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“Look, okay, if I win, I’ll be extremely happy. And I’ll do a great job.
“If I don’t win, for me, it will have been a total waste of time.
“Despite the man calling me saying it doesn’t mater if you win or lose because what you’ve done has never been done before. I said I disagree with you. If I don’t win, I will consider — even if other people don’t, I know they give me a lot of credit for what’s taken place. And or probably has never happened before. But I will consider it not a success.”
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| Donald Trump |
GOP front-runner Donald Trump just hit a new high in a national poll of Republican/Republican-leaning voters.
From CNN:
Trump is at 41% in a Monmouth University poll out Monday, holding a wide advantage over his GOP challengers. His support was up from 28% in October.
In second was the rising Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, at 14%; followed by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, at 10%.
Ben Carson was at 9%, down 9 points from October, and all other candidates were in the low single digits.
Sitting down for a lengthy interview with NBC News’ Chuck Todd, Republican White House hopeful doubled down on his opposition to marriage equality, and said – if he were to become president – he would overturn the Obergefell decision via stacking the Supreme Court with same-sex marriage foes.
Quotes via Towleroad:
“I disagree with it on constitutional grounds. As I have said–I think it’s bad law. And for the following reason. If you want to change the definition of marriage, then you need to go to state legislatures and get them to change it. Because states have always defined marriage. And that’s why some people get married in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonator. And in Florida, you have to wait a couple days when you get your permit. Every state has different marriage laws. But I do not believe that the court system was the right way to do it.”
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“As I’ve said, that would be conceding that the current Constitution is somehow wrong and needs to be fixed. I don’t think the current Constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate marriage. That belongs at the state and local level. And that’s why if you want to change the definition of marriage, which is what this argument is about….It’s not about discrimination. It is about the definition of a very specific, traditional, and age-old institution. That definitional change, if you want to change it, you have a right to petition your state legislature and your elected representatives to do it. What is wrong is that the Supreme Court has found this hidden constitutional right that 200 years of jurisprudence had not discovered and basically overturn the will of voters in Florida where over 60 percent passed a constitutional amendment that defined marriage in the state constitution as the union of one man and one woman.”
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“It is the current law. I don’t believe any case law is settled law. Any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.”
CNN has announced the participants in the final Republican debate of 2015 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, December 15.
Coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET.
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| Texas Sen. Ted Cruz |
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has surged an impressive 21 points in the latest The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll, leaving real estate mogul Donald Trump ten points back in second place.
Sen. Ted Cruz – 31%
Donald Trump – 21%
Dr. Ben Carson – 13%
Sen. Marco Rubio – 10%
Jeb Bush – 6%
After those five, it really doesn’t matter much, does it?
From the Des Moines Register:
“Big shakeup,” said J. Ann Selzer, pollster for The Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll. “This is a sudden move into a commanding position for Cruz.”
And there are signs Cruz may not have peaked in Iowa yet. Another 20 percent of likely caucusgoers say he’s their current second choice for president. Cruz hits 51 percent support when first- and second-choice interest is combined, again leading the field.
With Cruz’s popularity and his debate proficiency, “it’s certainly possible that he could win Iowa big — very big,” said Frank Luntz, a Nevada-based GOP focus group guru who follows the Iowa race closely.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Donald Trump wasted no time tearing into Ted Cruz:
“I don’t think he’s got the right temperament. I don’t think he’s got the right judgment.”
“You look at the way that he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there, frankly like a little bit of a maniac. You’re never going to get things done that way.”
“You can’t walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people,” Trump said.
Donald Trump (image via Flickr/WhiteHouse – public domain)
Although Donald Trump says his memory is “one of the all-time great memories,” he tweeted that he didn’t know of any Muslim sports heroes.
I’m guessing that memory isn’t all that since he’s met Muhammad Ali many times.
Oh, and then there’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal… That’s just off the top of my head, and I’m not even a sports guy.
#Idiot
Obama said in his speech that Muslims are our sports heroes. What sport is he talking about, and who? Is Obama profiling?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015
A new CNN/ORC poll shows White House hopeful Donald Trump way ahead of his fellow GOP competitors.
The Donald looks to have his biggest lead yet in the race for Republican nominee for 2016:
Donald Trump: 36%
Sen. Ted Cruz: 16%
Ben Carson: 14%
Sen. Marco Rubio: 12%
It’s interesting to note a friend from Texas, who is a Republican, wondered my direction why folks are paying so much attention to Trump. My friend said, “He’s a clown. He’ll never be the nominee.”
Well…?
Wait for Trump to go after Ted Cruz in 3, 2, 1…
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| Sen. Susan Collins from Maine |
God bless the moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate – sometimes, they are about the only thing that keeps their party from imploding from ignorance.
Today, three GOP Senators – Mark Kirk (R-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski(R-AK) – introduced a measure to stop fellow Repubs from defunding Planned Parenthood.
Collins led the charge on Senate floor Thursday announcing that defunding Planned Parenthood could lead to “the closure of several hundred clinics across the country, depriving millions of women of the health care provider of their choice.”
Collins amendment was to strike language in the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill, which redirected money from Planned Parenthoods to other community health clinics. Republican leaders included the defund language as a statement against Planned Parenthood, which sting videos alleged was selling fetal tissue.
Planned Parenthood has denied those accusations.
If the defunding language ends up being included, President Obama has pledged to veto the legislation.
Donald Trump, currently falling in presidential polls, says he wants CNN to pony up $5 million in order for him to appear at the next GOP debate.
From the Washington Post:
Donald Trump has threatened to charge CNN $5 million for his appearance in the next Republican presidential debate, which the network will host on Dec. 15 in Las Vegas.
“How about we do this for CNN: I won’t do the debate unless they pay me five million dollars, all of which money goes to the wounded warriors or goes to vets?” Trump said Monday night to a crowd of about 5,500 at a rally in this central Georgia town, located about 85 miles south of Atlanta. “I would love to do that.”