Month: March 2016
Ben Carson Raised More than His Opponents and Blew It on Consultants
$58 million
Amount Ben Carson’s failed presidential campaign raised — more than any other GOP contender. “But Carson’s campaign burned through much more of that money on fundraising and consultants than on mass media advertising, on-the-ground employees and other things that could have swayed voters. … Ben Carson ran for president, and his consultants won,” the AP reports.
Cleveland in Market for Riot Gear to Prepare for GOP Convention
2,000
Number of sets of riot gear Cleveland, Ohio, is seeking to buy, “including riot-control suits and collapsible batons, as part of the city’s latest move to spend a $50 million federal security grant for July’s Republican National Convention,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
In Case Pres. Cruz Needs a ‘Trans Abassador’
I like Ted Cruz. I think he’s very conservative and a great constitutionalist and a very articulate man. I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. But I also think, he’s an evangelical Christian, and probably one of the worst ones when it comes to trans issues.
— Caitlyn Jenner, in an interview with The Advocate, later adding that she would like to be his “trans ambassador” if he’s elected president.
Obamacare Has Insured 20 Million
20 million
While the nation is transfixed with the spectacle of whether the Republican Party will nominate a racist demagogue who wants to repeal Obamacare and cut taxes for the rich, or a traditional conservative who wants to repeal Obamacare and cut taxes for the rich, it’s worth pausing to take note that Obamacare continues to make things much better. … In particular, in addition to surprisingly and historically low rates of health-care cost inflation, today the Department of Health & Human Services announces that a net 20 million people have now gained access to health insurance. — Jonathan Chait, in New York Magazine</h2>
Money Can Buy the Poll Results You Want to See
A private poll Bloomberg conducted in late February showed Trump rapidly losing support from mainstream Republicans after being mocked by Rubio as a con man, retweeting a Mussolini quote, and refusing to immediately disavow the KKK…. The same poll showed Bloomberg pulling far more votes from the GOP side than the Democrats.
— New York Magazine
Trump Claims Romney Would Have Traded Oral Sex for His Endorsement in 2012
Just when you thought the Republican presidential race couldn’t go any lower, Donald Trump said this today about former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whom he endorsed in the 2012 presidential campaign:
TRUMP: “He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees,’ he would have dropped to his knees.”
Even Springsteen Hates Him
If anyone ever set out to make a state pissed, he
Did it better than anyone ever did to New Jersey.
Jerseyites disliked him on the stump,
But now they loath his suck-up to Trump.
Maybe D.C. is a safer place than Bayonne for Chris Christie.
