Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday 3 May 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 03 May 2016 07:33 AM PDT


GOP vice presidential pick Carly Fiorina fell off stage at a Ted Cruz rally in Indiana, in a mishap emblematic of the campaign’s struggle in the state.
At another rally in La Porte Sunday, Cruz also had to grapple with a young heckler who screamed, “You suck!” saying that he would beat the kid if he were his kid.
Trump said during the Carmel, Indiana speech that even he would help Carly out despite her being on Cruz’s team but Cruz was “cruel and he didn’t even care that she fell, he just kept talking”, despite looking at her and definitely seeing the whole thing. He just kept shaking hands, like “ohh she fell, baah whatever!”. Neither he nor his wife, Heidi Cruz cared to help Carly Fiorina. Really hilarious.
Was John Boehner right? Is Cruz actually Lucifer?

        
Posted: 03 May 2016 06:57 AM PDT

Apparently Team Cruz is receiving a growing chorus of calls for his withdrawal.
FYI: Today the very same rumor from two different (and trusted) sources suggest Senator Ted Cruz’s campaign is currently engaged in ongoing discussions regarding the subject of suspending the campaign as early as this week should the Texas senator lose tomorrow’s Indiana primary.
Apparently Team Cruz is receiving a growing chorus of calls for his withdrawal from top Republican officials as well as donors now in the process of terminating their support of the Cruz campaign.
**UPDATE** A message to a known Cruz campaign state operative was given the following reply to the above rumor:
“NO COMMENT.”
Readers will have to decide for themselves to take that as a confirmation or not.
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Posted: 03 May 2016 06:36 AM PDT

Hundreds of mostly Latino anti-Trump protesters bloodied Donald Trump supporters, threw rocks at cars and smashed windows on vehicles–including police cars–following a huge campaign rally by the leading Republican presidential candidate in Costa Mesa, California Thursday night.
One Trump supporter was beaten bloody after trying to get his Trump hat back from anti-Trump goons.
Anti-Trump thugs beat windows out of cop cars and attacked Trump supporters trying to leave the rally.
Now this…
Four days after the rioting Donald Trump opened up a 34 point lead in the Golden State leading Ted Cruz 54-20%.
KSDK reported:
Donald Trump is leading Ted Cruz by a whopping 34 percentage points, 54% – 20%, among likely Republican voters in California, a SurveyUSA poll for KUSA found.
That’s a significant gain for the Republican frontrunner, whose lead was only 8 percentage points in the last SurveyUSA poll a month ago. And it’s a significant loss for Cruz. The two were 40%-32% last month.
California, which holds its primary June 7, is the most delegate-rich state on the Republican primary calendar with 172 at stake for GOP hopefuls.
That makes Indiana, which will award 57 delegates after its primary Tuesday, all that much more important for Cruz if he wants to stop Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. In the most recent poll, though, he is trailing by 15 percentage points in the Hoosier State.
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Posted: 03 May 2016 06:21 AM PDT

The establishment media is finally admitting that Ted Cruz has reached the end of presidential run, regardless of what the Texas senator claims.
One article in particular, published by the Hill, crystalizes what voters have known for quite some time: Cruz has practically sold his soul to the establishment to remain in the race, despite beingmathematically eliminated from the contest on April 26.
“Once he tacitly accepted the party’s embrace, he began to morph from a conservative stalwart to an opportunist,” Philip N. Diehl of the Hill stated. “The end of the beginning came in mid-March when establishmentarian Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) endorsed Cruz.”
“The beginning of the end came with Cruz’s victory in Wisconsin on April 5, when the media portrayed it as a product of an unholy alliance between Cruz and the establishment.”
Cruz has since strengthened his ties with the establishment through a partnership with the Soros-backed John Kasich and a cozy relationship with Jeb Bush, but all of this has only turned voters against him.
Even Time Magazine, long considered the mouthpiece of the State Dept., has admitted Cruz was at the end of his rope.
“If polls are correct, Cruz is on the verge of his own spanking that might force him from the race,” the magazine stated. “An NBC News/Wall Street Journal released earlier Sunday found Cruz chasing Trump in Indiana by 15 percentage points.”
“…Part of Cruz’s challenge is, quite simply, few Republicans actually like him.”
Cruz cannot win the election outright, so he must shred his constitutional principles to ask the GOP establishment to rig the election in his favor against the will of the voters.
Not only is that the very definition of an opportunist, as Diehl pointed out, but it also fits the definition of an authoritarian.
And remember, Cruz celebrated his voteless victory in Colorado, behavior that’s totally consistent with an establishment insider but not the Reaganesque conservative Cruz portrays himself to be.
“Cruz argued time and again that the [Colo.] rules were the rules and that he simply played by them, and as Trump continually attacked the RNC rules as being undemocratic, disenfranchising to voters and products of an out-of-touch Republican Party, he put Cruz in the position of backing the establishment,” Lawrence Kudlow with the Manteca Bulletin pointed out. “A bad place for Cruz.”
“Moreover, in attacking the delegate process, Trump was able to restore and even enhance his position as the anti-establishment outsider… the agent of change — that’s precisely what GOP voters favor.”
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Posted: 03 May 2016 05:29 AM PDT

Ted Cruz’s tiny rally in La Porte where he said he would beat the kid up if he were his kid.
Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck held a rally yesterday in La Porte, Indiana.
During his speech some kid screamed, “You suck!”
Ted Cruz told the kid he’d spank him.
The Daily Caller reported:
Sen. Ted Cruz said a kid growing up in his household would have been spanked if they acted out the way a boy did towards him Sunday during a rally. The pre-teen boy was escorted out by local law enforcement when he told Cruz during a rally, “You suck.”
The incident began when Cruz talked about his tax plan and heard the boy’s voice screaming something un-intelligible to him from the crowd.
“Apparently there’s a young boy who’s had some problems,” Cruz said. The child yelled something unknown again at Cruz but then screamed louder, “You suck.”
“Thank you son. I appreciate you sharing your views. You know, hopefully one of the things somebody has told you is that children should actually speak with respect. Imagine what a different world it would be if someone told Donald Trump that years ago. In my household, when a child behaved that way, they’d get a spanking.
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Posted: 02 May 2016 03:14 PM PDT

Donald Trump won the Arizona Republican primary with 47% of the vote to second place Ted Cruz with 25%.
Trump won all 58 delegates in Arizona.
But that didn’t stop the Cruz campaign and GOP elites from coming in and poaching all of the delegates at today’s state convention.
The Cruz camp and GOP elites call this a “good ground game.”
Even former Governor Jan Brewer, an outspoken Trump supporter, had her name removed from the online ballot and did not make the cut.
Trump supporters are once again crying foul.
KTAR reported:
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz pulled out a strategic victory at Saturday’s Arizona Republican Party convention, nailing down a large majority of delegates to the national convention amid cheating accusations from backers of businessman Donald Trump.
The Cruz slate won virtually all of the 28 at-large national delegates and roughly split the 27 delegates selected by congressional district.
Former Gov. Jan Brewer, losing her first election in 35 years, angrily yelled “I got cheated — I got cheated,” as the results became known.
Gov. Jan Brewer Tweeted: “My name was “mysteriously” removed off Donald Trump online ballot. Today’s electronic vote full of glitches and errors. Cheated today!”
Ted Cruz was mathematically eliminated this week.
If his supporters think they can steal the nomination from the Republican candidate with the most votes EVER, they truly are delusional.

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Posted: 02 May 2016 02:12 PM PDT

Muscovites have reacted angrily after the city authorities threatened to ban kebabs.
Shawarma is a local favourite in the Russian capital, but hygiene concerns led them into the sights of Moscow’s Department of Trade and Services.
“We are ridding shawarma from the streets. There will be no shawarma anymore,” city official Alexei Nemeryuk told local media. He vowed vendors selling the kebabs would have to cease trading after their licence expired.
“Cooking in a tent where there is no water, sanitation, are not complied with conditions of storage products, is already causing rejection of the food that they prepare,” Mr Nemeryuk told Komsomolskaya Pravda radio. He added that kiosk owners have declined to “bear even the slightest costs of maintaining proper sanitation standards”.
However, locals have responded angrily. Using the hashtag #ShuarmaZhivi (#ШаурмаЖиви), they have taken to social media in protest, inciting to violence and revolution just to protect their favorite Arabic Food.
“Friends, we have long suffered, but it’s time to burn tires,” Kris Poutupchik wrote on Twitter. “Moscow authorities are going to remove from the streets of Shawarma.”
“‘Moscow authorities are going to remove from the streets of shawarma'”, wrote user Stalin Gulag. “Never revolution was not so close!”
City authorities have been clamping down on kiosks – accused of breaches in property law – for several months and demolishing and removing structures.
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Posted: 02 May 2016 01:48 PM PDT

Countering claims by Ted Cruz and others that he has no chance of beating Hillary, Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Clinton 41% to 39% in a new national Rasmussen poll.
This represents the first time that Trump has been in front of Hillary since October last year. As recently as March, Hillary was ahead by 41% to 36%.
Trump is now also performing twice as well amongst Democrats as Hillary is amongst Republicans, with the billionaire businessman picking up 15% of Democrats compared to Clinton’s 8% Republicans.
This suggests that the number of Republican voters who dislike Donald Trump to such an extent that they are willing to vote for Hillary in their belief that the Donald will destroy the Republican party if he gets elected is very low.
“According to the DC Whisperer, Trump’s 37% to 31% lead over Hillary amongst voters not affiliated with either political party also “reflects Mr. Trump’s considerable crossover appeal, something the Mainstream Media and political establishment has been reluctant to discuss because those kind of crossover voting numbers often lead to one thing in November: Landslide.”
89% of Republican voters now see Trump as the likely GOP nominee, compared to 91% for Clinton. This suggests that GOP voters’ enthusiasm to see a brokered convention is minimal.
“Following Trump’s big win in last Tuesday’s primaries, it’s moment of truth time for the #Never Trump crowd: Do they want four years of Clinton in the White House or a Republican president they strongly disagree with?” asks Rasmussen.
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Posted: 02 May 2016 01:06 PM PDT

Donald Trump has a double-digit lead over Ted Cruz in Indiana just days before the state’s primary, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll.
Trump leads Cruz by 15 percentage points in Indiana, 49 percent to 34 percent. John Kasich is last at 13 percent.
Cruz is hoping for a win in the Hoosier State in order to continue preventing Trump from securing the GOP nomination before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. A win for Trump, however, would kick Cruz’s candidacy when it’s already down.
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Posted: 02 May 2016 12:15 PM PDT


Oh Canada!
Heidi Cruz told supporters one of her husband’s greatest strengths was that he is an immigrant, thus ineligible to become the US President. He shouldn’t even be allowed to run.
The Washington Examiner reported:
At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband’s strengths in the campaign is that he “is an immigrant.”
“Ted is an immigrant,” Mrs. Cruz said, emphasizing the word “is.” “He is Hispanic.”
Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada but who is an American citizen by birth, has come under withering fire from rival Donald Trump over his Canadian birth. Trump has questioned whether Cruz is constitutionally eligible to be president. (Most legal experts believe there is no question that Cruz is, but the matter has not been litigated.) And Trump has mocked Cruz, whose given name is Rafael Edward Cruz and whose mother is American and whose father is Cuban, over the circumstances of his birth.
“Rafael! Straight outta the hills of Canada,” Trump said at a rally in Connecticut last week. “Was a Canadian citizen until 14, 15 months ago. And then he ran for the Senate. You know, you’re registered as a Canadian citizen. He says, ‘Oh, I’d never do that.’ He never knew he was a Canadian! I can’t believe that.”
        
Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 21:10