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Seth Meyers Roasts Donald Trump… His Reaction is PricelessHe was fuming! Obama's laugh at the end is perfect.Posted by Occupy Democrats on Sunday, November 1, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has begun airing his first TV campaign ad of the election cycle, titled “Real Change.”
As part of an ad buy of over $2 million, the spot will run in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“Thousands of Americans have come out to see Bernie speak and we’ve seen a great response to his message,” Jeff Weaver, the campaign manager, told The Hill. “This ad marks the next phase of this campaign. We’re bringing that message directly to the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire.”
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After her marathon 11 hour testimony before Congress, I can imagine Hillary Clinton has little sympathy for the Republican candidates who complained about the questions at their two hour debate this week.
Snork!
The folks at Bad Lip Reading give the recent Democratic debate the lip-dub treatment.
If you didn’t know better, you’d swear it was exactly what they said.
Only much funnier.
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During an appearance on Sirius XM this week, CNN host and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain said America’s restaurant industry would collapse if Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump actually got the chance to enact his proposed deportation of undocumented immigrants.
“If Mr. Trump deports 11 million people or whatever he is talking about right now, every restaurant in America would shut down,” he told host Pete Dominick on Sirius XM’s “Stand Up!” on Wednesday.
“Like a lot of other white kids, I rolled out of a prestigious culinary institute and went to work in real restaurants,” Bourdain said.
“Walking into restaurants, the person who had been there the longest and took the time to show me how it was done was always Mexican or Central American,” he added.“[They are] the backbone of the industry.”
Bourdain cited his 30 years in the culinary industry and time as a restaurant executive.
“Twenty of those years, I was a manager and employer,” he said. “Never in any of those years, not once, did any American-born kid walk into my restaurant and say, ‘I’d like a job as a night porter or a dishwasher or even a prep cook.’
Attempting to capitalize on his brief moment of attention after criticizing the media at this week’s GOP debate, the campaign wizards for Sen. Ted Cruz rushed out this spot reminding you he hits back at the “liberal biased media.”
It’s worth remembering that when Cruz made his grandstanding comment at the debate, he was whining about a lack of “substantive” questions from the moderators.
Ironically, he chose to be dramatic rather than answer the “substantive” question that had just been posed to him asking why he was opposing a bipartisan budget deal that would avert a debt ceiling crisis, a Medicare crisis, and a Social Security Disability Insurance crisis.
Please note the very dramatic music in the background.
Following Sen. Rubio’s dismissal of the Sun-Sentinel’s editorial at this week’s Republican debate, the newspaper’s editorial board responded to Rubio’s comments.
During the debate, when former Gov. Jeb Bush similarly underscored Rubio’s terrible attendance record, the senator said Bush was simply trying to score political points. As for the Sun Sentinel, he said we showed a liberal bias.
For the record, we’d note that we endorsed Rubio for the Senate in 2010, and Mitt Romney for president in 2012, because we were frustrated by the pace of hope and change in Washington, and they both promised to work hard to make a difference.
But ever since he got to Washington, it seems Rubio has been running for higher office.
If Rubio wants to be president, he should go for it, give it all he’s got, full steam ahead. But the demands of the presidential campaign have proven too great for him to do his day job.
(tipped by TRR reader Tony)
I just sent this letter to NBC News suspending our partnership for the February Debate: https://t.co/MVke5m2EBm
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) October 30, 2015
Following this week’s GOP presidential debate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to NBC News stating the RNC is “suspending the partnership” with the network regarding a planned February debate.
The letter came in the wake of intense criticism of how the CBNC debate was handled earlier this week.
Priebus wrote that the partnership was suspended “pending further discussion between the RNC and our presidential campaigns.”
NBC has been scheduled to hold a GOP debate February 26 in Houston.
Although CNBC and NBC News are both owned by NBCUniversal, the two are separate entities; they have different management teams and different locations while often sharing and collaborating on news stories.
I watched the CNBC debate, and while I think the candidates over-reacted to the questions asked (many just ignored the questions), I did think the CNBC team wasn’t prepared or tightly focused enough to keep control of the event. At times, the moderators didn’t seem equipped nor ready with follow up questions.
Eyebrows were raised yesterday when the results of the first Monmouth University poll in Iowa showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had bounced up to an amazing 41% lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
From the Washington Post:
If this month has been a giant, delicious cake layered with all of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s favorites, then Monmouth University just slathered on a whole lot of icing. Its new poll puts Clinton up 41 points in Iowa — the widest lead she’s seen there in any poll since June. Or: since before the Bernie Sanders surge.
It’s a good time to go back to the polling average compiled by Real Clear Politics. In an average of recent polls, Clinton is up in Iowa by a more modest 15.5 points — still more than enough to inspire a few high fives around the office in the manner of a stereotypical successful political campaign.
It’s worth noting two massive events that occurred in the past week: Vice President Biden announced he would not run for the nomination, and Clinton’s confident and commanding appearance at the congressional Benghazi hearing.
Retired Ben Carson now tops a third poll in Iowa as Donald Trump’s once dominant lead has evaporated.
A new poll via Monmouth University shows Carson during to a 14 point lead at 32% while The Donald falls 5 points from last month’s poll to only 18% support.
The new survey shows Carson with the highest favorability ratings in the current field of GOP contenders with 84% approval. Trump clocks in with only 53% favorability. While that’s virtually unchanged over the month, his unfavorability rating has gone up by 5 points.
This is now the third recent poll to show Carson with a healthy lead over the field in the Hawkeye State.
A Des Moines Register-Bloomberg poll released last week showed Carson with a 9 point lead, which led Trump to call the Register “crummy, third-rate newspaper.”
Plus, the most recent Quinnipiac University survey show Carson ahead by 8.