Tom Donohue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were the primary group who negotiated the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal. Donohue also spent $20 million to bribe Mitch McConnell and senators in order to get fast-track legislation in place for passage.

Now the trade deal is finished labor unions want to see what’s in it. Donohue and the swarm of lawyers say not-so-fast there pal, we’ve got to scrub it down first. Using the same strategy as Obamacare, the CoC want the trade deal approved before the American people can see what’s in it.

WASHINGTON DC – One of the nation’s top labor leaders on Wednesday called on the Obama administration to immediately release the text of a far-reaching trade deal that spans the Pacific Rim to Latin America.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wrote a letter to President Obama arguing that stakeholders, lawmakers and the American public need to see the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to start what is expected to be a long process of evaluating the deal brokered by the United States and 11 other nations.

House and Senate Democrats have made similar appeals since the pact was brokered a week ago during a final round of negotiations in Atlanta. (more…)

Crowd Shot: (more…)

CNN/ORC Polling (full pdf below) today release some jaw-dropping results showing the scope of Donald Trump’s campaign attraction.  Beyond the top-line numbers are internal considerations far beyond anything any candidate could ever hope to catch.

Everyone should read the full polling internals to grasp how favorable the results are for Team Trump:

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Considering the Nevada poll was conducted during/after Marco Rubio spent 4 days in the state, the Nevada results are devastating to the RNC/GOPe preferred narrative.   It cannot be emphasized enough how wide, deep and committed the Trump coalition is to his campaign.  (more…)

Another YouGov National Poll (pdf below) shows Donald Trump leading with every polled demographic.  Simultaneously, hidden in the data this national poll shows how Fox News is manipulating their results by focusing on a polled electorate over 65-years-old.

The full poll data is below, however I’ve pulled out the key metrics so you can see how the candidates line up amid electoral support. (more…)

This analysis is the precursor to the second part of what was written here yesterday: the first part of the latest Fox News poll.

Within the prior analysis we shared:

“Don’t expect the remaining embargo data (most likely GOP polling data) to be favorable to Donald Trump.  Remember, there is a goal which never stops – THAT GOAL is the removal of Donald Trump at all costs.  Promoting Ben Carson and Marco Rubio (to a lesser extent Fiorina) remains the media strategy”. (link)

The goal behind that strategy is the nomination of Jeb Bush.

The second part of the poll is now released, and exactly as predicted it shows exactly what we said it would most likely contain.  However, in order to explain the content we first need to revisit the construct of why these events are surfacing with such intense predictability.

Simultaneously, it is also necessary to discuss and deconstruct another Fox Business report that John Kasich is being touted as a possible Vice-President pick by Donald Trump.  Both the Fox Poll agenda, and the Fox Business report agenda are tied to the same overarching goals.

Bear with me because, despite my earnest efforts, more than likely this analysis is necessarily going to go in the weeds, it’s unavoidable. (more…)

The latest large scale poll sample from Morning Consult (pdf below) shows that Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina are now in a downward trend-line having had their moments of exposure and review.  Conversely candidate Donald Trump now begins climbing even higher than previous polled results.

(Via Morning Consult) […] Donald Trump retains a wide lead over the rest of the field, with 34 percent of the vote. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson clocks in second, at 20 percent, while former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) finishes at 9 percent.

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina are tied with 5 percent apiece, just ahead of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) 4 percent. (more…)

If the primary election were held today, Donald Trump would take all 25 of the 28 available delegates.  No other candidate exceeds the minimum primary threshold of 20% within this winner-take-most (closed primary) state.

CONNECTICUT – […] Trump is far ahead of establishment candidates such as Jeb Bush, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of Connecticut voters released Tuesday morning. Two other GOP candidates who have never held elective office — Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon, and Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard — also drew double digit support.

“Republicans are looking for an outsider,’’ Quinnipiac poll Director Doug Schwartz said. Trump captured 34 percent of the Republican vote, while Carson drew 14 percent and Fiorina received 11 percent. (read more)

Fox News has released portions of an embargoed national poll (pdf below).  Within the poll the reality of Hillary Clinton’s lack of electability surfaces.

The important aspect is not the data itself, Hillary’s weakness is brutally obvious for anyone who has followed the maneuvering of the financial power brokers who control the funding of election outcomes, ie. Wall Street.  The important aspect is the media being willing to publicly show it – That’s the Tripwire!

TRUMP BEATS CLINTON

As said, it’s not the data per se’, you have to step back and think about the larger narrative as it has been continually presented by the media. (more…)

The discovery that an antagonistic female questioner, Ms. Lauren Batchelder, (during a “No Labels” event yesterday) is actually a campaign worker for Jeb Bush, has created a rather embarrassing political situation for candidate Bush.

In an effort to draw distance from the brutally obvious set-up, Governor Jeb Bush lead spokesman Tim Miller is now claiming Batchelder is not a campaign staffer:

The Washington Post reports another Bush campaign spokesperson is also seeking to distance the campaign from the profoundly odd, seemingly planted, remarks made during the event: (more…)