidential candidate who has made trade just as big a focus as immigration in the outsider’s unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party as the GOP’s presidential nominee.
But one thing they say they didn’t discuss in the meeting was who would pay for Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—Trump wants Mexico to pay for it, but Pena Nieto and his predecessors have previously said that Mexicans are not going to pay for the wall.
During his event here—an immigration policy speech in the heart of one of the states where Trump is currently leading Clinton, and where he won another surprising major victory on his glide path to the nomination earlier this year against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)—Trump made it clear: He expects Mexico to pay for the wall on the border.
Trump also described his wall in great detail, noting that it will employ “the best technology,” and have above and below ground components.
“On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable physical wall on the southern border,” Trump said. “We will use the best technology, including above-and below-ground sensors, towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels, and keep out the criminal cartels, and Mexico will pay for the wall.”
That was the first of 10 steps to put forth a lawful system of immigration that serves the needs of Americans of all backgrounds and legal immigrants already here, rather than, as he said in his speech, opening a system that “serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists, and powerful politicians.”
The second step was to end “catch-and-release,” where the President Barack Obama administration currently captures illegal aliens entering the country and instead of deporting them on the spot allows them to stay in the United States and enter American communities.
“Under my Administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country,” Trump said.
Trump’s third step is to have “zero tolerance” for any illegal aliens. He said:
According to federal data, there are at least 2 million criminal aliens now inside the country. We will begin moving them out day one, in joint operations with local, state and federal law enforcement. Beyond the 2 million, there are a vast number of additional criminal illegal immigrants who have fled or evaded justice. But their days on the run will soon be over. They go out, and they go out fast. Moving forward, we will issue detainers for all illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever, and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings. We will terminate the Obama Administration’s deadly non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets.
He specifically detailed how President Obama has allowed hundreds of thousands of said criminal illegal aliens back into American neighborhoods across the country, endangering the lives of millions of Americans—including the children of the so-called “Angel Mom” mothers who later joined Trump on stage. The Angel Moms, as they’ve become known, have seen their children killed by illegal aliens for years—and the federal government under President Obama has done nothing. What’s more, Hillary Clinton—the Democratic nominee for president—has refused to acknowledge these mothers’ losses.
Trump went on to say:
Since 2013 alone, the Obama Administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into U.S. communities – these are individuals encountered or identified by ICE but who not detained or processed for deportation. My plan also includes cooperating closely with local jurisdictions to remove criminal aliens. We will restore the highly successful Secure Communities program. We will expand and revitalize the popular 287(g) partnerships, which will help to identify hundreds of thousands of deportable aliens in local jails. Both of these programs have been recklessly gutted by this Administration. This is yet one more area where we are headed in a totally opposite direction.
Trump said he will press Congress to pass “Kate’s Law” to combat sanctuary cities, which encourage illegal immigration. He said:
On my first day in office, I am also going to ask Congress to pass ‘Kate’s Law’ – named for Kate Steinle – to ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry face receive strong mandatory minimum sentences. Another reform I am proposing is the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously-deported illegal immigrant. The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly identified and removed.
Trump laid out how he is going to increase resources to federal immigration law enforcement agencies—and even create a new task force inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency designed specifically for the deportation of problematic illegal aliens. He said:
We are going to triple the number of ICE deportation officers. Within ICE, I am going to create a new special Deportation Task Force, focused on identifying and removing quickly the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice. The local police know who every one of these criminals are. There’s no great mystery to it, they’ve put up with it for years. And now, finally, we will turn the tables and law enforcement will be allowed to clear up this dangerous and threatening mess.
He said, too, he will increase the resources that the U.S. Border Patrol—which is also handcuffed by Obama administration policies that Hillary Clinton supports—and that he is proud to have the endorsement of the U.S. Border Patrol Council, which represents thousands of border agents.
“We’re also going to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents, and put more of them on the border, instead of behind desks. We will expand the number of Border Patrol Stations,” Trump said. “I’ve had a chance to spend time with these incredible law enforcement officers, and I want to take a moment to thank them. The endorsement I’ve received from the Border Patrol officers means more to me than I can say.”
Fitting in with all of that—including Kate’s Law—Trump’s fourth point is that he wants to end funding for sanctuary cities.
“We will end the Sanctuary Cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths,” Trump said. “Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.”
Fifth up, Trump said he will reverse the executive amnesties and other unconstitutional executive actions and orders that President Obama has put into place enabling illegal immigration—all of which Hillary Clinton supports or wants to expand. Trump continued:
We will immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants. Hillary Clinton has pledged to keep both of these illegal amnesty programs – including the 2014 amnesty which has been blocked by the Supreme Court. Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty. Clinton’s plan would trigger a Constitutional Crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before. In effect, she would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. In a Trump Administration, all immigration laws will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. But, unlike this Administration, no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement – and ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs. Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation – that is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Our enforcement priorities will include removing criminals, gang members, security threats, visa overstays, public charges – that is, those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net, along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who’ve come here under the current Administration.
Sixth, Trump said he will suspend issuance of visas to people from countries without adequate screening processes in place. He said:
According to data provided to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign-born individuals were convicted in terror cases inside the United States. The number is likely higher, but the Administration refuses to provide this information to Congress. As soon as I enter office, I am going to ask the Department of State, Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to begin a comprehensive review of these cases in order to develop a list of regions and countries from which immigration must be suspended until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put into place. Countries from which immigration will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya. For the price of resettling 1 refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region. Another reform involves new screening tests for all applicants that include an ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people. For instance, in the last five years, we’ve admitted nearly 100,000 immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan – in these two countries, according to Pew research, a majority of residents say that the barbaric practice of honor killings against women are often or sometimes justified. Applicants will be asked for their views about honor killings, about respect for women and gays and minorities, attitudes on Radical Islam, and many other topics as part of the vetting procedure.
In his seventh point, Trump said he will make sure other countries take illegal aliens back when they are deported from the U.S.
“There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they have been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals,” Trump said. “Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into U.S. communities. There are often terrible consequences, such as Casey Chadwick’s tragic death in Connecticut just last year.”
Trump laid out how Hillary Clinton failed to follow the law—in yet another instance of her lawlessness—when during her time as Secretary of State she didn’t stop issuing visas to people from these countries. He said:
Yet, despite the existence of a law that commands the Secretary of State to stop issuing visas to these countries, Secretary Hillary Clinton ignored this law and refused to use this powerful tool to bring nations into compliance. The result of her misconduct was the release of thousands of dangerous criminal aliens who should have been sent home. According to a report from the Boston Globe, from the year 2008 through 2014, nearly 13,000 criminal aliens were released back into U.S. communities because their home countries would not take them back. Many of these 13,000 releases occurred on Hillary Clinton’s watch – she had the power and the duty to stop it cold and she didn’t do it. Those released include individuals convicted of killings, sexual assault and some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, who went on to reoffend at a very high rate.
In his eighth point in his common-sense immigration reform plan, Trump detailed how he will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa program to track those coming in and out of the country. Trump said:
For years, Congress has required a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system, but it has never been completed. In my Administration, we will ensure that this system is in place at all land, air, and sea ports. Approximately half of new illegal immigrants came on temporary visas and then never left. Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays pose a substantial threat to national security. The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system should be a high priority and “would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in August and September 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were in the U.S. on expired visas.
Last year alone, nearly a half a million individuals overstayed their temporary visas. Removing visa overstays will be a top priority of my administration. If people around the world believe they can just come on a temporary visa and never leave – the Obama-Clinton policy – then we have a completely open border. We must send the message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced.”
In the ninth point, Trump laid out how he will turn off the economic magnet for illegal immigration. He called for E-Verify and for the enforcement of blocking any illegal aliens from access to government benefits. He said:
We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country. Immigration law doesn’t exist just for the purpose of keeping out criminals. It exists to protect all aspects of American life – the worksite, the welfare office, the education system and much else. That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforce the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world. I will enforce all of our immigration laws. The same goes for government benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants used some form of cash or non-cash welfare programs, like food stamps or housing assistance. This directly violates the federal public charge law designed to protect the U.S. treasury. Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for removal.
The tenth, and perhaps the most important part of Donald Trump’s immigration reform plan is a return to a legal immigration system that serves the interests of the country and American workers—rather than the interests of multinational companies and globalist elites like Hillary Clinton.
“We’ve admitted 59 million immigrants to the United States between 1965 and 2015,” Trump said. “Many of these arrivals have greatly enriched our country. But we now have an obligation to them, and to their children, to control future immigration – as we have following previous immigration waves – to ensure assimilation, integration, and upward mobility. Within just a few years immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records.”
Trump said that the “time has come” for “a new immigration commission” designed to develop reforms to America’s legal immigration system with the “following goals” in mind:
To keep immigration levels, measured by population share, within historical norms. To select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society, and their ability to be financially self-sufficient. We need a system that serves our needs – remember, it’s America First. To choose immigrants based on merit, skill and proficiency. And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first. We want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally and properly-vetted, and in a manner that serves the national interest. We’ve been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. To avoid this happening in the future, I believe we should sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to periodically revise and revisit them. We wouldn’t put our entire federal budget on autopilot for decades, so why should we do the same for immigration?
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Senior Fellow and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton delved into Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
“I thought the trip to Mexico by Donald Trump was an outstanding success,” said Bolton. “My assessment before his meeting with Mexican President Peña Nieto was that it was a gamble. There were certainly upsides to its potential, but there were risks, as well, and that it was something daring and dramatic, which you will never see from Hillary Clinton.”
He noted Trump took this gamble “at a time when his campaign was behind Clinton, in polls all across the country and in battleground states.”
“This is the mark of somebody who’s prepared to take decisive action when the need arises. He did, and it was an outstanding success,” Bolton pronounced. He added:
I think he demonstrated that he can hold his own with the head of a foreign government. Obviously, they disagreed. No one expected they were going to reach agreement on the border issue in their first meeting, but it was obviously a respectful meeting. In diplomatic parlance, it’s what we call, I’m sure, an exchange of views, not a negotiation. You’re just telling each other what you think.
Bolton said:
And they they came out and had something that looked, for all the world, even in the absence of an American flag for Donald Trump, looked like two heads of state discussing a bilateral meeting they had just held. In answer to the question, “Can Donald Trump appear presidential?” the answer is yes. And so I thought the trip was a home run.
He conceded there were “disagreements on what they had said on certain points,” but that was “not surprising,” since it “happens all the time in bilateral meetings.”
“I do think that Trump has changed some of his views on immigration,” Bolton said. “I know that some of his supporters will disagree with that, but I think he has changed somewhat, and I think that’s all to the good.”
He predicted:
I think the outcome, net-net, of yesterday was that it should be reassuring to many people who ought to be voting for the Republican nominee for president, that Trump is somebody they can trust in the White House. So I expect the political outcome of yesterday will be a plus-up in the percentage of Republicans and independents now supporting Trump, and I think it should help close the gap with Clinton even more.
Bolton dismissed the discrepancies between post-meeting comments by Trump and Nieto as “trivial.”
“The Mexican side knows what Trump’s position is on the wall and who he thinks ought to pay for it,” Bolton observed. “You don’t need to discuss it. I think what the Mexican President was doing, and what the Mexican side said was, they said to Trump, ‘We’re not gonna pay for it.’ Well, what a surprise that is.”
Bolton pointed out:
Sometimes in these meetings, you want to put something on the record, just to be sure the other side understands it, but also so you can say to your domestic population, “We told him we weren’t going to pay for the wall.” Okay, fine. They weren’t going to resolve that issue in that first meeting anyway. They weren’t going to resolve the wall, let alone who pays for it, or whether it’s a good idea in the first place, or anything like that.
Bolton argued:
Was the question of payment for the wall mentioned? I don’t doubt that it was. I’m sure the Mexican side did say that. From Trump’s view, was it discussed? To me, a discussion is more than about five seconds of considering an issue, and maybe the Mexican President – Trump, wanting the meeting to go well, didn’t give his extended argument on why he wants the Mexicans to pay for it, and how he’d make them do it, because there wasn’t any need to. They understand his position, and he wanted to establish the basis for a constructive relationship. That’s the way you do it.
He said the Clinton campaign’s reaction indicated that “they could see that this is a success for Trump, and they should be desperately worried, I think.”
Bolton anticipated Clinton would now attack Trump for failing to cut a deal on his first meeting with Mexico. “If they knew anything about business, or diplomacy, or much of anything else, other than politics, they’d understand that was not the purpose of the meeting,” he said, postulating that the American people would appreciate what Trump accomplished.
“I think most people understand that on an issue this contentious and this complicated, the first thing you have to do is establish a personal rapport between the two leaders. You have to get a working relationship established. And then there’s gonna be some hard bargaining,” he said.
“We’ll see what happens. Congress is going to get involved. They’ve got appropriate money for at least some of the stuff that needs to be done on immigration reform. And it’s gonna be a process,” noted Bolton. “I think Trump himself has said, ‘This is what I would like to do,’ but he realizes he can’t do it alone – unlike Barack Obama, who’s not limited by mere things like constitutional restrictions, or trivial details like that.”
He summed up the message from the Mexico trip by saying:
Trump had a successful meeting with the leader of a country that has been an element of debate in our politics, now, over the past years. It was a successful meeting in the sense that the two sides did exchange views. They came away and performed in a professional manner in the encounter with the press afterward. And that’s exactly what you would expect from a presidential candidate.
“That’s what’s driving the Clinton people crazy because they were hoping he’d come out and self-destruct, but he didn’t do it. Now, they don’t know what to say,” he added.
Bolton underlined the heavy policy content of Trump’s mission to Mexico:
Whether you agree or disagree with the substance of Trump’s position on the issue, one of the criticisms from his opponents has been he’s not specific enough on what he’s going to do. I thought that speech last night was about as specific as you can get in a presidential campaign.
“I didn’t detect any material change from the policy that he’s been enunciating. He has modified it over time, and I didn’t see any radical departure, or reversion to ‘hardline,’ or further ‘softening,’ as he used the term,” he judged. “That’s what happens in political campaigns. His opponents are hoping the die-hard pro-Trump supporters will reject him as squishing out, turning into a RINO, that kind of thing.”
“I don’t think that’s going to happen. I think he’s accomplished his mission. Again, whether you agree or disagree, in whole or in part, it was the kind of performance you’d expect from a presidential candidate,” said Bolton, “and now it’s on to other issues. I think it was ‘Mission Accomplished’ for Trump yesterday.”
In Bolton’s estimation, the presidential race has not yet “turned around dramatically.”
“I think where we are, right this moment, is that Clinton is still ahead by four or five, six points, which is where it was about three months ago, so the respective convention bumps are over, and Trump is behind,” he said. “But the polls are still inconclusive. We don’t know what the third-party candidates will actually get on Election Day. So if you’re the candidate behind, you have to shake things up and turn them around.”
He stated:
I think that’s what really worries the Hillary campaign about yesterday’s events because it was the kind of dramatic move, by a decisive leader, that could have a big effect on people. I think it will. I think it shows him as somebody capable of being president, and that’s what some people need to see – particularly among Republicans and independents who haven’t come to support him, that indeed he can handle the job.
Bolton pointed out:
Let’s not forget, for all the criticism of Trump, the polls are also showing that disapproval of Hillary Clinton continues to rise – that the effects of the email scandal, the effects of the Clinton Foundation, the effects of her serial deceptions over the years, continue to drive her unfavorable numbers up.
“So if they’re not careful, these kinds of moves by Trump, I think, could leave them in serious trouble.”
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The American Legion is holding its annual convention this week in Cincinnati, Ohio.
All of the seats were taken.
Crowd seems to be slightly bigger today awaiting Donald Trump's speech at American Legion Convention. @WCPO pic.twitter.com/xDd4CRttq7
— paula christian (@PaulaChristian_) September 1, 2016
Yesterday Hillary Clinton spoke to the same audience. The place was half empty…
Look how many people attended at Hillary Clinton American legion speech! She can't win in polls with that audience! pic.twitter.com/laTB95LV7X
— Red Louisiana News (@redlanews) September 1, 2016
Yet it was a bold and decisive move, and it paid off in what was the best day of Donald Trump’s campaign.
Standing beside Nieto, graciously complimenting him and speaking warmly of Mexico and its people, Trump looked like a president. And the Mexican president treated him like one, even as Trump restated the basic elements of his immigration policy, including the border wall.
The gnashing of teeth up at the New York Times testifies to Trump’s triumph:
“Mr. Trump has spent his entire campaign painting Mexico as a nation of rapists, drug smugglers, and trade hustlers. … But instead of chastising Mr. Trump, Mr. Pena Nieto treated him like a visiting head of state … with side-by-side lecterns and words of deferential mush.”
As I wrote in August, Trump “must convince the nation … he is an acceptable, indeed, a preferable alternative” to Hillary Clinton, whom the nation does not want.
In Mexico City, Trump did that. He reassured voters who are leaning toward him that he can be president. As for those who are apprehensive about his temperament, they saw reassurance.
For validation, one need not rely on supporters of Trump. Even Mexicans who loathe Trump are conceding his diplomatic coup.
“Trump achieved his purpose,” said journalism professor Carlos Bravo Regidor. “He looked serene, firm, presidential.” Our “humiliation is now complete,” tweeted an anchorman at Televisa.
President Nieto’s invitation to Trump “was the biggest stupidity in the history of the Mexican presidency,” said academic Jesus Silva-Herzog.
Not since Gen. Winfield Scott arrived for a visit in 1847 have Mexican elites been this upset with an American.
Jorge Ramos of Univision almost required sedation.
When Trump got back to the States, he affirmed that Mexico will be paying for the wall, even if “they don’t know it yet.”
Indeed, back on American soil, in Phoenix, the Donald doubled down. Deportations will accelerate when he takes office, beginning with felons. Sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants will face U.S. sanctions. There will be no amnesty, no legalization, no path to citizenship for those who have broken into our country. All laws will be enforced.
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Trump’s stance in Mexico City and Phoenix reveals that there is no turning back. The die is cast. He is betting the election on his belief that the American people prefer his stands to Clinton’s call for amnesty.
A core principle enunciated by Trump in Phoenix appears to be a guiding light behind his immigration policy.
“Anyone who tells you that the core issue is the needs of those living here illegally has simply spent too much time Washington. … There is only one core issue in the immigration debate, and that issue is the well-being of the American people. … Nothing even comes a close second.”
The “well-being of the American people” may be the yardstick by which U.S. policies will be measured in a Trump presidency. This is also applicable to Trump’s stand on trade and foreign policy.
Do NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China, the South Korea deal and TPP advance the “well-being of the American people”? Or do they serve more the interests of foreign regimes and corporate elites?
Some $12 trillion in trade deficits since George H.W. Bush gives you the answer.
Which of the military interventions and foreign wars from Serbia to Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Yemen to Syria served the “well-being of the American people”?
Are the American people well served by commitments in perpetuity to 60- and 65-year-old treaties to wage war on Russia and China on behalf of scores of nations across Eurasia, most of which have been free riders on U.S. defense for decades?
Trump’s “core issue” might be called Americanism.
Whatever the outcome of this election, these concerns are not going away. For they have arisen out of a deeply dissatisfied and angry electorate that is alienated from the elites of both parties.
Indeed, alienation explains the endurance of Trump, despite his recent difficulties. Americans want change, and he alone offers it.
In the last two weeks, Trump has seen a slow rise in the polls, matched by a perceptible decline in support for Clinton. The latest Rasmussen poll now has Trump at 40, with Clinton slipping to 39.
This race is now Trump’s to win or lose. For he alone brings a fresh perspective to policies that have stood stagnant under both parties.
And Hillary Clinton? Whatever her attributes, she is uncharismatic, unexciting, greedy, wonkish, scripted and devious, an individual you can neither fully believe nor fully trust.
Which is why the country seems to be looking, again, to Trump, to show them that they will not be making a big mistake if they elect him.
If Donald Trump can continue to show America what he did in Mexico City, that he can be presidential, he may just become president.
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by CHARLES HURT Sep 1st 2016
Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize! Donald Trump — the modern day Paul Revere — rocked the political world when he jumped into the race last year warning about the invasion across America’s southern border that politicians in both parties had been desperately trying to cover up for years. Actually, Revere did not have it nearly so hard as Mr. Trump, who was branded a bigot and a racist and anti-American for simply arguing that America should enforce our duly enacted immigration laws and secure our border.
Mr. Trump stuck with the issue and rode it all the way to the Republican nomination.
Granted, Mr. Trump always does things his own way. Such as when he celebrated Cinco de Mayo by posing for picture eating a taco bowl from Trump Tower, giving a thumbs-up and pronouncing: “I love Hispanics!” Not exactly a campaign strategy taught at the Georgetown University for Politicians.
Call it Taco Bowl Diplomacy. But, apparently, it works!
Mr. Trump swooped into Mexico City on short notice Wednesday to meet with Mexico’s president, Enrique Pena Nieto, who has compared Mr. Trump to Adolf Hitler. Mr. Pena Nieto left the private meeting saying he is “certain” thatMr. Trump’s “genuine interest is to build a relationship that might lead us to provide both our societies better conditions.”
So, just like Hitler viewed Germany and Poland. Either that or Mr. Pena Nieto is just the latest victim of the lies and smears by the U.S. media and the dishonest political class.
Mr. Pena Nieto acknowledged the “fundamental right that each of the countries has to defend its border.” Talking like that Mr. Pena Nieto would get kicked out of the Democratic Party in the U.S.
He also repeatedly expressed his respect for the electoral process in America — a foreign concept to our own president who, even while traveling abroad, has denounced Mr. Trump’s qualifications and temperament to be president.
On specific substantive issues, Mr. Pena Nieto conceded every major point that Mr. Trump has built his entire political campaign on.
The North American Free Trade Agreement needs to be improved, he said. The border is porous and must to be secured. Criminals, guns, drugs, slaves and money pass back and forth with terrifying ease.
Mr. Pena Nieto went out of his way to complain about guns being smuggled across the border into Mexico, a humiliating shot at Mr. Obama and his former Attorney General Eric Holder who were caught in a scheme to ship illegally-obtained guns to drug dealers and kingpins in Mexico.
He also seemed to scold Mr. Obama’s open-border policy as a blinking neon “welcome” sign, drawing tens of thousands of people from all over the world into his country on their way into America.
“There is still a joint challenge including the increasing number of non-Mexicans who cross through our country in order to reach the United States, therein creating serious human crises,” he said.
Mr. Trump was cordial and statesmanlike — if blunt.
“No one wins in either country when human smugglers and drug traffickers prey on innocent people, when cartels commit acts of violence, when illegal weapons and cash flow from the United States into Mexico or when migrants from Central America make the dangerous trek — and it is very, very dangerous — into Mexico or the United States without legal authorization,” he said.
Of course, the only question reporters asked was about how offended Mexicans have been by Mr. Trump and does Mr. Trump want to say sorry. Oh, and will Mexico really pay for the wall?
As the question was being interpreted for Mr. Pena Nieto, Mr. Trump stepped in. “Well, I’ll start. Nothing like an easy question.”
Yes, they discussed the wall and their mutual desire to secure the border. No, he said, they did not talk about how Mexico will pay for it because it was a preliminary meeting. Sometimes best to leave thornier issues to later.
As for the insults?
“A lot of the things I said are very strong, but we have to be strong,” Mr. Trump explained. “We have to say what is happening. There is crime. As you know, there is a lot of crime and a lot of problems but I think together we will solve problems.”
Mr. Trump’s opponent, meanwhile, was back in the U.S. giving a lecture on “American exceptionalism.” It has been 270 days since she held a press conference. Oh, and Hillary Clinton was consoling her most trusted consigliere who has just left her dirtbag husband after he sexted a picture of his “private” part alongside his baby son, lying in bed.
I’m sorry which one of these candidates isn’t fit to be president?
by BRANDON DARBY & ILDEFONSO ORTIZ1 Sep 20163,824
The resources of Mexican transnational criminal organizations, also known as cartels, will be seized and used to fund Donald Trump’s border wall if he wins the 2016 presidential election. The wall, which several previously high-trafficked areas of the U.S.-Mexico border already have–whether an actual wall or a several tiered fencing and integrated technological system–has been a controversial issue to pundits and politicians who lack information on the subject. Trump’s idea to force the cartels to pay will likely manifest in the form of seizing their assets. It is likely that the U.S. State Department’s diplomatic shackles placed upon the FBI will be removed, as it is common knowledge that the State Department pressures the FBI to balance their law enforcement priorities with diplomatic concerns–a restriction that makes it difficult to properly address Mexican cartels when many of the elected leaders in Mexico are actually surrogates for those very cartels, as Breitbart Texas has reported ad nauseam.
Trump’s plan, as stated as early as March 2016, never included a wall on all 1,954 miles of land border. Trump committed to give the actual Border Patrol agents who patrol each of the nine sectors on the southwest border a seat at the policy table and to listen to where a wall is needed and where one is unneeded–a fact most pundits and journalists seemingly missed as they mistakenly discuss his allegedly changing positions on the matter.
Video: Did Donald Trump’s Mexican Gambit Pay Off? The news first broke on Lifezette; however, the focus on cartels was downplayed in their coverage as an idea that is being “mulled over.” Trump’s campaign is now led by Stephen Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News who stepped down temporarily to run the campaign. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project began under Bannon’s leadership and the issue is dear to his heart. The project allows clandestine citizen journalists in several Mexican states that are under direct control from Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel to have a platform to expose the evils of the transnational criminal groups and has a stated goal of warring with the criminals and exposing them for the purpose of ending them.
In addition to providing a voice to the courageous citizen journalists in Mexico, the project singles out cartel commanders one by one and focuses media attention on them until the Mexican authorities are forced to act and go after the criminal boss, thus picking them off one at a time. Bannon co-founded and presided over the project until he went to the Trump campaign and someone with his knowledge on the cartels leading the campaign makes it inevitable that Trump wouldn’t also have the Mexican cartels on his mind each day–along with the grief of the loved ones of the cartels’ countless victims.
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Trump website CRASHES Due to high volume of donors after #Immigration speech! @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/xpL69a5R8M
Now we know why the website crashed… The Trump campaign raised $5 million after his immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday.
Donald Trump’s campaign digital director Brad Parscale said that the campaign raised more than $5 million dollars worth of small online donations, under $200, in a single day, not counting donations sent by mail or phone.
The amount is reportedly a new daily record for the campaign.
Trump raised $37 million in July, with 64 percent coming from small-dollar donors. Hillary Clinton raised $63 million, with only 36 percent of her campaign’s donations totaling less than $200.
The poll showed 40 percent of likely voters supporting Trump and 39 percent backing Clinton for the week of Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. Clinton’s support has dropped steadily in the weekly tracking poll since Aug. 25, eliminating what had been a eight-point lead for her.
Trump’s gains came as Republican support for their party’s candidate jumped by six percentage points over the past two weeks, to about 78 percent. That is still below the 85 percent support Republican nominee Mitt Romney enjoyed in the summer of 2012, but the improvement helps explain Trump’s rise in the poll.
Mexican-born Latinos For Trump founder Marco Gutierrez tells MSNBC that mass immigration will change the U.S., saying if it’s not stopped, “you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.” Donald Trump’s speech outlining his ten point-plan for curbing illegal immigration and reshaping immigration policy meant “immigrant populations… are living on borrowed time,” MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid said at the beginning of the segment, failing to distinguish between illegal aliens and lawful migrant workers.
“You recall that autopsy in 2012, when Republicans spent a lot of money on research to decide they could not afford to do as poorly with Hispanic voters as Mitt Romney did,” Reid said. “Do you feel that Donald Trump, regardless of whether or not you are still on his team, is hurting the Republican Party’s ability to win the election and long-term to grow its numbers among Hispanics?”
Video: Trump Calls Illegal Immigration a Humanitarian Disaster “No, I don’t think so. My friends, we stand with Donald Trump,” Gutierrez said. “There [are] a lot of Hispanics that are in the closet because of the violent criticism of the Left. But they support Donald Trump.”
“But you think — put your friends aside,” Reid said. “Polling shows Donald Trump is doing even worse with Hispanics. This is before last night’s speech. He was only about 22 percent — Romney lost by five million votes at 27 percent, so forgetting your friends aside, it seems overall Hispanics are rejecting Donald Trump in huge numbers, can you refute that?”
“Yes, because the polls are done through blocs. You have born citizens here, and then you have me. I was born and raised in Mexico. My section is more against Donald Trump because of the relationship they have with the unlawful immigrant, illegal or undocumented, however you want to call it, but you have the natural-borns that more in the 40-something percent,” Gutierrez said.
Reid cut him off with a run-on sentence. “That’s actually no — I mean, you have to present some sort of a name of a poll, because there’s actually numbers or research to support what you just said you just gave us a number out of whole cloth… [T]here is no data to show that some 40 percent of Latinos are for Trump,” she snapped. “Sorry, it just doesn’t exist.”
It’s possible Gutierrez was referring to a Gravis Marketing poll for Breitbart News conducted in August that showed among registered Latino voters in New York, Trump’s support stood at 40 percent, but Reid did not let him finish speaking.
Reid later asked Gutierrez if the GOP was facing a “Barry Goldwater moment” for championing a patriotic immigration message.
“Donald Trump’s a genius at delivering a message, and yes, it was a tough message to deliver, but he did it in a way that’s showing us that we have a problem,” he said. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few, and different times, different problems.”
“We need to understand this is a different time and we’re having problems here,” he added.
“What problems?” asked Reid. “What problems are you talking about?”
“My culture is a very dominant culture. And it’s imposing, and it’s causing problems,” Gutierrez said firmly. “If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.”
Reid immediately cut him off again. “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Wait a minute… I don’t even know what that means and I’m almost afraid to ask.”
“I’ll tell you what that means. The Spanish never conquered Mexico. We are a culture that — we have a lot of good things that we bring to the United States. But we also have problems,” he continued. “And you guys are going nuts over something — [there are] ten steps to this problem, and you guys are already talking about the tenth step, and we haven’t even started walking this path.”
Trump had declared on Wednesday: “Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation — that is what it means to have laws and to have a country.”
Gutierrez’s remarks sparked widespread media hysteria, along with the humorous trending Twitter hashtag, #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner.
Ann Coulter, whose new book, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! is now available, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlowe on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to defend her contention from Thursday’s show that Donald Trump gave “the greatest speech of all time” after his visit to Mexico. “There is nothing, nothing, no quote that could be pulled out of context, that you would not have a majority of Americans agreeing with,” she contended. “I mean, it’s only like the editors at Gawker, or the zealots at MSNBC, who could find any problem with a single sentence there. It was phrased so beautifully.”
Coulter said:
And, as for specifics, for example, the idea that from now on, the immigration debate will take as its lodestar, “Is it good for Americans?” Who could disagree with that? Unless you were some kind of crazed zealot at The New York Times, where destroying the United States of America isn’t, as they say, a bug; it’s a feature. I mean, unless you just really hate the American people, and want to replace them.
“His speech was just shot through with that point,” she said, adding:
What I think has been driving a lot of sane people crazy, over the last few decades, is that when it comes to immigration – and nothing else – the entire solar system has to revolve around the poor illegal immigrant. It’s never around the poor American, whose job is taken, whose emergency rooms are overrun, whose kids can’t get jobs at McDonald’s because you have to be able to speak Spanish, whose kids’ schools don’t have money for the Christmas pageant this year because we’re spending all of our money on English-as-a-second-language classes.
She praised Trump for “the way he kept bringing it back to Americans.”
“The sanctuary cities, for example. Where was the sanctuary for Kate Steinle and the children and relatives of all those Angel Moms?” Coulter asked. “Oh, and let’s not forget, as I believe Breitbart pointed out yesterday, this is the first time the media has so much as shown the parents of children who have been horribly murdered by illegal aliens – only because Trump tricked them.”
She noted that in her book, she describes how “a lot of times Trump will do something, and I’ll think, at least at first, I’ll think, ‘I love him; wish he hadn’t done that.’ And I’ve learned to say, and tell my friends, ‘Just wait. Let’s see how this plays out. Let’s reconvene on this point next week.’”
“I think that’s what he did with this ‘softening,’” Coulter argued, saying the rash of stories about Trump “softening” his position on immigration had accomplished several major objectives:
For one thing, it showed to Trump, “Wow, what is the upside of this? All of my enemies now can also attack me for being a flip-flopper.” Which is what they did: “You see. Haha! We knew it all along: you can’t trust anything this guy says.” You had a week of that.
So whoever was pushing him into this on the campaign – you know, we’ve been reading about Roger Ailes, Sean Hannity, Giuliani, Chris Christie, whoever’s bright idea it was to appeal to soccer moms by taking back the idea that you’d be deporting anyone – I think that person will not be listened to anymore because the grassroots responded, and the grassroots responded thunderously.
Point two, and the most important point, is Trump tricked every cable news station into covering his speech live, and the entire speech. And finally, even through the Angel Moms, we don’t have CNN cutting away.
Coulter noted that while the media have been outwardly confident of a Clinton victory and “sneering at Trump’s chances,” they’ve been “hysterical” since his Mexico trip.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said, adding:
I think we’re up against Satanic forces. … They didn’t know what to say, and what was funny about watching some of the responses is, they’re giving completely contradictory responses. Even on a single network that sets the standard in zealotry and anti-Trump hysteria, MSNBC, you’ll get one hour on “it was awful, it was dark, it was Hitlerian, I’m going to cry.” And then the next hour will be, “He’s softening. Hahaha! He took you guys, took you for a ride.”
“They haven’t gotten together to decide what the lie will be that they will push to attack what Trump is doing,” Coulter heckled the press. “Will it be softening, or is he Hitler?”
She said she never really bought the line that Trump was “softening” on immigration – at least, not after she saw the full interview that kicked off the softening narrative.
“The night my book came out, I was going on Hardball, and they passed me just that paragraph – the quote from the Hannity show, using all of the Gang of Eight lingo,” she recalled, going on to say:
I didn’t think so, but still, that doesn’t mean that I’m not going to give it some constructive criticism because I don’t think saying things like that – it wasn’t so much that I thought he was softening, as that I thought he was being pushed into saying things that would please campaign consultants, and would not help him during the election. So he needed a little constructive criticism.
“Long before he ran for president – and this is an important point in In Trump We Trust – yeah, he made some mistakes here and there,” she conceded. “He’s not a politician. We like that about him. The one thing his life is shot through with is wanting to put Americans first and genuinely liking average workaday Americans, working-class Americans, patriotic Americans. He’s just a super-patriot.”
Coulter recalled Trump peppering the GOP with Twitter messages, warning that they were “committing suicide” and begging them to “think about the country” three years ago, when “Fox News and Marco Rubio were hysterically pushing amnesty in 2013.”
She said:
He does put America first, and simultaneously with that Hannity interview, where he was being pushed into it; he wasn’t the one coming up with those words. That’s what Hannity was asking about. Hannity was reverting to the Gang of Eight lingo, legerdemain, lies. It was more like that time Chris Matthews was badgering Trump to say there would be some form of punishment for a woman who has an abortion, and I thought Trump’s answer was great: “Yeah, there’s punishment for me if I double-park; give me a break here.” But still, it wasn’t like Trump held a press conference: “Women should be punished for having an abortion!” He was being pushed into it.
Marlow concluded the interview by asking Coulter what she thought of “Trump, the diplomat.”
“Oh, my gosh, that was amazing,” she replied. “When I got home that day, I tweeted out, I think he can skip the Phoenix speech, and just start planning his transition team. That was more what I was expecting from the convention.”
“I know everyone said it, but he did look presidential,” she continued. “He gets on a plane, flies straight down there. It reminds people he’s a billionaire because he’s a really good negotiator. Wouldn’t it be great to have this guy negotiating for us?”
Video—Trump speaks at black church in Detroit: "A lot of people don’t realize that Abraham Lincoln…was a Republican" https://t.co/gkbf70u8hB
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) September 3, 2016
The congregation was VERY HAPPY to have Donald Trump as a visitor.
Shot lots of video of dancing Trump at church in Detroit, will share some later. Crowd enthusiastic. pic.twitter.com/urJHj6N5mP
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 3, 2016
Donald Trump ended his 14 minute speech with a Bible verse.
I’d like to conclude with a passage from First John, Chapter 4: You know it! You see most groups I speak to don’t know that. But we know. If you want we can say it together. “No one has ever seen God but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
The audience gave him a standing ovation.
.@realDonaldTrump concludes remarks at African-American church in Detroit with Bible passage https://t.co/q9Gu8G8cMw https://t.co/voVbsYdSqL
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 3, 2016
Donald Trump joined Great Faith Ministries International, an African American church located in Detroit, on Saturday where he spoke to the community about the importance of faith helping to heal a divided nation.
“For centuries, the African American church has been the conscience of our country,” Trump told the congregation as he spoke briefly during the service.
The Republican nominee said African American churches have “lifted up the soul of our nation” and led the civil rights movement.
He said he wants leaders to help heal the nation by providing “a greater platform to the black churches and church goers.”
“I will always support your church — always — and defend your right to worship,” he added. “I hope my presence here will also help your voice to reach new audiences in our country and many of these audiences desperately need your spirit and your thought.”
Dr. Ben Carson joined Trump at the church.
“Today, I just want to let you know the I am here to listen to you and I am doing that,” Trump promised, adding that as a leader he wants to “step into the community and learn what is going on.”
“I’m here today to learn so we can together remedy injustice in any form and so we can also remedy economics so that the African American community can benefit economically thought jobs and income,” he added. “I believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time.”
He said he wants an America that ensures a right for everyone to a great education and to live in safety and peace.
Trump added that there are still “many wrongs that must be made right” in the African American community and that his prayer is that “the America of tomorrow will be one of unity.”
Prior to his brief remarks, Trump took photos with church goers, holding a baby.
The Republican nominee quoted the Bible during his speech, reading, “No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
“And that’s so true,” he added.
Bishop Wayne T. Jackson and his wife gave Trump a prayer shawl from Israel that Jackson had personally fasted and prayed over, wrapping it around Trump. “With this prayer shawl, whenever you’re flying in from coast to coast … there is an anointing is the power of God,” Jackson explained.
Jackson also gave Trump a Bible and a pin to wear for prayer and protection.
Trump put the pin on his suit and said, “I feel better already.”
Jackson interviewed the Republican nominee for roughly half an hour, which will be aired in a week on the Impact Network, an African American owned and operated Christian broadcast network.
Trump now has 45.3 percent support while Hillary Clinton has 42.3 percent.
The General that accompanied Trump to his security meeting this morning said it went very well. He said the security personnel doing the briefing were very pleased at the excellent questions and comments Trump made. They said the average American has no idea how much Trump knows about these matters and how intelligent he is.
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** Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton in the latest Reuters poll.
** Trump leads Hillary Clinton by three points in the latest LA Times USC Daybreak poll.
** Trump is tied with Hillary Clinton in the latest IBD-TIPP poll at 39 percent.
If you look at the Real Clear Polling Averages for this year’s presidential race, here is what it looks like today. Do you notice anything unusual? election 2016 presidential
Here’s a look at the polling from 4 years ago. real clear 2012
Do you notice the difference? Four years ago the undecided voters made up around 5 percent of the electorate. Everyone else had already made up their mind.
This year anywhere from 10 to 20 percent of voters SAY they have not yet settled on a candidate.
Hillary Clinton is a known quantity. Americans know she is a corrupt liar. In fact, “liar and dishonest” are the two most used words to describe Hillary.
The Democrat-media complex hates Trump and his supporters with a passion. Republican elites hate Trump and his supporters. Hillary even gave a gave a speech last week on how Trump supporters are racist KKK fans.
Do you really think the undecided voters are looking at Hillary? Unlikely.
This may be the best proof yet of an impending Trump landslide.
A handful of swing states—experts always mention at least five, and no more than eleven—will determine the winner of the presidential race, mainly concentrated in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southwest.
Polling numbers from two of those states seem to fit a larger trend over the past two weeks of improving chances for Donald Trump to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
An Emerson poll in Iowa has Trump up five points over Clinton, 44-39, in a sample of 600 likely voters. This brought the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls in the Hawkeye State to a +1 advantage for Trump, for the first time since the candidates held their respective conventions in mid-July.
Emerson also polled in Virginia and found Clinton with only a one-point lead over Trump, in a sample of 800 likely voters. The resulting RealClearPolitics average of +7.7 for Clinton is a significant departure from recent polls showing her with a double-digit advantage in the Old Dominion, which she has enjoyed since picking Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (who is also the state’s former governor) as her running mate.
The Iowa poll was conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 1 with a margin of error of 3.9 percent, and the Virginia poll was conducted Aug. 30-Sept. 1 with a margin of 3.4 percent. These were the first Emerson polls in those two battleground states in this election cycle.
The 2016 election affords the American people an urgently needed opportunity to make a long-overdue course correction in our national security posture and policy. As retired senior leaders of America’s military, we believe that such a change can only be made by someone who has not been deeply involved with, and substantially responsible for, the hollowing out of our military and the burgeoning threats facing our country around the world. For this reason, we support Donald Trump’s candidacy to be our next Commander-in-Chief. For the past eight years, America’s armed forces have been subjected to a series of illconsidered and debilitating budget cuts, policy choices and combat operations that have left the superb men and women in uniform less capable of performing their vital missions in the future than we require them to be. Simultaneously, enemies of this country have been emboldened, sensing weakness and irresolution in Washington and opportunities for aggression at our expense and that of other freedom-loving nations. In our professional judgment, the combined effect is potentially extremely perilous. That is especially the case if our government persists in the practices that have brought us to this present pass. For this reason, we support Donald Trump and his commitment to rebuild our military, to secure our borders, to defeat our Islamic supremacist adversaries and restore law and order domestically. We urge our fellow Americans to do the same. 1. General Burwell B. Bell III, US Army, Retired 2. General Alfred G. Hansen, US Air Force, Retired 3. Admiral Jerry Johnson, US Navy, Retired 4. General Crosbie “Butch” Saint, US Army, Retired 5. Lieutenant General William G. Boykin, US Army, Retired 6. Lieutenant General Marvin Covault, US Army, retired 7. Lieutenant General Gordon E, Fornell, US Air Force, Retired 8. Lieutenant General Harley Hughes, US Air Force, Retired 9. Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, US Air Force, Retired 10. Lieutenant General Timothy A. Kinnan, US Air Force, Retired 11. Lieutenant General Hugh G. Smith, US Army, Retired 12. Lieutenant General David J. Teal, US Air Force, Retired 13. Lieutenant General William E. Thurman, US Air Force, Retired 14. Vice Admiral Mike Bucchi, US Navy, Retired 15. Vice Admiral Edward Clexton, Jr. US Navy, Retired 16. Vice Admiral R.F. Schoultz, US Navy, Retired 17. Vice Admiral Donald Thompson, US Coast Gua
19. Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army, Retired 20. Major General John Bianchi, CSMR, Retired 21. Major General Henry D. Canterbury, US Air Force, Retired 22. Major General Jeffrey Cliver, US Air Force, Retired 23. Major General Tommy F. Crawford, US Air Force, Retired 24. Major General Felix Dupre, US Air Force, Retired 25. Major General Neil Eddins, US Air Force, Retired 26. Major General David W. Eidsaune, US Air Force, Retired 27. Major General William A. Gorton, US Air Force, Retired 28. Major General Kenneth Hagemann, US Air Force, Retired 29. Major General Gary L. Harrell, US Army, Retired 30. Major General Geoffrey Higginbothan, US Marine Corps, Retired 31. Major General John D. Logeman, Jr., US Air Force, Retired 32. Major General Homer S. Long, US Army, Retired 33. Major General Billy McCoy, US Air Force, Retired 34. Major General Robert Messerli, US Air Force, Retired 35. Major General John Miller, US Air Force, Retired 36. Major General Ray O’Mara, US Air Force, Retired 37. Major General George W.“Nordie” Norwood, US Air Force, Retired 38. Major General Robert W. Paret, US Air Force MC, Retired 39. Major General James W. Parker, US Army, Retired 40. Major General Richard Perraut, US Air Force, Retired 41. Major General Sidney Shachnow, US Army, Retired 42. Major General Mark Solo, US Air Force, Retired 43. Major General John Welde, US Air Force, Retired 44. Major General Kenneth W. Weir, US Marine Corps, Retired 45. Rear Admiral Phillip Anselmo, US Navy, Retired 46. Rear Admiral Thomas F. Brown III, US Navy, Retired 47. Rear Admiral Robert C. Crates, SC, US Navy, Retired 48. Rear Admiral Mimi Drew, US Navy, Retired 49. Rear Admiral Ernest Elliot, SC, US Navy, Retired 50. Rear Admiral James H. Flatley III, US Navy, Retired 51. Rear Admiral Byron Fuller, US Navy, Retired 52. Rear Admiral Dale Hagen, US Navy, Retired 53. Rear Admiral Charles F. Horne III US Navy, Retired 54. Rear Admiral Grady L. Jackson, US Navy, Retired 55. Rear Admiral J. Adrian Jackson, US Navy, Retired 56. Rear Admiral Frederick C. Johnson, US Navy, Retired 57. Rear Admiral Jack Kavanaugh, SC, US Navy, Retired 58. Rear Admiral Charles R.Kubic, US Navy, Retired 59. Rear Admiral Rich Landolt, US Navy, Retired 60. Rear Admiral William J. McDaniel, MD, US Navy, Retired 61. Rear Admiral E.S. McGinley II, US Navy, Retired
62. Rear Admiral Douglas M. Moore Jr. SC US Navy. Retired 63. Rear Admiral John A. Moriarty, US Navy, Retired 64. Rear Admiral David R. Morris, US Navy, Retired 65. Rear Admiral Ed Nelson, US Coast Guard, Retired 66. Rear Admiral Philip R. Olsen, US Navy, Retired 67. Rear Admiral Robert S. Owens, US Navy, Retired 68. Rear Admiral W.W. Pickavance, Jr., US Navy, Retired 69. Rear Admiral Leonard F. Picotte, US Navy, Retired 70. Rear Admiral Brian C. Prindle, US Navy, Retired 71. Rear Admiral William J. Ryan, US Navy, Retired 72. Rear Admiral William L. Schachte, Jr., US Navy JAGC, Retired 73. Rear Admiral William R. Schmidt, US Navy, Retired 74. Rear Admiral Hugh P. Scott, US Navy, MC, Retired 75. Rear Admiral Gregory Slavonic, US Navy, Retired 76. Rear Admiral Charles Williams, US Navy, Retired 77. Rear Admiral H. Denny Wisely, US Navy, Retired 78. Brigadier General Remo Butler, US Army, Retired 79. Brigadier General George P. Cole, Jr. US Air Force, Retired 80. Brigadier General Philip M. Drew, US Air Force, Retired 81. Brigadier General Jerome V. Foust, US Army, Retired 82. Brigadier General Thomas W. Honeywill, US Air Force, Retired 83. Brigadier General Charles Jones, US Air Force, Retired 84. Brigadier General Mike D. Jones, US Army, Retired 85. Brigadier General Thomas J. Lennon, US Air Force, Retired 86. Brigadier General Mark D. Scraba, US Army, Retired 87. Brigadier General Hugh B. Tant III, US Army, Retired 88. Brigadier General Robert F. Titus, US Air Force, Retired
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, dazzled in yet another speech in which he outperformed expectations here on Wednesday laying out a strategic vision for the United States under a Trump presidency when it comes to foreign and defense policy. The speech, which stunned media figures, pundits, and those throughout the political class, only seemed to get better as every line went by.
After an introduction from retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Trump opened the address by harkening back to a key theme of Ronald Reagan’s vision for the U.S. role on the world stage: Peace Through Strength.
“Today, I am here to talk about three crucial words that should be at the center of our foreign policy: Peace Through Strength,” Trump opened his remarks by saying.
Trump said that America can and should achieve a “stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground” with his proposals of a “new foreign policy focused on advancing America’s core national interests, promoting regional stability, and producing an easing of tensions in the world.”
“This will require rethinking the failed policies of the past,” Trump said. “We can make new friends, rebuild old alliances, and bring new allies into the fold.”
Trump noted how national security leaders are rallying around his campaign, and against the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, specifically citing the Tuesday letter from 88 retired U.S. generals and admirals endorsing him for president.
He noted these leaders “know both how to win – and how to avoid the endless wars we are caught in now” and called for a new vision of “realism” in the Middle East.
“In a Trump Administration, our actions in the Middle East will be tempered by realism,” Trump said. “The current strategy of toppling regimes, with no plan for what to do the day after, only produces power vacuums that are filled by terrorists. Gradual reform, not sudden and radical change, should be our guiding objective in that region.”
Trump called for alliances with any nation that wants to join the United States in “destroying” the Islamic State and “Radical Islamic terrorism” in general.
“We should work with any country that shares our goal of destroying ISIS and defeating Radical Islamic terrorism, and form new friendships and partnerships based on this mission,” Trump said. “We now have an Administration, and a former Secretary of State, who refuse to say Radical Islamic Terrorism.”
He then reiterated his plan to ask the generals in the U.S. military to “immediately” after he takes office, “present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.”
Perhaps most importantly, Trump used this address before the Union League here in Philadelphia to weave together a coherent string connecting all of his previous major policy addresses—on crime, national security, jobs and the economy, defeating radical Islamic terrorism, trade and immigration.
“This will require military warfare, but also cyber warfare, financial warfare, and ideological warfare – as I laid out in my speech on defeating Radical Islamic terrorism several weeks ago,” Trump said of his plan to destroy the Islamic State.
And he noted that he will not engage in an “apology tour” like President Barack Obama has—and Hillary Clinton would—but instead show the world how “proud” Americans are.
“Instead of an apology tour, I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world – just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War,” Trump said. “We will show the whole world how proud we are to be American.”
Trump also connected all of this with “immigration security,” referring back to his immigration policy speech in Phoenix last week.
“At the same time, immigration security is a vital part of our national security,” Trump said. “We only want to admit people to our country who will support our values and love our people.”
All of these connected, Trump said, are “the pillars of a sound national security strategy.”
From here, Trump ripped Hillary Clinton as “trigger-happy,” and “unstable.” He said:
Unlike my opponent, my foreign policy will emphasize diplomacy, not destruction. Hillary Clinton’s legacy in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has produced only turmoil and suffering. Her destructive policies have displaced millions of people, then she has invited the refugees into the West with no plan to screen them. Including Veteran healthcare costs, the price of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $6 trillion, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. Yet, after all this money spent and lives lost, Clinton’s policies as Secretary of State have left the Middle East in more disarray than ever before. Meanwhile, China has grown more aggressive, and North Korea more dangerous and belligerent. Russia has defied this Administration at every turn. Putin has no respect for President Obama or Hillary Clinton. Sometimes it has seemed like there wasn’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to invade, intervene or topple. She is trigger-happy and unstable when it comes to war.
Clinton’s “reckless” actions, Trump said, fit a pattern of conduct that is “simply disqualifying” and and render her “unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” He went on:
Hillary Clinton is just reckless – so reckless, in fact, she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could easily hack. Then Clinton’s team used a technology called bleachbit to acid wash her emails. They even took a hammer to some of her 13 phones, to cover her tracks and obstruct justice. These email records were destroyed after she received a subpoena to turn them over. In the FBI report, she claimed she couldn’t recall important information on 39 occasions. She can’t even remember whether she was trained in classified information, and said she didn’t even know the letter “C” means confidential. If she can’t remember such crucial events and information, she is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief. Her conduct is simply disqualifying. She talks about her experience, but Hillary Clinton’s only foreign policy experience is ‘failure.’ Everywhere she got involved, things got worse.
Trump, then, in systemic detail, shredded what he called “Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy legacy.” He said:
Let’s look back at the Middle East at the very beginning of 2009, before Hillary Clinton was sworn-in. Libya was stable. Syria was under control. Egypt was ruled by a secular President and an ally of the United States. Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. The group that would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished. Iran was being choked off by economic sanctions. Fast-forward to today. What have the decisions of Obama-Clinton produced? Libya is in ruins, our ambassador and three other brave Americans are dead, and ISIS has gained a new base of operations. Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. ISIS controls large portions of territory. A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States. And hundreds of thousands are dead. In Egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the Sinai desert, near the Suez Canal, one of the most essential waterways in the world. Iraq is in chaos, and ISIS is on the loose. ISIS has spread across the Middle East, and into the West. Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, is now flush with $150 billion dollars in cash released by the United States – plus another $1.7 billion dollars in cash ransom payments. In other words, our country was blackmailed and extorted into paying this unheard-of amount of money. Worst of all, the Nuclear deal puts Iran, the number one state sponsor of Radical Islamic terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons. This is Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy legacy.
After that, Trump noted how the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama foreign policy agenda has led to degradation of the United States military by grinding down the resources that the government spends on defense,and eliminating the size and might of the U.S. armed forces. Trump continued:
President Obama and Hillary Clinton have also overseen deep cuts in our military, which only invite more aggression from our adversaries. History shows that when America is not prepared is when the danger is greatest. We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military strength. Under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, defense spending is on track to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since the end of World War II. We currently have the smallest Army since 1940. The Navy is among the smallest it has been since 1915. And the Air Force is the smallest it has been since 1947. When Ronald Reagan left office, our Navy had 592 ships. When Barack Obama took office, it had 285 ships. Today, the Navy has just 276 ships. The average Air Force aircraft is 27 years-old. We have 2nd generation B-52 bombers – their fathers flew the same plane. Our Army has been shrinking rapidly, from 553,000 soldiers in 2009 to just 479,000 today. In 2009, our Marine Corps had 202,000 active Marines. Today, it’s just 182,000. Our ship count is below the minimum of 308 that the Navy says is needed to execute its current missions. President Obama plans to reduce the Army to 450,000 troops—which would hamstring our ability to defend the United States. It takes 22 years on average to field a major new weapons system. In 2010, the US spent $554 billion on non-war base defense spending. In the current year, we are spending $548 billion – a cut of 10% in real inflation-adjusted dollars. This reduction was done through what is known as the sequester, or automatic defense budget cuts. Under the budget agreement, defense took half of the cuts – even though it makes up only one-sixth of the budget.
To fix this problem, Trump said that as soon as he takes office he will work to end the sequester:
As soon as I take office, I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military. This will increase certainty in the defense community as to funding, and will allow military leaders to plan for our future defense needs. As part of removing the defense sequester, I will ask Congress to fully offset the costs of increased military spending. In the process, we will make government leaner and more responsive to the public. I will ask that savings be accomplished through common sense reforms that eliminate government waste and budget gimmicks – and that protect hard-earned benefits for Americans. Government-wide, improper government payments are estimated to exceed $135 billion per year, and the amount of unpaid taxes is estimated to be as high as $385 billion. We can also reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy through responsible workforce attrition – that is, when employees retire, they can be replaced by a smaller number of new employees. We can also stop funding programs that are not authorized in law. Congress spent $320 billion last year on 256 expired laws. Removing just 5 percent of that will reduce spending by almost $200 billion over 10 years. The military will not be exempt either – the military bureaucracy will have to be trimmed as well.
He will also, he said, put pressure on NATO allies to pay to increase their defense forces—and put pressure on other U.S. allies to pay for U.S. security they are currently provided. Trump said:
Early in my term, I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not doing right now. Only 5 NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting the minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense. Additionally, I will be respectfully asking countries such as Germany, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to pay more for the tremendous security we provide them.
Also, he will free up funding for “disposal additional revenues” by “unleashing American energy.”
“The Institute for Energy Research cites a ‘short-run’ figure of as much as $36 billion annually from increased energy production,” Trump said.
Trump said he will use such new revenue to rebuild America’s military might and increase the armed forces. He continued:
We will build an active Army of around 540,000, as the Army’s chief of staff has said he needs. We now have only 31 Brigade Combat Teams, or 490,000 troops, and only one-third of combat teams are considered combat-ready. We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies – we have 23 now. We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel – we have 276 ships now. And we will build an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft, which the Heritage Foundation has shown to be needed to execute current missions – we have 1,113 now.
And he called for a development of a new “state of the art missile defense system,” a policy priority that has been worse than ignored by Obama and Clinton. Trump said:
Under Obama-Clinton, our ballistic missile defense capability has been degraded at the very moment the US and its allies are facing a heightened missile threat from states like Iran and North Korea. As these potential adversaries grow their missile programs, US military facilities in Asia and the Middle East, as well as our allies, are increasingly in range, with the United States homeland also potentially threatened. We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense, starting with the Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these aging ships. We will start by modernizing our cruisers to provide the Ballistic Missile Defense capability our nation needs; this will cost around $220 million per modernization as we seek to modernize a significant portion of these 22 ships. As we expand our Navy toward the goal of 350 ships, we will also procure additional modern destroyers that are designed to handle the missile defense mission in the coming years.
Trump said all 50 states would be involved in the rebuilding of America’s military—calling it a “fifty-state effort”—and detailed how the U.S. will also increase the Pentagon’s “cyber capabilities” since Hillary Clinton “has taught us all how vulnerable we are to cyber hacking.” Trump said America must “enforce all classification rules, and enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.” Trump detailed how these efforts will create many new jobs, and those jobs should go to “young Americans”—including those who are struggling most in the inner cities like here in Philadelphia. He went on to say:
Hillary Clinton put her emails on a secret server to cover-up her pay-for-play scandals at the State Department. Nothing threatens the integrity of our Democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale. We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command, and recruit the best and brightest Americans. One of my first directives after taking office will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all relevant federal departments, to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities – in our power grid, our communications systems, and all vital infrastructure. I will then ask for a plan to immediately protect those vulnerabilities. At the same time, we will invest heavily in offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt our enemies, including terrorists who rely heavily on internet communications. These new investments in cybersecurity, and the modernization of our military, will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. America must be the world’s dominant technological powerhouse of the 21st century, and young Americans – including in our inner cities – should get these new jobs.
He also said he will do everything in his power to ensure that veterans—and current servicemen and women—have the best possible medical care and education.
“We must also ensure that we have the best medical care, education and support for our military service members and their families – both when they serve, and when they return to civilian life,” Trump said. “Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal.”
Then Trump delivered one of his best lines ever, speaking directly to veterans and military personnel: “To all those who have served this nation, I say: I will never let you down.”
“We will protect those who protect us,” Trump said. “And we will follow their example of unity. We will work across all racial and income lines to create One American Nation. Together, we will have one great American future. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag. America will be a prosperous, generous and inclusive society. We will discard the failed policies and division of the past, and embrace true American change to rebuild our economy, rebuild our inner cities, and rebuild our country.”
Trump wrapped the speech with two separate standing ovations, and by using a few variations of his campaign slogan.
“We Will Bring Back Our Jobs,” Trump said. “We Will Make America Strong Again. We Will Make America Safe Again. And We Will Make America Great Again.”
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Donald Trump is favored by one-in-four African Americans and one-in-three Latinos, according to a poll conducted by the Boston Herald and Franklin Pierce University. The poll of 1,025 likely voters was conducted by RKM Research for Franklin Pierce University and the Boston Herald, from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4.
Overall, Franklin Pierce gets good marks for its polls and the results are in the same ballpark as many other polls. For example, the poll showed Clinton ahead by three points, 44 percent to 41 percent. Eight percent of respondents back Gary Johnson.
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, dazzled in yet another speech in which he outperformed expectations here on Wednesday laying out a strategic vision for the United States under a Trump presidency when it comes to foreign and defense policy. The speech, which stunned media figures, pundits, and those throughout the political class, only seemed to get better as every line went by.
After an introduction from retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Trump opened the address by harkening back to a key theme of Ronald Reagan’s vision for the U.S. role on the world stage: Peace Through Strength.
“Today, I am here to talk about three crucial words that should be at the center of our foreign policy: Peace Through Strength,” Trump opened his remarks by saying.
Trump said that America can and should achieve a “stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground” with his proposals of a “new foreign policy focused on advancing America’s core national interests, promoting regional stability, and producing an easing of tensions in the world.”
“This will require rethinking the failed policies of the past,” Trump said. “We can make new friends, rebuild old alliances, and bring new allies into the fold.”
Trump noted how national security leaders are rallying around his campaign, and against the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, specifically citing the Tuesday letter from 88 retired U.S. generals and admirals endorsing him for president.
He noted these leaders “know both how to win – and how to avoid the endless wars we are caught in now” and called for a new vision of “realism” in the Middle East.
“In a Trump Administration, our actions in the Middle East will be tempered by realism,” Trump said. “The current strategy of toppling regimes, with no plan for what to do the day after, only produces power vacuums that are filled by terrorists. Gradual reform, not sudden and radical change, should be our guiding objective in that region.”
Trump called for alliances with any nation that wants to join the United States in “destroying” the Islamic State and “Radical Islamic terrorism” in general.
“We should work with any country that shares our goal of destroying ISIS and defeating Radical Islamic terrorism, and form new friendships and partnerships based on this mission,” Trump said. “We now have an Administration, and a former Secretary of State, who refuse to say Radical Islamic Terrorism.”
He then reiterated his plan to ask the generals in the U.S. military to “immediately” after he takes office, “present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.”
Perhaps most importantly, Trump used this address before the Union League here in Philadelphia to weave together a coherent string connecting all of his previous major policy addresses—on crime, national security, jobs and the economy, defeating radical Islamic terrorism, trade and immigration.
“This will require military warfare, but also cyber warfare, financial warfare, and ideological warfare – as I laid out in my speech on defeating Radical Islamic terrorism several weeks ago,” Trump said of his plan to destroy the Islamic State.
And he noted that he will not engage in an “apology tour” like President Barack Obama has—and Hillary Clinton would—but instead show the world how “proud” Americans are.
“Instead of an apology tour, I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world – just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War,” Trump said. “We will show the whole world how proud we are to be American.”
Trump also connected all of this with “immigration security,” referring back to his immigration policy speech in Phoenix last week.
“At the same time, immigration security is a vital part of our national security,” Trump said. “We only want to admit people to our country who will support our values and love our people.”
All of these connected, Trump said, are “the pillars of a sound national security strategy.”
From here, Trump ripped Hillary Clinton as “trigger-happy,” and “unstable.” He said:
Unlike my opponent, my foreign policy will emphasize diplomacy, not destruction. Hillary Clinton’s legacy in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has produced only turmoil and suffering. Her destructive policies have displaced millions of people, then she has invited the refugees into the West with no plan to screen them. Including Veteran healthcare costs, the price of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $6 trillion, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. Yet, after all this money spent and lives lost, Clinton’s policies as Secretary of State have left the Middle East in more disarray than ever before. Meanwhile, China has grown more aggressive, and North Korea more dangerous and belligerent. Russia has defied this Administration at every turn. Putin has no respect for President Obama or Hillary Clinton. Sometimes it has seemed like there wasn’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn’t want to invade, intervene or topple. She is trigger-happy and unstable when it comes to war.
Clinton’s “reckless” actions, Trump said, fit a pattern of conduct that is “simply disqualifying” and and render her “unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” He went on:
Hillary Clinton is just reckless – so reckless, in fact, she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could easily hack. Then Clinton’s team used a technology called bleachbit to acid wash her emails. They even took a hammer to some of her 13 phones, to cover her tracks and obstruct justice. These email records were destroyed after she received a subpoena to turn them over. In the FBI report, she claimed she couldn’t recall important information on 39 occasions. She can’t even remember whether she was trained in classified information, and said she didn’t even know the letter “C” means confidential. If she can’t remember such crucial events and information, she is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief. Her conduct is simply disqualifying. She talks about her experience, but Hillary Clinton’s only foreign policy experience is ‘failure.’ Everywhere she got involved, things got worse.
Trump, then, in systemic detail, shredded what he called “Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy legacy.” He said:
Let’s look back at the Middle East at the very beginning of 2009, before Hillary Clinton was sworn-in. Libya was stable. Syria was under control. Egypt was ruled by a secular President and an ally of the United States. Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. The group that would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished. Iran was being choked off by economic sanctions. Fast-forward to today. What have the decisions of Obama-Clinton produced? Libya is in ruins, our ambassador and three other brave Americans are dead, and ISIS has gained a new base of operations. Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. ISIS controls large portions of territory. A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States. And hundreds of thousands are dead. In Egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the Sinai desert, near the Suez Canal, one of the most essential waterways in the world. Iraq is in chaos, and ISIS is on the loose. ISIS has spread across the Middle East, and into the West. Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, is now flush with $150 billion dollars in cash released by the United States – plus another $1.7 billion dollars in cash ransom payments. In other words, our country was blackmailed and extorted into paying this unheard-of amount of money. Worst of all, the Nuclear deal puts Iran, the number one state sponsor of Radical Islamic terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons. This is Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy legacy.
After that, Trump noted how the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama foreign policy agenda has led to degradation of the United States military by grinding down the resources that the government spends on defense,and eliminating the size and might of the U.S. armed forces. Trump continued:
President Obama and Hillary Clinton have also overseen deep cuts in our military, which only invite more aggression from our adversaries. History shows that when America is not prepared is when the danger is greatest. We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military strength. Under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, defense spending is on track to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since the end of World War II. We currently have the smallest Army since 1940. The Navy is among the smallest it has been since 1915. And the Air Force is the smallest it has been since 1947. When Ronald Reagan left office, our Navy had 592 ships. When Barack Obama took office, it had 285 ships. Today, the Navy has just 276 ships. The average Air Force aircraft is 27 years-old. We have 2nd generation B-52 bombers – their fathers flew the same plane. Our Army has been shrinking rapidly, from 553,000 soldiers in 2009 to just 479,000 today. In 2009, our Marine Corps had 202,000 active Marines. Today, it’s just 182,000. Our ship count is below the minimum of 308 that the Navy says is needed to execute its current missions. President Obama plans to reduce the Army to 450,000 troops—which would hamstring our ability to defend the United States. It takes 22 years on average to field a major new weapons system. In 2010, the US spent $554 billion on non-war base defense spending. In the current year, we are spending $548 billion – a cut of 10% in real inflation-adjusted dollars. This reduction was done through what is known as the sequester, or automatic defense budget cuts. Under the budget agreement, defense took half of the cuts – even though it makes up only one-sixth of the budget.
To fix this problem, Trump said that as soon as he takes office he will work to end the sequester:
As soon as I take office, I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military. This will increase certainty in the defense community as to funding, and will allow military leaders to plan for our future defense needs. As part of removing the defense sequester, I will ask Congress to fully offset the costs of increased military spending. In the process, we will make government leaner and more responsive to the public. I will ask that savings be accomplished through common sense reforms that eliminate government waste and budget gimmicks – and that protect hard-earned benefits for Americans. Government-wide, improper government payments are estimated to exceed $135 billion per year, and the amount of unpaid taxes is estimated to be as high as $385 billion. We can also reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy through responsible workforce attrition – that is, when employees retire, they can be replaced by a smaller number of new employees. We can also stop funding programs that are not authorized in law. Congress spent $320 billion last year on 256 expired laws. Removing just 5 percent of that will reduce spending by almost $200 billion over 10 years. The military will not be exempt either – the military bureaucracy will have to be trimmed as well.
He will also, he said, put pressure on NATO allies to pay to increase their defense forces—and put pressure on other U.S. allies to pay for U.S. security they are currently provided. Trump said:
Early in my term, I will also be requesting that all NATO nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not doing right now. Only 5 NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting the minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense. Additionally, I will be respectfully asking countries such as Germany, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to pay more for the tremendous security we provide them.
Also, he will free up funding for “disposal additional revenues” by “unleashing American energy.”
“The Institute for Energy Research cites a ‘short-run’ figure of as much as $36 billion annually from increased energy production,” Trump said.
Trump said he will use such new revenue to rebuild America’s military might and increase the armed forces. He continued:
We will build an active Army of around 540,000, as the Army’s chief of staff has said he needs. We now have only 31 Brigade Combat Teams, or 490,000 troops, and only one-third of combat teams are considered combat-ready. We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies – we have 23 now. We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel – we have 276 ships now. And we will build an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft, which the Heritage Foundation has shown to be needed to execute current missions – we have 1,113 now.
And he called for a development of a new “state of the art missile defense system,” a policy priority that has been worse than ignored by Obama and Clinton. Trump said:
Under Obama-Clinton, our ballistic missile defense capability has been degraded at the very moment the US and its allies are facing a heightened missile threat from states like Iran and North Korea. As these potential adversaries grow their missile programs, US military facilities in Asia and the Middle East, as well as our allies, are increasingly in range, with the United States homeland also potentially threatened. We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense, starting with the Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The Obama-Clinton administration tried repeatedly to remove our cruisers from service, then refused to modernize these aging ships. We will start by modernizing our cruisers to provide the Ballistic Missile Defense capability our nation needs; this will cost around $220 million per modernization as we seek to modernize a significant portion of these 22 ships. As we expand our Navy toward the goal of 350 ships, we will also procure additional modern destroyers that are designed to handle the missile defense mission in the coming years.
Trump said all 50 states would be involved in the rebuilding of America’s military—calling it a “fifty-state effort”—and detailed how the U.S. will also increase the Pentagon’s “cyber capabilities” since Hillary Clinton “has taught us all how vulnerable we are to cyber hacking.” Trump said America must “enforce all classification rules, and enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.” Trump detailed how these efforts will create many new jobs, and those jobs should go to “young Americans”—including those who are struggling most in the inner cities like here in Philadelphia. He went on to say:
Hillary Clinton put her emails on a secret server to cover-up her pay-for-play scandals at the State Department. Nothing threatens the integrity of our Democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale. We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command, and recruit the best and brightest Americans. One of my first directives after taking office will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and all relevant federal departments, to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities – in our power grid, our communications systems, and all vital infrastructure. I will then ask for a plan to immediately protect those vulnerabilities. At the same time, we will invest heavily in offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt our enemies, including terrorists who rely heavily on internet communications. These new investments in cybersecurity, and the modernization of our military, will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. America must be the world’s dominant technological powerhouse of the 21st century, and young Americans – including in our inner cities – should get these new jobs.
He also said he will do everything in his power to ensure that veterans—and current servicemen and women—have the best possible medical care and education.
“We must also ensure that we have the best medical care, education and support for our military service members and their families – both when they serve, and when they return to civilian life,” Trump said. “Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal.”
Then Trump delivered one of his best lines ever, speaking directly to veterans and military personnel: “To all those who have served this nation, I say: I will never let you down.”
“We will protect those who protect us,” Trump said. “And we will follow their example of unity. We will work across all racial and income lines to create One American Nation. Together, we will have one great American future. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag. America will be a prosperous, generous and inclusive society. We will discard the failed policies and division of the past, and embrace true American change to rebuild our economy, rebuild our inner cities, and rebuild our country.”
Trump wrapped the speech with two separate standing ovations, and by using a few variations of his campaign slogan.
“We Will Bring Back Our Jobs,” Trump said. “We Will Make America Strong Again. We Will Make America Safe Again. And We Will Make America Great Again.”
NYT calls for moderator ‘fact check’ after Lauer sins by allowing candidates to speak
By Ashe Schow
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks while accepting the Conservative Party of New York State's nomination for president on September 7, 2016 in New York City. Following the event Trump will take part in a forum with Hillary Clinton, to answer questions on veterans issues and national security.
The biggest news to come out of Wednesday night’s candidate forum was not anything said by either Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton or Republican nominee Donald Trump.
No, the biggest story of the night was how NBC host Matt Lauer allegedly failed at his job as a journalist. Lauer, who has been a journalist since 1979, who has co-hosted The Today Show since 1997, who was live during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and who has won numerous Emmy awards for his coverage.
Suddenly, Lauer is garbage, no better—in the eyes of the mainstream media—than some basement-dwelling right-wing blogger.
His sin? He allowed Trump to speak during the candidate forum, and didn’t press the Republican presidential nominee on his answers to the liking of the liberal media. This morning, I detailed the extent of the hate being spewed against Lauer by his colleagues in the mainstream media.
And it’s not letting up. The New York Times editorial board wrote on Friday that moderators should do more than ask questions and let candidates answer—they should engage in rigorous (probably NYT-approved) fact checking.
The Post is mad at The Times, and everyone has decided that Lauer is the problem.
“There will be many issues to explore at the three presidential debates,” the board wrote. “For the sake of the nation, the moderators need to be fully prepared to challenge the candidates, so voters can have a clear picture of how they will lead.”
The editorial board breathlessly praised Clinton’s performance, and her “firm understanding of the complex issues facing the country.” Yet it derided Lauer for focusing so much attention on her email scandal (which the NYT broke). The mainstream media wants Clinton’s email story to go away, clearly.
Also on Friday, The Washington Post editorial board wrote an article titled: “The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control.” The crux of their argument is that the email scandal—in which Clinton either purposefully or incompetently mishandled classified information, making it likely U.S. secrets were hacked by foreign governments—is much ado about nothing.
Clearly, the mainstream media is panicking about Clinton’s drop in the polls. They’re lashing out at each other. The Post is mad at The Times, and everyone has decided that Lauer is the problem. Lauer’s own employers are calling his performance a “disaster.”
It seems obvious they’re all just upset that Trump hasn’t said or done anything to take the heat off of Clinton’s two weeks of bad news coverage. Previously, whenever bad news broke for Clinton, Trump was there to say or do something outrageous that would suck up attention and allow Clinton to skate scrutiny. That has changed since Kellyanne Conway became campaign manager, Steve Bannon of Breitbart News became campaign CEO, and Jamestown Associates (full disclosure: a group I am collaborating with on a documentary) took over communications.
Desperate to hold up their historically terrible candidate (second only to Trump himself), the media is now using Lauer as a scapegoat and sending a warning to debate moderators that if they don’t step in and do everything they can to sink Trump’s candidacy, they will be pariahs in their profession.
But we saw the disasters that ensue when journalists step in to help a particular candidate. In 2012, Candy Crowley helped President Obama during a debate against Mitt Romney. Romney said it took Obama two weeks to call the Benghazi, Libya attacks an “act of terror.” Obama said he called them that the next day. Crowley stepped in to say that Obama was correct—but the moment was debated in the following days.
Moderators have enough bias problems already. Depending on what questions they ask to what candidates, their biases show. If they’re now required to fact check candidates, there will be an even bigger problem. How many debate moderators are going to fact check Clinton on her many, many email lies versus how many would fact check Trump on his statements?
Let the fact checkers do the fact checking. Keep the moderators moderating.
Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, the publisher of Observer Media.
Donald Trump accused the media of mocking Christians and vowed to be a champion for religious liberty at a gathering of social conservatives in Washington on Friday.?? Speaking at the Values Voter Summit, the GOP presidential nominee received several standing ovations from the packed ballroom of Christian conservatives. Trump has at times struggled to convince social conservatives that he can be a trusted advocate for the causes that are important to them, but many have come around as they consider the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency. On Friday, Trump thrilled the crowd with a speech that flashed an increased familiarity with the language Christians use and the issues that are most important to them. Trump focused heavily on school choice, religious liberty, the Supreme Court and the threat of terrorism — all of which are among the top issues for the social conservatives at the yearly conference. And he hit the social conservative sweet spot in bemoaning how culture, aided by the liberal media, has turned away from traditional values. “Our media culture often mocks and demeans people of faith,” Trump said. “All the time, I hear from concerned parents how much harder it is for Christian families to raise their children in today’s media environment. Your values of love, charity and faith built this nation. So how can it be that our media treats people of faith so poorly?” “One of the reasons is that our politicians have abandoned you to a large extent, and Hillary Clinton you can forget about her,” he said. The crowd erupted, with one conference-goer shouting: “Put her in jail! Several of the early speakers at the conference — Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) among them – expressed ambivalence toward Trump, while acknowledging that he is still the best choice between the two major-party nominees. “I would like to tell you that one day we’ll have the perfect candidate to lead this country, but I don’t know what to tell you, I don’t think it will happen anytime soon,” Scott said. “But this year our election, it matters and it’s a binary choice for me,” he continued. “It’s either you vote for the policies to continue that have been in place … or you can vote for hope, for an alternative, you can vote, to make America great again.” That was the theme that emerged throughout the day, as conservatives warned that a Clinton presidency would be death blow for social conservatives. There is tremendous anxiety among Christians that Clinton will tap ultra-liberal Supreme Court justices who will infringe on their right to freely practice their faith. Trump on Friday won big applause for vowing to repeal The Johnson Amendment, which prohibits churches and other tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates. Trump left his script to tell the story of how frustrated he was when asking for the endorsements from a group of Christian leaders that gathered to meet with in New York City earlier this year, only to find out they were prohibited from doing so. “The first thing we have to do is give our churches their voice back,” Trump said. “The Johnson Amendment has blocked our pastors from speaking their minds from their own pulpit. If they want to talk about Christianity, if they want to preach or talk about politics, they’re unable to do so, they take a tremendous risk that they’ll lose their of their tax-exempt status.” Trump also warned that Clinton does not understand the threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), casting the threat from the terror group as one of particular urgency to Christians. “ISIS is hunting down and exterminating what it calls the nation of the cross,” Trump said. “ISIS is carrying out a genocide against Christians in the Middle East and we cannot let this evil continue. ISIS must be destroyed.” And he basked in the plaudits he’s received from conservatives for releasing a slate of conservative Supreme Court justices he’d appoint as president. “Hillary Clinton has refused to provide such a list, because she knows the extremist judges she would pick would be rejected by the overwhelming majority of the American public,” Trump said. “Clinton’s judicial picks would allow her to completely takeover American healthcare, the American economy, and Americans’ religious liberty.” It was a far more self-assured appearance for Trump than in 2015, when he wielded the Bible he said his mother gave him as a child and talked about the importance of saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays.” Trump left the stage to a standing ovation and headed for a rally in Florida later this evening.
by JEFF POOR9 Sep 20161,371
PENSACOLA, FL – On Friday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump flexed his political muscle by drawing one of his largest crowds since securing his party’s nomination in the pivotal battleground state of Florida. In what has traditionally been a very Republican-voting region of the state, Trump backed up his January capacity appearance with another strong showing. It was evident early on, as thousands lined up to get into the Pensacola Bay Center three hours before the rally began to see the presidential hopeful.
Thousands lined up to get into Trump's Pensacola, FL rally hours before it kicked off Thousands lined up to get into Trump’s Pensacola, FL rally hours before it kicked off
Trump hammered the usual planks of his campaign stump speech – trade, national defense, immigration, and the flaws of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
He drew perhaps his biggest applause when he told the crowd what he would do to Iranian boats that threatened U.S. ships.
“With Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water,” he proclaimed.
In taking aim at his opponent Hillary Clinton, Trump described her ability to avoid prosecution for her use of a private email server while secretary of state as her “single greatest achievement.”
He went on to speculate Clinton could get away with much more and avoid prosecution.
“She could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching, right smack in the middle of the heart, and she wouldn’t be prosecuted, OK?” he said. “That is what’s happened to our country.”
Those remarks led to the crowd chanting “lock her up,” to which Trump said he had something else in mind for his opponent.
“We’re going to do better than lock her up,” he said. “We’re going to win on November 8.”
Trump also vowed to have a 350-ship navy, which could be seen as welcome news for the region that has a strong naval presence. Pensacola is home to several U.S. Navy installations and the famed Blue Angels, which is the flight demonstration squadron of the Navy.
Among those in attendance to support Trump were both the Republican nominees for Florida’s first and second congressional districts, Florida State Rep. Matt Gaetz and Dr. Neal Dunn. Both Gaetz and Dunn are heavy favorites to win their bids for each of those open seats.
Others there to show support for Trump were Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), the outgoing member of Congress for Pensacola, and Trump advisers Gen. Michael Flynn and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The event was not without protesters. Although it was late in the rally, a handful protesters managed to interrupt Trump’s speech, but they were escorted out by security and followed a group of people sporting “Bikers for Trump” T-shirts.
While Trump will likely dominate in Florida’s dark-red GOP panhandle region, his appearance in Pensacola could prove as an important step in getting out the vote.
Although Pensacola and other cities in this region of the state lag behind the more populous parts of Florida that include Orlando, Tampa, and Miami, a stronger-than-usual turnout by Republican voters would be a feather in the cap for a campaign that is in a dead-heat with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for the state, according to polling.
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY9 Sep 201653
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told the Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. on Friday, “On every single level, if you look at the agenda that Donald Trump has put forward, it’s been one that I — as a constitutional conservative, as a believer in Jesus Christ — I cannot only easily embrace, but readily embrace.” “In fact,” Bachmann continued, “people have said, when you look at Donald Trump and you look at Hillary Clinton, there isn’t — and you look at these parties — there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the candidates.”
“I’m here to tell you, there isn’t a dime’s worth of similarity between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,” she said, to thunderous applause from the audience.
“What is important to me,” she told the audience, “is to let the most important voting block in the United States get a message.” That voting block “is believers in Jesus Christ.
“The believing community across the United States, statistically, will be the voting block that chooses who the next President of the United States is,” Bachmann asserted.
Do you realize the level of power and influence that All-Mighty God has laid into the hands of those who call on his name?” she asked:
We have a powerful opportunity, and one thing that we need to keep in mind is a sense of urgency. People have gone through this whole long process. Don’t you wish elections were six weeks long? I do. Three and a half years is kind of a long time. But what we recognize is that this year, 2016, is like no other year we have had before because we have never seen the level of American decline that we have in the last seven and a half years.
“In all likelihood,” Bachmann continued, “the United States of America may not survive another eight-year dilemma of tail-spin American decline.”
The choice for America in 2016, Bachmann said, is binary. Voters must pick one of the two major party candidates to lead the country:
There will be two candidates this fall. Every four years there’s always a third-party candidate or a fourth-party candidate that comes into play in these elections. But if you look at American history, it always comes down to two — count them, one – two — candidates, and it’s going to be one of the one – two candidates. This year is no different.
“It will either be Donald Trump, or it will be Hillary Clinton. One of the two,” Bachmann said.
Bachmann then specifically explained why, in her view, Hillary Clinton is not fit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.
“I served with Hillary Clinton. I was on the Intelligence Committee when the Benghazi tragedy came down, and I saw how Mrs. Clinton completely flunked her test as Commander-in-Chief,” Bachmann said.
“Just Benghazi alone is sufficient reason to reject her as the next President of the United States,” she added.
“Why?” she asked, then she offered these details on her bill of indictment:
We had literally hundreds of requests for increased security [at Benghazi]. She slammed the door.
When the Brits, the Canadians, the Red Cross were abandoning Benghazi, she kept our people there. And not only did she not fulfill the security requests, she pulled back security supports that we had in place. During the Benghazi attack, for the 13 hours when she should have been in the situation room, for 13 hours when we had a drone overhead watching the real-time battle unfold, she should have done what every Secretary of State in American history did, and that’s call in a military response to save people who were being massacred on the ground.
“She did not do that,” Bachmann said of former Secretary of State Clinton.
“She did not make that request,” she continued.
“Flunked, failure. You cannot be Commander-in-Chief and leave Americans on an active battlefield:
And we know immediately she knew this was a terrorist attack, but yet she told the people that she really trusts, like her daughter, that this was a terrorist attack, but for the families of the dead, she told them a lie. She persisted [in saying] that it was some fake, phony internet video because, of course, under no circumstances can we ever insult Islam. That’s Hillary Clinton.
“So you see, there’s a compare and contrast [between Trump and Clinton] like you can’t believe,” Bachmann said.
Bachmann then criticized Hillary Clinton’s immigration policies.
“If Hillary Clinton comes in as the President of the United States, her first act will be to ensure her re-election, and the way to do that will be to grant unconstitutional illegal amnesty for millions of people who are in the United States illegally so that she can turn them into voters for her four years later,” she said.
“It isn’t that we are anti-immigrant,” Bachmann added.
“I’m not; I married the son of an immigrant. Probably most of you have very strong immigrant connections. We are not against [immigrants]. We need immigrants. But you must follow the rule of law,” she said.
Bachmann also blasted the Obama administration for abandoning the rule of law.
“The greatest casualty on the battlefield of Barack Obama’s administration has been the exaltation of lawlessness in the United States. That is Barack Obama’s legacy,” she said, adding:
Think of that. Lawlessness in the United States.
Does anyone for a moment think that Hillary Clinton will revert to upholding the law if she is President of the United States? It is not going to happen.
In contrast, “Donald Trump will stand as a law and order president,” she said.
Bachmann closed with a flourish, attacking those in Hollywood who say, “if Donald Trump is elected, they will leave the country”:
That’s what Hollywood says. Well, it’s easy for them to say that, because you see, they love socialism. They love centralized planners. They’ve got an entire world to choose from of socialist nations and central planners.
What I ask you is this: Where do we go? Those of us who love constitutional republics. Last time I looked, I think we’re it.
Where are we supposed to go? So, if Hillary wins, what’s our lot?
I think we know what’s going to happen in the Department of Justice… the Department of Injustice.
“We have never before seen the level of politicization of federal agencies as we have under Barack Obama,” Bachmann added.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump called for the roughly 1,500 people who gathered at the Values Voter Summit to help unite the divided nation.
“You have to get out and vote!” Trump told the ballroom filled with faith motivated voters, suggesting they didn’t get out and vote in the 2012 presidential election. “If you do, we’re going to win by a lot.”
He thanked evangelicals for supporting him during the GOP primary.
“It will be our faith in God and his teachings, in each other, that will lead us back to unity,” the Republican nominee stated while speaking at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. “It’s that spirit of giving that we will need…to rebuild this country.”
The New Yorker said that the “media culture” in this country “often mocks and demeans people of faith.”
“All the time, I hear from concerned parents how much harder it is for Christian families to raise their children in today’s media environment.Your values of love, charity and faith built this nation. So how can it be that our media treats people of faith so poorly?” Trump questioned, adding, “One of the reasons is that our politicians have abandoned you.”
“So let me state this up front: in a Trump Administration, our Christian heritage will be cherished, protected and defended – and that includes your religious liberty,” he vowed.
Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight introduced Trump at the summit, slamming his rival Hillary Clinton.
“I feel there is a dark cloud over the country now and we are all witness to Hillary Clinton’s lies and corruption,” Voight stated before Trump joined him on stage. “We are witness to President Obama covering every false move that she makes and making them appear right.”
“My heart aches watching Donald Trump day after day…how can anyone doubt his sincerity?” Voight questioned, adding that if Trump becomes president the dark cloud that is hovering over the country will be lifted.
Donald Trump is up three points on Crooked Hillay in the lastes Suffolk University poll. But the news is even worse for poor Hillary — The Suffolk people oversampled Democrats by 9 points.
A Suffolk University “non-media” poll released today shows exceptionally good news for candidate Donald Trump in the quest to overcome the rigged system. Unlike most media funded polls, the Suffolk poll is very extensive and provides full disclosure on all aspects of the construct allowing for comprehensive research, analysis and evaluation. The general top line result shows Donald Trump winning with 44%, and Hillary Clinton 41%. However, the fully disclosed methodology provides an even greater level of optimism. Here’s why:
This survey of 500 likely North Carolina general election voters was conducted between September 5 and September 7, 2016, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults who indicated they were likely to vote in the November 2016 general election for president. Each area’s quota and demographic information — including race and age — was determined from previous like elections (link)
We have already statistically quantified the significant variances from 2012 to 2016. Suffolk relying on baselines from ’08 and ’12 presidential models means they are under evaluating the ’16 Trump enthusiasm and Trump registration gap.
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Who would you vote for? We ask voters what the chance is that they will vote for Trump, Clinton or someone else, using a 0-100 scale. The overall level of support for each candidate reflects the weighted average of those responses.
Hillary Clinton 42.0% Donald Trump 46.7% Area of uncertainty* Based on 2,550 respondents As of Sep. 14, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have gained ground on Democrats in registering voters in three battleground states and kept their razor-thin advantage in Iowa — encouraging news for Donald Trump eight weeks before Election Day.
Republicans added hundreds of thousands of voters to the rolls since 2012 in states including Florida and Arizona, and narrowed the gap in North Carolina, according to data compiled by The Associated Press. In Iowa, Republicans prevented Democrats from surpassing them, aided by a court ruling upholding a ban on voting by ex-felons, who often register as Democrats.
As Election Day approaches, voter registration drives are in full swing.
Hillary Clinton's campaign is staging registration rallies and appealing in particular to non-whites and young people, who are more likely to vote early — if they vote at all. Trump is relying mostly on a base of white voters, urging supporters to be vigilant for voter fraud and "rigging."
"The Clinton campaign cannot come close to our output," said Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee's chief strategist, in a campaign memorandum Monday.
The latest registration numbers aren't an assurance of new voters for Trump. Some changes reflect those who have died and been removed from the list, while others are inactive, not having voted in recent elections. In Florida, newly registered Hispanics are turning against the Republican nominee, stung by his anti-immigrant rhetoric. And Democrats historically have done well in signing up new voters in the final stretch.
But the figures, when available, offer important clues as to how each party stands.
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IOWA
Iowa is a bright spot for Trump among battleground states, with Republicans now holding an edge of 19,000 total registered voters over Democrats, 691,000 to 672,000. While independents are the most numerous at 755,000, much of the state's Republican establishment has rallied around Trump. A state court in June upheld a ban on voting for an estimated 20,000 ex-felons, many of them African-American.
The race is "about even" and "very close," said Gov. Terry Branstad in a recent AP interview. In the run-up to the state's early voting, which begins Sept. 29, the Trump campaign struggled initially in its ground game, leading Branstad to offer advice to the New York billionaire on how to get a leg up: TV advertising, appealing to the state's farmers.
Branstad's son, Eric, is running Trump's campaign in Iowa.
Some groups have been actively mobilizing, which is likely to benefit Democrats. About 20,000 college students since April have signed commitments to register and vote, according to NextGen Climate, a group seeking to combat climate change. Because Iowa offers same-day registration, those numbers won't be reflected until next month if they follow through.
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FLORIDA
Both campaigns have heavily targeted Florida, but Democrats have seen their advantage shrink to 258,000 active voters — down from 535,000 in 2012. Overall, Democrats declined to 4.69 million compared to a 4 percent rise for Republicans to 4.4 million, driven by Republican gains among white voters. Registered "no party" independents jumped 13 percent to 2.9 million.
The state imposed voter restrictions in 2011, including cuts to voter registration and early voting, that have since been softened.
But the picture remains murky.
The Republican advantage is primarily due to declines among previous Democratic voters — deaths, moves out of state and voters removed after being inactive for long periods, as well as switches to the Republican Party.
Democrats are registering more new voters than Republicans. Nearly half of all first-time voters registered since 2013 were non-white, many of them Hispanic.
Since January, of the 121,000 newly registered Hispanics, 42 percent are Democrats and 41 percent are "no party," compared to 16 percent for Republicans. It's a shift from the Jan. 1, 2013 to Aug. 1, 2016 period, when newly registered Hispanics were most likely to pick "no party." Before 2013, Hispanics had more frequently opted to register as Republican, with 39.5 percent of them Democrats, 30.5 percent "no party" and 28.4 percent Republicans.
"There's little question that the rise in Democratic registration of Hispanics in Florida is a reaction to the rise of Donald Trump," said Daniel Smith, a University of Florida professor who analyzes trends.
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NORTH CAROLINA
Democrats hold a clear registration advantage in North Carolina, but the gap has narrowed.
A Republican-controlled legislature in 2013 imposed a voter ID law and curtailed early voting and registration. But a federal appeals court in July invalidated the law as discriminatory against blacks, who are more likely to vote before Election Day.
Democrats hold a lead of about 645,000 voters. That's down from an advantage of 818,000 in 2012.
Despite a registration deficit, Republicans have been successful with voter turnout, currently holding the governorship and both Senate seats. Obama lost the state by 92,000 votes to Mitt Romney.
Election officials predict high overall turnout, spurring an appearance by Clinton in Charlotte last week.
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WEST
In the diversifying West, Democrats regained their edge in Colorado, but face challenges in Nevada and Arizona.
Boosted by rapid Latino growth, Colorado saw an increase in registered Democrats since 2012, compared to a 1.5 percent decline for Republicans. That allowed Colorado Democrats to surpass Republicans earlier this year for the first time in more than 20 years. For 2016, the state will conduct all-mail balloting, believed to slightly favor Democrats.
In Nevada, where Trump is competing hard, Democrats maintained their advantage, but Republicans have narrowed the gap.
And in Arizona, traditionally a Republican state, the picture was mixed. Republicans grew at a faster pace, but the biggest jump was among independents, to 1.4 million. Republicans hold a registration edge of about 159,000, although an influx of Hispanic voters and third-party interest have given Democrats hope.
The state has been receiving national attention with a recent hack of voter registration records.
The Homeland Security Department has suggested federal involvement to protect election integrity. But some conservatives oppose that, citing a risk of Democratic "rigging." For 2016, Arizona placed new limits on mail-in ballot collection, which Democrats are challenging in court as restrictive.
Donald Trump's lead widens in USC/L.A. Times tracking poll, which points to likely turnout as key shift.
CBS/NYT Poll: Donald Trump Tied With Hillary Clinton
A new poll released by CBS News and the New York Times shows that Donald Trump is now tied with Hillary Clinton at 42 percent among likely voters in a four way race.
Eight percent showed support for Gary Johnson and four percent are voting for Jill Stein.
Trump is leading Clinton by five points among independent voters, according to the polls. Thirty-nine percent of independents featured in the poll said they supported Trump while only 34 percent favored Clinton.
Trump is also leading Clinton in enthusiasm. Forty-five percent of Trump supporters describe themselves as very enthusiastic about voting, compared to only 36 percent of enthusiastic Clinton supporters.
This poll was conducted by telephone September 9-13, 2016 among a random sample of 1,753 adults nationwide, including 1,433 registered voters.
by ADELLE NAZARIAN14 Sep 20161,647
The Los Angeles Times paid a visit to Donald Trump’s Southern California headquarters in Long Beach on Monday and was stunned by the diversity of volunteers who are committed to seeing him win the Golden State and the presidency. “It was as if the whole thing had been staged, in Cambodia Town, no less, to belie the notion that Trump’s appeal is largely limited to older white males,” the Times‘s Steve Lopez wrote. In Long Beach, one of America’s most diverse cities, that same diversity was reflected in Trump’s supporters at his Southern California headquarters.
Lopez spoke with a woman and millennials of Filipino descent, a Mexican-American, and a Jewish man, and saw the “names of volunteers from the African-American, Hispanic and Asian communities” written on blackboards adorning the names of volunteers. He noted that “two middle-aged white people [also] joined the party.”
Trump’s grand opening for his headquarters took place this past Saturday, and Breitbart News was there to cover it. As Lopez was told, there were hundreds of people there over the course of the opening; many of them were able to enjoy a performance that was put on by dancers from the Khmer Arts Cultural Center, known as a traditional Cambodian “blessing dance;” something Lopez wrote he would have paid to see.
Lopez wrote that an unnamed Mexican-American Trump volunteer told him that “there are too many illegals here… and they dirty the place up and they take jobs and do things hey shouldn’t.” Lopez noted that once he found out he was with the Times, the man said “the only thing the Times is any good for is to wrap fish in it,” before walking away.
A white male Trump supporter who was also present told the Times that at although one point he “wanted to strangle” Trump, he changed his mind when he saw that Trump “had received Christ.”
Gary Fultheim, the Jewish man who is also part-owner of the building that Trump’s HQ is located in, reportedly said one of the main reasons he is voting Trump for president is because he believes Trump will do a better job of protecting Israel from Iran than the Democrats will.
Monmouth reported:
Donald Trump now has an 8 point lead over Hillary Clinton in the battle for Iowa’s electoral votes, according to the Monmouth University Poll . He held a slimmer 2 point edge in July. In the race for U.S. Senate, incumbent Chuck Grassley maintains a double digit advantage over Democratic challenger Patty Judge.
Among Iowa voters likely to participate in November’s presidential election, 45% currently support Trump and 37% back Clinton. Another 8% intend to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson, 2% say they will support Green Party candidate Jill Stein, 2% say they will vote for another candidate, and 6% are undecided. Trump’s current standing is similar to his 44% share two months ago, but Clinton has lost support since July when she had a 42% vote share.
Monmouth weighted the poll based on US Census information:
The final sample is weighted for age, gender, race and partisanship based on voter list and U.S. Census information. Data collection support provided by Braun Research (field), Aristotle voter list sample), and SSI (RDD sample). For results based on this sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling has a maximum margin of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points (unadjusted for sample design). Sampling error can be larger for sub-groups (see table below). In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into thefindings of opinion polls.
DEMOGRAPHICS (weighted) Self-Reported 29% Republican 47% Independent 24% Democrat
BOSTON, MA – In the first national poll conducted by Emerson College during this general election season, the presidential race is looking like a dead heat, with Donald Trump edging out Hillary Clinton 43% to 41%, well within the poll’s 3.4% margin of error (MOE). Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson holds 9% of the popular vote, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein gets 2%.
Eight in 10 (81%) of voters surveyed nationally were aware that Clinton was recently diagnosed with pneumonia, a revelation that appears to be hurting her with some voters.
In four state-level polls released at the same time as the national poll, Trump leads by 4 points in Colorado (42% to 38%), 6 points in Georgia (45% to 39%), 13 points in Missouri (47% to 34%) and has a blowout-level lead in Arkansas, 57% to 29%.
U.S. Senate races in three of the four states polled show the incumbents with a solid lead over their challengers. In Arkansas, GOP Senator John Boozman has a 14-point edge over Democrat Conner Eldridge, 44% to 30%. Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson leads Jim Barksdale 48% to 32%, and Colorado’s Democratic incumbent, Michael Bennet is running 7 points ahead of Darryl Glenn, 46% to 39%. Missouri is the exception, with Democrat Jason Kander holding a 2-point edge over GOP incumbent Roy Blunt, 42% to 40%.
Observation: Trump has abandoned his brash persona and has been demonstrating a much more "Presidential" personality to the public. Thinking he is listening to and acting on the advice of his campaign advisors...and is still able to control the media--but in a much different manner.
And unlike Illary, who has shown her condescending attitude towards all who do not kneel at her throne (sorta like josh when someone points out a positive aspect about Trump), Trump has been reaching out to all American citizens with defined proposals and goals.
I can see a lot of positives in his health care reforms:
Candidates who don't back Trump may not be allowed to run again, RNC chairman says
"Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday suggested he could say “never mind” to the “Never Trump” candidates should they try to make another run for the presidency.
Priebus said the former primary challengers who’ve refused to support Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump could face consequences if they fail to back Trump in the stretch-run to Election Day..."
This could be good news for conservatism...a great reason to secede from the Republican Party and let the GoP continue down its path of being Dem-lite...and conservatism stand in its own light.
The Republican Party has brought this situation upon itself. Had they acted as a true opposition party when given control of the House and Senate, there would not have been created the perfect environment for Trump to rise and win the nomination. People have shown that they are tired of the "same-old-same-old" politics from the politically connected regardless of party affiliation.
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(From the Importing foreigners to do jobs Americans are doing department:)
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Breitbart – An iconic American company, McDonald’s, has quietly outsourced the jobs of 70 white-collar professionals in Ohio to foreign H-1B workers.
The H-1B outsourcing in the nation’s heartland showcases the growing corporate use of foreign H-1B workers to replace American white-collar professionals, and it comes after companies have used waves of legal and illegal migrants to slash blue-collar jobs and wages in Ohio and around the country.
Also, the 70 Ohio jobs that McDonalds outsourced to lower wage foreign graduates are not Silicon Valley technology and software jobs — they’re white-collar accounting jobs performed by graduates from mainstream business schools. That outsourcing of mainstream business jobs spotlights the growing movement of foreign workers into all corners of the nation’s white-collar professional economy.
I’m not trying to start a fight here, but I must point out that this is the program that Ted Cruz wanted to increase by 500%.
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Perhaps we'll be seeing the NFL import foreigners to replace their overpaid political players...foreigners would be paid less and have no reason to stand for the national anthem.
Clinton endorses Trump’s immigration stance
Donald Trump has been widely scorned by the liberal elite for his stances on immigration. Trump called for a pause in immigration to “find out what’s going on.” Not unexpectedly, that statement was bastardized by the liberal media into a total and complete ban on Muslims for all time.
In August Trump refined his plan to call for “extreme vetting” of immigrants:
To fight “radical Islamic terrorism” and to “make America safe again,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed today administering a new, ideological test for immigrants who want to enter the United States.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio. “The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.
“I call it extreme vetting,” Trump said.
Trump’s policy proposal is an expansion on his call in December for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims’ entering the United States.
“In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law,” he said today.
“To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world,” Trump said, adding that if he becomes president, the State Department and Department of Homeland Security will curate the list of regions where the policy would apply.
It was met with derision from the clinton campaign:
Hillary for America Senior Policy Adviser Jake Sullivan released a statement today, saying, Trump’s “so-called ‘policy’ cannot be taken seriously. How can Trump put this forward with a straight face when he opposes marriage equality and selected as his running mate the man who signed an anti-LGBT law in Indiana? It’s a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it.”
As Tommy Vietor, one of obama juveniles, would say, “Dude, that was like, last month.”
This morning Hillary Clinton came out of the security closet and endorsed Trump’s policy:
“I am absolutely in favor of, and have long been an advocate for tough vetting for making sure we don’t let people in to this country and not just people who come here to settle, but we need a better visa system,” Clinton stated.
A better visa system sounds like a good idea, since Hillary’s State has been pumping out visas to Saudi’s:
Despite evidence Saudi Arabian terrorists exploit the U.S. visa program, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doubled the number of visas for Saudi visitors to the U.S., while helping cut a deal with the Kingdom to waive security procedures for Saudi nationals upon their arrival in the U.S, CounterJihad has learned.
The annual number of nonimmigrant visas issued to Saudi nationals soared 93% during Clinton’s tenure as secretary from 2009 to 2013, federal data show, hitting a record 108,578 in fiscal 2013 and reversing a post-9/11 pause in Saudi visa approvals.
Before leaving office, Clinton helped negotiate a little-noticed January 2013 administration deal with Riyadh to allow Saudi visa-holders to enter the U.S. as “trusted travelers” and bypass the normal border security process. The next year, the State Department issued an all-time-high 142,180 Saudi visas, consular data show.
It’s just (cough, cough) coincidence that Saudi is funding about 20% of Clinton’s campaign.
Spearheading the new coalition will be Marjorie Dannenfelser, the long-time president of the Susan B. Anthony List, and one of the most respected and influential leaders in the pro-life movement.
The SBA List is widely acknowledged to have the best “ground campaign” of any pro-life group in the country. Since it was founded in 1993 under Dannenfelser’s direction, it has helped to elect more than 100 pro-life candidates to the U.S. House of Representatives and 20 to the U.S. Senate. This compares favorably to its opposite number, the pro-abortion Emily’s List, which was founded in 1985 and which claims that it has helped to elect 19 senators and 110 representatives.
Asked about her strategy for winning over still-undecided voters to the Trump cause, Dannenfelser pointed out, “The thing that few seem to be talking about and [that] must be stated emphatically is that we will live in a very different America under a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court. The Right to Life and religious liberty rooted in the constitution will be routed for decades. If not permanently.”
Like many other pro-life leaders, Dannenfelser was not originally a supporter of Donald Trump, supporting other candidates throughout the primaries.
But as Trump has clarified his pro-life stance for voters, Dannenfelser and other pro-life leaders have come around. In May, she published a column on the website Townhall entitled “The pro-life case for Trump.”
The contrast between the two presidential candidates’ positions, as they now stand, could not be sharper. Both are now virtually at one with their party’s platforms, with Trump opposing abortion (except in cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother), while Clinton, as Dannenfelser writes, “has moved even to the left of Barack Obama in her support for abortion on demand, at taxpayer’s expense.”
Clinton not only supports abortion on demand for any reason, but would also increase funding for Planned Parenthood, despite recent criticism of the abortion giant. She would also repeal the bi-partisan Hyde Amendment, forcing pro-life taxpayers to violate their conscience and pay for abortions.
Clinton has also made it clear that she rejects any and all restrictions on abortion. When asked on Meet the Press when unborn children have constitutional rights, she bluntly responded, “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
She even suggested in a speech that “religious beliefs… have to be changed” to advance her abortion agenda, and has pledged to appoint justices to the Supreme Court to uphold abortion rights.
In his letter to pro-life leaders, Trump took positions that are almost diametrically opposed to those of his opponent. He committed to:
Nominate pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sign into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide. Defund Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions. Make the Hyde Amendment permanent law to protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions. In announcing the new coalition, Dannenfelser said, “Not only has Mr. Trump doubled down on his three existing commitments to the pro-life movement, he has gone a step further in pledging to protect the Hyde Amendment and the conscience rights of millions of pro-life taxpayers.”
The Hyde Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1976, and forbids federal funds from being used to pay for abortions. Although it is not a permanent law, it has been extended each year in spending bills, usually without controversy.
This year, however, the Democratic Party platform, echoing the position of its nominee, calls for it to be repealed. Even Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who previously supported the Hyde Amendment, has fallen into line with the head of the Democratic ticket. Kaine now says that he opposes the amendment.
The establishment of the Pro-Life Coalition at this point in the race surprised some observers, since there are less than two months to go before voters go to the polls. Moreover, as Dannenfelser herself pointed out, “For a candidate to make additional commitments during a general election is almost unheard of.”
But Trump is not your conventional candidate, having come into politics late in life. Moreover, he has in the past stumbled in expressing his views on abortion, leaving some voters confused about his actual position.
Add to this the fact that this election cycle is wildly atypical. By this point in time, both presidential candidates would normally be moving towards the center to capture the remaining “undecideds.” Instead, with many of these being siphoned off by third party candidates, both campaigns appear to have determined that the key to capturing the White House in November is mobilizing their respective bases.
With the RealClearPolitics polling average having Trump almost in a dead heat with Clinton nationally, turnout will be key.
People of pro-life convictions constitute one of the most reliable Republican constituencies, making up one-third of all voters who say they identify with the Republican Party. Exit polls showed that white evangelicals favored Mitt Romney over President Obama by 79 percent to 20 percent. A recent Pew poll shows that they are breaking for Trump just as strongly.
“Evangelicals prefer Trump by three to one over Hillary Clinton,” Pastor Robert Jeffress said during a recent interview on ‘Fox & Friends.’ “The danger is not that evangelicals will turn out and vote for Clinton. The danger is they won’t turn out and vote at all and stay at home like they did in 2012 by the millions.”
For her part, Dannenfelser says “The contrast could not be clearer between the two tickets, and I am proud to serve as National Chairwoman for Donald Trump’s Pro-Life Coalition.”
The coalition will focus on rallying the pro-life vote in key swing states, according to the SBA List. Additional co-chairs will be announced later this month.
The newest Five Thirty Eight survey Trump at 264 and Clinton at 272, two more than needed. It's the closest in recent weeks.
NEW YORK CITY, New York — Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has sided with the sovereignty of the American people against international elites yet again by coming out in public opposition to President Barack Obama’s internet giveaway to a United Nations globalist body.
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s chief policy adviser, said in a Wednesday statement:
Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving Internet freedom for the American people and citizens all over the world. The U.S. should not turn control of the Internet over to the United Nations and the international community. President Obama intends to do so on his own authority – just 10 days from now, on October 1st, unless Congress acts quickly to stop him. The Republicans in Congress are admirably leading a fight to save the Internet this week, and need all the help the American people can give them to be successful. Hillary Clinton’s Democrats are refusing to protect the American people by not protecting the Internet.
Since the United States has led the world on the world wide web, Miller says, it’s Trump’s position that it should not be surrendered to the globalists. He said:
The U.S. created, developed and expanded the Internet across the globe. U.S. oversight has kept the Internet free and open without government censorship – a fundamental American value rooted in our Constitution’s Free Speech clause. Internet freedom is now at risk with the President’s intent to cede control to international interests, including countries like China and Russia, which have a long track record of trying to impose online censorship. Congress needs to act, or Internet freedom will be lost for good, since there will be no way to make it great again once it is lost.
According to the latest polling on the issue, conducted by Breitbart News Network and Gravis Marketing, just 14 percent—a slim minority—support what President Obama is trying to do with the internet. A whopping 41 percent, meanwhile, oppose it, and 44 percent were unsure. That survey was conducted in late August, and polled 1,493 likely voters—with a margin of error of 2.5 percent.
Rick Manning, the President of Americans for Limited Government, praised Trump on the issue. Manning said:
Donald Trump understands the importance of a free and open Internet and has proven that today by praising those Republicans in Congress for standing up against Democrats who are trying to play politics with Americans’ First Amendment freedoms. Mr. Trump’s weighing in on this issue while Congress wrangles over final details of the continuing resolution is particularly important as it demonstrates the solidarity of Republicans against Obama’s ill-conceived to surrender of the Internet. We urge Republicans to hold firm and stop the Internet giveaway by forcing the Obama administration to renew the vendor contract with ICANN for a two-year period. This would allow a Trump administration to do a full review on whether the transition should occur and whether ICANN should even continue as the U.S. government’s vendor in administering the Internet’s naming and numbering functions.
The 2016 USC Dornsife / LA Times Presidential Election Poll represents a pioneering approach to tracking changes in Americans’ opinions throughout a campaign for the White House. Around 3000 respondents in our representative panel are asked questions on a regular basis on what they care about most in the election, and on their attitudes toward their preferred candidates. The “Daybreak poll” is updated just after midnight every day of the week.
THIS ISN’T MEDIA BIAS — THIS IS MEDIA FRAUD– The latest Ipsos-Reuters poll has Hillary up 6 points over Donald.
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Pro-Trump Republicans knocked on two million doors in the last week and a half and are putting up massive new voter registration numbers. The hurricane in Florida slowed door knocking efforts but the phone game there is still strong and the ground game is not expected to miss a beat once the weather conditions improve. In Pennsylvania, heavy rains did not stop the Trump force from knocking on 100,000 doors in one day alone.
The Republican National Committee provided new voter registration numbers to Breitbart News:
Florida Net: +261,715 Iowa Net: +38,913 Nevada Net: +12,720 North Carolina Net: +173,785 Pennsylvania Net: +223,552
LA Times- USC Dornsife Sunday Poll: Donald Trump Retains 2 Point Lead Over Hillary
“We have over a million Trumpocrats signed up all over the country. Over 800,000 that we identified in ten counties in Pennsylvania that are going to turn out for Donald Trump. Rickers is chairman of The Trumpocrats:
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That's like hoping that the sun won't set tonight. Good luck.
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Even though we know that Trump is going to win by a landslide, it remains unclear that Google search data can predict election results.
Although, being that “how to vote for Trump” is crushing Hillary, the Clinton camp should be very concerned. Seriously, “how to vote for Trump” has nearly twice as many searches as “how to vote for Hillary”. Feel free to spin that as “uneducated” Trump supporters. But, the fact that more potential voters are searching how to vote for Trump should be extremely telling.
A talented young lady sings a song she wrote for the 2016 Presidential Election. Watch & Retweet Thanks #HillaryClinton #Trump #politics #CA pic.twitter.com/Jl8kQOQJ9w
— VideoLeaks (@WesleyRickard) October 18, 2016
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NEW YORK CITY — Many professional political prognosticators predict Hillary Clinton will win next month’s presidential election over GOP nominee Donald Trump. But they’re wrong. “Teflon Don,” as Trump has been called many times, is back on track after the roughest patch of his campaign yet heading into the Las Vegas debate on Wednesday night–all while the Institutional Left propping up Hillary Clinton is withering under scrutiny.
A new round of polls have put a spring in Trump’s step, as he has reaffirmed his lead in Ohio according to the latest CNN/ORC poll from the Buckeye State and remains within he margin of error right behind Clinton in the latest CNN/ORC polls from Nevada and North Carolina.
Quinnipiac shows Trump just outside the margin of error right behind Clinton in Florida, and a few points outside the margin of error in Pennsylvania while trailing a bit more but within earshot in Colorado.
He has retaken the lead nationally in the daily Los Angeles Times/USC poll, after falling into a tie with Clinton, and remains close in other battlegrounds like New Hampshire. In fact, the Live Free or Die state’s latest polling show Trump moving up four points in the latest WBUR survey compared to that firm’s previous results—meaning Trump has actually, despite what the media says, trended upwards since the second presidential debate and the release of a video that sent his campaign into disarray right before the battle he won in St. Louis.
Before bringing two cute children up on stage with him at his Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally on Monday night, Trump reveled in his comeback.
“Those polls were great today, but they’re also showing that there’s like an undercurrent that they can’t poll,” Trump said.
Remember when I was in the primaries? How’s he doing in such and such—well it looks like he won’t win that state. Then the next day you like win in a landslide, but we’ll take it any way. I guess it’s like people don’t like to say they’re voting for Trump, which is ok, we’ll take it any way we get it. Do you agree? We’ll take it any way we get it. But there’s a big, big undercurrent out there.
Ann Coulter warned in her book Slander in 2003 that the far left main stream media always uses polls to push their agenda. Polls can be skewed by selecting an unreasonable sample size, by asking lead up questions or by selecting more of a sample population of one side of an issue to achieve a desired result.
Main stream media skews polls to discourage potential voters from voting and has done it for years.
A good example of the media trying to shape a vote was in 1980. In a Gallup poll released on October 26th in 1980, two weeks before the election, Jimmy Carter was leading Ronald Reagan 47 – 39. Two weeks later Reagan won in such a landslide that Carter conceded before California was closed.
Another example of mainstream liberal media bias was in 1988. A Gallup Poll from July 26 showed Michael S. Dukakis leading George H. W. Bush by 17 points. Of course Bush went on to thump Dukakis in the general election.
This past week a number of polls show Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by various margins. One poll last week reported by NBC/WSJ showed Hillary ahead by 11. However, Truthfeed pointed out that NBC/WSJ didn’t mention that the poll was created by a Hillary Super PAC.
It’s also well known that the Monmouth University poll is run by a Hillary Huckster who recently was caught manipulating a poll and then lied about it.
Realclearpolitics.com takes an average of these distorted polls to come up with their analysis of the current race. Their efforts are a great example of the phrase – ‘garbage in – garbage out’.
Expert Analysis
With all the liberal distortions and dishonesty we decided to have a small team of actuarial and statistics professionals take a look at a couple of the recent polls to get their take on the reliability of these polls. They selected the recent FOX poll from October 14 showing Hillary up by 7 and the WSJ/NBC poll from October 16 showing Hillary with an 11 point lead.
The first observation is that both polls are heavily skewed towards Democrats. At a high level, the FOX poll consists of 43 Dems to 36 Reps to 21 Other while the NBC poll shows 44 Dems to 37 Reps to 19 Other.
By selecting more Dems the polls are designed to provide a Dem result.
Our experts next analyzed the data and calculated results using the same data from the two surveys on a split of 40 Dems, 40 Reps and 20 Other. The results show that using either sets of data Trump comes out ahead with a larger margin of victory using the FOX data.
Clearly the polls using data that is heavily weighted towards Democrat voters is incorrectly skewed.
This year Republicans crushed their previous record in the primaries for number of votes by 150%. Their old record was 20 million and this year 31 million voted in the primaries.
The Democrats on the other hand had 7 million votes less than their record year in 2008 with 30 million this year compared to 37 million in 2008.
Also, the primaries were heavily contested on both sides resulting in factions from each party vowing not to vote for the party candidate. The impact of these two groups is difficult to judge. The percentage of these voters that change parties is probably limited. If anything, the Sanders people will probably be more likely to vote for Trump since he is an outsider and many of them will never vote for Crooked Hillary.
Finally, it is difficult to determine what the independent voters will do but many independent voters partook in the primaries to vote for Trump. Therefore it is more likely that Independent voters vote for Trump as well.
If more Democratic voters vote for Trump than Republicans vote for Hillary and more Independents vote for Trump than Hillary, both scenarios which are highly likely, then the results of the general election will likely be a Trump landslide.
Let’s face it NOBODY likes Hillary and NOBODY trusts Hillary.
Nobody trusted Hillary before WikiLeaks. Trump is filling arenas around the country but Hillary can barely fill half a high school gymnasium. Her VP candidate Tim Kaine can’t even get 50 people at an event.
Obama had yard signs everywhere. Hillary has none. This is because people are embarrassed to support lying Hillary.
Maybe the current polls are not just inaccurate – maybe they are dead wrong.
Trump now leads Hillary Clinton 44.9% to 43.3% the day before the final presidential debate.
This comes as Wikileaks continues to dump more Podesta emails that show the complete corruption and deceit inside the Hillary Clinton campaign.
I don't know if Trump can overcome the corruption. In a fair election where only those legal to vote are allowed to vote ONCE, he wins handily. In current America I'll be shocked if he pulls it off.
Helmut Norpoth has been predicting a Trump victory since early this year. His model currently projects a win for the Republican with a certainty of 87 to 99 percent.
Norpoth is a professor at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
That flies in the face of just about every other major election forecast out there, which mostly give an edge to Democrat Hillary Clinton, notes the Daily Mail.
Norpoth wrote in The Hill that although the race looks decided, current polling methods are “bunk.”
The projections for Clinton are all based on opinion polls, which are flawed because they don’t reflect actions, Norpoth wrote. They’re about what voters think of Clinton or Trump, but they can’t tell us exactly how voters will act on those thoughts.
“It is ingrained in all of us that voting is civic duty,” he says. “So nearly all of us say, oh yes, I’ll vote, and then many will not follow through.”
Instead of opinion polling, Norpoth relies on statistics from candidates’ performances in party primaries and patterns in the electoral cycle to forecast results. The model correctly predicted the victor in every presidential election since 1996, according to the Daily Mail.
Running the model on earlier campaigns comes up with the correct outcome for every race since 1912, except the 1960 election.
I ain't even gonna be close.
No presidential candidate in our lifetime has ever had so much simultaneous opposition; yet worked so intensely hard to win the campaign. A stunning work ethic and drive.
LAS VEGAS, NV – [Wednesday] night, Donald Trump for President held a Facebook Live event from the third Presidential Debate in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Much like a Trump rally, the Facebook Live event brought in a massive crowd of viewers, and the campaign saw record-breaking engagement numbers, proving Mr. Trump’s message is resonating across the board.
24 million people were reached during the ground breaking Facebook Live event, which translated into 8.8 million video views, 91 percent of which were unique users. These viewers watched 11.8 million minutes of content, the equivalent to 22 years of view time, which illustrates the strength of the event’s reach. There were 1.3 million comments made about the event, which garnered over 8 million post engagements making it one of the largest debate discussions on the internet.
The enormous groundswell of support for Mr. Trump spurred an impressive fundraising effort as well, generating $9 million in contributions from an excess of 150 thousand donors.
“Mr. Trump has said many times that this is not a campaign, it’s a movement. That is evident in the size of the crowds our campaign rallies attract, and also in the unprecedented level of engagement sparked by Mr. Trump’s social media activity. According to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity, more than 96 percent of presidential campaign contributions made by members of the media have gone to Hillary Clinton. Our pre-and-post-debate Facebook Live event gave the Trump campaign an opportunity to leverage our candidate’s massive digital footprint to take our message straight to millions of voters, without the filter of the clearly biased media.”
I still have some space. Also....whoever or whatever event I wager on has no bearing on how I'd prefer it turn out. based strictly on my handicap.
BlueDog has gracefully let it be known he will take Hillary for anyone who wants to wager on Trump beating her.
After it's over we just PM mailing addresses. I've done this on Super Bowls and I think 3 or 4 elections. I'm not wealthy either but like to gamble. I simply decide how much I'm willing to risk from my gambling stash on a event. It's something to pass the time.
YUGE RECORD BREAKING VOTES in TEXAS!!! & Its Not Bernie Fans or Obama Voters for Hillary Clinton!! ALLL Donald Trump Folks?? #wednesdaywisdom pic.twitter.com/Sn79fMhwXG
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Deal it is Kathi... $50
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The latest IBD/TIPP tracking poll shows Donald Trump improving his support among women, even though a majority still support Hillary Clinton.Thirty-nine percent of women polled now say they support Trump, according Investors Business Daily, up from 34 percent on Saturday. That’s an increase of five points.
According to the poll, Trump is doing better among single women than failed 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Twenty-eight percent of single women support Trump, while Romney only polled at 23 percent. Romney, however, did better among married women — 51 percent to Trump’s 46 percent.
On Sunday, the Washington Post made a similar observation in its tracking poll.