2016 election - Page 14

Welcome to Breitbart News’s daily live updates of the 2016 horse race. It’s moving day today, especially for Republicans, as the South Carolina primary will reshuffle the GOP field. Polls have closed in South Carolina as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio battle for the top three slots. Hilary Clinton beat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Nevada earlier in the afternoon.

Author and Princeton University Professor Emeritus Cornel West weighed in on the question of which elderly white leftist should be supported by black voters with a Politico op-ed, entitled “Why Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary.”

WASHINGTON—Justice Antonin Scalia—one of the most acclaimed legal scholars ever to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States—has passed away at age 79.

Former Senator and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb, who dropped out of the Democrat presidential primary race in October, is reportedly considering returning as an independent.

The Republican establishment’s hopefuls want the government to make women sign up the modern version of the draft.

Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker and his Lt. Governor, Karyn Polito, announced on Friday that they are endorsing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for President of the United States. Baker said in a statement; Right now, our country is in dire

Former President George W. Bush appears in a new TV ad from Right to Rise, a Super PAC supporting his brother Jeb Bush’s presidential bid.

Yesterday I described the Iowa Democratic caucus as “a circus of ineptitude, bad planning, ambiguous rules, and deliberate obfuscation of the results.” The Des Moines Register is even more harsh in its call for a full audit of the contest between Hillary

Ohio Governor John Kasich, who is running for the Republican nomination for President, says he will drop out of the race if he gets “smoked” in New Hampshire.

Eric Cantor (R-VA) , the former House Majority Leader, continues to promote Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination for President, telling supporters Wednesday that the former Florida Governor has a “real spine” and “steady hand.”

Republican establishment presidential candidates Jeb Bush, John Kasich, and Chris Christie have focused their fire on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as part of the GOP nominees’ campaign to win the New Hampshire Republican Primary.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has pledged to continue his campaign for the Republican nomination for President of The United States, after finishing in fifth place in the Iowa Caucus.

Breitbart News coverage of the Iowa Democrat primary begins with a little pre-game talk from the candidates:

“Is there anybody here from the Leave Me Alone Coalition?” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) asked Monday afternoon at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, where he thanked his staff, volunteers, and supporters for continuing to support his run for the presidency.

Facing critiques on his lack of foreign policy knowledge, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) named one man who he said advises him on foreign affairs knowledge. But that individual says Sanders has only spoken with him once.

A candidate for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat says sanctuary cities — or jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities — actually make people safer.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is panicked enough to push stories about its fabulous team of all-star surrogates, set up a surprise debate that won’t be held in the obscure hours of the weekend, and resurrect Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy paranoia to deflect the latest revelations in her email scandal. Of course, Clinton’s formidable campaign team includes most of the mainstream media, and the Democratic National Committee.

Tom Steyer is what left-wing activists love to pretend Republican mega-donors are: a special interest with very deep pockets who demands absolute fealty to his agenda in exchange for cash. Of course, since his cause is ostensibly environmentalism, they don’t mind, and the media never mentions him when it launches its periodic tirades against the unhealthy influence of special interests, other than itself.

Donald Trump was the unseen third speaker for the final Obama State of the Union, along with the President and the Republican response from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

Rose Hamid, an Islamic protester who made headlines when she was removed from a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina Friday night and attempted to position herself as a victim of ‘Islamophobia’ thereafter, has a history rife with extremist advocacy.

Some conservatives say that Donald Trump is a menace to the Constitution, because he seems intent on picking up Barack Obama’s D.C.-approved extra-constitutional powers and using them for his own Trump-ian purposes, maybe even going further down the path to executive-order dictatorship than Obama did.

The financial situation in Puerto Rico is at the crisis point, leading to proposals for a massive bailout that would ostensibly stabilize the island’s economy and protect small investors… but would, in fact, be a tremendous giveaway to Wall Street interests.

The Seven Stages of Grief are usually rendered as shock, denial, bargaining, guilt, anger, depression, and acceptance. The GOP Establishment’s emotional train is just pulling into Depression Station, and it will tarry there awhile before chugging reluctantly on to Grand Acceptance Junction.

ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos asked Hillary Clinton about the long-standing claims by families of the Benghazi dead that she peddled the administration’s phony “video protest” narrative to their faces, at the memorial ceremony for their loved ones.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) slammed Republicans Wednesday as a party of “hatred and division.”

The latest poll from Qunnipiac confirms Donald Trump is maintaining a solid lead over the rest of the Republican pack, with Ben Carson slipping a bit, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida moving into second place.

The departure of UnitedHealth Group could be the death blow not even ObamaCare’s most stubborn and dishonest defenders can spin away.

Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh offer a possible theory as to why a number of protests inspired by alleged racial incidents have sprung up in recent months all over the country. According to Limbaugh,

The Video Game Voters Network (VGVN) announced a voter registration campaign called Start Democracy on Thursday after reaching more than one million members.

To hear the GOP establishment squeal with such glee, you would think there was a fire sale going on down at Brooks Brothers. Or maybe Congress just passed a law making country club dues tax-deductible. Or somebody invented a glow-in-the-dark golf ball.

We need a fighter, not a healer in the White House. The presidency is not a nice-guy competition. We need someone with the know-how and determination to be a warrior for the battles that lie ahead. We do not need comfort food. We need to be told the truth.

Not a single promise has been kept, health insurance is objectively worse than it was before Barack Obama got his hands on it, and enrollment is only half what we were promised. The last detail is key, because low enrollment means everything bad about ObamaCare is going to get much worse in the years ahead, if we don’t kill it now.

The brilliance of Trump’s campaign is his ability to expose and combat media lies and hypocrisy, instead of cowering from them.

In the interview with The Blaze, Cruz also denounced President Obama’s plan to hand Internet domain registration over to foreign bodies as “reminiscent of Jimmy Carter’s idea to give away the Panama Canal,” warning it would imperil American interests and “undermine free speech.” Cruz is correct on all counts, and it’s a pity the rest of the Republican field hesitates to address these issues with such verve.

Danny Diaz, Campaign Manager of Jeb Bush for President, spoke Monday at the International Conference For Political Communications, which took place at the Academy of Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Breitbart News reached out to the campaign to ask why Mr. Bush’s top campaign official was in Germany this week in the midst of a hotly-contested campaign season.

The dominant media culture loves to define everything it doesn’t like as “right-wing,” from milquetoast center-right U.S. politicians to North Korea. Somehow people who aggressively make the case that American government is too large get sorted into the same end of the political spectrum as the biggest and most oppressive governments of all. Certain out-and-proud socialists of the past century are caricatured as “right-wing,” even though they put “socialist” right in their Party name.