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| Ted Cruz floats restarting presidential campaign – election live | Ted Cruz floats restarting presidential campaign – election live |
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| Rush Limbaugh, on Donald Trump: | |
| How about this: American politics is determined by trolls on the internet today - maybe not determined, but internet trolls have a lot of say about what people are thought of. Well, Trump is an internet troll. With all of his tweeting, Trump is one of those guys. Trump has brought the internet troll to the campaign. Now, there’s a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time, this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet, this is the kind of stuff that people say everyday everywhere on the internet multiple times a day, and nothing happens to them. | |
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| In March, a poll found that nearly 20% of Americans would consider moving to Canada if a Trump presidency comes to pass. Well, the dream doesn’t have to be mere fantasy any longer. A new company has arrived that intends to help whisk the country’s jaded abroad. | |
| Maple Match is a matchmaking service like none other. In the words of its website, it “makes it easy for Americans to find the ideal Canadian partner to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency”. The app, in other words, wants to help Trump-averse singles find love – and perhaps a new country to call home. At the moment, eager singles can sign up for early access when the dating app launches properly. And when it does, many thousands of unhappy Americans and generous Canadians will be paired. | |
| The service’s founder is Joe Goldman, a 25-year-old education research and budding entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas. A self-described man of “liberal persuasions” living in a red state, Goldman says he has a natural affinity forCanada and its progressive leftwing image. Maple Match is a manifestation of his dual passions: connecting different people and his neighbors to the north. “When this election came about and I started seeing Donald Trump and the rise of his candidacy I started getting concerned, just like anybody else,” he said. “I thought it might be interesting to try something like this out.” | |
| At first his ambitions were modest: “Last week I had a hundred page views and I thought that was a great – I made a hundred people smile.” But then virality transformed Maple Match into an international craze. Last Friday, Maple Match was getting 200 sign-up requests an hour. Today nearly 5,000 singles have signed up for Maple Match – and the app hasn’t even launched. | |
| Related: Maple Match: service helps Trump-fleeing Americans find love in Canada | |
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| We have more background on former presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s conference call with Christian supporters today, in which his wife Heidi compared her husband’s presidential campaign to the fight against slavery. | |
| According to the Texas Tribune, Heidi Cruz was on a conference call with the campaign’s National Prayer Team when she likened the Texas senator’s political career to the abolitionist movement that ended chattel slavery in the US. | |
| “I don’t want you to feel like any of this was in vain,” she told her husband’s supporters. “I believe in the power of prayer. This doesn’t always happen on the timing of man, and God does not work in four-year segments.” | |
| “Be full of faith and so full of joy that this team was chosen to fight a long battle,” she continued. Think that slavery - it took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years.” | |
| The comments, in addition to sparking criticism of the comparison of a partisan political campaign with the fight against slavery, also seemed to indicate that, for the Cruzes, the fight for the White House has only begun. | |
| “We are not only keeping this band together, we have been having meetings five hours a day since the time we dropped out,” Heidi said. “Every single person in our leadership team in our campaign, Ted and I will probably be working with on a weekly basis in the next four years.” | |
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| Donald Trump is previewing his planned attacks on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton via a video on Instagram today. The line: Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. | Donald Trump is previewing his planned attacks on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton via a video on Instagram today. The line: Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. |
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| House speaker Paul Ryan’s primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, faces an uphill battle in seeking to unseat the popular Republican leader in his home district. This might explain why he has endorsed an article in Breitbart News that seeks to label Ryan as a hypocrite for opposing Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim travel and immigration to the US... because he sends his children to parochial school. | House speaker Paul Ryan’s primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, faces an uphill battle in seeking to unseat the popular Republican leader in his home district. This might explain why he has endorsed an article in Breitbart News that seeks to label Ryan as a hypocrite for opposing Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim travel and immigration to the US... because he sends his children to parochial school. |
| Truth. Paul Ryan is perfectly okay risking American's safety, but for himself...not so much. @BreitbartNews https://t.co/n6XE0BMoe6 | Truth. Paul Ryan is perfectly okay risking American's safety, but for himself...not so much. @BreitbartNews https://t.co/n6XE0BMoe6 |
| In the article - which really should be read in its entirety - Breitbart writer Julia Hahn proposes that, because Ryan’s children attend a private Catholic school, Ryan has no leg to stand on in opposing religious tests for entry to the US. | In the article - which really should be read in its entirety - Breitbart writer Julia Hahn proposes that, because Ryan’s children attend a private Catholic school, Ryan has no leg to stand on in opposing religious tests for entry to the US. |
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| Ted Cruz and Heidi Cruz just addressed their “National Prayer Team” on a conference call, during which Heidi dropped this: | Ted Cruz and Heidi Cruz just addressed their “National Prayer Team” on a conference call, during which Heidi dropped this: |
| .@HeidiSCruz compares her husband's journey to slavery: "It took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years." | .@HeidiSCruz compares her husband's journey to slavery: "It took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years." |
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| Ben Jacobs | Ben Jacobs |
| Ted Cruz refused to commit his support to Donald Trump as the Republican nominee on Tuesday, and did not rule out resurrecting his campaign for president despite having dropped out of the race last week. | Ted Cruz refused to commit his support to Donald Trump as the Republican nominee on Tuesday, and did not rule out resurrecting his campaign for president despite having dropped out of the race last week. |
| In an interview with Glenn Beck, the Texas senator said that picking a presidential candidate “is not a choice that we as voters have to make today”. Cruz pointed out there are still two months until the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and six months until the general election, saying “we need to watch and see what the candidates say and do”. | In an interview with Glenn Beck, the Texas senator said that picking a presidential candidate “is not a choice that we as voters have to make today”. Cruz pointed out there are still two months until the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and six months until the general election, saying “we need to watch and see what the candidates say and do”. |
| Although Cruz had long committed to supporting the Republican nominee in the past, his tone changed after Trump repeatedly made personal attacks against Cruz and his family. | Although Cruz had long committed to supporting the Republican nominee in the past, his tone changed after Trump repeatedly made personal attacks against Cruz and his family. |
| The businessman branded his rival “Lyin Ted”, threatened to “spill the beans” on his wife while implying she was unattractive, and accused Cruz’s father of involvement in the assassination of John F Kennedy. While Cruz once calledTrump “a friend” and “terrific”, he held an abrupt press conference hours before ending his campaign where he derided Trump as a “serial philanderer”, an “amoral pathological liar”, and a “braggadocious arrogant buffoon.” | The businessman branded his rival “Lyin Ted”, threatened to “spill the beans” on his wife while implying she was unattractive, and accused Cruz’s father of involvement in the assassination of John F Kennedy. While Cruz once calledTrump “a friend” and “terrific”, he held an abrupt press conference hours before ending his campaign where he derided Trump as a “serial philanderer”, an “amoral pathological liar”, and a “braggadocious arrogant buffoon.” |
| Cruz also would not rule out returning to the campaign trail if “there’s a path to victory”. The Texas senator suspended his campaign after losing the Indiana primary on 3 May by a margin of 53%-37%, and said that with the loss he no longer saw a path forward to the Republican nomination. On Tuesday Cruz told Beck: “If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly.” | Cruz also would not rule out returning to the campaign trail if “there’s a path to victory”. The Texas senator suspended his campaign after losing the Indiana primary on 3 May by a margin of 53%-37%, and said that with the loss he no longer saw a path forward to the Republican nomination. On Tuesday Cruz told Beck: “If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly.” |
| However, Cruz’s campaign had a well-organized effort to put his supporters into positions of power among Republican delegates, who will elect the party’s nominee at the national convention in Cleveland this July. This effort means that although Trump is the only candidate left in the Republican primary, pro-Cruz supporters will have significant influence on the convention floor, and that his delegates will probably hold control of crucial committees, such as those that write the convention rules and design the party’s platform. | However, Cruz’s campaign had a well-organized effort to put his supporters into positions of power among Republican delegates, who will elect the party’s nominee at the national convention in Cleveland this July. This effort means that although Trump is the only candidate left in the Republican primary, pro-Cruz supporters will have significant influence on the convention floor, and that his delegates will probably hold control of crucial committees, such as those that write the convention rules and design the party’s platform. |
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| Republican congressman Darrell Issa has penned an editorial in The Hill today calling on party members who are still holding back on endorsing Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nomination to “get on the Trump Train.” | Republican congressman Darrell Issa has penned an editorial in The Hill today calling on party members who are still holding back on endorsing Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nomination to “get on the Trump Train.” |
| “I don’t dismiss their strong views, but I hope they’ll soon come to their senses,” Issa wrote of Republicans who are refusing to endorse Trump. “Republicans need to step back, take stock and think carefully about the stakes in this election.” | “I don’t dismiss their strong views, but I hope they’ll soon come to their senses,” Issa wrote of Republicans who are refusing to endorse Trump. “Republicans need to step back, take stock and think carefully about the stakes in this election.” |
| “Elections are choices, and this year provides as clear an option between two candidates as any time in recent memory,” Issa continued. “Donald Trump is the obvious choice for every American suffering from eight years of disastrous economic policies and anti-job regulations that have caused continuous pain to tens of millions of people. He is also the only option left for those truly harmed by Obamacare or alarmed at a failed foreign policy that has weakened our military, betrayed our allies and clearly made us less safe at home and around the world.” | “Elections are choices, and this year provides as clear an option between two candidates as any time in recent memory,” Issa continued. “Donald Trump is the obvious choice for every American suffering from eight years of disastrous economic policies and anti-job regulations that have caused continuous pain to tens of millions of people. He is also the only option left for those truly harmed by Obamacare or alarmed at a failed foreign policy that has weakened our military, betrayed our allies and clearly made us less safe at home and around the world.” |
| “This time requires updated thinking about our party and its place in American governance. As Trump makes his unifying trip Wednesday to Capitol Hill, Republicans need to get real and admit hard truths.” | “This time requires updated thinking about our party and its place in American governance. As Trump makes his unifying trip Wednesday to Capitol Hill, Republicans need to get real and admit hard truths.” |
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| Donald Trump has taken a swipe at Republicans who have preemptively ruled out serving as his vice presidential candidate, in an apparent reference to Florida senator Marco Rubio’s declaration that Trump would “be best served by a running mate and by surrogates who fully embrace his campaign.” | Donald Trump has taken a swipe at Republicans who have preemptively ruled out serving as his vice presidential candidate, in an apparent reference to Florida senator Marco Rubio’s declaration that Trump would “be best served by a running mate and by surrogates who fully embrace his campaign.” |
| It is only the people that were never asked to be VP that tell the press that they will not take the position. | It is only the people that were never asked to be VP that tell the press that they will not take the position. |
| As of last week, Trump was open to Rubio serving as his running mate. | As of last week, Trump was open to Rubio serving as his running mate. |
| “Marco’s a good guy, a really nice guy, and I like him,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier. “But not necessarily with respect to any position, but it could happen.” | “Marco’s a good guy, a really nice guy, and I like him,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier. “But not necessarily with respect to any position, but it could happen.” |
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| Sam Thielman | Sam Thielman |
| Budweiser has one-upped Donald Trump’s promise to make America great again by making America beer. Beginning later this month, the script that usually reads “Budweiser” on the brewing company’s cans and bottle labels will read “America.” The label change will stay in effect through to the election in November. | Budweiser has one-upped Donald Trump’s promise to make America great again by making America beer. Beginning later this month, the script that usually reads “Budweiser” on the brewing company’s cans and bottle labels will read “America.” The label change will stay in effect through to the election in November. |
| Budweiser regularly redesigns its logo along patriotic themes to coincide with major sporting events, often around Olympic Games hosted stateside, but this is the first time the company has effectively changed the name of its flagship product. In a press release, the brewery mentioned several upcoming events, notably the Olympics taking place elsewhere in the Americas this summer – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – and of course the deeply contentious US election itself. | Budweiser regularly redesigns its logo along patriotic themes to coincide with major sporting events, often around Olympic Games hosted stateside, but this is the first time the company has effectively changed the name of its flagship product. In a press release, the brewery mentioned several upcoming events, notably the Olympics taking place elsewhere in the Americas this summer – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – and of course the deeply contentious US election itself. |
| The change is US-centric to the core, though. The label’s typeface will stay the same, but the words will change: “America” for “Budweiser,” “e pluribus unum” (out of many, one, the motto of the US) for “The King of Beers,” and where the lager’s label usually contains boilerplate extolling the virtues of its “exclusive Beechwood Aging”, the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner. | The change is US-centric to the core, though. The label’s typeface will stay the same, but the words will change: “America” for “Budweiser,” “e pluribus unum” (out of many, one, the motto of the US) for “The King of Beers,” and where the lager’s label usually contains boilerplate extolling the virtues of its “exclusive Beechwood Aging”, the lyrics to The Star-Spangled Banner. |
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| Ted Cruz floats restarting presidential campaign | Ted Cruz floats restarting presidential campaign |
| Texas senator and recently suspended presidential candidate Ted Cruz put forward the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins tonight’s Republican primary in Nebraska. | Texas senator and recently suspended presidential candidate Ted Cruz put forward the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins tonight’s Republican primary in Nebraska. |
| Speaking on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Cruz said that although he doesn’t expect to win in Nebraska tonight, he’s open to changing gears if he feels that there is a path to victory. | Speaking on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Cruz said that although he doesn’t expect to win in Nebraska tonight, he’s open to changing gears if he feels that there is a path to victory. |
| “Listen, let’s be very clear: If there is a path to victory, we launched this campaign intending to win,” Cruz said. “The reason we suspended our campaign was that with the Indiana loss, I felt there was no path to victory. If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly.” | “Listen, let’s be very clear: If there is a path to victory, we launched this campaign intending to win,” Cruz said. “The reason we suspended our campaign was that with the Indiana loss, I felt there was no path to victory. If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly.” |
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