Tag: Campaign 2016
Walker Still Leads GOP Race Nationally
18%
Scott Walker’s lead over the GOP presidential field, according to a new Public Policy Polling national survey. “… but it’s tightly clustered and his support has actually dropped two consecutive surveys now, with 13% for Marco Rubio, 12% each for Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee, 11% for Jeb Bush, 10% for Ted Cruz, 9% for Rand Paul, 5% for Chris Christie, and 2% for Rick Perry. This is the third national poll in a row where we’ve found Walker ahead but he was at 25% in late February and declined to 20% and now 18% on the two subsequent surveys.”
Mike Huckabee, Snake Oil Salesman
Behind former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s warm smile, inclusive rhetoric, and gee-whiz populism lies an ethics record that would make a Clinton blush. His greedy, cheesy money grabs in Arkansas were a preview of today’s greedy, cheesy money grabs. … As part of what the New York Times called ‘unconventional ways to fund a campaign,’ the newly minted GOP presidential candidate recently pitched a dubious medical treatment via infomercial… But that’s not all! Huckabee is allowing his mailing list – the names and email addresses of his political supporters — to be used to peddle cancer cures based on Bible verses.
— National Journal
Elect Jeb, Get George
If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it’s him.
— Jeb Bush, surprising many of the 50-plus attendees at an exclusive Manhattan gathering by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor on U.S.-Israel policy, the Washington Post reports.
Sanders Raises $3 Million in Four Days
$3 million
Amount Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign pulled in over the last four days, The Hill reports. “Sanders’s campaign had received approximately 75,000 contributions at an average amount of $43. … A campaign adviser also told the publication 99.4 percent of the donations were in the amounts of $250 or less.”
‘Clinton Cash’: The Same Old GOP Smoke and Mirrors
You’ve probably also heard about Schweizer’s deep ties to the extreme right. He is a former Bush speechwriter, foreign-affairs adviser to Sarah Palin and blogger for Breitbart.com, the legacy website of the late serial liar and notorious racist, Andrew Breitbart. His work is riddled with mistakes and falsehoods. Fact-checkers and legit reporters have used words like these to describe his work in the past: “incorrect,” “inaccurate,” “bogus,” “a fatal shortcoming in Journalism 101,” “the facts didn’t stand up,” “unfair and inaccurate,” “specious argument,” “there was nothing there,” “suspicious,” “the facts don’t fit,” facts “do not check out,” sources “do not exist or cannot be tracked down,” “confusion and contradiction,” “discrepancies,” “admitted a mistake,” “neither journalism nor history,” “a polemic so unchecked … that we can’t tell the fact from the fiction,” sources “have clearly used him,” and “tacitly conced[ed] he was wrong.”
Despite Schweizer’s shady background, however, “Clinton Cash” has been taken seriously by “liberal media” outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post and others, who have lent it legitimacy by using it as a source for their reporting.
So — where there’s smoke there’s fire. Right?
