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March 12, 2016, 08:54 pm
By Evelyn Rupert
Trump has changed his strategy on dealing with protesters, promising to press charges against people who interrupt his events from now on.
“I’m going to start pressing charges against all these people,” he said at a rally in Kansas City, Mo. “And then we won’t have a problem.”
“I hope these guys get thrown into jail. They’ll never do it again.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/272803-trump-vows-to-press-charges-against-protesters
Fauxahontis Elizabeth Warren to Run for President
300 Former Obama Staffers Urge Elizabeth Warren to Run for President
10:05 AM, DEC 12, 2014 • BY DANIEL HALPER
A group of more than 300 hundred former Obama staffers have written an open letter urging Elizabeth Warren to run for president of the United States. “We helped elect Barack Obama — now we’re calling on Elizabeth Warren to run in 2016,” the letter is titled.
We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance.
We worked for him — and against all odds, we won in Iowa.
We organized like no campaign had organized before — and won the Democratic primary.
We built a movement — and the country elected the first-ever African American president.
We know that the improbable is far from impossible.
Now, former staffers from President Obama’s campaigns, along with former staffers from OFA, are joining with the thousands of Americans who are calling on Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy.
We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/300-former-obama-staffers-urge-elizabeth-warren-run-president_821232.html
Obama , Moaist fashion statement
Obama veers left after red wave
By Justin Sink – 11/13/14 06:00 AM EST
President Obama has taken significant steps to the left since his party’s devastating losses in the midterm elections.
In a surprise, he announced a major deal on climate change with China during a trip to Beijing Tuesday. That followed another unanticipated move — a Monday statement pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new net neutrality rules for the Internet.
The moves are helping to rally a dispirited Democratic base while re-establishing Obama’s political leadership after he was sidelined during the midterms.
“He’s at his best when his back is against the wall,” said Democratic strategist Bob Shrum. “Jeremiah Wright in 2008, Scott Brown’s election in 2009, after the first debate in 2012 — he comes back and tends to fight pretty hard.”
“He’s a fourth-quarter player, and he’s in the fourth quarter of his presidency,” Shrum added.
The moves are also prompting questions about whether Obama is shifting to the left in his final two years in office, or if the moves are meant to cushion the blow when he moves to the center to negotiate with a Republican-controlled Congress.
The question is weighing heavily on members of both parties, particularly ahead of Obama’s decision on whether to take expansive executive actions on immigration.
https://thehill.com/news/administration/223977-obama-veers-left-after-red-wave
