The RNC of the GOP, Republican National Committee of the Grand Olde Party, think and say that they are in charge of their own political party. The have 'Rule 40' that was put in to benefit Mitt Romney, but they may change that rule the week or day before the national convention in Cleveland Ohio July 18-21, 2016.
They could then just choose the (1) Nominee; (2) VP Nominee; and (3) Platform for the 2016 general election, to run against the Democrat(ic) Party replacement for HRClinton. This would be the old-style 'Brokered Convention' where the main (1) Nominee is decided in a 'smoke-filled room'.
On the other hand, an 'open convention' requires repeated voting. Delegates are 'bound' to vote on the first ballot for how they were selected, and released on subsequent votes.
This all becomes moot if Donald J. Trump achieves 1,237 (simple majority) before Convention. Of course, Ted Cruz could also achieve the number to grasp the gold ring, but there is a 50/50 chance we arrive at Cleveland Convention with a plurality (the most but not majority) and we feel that Trump would like the challenge and drama.
What are your thoughts and comments?
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Run up to 1,237 Delegates {25 states are yet to vote}
Run
up to 1,237 Delegates {25 states are
yet to vote, 3-11-2016}
Voting Total State
Trump %
Trump Running Cruz
% Cruz
Running
Date Deleg Abbr. popula Deleg Total popular Del Total
-Mar11 825 463 463 362 362
Mar12 19m DC/G ?? ?17?
480 ?x? xx xx
Mar15 99 FL
100 99 579 xx xx xx
Mar15 69 IL
100 69 648 xx xx xx
Mar15 52 MO
100
52 700 xx xx xx
Mar15 72p NC ??
36? 736 36? xx 398
Mar15 66 OH
--- 0 xx --- 0 xx
Mar22 9 AS
100 ? xx xx xx xx xx
Mar22 58 AZ
100x xx xx 100y 58 456
Mar22 40 UT
20m xx xx 80m 80 496
Apr5 42 WI
100 42 778 xx xx xx
Apr19 95 NY
100m 95-15 873 xx xx+15 xx
Apr26 28 CT
100m 28-8 901
xx xx+8 xx
Apr26 16 DE
100 16 917 xx xx xx
Apr26 38 MD
100 38 955 xx xx xx
Apr26 71 PA
100 71 1026 xx xx xx
Apr26 19p RI ??
?9? 1035 ?? 10?
506
May3 57 IN
100 57 1092 xx xx xx
May10 33 NE
100x xx xx 100y 33 539
May10 34 WV
100 34 1126 xx xx xx
May17 28p OR ??
14? 1140 ?? 14?
553
May24 44p WA ?? m
22? +3 1162 ?? 22? -3
575
Jun7 27 MT
100x xx xx 100y 27 602
Jun7 29 SD
100x xx xx 100y 29 631
Jun7 24p NM ?? x
5 1167 ?? 19
670
Jun7 51 NJ
100 51 1218 xx xx xx
Jun7 172 CA 100
172 1380
xx xx 670
Where in the world is ::: ND,
WY, (??=some questions)
x/y = win-uncertain w/no-polling, yet. m=winner-take-most.
Look to Donald J. Trump to go into Convention with ~1,380
delegates (after CA votes);
and Senator Ted Cruz in 2nd-place with less
than half of that. These are
projections.
Do not look for any RNC efforts to take the nomination
away from delegate voting .!.
The next president will be President Trump or
President Cruz; HRC is unelectable.
.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Closed-door VS Open-Convention (NRC rule change?)
The Olde "smoke-filled room" won't happen[edit]
Rule 40 says that votes will happen until someone reaches the simple majority of delegates (1237). I heard Ted Cruz say today that selecting the Republican nominee to run in the general election would lead to an uprising if it is done in a Smoke-filled room. In this, he was clearly mistaken. The RNC could change the rule, and probably will, but it will still come to voting over and over. On the other hand, it is noted that the week or so before the Convention, the RNC will meet and decide any rule changes, such as allowing any candidate with at least one delegate won to be allowed on the first ballot. That could prevent Trump or Cruz (current leaders) from achieving the simple majority on the first ballot. However, they would probably come to the same conclusion after the third vote. Another scenario would be for two candidates to team, POTUS/VP, to exceed the 1,237 delegate majority. This can all be documented in the current news, but why not wait a week until winner-take-all voting takes place in Illinois, Florida, and Ohio? Also, wait until someone exceeds the simple majority and "The Establishment" (so-called) decides to change the rules anyway to try to exclude Trump or Cruz. (Hannity says that what applies to hating Trump also applies to Cruz, the outsiders.)
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Republican Debate in Detroit FoxNews 3/3/2016
Republican
Debate in Detroit FoxNews 3/3/2016
Moderating: Bret Baier, Megyn
Kelly, and Chris Wallace.
Candidate hopefuls: Trump, Ted Cruz, Rubio, Kasich.
Federal News Service transcription:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/us/politics/transcript-of-the-republican-presidential-debate-in-detroit.html
Since you can fast forward through the video and
word-search
the transcript, we will give the main topics presented and the main
comments from the four candidates. We
will provide a little ‘color
commentary’ but expect you to be watching and see that for yourselves. Look for further discussion on our new
website: http://ConserveThot.blogspot.com where
you also can argue back and forth.
We really like Ted Cruz putting in the next nominees to the Supreme
Court, but expect Donald Trump to roll on.
ABC means Anybody But Clinton and she is already convicted in the Court of Public
Opinion. Anyone the Democrats have will
be beaten in a landslide by Trump, Cruz, or Rubio, hands down!
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FoxNews INTRODUCTIONS:
Partnering with Facebook with 52million checking in.
60sec answers, 30sec re-butt. “Be
respectful, like a Red Wings hockey game.”
MAIN TOPIC: Romney’s comment, directed to Trump (asked
by Chris Wallace)
Trump: He failed and lost to
Obama. I believe in Free Trade, not when they beat us with imbalance, etc. “We will make great trade deals”
MAIN TOPIC: What are your views on the Ku Klux Klan?
Trump: Take a look at my Twitter
account. [Chris Wallace gives a friendly
smile]
MAIN TOPIC: You mocked Trump with ‘small hands’ etc.
Rubio: He deserves to be
attacked that way; I would prefer to
have a policy debate.
Trump: I take back calling him a
light-weight; look at these hands. [Big]
MAIN TOPIC: [Lynnette was coughing and I missed the
question about Trump vs Ted Cruz]
Cruz: This is not about the
insults; This is about JOBS. People are interested in solutions, not
slogans.
Trump: I’ve heard him say over and over and I’ve won three, he’s being
beaten badly.
Rubio: 2/3 of the people don’t vote for him; he is not Conservative.
Trump: Very nice words but
happen to be wrong. National poll: He’s
at 15, he’s at 14, I’m at 49%.
MAIN TOPIC: Do you buy Romney’s blueprint?
Kasich: Democrats tell me all
the time that I can get the crossovers, as the adult on the stage.
MAIN TOPIC: What jobs have you created?
Rubio: Go on my website to see
real policies.
Trump: This little guy has lied so much about my record. My sister thought it amazing.
Rubio: The answer is that he is not
going to do it. (Bring manufacturing
back from Mexico.)
[Rush Limbaugh said that a strategy for Rubio would be to egg Trump to
making a bad statement.]
MAIN TOPIC: Trump proposed tax cut to add $10TRILLION;
be specific what to cut
Trump: Common Core;
Environmental Protection; waste, fraud, abuse; Larry Kudlow likes my plan.
[Graphic shows $544 Billion deficit]
We don’t bid properly with Pharmaceuticals.
[Another full screen graphic] We’ll
save $300billion/year if we negotiate.
MAIN TOPIC: Who will collect the taxes if you abolish
the IRS?
Cruz: They are so corrupt, put
it on a postcard. Let me go back to the lack of specificity. I have given a plan that will cut
$500billion. Donald Trump has been part
of the corruption in D.C.
Trump: I have been supporting
politicians on many sides for years, I wasn’t a politician. Etc. We need people to break gridlock and get
things done.
MAIN TOPIC: Is Trump wrong saying not to increase the
Minimum Wage?
Kasich: I’m the only person on
stage that balanced the budget. Use common sense. Etc. I
won.
MAIN TOPIC: Immigration
Cruz: Look to the actual
record. Donald Trump gave $50,000 to
Gang of Eight. Why?
Trump: I’m doing 120 deals
outside of the United States. Soon
children will take over.
MAIN TOPIC: The New York Times interview, and
flexibility in deporting
Trump: Off-the-record is a very important
thing. There is always some
tug-and-pull, negotiation.
MAIN TOPIC: After Gang of Eight, you still seem to not
Rubio: I absolutely want to
solve this situation; I did the best
with the Senate that was then.
Trump: Sheriff Arpaio supports
me. Rubio give-and-take is OK.
Break for commercial: Last Q was
from Megyn: Will you allow releasing The
NYTimes tape?
Trump doubles-down like a negotiator and teases them, “I will not do
that.” [serious face.]
MAIN TOPIC: Visas for highly-skilled or not?
Trump: I’m changing; I’m
changing. We need to keep the
brain-power after they graduate here.
MAIN TOPIC: You reversed yourself, you declined to join
H1D abuse.
Cruz: I’ll call for an
audit. It is not dissimilar with Donald’s
hotel in Florida. How many worked as a
waiter? [He asks the audience, and
everyone claps, cheers, and raises a hand.]
Trump: I’ve had tens of
thousands; short season; It’s legal and we bring them in, and out.
Cruz: That’s not accurate.
Americans wanted the jobs. Etc. [“wrong”,
Trump interjects]
Trump: This is what other hotels
do … [Cruz wants the tape released: “You’re the liar” says Trump.]
[The audience is yelling and no one can understand what they are
saying. They yell to each other.]
MAIN TOPIC: ISIS and ground troops in Syria
Rubio: It will require Special
Ops and air strikes.
Kasich: I helped Rumsfeld with
his problems. Libya is a desert. Work
with Muslim friends. Etc. Take care of
the job in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and then come home.
MAIN TOPIC: Military will refuse to carry out extreme interrogation
Trump: They won’t refuse me, believe
me. They are chopping off heads. Waterboarding is fine. Can you imagine these animals that chop off
heads and see us talking about waterboarding.
That is what leaders do.
[Addresses the families of the terrorists, watching their husbands on
TV.]
Cruz: Yelling doesn’t make you a
tough guy. Reagan generated jobs,
rebuilt the military, and won the Cold War;
I will do the same thing. If they
wage Jihad against America, they sign their death warrant.
MAIN TOPIC: Snowden and treason, you waited to condemn
Cruz: Start with the facts
first, and pass judgement later. He fled
to Russia, China, undermined us.
MAIN TOPIC: Who would you get for Anti-Terrorism.
Trump: [xxx] I said from the beginning that Snowden was a
spy.
Kasich: I knew Ronald
Reagan. You can take it from there.
[Another commercial break.]
MAIN TOPIC: Megyn asks about reversing and shows clips
on war answers …
Trump: I was always against
going into Iraq; nuclear weapons changed
the game. Etc.
Trump: At first they were
talking about small number of Syrian immigrants. Safe zones there.
[Dust up with Megyn and Rubio challenging Trump on an ongoing legal
action with Trump University. They pound him over and over with what they
perceive as ‘facts’ and Donald says let’s see after it is resolved in three
years. He gets really beat up on this one.
Trump says he doesn’t cave.]
Cruz: Is this the debate you
want in the general election? [Trump, “Oh,
stop it.”]
Cruz: Count to ten, Donald. Come join us—we want you on our team. [Cheers]
Megyn goes to Kasich “Let’s come together and stop fighting” to go to
commercial break. The audience cheers
the statement of Kasich. We’ll see if
that translated to votes in Ohio, winner-take-all on March 15 where Trump now
leads by double-digits.
MAIN TOPIC: Why haven’t Republicans done more with water
in Flynt Michigan?
Rubio: Accountability is
important, and it wasn’t political. Ensure it never happens again.
MAIN TOPIC: Should gov’t bail out the schools?
Kasich: They came to me in Ohio.
MAIN TOPIC: Detroit was the symbol of U.S. manufacturing
might, not now. Be specific.
Cruz: 60 yrs of failed Leftwing
policy. [History] It is an outrage,
media should report it.
SOCIAL ISSUES [Clip of Kasich vs
GAY marriage dissenters.]
MAIN TOPIC: GAY is the law of the land, What of Adoption
Cruz: It should be a state
decision. There is no compromise like
another on this stage.
Trump: He is right. Most people would prefer to leave it to the
states.
MAIN TOPIC: Scalia talked about guns
Rubio: The Second Amendment is
in the Constitution for a reason.
Criminals don’t follow the laws.
MAIN TOPIC: [Trump changed his mind and now doesn’t ban
assault weapons]
Trump: If Paris had guns, you
would not have had 130 people killed.
Cruz: He would compromise on the
Supreme Court. [“I did not say that” adds Trump.]
Trump: He supported John Roberts,
the primary supporter, who let us down on Obamacare.
Cruz: Breathe, breathe,
breathe, I wrote one opEd, and I wouldn’t
have nominated him.
Rubio makes some comment we missed and smiles to audience applause.
[Commercial ads, including the new movie “Risen” which is amazing, for
the faithful.]
MAIN TOPIC: Tell Mr Trump why he isn’t prepared on
Foreign Policy.
Rubio: Etc. Much of our future now depends on it. Millennials can be the greatest generation.
Trump: I’ve gotten to know Marco
and he is not a leader. They will do as I tell them (in military.)
Rubio: One again, he didn’t
respond with policy. North Korea has a lunatic.
[Arguing next]
Trump: Wouldn’t it be nice if we got along with Russia, China? Etc.
MAIN TOPIC: Sanctions on North Korea
Cruz: The Clinton Adm failed and
lifted sanctions. Now it is harder. Move
carriers to So.China sea. Etc.
[Break. Graphic of Facebook:
Trump(60%); Cruz(18%); Rubio(11%); Carson(7%); Kasich(4%)]
[[So for the last month conversations, Ben Carson was beating Kasich in
the conversations.]]
LAST QUESTION OF THE NIGHT: THE
RNC PLEDGE: “Will you support the
nominee?”
Rubio: She lied to the families
of the victims of Benghazi.
Cruz: I made a promise, I will
fight for your rights.
Kasich: I’ll be the
nominee. [cheers]
Trump: Even if it’s not me? Millions and millions have come in; Democrats
are losing. Yes, I will.
Closing Statements:
Kasich: I have a record, not
just talk/theory. We’ve left no one
behind in Ohio.
Rubio: Problems in America;
embrace opportunities, if we get this election right.
Cruz: To every soldier; Mom & Dad; Immoral to send to battle with arms tied. I…will…have…your…back!!!
Trump: We will bring JOBS back,
and you will be very proud of America.
Thank you.
[Trump shakes everyone’s hand but Rubio doesn’t open his, so Trump
gives him a fist bump.]
[Kasich doesn’t want a photo of shaking hands w/Rubio, so he gives him
an elbow bump.]
Bottom Line: Rubio says he’ll
win in Florida; and Kasich says he will win in Ohio.
“Who won the Debate?” DrudgeReport voting: Trump(66%); Cruz(20%);
Kasich(9%); Rubio(5%).
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Suppose one of the top three candidates “runs the Table”
Suppose one of the top three candidates “runs the Table”
Which state puts the top
candidate beyond a simple majority of delegates?
Let {C1,C2,C3} be
{Cruz,Rubio,Trump} and Let C1 win 100% in the
‘winner-take-all’ states
and 50% in the states dividing delegates proportionally.
Add the delegates from
Feb-June to project the running cumulative results:
IA15+NH12+SC25+NV15+AL25+AL14+AR20+GA38+MA21+MN19+OK22+TE29+TX78+VT8+VA25+WY15+KS20+KY23+LA24+ME12+PR12+HI10+ID16+MI30+MS20+USVI5+Guam5+DC10+FL99+IL69+MO52+NC36+M9+OH66+Samoa9+AZ58+UT20+ND28+WI42+CO37+NY95+CT14+DE16+MD38+PA54+RI10+IN57+NE36+WV34+OR14+WA22+CA172+MT27+NJ51+NM12+SD29.
Adding these delegates will
give us a “rough guestimate” of what to expect:
IA15+NH27+SC52+NV67+AL92+AL106+AR126+GA164+MA185+MN204+OK226+TE255+TX333+VT341+VA366+WY381+KS401+KY424+LA448+ME460+PR1462+HI472+ID488+MI518+MS538+USVI543+Guam548+DC558+FL657+IL726+MO778+NC814+M823+OH889+Samoa898+AZ956+UT976+ND1004+WI1046+CO1083+NY1178+CT1129+DE1208+MD1246+PA1300+RI1310+IN1367+NE1403+WV1437+OR1451+WA1473+CA1645+MT1672+NJ1723+NM1735+SD1764.
Maryland and Pennsylvania
vote on April 26th, not that far away, to exceed the 1,237 delegate
simple-majority. Still, there will be a somewhat open convention.
PS: Current NRC rules: C2
& C3 need to win eight states to stay in.
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
Ramifications of the South Carolina 3-way win
What do you think of Trump winning, Cruz and Rubio tying, and Dr Ben
Carson beating Jeb Bush? Bush drops out
and Dr Carson stay in! Trump took all 50 delegates in SC capturing 33% of the
votes, and Rubio and Cruz tie at 22% of
the vote. You could say that Ted Cruz
and Marco Rubio “also ran” since South Carolina (SC) is a ‘winner take all’
state. Frank Vandersloot and Mitt Romney
endorse Rubio now.
==External links==
The Official RNC 2016 Republican
Nominating Process
https://www.gop.com/the-official-guide-to-the-2016-republican-nominating-process/
Green papers for 2016 primaries,
caucuses, and conventions
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/
ElectionProjection.com
http://www.electionprojection.com/2016-elections/2016-presidential-primaries.php
2016 Presidential primaries
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Republican 9th Debate (SC) Ted Cruz comments (7)
Ted Cruz Comments
(Time allowed his seven comments)
From the ninth debate in South Carolina, Saturday
13, 2016, with Republican candidates.
CRUZ: Justice Scalia was a legal
giant. He was somebody that I knew for 20 years. He was a brilliant
man. He was faithful to the Constitution. He changed the arc of American legal
history. And I'll tell you, his passing tonight, our prayers are with his
family, with his wife, Maureen, who he adored, his nine children, his 36
grandkids.
CRUZ: But it underscores the stakes of this
election. We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that will strike down
every restriction on abortion adopted by the states. We are one justice away
from a Supreme Court that will reverse the Heller decision, one of Justice
Scalia's seminal decisions that upheld the Second Amendment right to keep and
to bear arms.
We are one justice
away from a Supreme Court that would undermine the religious liberty of
millions of Americans -- and the stakes of this election, for this year, for
the Senate, the Senate needs to stand strong and say, "We're not going to
give up the U.S. Supreme Court for a generation by allowing Barack Obama to
make one more liberal appointee."
And then for the state
of South Carolina, one of the most important judgments for the men and women of
South Carolina to make is who on this stage has the background, the principle,
the character, the judgment, and the strength of resolve to nominate and
confirm principled constitutionalists to the court? That will be what I will do
if I'm elected president. (APPLAUSE)
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DICKERSON: Senator
Cruz, you talked about the first Gulf War as being a kind of model for your
focused, and determined effort to go after ISIS. But, there were 700,000 ground
troops as a part of that, and you don't have a ground component to your plan.
Why?
CRUZ: Well, we need to focus on what the
objective is, you know? You're question about the first three questions you
would ask in this Situation Room. I think it is a problem if the president,
commander in chief we've elected does not have the experience and background to
understand the threats facing this country coming in on day one.
If you look at the
threats facing this country, the single gravest threat, national security
threat, is the threat of a nuclear Iran. That's why I've pledged on day one to
rip to shreds this Iranian nuclear deal, and anyone that thinks you can
negotiate Konami does not understand the nature of Komani.
When it comes to
ISIS, we've got to have a focused objective. One of the problems of Barack
Obama and Hillary Clinton's foreign policy, and sadly, too many establishment
Republicans in Washington, is they focus on issues unrelated to protecting this
country. They focus on nation building, they focus on toppling governments to
promote democracy, and it ends up undermining our national security.
Now, with regard to
ISIS, we need a commander in chief that sets the objective we will utterly
defeat them because they have declared war. They've declared a jihad on us.
Now, what do we
need...
(BELL RINGING)
CRUZ: ... To carry that out. We need
overwhelming air power, we need to arm the Kurds who can be our boots on the
ground, and if ground troops are necessary than we should employ them, but it
shouldn't be politicians demonstrating political toughness. It should be
military expert judgement carrying out the objectives set out by the commander
in chief.
(APPLAUSE)
CRUZ: We have Kurds in both Iraq and Syria.
They are fighting ISIS right now. They are winning victories right now. ISIS is
using American military equipment they've seized in Iraq. And the Obama
administration refuses to arm the Kurds, the Peshmerga, the fighting forces who
have been longtime allies.
We ought to be arming
them and letting them fight. Now if we need to embed Special Forces to direct
our overwhelming air power, if it is required to use ground troops to defeat
ISIS, we should use them, but we ought to start with using our incredible air
power advantage.
The first Persian
Gulf War, we launched 1,100 air attacks a day. Today we're launching between 15
and 30. We're not using the tools we have and it's because the
commander-in-chief is not focused on defeating the enemy.
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CRUZ: Well, let me say it at the outset
that everyone here understands - everyone understands that how - that the
middle class has been left behind in the last seven years of the Obama economy
and we've got to bring jobs back. We've got to get people back to work. We've
got to get wages going up again. We've got to get people moving from part time
work to full time work.
We all agree on that
but it's not going to be solved with magic pixie dust. It's just going to be
solved by declaring into the air, "let there be jobs." We actually
have to understand the principles that made America great in the first place.
Now, where do you get
economic growth? If you look at cause and effect over our nation's history,
every time we lessen the burden of Washington on small business owners, on job
creators, we see incredible economic growth. You do that through tax reform and
regulatory reform.
My tax plan - typical
family of four , first 36,000 dollars you earn, you pay nothing in taxes - no
income taxes, no pay role taxes, no nothing. Above ten percent, everyone pays
the same simple flat ten percent income rate, it's flat and fair. You can fill
out your taxes on a postcard and we abolish the IRS. If you want to see the
post card, I've got it on my website.
…
CRUZ: Now Major, the business flat tax that
is in my tax plan is not a VAT. A VAT
in Europe is a sales tax. The business flat tax is not a sales tax, it is
a tax of 16 percent opposed fairly and evenly across the board on all business.
One of the things
that's critical is we're doing that in conjunction with abolishing the
corporate income tax, with abolishing the Obamacare taxes, with abolishing the
payroll taxes which are the biggest taxes paid by most working Americans and
with abolishing the death tax which is cruel and unfair. And you asked about
economic growth, the non-partisan tax foundation estimated a simple flat tax that
would product 4.9 million new jobs, it would increase capital investment by 44
percent and would lift everyone's income by double digits.
That's how you turn
the country around, not just hoping and praying for it but implementing
policies that work.
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CRUZ: Well, you know, your question
highlights a sharp difference on immigration on this stage. You know, in a
Republican primary, everyone talks tough on immigration. Everyone is against
illegal immigration in a Republican primary. But as voters, we've been burned
over and over again by people that give us a great campaign speech and they
don't walk the walk.
There are sharp
differences on amnesty. If you look at the folks on this stage, when Harry Reid
and Chuck Schumer and establishment Republicans were leading the fight to pass
a massive amnesty plan, I stood with Jeff Sessions and Steve King and the
American people and led the fight to defeat that amnesty plan.
(APPLAUSE)
STRASSEL: So would
you -- would you use the addresses?
CRUZ: Now that moment...
STRASSEL: Would you
pick them up?
CRUZ: That moment was what Reagan would
call "a time for choosing." When it comes to deciding which side of
the line you're on, the Rubio-Schumer amnesty plan... (BOOING)
CRUZ: ... apparently supported by the donor
class, which is why Washington supported it. The Rubio-Schumer amnesty plan
passed the Senate and it was on the verge of passing the House.
House leadership
intended to take it up and pass it with the Democrats overruling most of the
Republicans. And the question for anyone on illegal immigration is where were
you in that fight? Where did you stand?
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argue. Cruz says he has support of
Levin/Limbaugh/Sessions. …
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CRUZ: I think it is a very important
question because the people who have been hurt the most in the Obama economy
had been the most vulnerable. It's been young people. It's been Hispanics. It's
been African-Americans. It's been single moms. We have the lowest percentage of
Americans working today in any year since 1977.
And the sad reality
is big government, massive taxes, massive regulation, doesn't work. What we
need to do instead is bring back booming economic growth, let -- small
businesses are the heart of the economy. Two-thirds of all new jobs come from
small businesses. If we want to lift people out of poverty -- you know, I think
of these issues from the perspective of my dad.
My dad fled Cuba in
1957. He was just 18. He couldn't speak English. He had nothing. He had $100 in
his underwear. And he washed dishes making 50 cents an hour and paid his way
through school. Today, my dad is a pastor. He travels the country preaching the
gospel.
Now, I think about
all of these issues. How would it impact my dad when he was washing dishes? If
we had Obamacare in place right now, the odds are very high my father would
have been laid off because it's teenaged kids like my dad who have gotten laid
off. If he didn't get laid off, the odds are high he would have had his hours
forcibly reduced to 28, 29 hours a week.
We need to lift the
burdens on small businesses so you have jobs and we need welfare reform that
gets people off of welfare and back to work.
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DICKERSON:
[Trump and Cruz, why don’t you two argue for the camera?]
CRUZ: [Trump supports Planned Parenthood;
etc.]
TRUMP: [Not for Abortion—He lies and is not
liked.]
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CLOSING: Senator
Cruz, your closing statement?
CRUZ: South Carolina, you have a critical
choice to make. Our country literally hangs
in the balance.
Do you want
another Washington deal maker who will do business as usual, cut
deals with the democrats, grow government, grow debt and give up our
fundamental liberties? Or do you want a conservative, a proven conservative
that will stand and fight with you each and every day?
Listen, repealing Obamacare is not going to be easy.
Passing a simple flat tax that abolishes
the IRS is not going to be easy but if we stand with the American people
we can do it.
And today, we saw
just how great the stakes are, two branches of government hang in the balance.
Not just the presidency but the Supreme Court. If we get this wrong, if
we nominate the wrong candidates, the Second Amendment, life, marriage,
religious, liberty - everyone of those hangs in the balance.
My little girls are here. I don't want
to look my daughters in the eyes and say, "we lost their liberties."
Who do you know will defend The Constitution and Bill of Rights? And as a
Commander in Chief, who do you know will stand up to our enemies as the clam,
steady, deliberate, strength to defeat our enemies, to secure our borders and to
keep America safe.
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