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The
looney Right has dropped out of the race. That leaves the evil
Hitlery Clinton (or Bernie as an unlikely longshot) vs. the Donald. .
Ted
Cruz bowed out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday following
a crushing loss to Donald Trump in Indiana, clearing the path for the
real estate mogul to clinch the GOP nomination.
John
Kasich, last Republican Trump rival, quits race
Ohio
Governor John Kasich has dropped out of the presidential race after
struggling to gain traction against Republican front-runner Donald
Trump.
"As
I suspend my campaign today I have renewed faith, deeper faith that
the Lord will show me the way forward," he told supporters in
Columbus.
Mr
Kasich only won his home state but had hoped to lobby for his
candidacy at July's Republican convention.
Mr
Trump holds a commanding lead and is closing in on the nomination.
Bernie says "don't rule me out"
His
path to the nomination wide open, Donald Trump faces mutiny in the
Republican ranks
Trump
acknowledges he will need outside money to fight Clinton in general
election
4
May, 2016
His
swift march from fringe curiosity to presidential nominee all but
over, Donald Trump was confronting dangerous new challenges as the
Republican Party he aspires to lead teetered on civil war and
questions emerged about how he will fund his campaign going forward.
Mr
Trump’s path to the Republican crown was abruptly cleared of all
obstacles when, after being soundly defeated in the Indiana primary,
Senator Ted Cruz abandoned his campaign late on Tuesday and Governor
John Kasich of Ohio signaled his intention on Wednesday also to drop
out.
While
the hierarchy of the party called for a rallying of support behind Mr
Trump, rebellion simmered both in the rank and file of the party and
also among some of its more prominent figures. “If we nominate
Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it,” Senator
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was among the original 17
Republicans runners.
Mark
Salter, a strategist for John McCain on his 2008 White House run said
he would vote for Hillary Clinton, the likely Democrat nominee,
before Mr Trump calling him “unfit for office,” and
“temperamentally and morally, a narcissistic bigot”. Social
media was littered with once die-hard Republicans setting fire to
their Republican voter registration cards protesting Mr Trump.
For
many who belonged to the #NeverTrump movement, the day of reckoning
is here. He has not been stopped. Can they, many of them lifelong
Republican operatives or donors, swallow their distaste for him?
Steve Schmidt, who was Mr McCain’s manager, predicted that “a
substantial amount of Republican officials who have worked in
Republican administrations, especially on issues of defense and
national security, will endorse Hillary Clinton.”
It
is the scenario that many had feared, a Trump candidacy threatening
to tear the Republican Party, also known as the GOP, apart. “Dearly
Beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the GOP, a once-great
political party killed by epidemic of Trump,” said the Daily News
front page in New York with a picture of an elephant, the GOP’s
mascot, climbing into a coffin.
It
is unclear what influence party leaders can have. “Look, we’re
here. We’re going to get behind the presumptive nominee,” Reince
Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, attempted
before adding weakly: “Something new is probably good for our
party.”
Whilst
he would benefit from party unity, Mr Trump will not beg for it. “I
am confident I can unite much of the party,” he told NBC, before
adding: “Those people can go away and maybe come back in eight
years after we served two terms. Honestly, there are some people I
really don't want.”
One
possible golden straw was a statement from Mica Mosbacher, the widow
of Howard Mosbacher, who was in the George H. W. Bush cabinet,
calling “fellow conservatives to unite and support our new nominee
Trump”. Ms Mosbacher had previously been a key member of the Cruz
campaign’s finance team.
The
Trump campaign will be looking for other endorsements in the coming
days from Republican stalwarts. Although even that necessity was
downplayed by Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, on Tuesday
night. “Of course, we will welcome endorsements of Trump from
anyone who wants to endorse Mr Trump,” he told The Independent.
“But we have been endorsed by 10 million voters and that’s what
matters.”
Ed
Rollins, an iconic figure in the party who was Ronald Reagan's 1984
campaign manager, declared he had joined a super PAC supporting Mr
Trump, pledging to help raise money for the billionaire to counter
the cash advantage he predicted Ms Clinton would have. “They're
licking their chops,“ Mr Rollins says of Ms Clinton's team. ”They
think they're going to win this thing.“
Mr
Trump meanwhile acknowledged that he may be obliged to start taking
more money from outside donors. He has spent about $44 million of
his own fortune getting to this point, but a general election
campaign could cost upwards of $1 billion. That risks damaging his
carefully cultivated image of being a self-funded candidate, however.
“I
do love self-funding,“ he said yesterday, but acknowledged there
are limits even to his wealth. ”Do I want to sell a couple of
buildings? I don't really want to do that,” he added.
America
braces for the ugliest, dirtiest presidential campaign in history
Trump
nomination: Republicans burn their voter registration cards in
protest
The
rise of Mr Trump threatened also to scramble the Republican strategy
for keeping control of the US Senate in November. The majority
leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, had previously indicated that if Mr
Trump were the nominee he would not object if senators running for
re-election disowned him. Some Republicans seeking re-election to the
House of Representatives may also be tempted to do the same.
There
were also signs meanwhile of second thoughts among some senior
Republicans about refusing to hold hearings to confirm President
Barack Obama’s choice for an empty seat on the US Supreme Court,
Merrick Garland, for fear that Mr Trump may easily be defeated in
November by Ms Clinton who may then nominate someone still further to
the left.
Bernie says "don't rule me out"
Fresh
off his victory in
Indiana, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders expressed
confidence that he can pull off "one of the great political
upsets" in American history to defeat Democratic
front-runner Hillary
Clinton and
presumptive GOP nominee Donald
Trump.
At
a Tuesday night press conference, the Vermont senator touted the
momentum of his campaign while acknowledging that it's an uphill
battle for him to clinch the nomination.
"We
feel great about tonight, not only in winning here in Indiana ... but
also gaining the momentum we need to take us to the finish line,"
Sanders said. "I sense some great deal of momentum.
"I
sense some great victories coming, and I think while the path is
narrow — and I do not deny that for a moment — I think we can
pull off one of the great political upsets in the history of the
United States and, in fact, become the nominee for the Democratic
Party," he continued. "And once we secure that position, I
have absolute confidence that we are gonna defeat Donald Trump in the
general election."
Given the fact that they're all either opportunists or deniers on this front I don't think it makes that much difference - even Bernie
Senator
Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday, making it
almost certain that Donald Trump will win the GOP nomination and face
Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in November. For those who’ve
been in denial that this day could ever come, we figured a refresher
course on the real estate developer’s musings about climate and
energy might be in order.
On
the basic science: “I am not a great believer in man-made climate
change,” Trump told the Washington Post editorial board in March.
“If you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they
have global warming, although now they don’t know if they have
global warming.”
Donald J. Trump
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
A
panel of scientists ranked all of the then-presidential candidates’
public remarks on climate for the Associated Press last November.
Trump got 15 points — out of 100.
On
climate vs. weather: When it was “really cold outside” last
October, Trump tweeted that we “could use a big fat dose of global
warming!”
On
the kind of climate change he is worried about: “I think our
biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear
weapons.” Interpretation: unclear.
On
the Environmental Protection Agency: “We’re going to get rid of
so many different things,” Trump said in a February debate.
“Environmental protection — we waste all of this money. We’re
going to bring that back to the states.” But only if he can figure
out what the EPA is. Trump said he would eliminate some agency called
“Department of Environmental. I mean, the DEP is killing us
environmentally, it’s just killing our businesses.”
On
clean energy:
Not only are wind farms disgusting looking, but even worse they are bad for people's health http://bit.ly/I9Dl8k
On
clean energy when campaigning in clean energy-heavy states: Trump
told an Iowa voter that he’s OK with wind subsidies. “It’s an
amazing thing when you think — you know, where they can, out of
nowhere, out of the wind, they make energy.”
On
the Paris climate accord signed by 175 countries: “One of the
dumbest things I’ve ever heard in politics — in the history of
politics as I know it.”
On
his hair: “You have showers where I can’t wash my hair properly,
it’s a disaster!” Thanks to the EPA, Trump told a crowd in
December, showerheads “have restrictors put in. The problem is you
stay under the shower for five times as long.”
And Killary (aka Hitlery Clinton)
And Killary (aka Hitlery Clinton)
Colin
Powell's Fmr Chief of Staff warns Americans against voting for
Hillary Clinton
RT
Hillary
Clinton has extended her lead in the race for the White House,
beating Bernie Sanders in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll by
30 points in the battle for Democrat contender. But it's her email
account that's making headlines here in the UK. Specifically, emails
from George W. Bush's secretary of state Colin Powell ahead of
Britain joining the American war on Iraq. Afshin Rattansi goes
underground with his former chief of staff, retired United States
Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson. And, the aunt of Londoner Mark Duggan
killed by the police talks about surveillance and the fight against
police brutality and corruption. Plus, we look at this week’s
headlines with a former Lib Dem MP and broadcaster, Lembit Opik.
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