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Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing - February 26, 2016
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Friday's Leading Stories
- According to a Ballotpedia Insiders Poll, Marco Rubio was the “biggest winner” of last night’s GOP debate. (Ballotpedia)
- Although many establishment Republicans have expressed a desire for Ted Cruz to drop out of the race to allow Marco Rubio to challenge Donald Trump directly, Ballotpedia's James Barnes explained that "they also need Cruz to be a competitive force on Super Tuesday. That’s because five of the southern and border states that hold primaries on March 1—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas—have a provision in their nominating rules that awards all of the state’s at-large and congressional district (CD) delegates to any candidate who wins 50 percent of the vote cast within a state or each of its CD’s, respectively. And if Cruz wasn’t a factor in the GOP race now, Trump could be poised to win over half the vote in some of these Super Tuesday states, giving him a delegate bonanza and making him much harder to stop.” (Ballotpedia)
- On Thursday, The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Marco Rubio just days before Texas’ primary election. The paper wrote, “Rubio, 44, is a natural statesman. His rapid rise up the ladder in the Florida Legislature was singularly impressive, demonstrating an important ability to work well with colleagues to accomplish goals. He is a leader who is uniquely situated to unite older and younger generations of Republicans, inspire minority voters, and unite moderates and conservatives.” (The Hill)
- On Thursday, former Mexican president Vicente Fox said that Mexico will not pay for the wall that Donald Trump wants the country to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. Fox said, “I'm not going to pay for that f***ing wall. He should pay for it.” Earlier this month, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón also commented on the wall, saying, “Mexican people, we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall! And it’s going to be completely useless.” (CNN, The New York Times)
- In response to Fox’s comments, Trump tweeted: “FMR PRES of Mexico, Vicente Fox horribly used the F word when discussing the wall. He must apologize! If I did that there would be a uproar!”
Polls
- Virginia: Donald Trump leads Marco Rubio 41 percent to 27 percent among likely Republican primary voters in Virginia, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Thursday. Ted Cruz follows with 14 percent support, and John Kasich and Ben Carson are tied at 7 percent. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders 60 percent to 33 percent. (Monmouth University)
- Georgia: According to a TEGNA/SurveyUSA poll released on Thursday, Trump is leading among likely Georgia Republican primary voters with 45 percent support. Rubio and Cruz follow with 19 percent and 16 percent, respectively. Carson comes in at 8 percent, and Kasich has 6 percent. (TEGNA/SurveyUSA)
- Florida: Trump also has a commanding lead among likely Republican primary voters in Florida with 44 percent support, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday. Rubio has 28 percent support. Cruz has 12 percent. Kasich has 7 percent, and Carson has 4. (Quinnipiac University)
- Texas: According to a TEGNA/SurveyUSA released on Thursday, Cruz and Trump are tied at 32 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in Texas. Rubio follows with 17 percent. Kasich has 6 percent, and Carson has 5 percent. On the Democratic side, Clinton leads Sanders 61 percent to 32 percent. (TEGNA/SurveyUSA)
- Texas: A Monmouth University poll released on Thursday shows Cruz leading Trump 38 percent to 23 percent among likely Texas Republican primary voters. Rubio follows with 21 percent support. Carson comes in at 6 percent and at Kasich 5 percent. Clinton leads Sanders 64 percent to 30 percent. (Monmouth University)
- Michigan: Trump has a significant lead in the Michigan Republican primary with 41 percent support. Rubio follows with 19 percent support. Cruz has 16 percent. Kasich has 11 percent, and Carson has 7 percent. (FOX 2 Detroit/Mitchell)
- Wisconsin: According to a Marquette Law School poll released on Thursday, Trump leads Rubio 30 percent to 20 percent among likely Republican voters in Wisconsin. Cruz follows with 19 percent support. Kasich and Carson and tied at 8 percent. On the Democratic side, Sanders leads Clinton 44 percent to 43 percent. (Marquette Law School)
- Hispanics: According to a Washington Post-Univision News poll, eight out of 10 Hispanics have an “unfavorable” opinion of Donald Trump, including seven out of 10 who have a “very unfavorable” opinion. The poll also found that all Republican candidates are trailing in the Hispanic vote to Clinton, and “Trump does the worst — losing the Hispanic vote to Clinton by 73 to 16 percent.” (The Washington Post)
Democrats
Hillary Clinton
- During a campaign fundraiser on Wednesday night, Ashley Williams, a Black Lives Matter activist, was escorted out of the event after she held up a sign that read, “We have to bring them to heel,” in reference to a statement Hillary Clinton made in 1996 about at-risk, black youth. Williams wanted to know why Clinton “called black youth ‘superpredators.’” On Thursday, Clinton said, “In that speech, I was talking about the impact violent crime and vicious drug cartels were having on communities across the country and the particular danger they posed to children and families. Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today. My life’s work has been about lifting up children and young people who’ve been let down by the system or by society. Kids who never got the chance they deserved. And unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in African-American communities. We haven’t done right by them. We need to. We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline. As an advocate, as First Lady, as Senator, I was a champion for children. And my campaign for president is about breaking down the barriers that stand in the way of all kids, so every one of them can live up to their God-given potential.” (The Washington Post)
- While campaigning in South Carolina on Thursday, Clinton discussed the report that President Obama was considering Nevada Republican Governor Brian Sandoval as a candidate to replace former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. She said, "I know the governor has done some good things, but I sure hope the president chooses a true progressive who will stand up for the values and the interests of the people of this country. She added that “she hopes Mr. Obama chooses someone ‘who understands that you need to protect the right to vote of a person, not the right of a corporation to buy an election, who will understand that we still need the Voting Rights Act to be in force because too many people are being deprived of their right to vote in this country,’” according to CBS News. (CBS News)
- Planned Parenthood Votes and Planned Parenthood Action Fund launched a seven-figure ad buy in Michigan, Texas, and Virginia to support Clinton and her stance in favor of legalized abortion, according to The Hill. Deirdre Schifeling, Planned Parenthood Action Fund's executive director, said in a statement, “Hillary Clinton is the only candidate in this race who has made women’s health and rights a priority. Hillary Clinton has been fighting for women and their families for her entire life.” In the ad, titled “Hillary Clinton Is Our Champion,” a narrator says, “We’re with Hillary, because she’s with us. When they said our healthcare wasn’t important. When they tried to deny us cancer screenings. When they talked about our personal health decisions in ways meant to shame us. She spoke up. She was our champion." In the ad, “Hillary Clinton Cares,” a narrator says, “Care. It’s what’s most important. It’s why Hillary Clinton stood up for children without health insurance. To make sure they could see a doctor. And when Congress threatened to block patients from Planned Parenthood’s basic services, Hillary Clinton stood up for cancer screenings and birth controls.” (The Hill)
- Former President Bill Clinton defended his wife for supporting the 1996 welfare reform bill, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, after Bernie Sanders criticized her for doing so. Bill Clinton said, “What happened was, the people who still needed some assistance didn’t get it. We were able to restore virtually all the cuts to legal immigrants that the Republicans demanded, we kept the guarantee of nutrition and health care. But the law needs to be changed to help the poorest of the poor. There’s no question that it did far more good than harm, and there’s no question that subsequent events showed it needs some improvement.” (The New York Times)
Bernie Sanders
- Bernie Sanders held at campaign rally at Baldwin Wallace college in Berea, Ohio, on Thursday. According to Cleveland.com, “He quickly ran through his plans for the country, and came off as rehearsed, but passionate. He touched on prison reform, police reform, early childhood education reform and the importance of tackling Wall Street.” Sanders said, "The world changes when you have a handful of billionaires making the decisions as opposed to having ordinary Americans making the decisions." Sanders also criticized Clinton for supporting past trade agreements. (Cleveland.com)
- Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who is a Clinton supporter, criticized Sanders, saying, "I think when you look at Bernie Sanders, he doesn't have a history of manufacturing. I mean, it's just that simple. He doesn't talk about it – it's not something he's talked about in his career here. He's been MIA, and I don't think we can have someone come to Ohio, you know, a couple days before a presidential primary and all of a sudden start talking about manufacturing."
- On Wednesday, Sanders’ campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent out a fundraising email that included polls showing Sanders beating Donald Trump in a general election matchup and asking for voters to donate to the campaign. The email said, “The truth is, it’s going to take more than establishment politics and establishment thinking to beat Donald Trump. But together, we are building something unprecedented. That is why we’re doing so well in the polls, and why we’ve seen grass-roots enthusiasm unmatched by any candidate on either side of this primary. Only Trump comes close. And that is why what we are building is what will be required to defeat him.” (The Washington Times)
- During a campaign event in Flint, Michigan, on Thursday, Sanders addressed the water crisis residents of the city are facing. He said, “I hope people will look at Flint and say: Never again. While Flint may be the canary in the coal mine, there are a lot of other canaries. ...I once again hope that out of the tragedy will come fundamental changes in cities and towns all across this country.” (The Detroit News)
Republicans
- The following comments from last night’s CNN-Telemundo GOP debate are from a transcript prepared by The Washington Post.
Ben Carson
- On religious freedom and choosing a Supreme Court justice: “As far as religious freedom is concerned, one of the basic tenets of this nation, and I believe that the Constitution protects all of our rights. And it gives people who believe in same-sex marriage the same rights as everybody else. But what we have to remember is even though everybody has the same rights, nobody get extra rights. So nobody gets to redefine things for everybody else and then have them have to conform to it. That's unfair. And this is the responsibility of Congress to come back and correct what the Supreme Court has done. That's why we have divided government. And we're going to have to encourage them to act in an appropriate way, or we will lose our religious freedom. And as president, I would go through and I would look at what a person's life has been. What have they done in the past? What kind of judgments have they made? What kind of associations do they have? That will tell you a lot more than an interview will tell you. The fruit salad of their life is what I will look at.”
- On his healthcare plan: “Well, first of all, healthcare is not a right. But I do believe it is a responsibility for a responsible society, and we are that. We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as many other nations who have actually much better access than we do. I propose a system in which we use health empowerment accounts, which are like a health savings account with no bureaucrats. And we give it to everybody from birth until death. They can pass it on when they die. We pay for it with the same dollars that we pay for traditional healthcare with. We give people the ability to shift money within their health empowerment account within their family. So dad's $500 short, mom can give it to him or a cousin or uncle. And it makes every family their own insurance carrier with no middle man. It gives you enormous flexibility. And also, you know, if Uncle Joe is smoking like a chimney, everybody's going to hide his cigarettes because they're all interested in what's going on there. Also, the -- your catastrophic healthcare is going to cost a lot less money now because the only thing coming out of that is catastrophic healthcare. So, it's like a homeowners policy with a large deductible, versus a homeowners policy where you want every scratch covered. One costs $1,500 a year; one costs $10,000 a year. You can buy the $1,500 one. That will take care of 75 percent of the people. The people who are indigent, how do we take care of them now? Medicaid. What's the Medicaid budget? Almost $500 billion; almost 80 million people participate, which is way too many, and that will get a lot better when we fix the economy, which I hope we get a chance to talk about. But do the math. Over $5,000 for each man, woman and child, and all -- they will have a lot more flexibility. What could you buy with that? A concierge practice. And you could still have thousands of dollars left over. And let me just finish, because I don't get to talk that much. And, you know, let's... you can have the money that's left over to buy your catastrophic insurance. But most importantly, we give them a menu, just like we do in Medicare Part C, and they have the choices that will allow them not only to have catastrophic health care, but drug care and everything else. It will be such a good program that nobody will want Obamacare after that, and that's probably the best way do it, although if anybody still did, I would still de-fund it.”
- On whether Apple should comply with the court order to help the FBI: “I think allowing terrorist to get away with things is bad for America. You know, we have the -- we have a Constitution. We have a Fourth Amendment. It guards us against illegal and unreasonable search and seizure. But we have mechanisms in place with the judicial system that will allow us to gain material that is necessary to benefit the nation as a whole or the community as a whole. And that's why we have FISA courts and things of that nature. So absolutely, I would -- I would expect Apple to comply with the court order. If they don't comply with that, you're encouraging chaos in our system.”
Ted Cruz
- On nominating a “principled constitutionalist” to the Supreme Court: “Justice Scalia's passing underscores the enormous gravity of this election. Justice Scalia was someone I knew personally for 20 years; was privileged to be at his funeral this weekend. And with his passing, the court is now hanging in the balance. We are one liberal justice away from a five-justice radical leftist majority that would undermine our religious liberty; that would undermine the right to life; and that would fundamentally erase the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms from the Constitution. Now, I think the voters of Texas, the voters across Super Tuesday are assessing everyone standing on this -- this stage. In the past, Republican presidents always promise to nominate strict constitutionalists. So I'm certain if you took a survey, everyone would say they would do that. But the reality is, Democrats bat about 1,000. Just about everyone they put on the court votes exactly as they want. Republicans have batted worse than 500, more than half of the people we put on the court have been a disaster. I've spent my whole life fighting to defend the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. I can tell you, for voters that care about life or marriage or religious liberty or the Second Amendment, they're asking the question: Who do you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, who do you know will nominate principled constitutionalists to the court? I give you my word, every justice I nominate will vigorously defend the Bill of Rights for my children and for yours.”
- On defending Israel: “Well, this is another area on which Donald agrees with Hillary Clinton and on which I disagree with them both strongly. Both Donald and Hillary Clinton want to be neutral, to use Donald's word, between Israel and the Palestinians. Let me be clear. If I'm president, America will stand unapologetically with the nation of Israel. And the notion of neutrality is based upon the left buying into this moral relativism that is often pitched in the media. Listen, it is not equivalent. When you have terrorist strapping dynamite around their chest, exploding and murdering innocent women and children, they are not equivalent to the IDF officers protecting Israel. And I will not pretend that they are. Just today, Iran announced they're going to pay $7,000 to each suicide bomber. And I would note, missing from Donald's answer was anything he has done in his nearly 70 years of living defending Israel. I have over and over again led the fight to defend Israel, to fight for Israel. And this -- if you want to know who will stand with Israel, we ought to start with who has stood with Israel when the heat was on.”
- On whether Apple should comply with the court order to help the FBI: “Apple should be forced to comply with this court order. Why? Because under the Fourth Amendment, a search and seizure is reasonable if it has judicial authorization and probable cause. In this instance, the order is not put a back door in everyone's cell phone. If that was the order, that order would be problematic because it would compromise security and safety for everyone. I would agree with Apple on that broad policy question. But on the question of unlocking this cell phone of a terrorist, we should enforce the court order and find out everyone that terrorist at San Bernardino talked to on the phone, texted with, e-mailed. And absolutely, Apple doesn't have a right to defy a valid court order in a terrorism investigation.”
John Kasich
- On religious liberty and same-sex marriage: “Religious institutions should be able to practice the religion that they believe in. No question and no doubt about it. Now, in regard to same-sex marriage, I don't favor it. I've always favored traditional marriage, but, look, the court has ruled and I've moved on. And what I've said, Hugh, is that, look, where does it end? If you're in the business of selling things, if you're not going to sell to somebody you don't agree with, OK, today I'm not going to sell to somebody who's gay, and tomorrow maybe I won't sell to somebody who's divorced. I mean, if you're in the business of commerce, conduct commerce. That's my view. And if you don't agree with their lifestyle, say a prayer for them when they leave and hope they change their behavior. But when it comes to the religious institutions, they are in inviolate in my mind, and I would fight for those religious institutions. And look, I've appointed over a hundred judges as governor. I even appointed adjudge to the Ohio Supreme Court. And you know what they are? They're conservatives. Go check it out. They are conservatives. They don't make the law. They interpret the law. That's all they do. And they stick by the Constitution. So I will do that. But let's just not get so narrow here as to gotcha this or that. I think my position is clear.”
- On North Korea and getting rid of Kim Jong Un: “When you talk about regime change, Wolf, it means regime change. That's what it means. Even though there's so much chaos in North Korea right now, there's a lot of reports of uncertainty, and instability in that government. But, look, here's what I think we ought to do -- like, immediately. And, we've been kicking the can down the road on this for, I don't know, 15 years. We should be intercepting the ships that are leaving North Korea so they're not selling this material, or this technology, or giving it to someone else. Secondly, the same goes with the aircraft. Thirdly, we need to slap even tougher sanctions on North Korea because we really don't have the toughest sanctions on North Korea. We ought to talk about arming South Korea with ballistic missile technology. And, of course, also Japan with ballistic missile technology. Because we're now starting to take a firm position. We have the attention of the Chinese. The Chinese are the best way to calm that regime down and get them in a position of where they back off. But, when I say regime change, I don't have to talk exactly what that means. Look, I've been involved in national security for a long time. You don't have to spell everything out, but what I'm telling you is you look for any means you can to be able to solve that problem in North Korea, and in the meantime put the pressure on the Chinese. And, what we're doing is beginning to work against them. They are the key to being able to settle this situation.”
- On Apple, the FBI and President Obama: “I want to just tell you that the problem is not right now between the administration and Apple. You know what the problem is? Where's the president been? You sit down in a back room and you sit down with the parties and you get this worked out. You don't litigate this on the front page of the New York Times, where everybody in the world is reading about their dirty laundry out here. The president of the United States should be convening a meeting, should have convened a meeting with Apple and our security forces. And then you know what you do when you're the president? You lock the door and you say you're not coming out until you reach an agreement that both gives the security people what they need and protects the rights of Americans. This is a failure of his leadership to get this done as an executive should be doing it. And I'll tell you, that's why you want a governor. I do this all the time. And we reach agreements all the time. Because as an executive, you've got to solve problems instead of fighting on the front page of the newspaper.”
Marco Rubio
- On Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): “DACA is an executive order that is unconstitutional. I will cancel it on my first day in office, which means people who currently hold those permits will not be allowed to renew them when they expire, and new people will not be allowed to apply for them. Now, I am sympathetic to the plight of someone who came here when they were 2 or 3 years old through no fault of their own, but you can't solve it doing something that is unconstitutional. No matter how sympathetic we may be to a cause, we cannot violate the Constitution of the United States the way this president now does on a regular basis.”
- On whether Apple should help the FBI: “[T]he FBI made this very clear 48 hours ago -- the only thing they are asking of Apple is that Apple allow them to use their own systems in the FBI to try to guess the password of the San Bernardino killer. Apple initially came out saying, ‘We're being ordered to create a back door to an encryption device.’ That is not accurate. The only thing they're being asked to do, and the FBI made this very clear about 48 hours ago, is allow us to disable the self- destruct mode that's in the Apple phone so that we can try to guess using our own systems what the password of this killer was. And I think they should comply with that. If that's all they're asking for, they are not asking for Apple to create a back door to encryption. … That Apple phone didn't even belong to the killer. It belonged to the killer's employee (sic) who have agreed to allow him to try to do this. That is all they're asking them to do is to disable the self-destruct mode or the auto-erase mode on one phone in the entire world. But Apple doesn't want to do it because they think it hurts their brand. Well, let me tell you, their brand is not superior to the national security of the United States of America.”
- On not supporting bankruptcy protection for Puerto Rico: “Sure, because bankruptcy doesn't work unless you change the way you're operating, or you're going to be bankrupt again. And, the problem with Puerto Rico is it's economy is not growing. It has a massive exodus of professionals and others that are leaving to my home state of Florida, and all over the country. They're coming to the mainland from Puerto Rico because the economy there is not growing, it's too expensive to do business there. The tax rate is too high. The government regulations are too extensive. This year alone, with all the problems they're having, they barely cut their budget from one year to the next. So, I think the leadership on the island has to show their willingness to get their house in order and put in place measures allow the economy there to grow again. If the economy of Puerto Rico does not grow they will never generate the revenue to pay this debt, or the billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities that they have on their books of promises they've made to future generations to make payments. So, yes, if they do all of those things then we can explore the use of bankruptcy protection, but not as the first resort, which is what they're asking for, because it will not solve the problems on the island and you're going to continue to see hundreds of thousands of people leave that beautiful place, and coming to the mainland. They're United States citizens, they're obviously entitled to do so, and we welcome them, but we would also prefer to see a Puerto Rico that once again is growing economically, and is robust. And, the leaders in charge there now are doing a terrible job. Their previous governor, Louis Fortuno was doing a great job until he barely lost that election to ... to someone who has taken a big government stance (ph) once again…”
Donald Trump
- On former Mexican president Vicente Fox’s comments and how he will make Mexico pay for a border wall: “I will, and the wall just got 10 feet taller, believe me. It just got 10 feet taller. I saw him make that -- I saw him make the statement. I saw him use the word that he used. I can only tell you, if I would have used even half of that word, it would have been national scandal. This guy used a filthy, disgusting word on television, and he should be ashamed of himself, and he should apologize, OK? Number one. Number two, we have a trade deficit with Mexico of $58 billion a year. And that doesn't include all the drugs that are pouring across and destroying our country. We're going to make them pay for that wall. Now, the wall is $10 billion to $12 billion, if I do it. If these guys do it, it'll end up costing $200 billion. But the wall is $10 billion to $12 billion. You need 1,000 -- you need 1,000 miles. The Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago -- 2,000, is 13,000 miles. We need 1,000, because we have a lot of natural barriers. We can do it for $10 billion to $12 billion, and it's a real wall. This is a wall that's a heck of a lot higher than the ceiling you're looking at. This is a wall that's going to work. Mexico will pay for it, because they are not doing us any favors. They could stop all of this illegal trade if they wanted to...immediately. Mexico will pay for the wall. It's a small portion of the kind of money that we lose and the deficits that we have with Mexico.”
- On supporting Planned Parenthood: “As far as Planned Parenthood is concerned, I'm pro-life. I'm totally against abortion, having to do with Planned Parenthood. But millions and millions of women -- cervical cancer, breast cancer -- are helped by Planned Parenthood. So you can say whatever you want, but they have millions of women going through Planned Parenthood that are helped greatly. And I wouldn't fund it. I would defund it because of the abortion factor, which they say is 3 percent. I don't know what percentage it is. They say it's 3 percent. But I would defund it, because I'm pro-life. But millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood.”
- On building a wall along the U.S.-Canadian border: “First of all, you're talking about a border that's many, many times longer. You're talking about a massive border. We have far less problem with that border than we do with our Southern border, and tremendous amounts -- you know, I won, I had the privilege of winning by a landslide, by the way, New Hampshire. You go to New Hampshire, the first thing they talk about is heroin and drugs pouring in. And, you wouldn't think this beautiful place -- it's beautiful. With the trees and the roads, and the countryside. Their biggest problem is heroin, and it's such a shame to see it. They're pouring in from the Southern border, so I'm talking about great security. I'm talking about a wall that can absolutely be built, and I'll build it on time, on budget. It'll be a very high wall, a great wall. It's going to be built, it's going to be built. It's going to be paid for by Canada, by the way -- maybe I'll get Canada to pay? Got to be paid for by Mexico. The problem with Canada, you're talking about a massively long piece. You're talking about a border that would be about four times longer. It would be very, very hard to do, and we -- it is not our biggest problem. I don't care what anyone says. It is not our big problem. Our big problem is not only people coming in, and in many cases the wrong people, it's the tremendous amount of drugs that are coming in.”
Third Party Candidates
- Eleven Libertarian Party candidates will debate at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Biloxi, Mississippi, at the Beau Rivage. The candidates are: John McAfee, Gary Johnson, Austin Peterson, Steve Kerbel, Darryl W. Perry, Cecil Ince (a.k.a. Christopher Davis), Marc Allan Feldman, Shawna "Pastor Shawna" Sterling, Derrick Reid, Jack Robinson Jr. and Rhett Smith. (Sun Herald)
Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party)
- On Wednesday, Gary Johnson released the video, “The Only Choice.” In it, the former New Mexico governor says, “For those of you worried I'll take votes away from the Democrat or the Republican, I say good. They deserve to lose your vote. Take as many votes away from the people in both parties keeping us in a state of perpetual war and increasing unsustainable debt.” (KOB 4, YouTube)
See also
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
- Presidential debates (2015-2016)
- Important dates in the 2016 presidential race
- Polls and Straw polls
- 2016 presidential candidate ratings and scorecards
