Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz Campaigns Bash RNC for Stacking Audience with Pro-Amnesty Donor Class
Breitbart ^ | 02/1/16 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 02/13/2016 11:11:00 PM PST by Enlightened1

Repeatedly throughout the debate, the audience cheered as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his protegé

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) consistently and repeatedly made the case to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, while the audience oddly booed both Trump and
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as they made eloquent cases against amnesty.

“I don’t think it’s representative of the people of South Carolina,” Lewandowski added. “Those who don’t have the resources to give large sums of money to the RNC didn’t get a ticket here tonight and that’s a shame on the RNC.”

Trump’s campaign was hardly the only one upset with how the debate turned out as it relates to how audience tickets are handed out. Both Reps.

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC)

and

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)

bashed the establishment for stacking the audience with donor class folks not representative of America or of South Carolina’s electorate. Duncan and Meadows have both endorsed Cruz for president and were representing his campaign in the spin room.

“I was a little disappointed in CBS and the moderators in that they kind of let the debate and the crowd get out of control,” Duncan told Breitbart News, adding that the pro-amnesty cheers and boos aren’t representative of his state.

“It doesn’t represent the voters of South Carolina,” Duncan said. “Definitely, the room was stacked for Rubio—there’s no doubt about it, especially from where I was sitting

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Cuba; Mexico; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; audience; bencarson; canada; cruz; cuba; election2016; florida; jebbush; jeffduncan; johnkasich; marcorubio; markmeadows; mexico; newyork; northcarolina; ohio; sc2016; southcarolina; stacking; tedcruz; texas; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
To: Windflier

Trump closing statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgFSFrgdWgc


41 posted on 02/14/2016 2:01:10 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: octex
Giving GWB some of the blame is worth considering. He was in office eight months before it occurred. That would've been plenty of time to have a plan in motion to remove invaders from the US. Especially with his background as a flyboy, you'd think by that time there would've been fighter jets in the air 24/7 patrolling our east coast.

GWB did not come into office and do what Trump promises to do. That is to talk to the Generals and make necessary changes day one.

How come nobody until now has had the guts to say GWB isn't totally free of blame?

42 posted on 02/14/2016 2:26:32 AM PST by grania
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: dp0622
This was my first impulse after the shock wore off. It would be a brilliant Machiavellian manuever. Nothing is beyond the realm of possiblities.
43 posted on 02/14/2016 2:52:14 AM PST by MountainYankee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: dp0622
She wasn’t nearly as upset as I was over Scalia.

She will be soon, as will any thinking person when we're faced with Justice Loretta Lynch or Justice Eric Holder

I weep for our country.

44 posted on 02/14/2016 2:54:25 AM PST by RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

BFAC

HERES A THREAD ABOUT YOUR THREAD


45 posted on 02/14/2016 2:56:36 AM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this...Trump Cruz that order)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: grania

Fifteen minutes after the second plane hit, GWB should have picked up the phone and fired CIA Director George Tenet. No excuses, no backtalk, no nothing, just fired.

And if he had the temerity to ask why, Bush should have told him, “Tenet, if you have to ask, you’re too damn dumb to be CIA Director.”

We pay untold billions of dollars for spies, analysts, and God knows whatever else every year, yet they always catch us with our pants down.


46 posted on 02/14/2016 3:03:34 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
This is the first positive topic I've seen about the SC debates. Thanks Enlightened1.

47 posted on 02/14/2016 3:03:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Politicalkiddo

That was my first feeling too....despair

And emotional hearing folks on FOX grieving over how down to earth and accessible he was

My wife was in UAL....a sorta TJ Maxx for couture and near couture here in Nashville....I was waiting for her to tell me to come in to dressing room and editorialize

I texted her and she wentboo hooey....bought a Celine sweater marked off 75% and we just sat in the truck near Vandy dazed......we heard right off like the GOP might actually buck up

Never has a lame duck got a nomination through this late in second term

I think Eisenhower recess appointed Brennan and the Dems in congress liked him and kept him......another GOP POTUS SCOTUS SCREW UP

They are just tone deaf

Scalia....
He’s the best our team has ever had in that job in

But man do pubbie presidents have a bad track record on this....

Especially Bushes


48 posted on 02/14/2016 3:08:17 AM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this...Trump Cruz that order)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: abb
The WTC wasn't under surveillance even though it had been attacked a few years earlier. There were no eyes in the sky watching the Pentagon. Isn't that part of the total shock US citizens felt that day? We collectively realized that our nation's military was no longer being used to keep us safe.

If GWB hadn't worked toward fixing anything almost a year into his administration, would he ever have done so?

We need a President who can think strategically and anticipate scenarios that would otherwise catch us off guard. That's what a well-trained military provides. Trump's HS background isn't irrelevant. He learned that mindset, and seems to have used it throughout life.

49 posted on 02/14/2016 3:23:52 AM PST by grania
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

The RNC is garbage
Its leader Reinse is horse crap.


50 posted on 02/14/2016 3:55:55 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz ,Keep stirring the pot Donald.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tbd

Starting to believe it yet?


51 posted on 02/14/2016 5:09:18 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Windflier

I didn’t see or hear the debate tonight. I tried to follow the live thread, but it was just painful to see Freepers ripping each other to shreds.

- - - - - - - -

The FReepers who *do* the Rally threads — and KEEP TROLLS OUT or at least under control — keep on posting after rally is over. They/we enjoy discussing things without painful trolling.

They decided rather than begin a new thread for the debate, they would continue the debate discussion on the same rally thread.

I followed that one - nice. Later took a glance at the main debate thread - BUT DIDNT STAY THERE LONG byeeee

[ Usually I skim the posts being currently posted to see what is where and going on — find the non-troll debate thread that way ]

PS I really enjoy following your posts


52 posted on 02/14/2016 5:37:16 AM PST by PraiseTheLord (have you seen the fema camps, shackle box cars, thousands of guillotines, stacks of coffins ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: trebb

I know the GOPe is behind it.


53 posted on 02/14/2016 5:38:40 AM PST by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: sheik yerbouty

I think you meant you were “going to the mat,” not going back to bed.


54 posted on 02/14/2016 6:00:52 AM PST by I-ambush (Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: wardaddy

LOL!


55 posted on 02/14/2016 6:10:57 AM PST by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

The audience was out of control last night.

The moderators should have put a stop to it early on.


56 posted on 02/14/2016 6:12:37 AM PST by Stormy_2021
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MountainYankee

not just you.

i am a little naive and always have been.

my very sharp aunt said that’s the first thing she thought.

he was on a hunting trip, he ate old style Italian diet, which was healthy, and he just dropped?

haven’t seen a full picture of him lately. was he heavy?


57 posted on 02/14/2016 8:15:00 AM PST by dp0622
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

Thanks for the link to Trump’s closing statement. It was a good recitation of the key points of his campaign.


58 posted on 02/14/2016 9:03:47 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: PraiseTheLord

Thank you for the kind words.

When a thread becomes contentious, I usually begin skimming past the loudest posters. On occasion I step into the fray myself, though I do try to keep it civil, while attempting to get through to the other person. I’m not always successful in that. Tempers and emotions have ratcheted up so high here lately, that much of the time, I just steer clear.


59 posted on 02/14/2016 9:12:20 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

A GOPe stacked audience


60 posted on 02/14/2016 2:45:01 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson