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The Nevada caucus results are in, and once again the media, including outlets that should know better, such as FoxNews.com, are touting Trump as the likely Republican presidential nominee. However, the statistics illustrate something else entirely.

Trump wound up with 45.9% of the vote, Rubio won 23.9%, Cruz 21.4, Carson 4.8%, and Kasich came last with 3.6%. Which means, the voting majority, 54.1%, preferred someone other than Trump.

It also means that if mainstream Republicans truly want to block a radical outsider, and keep their traditional party together, either Cruz or Rubio need to drop out. Because together they at present capture 45.3% of voters, a statistical tie with Trump. Which will surely increase in their favor when Carson and Kasich finally give up.

As far as the current standing’s are concerned, yesterday Rush fully explained the Trump phenomenon. Boiling it down to  a single issue that, apparently, gives him a significant edge above all other Republican presidential candidates. Which, at this point, Rush believes they may not be able to overcome. And that issue is: Illegal immigrants.

Rush said, “Whatever you want to call it, some people now say don't use the word "amnesty" because it's lost its oompff and it actually has a negative connotation because it's a tired, worn-out word.  Whatever works, the objective of the Democrat Party is to take whatever people are in this country illegally and allow them to vote.  That's all this is about.  Everything else is a smoke screen.  It's not about uniting families or keeping them united.  It's not about compassion.  It's not about economics.  It's not about any of it.  It's about expanding the Democrat Party voter rolls.  All it is is a Democrat Party voter regulation program.  And everybody talks all around it. 

“And the only way, they are told, the only way they can prove they don't hate Hispanics is to sign on to amnesty or whatever we're gonna call it now so that the 12 million who are here can all of a sudden become legal and can vote.  And after that magic's supposed to happen.  Hispanics are supposed say, "You know, these Republicans are pretty nice. You know what, I like these guys now. You know what, I'm gonna abandon the Democrat Party, I'm voting Republican now."  That's what we're told is going to happen.  Except we know that it won't.  I'm sorry to sigh, but it's frustrating. 

“And now we've closed the circle.  And now we're back at why Donald Trump is in the race and why Donald Trump is running away with it.  You can get as deep or as shallow in the analysis as you want.  But it's about a last chance, a last-gasp effort at preserving the culture that developed after the founding of this country.  It's no more complicated than that, folks.  The country's under siege from all quarters, and recently the Democrat Party has joined those who have put the country under siege.”

Trump’s advantage, Rush believes, is that as far as Republican voters are concerned: “They're gonna knee-jerk react because that's how important the issue is.  They're not going to take any chances with it. So if somebody comes along and says, "I'm gonna deport 12 million," voters will react by saying, “Fine.  I hear you, and I hope to hell you're telling me the truth, because I support you."  

Furthermore, and critically important, according to Rush is that when Trump says, "I'm gonna deport 'em.  They gotta go,  I'm gonna build a wall.  Who's gonna pay for the wall?  Mexico," they're not taking the time to ask if he really means it.  They've already decided that he does.  It's that important to a lot of people.  It's about preserving a distinct American culture which is under assault, which is under siege.  And it's being brought to us by the Democrat Party, which is trying to register all kinds of new voters all the time 'cause they need a permanent underclass of people incapable of taking care of themselves, incapable of providing for themselves who will always be counted on to vote Democrat to be taken care of.” 

Rush concludes by opining that, under these circumstances, people scratch their heads and cannot understand why a single Republican would ever sign on to any kind of amnesty for illegals. “And if you want to know what happens to Republicans that do, the name is Jeb Bush.  A hundred million dollars, and it may actually be $115 million could not erase the baggage that Jeb Bush was carrying around, that people assumed he was for amnesty.  It's that simple.  That's what happens.  That's where we are.” 

On another subject, the mainstream media has quickly and quietly removed Iran from public view, after the highly questionable nuclear deal was signed. However, Iran continues to pursue its hostile agenda against the west. And the U.S. in particular. 

According to Samia Nakhoul @Reuters in Tehran, via yahoo as linked on Drudge: “Iran's leader said that he was confident voters would return a parliament prepared to stand up to the United States at Friday's election and prove that the lifting of sanctions on the Islamic Republic had not changed its anti-Western stance."

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by his official website on Wednesday: "The nation will vote for a parliament that puts Iran's dignity and independence first, and stands up to foreign powers whose influence on Iran has been removed. 

“Khamenei said again that he was certain that the United States had concocted a plot after the nuclear deal to "infiltrate" the Islamic Republic.” 

And what’s most tragic about Iran’s unchanged threat to their neighbors in the Middle-East, along with festering hostility to the West, is thanks to the previously frozen assets, freed up under the terms of the administration's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, they now have another $100 billion to fund their aggression. 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

In a pandering article, wherein the left-wing media bias is truly incredible, Margaret Talev and Arit John @bloomberg.com/politics via Drudge, write: “Hillary Clinton doesn’t just want to beat Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. She wants to beat expectations. 

“She’s running more than 20 points ahead of Sanders in most polls heading into Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary, buoyed by overwhelming support from the state’s black voters. Now she’s looking to the state to re-establish an air of inevitability around her campaign -- and deliver such an embarrassing defeat to Sanders that it’s hard for him ever to recover.” 

However, aside from the fact that should she win, it would be due to the “overwhelming support“ of a particular minority in the state, perhaps unrepeatable elsewhere, Bill’s wife may not even make it to the November election.    

According to Jonathan Allen @Reuters via ca.news.yahoo, posted on Drudge: “A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. State Department officials and aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether the former secretary of state's use of a private email system was an effort to skirt open records laws. 

“The ruling by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is likely to add to the uncertainty hovering over Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for the November U.S. presidential election, about the legal consequences of her decision to exclusively use a private email server in her New York home for her government work. 

“The State Department and Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that sought the depositions as it sues for records about the employment of a senior Clinton aide, must agree on a plan for the depositions by April, Sullivan said in his order on Tuesday, according to court documents.” 

So, while considerable numbers of robotic voters continue to close their eyes to  mounting evidence of deliberate illegality in their candidate, for whatever reasons, the justice system keeps moving toward an eventual determination. And, even if U.S. Judge, Sullivan, finds in Bill’s wife’s favor, she still has Director James Comey and his FBI to contend with. Not a very pretty picture for her. 

Which brings up the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this? 

    

That’s it for today folks.   

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