Sunday, May 29, 2016
FLASH! Report that Delegates Have Enough Votes to Nominate Cruz on 1st Ballot | RedState
FLASH! Report that Delegates Have Enough Votes to Nominate Cruz on 1st Ballot | RedState: 5 RecommendedRecommend Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES (from the diaries by streiff because wishful thinking isn’t a bad reaction to impending doom) The Media have declared Donald Trump has gained the required number of delegates for nomination, plus one: 1238. This is a misstatement, because he is not officially nominated until 1237 delegates vote for him at the convention. So not only has the | Read More »
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WHOA: Washington State GOP Awards Delegate Spots to Cruz, NOT Presumptive Nominee Donald Trump | RedState
WHOA: Washington State GOP Awards Delegate Spots to Cruz, NOT Presumptive Nominee Donald Trump | RedState: This weekend, the Washington State GOP held their convention and elected delegates to the national convention. In a stunning upset, they gave 40 of the 41 spots...
Monday, May 23, 2016
Runaway Train
Runaway Train: Yes, it’s a con. In the three weeks since Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee the remains of modern American conservatism have decayed at an alarming rate.
Three months ago, most GOP officeholders and conservative opinion leaders understood Trump to be an ignoramus and a boor, a vain reality-television star and a longtime donor to Democrats who had built his candidacy on the kind of progressive populism most of them had spent their careers fighting. Today, many of those same Republican elected officials and prominent conservatives are hailing Trump as the future of their party and the ideological movement it houses and excoriating anti-Trump conservatives who hold to the same position they took just a few weeks ago.
What's changed? Not Trump.
In the time since he effectively captured the GOP nomination, Trump has doubled down on his slanderous claim, borrowed from the National Enquirer, that Ted Cruz's father helped Lee Harvey Oswald months before the JFK assassination; refused to apologize for attacking Heidi Cruz's looks, once again calling her fair game; picked a fight with David Cameron, leader of America's longest-standing ally; distanced himself from his own tax plan; recommitted himself to releasing his tax returns and then declared defiantly that those returns are his private business and would not be released; backed off his proposal to ban temporarily entry to the United States for Muslims and then reiterated his support for such a ban; and, finally, lied on national television about a 1991 audio recording in which he created a fake persona—John Miller, a made-up spokesman played by Trump himself—for an interview with a gossip magazine, in order to boast about his virility and his virtue.
Three months ago, most GOP officeholders and conservative opinion leaders understood Trump to be an ignoramus and a boor, a vain reality-television star and a longtime donor to Democrats who had built his candidacy on the kind of progressive populism most of them had spent their careers fighting. Today, many of those same Republican elected officials and prominent conservatives are hailing Trump as the future of their party and the ideological movement it houses and excoriating anti-Trump conservatives who hold to the same position they took just a few weeks ago.
What's changed? Not Trump.
In the time since he effectively captured the GOP nomination, Trump has doubled down on his slanderous claim, borrowed from the National Enquirer, that Ted Cruz's father helped Lee Harvey Oswald months before the JFK assassination; refused to apologize for attacking Heidi Cruz's looks, once again calling her fair game; picked a fight with David Cameron, leader of America's longest-standing ally; distanced himself from his own tax plan; recommitted himself to releasing his tax returns and then declared defiantly that those returns are his private business and would not be released; backed off his proposal to ban temporarily entry to the United States for Muslims and then reiterated his support for such a ban; and, finally, lied on national television about a 1991 audio recording in which he created a fake persona—John Miller, a made-up spokesman played by Trump himself—for an interview with a gossip magazine, in order to boast about his virility and his virtue.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Trump gets nearly 10 times TV network coverage of all GOP candidates
Trump gets nearly 10 times TV network coverage of all GOP candidates: The nation's Big Three networks have lavished news coverage on flamboyant Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, one of the latest to get into the race, according to a review of nightly broadcasts dating to January 1.
The conservative media watchdog, the Media Research Center, found that Trump has received about 10 times the average amount of airtime given to the other 16 candidates combined, with the last one to get in, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, still waiting for his first second of coverage.
The CBS, ABC and NBC evening newscasts have already dedicated 116 minutes of a total of 315 minutes to covering Trump, the real estate mogul leading the GOP primary race by a wide margin. The remainder, when divided by 16, is about 12 minutes each.
The conservative media watchdog, the Media Research Center, found that Trump has received about 10 times the average amount of airtime given to the other 16 candidates combined, with the last one to get in, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, still waiting for his first second of coverage.
The CBS, ABC and NBC evening newscasts have already dedicated 116 minutes of a total of 315 minutes to covering Trump, the real estate mogul leading the GOP primary race by a wide margin. The remainder, when divided by 16, is about 12 minutes each.
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