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March 22, 2016
FOX NATION — GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz takes shots at Trump, Clinton and Obama administration at AIPAC, vowing that America will stand "unapologetically" by Israel and the Iran nuke deal will be "ripped to shreds" under his presidency... (more)


March 22, 2016
TIME — "I didn't come here tonight to pander to you about Israel" Seeking to calm worries about his scant foreign policy credentials, Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump used his turn before the United States' largest pro-Israel group to offer his view for the Middle East... (more)


March 22, 2016
LLOYD MARCUS — Our Conservative Campaign Committee team has been traveling state-to-state, boots-on-the-ground campaigning for Ted Cruz in caucuses and primaries. After campaigning for Cruz in Fayetteville, North Carolina, we joined a rally led by Heidi Cruz... (more)


March 22, 2016
NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who earlier this month was accused of grabbing a reporter's arm so hard he left a bruise, is now facing allegations of making advances toward women in the press corps... (more)


March 22, 2016
MONA CHAREN — I first became aware of Donald Trump when he chose to make cheating on his first wife front-page news. It was the early '90s. Donald and Ivana Trump broke up over the course of months. Not that divorce is shocking, mind you. Among the glitterati marriage seems more unusual. Nor is infidelity exactly novel... (more)


March 22, 2016
WASHINGTON TIMES — More than 50 leading conservative Catholics on Friday threw their support behind Republican primary hopeful Ted Cruz. The group, which is co-chaired by Princeton professor Robert George and former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, cited Mr. Cruz's commitment to protecting religious liberty... (more)


March 22, 2016
NEWSMAX — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz decried President Barack Obama's historic visit to Cuba Monday, saying the left likes to "put posters of Che Guevara on the wall" even though he was a "homicidal maniac," shortly after Obama drew heat from conservatives for posing for pictures in front of a mural of the Marxist revolutionary icon in Havana... (more)


March 22, 2016
NEWSMAX — Former Reagan administration official K.T. McFarland was among conservatives critical of President Barack Obama's Monday press conference in which he said he accepted criticism from Cuban President Raul Castro... (more)


March 22, 2016
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Former President Bill Clinton asked Democratic voters to shrug off the "awful legacy" of President Obama's years in office in a speech Monday to support Hillary Clinton's campaign... (more)


March 21, 2016
DESERET NEWS — Do Republicans who refuse to "unify" behind Donald Trump risk forfeiting the White House? That's doubtful, since polls consistently show Trump losing to the Democratic front-runner. But even if true, what shall it profit the Republican Party to win an election, and lose its republican soul?... (more)


March 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn't hold out much hope of a Donald Trump presidency solving the problems in the Middle East, and he urged Ohio Gov. John Kasich to unite with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to keep Trump from getting the GOP nomination. Urgent: Rate Obama on His Job Performance. Vote Here Now!... (more)


March 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus made it clear on Sunday that the candidate who goes into the party's presidential convention this summer with the most votes does not necessarily get the nomination.... (more)


March 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — When Florida Sen. Marco Rubio suspended his presidential campaign on Tuesday he already had won 169 delegates, according to The Associated Press' count. But what happens with those delegates now that he is out of the race can be a complicated matter?... (more)


March 20, 2016
NEWSMAX — Though by his own admission Donald Trump has "a very good brain," a new study suggests his wordplay isn't exactly Shakespearian in scope.... (more)


March 20, 2016
BOB UNRUH — Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich. These are the remaining contenders for the presidential nominations of the two leading parties, and one of them is almost certain to take residence in the White House early next year.... (more)


March 20, 2016
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has zoomed to a commanding lead in Utah's GOP caucuses, according to a new poll released Saturday. It also gave a glimpse into how frustrated the state's Republicans are with Donald Trump's candidacy.... (more)


March 20, 2016
RED STATE — Buzzfeed Senior Political Reporter McKay Coppins noticed something interesting on Friday night. Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump held rallies in Utah, and there was a slight difference in the attendance.... (more)


March 20, 2016
FOX 13 NEWS — Sen. Ted Cruz took his turn wooing Utah voters Saturday after three presidential hopefuls held rallies in the Beehive State Friday, and the Texas Senator was joined by prominent people like Senator Mike Lee and Glenn Beck.... (more)


March 20, 2016
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told Utahns on Saturday that the biggest danger America faces is career politicians who no longer listen -- and he relishes battling them for the people. "The biggest divide we have today in politics is between career politicians in Washington -- in both parties -- and the American people," he said. "Our freedom is at stake. Our nation is dangling in the balance."... (more)


March 20, 2016
CBS NEWS — Another Donald Trump event erupted in violence in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday night: a rally attendee was arrested after he punched and repeatedly kicked a protester as he was being escorted out of the rally by security.... (more)


March 20, 2016
WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama and his family arrived in Cuba on Sunday for a historic three-day visit filled with symbolism, but with few expectations that the president's legacy-building visit will improve human rights for Cubans under the repressive military regime of the Castro brothers.... (more)


March 20, 2016
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — About an eon ago, David Brooks coined the memorable phrase "status-income disequilibrium." It diagnosed modern elites, politicians in particular, whose jobs endowed them with power that dwarfed the attendant financial compensation. It would seem quaint to fret over SID today, grubby pols having turned the monetizing of "public service" into an art form for which the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is the national museum.... (more)


March 19, 2016
NEWSMAX — Mitt Romney said Friday that he would back Ted Cruz in Utah's Republican caucus on Tuesday -- though "I like Gov. John Kasich" -- prompting front-runner Donald Trump to slam the former Massachusetts governor on Twitter.... (more)


March 19, 2016
NEWSMAX — John Kasich could guarantee Ted Cruz the Republican presidential nomination by dropping out and endorsing the Texas senator over Donald Trump, political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Friday.... (more)


March 19, 2016
NEWSMAX — The Wall Street Journal Thursday night fired back at GOP front-runner Donald Trump after he demanded its editorial board apologize to him for saying Hillary Clinton has gotten more votes than him in the primaries so far, saying, "As Mr. Trump likes to tweet, better be careful!" over the levels of support he's getting from Republican voters. !... (more)

 
 
 
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