Subject: 2016 GOP DAILY ROUNDUP
From: "Hendricks, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hendricks, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 13:44:34 -0700

[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Democratic_Party_logo_(transparent).svg/2000px-Democratic_Party_logo_(transparent).svg.png]2016 GOP DAILY ROUNDUP
5/2/16

DONALD TRUMP
TED CRUZ
EVENTS

DONALD TRUMP
TRUMP: “WE CAN’T CONTINUE TO ALLOW CHINA TO RAPE OUR COUNTRY”: “Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. ‘We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing,’ Trump said during his second rally Sunday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, referring to China's high number of exports relative to the U.S.” [CNN, 5/2/16<http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/01/politics/donald-trump-china-rape/>]
TRUMP SAYS U.S. SHOULD SHOOT DOWN BARREL-ROLLING RUSSIAN PLANES “AT A CERTAIN POINT”: “Donald Trump said on Monday that, ‘at a certain point,’ the United States should shoot at Russian planes that barrel roll over U.S. Air Force planes… ‘Normally, an Obama, let’s say a president, because you want to make at least a call or two, but normally Obama would call up Putin and say, “Listen, do us a favor, don’t do that, get that maniac, just stop it.” But we don’t have that kind of a president. He’s gonna be out playing golf or something,’ Trump said. ‘But I don’t know, at a certain point, you can’t take it,’ the businessman continued. ‘I mean, at a certain point, you have to do something that, you just can’t take that…But it should certainly start with diplomacy and it should start quickly with a phone call to Putin, wouldn’t you think?’ He went on to say that, if diplomacy didn’t work, the U.S. should open fire. ‘And if that doesn’t work out, I don’t know, you know, at a certain point, when that sucker comes by you, you gotta shoot,’ Trump said. ‘You gotta shoot. I mean, you gotta shoot. And it’s a shame. It’s a shame. It’s a total lack of respect for our country and it’s a total lack of respect for Obama. Which as you know, they don’t respect.’” [Buzzfeed, 5/2/16<https://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/trump-on-barrel-rolling-russian-plane-at-a-certain-pointyou?utm_term=.lg6rELYwQ#.pj86zRVb2>]
TRUMP IS DRIVING IMMIGRANTS TO BECOME CITIZENS IN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS: “Nationwide, naturalization applications are up 14 percent in the last six months of 2015 compared with the same period in 2014, according to the government. And the pool of future U.S. citizens is large. Nearly 9 million legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, are eligible to become Americans. Of those, about 4 million are Hispanic… Erica Bernal of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials said the tenor of the presidential campaign is galvanizing Latino immigrants. She said today's movement is reminiscent of the 1990s when Latinos in California rose up against Proposition 187, which sought to deny government services to those in the state illegally. The courts overturned it.” [AP, 5/2/16<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/19d494bcbe194771864bc3961bb1498c/fears-trump-drive-immigrants-become-citizens>]
1992: TRUMP SAYS MIKE TYSON TOLD HIM RAPE VICTIM “WANTED IT REAL BAD”: “Wrote New York magazine in their cover profile of Trump: Donald is discussing his buddy Mike Tyson. Tyson told Trump the woman who put him in jail ‘wanted it real bad.’ Trump feels Tyson is doing time on a bad rap: ‘She knocked on his door at 1 a.m. and was up and dancing at eight the next morning.’ This speech is another of the set pieces he is so fond of delivering. When he defended Tyson and suggested a payoff and community service for the champ, his mother got so angry she raised her voice to him for the first time in his 46 years.” [Buzzfeed, 5/2/16<https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-in-1992-tyson-told-me-women-who-put-him-in-jail?utm_term=.xyKokkAPw#.enDMjj9ko>]
TRUMP ON MIKE TYSON ENDORSEMENT CRITICISM: “WE WILL TAKE THE ENDORSEMENT”: “Donald Trump responded to criticism from Carly Fiorina that he was touting in Indiana the endorsement of Mike Tyson, who was convicted of rape in the state. ‘Well, a lot guys have endorsed me, a lot of people,’ Trump said on the Mike Slater Show on Friday. ‘I noticed that Mike Tyson endorsed me over the internet and we will take the endorsement.’” [Buzzfeed, 4/29/16<https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-on-criticism-of-tyson-endorsement-we-will-take?utm_term=.klAYOgobV#.hw8Kxpdwq>]
TRUMP LACKS A PLAN FOR FUNDRAISING AND VETTING A RUNNING MATE: “On the cusp of the Republican nomination, Donald Trump has no blueprint for raising the estimated $1 billion he'd need to take on the Democrats and no process in place to begin vetting vice presidential contenders, according to multiple people familiar with the campaign. He says he has no plan to win a contested convention in Cleveland, confident he can succeed on the first ballot. And one month into the leadership of Paul Manafort, the strategist Trump hired in late March to professionalize his campaign, the internal squabbling hasn’t died down.” [Bloomberg, 4/29/16<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-29/trump-lacks-plan-for-november-fundraising-running-mate-vetting>]
ENDORSEMENT TRACKER - REP. JIMMY DUNCAN [R-TN]: “Donald Trump has notched the endorsement of one the House’s longest serving Republicans. Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn), who has served in Congress since 1988, ‘enthusiastically’ endorsed Trump on Saturday, citing the presidential candidate’s trade rhetoric. ‘Every country wants into our markets. We have tremendous leverage on trade we have not used. Donald Trump will do that,’ he said in a statement.” [Politico, 5/2/16<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/rep-jimmy-duncan-endorses-donald-trump-222667>]
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TED CRUZ
HEIDI CRUZ SAYS “TED IS AN IMMIGRANT”: “At a campaign stop just days before the critical Indiana primary, Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said one of her husband's strengths in the campaign is that he ‘is an immigrant.’ ‘Ted is an immigrant,’ Mrs. Cruz said, emphasizing the word ‘is.’ ‘He is Hispanic.’ Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada but who is an American citizen by birth, has come under withering fire from rival Donald Trump over his Canadian birth. Trump has questioned whether Cruz is constitutionally eligible to be president.” [Washington Examiner, 5/1/16<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/heidi-cruz-says-ted-is-an-immigrant/article/2590032?platform=hootsuite>]
CRUZ WINS MOST OF THE DELEGATES AT WEEKEND STATE CONVENTIONS - AZ, VA: “In Arizona, Cruz loyalists won nearly all but two of the 28 at-large delegate and about half of the 27 congressional district delegates. All of the state’s 58 delegates are bound to Mr. Trump on the first ballot, but could switch sides in later ballots. Only about a dozen of Mr. Trump’s supporters won delegate slots at the state convention in Mesa, Arizona. At the state GOP convention in Virginia, Mr. Cruz’s supporters won 10 of the 13 at-large delegates. Mr. Trump won three.” [Washington Times, 5/1/16<http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/1/ted-cruz-wins-lions-share-of-delegates-at-state-co/>]
CRUZ CAMPAIGN’S CONFIDENCE SHRINKS: “In interviews, several aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity, expressed growing alarm that Cruz would lose Indiana’s primary on Tuesday - an outcome that would be a major blow to his hopes of holding Trump below the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination on the party convention’s first ballot. The aides concede that, without a win in an Indiana primary where 57 delegates are at stake, Cruz’s shot at the nomination would significantly narrow.” [Politico, 4/30/16<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/ted-cruz-campaign-nervous-222675>]
WHY RUBIO HASN’T ENDORSED CRUZ: “Marco Rubio won’t be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he’s likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention - if it gets that far. The de facto plan, Rubio’s backers say, is designed to help Cruz. It also, however, protects Rubio's political future, including if he decides to make another run for the White House…’At this point, No. 1, it’s not a year where endorsements matter very much,’ Rubio told POLITICO. ‘And No. 2: I’ll just let it play itself out and work through it. I really want to come back and focus 100 percent on my work in the senate.’” [Politico, 5/2/16<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-endorsement-222686>]
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EVENTS
MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016
DONALD TRUMP: 4:00 PM Rally in Carmel, IN [Trump Campaign], and 7:00 PM Rally in South Bend, IN [Trump Campaign].
TED CRUZ: 9:00 AM Retail Stop Bravo Cafe in Osceola, IN [eventbrite], 12:15 PM Retail stop with Mike Pence in Marion, IN [eventbrite], 2:00 PM Rally in Fort Wayne, IN [eventbrite], 5:30 PM Retail Stop Wagon Wheel Market in Bloomington, IN [eventbrite], and 7:30 PM Rally with Glenn Beck in Indianapolis, IN [eventbrite].
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016
DONALD TRUMP: Election Night Event Trump Tower in New York, NY [@katieglueck].
TED CRUZ: Indiana GOP Presidential Primary.
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Lauren Hendricks