Let me begin by saying I am convinced candidate Donald Trump will get the 1,237 delegates he needs, so this outline could be just an intellectual exercise.  However, last night on Sean Hannity RNC Chairman Reince Priebus discussed the delegate math and state of the GOP race headed toward the presidential nomination.

RNC Chairman Preibus and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan are best friends having grown up in the same town in Wisconsin and attending High School together.  Please focus your  attention to the specific wording he uses @05:34.  Close attention:

[…] “And you want people to at least say, when they walk away, OK they played it straight; that’s what’s really important in this process”…

We pointed out on February 25th the five times (in 24 hours) prior to the Houston CNN debate, including on the stage itself, when Reince Preibus stated emphatically the “presidential candidates were applying to join the party“.  Meaning from the RNC position the party apparatus is external to the presidential candidates, who are trying to join the RNC team by winning the nomination. (more…)

The most jaw-dropping part of the story that accompanies this ad is the fact the media seem oblivious to what the message is.

Having watched the news cycle today there’s not a single pundit who has identified the intensely brilliant messaging within the 15 second video:

This ad was not just targeted to domestic consumption. This ad was directly distancing Donald Trump from Clinton’s failed and massively botched “Russian Reset“. The message was more for Putin to see than for U.S. media to discuss.

Read The Art of The Deal.  This is Brilliant ! (more…)

A common response to the shenanigans of the RNC/GOPe from the comments:

Major Chris Dickson USA (Ret):  “I just informed the RNC that after voting for over 46 years as a Republican, having served on Staff for U.S. Senator Dan Coats (R-IN), and having run as a Republican for the General Assembly, immediately following the Indiana primary I am leaving the Republican Party and going Independant. They no longer represent my core values because all they do is “Rubber-Stamp” everything Obama shoves at them!”

WARNING:

That’s exactly what the RNC hope you’ll do.

The goal of the RNC is to drive out those who don’t agree with them so the party remains with a small closed circle of narrow-minded sycophants. Then they close the party election to registered republicans, and you’re permanently locked out.

If you want to be able to effect change, you have to begin thinking of U.S. politics in general, and presidential politics specifically, as an insurgency.

Being part of a political insurgency means you accept the role of eliminating the RNC apparatus you dislike, by taking a more strategic approach and destroying them from the inside. Hence, the Trump approach, and our support for it. (more…)

Well, if the RNC/GOPe were attempting to keep up pretenses, it appears that’s all gone now.  During a CNBC interview Curly Haugland explains the RNC will select the republican nominee for president and the primary voters are irrelevant and inconsequential peons to be summarily dismissed.

Mr. Haugland is very transparent about it the RNC/GOPe intents; even going so far as to say he doesn’t even know why the RNC go through the process of holding primary elections [@3:26].  (watch video all the way through)

(Via CNBC) Political parties, not voters, choose their presidential nominees, a Republican convention rules member told CNBC, a day after GOP front-runner Donald Trump rolled up more big primary victories. (more…)

Donald Trump made the media rounds today to take questions and discuss the new results.

CNN New Day

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Candidate Donald Trump had an incredible set of victories on Super Tuesday 2.0 with victories in North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri and Florida.  Candidate Donald Trump has now effectively swept the south.

However, the results from Florida, especially Florida, provide an excellent example of the strength of Trump’s coalition and the scope of what’s possible in a general election.

Florida is a melting pot of regional migration from all corners of the U.S.   Indeed, there’s a joke in Florida about how there’s no real home-team sports because the residents are from everywhere else in America, cheering for their old home team.

(Click Here To Go Explore Map Via CNN Interactive)

A native Floridian is a scarce breed, that’s why they’ve historically been called “Florida Crackers“.  Named from the original Florida settlers who used whips to herd cattle and cut through the palmettos and bladed saw-grass, with a resounding “crack” from the knotted end.

Additionally if you were to overlay the size of Florida geographically on a map you’d find it would cover the entire U.S. eastern seaboard from Georgia all the way to New York city.  At over 800 miles tip to stem Florida is a massive state with transplanted residents from all of the other states within the continental republic. (more…)

2:15am 3/16/16 We anticipated the need for more than one Super-Tuesday2 election results thread. Hence, we numbered them depending on the volume of inbound data.

MASSIVE TURNOUT !!

♦ Florida – Donald Trump Wins √

♦ Ohio – John Kasich Wins χ

♦ North Carolina – Donald Trump Wins √

♦ Illinois – Donald Trump Wins √

♦ Missouri – Donald Trump Wins √

Donald Trump adds 232 Total Delegates for the day.

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Sunlight is The Best Disinfectant

Two days ago – two men, actually two professional antagonists, showed up wearing armbands supposedly ‘spoofing‘ Donald Trump with Nazi comparisons.  However, things were not as they seemed.

The men who wore armbands touting Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump were actually the same pranksters who sported “Settle for Hillary” shirts at a Hillary Clinton event earlier this year.

As reported in The Hill

The men wore armbands with a large “T” on them at a Trump rally in Florida, according to a picture tweeted by a reporter from The Boston Globe.

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PLEASE READ UPDATES BELOW BEFORE COMMENTING – 11:35pm 3/15/16 We anticipate the need for more than one Super-Tuesday2 election results thread. Hence, we numbered them (as above) depending on the volume of inbound data.

MASSIVE TURNOUT !!

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PLEASE READ UPDATES BELOW BEFORE COMMENTING – 10:00pm 3/15/16 We anticipate the need for more than one Super-Tuesday2 election results thread. Hence, we numbered them (as above) depending on the volume of inbound data.

MASSIVE TURNOUT !!

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