After attending church this morning, President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice-President Elect Mike Pence head back to Bedminster New Jersey for a full day of meetings and interviews.

During a call with reporters on Sunday morning, Republican National Committee’s Chief Strategist and Communications Director Sean Spicer and Trump spokesman Jason Miller listed the individuals who are meeting with Trump and Pence on Sunday. They include:

• Ari Emanuel
• Peter Kirsanow
• Johnathon Gray
• Kris Kobach
• Wilbur Ross
• Gov. Chris Christie
• Rudy Giuliani
• Robert Johnson
• David McCormick
• TW Shannon
• Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
• Gen. John F. Kelly

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During a routine traffic stop a San Antonio police officer was ambushed, shot twice in the head, and killed near police HQ.  Suspect described as a 5’7″ black male, baggy pants, hoodie and a beard.  Suspect Vehicle:
Update:  The police officer has been identified as 50-year-old Benjamin Marconi a veteran police officer.  Twitter Feed Here.  It will tear at your heart to read his twitter feed…. sorry, I just can’t even write about it yet {{tears}}.

RIP – Officer Benjamin Marconi

San Antonio –  A San Antonio police officer was shot and killed while writing a traffic ticket, according to Police Chief William McManus.
The chief said that while the officer was writing a ticket, someone pulled up behind the squad car, stepped out of his vehicle and shot the officer twice, once in the head. The shooter then drove off. (more…)

While a little challenging to understand, essentially the french conservatives (Republican party) are holding their first round primary today.  However, everyone in France gets to vote in the primary, and the two with the highest vote percentage then go head-to-head in a run off in round two (next week).

“Brexit – Trexit – Frexit”

The winner of next week’s head-to-head will then enter the general election race and face Marine Le Pen of the French National party, along with other left-wing party candidates next April. Assuming no-one gets over 50% in the April 2017 general election, the top two then going head to head in the General election run-off in May.
The three leading conservative republican candidates going into today were former French President Nicolas Sarkozy,  and former french prime ministers Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe’.  Most non-Republican (liberal) voters hoping Mr Alain Juppe’ would win because he has the best chance of beating Marine Le Pen.
With 72% of the vote counted Francois Fillon appears to be winning. (more…)

According to The Sunday Times Queen Elizabeth is planning to invite President Donald Trump for an official state visit during the summer of 2017.  Great Britain has long been the strongest ally to the U.S. provoking causing consternation from the left-wing elements amid both nations.
President Obama strained the relationship by criticizing the United Kingdom’s colonial heritage, removing a Winston Churchill bust from the oval office, and giving the Queen the gift of an iPod containing all of his own speeches.


(Via Sunday Times) Donald Trump is to be invited to meet the Queen as the government deploys its “secret weapon” to cement close ties with the new American president.
Plans to roll out the red carpet for Trump with a state visit in the summer of 2017 are being drawn up at the highest levels in Whitehall.  A formal invitation for Trump to make the UK one of his first foreign stops will be issued once he is sworn in as president on January 20. (more…)

President-Elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, on the Sunday talk circuit (ABC and CNN):

Vice-President Elect Mike Pence appeared on Fox News Sunday for an interview with Rupert Murdoch’s little prince, Chris Wallace.  Most of the conversation centers around the transition team and the potential Cabinet picks:

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

...But some, I’m sure, are good people…
MEXICO – A group of armed men have kidnapped 10 people in the violent southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, where 43 students were abducted and likely massacred two years ago, authorities said on Saturday.
Suspected members of a gang known as Los Tequileros took the 10, which included two minors, from the municipality of San Jeronimo on Thursday evening, said Roberto Alvarez, a spokesman for a government task force overseeing security in Guerrero.
Alvarez said the gang was created by former cohorts of drug cartels the Knights Templar and La Familia, and had been carrying out kidnappings in the state for ransom for several months.
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We discussed this at length prior to the general election.  Now there’s statistics available to evidence what we felt was predictable.  In the voting precincts in/around Miami-Dade Florida, containing the highest demographics of Cuban-Americans, Donald Trump won more than 58%.  The Patrone’ Effect.


(Via Capital Hill Cubans) A look at the election results in the 30+ precincts in Miami-Dade County with the highest concentration of Cuban-American voters show that President-elect Donald Trump won with over 58% and Senator Marco Rubio won with over 69%.
These aren’t exit polls or issue polls. These are actual votes counted.
Moreover, these numbers simply represent a base — a starting point — for they are somewhat diluted by non-Cuban voters.  (read more)