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Ted Cruz's campaign announced they raised almost $20 million dollars in quarter four. That's a pretty large increase from the $12.2 million Cruz raised in quarter three. This huge fundraising number will likely guarantee that Cruz will be able to stay in the race to the end. Ben Carson's released his quarter four fundraising and it was even larger than Ted Cruz, standing at $23 million. However Carson's campaign has a high burn rate and it will be interesting to see how much cash Carson has on hand. Just to point out in the third quarter Carson also raised the most with $20.8 million. Jeb Bush was in second with $13 million and Ted Cruz was in third with $12 million. When you looked at the candidates with the most cash on hand, Ted Cruz was first with $13.8 million, Marco Rubio was second with $11 million and Jeb Bush was third with $10 million. Of the 20.8 million Carson raised in the third quarter he spent $14.2 million of it. Former three term Governor of New York, George Pataki announced today that he will end his campaign for President. Pataki will make the announcement himself on NBC affiliates in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Pataki's campaign started off as a long shot campaign. As the campaign move forward it failed to catch fire. Nationally he often polled below 1% and in New Hampshire where he focused most of his time and campaign operations at he polled at or below 1%. Pataki views did not align well with the base of the Republican Party. He is a moderate from New York who supported abortion rights and often talked about environmental issues and global warming. He failed to make any of the prime time debates and once did not even qualify for the under card debate.
On Monday, Jeb Bush was speaking at the Forum Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Jeb Bush was asked a question by the moderator about what he would say to Donald Trump if he walked into the room right now. Jeb Bush responded, "Donald, I’ll take you on one on one in a debate, any time, any place." Now of course we will never see a one on one debate between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush. There would be no reason for the front runner Donald Trump to debate Bush who is polling around 4%. The confrontations we see between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush in the actual debates usually do not end well for Bush anyway. Below I posted two YouTube videos of the fights between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush during the debates.
South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy is expected to endorse Marco Rubio For President. The endorsement is expected to be announced when Gowdy campaigns with Marco Rubio next week in Iowa. Congressman Gowdy is best known for leading the investigation for the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks. This information was taken from The Hill.  At the beginning of this campaign Ben Carson was a top tier candidate challenging Donald Trump's position as the front runner. After some story's coming out about his past and the image of lack of readiness to be President being seen from his knowledge of the issues Ben Carson's campaign has begun to sink. He wen't from being a consistent second in the national polls to now being at single digits sitting at forth place. Carson was first in Iowa and now in forth. He was second in New Hampshire and now is seventh. Across the board be see Carson's poll numbers eroding.
Ben Carson told the Washington Post last week that he would shakeup his campaign before Iowa. The shakeup could be a way to get his campaign back on track. If Carson does not do well in Iowa his campaign will likely end soon after. Mike Huckabee was interviewed by WHO host Simon Conway. During the interview Huckabee said, "If we can’t come within striking distance of the victory or win it, then I think we recognize that it’s going to be hard to take that onto the other states." Mike Huckabee also said, "Historically, we’ve always said there are three tickets out of Iowa: You have to come in number 1, 2 or 3. I think in many ways that’s probably still the case." Huckabee went on to say, "It may be that if you’re a close second or a close third, that’s very good. If you’re a distant third, then maybe there’s not a way to go on." Mike Huckabee won Iowa in the 2008 Presidential election. He won it by his strong base of Evangelical voters. Currently that voting block went to Carson but now switched to Ted Cruz. For Huckabee to win or even to come in the top three he needs to get that base back.
You probably have heard that the Washington Post posted a cartoon making fun of Ted Cruz and his two daughters. The cartoon showed Cruz’s children as dancing monkeys with him controlling them. People from both sides of aisle came out against this cartoon. Ted Cruz released his own two cartoons in response to his attack by the liberal media.
Almost every single Republican Presidential candidate Trump either attacked or the candidate has attacked Trump. Trump can't pick a Vice Presidential candidate that he has attacked or has attacked him. It would make the ticket look ridiculous. So lets go over the list of candidates that he has attacked or has attacked Trump.
A few weeks back I posted about the possibility of a Trump/Cruz 2016 ticket. Now I want to talk about a Trump/Huckabee 2016 ticket. The list shows that there are four candidates that have not fought with Trump. Trump will not pick Santorum because he is not a strong candidate and will not pick Chris Christie because of his baggage and also their personality's will not work well together. Now of course Trump can pick anybody to be Vice President. However he probably won't pick a Governor or a Senator who endorsed another candidate. Huckabee is a southern conservative and former Governor of Arkansas. He is not part of the Republican establishment and is seen in many aspects as an outsider. Trump and Huckabee seem to have a friendly relationship. Yes Huckabee is not polling very high nationally or polling high in any of the early states. With Huckabee on the ticket it would bring a different personality to the ticket, a qualified Governor who could be President, and a candidate who is well known who does have a following when Ted Cruz and Ben Carson are not taking it. Huckabee also does well in the debates. He knows the issues and comes up with some pretty good lines. The basic point I want to make here is that out of all the candidates running for President only Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee could be Vice President. Mike Huckabee Wearing Trump Tie During Republican DebateDick Morris explains why the 2016 Republican Presidential primary will be over by March and we will know who the nominee will be. |
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