Posted on 11/05/2015 11:55:47 AM PST by VinL
Rep. Steve King,an influential conservative who represents Iowa's Fourth Congressional District, is warning Americans and Iowans that a massive amnesty for all of America's illegal aliens may be unstoppable if Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is elected president.
"With Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker, we have this big question about what amnesty might be not in this Congress but with the next president," King said on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel with Breitbart Newsâ Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon. âI have apprehension about that.â
King says he thinks that the final battle ahead of Iowa's caucuses in early February..something that may break out in January...just might come down to a fight between Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Right now, King said that billionaire businessman Donald Trump has the best ground game in the state.
"I have to say Trumpâs right now, " King said when asked who has the best ground game, adding that his former chief of staff Chuck LaudnerâTrumpâs Iowa manager who helped lead former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to an Iowa caucus victory in 2012âis doing everything he has to do.
"It's well organizedâand itâs well organized by Chuck Laudner, my former chief of staff," King said. âI know what he can do and Iâm convinced heâs doing it."
âHe will work that ground game and he will have the resources to do it, my only concern is are the Trump supporters strong enough to take that ground game and actually show up that night and do the things they need to do to turn it into a victory,â King added. âI donât know and a lot can happen between now and then but Iâm watching as Rubioâs enthusiasm and enthusiasm for him is lifting him up. And Ted Cruz has positioned himself also with a good ground game. I didnât think so earlier, but itâs getting a lot better now. And just watching how the issues break, something else helps him too.â
It was after that that King noted that Cruz may end up benefiting from the way issues break on the national political stageâand Rubio may end up getting hurt by that. And itâs specifically the threat of an amnesty under a potential âPresident Rubioâ and a Speaker Ryan.
âWhile Paul Ryan wasnât for the Gang of Eight, he was one of those writing the Gang of Seven bill in the House,â King told Bannon.
Itâs a path to a legal status, itâs a type of amnesty, and Iâll be opposing any type of amnesty. So I think we will be locking horns not until the next president, and I think it will be very difficult to keep this type of amnesty from flowing over us if we have Speaker Ryan, Minority Leader Pelosi, Majority Leader McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. If you put an amnesty president on top of that, itâs going to be almost impossible to block amnesty again. So I think itâs really important we have a president whoâs real strong on this and when I look across the list of 15, I think weâve got Donald Trump and Ted CruzâRick Santorum would be real good, but his numbers are so far down. So, that all I think spells well for Cruz if Trump isnât able to maintain the altitude that he has now.
Earlier in the interview, King explained that the final battle in Iowa may come down to Cruz versus Rubio.
âThereâs no doubt the intensity is being turned up,â King said.
Of the recent event last Friday night at Northwestern College in Orange Cityâwhich King called the âepicenterâ of Northwestern Iowa politicsâKing said the âenergy was around Marco Rubio and that might be because he hadnât been in that area for some time, but the energy was around him.â
âChris Christie has the support of the core of the major donors and establishment people in the state,â King added. âAnd of course Jeb has lost some ground. But theyâre the three establishment candidates and of them, Rubio is the most likely to emerge from them.â
On the conservative side, King predicted Cruz may emerge as the victorâand that would set up a showdown between Cruz and Rubio.
âThen you have to set Trump and Carson kind of off on the sideâtheyâre unpredictable entitiesâI donât know what moves them or doesnât move them, but I will say Trump is sort of flattening out,â King said.
And Carsonâs also starting to flatten out. That is my gut feeling. So then, out of the constitutional conservatives, I think people will look at the list of themâand there are good onesâalong the way and I got to hunt pheasants with a bunch of them on Saturday and Sunday. But I think Ted Cruz is in the best position there to be the constitutional conservative who emerges. Letâs just say if Trump and Carson drift away and down, I think you end up with a contest in Iowa between Rubio and Cruz. That may be how it is in January, but thereâs a long way to go.
LOL!
Sure are lots of folks on the...right...mocking and denigrating the Constitutional conservative these days.
Here is one for you. Trump adds 5,000-10,000 TWITTER subscribers per day on his account. In the last 3 weeks he has added 300,000 subscribers to Hillary’s 40,000.
Not one candidate can get even near those kinds of numbers. By December he should have above 5.5 million subscribers.
The media is trying to tell us Trump is fading yet his subscription growth is second to none and no one is even close.
How can Trump be fading when even Hillary only has 10% of his growth rate in subscriptions?
Trump is not fading and we all know it. The lack of scrutiny on Carson has allowed him to float up into the stratosphere but now that the spotlight has been turned on him this week he’s going to deflate pretty fast.
Absent an alien abduction the next GOP nominee is DJ Trump.
Totally agree.
I also was surprised to see Stephen King attacking Rubio on immigration.
So now Carson is getting clobbered.
Rubio is getting clobbered.
Leaves a big opening for Trump.
Yep Trump needs to wrap this nomination up and get ready for the general election.
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