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NOGALES, Arizona -- Jessica Elizabeth Orellana Diaz wanted her voice to be heard by Bernie Sanders, even if he needed a translator to understand it. "Mi unica esperanza es llegar a este país," Orellana told Sanders after describing her painful journey of leaving El Salvador to seek asylum in the United States. "Her only hope is to come to this country," Arizonan and DREAMer Julio Zuniga said in English, translating for the Vermont senator. Sanders made his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border of the presidential campaign Saturday, and speaking in the foreground of the wall dividing two countries said...

Former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis called Donald Trump "nuts" Friday over his views on immigration, adding that he believes Bernie Sanders should stay in the Democratic primary fight. "I think he's nuts," the 1988 Democratic nominee told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "He's the grandson of German immigrants. He ought to be ashamed of himself." "I'm very proud of my background," said Dukakis, whose parents immigrated from Greece. "This is the guy who's the grandson of somebody who came over from Germany. And I don't know what he's talking about for one thing. It's preposterous." The former Massachusetts governor -- whose...

The Texas senator has assembled one of the most terrifying collections of disgraced aficionados in existence On Wednesday the Donald Trump Fan Club on "Morning Joe" asked the candidate who he is talking to for foreign policy advice. He replied: "I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things." Remarkably, this was only the second dumbest foreign policy-related news coming out of the Republican primary this week. Because even though Trump's steroidal jingoism could easily overtake the Bush era for the worst foreign policy of the post-World War II...

At an otherwise-normal conference, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest got a pretty unexpected question from a reporter. Citing some "ugly moments on the campaign trail" this year and Donald Trump's vague predictions about possible rioting if he isn't the GOP nominee, he asked, "If he wins the election in November, is the White House at all concerned -- is the President concerned -- that Democrats could possibly resort to violence or pockets of violence could break out?" (VIDEO-AT-LINK) Earnest basically brushed the question off, saying President Barack Obama doesn't even believe Trump has a chance at being elected and...

First-time caucus-goers meeting at Neighborhoods Organizing for Change headquarters before introducing the reparations resolution at their precincts. Some Minnesota voters hope to make reparations -- the idea of compensating African Americans for the legacy of slavery -- a main agenda item for the DFL. It didn't get much attention at the time, but voters throughout the state voted at the state's March 2 DFL caucuses to pass a reparations resolution, a proposal brought forth by members of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC). Passed resolutions don't necessarily make it into official party platforms, but NOC organizers said they're hoping to start...

His newest foreign policy advisor, Frank Gaffney, is a key player in the effort to remove Grover Norquist from the organization's board. Ted Cruz named Frank Gaffney his foreign policy advisor on Thursday, a move that threatens to involve the Republican presidential contender in a contentious fight to get the party's most prominent anti-tax advocate kicked off the National Rifle Association's board. Gaffney once worked for President Ronald Reagan's Department of Defense and now runs the Center for Security Policy, a hyper-conservative think tank that promulgates theories about a Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy to infiltrate the U.S. government. The Southern Poverty...

NEW DELHI: Indian-Americans' political preferences seem to be shifting in favour of the Republican Party, particularly Donald Trump, its frontrunner for the White House. According to social media trends, the US's third largest ethnic group is overwhelmingly supporting Trump -- a billionaire real estate businessman-turned-politician who has courted many controversies ever since he jumped into the fray. Indians in the US have traditionally been the vote bank for the Democrats. According to a study, as many as 65 per cent of Indian-Americans leaned towards Democrats, making them the Asian-American subgroup most likely to identify with the party. But this time...

People who refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton on principle may be able to ride out the storm of a Republican administration. Many of us can't As it becomes ever more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, a host of people have announced that they either won't vote for Clinton, or won't vote at all, if Bernie Sanders isn't the candidate on the ballot. I believe there's a self-righteousness about this that only people with a certain level of privilege can afford to have. Among them is the author of the recent Huffington Post column, "The Problem...

Who is more conservative than Trump on building the Wall? Who is more conservative than Trump on deporting ALL Illegals? Who is more conservative than Trump on stopping hemorrhaging Trillion dollars EVERY year from American economy in foreign trade deficits, which have killed off middle class jobs by the millions? Who is more conservative than Trump on stopping Trillions spent in middle-east wars with borrowed money from China, Japan & EU? Who is more conservative than Trump on taking better care of Vets? Who is more conservative than Trump on stopping influx of UN-Vetted Muslims entering the country? Who is...

Retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin says '[Islam] should not be protected under the First Amendment,' there should be 'no mosques in America' The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to drop designated hate group leader Frank Gaffney Jr., retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin and other Islamophobes as foreign policy advisers. In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: "Who a candidate picks for his or her advisers says volumes about that candidate's worldview. By choosing infamous...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton seems like she is doing just enough to keep her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, at bay in the primary results. After Super Tuesday, the former Secretary of State won in seven states, as opposed to Sanders' four. It was far from close in most states where Clinton, 68, has won, except Massachusetts, where she escaped with a 50-49 victory over the senator....

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The last time I saw Marco Rubio in person, he seemed to be on the verge of inheriting the charred Republican earth. It was Feb. 22, the day before the Nevada caucuses. We were aboard Rubio's campaign plane, flying from Reno, Nev., to Las Vegas. Rubio is 44, but he can sometimes come off like an overgrown and hyperactive boy, jiggling his leg when he is otherwise still. He seemed to be in a sunny mood. "This was a great day for us," said Rubio, who had not yet resorted to making pee-pee jokes about the Donald. At the time,...

America's liberals finally have a candidate they can wholeheartedly root for in the Republican primaries -- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. There's been incredible temptation to root for Donald Trump, whose unfavorable ratings are sky-high and whose candidacy is tearing the conservative movement apart, but it's tempered by growing fear of what a Trump administration might actually look like. On the other hand, someone like a Marco Rubio is pretty scary in his own right, and much more likely to win a general election. And the basic reality is that given Republican Party control over Congress, any Republican administration is alarming...

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) trails GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by only 90 delegates, Kellyanne Conway, pollster and president of the Cruz-aligned "Keep The Promise" PAC, told Breitbart News executive chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon. "That sounds like a lot, but it's not, because nobody's even at 500 yet," she said March 1 on SiriusXM Patriot 125. Bannon asked what the state of the race would look like if Gov. John Kasich wins Ohio and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) finishes third behind Cruz in Florida. "I think Marco Rubio should run for mayor of Miami," Conway said. "I'll send a...

Leading pro-life member of Congress, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the GOP race for the nomination, the Cruz campaign announced. Franks - who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee - said in a statement: I remain deeply committed to the election of a President who is committed to preserving the Constitution, the conservative cause, and this Republic for future generations. Two weeks ago I urged Senators Cruz and Rubio to unite and present our Party with a combined ticket that would bring our conservative cause together in...

Polling begun and completed after the March 10 debate shows radical changes in Ohio and Illinois ahead of their March 15 primaries. In both primaries, Ted Cruz is surging, on the strength of a strong debate performance. In Ohio, a winner take all primary with 66 delegates on the line, the latest poll by CBS, conducted from March 9-11, shows Trump and Kasich tied at 33% each with Ted Cruz surging to 27% up from his pre-debate showing of 19%. Easy to dismiss as an outlier? Not if you also look at CBS' Illinois poll that has Trump leading by...

Inequality has risen. Jobs are going overseas. The more the stock market rises, the more the working class feels crushed by globalization. And all of this has occurred exactly as Democrats have engineered it. Stuff happens, they say. The truth hurts. Take it from Larry Summers, once one of President Obama's leading economic advisers: "One of the challenges in our society is that the truth is kind of an equalizer," Summers reportedly said in a candid moment in 2009. "One of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to...

Just about the time I was getting ready to write this column, news broke from Chicago that a Trump rally was canceled because of threats. Not surprising, I thought. Sad, but not surprising. Welcome to the 2016 election. I'm not a Trump fan by any stretch of the imagination. If you've been reading my columns, I've been quite critical of his unwillingness or inability to speak in specifics on important policy issues. I sympathize with conservatives who oppose him from a policy angle. But what happened in Chicago is different. It was portrayed as a protest specifically against Donald Trump,...