Subject: Negative clips
From: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 04:44:47 -0700

Negative-- Republicans

Trump rallies leave cities with big security bills: report<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/278329-trump-rallies-costing-cities-large-security-bills>

THE HILL // REBECCA SAVRANSKY

Rallies for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump are costing some cities a large amount to secure and manage, The Wall Street Journal reported. During March, 15 of Trump's campaign events cost local authorities more than $300,000, averaging about $20,000 per event, according to a survey of local police departments and campaign venues. The event sites are reportedly sending bills to the campaign for reimbursement, though communities aren't normally repaid by presidential campaigns for hosting events. The survey by the Wall Street Journal investigated events in Florida, Maine, Illinois and Ohio. It found that during Trump's rally in Tucson, Ariz., the security bill totaled $81,838 for 180 officers to work 1,171 hours. Many of Trump's rallies have drawn large protests, including his rally last week in California. An event he was supposed to have in Chicago earlier this year was canceled after massive protests erupted. There were also protests at his rallies in Hickory, N.C., and Janesville and Appleton, Wis. “We had more officers assigned because we knew we were going to have a protest group,” said Chief Todd Thomas, of the Appleton police department. The department spent $11,830 policing the event.

A Flustered John Kasich Admits People Are “Probably” Born Gay<http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/05/kasich-gay-probably>

VANITY FAIR // CHARLES BRAMESCO

Though the official party nominees for the upcoming presidential election won’t be named until the respective conventions this summer, it appears that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and presumable human man Donald Trump have the game sewn up tight. But even with their nominations all but inevitable, that hasn’t stopped the other nominees from keeping on. Ted Cruz earned a sweetly condescending “alright, li’l guy” from the people of America when he declared earlier this week that Carly Fiorina would be his running mate in the event that he wins the Republican nomination, and John Kasich hasn‘t allowed his nearly inevitable failure to stall him one mite either. Kasich has garnered a slight bump in popularity over the past couple weeks by presenting himself as a slightly cooler-headed, moderate alternative to the sentient orange cyclone and former Munsters cast member against which he’s campaigning. NBC News has the full report from a Kasich appearance on Friday in the queer-rights hub of San Francisco, where the candidate was appropriately questioned about his stance on LGBTQ issues.

Former Pentagon chief rips Trump's foreign policy<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/278311-former-secretary-of-defense-rips-trumps-foreign-policy>

THE HILL // REBECCA SAVRANSKY

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Sunday criticized Donald Trump's foreign policy after the Republican presidential front-runner outlined his "America first" model. "I think, based on the speech, you'd have somebody who doesn’t understand the difference between a business negotiation and a negotiation with sovereign powers," Gates said on ABC's "This Week." Gates, who served as secretary of Defense under former President George W. Bush and President Obama, called Trump out for making conflicting statements in last week's speech. "For example, he, on the one hand, says we need to be a more reliable ally to our friends," he said. "And then in the next breath, he basically says we're going to rip up all those burden-sharing agreements that we've had over the decades with them and make them go their own way if they don't pay for everything."

Poll: Indiana Republicans back Trump, sour on Cruz-Kasich deal<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/01/poll-indiana-republicans-back-trump-sour-on-cruz-kasich-deal/>

WASHINGTON POST // DAVID WEIGEL

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll gives Donald Trump a commanding lead ahead of Tuesday's Republican primary here. Among the problems for his GOP rivals, Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich: abject voter disgust with their hasty agreement to carve up three primaries so that each of them could face Trump one on one. The poll, conducted Tuesday to Thursday, finds likely Republican voters opposed to the Cruz-Kasich deal by a 24-point margin: Just 34 percent likes the deal, while 58 percent dislike it. That's higher than the overall support of 49 percent for Trump, who would win most of the state's 57 delegates with a statewide victory of any size. Last Sunday, the campaigns of Cruz and Kasich surprised voters and reporters alike by announcing that the Texan would eschew campaigning in Oregon and New Mexico and that the Ohioan would stay out of neighboring Indiana. As Kasich scrapped public events here (while keeping commitments to meet donors and delegates), Cruz portrayed the Hoosier State as the place where, finally, Republican voters could unite to stop Trump.