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Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com)
rmdingler writes: Ted Cruz drops out of the presidential race after losing in Indiana. Donald Trump has become the presumptive nominee before Hillary has locked things up versus Bernie. This is huge. Cruz's decision to drop out came after losing significantly to Trump in the Indiana primary. "I said I would continue on as long as there is a viable path to victory. Tonight I'm sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed," Cruz told a small group of supporters Tuesday night. "Together we left it all on the field in Indiana. We gave it everything we got, but the voters chose another path." He said he would "continue to fight for liberty," but did not say whether or not he would support Trump as the nominee. The exit comes soon after he announced former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate in a desperate move to keep his candidacy afloat.
Trump will need 70% of the white male vote to win the election without votes from every other voting bloc that he so far had managed to alienate. Not happening.
The overwhelming fact about American general elections right now is that white male voters just aren't as powerful as they used to be. In 1980, when the electorate looked very different than it does today, Ronald Reagan cruised to an easy victory by winning 63 percent of white males, according to exit polls. In 1988, George H.W. Bush took 63 percent of that group in his rout of Michael Dukakis. By 2004, however, winning 62 percent of white men barely got George W. Bush past John Kerry in a squeaker. And eight years later, Romney won 62 percent of white men—and lost to Barack Obama by 3.5 million votes.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-needs-7-of-10-white-guys-213699
It doesn't help that 70% of women don't like him either.
Donald Trump's image among U.S. women tilts strongly negative, with 70% of women holding an unfavorable opinion and 23% a favorable opinion of the Republican front-runner in March. Trump's unfavorable rating among women has been high since Gallup began tracking it last July, but after rising slightly last fall, it has increased even further since January.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/190403/seven-women-unfavorable-opinion-trump.aspx
Sure, it's possible. He's managed to make it as far as he has with absolutely massive smear campaigns being launched against him that would have annihilated most candidates.
Ignore the "racist, xenophobic, etc" crap claims you hear from these smear campaigns. Americans are losing jobs at an alarming rate, with the globalists rigging the immigration, legal, and political systems to make it happen, while using media outlets to program people into believing it's good for them and that anyone who opposes it is . People are getting fed up, and Trump is the only one who claims to want to do anything about this. Every other candidate besides Bernie is a supporter of these globalist agendas. It's pretty simple, keep voting in globalists, and watch your job disappear.
People are seeing the mess of problems that mass muslim immigration is causing in Europe and they see the threat it poses in the US. There's been no time delay for any of these people to assimilate into the local cultures, and many of them have no desire to do so either. Turkey's Erdogan publicly claimed that assimilation was a "crime against humanity" and told these people NOT to assimilate. Two wildly different cultures with radically different ideals, beliefs, goals, and values cannot possibly exist together without constant conflict. The sane solution is for both parties to keep their distance from each other and live their lives in peace.
That didn't stop her from jumping on that train, even when the imminent derailment was in sight.
Must be nobody told her there wasn't another $40 million golden parachute at the end of this failure.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Actually Obama has issued the lowest number of executive orders per year of office since William McKinley in 1901.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Trump is literally going to plaster the walls with Hillary, after the first debate that all become apparent even to you... I doubt Hillary will do more than one open debate, and then where will the reclusive sulking get her? Exactly nowhere.
She stood face-to-face or toe-to-toe against her interrogators in the eleventeenth Benghazi! investigation and didn't break a sweat from what I heard.
Trump got a couple tough-ish questions from Megyn Kelly and had a tantrum.
Unless he buries her with a Gish-Gallop(?) stream of conscience bullshit from start to end (which is entirely possible), I wouldn't count her out yet in any debates.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/zeifman.asp