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OHIO GOVERNOR JOHN Kasich will suspend his presidential campaign later today, his campaign told US media – a move that would leave frontrunner Donald Trump as the sole Republican candidate in the White House race.
Kasich’s campaign abruptly canceled an event in the Washington area today and rescheduled a press conference for 5pm (10pm Irish time) in Ohio’s capital Columbus.
Broadcaster MSNBC and others reported that a senior campaign advisor said that appearance would be Kasich’s announcement that he is dropping out of the 2016 race.
Rival Ted Cruz, a conservative senator from Texas, bowed out overnight after Trump’s commanding Indiana win made it far more likely that the real estate billionaire would reach the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the party’s nomination and avoid a contested convention.
The surprise move left Kasich as the sole remaining challenger to Trump, but like Cruz, Kasich is mathematically eliminated from winning the nomination outright.
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Trump 2016
Make America great again.
See how many red thumbs I can get.
Build a Wall! Build a Wall!
Really, given how much people on here bash asylum seekers and immigrants I though many of you would agree with Trump’s view on immigration.
What’s wrong with the U.S.A. protecting it’s boarders? I guess if you’re against the unmitigated importation of millions of third worlders whose culture is fundamentally opposed to your own, and are concerned with all the issues that arises from that, you’re “racist”.
Daniel I agree with you completely. I actually want him to build that wall. Trump 2016!
Why would Hillary or Bernie bother building that wall ,have they said that they would?
“What’s wrong with the U.S.A. protecting it’s boarders? I guess if you’re against the unmitigated importation of millions of third worlders whose culture is fundamentally opposed to your own, and are concerned with all the issues that arises from that, you’re “racist”.”
No, but if you stay blatantly racist things about Mexican people, for example, that might make you one.
Never mind the fact an expensive wall isn’t going to address the fact that most illegal immigrants arrive legally. But whatever, simplistic solutions seem to be what’s in vogue.
How do illegal immigrants arrive legally? You’ve broken the law if you cross the border. That’s why they call it illegal
You forget there are also 50000 undocumented Irish in the US , if they get send home , dole office will make overtime, guess who is going to pay the bill , albeit have to say in 2014, nearly 177,000 Mexicans were deported; 33 Irish were sent home, won’t take long for someone to notice that though
@Red Marauder
That’s not America’s problem if Irish people get sent home.
“You’ve broken the law if you cross the border. That’s why they call it illegal”
You become an illegal immigrant if you enter the country legally and overstay your permitted entry. That is how most illegal immigrants get into the US and why building a stupid expensive wall is a stupid idea. Even on its own terms it doesn’t address the issue.
@thejynxeffect I think he’s referring to Visa overstays
3rd worlders? Unmitigated importation? You’ve clearly got a firm grasp of the issue.
Vinnie
Yes he’s referring to visa overstays, not illegal immigration.
Trump. And I don’t like the man but the PC worm has to turn. The US and the western world has to reclaim what made western civilisation great and stop apologising for it. The onslaught of political correctness in our schools, universities government institutions is insidious. All this pandering to minority’s and rights groups has created a monsterous global cabal of obnoxious, entitled, low achievers who’s life’s work is to pull down what better people have built. This pandering has to stop and if I had the vote I’d vote for Trump for that very reason. Apologising for being great (once) is a serious weakness that that if not stopped now, will herald the end of the Western world as we know it.
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Hear Hear.
Society is evolving, perhaps some have gone too far out the other side in the pursuit of equality but the solution isn’t to tear everything down and return to a state of inequality in a bordered world from decades gone past. A middle ground will be reached in time.
Maybe you liked things that way and as a white person in a first world country you likely did but society is progressing and humanity is evolving. There’ll always be people like you opposing it and they’ll always be left behind.
@rochelle. What’s wrong with a bordered world?
‘but the solution isn’t to tear everything down and return to a state of inequality ‘
You are joking? The state of inequality prevails and always has done. First, we have to get out of this. But if you think that Clinton and her backers have this on their agenda, then as they say, ‘you must be outta your f8888g mind!’
Hope against hope for Bernie to win the nomination
Borders exist for a reason. A country is a reflection of the people who inhabit it, not the other way around. The reason America is such a successful country is the same reason why Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are successful… because it was built by Europeans and was modeled on the European societies they came from. It’s not as if North America has some kind of magical first world generating air and soil that extends from the top of Canada and suddenly stops at the Mexican border. Those countries were built up from nothing by their inhabitants and their ancestors, and they should be the ones who benefit from its prosperity. They don’t have to share it with anyone who didn’t contribute to its success.
@methodical. They don’t have to but they do. And I have yet to see the added value “cultural enrichment” brings to a first world country. Large scale third world immigration does not add value to a host country. Small scale immigration can be a good thing, but large scale beings ghettos, attitudes of entitlement and under achievement which leads to crime. What’s wrong with a host culture welcoming immigrants who can contribute, choosing wisely and avoiding a critical mass situation that breeds resentment and backlash. It baffles me that common sense and proportion have been thrown out the window in the incomprehensible rush to embrace multiculturalism.
@Marg, the whole “Diversity is our strength” or “Multiculturalism works” is pretty much a prime example of “The Big Lie” propaganda technique in action. Tell a big lie, repeat it over and over, and do so shamelessly in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary and eventually, the majority will believe it because they can’t process the idea that anyone could have the audacity to lie so blatantly, and therefore assume that it must be true, and they’re just not intelligent enough to see it. People are pretty much programmed at this point to repeat that there are huge benefits of mass third world immigration to the first world, but they never seem to say what they are, or explain how they’re worth the consequences, because they’ve never thought that far ahead.
I do agree that small scale immigration can be of benefit, if we’re importing people who are willing to integrate and have skills that are needed. There’s this ridiculous notion going around that if we oppose mass immigration, then we must oppose immigration entirely. Nothing could be further from the truth. We just think that the host people shouldn’t suffer for it.
“Trump. And I don’t like the man but the PC worm has to turn. ”
PC really isn’t the biggest problem facing America or the world in general.
“Apologising for being great (once) is a serious weakness that that if not stopped now, will herald the end of the Western world as we know it.”
There is a very real threat called climate change that is *actually* destroying the world as we know it. Your choice of candidate, Trump, claims it’s something cooked up by the Chinese. Progress is already achingly slow and it’ll be sent careening backwards if Trump is elected. And for what?
“All this pandering to minority’s and rights groups has created a monsterous global cabal of obnoxious, entitled, low achievers who’s life’s work is to pull down what better people have built.”
I semi-agree. I also however think that many of those voting for Trump in general are low achievers, who blame immigrants or “PC” or the government for all that has gone wrong in their life while crowing about “hard work”, feeling hard done by and how they’re the ones “carrying the country”. The reality is very different of course.
Does it really matter who wins anyway. But anybody but Clinton.
Hoping against hope that Bernie can beat Clinton.
I hope Bernie can cause a major upset, and the nod for the democratic nomination!!
Yeah shes even a bigger war monger than Trump. Not to mention batshit crazy, continually peddling the deluded feminism myths, heavily linked to pro-zionist campaign funders,
Trump undoubtedly the best man for the job. Hillary would be a bloody shambles.
Clinton < Trump < Sanders
Would you Bernie lovers ever get a grip.. he’s a 74 year old communist who has some admirable anti-establishment rhetoric but his free everything policies and his ambition to increase the size of government is laughable. His supporters are the disenfranchised young people who have gotten used to living off the government and believe the only way to get ahead, is to get more free stuff from government. If they got their way the US would become Venezuela.
@ thejinxeffect
Thank god the first sensible comment Iv seen about Sanders , and the joke is that he could beat Trump , he’s all Trump wants !!!
@Jynx
I cringe every time I see the hammer and sickle at a Bernie rally, it’s disgusting. Of course the media never touch on it, god forbid they disparage communism or the millions of deaths it caused.
Just as bad when you see Corbyn in the U.K waving at his followers flying the hammer and sickle high, it’s pathetic, absolute fools. These are the people coming out of universities and colleges, completely brainwashed by limp wristed propagandist lecturers and school systems taken over by political correctness and Marxism, dire times indeed.
Tom – why do you love Shillary ?
A real American man will walk into the White House and a louse of an imposter will sneak out. It can’t happen sooner…….
Imposter?? Oh do tell us what you learned from Fox news now??
Trump hasn’t really started stepping on Clinton. The FBI is not done stepping on Clinton. Right now the media refuses to even acknowledge she may indicted. Hillary should be in be in jail ffs!.. or at the very least – disqualified from the race. She has years of baggage and pretty much everyone has left her alone so we can get our first female president. Black president, check! You can not tell me this is the best either party could prop up? At least Trump has started a movement, singl- handedly destroyed political correctness and brought record number voters to the table. This is not over. And we haven’t even got June…. 2-1 with Paddy Power — snap it up now!!
” She has years of baggage and pretty much everyone has left her alone so we can get our first female president.”
Meh. I wouldn’t say this is true. The Left are at best, un-enthused, and the Right despise her.
It’s a very disappointing selection.
“At least Trump has started a movement, singl- handedly destroyed political correctness and brought record number voters to the table. ”
I think people over-egg the “political correctness” thing… the new breed of regressive Left wingers are an easy target, but I’ve no time for the brand of anti-PC which basically equates to “I want a free pass to insult whoever I like”. And that’s all I’ve seen from Trump. It’s incredibly off-putting for anyone who values intelligence in their politics. But I guess this is the logical end game of politics becoming a TV contest.
Nope – Political correctness is far worse than insulting whoever you like or implied racism. In America the race card is played 53 times out of a deck of 52. It’s the cheat that wins a debate on nearly any subject and liberals increasingly use it as a weapon.
“Political correctness is far worse than insulting whoever you like or implied racism.”
We’ll have to agree to disagree on this then. I’m not exactly a fan of over-zealous defensiveness or leaps to be offended at anything (not exclusive to the Left, though!) but if the alternative is a free for all where people just say whatever abusive thing comes to mind, then count me out.
Wouldn’t want to be an American going to the polls in November. It’s like choosing between aids and a really bad yeast infection.
Didn’t even know that their was more than Trump and Cruz still running!
Adam Carolla Explains Trump’s Rise Perfectly
There is definitely something resonating with certain people in the western world with the attack on political correctness. I was taken aback by UKIPs prominence even if it did end in failure during the elections. Then trump came along and blew this political correctness out of the water. Even the revolt on immigrants in Germany was very surprising.
What I am referring to in relation to Political correctness is tackling issues such as immigration, minority pandering and as Trump actually said ‘apologising for being great’. Although I’m not familiar with American politics I don’t think Trump would be a very good person to be president. however the tide of political attacks, raising serious issues and putting them on the table has been a welcome addition to Western politics that i think for the last few years has been lacking a cross the board.
https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/310835987/Donald-Trump-Lawsuit not great reading
Patrick, No it’s not great reading! But I suppose it also doesn’t mean that it’s true.
Anoymus posted it a few days ago, is it not true well there has been pay offs , deals and nothing short of bribery with the Jeffrey Epsteins case including involvements with Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton who Hillary and company tried to sweep undr the carpet so as there was less impact on her election. If there is smoke there usually is a fire…
“The lawsuit that accuses Republican frontrunner and billionaire Donald Trump of sexual abuse has been dismissed. A judge also ordered the plaintiff to pay her own legal fees as well as court costs as the case has been tossed out.
Katie Johnson’s $100 million rape lawsuit against defendants US presidential hopeful Donald Trump and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein will not continue further in the court, a decision made by a US District judge on Monday, Radar Online reported. Johnson filed using forms for civil rights cases in California, which allow relief for legal costs as she has only $300 to her name.”
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