Subject: FW: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Ted Cruz at California GOP Convention 4/30/2016
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Subject: TrackerBASE Report: PRES Ted Cruz at California GOP Convention 4/30/2016

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FROM: Bill Chan, Jackson Voss

Location: Burlingame, CA

Date: 04/30/16

RE: Ted Cruz at CA GOP Convention

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Event Details: GOP candidate Ted Cruz delivers remarks at California’s State GOP Convention, where former California Governor Pete Wilson is set to endorse him for President.

Link: http://www.msnbc.com/live-online/watch/live-ted-cruz-at-ca-gop-lunch-677025859771

Attendees/Audience: CA GOP Convention attendees

Press: Yes (MSNBC streaming)

Summary of Event: Pete Wilson gives a long endorsement of Cruz; basically mirrors standard Cruz talking points. Cruz then gives his stump speech. Weirdo-flags: Cruz spends time talking about eating endangered species of fish and getting those fish to have sex to Barry White so they won’t be endangered any more (seriously, not joking); Cruz also contradicts himself on his dad’s story (haven’t noticed it if he’s said it this way before) -says he came penniless, with $100 sewn into his clothes (sort of like Trump got a small, $1 million loan from his dad). Otherwise, identical talking points to stump speech.

Key Points:

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Cruz State Campaign Chair introduces Pete Wilson to endorse and introduce Ted Cruz

Pete Wilson: Thank you, Ron, ladies and gentlemen… You know, I am slightly embarrassed about one thing - not my glasses, I just wear them for effect, it makes me look older… What embarrassed me is thinking as I was coming up here about how many times I’ve stood in front of this audience and said “this is the most important election ever.” And I meant it each time because I was running… This time I am not running, but it is the most important election ever. There is more of value and threat to that value in any time this or last century. The most urgent threat facing our president in the dangerous national security legacy of the Obama administration. Ted Cruz has already proven himself in the Senate as a champion of strong national defense… The point is, we really dare not suffer a disastrous third Obama term… we cannot afford the domestic bully or foreign policy wimp he has been… We can’t afford four more years of weak and feckless foreign policy that has earned distrust and disaffection of former allies and the scorn of our enemies… As a season member of the Foreign Armed Services Committee, Cruz doesn’t need a lesson on these issues… The next POTUS will have as many as five Supreme Court vacancies in his or her first term. We know what kind of justices Clinton would nominate - heaven knows who Trump would pick. What we can know to a certainty is that Cruz will choose judges who will interpret the law, not legislate it… He legacy as Chief Justice Rehnquist's clerk and his time as Solicitor General in TX show his dedication to the constitution… We cannot afford a wild card when it comes to SCOTUS, let alone Clinton, whose liberal appointees would believe in a living constitution and expand the powers of government at the cost of shrinking citizen liberty… Hillary’s SCOTUS would have little concern and less restraint on the excesses of presidential overreaching… Ted Cruz does not need tutoring to understand the constitution… he is superbly qualified to teach it, and more important, to appoint justices to safeguard our 1st, 2nd, amendments, the bill of rights, and the entire constitution… And by the way, Ted knows something that you and I know and the media won’t write - he is not anti-immigrant; he, as am I, is for legal immigration of the kind that has made this country great. And he is hardly anti-latino… it’s not just the presidency and the court at stake - so too are the GOP majorities in the House and Senate… we cannot afford a nominee who brings us down-ticket decimation that robs us of our 2014 midterm gains… we cannot afford a 2016 nominee who loses women voters at a greater rate than Clinton is losing men and millennials… We need a Senate majority to check against a liberal Supreme Court majority. We need a GOP Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare - not with Hillarycare or Single Payer System - but with reform that brings competition… Now achieving all of these critical goals require a winning candidate. My friends, that candidate - and I hope the GOP choice in CA, will be Senator Ted Cruz. -talks about how great Ted Cruz is and how critical the CA primary is for the first time; compares 2016 to 1980, when Reagan defeated Carter: “America is in need of a strong, winning, Republican leader - and that leader has stepped forward in our moment of extreme need”-... It is for that reason that I announce my wholehearted endorsement and support of that winning Republican leader who will be the next POTUS - Ted Cruz.

Cruz walks on stage.

TC: God bless the great state of CA. It is such a privilege to be with you - CA gave us great things, Ronald Wilson Reagan… And more selfishly, my best friend and wife, Heidi… I have to say this has been a remarkable week. Gov. Wilson, thank you for your support… -talks about his leadership on issues-... Yesterday I was also endorsed by Gov. Mike Pence… I also announced my nominee for VP, Carly Fiorina… She is a remarkable leader known to you well - she started as a secretary and rose to being CEO of HP… She is someone who has knowledge, judgment, and character - that was what I was looking for… the most serious determination a POTUS candidate makes is the selection of the VPOTUS.

TC: You need someone knowledgeable who understands the economy and where jobs come from - someone who is stable… not someone who will explode over the next Twitter storm… You need someone with character… someone who actually believes something… Carly has shattered glass ceilings her entire life - and she’s prepared to fight for us… Carly terrifies Hillary Clinton. I can just picture her thinking about Carly, tossing and turning in her jail cell…

TC: This election is going to come down to three issues: jobs, freedom, and security. First priority as POTUS will be jobs and the economy -goes straight into his identical talking points about jobs, name dropping Reagan and JFK for supporting tax cuts; “lift the boot of the federal gov off the backs of the necks of small businesses”; repeal Obamacare (every word, yo); common sense health care reform; pass that FLAT TAX and give everyone postcards so we can get rid of the IRS, etc, etc, etc-... As Republicans in CA, y’all are a hardy bunch. You’re used to adversity - you’ve seen firsthand the absolutely disaster that is out of control liberalism… You don't need to look any further than out of control environmental policies that have resulted in 1.4 million gallons of fresh water being dumped into the ocean over a 3-inch bait fish… I’m sure it will drive the media crazy when I say that 3-inch fish go great with cheese and crackers (WTF)... That water could provide for 6 million Californians… Farms are laying off migrant workers… People here understand that we can have a win-win scenario… The Endangered Species Act should be changed so that if you increase the number of an endangered species you can move forward with development… So if you had fisheries for that fish, you could send that water to farms and homes that need it… Right now, the species goes extinct because the incentives are to get rid of the darn thing… You take the little fish, you put up a disco ball, you play some Barry White, and you let nature take it’s course… and that’s a win win… As president, we’re going to stop amnesty... -back to normal talking points that aren’t about Californian fish sex; all the kids will have four or five job offers, etc-... We put a meme online - Reaganomics, you start a business in your parents garage. Obamanomics, you move into your parents garage… Jobs are my number on priority.

TC: 2nd issue is freedom... -talking points are again, identical, about replacing Scalia and keeping the court from becoming a crazy, God-hating, gun-taking, liberal-activist club; also end common core and stuff-

TC: 3rd critical issue is security… -talking points about how Obama abandons and alienates allies, appeases enemies, and how Trump would be neutral between Israel and Palestine, military has been weakened and undermined just like by Jimmy Carter, Cruz will be the new Reagan and pour lots of money back into the military, etc. Still unchanged talking points- CA has seen firsthand the face of evil at San Bernardino… -goes back to talking about how Obama doesn’t call terrorist “islamic” and lectures on Islamophobia instead - “A DAY OF RECKONING IS COMING”; stop making troops fight with their arms tied behind their backs; every troop and first responder will have a POTUS who’s GOT. YOUR. BACK.-

TC: So CA is at a crossroads… CA is going to decide this GOP Primary. Whodathunk it? (literally what he said)... Year after year, CA is treated like an ATM to spend money in other states… This year we’ll finally spend more money here than we raise here… It is going to be a battle on the ground, district by district… Some people have asked why I named Carly so early - I’ll tell you, Carly will also be the first Californian on a national ticket since Reagan… but hte reason I named her this week is because I believe the people of CA and people voting this week deserve a choice… -compares Cruz/Carly to Trump and Clinton; they’re both sides of the same coin; both support tax increases; both support individual mandate in Obamacare and expand socialized healthcare; both supported Bill Clinton’s nationwide ban on guns; both believe in being neutral between Israel and Palestine; both believe in keeping the Iranian nuclear deal-... Trump and Clinton have been insiders for years. Trump supported Jimmy Carter and all the Democratic congressional leaders… And here in CA, he gave $12,000 to Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, and Gavin Newsome… You’re experiencing the results of his decisions… We’re campaigning, asking for your support, working to unite the party… If we’re fractured, Clinton wins and the country is lost… Carly and I, Heidi and the girls, across CA to ask we stand united… in 1957 my father fled Cuba… He was penniless, had $100 sewn into his clothes… my father’s story is the story of all of us here… We value freedom and opportunity above all else. That’s the mighty CA spirit that built this state into such an incredible economic engine that has survived and thrived despite Democratic mismanagement for years… but when I was a kid, my dad used to say, when we faced oppression in Cuba, he had a place to flee too. If we lose it here, where do we go? That’s why we’re all here. The entire country is going to look to CA to see what path we go down - do we go with a campaign that’s negative and full of screaming and insults (Trump), or a campaign that’s positive and forward thinking (Cruz/Fiorina)? If you choose us, we’ll turn this country around… It took Carter to give us Reagan… Reagan started here in CA… I’m convinced that the longest legacy of Obama will be bringing in a new generation of Republican leaders.... Defend our Judeo-Christian values, etc… Thank you and god bless you.

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