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Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham told Newsmax TV Tuesday that rival Ted Cruz was "well positioned" to eventually win the nomination if Ben Carson dropped out of the race. "If something happened to Carson, some of the voters would go to Cruz," the South Carolina senator told "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "At the end of the day, you've got four or five people who would be really good candidates. "I include myself in that list, but how do you beat Hillary Clinton? You have to get more votes than she does."(continued)

At the Florida Democratic Party Convention, held October 30-November 1, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed, “The Florida Democratic Party is back and better than ever.” Also back, it would seem, is the national party’s misguided emphasis on gun control. Speaking at a convention event held at the Walt Disney World Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Wasserman Schultz launched into an anti-gun screed aimed at getting members of her party to more fervently pursue gun control. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Wasserman Schultz demanded, “Democrats! We must close the gun show loophole! Democrats! We must require background checks...

Back in the early days of the 2014 football season, the Green Bay Packers were 1-2. Fans were upset. Head management started updating their resumes. Things were not looking good. After receiving a loss at the hands of the Detroit Lions — yes, you can understand the Pack’s frustration — quarterback Aaron Rodgers told the cheesehead faithful to "R-E-L-A-X." Rodgers calmly told the media and Green Bay nation everything will be all right. And he was right. The team finished 12-4, captured first place in the NFC North and went to the NFC Championship. Now, segueing back into an arena...

Carsons chief competitor for the Republican presidential nomination at the moment is billionaire former reality television star Donald Trump, who has not been shy about attacking and ridiculing his opponents throughout the campaign. On Sunday, however, across multiple telephone interviews with talk shows, Trump adopted the tone of a concerned colleague, suggesting that he is genuinely worried about Carson, whom, he said, he has come to consider a friend.

Ben Carson is a brilliant surgeon, a man highly motivated by his faith and conviction, and on the literal opposite end of the spectrum as Trump when it comes to being loud and obnoxious. But he’s still not going to win us the presidency. He suffers from the same problem all political outsiders do; he has no experience on presentation and confrontation. For example, he’s lost his latest round with the liberal media badly. Yes, the MSM has engaged in a terrible campaign to broadside him and his campaign, and yes, I find their double standards concerning our candidates and...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the latest GOP presidential candidate to jump on 2016 frontrunner Ben Carson's theory that the pyramids were created by the biblical figure Joseph to store grain. "I'm really big into conspiracy theories, so I think they were probably built by the aliens as grain silos, don’t you think," Paul joked, when asked about Carson's idea on 1110AM WBT, as reported by Buzzfeed. Carson has defended the idea that the pyramids were built for grain storage -- not as pharaohs' tombs, as modern archaeology holds -- since Buzzfeed recently unearthed a video of the neurosurgeon making...

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A Democratic-proposed gun ban would prohibit some of the most highly-rated hunting rifles and shotguns, ban most pistols, and require Wisconsin residents who owned so-called “semiautomatic assault weapons” to turn their guns in to the government. State Rep. Lisa Subeck and three other Democratic state lawmakers are proposing a sweeping ban on rifles, shotguns and pistols they deem dangerous because they are “designed to kill large numbers of people quickly.” Legislative attorneys – known as Legislative Counsel – confirmed to state Rep. Dave Craig (R) that the loosely written ban does not contain a grandfather clause, meaning owners of prohibited...

And to think that over the last eight or so years, the basis of Chris Matthews show was to make whites look like racists. And plenty of footage to prove it. But now, how will Chris Matthews explain the immense popularity of Ben Carson with millions and millions "Average White Americans". If there is a cable news host who would be at the top of the "Most Embarrassed List", it would be Chrissy for 7/8 years of trying to convince his audience of 42,000 viewers that all conservatives are racists and hate black people, right?

There’s a reason Bush, Kasich and other establishment Republicans aren’t gaining traction. Their conservatism no longer makes sense. There is an air of desperation out there on the GOP campaign trail. It’s impossible not to sense it in the kinds of things being said by teetering establishment Republican candidates like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, both of whom started off the last debate virtually pleading with base voters to come to their senses about Donald Trump, who is barely identifiable as a conservative by any standard measure of ideology. Not to mention Ben Carson, whose views sound like a grab...

Hillary Clinton visited Chicago on Monday, where she met with the family members of victims of gun violence. Among the group were the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice, young African Americans whose high-profile shooting deaths have sparked national outrage, widespread protests, and heated conversations about race relations and police brutality. Lesley McSpadden, the mother of slain Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown, called the private meeting with the Democratic presidential hopeful "intimate and powerful."(continued)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Thursday he is on board with participating in a hypothetical Black Lives Matter presidential forum, saying it would be a good idea for the Republican Party to take issues of criminal justice reform seriously. "If we were smart, we would do it," the GOP presidential candidate said during an interview on NewsOne Now. "They are drawing attention to issues that need to be drawn to." Both the Democratic and Republican National Committees have agreed to promote presidential town halls set up by Black Lives Matter activists. But the movement's organizers have pushed back against the...

MADISON –Today, Representative Subeck (D-Madison), along with Representatives Terese Berceau, Melissa Sargent and Chris Taylor, circulated an Assembly bill that would ban the transportation, purchase, possession, or transfer of semiautomatic assault weapons in Wisconsin. “Our nation has watched as community after community has had to confront the tragedies that occur when weapons designed to kill large numbers of people quickly get into the hands of a dangerous person,” said Representative Lisa Subeck. “No Wisconsin community should ever have to face such a tragedy at the hands of someone armed with a semiautomatic assault weapon.” Semiautomatic assault weapons are a class...

The White House said today it doesn't want to draw "significant conclusions" from GOP victories at the state level in Tuesday's elections. Press secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged to reporters that "the election results in some red states like Kentucky and Mississippi were good for Republicans," but "the results in some blue states like in Pennsylvania and New Jersey were good for Democrats." But the "general" takeaway, he said, is "the case that the president has made about the affirmative governing agenda that has been put forward by Democrats all across the country, is good for the country, and has been...

With Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s comments about immigration Sunday, the top two Republicans in Congress have now declared dead the prospects of an overhaul before the 2016 elections. In the aftermath of 2012, when Latinos made up 10 percent of the electorate and President Barack Obama was re-elected resoundingly, Republican lawmakers and strategists predicted the GOP’s White House ambitions were directly tied to the passage of comprehensive immigration legislation. Many of those voices haven’t changed their tune. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., one of the four “gang of eight” Republicans who successfully navigated an immigration overhaul through the Senate in 2013,...

Donald Trump said the Republican party will lose elections if it reforms the nation's entitlement programs "The fact is 11 million people will be voting Democratic. You can be out front. every one of those 11 million people will be voting Democratic," he said. "It is just the way it works." "You have to be very, very careful, because you could say that to a certain extent the odds aren't looking so great for Republicans, that you are on a suicide mission," he said. Source: 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf. in Washington Times , Mar 15, 2013 America's prisons house...

If we have a President Carson, guess Bill Clinton will have to step aside being he is currently the "Undisputed First Black President". And then again we still have Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln in the running. You can already envision this argument come later in 2017 when the GOP will hold the bragging rights to "The First Black President". Dr. Ben Abraham Carson !!!

CEDAR RAPIDS | Iowans are expecting a Clinton-Trump matchup in the 2016 presidential election, but based on a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll, neither candidate their party’s nomination sewn. And in Donald Trump’s case, he’s not leading the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, according to the poll of 397 Republicans and 402 Democrats “possible” or “likely” caucusgoers conducted Oct. 19-25. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson currently holds the GOP lead with 25.3 percent of Republican polled saying they would back him. Trump was the runner-up with the support of 22 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Sen....

We can talk all we like about national polls and Iowa polls and New Hampshire polls, and Ben Carson and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. But among the bookmakers, there’s only one hot bet right now, and it’s Marco Rubio. Florida’s junior senator has surged into a commanding lead in the betting for the Republican nomination for president following last week’s strong showing in the CNBC debate. Bookmakers are now giving Rubio an astonishing 40% or better chance of becoming the nominee — nearly four times as high as they were rating him just three months ago, before the debates...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton met with a group of mothers whose African-American children died in gun shootings. Clinton shared the "heartbreaking stories" of their children, according to a statement released by her campaign on Monday night. She also outlined her criminal justice and gun control proposals....