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BREAKING: Donald Trump is the projected winner in the GOP #SCPrimary https://t.co/n8xQiUXG65 #Decision2016 pic.twitter.com/7i3oftDhVf— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 21, 2016
Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio are in a tight race for 2nd and 3rd place.
Every major media outlet says the remaining candidates (Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Dr. Ben Carson) are far behind.
According to exit polls, Trump surprisingly won the majority of the evangelical vote.
#TedCruzBeware
A new robocall hitting South Carolina voters right before the state’s Republican primary attempts to portray Donald Trump into some kind of pro-LGBT politician, and smears LGBT rights along the way.
The ad takes uses part of an interview with NECN reporter Sue O’Connell, who asks if LGBTs would continue to see forward motion under a Trump presidency.
“I’m a lesbian,” O’Connell tells Trump. “We’ve had some great progress for the gay and lesbian community through politics, through all sorts of judicial actions and elected actions over the past 20 years. When President Trump is in office, can we look for more forward motion for equality for gays and lesbians?”
Trump responds, “Well, you can. And look, that’s your thing, and other people have their thing. We have to bring all people together.” At this point, the narrator’s voice, now taking on an incredulous tone, interjects: “Stop. What does she mean by ‘forward motion’? What’s he agreeing to?”
“It’s not about tolerance anymore,” the narrator continues. “It’s about mandatory celebration. It’s about forcing people to bake cakes and photograph gay weddings. Forcing clergy to officiate. It’s about transgender bathrooms in your child’s school. It’s about tearing down our Judeo-Christian values. It’s about tearing down our America.” The recording ends with an ominous sign-off from the narrator: “Ted Cruz for president — now, before it’s too late.”
Of course, no one has ever attempted to force clergy to officiate a same-sex wedding, nor has the LGBT movement attacked Christian values. And don’t get me started on the bakers and photographers who break state non-discrimination laws.
Here’s the robocall. Please note the very “Rush Limbaugh” type voice.
South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the highest ranking African-American in Congress, makes news today with his endorsement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
From NBC News:
Clyburn, one of the state’s most influential Democratic lawmakers, has traditionally remained neutral ahead of the South Carolina Democratic primary. But he announced at a news conference he has “decided to terminate my neutrality and get engaged.”
“My heart had always been with Hillary Clinton, but my head had me in a neutral corner,” Clyburn said.
The endorsement could prove influential ahead of the Palmetto State’s Democratic primary on Feb. 27, where Clinton already holds a 28-point lead, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. The former secretary of state is doing especially well among African-American voters in the state.
Clyburn said Clinton is “far and away the best choice” to fight for criminal justice reform and protect voting rights.
“I believe that the future of the Democratic party and United States of America will be best served with the experience and knowhow of Hillary Clinton as 45th president,” he said.
South Carolina Governor @nikkihaley is endorsing @marcorubio https://t.co/Nfr6moFVlq pic.twitter.com/hX67r335H0— CNN (@CNN) February 17, 2016
I wonder if this will be enough for Rubio to inch past Ted Cruz into the number two spot in South Carolina?
Donald Trump supporter and all-around nutcase Ann Coulter was not happy.
Hey South Carolina! The woman who ripped down your Confederate symbols & demands no pause in Muslim immigration just endorsed Mario Rubio.— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 17, 2016
PPP’s new South Carolina poll continues to find Donald Trump with a wide lead in the state.
Trump has a very comfortable lead with 35% to 18% each for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, 10% for John Kasich, and 7% each for Jeb Bush and Ben Carson.
No big surprise there, but how about this: when asked “Would you support or oppose banning homosexuals from entering the United States?,” 31% of Trump’s supporters are in favor of such a ban.
Additionally, 32% of Trump voters continue to believe the policy of Japanese internment during World War II was a good one.
On the Democratic side Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders 55% to 34%.
Clinton and Sanders are tied with white voters at 46%, which pretty much mirrors how the race played out in Iowa.
But among African Americans Clinton continues to have a substantial advantage over Sanders at 63/23.
Teen girl in classrm thrown around like rag doll.Every1 on TV saying“we can’t see what she did b4 video”Who gives a flying Fk‼️She’s a CHILD— Cher (@cher) October 27, 2015
Sheriff Leon Lott is currently giving a press conference egarding the South Carolina deputy who flipped a female high school student’s desk over then dragged/threw her across the room.
Sounds like he saying a little of, “Basically, she had it coming.”
As the press conference goes on, he’s drawing an appropriate hard line about the deputy but is stressing the female student ‘started’ the incident.
I’m just not convinced dragging and throwing a 5’6″ female teenager across a room is justified because she wouldn’t leave her desk.
Sheriff Lott also mentioned that the procedure Deputy Fields violated was in throwing the student across the room, he lost contact with the student. Not so much the violent nature of his behavior but that he let go of the student.
Hmm….
A high school student in Columbia, South Carolina, was arrested and held on $1,000 bond for filming a school officer physically abusing her classmate.
The high schooler was charged with – get this – “disturbing school.”
Via Raw Story:
Niya Kenny, 18, told WLTX she was shocked and disturbed when she saw Officer Ben Fields flipping her female classmate out of her desk and pinning her to the ground for refusing to leave class.
“I was screaming ‘What the f, what the f is this really happening?’ I was praying out loud for the girl,” Kenny told WLTX. “I just couldn’t believe this was happening I was just crying and he said, since you have so much to say you are coming too. I just put my hands behind my back.”
The video, posted Monday by New York Daily News writer Shaun King, shows Fields wrapping his arms around the neck of the pony-tailed girl. He then flips her desk over backwards and throws her onto the ground, saying “put your hands behind your back.”
Kenny said her classmate is only about 5’6″ and said she never saw anything like it before.
“A man used that much force on a little girl, a big man, like 300 pounds of full muscle,” Kenny told the station. “I was like no way, no way, you can’t do that to no little girl.”
According to The Grio, the officer (named Ben Fields) has a history of bias against African-American students.
One student in the room tweeted about the incident:
Just to be clear, before the video, she was sitting quietly at her desk. Did nothing to provoke the officer
— Aaron Johnson (@Aaron___J) October 27, 2015
The officer came in because she wouldnt leave the class when the teacher toild her to. I still don’t know what she did to be asked to leave.
— Aaron Johnson (@Aaron___J) October 27, 2015
Some sources say the student who was thrown to the ground wouldn’t “put her phone away” when asked to by the teacher. Even if that’s the case, does that warrant this level of physical violence against a 5’6″ female high school student?
How about this – if the student wouldn’t leave, get another cop and the two could simply lift her desk and carry her out without assaulting the teenager.
And what justifies arresting the student who took the video? Other than the cop didn’t want his actions captured for the world to see?
Sheriff Leon Lott gave a press conference today denouncing Officer Fields’ actions.
Watch the officer flip the student’s desk over, wrestle her to the ground and then drag her. And the girl BEHIND the phone cam was the one causing a disturbance?
UPDATE: Sheriff Leon Lott gave a press conference today saying Deputy Fields was terminated based on his violating training and operational procedures.
US turns its back on Israel, disasters following http://t.co/1hYq8GAP7j
— Michele Bachmann (@MicheleBachmann) October 4, 2015
This morning the country watched as South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House.
It was thrilling to hear chants of “USA! USA! USA” as the flag – long a symbol that divided not only South Carolina, but the entire country – was lowered and marched off the capitol grounds.
I loved that once the flag was removed it was handed to an African-American. Delicious.
Forward.