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Trump and Clinton win Florida
Rubio has suspended his campaign.
Rubio has suspended his campaign.
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I disagree. Trump and Bernie are scaring the crap out of the establishment and that should tell you something.
It would be interesting if Trump and Bernie joined forces.
Bernie as President and Trump as Vice President.
Making America Great Again 2016
sticking it to the establishment
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Clinton wins North Carolina
Kasich and Clinton wins Ohio
Trump wins Illinois and North Carolina
Clinton wins Illinois
Kasich and Clinton wins Ohio
Trump wins Illinois and North Carolina
Clinton wins Illinois
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I want to leave this state.
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Tuesday was a great day for Hillary, after her significant loss to Bernie in Michigan a week earlier, she won primaries in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri.
So far, Hillary has 1,599 delegates, 784 delegates short to win the Democratic nomination. Bernie has 844 and needs 1,539 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.
On 3/22/2016, the next primaries will be held in Arizona, Utah and caucus in Idaho.
A big mouth filthy rich becoming a running mate of a hard-core socialist, now, that’s not going to happen in a million years!I disagree. Trump and Bernie are scaring the crap out of the establishment and that should tell you something.
It would be interesting if Trump and Bernie joined forces.
Bernie as President and Trump as Vice President.
Making America Great Again 2016
sticking it to the establishment
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I told you so, he is a disaster candidate and he’ll be a disaster “president”.
The Economist rates Trump presidency among its top 10 global risks
By DANIEL LIPPMAN 03/16/16
A Donald Trump presidency poses a top-10 risk event that could disrupt the world economy, lead to political chaos in the U.S. and heighten security risks for the United States, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Electing Trump could also start a trade war, hurt trade with Mexico and be a godsend to terrorist recruiters in the Middle East, according to the latest EIU forecasts.
The well-respected global economic and geopolitical analysis firm put a possible Trump presidency in its top 10 global risks this month, released Wednesday. Other risks include a sharp slowdown in the Chinese economy, a fracture of the Eurozone, and Britain's possible departure from the European Union.
Trump’s controversial remarks on Muslims would be a gift to “potential recruiters who have long been trying to paint the U.S. as an anti-Muslim country. His rhetoric will certainly help that recruiting effort,” said Robert Powell, global risk briefing manager at EIU.
Until Trump, the firm had never rated a pending election of a candidate to be a geopolitical risk to the U.S. and the world. The firm has no plans to include Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz or John Kasich on future risk lists.
“It’s highly unusual, and I don’t think we ever have done it where we’ve had a single politician be the center of our risk items,” Powell said in an interview, but noted that the firm has once included the transition at the top of the Chinese Communist Party as a top-ten risk as well.
“Innate hostility within the Republican hierarchy towards Mr. Trump, combined with the inevitable virulent Democratic opposition, will see many of his more radical policies blocked in Congress,” wrote EIU. But “such internal bickering will also undermine the coherence of domestic and foreign policymaking.”
And there are also serious risks to the global economy if Trump is elected, warned EIU, a sister company to The Economist.
“The prospects for a trade war are quite high,” said Powell. “Why is a guy who has many of his goods made in China wanting to start a trade war in China?”
One difficulty in assessing Trump’s policy positions is that “he does tend to shift his opinions like the weather,” Powell said.
Powell also remarked upon Trump's calls for a more aggressive campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIL or ISIS.
“One of [Trump’s] extreme positions has been to invade Syria to wipe out ISIS,” he said, citing estimates finding that a year-long excursion in Syria of 20,000-30,000 U.S. troops could cost $25 billion.
Trump has vowed to seize Syria's oil fields and refineries, which help keep ISIS afloat, and then sell the oil to pay for a U.S. military campaign. But Powell said that at current oil prices, if the U.S. actually stole the oil, it would only net about $500 million, at most.
The Economist rates Trump presidency among its top 10 global risks
By DANIEL LIPPMAN 03/16/16
A Donald Trump presidency poses a top-10 risk event that could disrupt the world economy, lead to political chaos in the U.S. and heighten security risks for the United States, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Electing Trump could also start a trade war, hurt trade with Mexico and be a godsend to terrorist recruiters in the Middle East, according to the latest EIU forecasts.
The well-respected global economic and geopolitical analysis firm put a possible Trump presidency in its top 10 global risks this month, released Wednesday. Other risks include a sharp slowdown in the Chinese economy, a fracture of the Eurozone, and Britain's possible departure from the European Union.
Trump’s controversial remarks on Muslims would be a gift to “potential recruiters who have long been trying to paint the U.S. as an anti-Muslim country. His rhetoric will certainly help that recruiting effort,” said Robert Powell, global risk briefing manager at EIU.
Until Trump, the firm had never rated a pending election of a candidate to be a geopolitical risk to the U.S. and the world. The firm has no plans to include Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz or John Kasich on future risk lists.
“It’s highly unusual, and I don’t think we ever have done it where we’ve had a single politician be the center of our risk items,” Powell said in an interview, but noted that the firm has once included the transition at the top of the Chinese Communist Party as a top-ten risk as well.
“Innate hostility within the Republican hierarchy towards Mr. Trump, combined with the inevitable virulent Democratic opposition, will see many of his more radical policies blocked in Congress,” wrote EIU. But “such internal bickering will also undermine the coherence of domestic and foreign policymaking.”
And there are also serious risks to the global economy if Trump is elected, warned EIU, a sister company to The Economist.
“The prospects for a trade war are quite high,” said Powell. “Why is a guy who has many of his goods made in China wanting to start a trade war in China?”
One difficulty in assessing Trump’s policy positions is that “he does tend to shift his opinions like the weather,” Powell said.
Powell also remarked upon Trump's calls for a more aggressive campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIL or ISIS.
“One of [Trump’s] extreme positions has been to invade Syria to wipe out ISIS,” he said, citing estimates finding that a year-long excursion in Syria of 20,000-30,000 U.S. troops could cost $25 billion.
Trump has vowed to seize Syria's oil fields and refineries, which help keep ISIS afloat, and then sell the oil to pay for a U.S. military campaign. But Powell said that at current oil prices, if the U.S. actually stole the oil, it would only net about $500 million, at most.
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Trump victory a major global risk: EIU
AFP — PUBLISHED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event. — AP
LONDON: The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency represents a global threat on par with religious militancy destabilising the world economy, according to British research group EIU.
In the latest version of its Global Risk assessment, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked victory for the Republican front-runner at 12 on an index where the current top threat is a Chinese economic “hard landing” rated 20.
Justifying the threat level, the EIU highlighted the tycoon's alienation towards China as well as his comments on Islamist extremism, saying a proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States would be a “potent recruitment tool for militant groups”.
It also raised the spectre of a trade war under a Trump presidency and pointed out that his policies “tend to be prone to constant revision”.
Read: Clinton, Trump move closer to White House nominations
“He has been exceptionally hostile towards free trade, including notably Nafta (the North American Free Trade Agreement), and has repeatedly labelled China as a 'currency manipulator'.” it said.
“He has also taken an exceptionally right-wing stance on the Middle East and militant terrorism, including, among other things, advocating the killing of families of terrorists and launching a land incursion into Syria to wipe out the militant IS (and acquire its oil).
“By comparison it gave a possible armed clash in the South China Sea an eight — the same as the threat posed by Britain leaving the European Union — and ranked an emerging market debt crisis at 16.
A Trump victory, it said, would at least scupper the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and 11 other American and Asian states signed in February, while “his hostile attitude to free trade, and alienation of Mexico and China in particular, could escalate rapidly into a trade war. “
“There are risks to this forecast, especially in the event of a terrorist attack on US soil or a sudden economic downturn,” it added.
However, the organisation said it did not expect Trump to defeat his most likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in an election and pointed out that Congress would likely block some of his more radical proposals if he won November's election.
Rated at 12 alongside the prospect of a Trump presidency was the threat of IS, which the EIU said risked ending a five-year bull run on US and European stock markets if terrorist attacks escalated.
The break-up of the eurozone following a Greek exit from the bloc was rated 15, while the prospect of a new “cold war” fuelled by Russian interventions in Ukraine and Syria was put at 16.
AFP — PUBLISHED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO
LONDON: The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency represents a global threat on par with religious militancy destabilising the world economy, according to British research group EIU.
In the latest version of its Global Risk assessment, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked victory for the Republican front-runner at 12 on an index where the current top threat is a Chinese economic “hard landing” rated 20.
Justifying the threat level, the EIU highlighted the tycoon's alienation towards China as well as his comments on Islamist extremism, saying a proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States would be a “potent recruitment tool for militant groups”.
It also raised the spectre of a trade war under a Trump presidency and pointed out that his policies “tend to be prone to constant revision”.
Read: Clinton, Trump move closer to White House nominations
“He has been exceptionally hostile towards free trade, including notably Nafta (the North American Free Trade Agreement), and has repeatedly labelled China as a 'currency manipulator'.” it said.
“He has also taken an exceptionally right-wing stance on the Middle East and militant terrorism, including, among other things, advocating the killing of families of terrorists and launching a land incursion into Syria to wipe out the militant IS (and acquire its oil).
“By comparison it gave a possible armed clash in the South China Sea an eight — the same as the threat posed by Britain leaving the European Union — and ranked an emerging market debt crisis at 16.
A Trump victory, it said, would at least scupper the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and 11 other American and Asian states signed in February, while “his hostile attitude to free trade, and alienation of Mexico and China in particular, could escalate rapidly into a trade war. “
“There are risks to this forecast, especially in the event of a terrorist attack on US soil or a sudden economic downturn,” it added.
However, the organisation said it did not expect Trump to defeat his most likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in an election and pointed out that Congress would likely block some of his more radical proposals if he won November's election.
Rated at 12 alongside the prospect of a Trump presidency was the threat of IS, which the EIU said risked ending a five-year bull run on US and European stock markets if terrorist attacks escalated.
The break-up of the eurozone following a Greek exit from the bloc was rated 15, while the prospect of a new “cold war” fuelled by Russian interventions in Ukraine and Syria was put at 16.
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Great ad by Hillary Clinton, it shows what Trump is all about.
Meanwhile, many Rabbis and Jewish leaders are planning boycott of Trump at AIPAC, good, he deserves it.
Rabbis, Jewish leaders plan boycott of Donald Trump at AIPAC
Washington (CNN)Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to protest Donald Trump's speech to a major pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred.
Trump is scheduled to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Monday night, and several groups are organizing boycotts of the speech.
Rabbis David Paskin and Jesse Olitzky organized one such campaign, called Come Together Against Hate, a play on the conference's theme of "Come Together."
The pair and their allies have created a website and Facebook group to organize a protest that they say is not designed to disrupt AIPAC but to signal their condemnation of Trump.
"This is not about policies, this is not about parties, this is about one particular person, Donald Trump, who has encouraged and incited violence at his campaign rallies," said Paskin, a rabbi in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. "We are against the hatred, the incitement of hatred, the ugliness that has engulfed this political season." READ MORE
Meanwhile, many Rabbis and Jewish leaders are planning boycott of Trump at AIPAC, good, he deserves it.
Rabbis, Jewish leaders plan boycott of Donald Trump at AIPAC
Washington (CNN)Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to protest Donald Trump's speech to a major pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred.
Trump is scheduled to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Monday night, and several groups are organizing boycotts of the speech.
Rabbis David Paskin and Jesse Olitzky organized one such campaign, called Come Together Against Hate, a play on the conference's theme of "Come Together."
The pair and their allies have created a website and Facebook group to organize a protest that they say is not designed to disrupt AIPAC but to signal their condemnation of Trump.
"This is not about policies, this is not about parties, this is about one particular person, Donald Trump, who has encouraged and incited violence at his campaign rallies," said Paskin, a rabbi in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. "We are against the hatred, the incitement of hatred, the ugliness that has engulfed this political season." READ MORE
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Look who is talking, if she was so corrupt, why did Trump give her several donations for her Senate elections and her 2008 presidential elections?
In fact, not only Trump, but also his wife, (Melania) son, (Donald Trump Jr) and daughter (Ivanka) gave donations for her election campaigns.
Trump also used to say Hillary was “very talented” and “capable” to become US president:
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I'm lovin it!
AP-GfK Poll: Clinton has edge over Trump on range of issues
Clinton's edge over Trump on the issues spans foreign and domestic policy.
She holds a significant advantage on handling immigration, health care, the U.S. image abroad, filling Supreme Court vacancies, international trade and working with Congress. Her biggest advantage is on handling gender equality issues, with 55 percent of Americans trusting her and just 12 percent backing Trump.
Clinton has a slimmer lead over Trump on which candidate is trusted to protect the country, with 37 percent backing the Democrat and 31 percent backing the Republican. The margin is similar when Americans were asked who they trusted to handle the threat posed by the Islamic State group.
Much of Trump's appeal with voters has rested on his broad pledge to "make America great again." But when asked which candidate they trusted more to make the country great, 33 percent of Americans picked Clinton and 28 percent backed Trump.
Thirty percent said they didn't trust either candidate to make that happen. Read more
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Bernie won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses on April 9, with a small margin, no surprise there, so far, Bernie has done well in caucuses with small rural states with white majority. Wyoming just had a total of 14 delegates and were equally divided between Bernie and Hillary, but with the Superdelegates support, Hillary got more delegates than Bernie.
Hillary won 11 delegates.
Bernie got 7.
To win the Democratic nomination, Democrats need 2,383 delegates to win.
So far,
Hillary has 1,756 delegates.
Bernie 1,068.
Another great ad by Hillary’s campaign, just shows how anti-America Trump is “during the ad, a voiceover shows footage of Donald Trump while mentioning his proposed ban on Muslims from entering the United States, his recent comments about punishment for women who have abortions, and his remarks about Mexicans.
It then cuts to footage of Clinton at a recent campaign event criticizing Trump. "Donald Trump says we can solve America's problems by turning against each other. It's wrong, and it goes against everything New York and America stands for," she says.”
Hillary won 11 delegates.
Bernie got 7.
To win the Democratic nomination, Democrats need 2,383 delegates to win.
So far,
Hillary has 1,756 delegates.
Bernie 1,068.
Another great ad by Hillary’s campaign, just shows how anti-America Trump is “during the ad, a voiceover shows footage of Donald Trump while mentioning his proposed ban on Muslims from entering the United States, his recent comments about punishment for women who have abortions, and his remarks about Mexicans.
It then cuts to footage of Clinton at a recent campaign event criticizing Trump. "Donald Trump says we can solve America's problems by turning against each other. It's wrong, and it goes against everything New York and America stands for," she says.”
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Trump has never been a real conservative/Republican. He's just a megalomaniac and thinks the presidency will be the ultimate 'reality TV' show. It's looking more and more like we Republicans are headed to a contested party convention. If it goes longer than a 1st ballot vote, Trump will be denied the nomination and I think, will run as a third party candidate. In any case, it's likely that Hillary will be the next president unless she blows it.
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