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Donald Trump has lost track of what he has and hasn’t said along the campaign trail.
At the Republican debate last night, Sen. Ted Cruz cornered The Donald on whether he ever said the government “should pay for everyone’s healthcare?”
Trumpster denied saying it, and the Cruz campaign rushed this attack ad out showing Donald saying EXACTLY that just a few months ago.
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30 seconds of chaos at the GOP debate
Here’s where the GOP debate went completely off the rails.
Posted by Ezra Klein on Thursday, February 25, 2016
This is just fascinating. Grown men acting like this trying to win votes?
Wolf Blitzer got terrible reviews for doing practically nothing to moderate the debate.
Very intrigued by Wolf Blitzer’s moderating strategy of “do absolutely nothing at any time”— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 26, 2016
This debate could have used a moderator.— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) February 26, 2016
These candidates are carpet bombing Wolf Blitzer and taking his oil.— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) February 26, 2016
One certain loser tonight: Wolf Blitzer— Frank Rich (@frankrichny) February 26, 2016
Audience members now just shouting out participation lines from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton talks with Mika and Joe Scarborough of “Morning Joe” about the infamous emails, attracting younger voters and building relationships with Republicans in Congress to get things done.
White House hopeful Donald Trump loves telling his supporters (and anyone who’ll listen) that he plans to build a big wall between Mexico and the United States, and he has a plan to MAKE Mexico pay for the wall.
In a recent interview Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico, said Trump has another thing coming.
From Real Clear Politics:
In an interview Thursday with Jorge Ramos on Fusion, former Mexican president Vicente Fox responds to Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border. “I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall! He should pay for it. He’s got the money,” Fox said.
“Are you afraid that he’s going to be the next President of the United States?” Ramos asked. “What would that mean for Mexico?”
“No no no, democracy can not take that, crazy people that don’t know what is going on in the world today. This worries me, the last caucus in Nevada… he won 44 percent of Hispanics.”
“I’d like to know who those Hispanics are, because they are followers of a false prophet,” Fox said. “He’s going to take them to the desert, and if they think that they will benefit with an administration led by Donald Trump, they’re wrong. They must open their eyes. Please, you Hispanics in the U.S., open your eyes.”
Trump did boast that he won 44% of Hispanic voters in Nevada. What he fails to articulate is that the 44% represents the total of Hispanic voters who took part in the REPUBLICAN caucus. Hispanic voters comprise about 16% of all voters in Nevada. Which means he actually got about 7% of the Latino vote.
In any case, Trump continues to say Latinos love him, but the facts say otherwise.
Fairness Kentucky reports on another anti-LGBT “License To Discriminate” bill that would seek to nullify all pro-LGBT local ordinances.
A “License to Discriminate” bill that would sanction discrimination against LGBT Kentuckians passed out of the Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee this morning. Senate Bill 180, introduced by Senator Albert Robinson of London, seeks to gut local LGBT Fairness Ordinances passed by eight Kentucky cities. Those cities include Covington, Danville, the State Capital Frankfort, Lexington, Louisville, Midway, Morehead, and the small Appalachian town of Vicco.
“Senate Bill 180 is nothing but a license to discriminate,” shared Fairness Campaign director Chris Hartman. “This legislation seeks to undo the hard work of eight Kentucky cities that chose to protect all their residents from discrimination. These cities, like nearly 200 local employers in the Kentucky Competitive Workforce Coalition, know that discrimination is bad for business. Should the Kentucky General Assembly pass this license to discriminate, it will have untold negative effects on our commonwealth’s tourism, economics, and business development.”
Brian Sandoval, moderate Republican and current governor of Nevada, has taken himself out of consideration for the current vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Via Politico:
“Earlier today, I notified the White House that I do not wish to be considered at this time for possible nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Sandoval said in a statement. “I have also spoken to Senators Reid, Heller and McConnell and expressed the same desire to them. The notion of being considered for a seat on the highest court in the land is beyond humbling and I am incredibly grateful to have been mentioned.”
It really became news that Sandoval was being floated as a possible replacement for recently deceased Antonin Scalia.
In the first new poll since former Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump has a big lead over Sen. Marco Rubio in the state of Florida.
It goes without saying that Rubio represents Florida in the U.S. Senate.
This is very bad news for Rubio.
The survey, by Quinnipiac University, shows Trump leading Rubio 44-28 percent less than three weeks before Florida’s March 15 primary. And voters — tens of thousands of them — are already casting ballots by mail, which leaves Rubio very little time to make up the deficit against the Republican front-runner.
“If Sen. Rubio can’t win in his own home state, it is difficult to see how he can win elsewhere,” said a statement from Peter A. Brown, the poll’s assistant director.
It’s worth noting that the Florida Republican primary is “winner take all.” So Rubio’s current trend of coming in second will do him no good in this scenario.
Contrast this news with the RealClearPolitics Texas GOP poll averages showing Sen. Ted Cruz leading in HIS home state of Texas over Donald Trump and Rubio by about 7%.
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Jackie Gleason’s “Ralph Kramden” of the classic TV show The Honeymooners is no fan of Donald Trump.
Funny bit of video editing here 🙂
The Italian Senate has just approved legislation which would legalize civil unions in Italy by a vote of 173-71.
The bill will head to the House of Deputies where the legislation is expected to pass easily.
Italy is the only major Western European country to not recognize same-sex couples.
The legislation is not perfect in that it comes stripped of adoption rights. And, of course, it’s not full marriage.
But sometimes, you have to move forward with whatever you can and live to fight another day.
Good going, Italy!