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$1 MILLION for candlelit dinner with Melania - but it won't be alone: meal is highlight of big-money events at inauguration (full title.) Leaked documents showing the donation packages for Donald Trump's inauguration outline a number of events that will take place that week. Million dollar donors will have access to things like a 'candlelight dinner' with Melania Trump and a 'leadership lunch' with cabinet appointees. The Presidential Inaugural Committee laid out perks for those willing to donate $25,000 to $1 million to fund Trump's January 2017 inauguration. In 2013, President Obama capped donations at $250,000, but also had special...

Friday, December 16, 2016: Join President-Elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence for the USA Thank You Tour 2016 at the Orlando Amphitheater located in the Central Florida Fairgrounds at 7:00 PM ET. Orlando Amphitheater located in the Central Florida Fairgrounds

Donald Trump further cemented his claim after winning big in Oregon on Tuesday ....promising during his Eugene rally to carry the state during the general election. If Trump manages that feat, he’d be the first Republican to win Oregon in the general election since Ronald Reagan in 1984. “Congratulations to THE MOVEMENT,” Trump tweeted... “We've just won THE GREAT STATE OF OREGON. The vote percentage is higher than anticipated! Thank you.” [67%] William Joseph Fields ... was a LIFELONG DEMOCRAT before he SWITCHED HIS PARTY AFFILIATION ...TO SUPPORT TRUMP. “I was a complete and utter Bernie supporter,” he said standing...

The Texas Republican Convention began under a “Unite to Win” banner but ended with many delegates still standoffish toward Donald Trump and mourning Ted Cruz’s exit from the Republican presidential race. A rundown of one of the biggest state Republican conventions in the U.S. that wrapped up Saturday: 1. CRUZ STAYS SILENT ON TRUMP Cruz didn’t mention Trump and barely alluded to November in his first public event back home since suspending his campaign. He continues to withhold endorsing his former rival even as Gov. Greg Abbott and most other state officials urged delegates to get behind the billionaire businessman....

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions sought Saturday to convince Texas Republicans that Donald Trump is the conservative leader needed to change Washington. “The American people are not happy,” the Alabama Republican told delegates at the state GOP convention in Dallas. “They are looking for something different.” Session said Trump would properly overhaul the nation’s immigration system and secure the southern border. “He’s going to build a wall to ensure that,” Sessions said. Sessions said Trump, as president, would appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court, reverse bad trade deals and rebuild the military. “Donald Trump believes in a strong national defense,”...

No Third-Party Candidate: Every four years there is political chatter about trying to run a third-party candidate who will supposedly be more conservative than the Republican nominee. The lesson is the same every time this is tried: third-party candidates do not win because the United States is a two-party country. The grumblings we hear about Donald Trump are mostly because of his strong stand against illegal immigration. Party bosses know that if Trump wins and then shuts down illegal immigration and so-called free trade, it will cost the Democratic Party millions of future votes and cost Republican businessmen lucrative deals...

The chairman of the Republican Party says Donald Trump has been trying hard to be presidential and doing that well lately. In a brief interview Friday with The Associated Press, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus also said the party's presumptive presidential nominee should keep having conversations with GOP leaders. Trump met Thursday with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders. A Trump supporter, California GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, says he's heard that Trump plans to meet rank-and-file GOP lawmakers in coming weeks.

Donald Trump and Republican Party leaders are confronting an uncomfortable new reality: They may not like each other, but they may need each other. That's forcing an awkward reckoning on both sides as GOP lawmakers struggle to make peace .... Trump's team seeks to bulk up its unconventional campaign with the party's organizational prowess. ... Trump's bare-bones campaign has glaring deficiencies the RNC is uniquely positioned to address.... has largely ignored collecting information on voters ... dispatched very few staff to battleground states ... no steps to build a fundraising network. Trump told The Associated Press ... he would not...

There is work to be done in this election for all those who care about the future of America. Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee for president. If she is elected, she will continue the same disastrous policies that have already done so much harm to the U.S. economy. She will appoint radical leftists to the Supreme Court who will cripple the Bill of Rights, take away the powers of state governments, and strip Congress of even more power. She will continue the pay-for-play system, whereby the U.S. government is more responsive to heavy campaign donors than...

A new parody app about Donald Trump is a hit, climbing to No. 5 on the list of most downloaded apps in the U.S. iTunes App Store. The objective of the game is to build a wall (as “huuuge” as you can). You’re not building the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, however. The wall is being built in front a building that looks like the White House with Trump’s name plastered across it. “This game and all characters in it are entirely fictional,” is the message you see when you open up the “Trump’s Wall” app. But everything on the...

Now that Donald Trump has clinched the Republican Party nomination for president, we as a nation need to ask ourselves some serious questions: What is the sickness in our nation’s soul that has placed this carrot-colored monstrosity so close to the most powerful office in the world, and what can we do to fix it? How many newscasters will kill themselves live on-air on Election Night if he wins? (I’m setting the line at three and taking the over.) What do we need to do to bury the Trump campaign so deep before November 8, searchers will need a methane...

The political scientist who applies the ‘rational choice’ theory of economics to voters says there was a method to the GOP’s primary madness. Go to the source:

Top fundraisers for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton have begun targeting one-time donors to former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, in a bid to woo those who are opposed to GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Politico reported Thursday the race to win over some of Wall Street's top big money donors has taken an unsocial turn since Trump all but locked up the nomination this week. Many of Bush's former donors have not lined up behind Trump and Clinton's team is courting several high-profile individuals, including Bush's former finance chairman, Woody Johnson, who owns the NFL's New York Jets.... "I...

Put America First- rings true with voters. As they continue to size up billionaire Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, American voters appear highly conflicted on questions of national defense and foreign policy......... The conflict makes odd political alliances

...One thing I learned in the 2012 election cycle, it was about voter fraud. My conservative warrior associate, Katherine Engelbrecht, and her organization, True the Vote, took up the mantle against the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections, Gertrude Walker, who admitted to sending “questionable” results to the Florida Secretary of State. It was somewhat disheartening that the Florida Secretary of State and Attorney General sat back, watched the news reports, and did nothing. With that background: ...“Voter Fraud? If they’re not catching the easy stuff, what else are they missing?” Prentice asks, are some of Florida’s Supervisors of Elections...

Billionaire Donald Trump set about unifying a fractured Republican party Thursday, fortified by the support of a key party leader as he launches into battle for the White House against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Late Wednesday the top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, publicly endorsed Trump's candidacy "to prevent what would be a third term of Barack Obama." "As the presumptive nominee, he now has the opportunity and the obligation to unite our party around our goals,” McConnell said in a statement. Trump's commanding victory in Indiana's primary Tuesday pushed remaining challengers Ted Cruz and then Ohio Governor...

<p>Donald Trump's last Republican foe, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, was ending his quixotic presidential campaign Wednesday, cementing Trump's remarkable triumph as his party's presumptive nominee and launching him to a likely fall battle with Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump's victory spurred some reluctant Republicans to rally around him, though others agonized over their party's future.</p>

<p>Ted Cruz's conservative crusade for the presidency fought for new life Monday ahead of an Indiana vote that could effectively end the GOP's primary season. The fiery Texas senator hinted at an exit strategy, even as he vowed to compete to the end against surging Republican front-runner Donald Trump.</p>

This is the most populous state in the nation, but in presidential elections, it has almost always found itself on the sidelines. The last time a Republican primary in California mattered was 52 years ago, when the party nominated Barry Goldwater. But California will finally play an important role in the drama of presidential politics. The 172 Republican delegates up for grabs in the state’s June 7 primary, which in most years has taken place well after the party’s presidential standard-bearer was known, will determine whether Donald J. Trump can clinch the nomination on the last day of voting and...

Hundreds of Trump Supporters attended a public gathering with speakers in support of Trump in Temecula, CA. A group of Trump supporters staged a rally on the sidewalk before the speaking event. The rally was peaceful and spirited until pro illegal infiltrators arrived carrying Mexican flags. Officers arrived to separate the two groups. We The People Rising group filmed the video. Many of the Hispanic Trump supporters in this group are Latinos living in the Temecula, a suburb 45 min North of San Diego. They are American citizens, republicans, and some TeaPartyers for Trump. They were calling out the illegals...