Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 16 Mar 2016 09:31 AM PDT


The Associated Press is reporting that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is the projected Florida primary winner.
The win, which caused Florida-native Marco Rubio to officially drop out of the race, will provide Trump with the state’s 99 delegates.
Despite major polls showing a double digit lead for Trump days prior to the primary, the Rubio campaign continued to claim they would be victorious.
Just last month, Rubio adviser Todd Harris told Twitter followers that the Florida senator would win regardless of poll numbers.

Rubio himself also stated last week that he believed the Florida winner would undoubtedly receive the GOP nomination.
“I need your help,” Rubio said. “I believe with all my heart that the winner of the Florida primary next Tuesday will be the nominee of the Republican Party.”
Speaking to supporters following his loss, Rubio stated that it was not “God’s plan” for him to lead the nation.
“It is not God’s plan that I be president in 2016 or maybe ever,” Rubio said.
Rubio also used the moment to warn his supporters against giving into fear, a comment seen as a jab at The Donald.
“I ask the American people, do not give into the fear, do not give into the frustration,” he said.
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Posted: 15 Mar 2016 04:51 PM PDT

Only a few weeks before Donald Trump hit 53% in a national poll, the mainstream media – and even Marco Rubio – were claiming that most GOP voters hate him.
It was right after Super Tuesday in particular when the anti-Trump media was downplaying Trump’s major victories by declaring that the three other candidates got more votes combined, ignoring the fact that the same could be said about any of the candidates.
“…Indeed, once again, most voters voted against Trump, not for him, and that’s where reality-show tactics come in,” National Review’s Jonah Goldberg declared on March 4.
Other media pundits made near-identical statements:
“Trump’s weakness may be that in most cases he is restricted to about a third of the vote,” David Thornton of Practical Politicking claimed. “Roughly two-thirds of Republicans have consistently voted against Trump, and Real Clear Politics polling shows that this seems to be holding true in most upcoming primaries.”
And Red State’s Leon Wolf asserted that “Trump’s base of 35% support looks pretty invincible, but the base of Trump’s opposition at about 65% also looks pretty invincible.”
Not surprisingly, Marco Rubio same nearly the same thing:
“Donald Trump – 65% of the people who voted, voted against him, and that’s the problem he has,” he saidMarch 2. “He can never bring this party together.”
“There will never be a time when our supporters are asking us to make way for Donald Trump.”
Actually, that time might be now: Trump is now at 53% among likely Republican primary voters according to a new poll, which also found that Rubio is the least liked of all the remaining GOP candidates.
“The week’s Economist/YouGov Poll finds Trump still at the top of GOP voters’ preference with a wider lead, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio seems most damaged by the two weeks of attacks and counter-attacks,” YouGov reported. “This is the first time Trump has garnered the support of a majority of Republican primary voters nationwide.”
“YouGov’s February 24-27 survey marked his previous high, at 44% support.”
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Posted: 15 Mar 2016 04:27 PM PDT

Donald Trump’s new official campaign video, which counters critics who have blamed Trump for inciting violence, features a segment from an Infowars video detailing the violence committed by Bernie Sanders supporters during last week’s cancelled rally in Chicago.
The video features a clip from ‘The Truth About the Anti-Trump Chicago Riot’ – which has garnered almost 700,000 views on YouTube since the weekend.
The footage shows Sanders supporters blocking ambulances, assaulting people and firing guns in the air.
The rest of the video is a rousing look at how the Trump phenomenon has blossomed, and includes comments from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros expressing their determination to stop Trump from becoming president.
The Trump campaign video also features a segment from a Mark Dice video in which he utters the line “rent boy Marco Rubio”.
“Did anyone really think the people destroying America were going to relinquish power peacefully?” asks the tag line at the end of the clip.
The video obtained well over half a million views within the first 2 hours of its release on Facebook.
Donald Trump himself appeared on the Alex Jones Show back in December. His former advisor and close confidante Roger Stone is also a regular guest.
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Posted: 15 Mar 2016 04:07 PM PDT

Rush Limbaugh on Monday urged his listeners in Ohio to vote for Donald Trump over Gov. John Kasich in the state’s Tuesday primary.
“My preference is that Trump win Florida and Ohio,” Limbaugh said.
“Have you heard what Kasich did today?” he continued.
“I’m gonna tell you what’s happening here, folks. Kasich has come out full-throated, 100 percent for amnesty. He is talking like Jeb Bush talks about amnesty and the illegal immigrants as gifts from God or some such thing.”
Rush said the only way to clear the field, and allow Cruz to emerge as the real conservative challenger to Trump, is for Rubio and Kasich to lose and quit the race.
“What’s going on here, the establishment has one last great hope, and that’s Kasich winning in Ohio,” he said.
“But if [Kasich’s] elected president within the first hundred days we’re gonna get comprehensive immigration reform, amnesty,” Rush said.
Limbaugh noted that only Cruz can still beat Trump.
“Now, even if Kasich wins Ohio, he’s mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination in the primaries,” Limbaugh said. “He cannot get the 1,237 even if he wins Ohio. If he loses it, it’s not even close.”
Limbaugh has previously praised Ted Cruz.
“Ted Cruz is only guy that was taking on the Republican establishment of all the Republicans in the race,” Limbaugh told his 10 million listeners in February.
“And he was the only guy who had been fighting the establishment and he had done it to their face.
“He was such an outsider that even as a member of the Senate he was hated, despised, and that was always gonna be a resume-enhancement point.”
Rush noted that Trump’s rise results from the “force of his personality,” but he warned conservatives about the billionaire.
“It’s Trump that’s out there talking about how he likes Pelosi and Reid, he could do deals with them if he had to,” Rush said.
Trump has openly bragged that his close relationships with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sens. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, and said they will enable him to do “deals” with Democrats.
Trump has been a longtime donor to Democratic candidates and committees, and backed Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Hillary Clinton, and other leading Democrats.
Limbaugh has not formally endorsed any candidate, but has made it clear that conservatives have only one choice in the GOP primary. Last month, Limbaugh told his radio audience, “If conservatism is your bag, if conservatism is the dominating factor in how you vote, there is no other choice for you in this campaign than Ted Cruz.”
Limbaugh gave his powerful imprimatur to Cruz by adding, “this [Cruz] is the closest in our lifetimes we have ever been to Ronald Reagan.”
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 20:24