Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spoke at the same luncheon, saying the country is at a crisis point under Obama.
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Supporters, visitors and the just plain curious milled about the island and Grand Hotel; some wearing T-shirts emblazoned with their candidate of choice, others passing out swag and brochures, as talk of 2016 was all the buzz.
In her speech to a standing room only crowd at dinner, Fiorina laid claim to the mantle of the political outsider in the race.
“I’ll tell you right now, help is on the way”, Cruz said.
The Texas senator says the GOP leaders are not doing enough to defund Planned Parenthood and accuses them of “trying to pound all of us into submission”.
Fiorina offered a three-part plan for cutting bureaucracy: Zero-based budgeting each year “so we know where every single dollar of our money is being spent”, meritocracy employment in federal government and empowered inspector generals who report to Congress.
Bush, who was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, said he cut government spending by using a line-item veto and said the US president should have the same power at his disposal.
“This isn’t a typical time in politics”, Cruz said.
Bush said Saturday that he doesn’t hold any “personal animus” against Trump, but when asked whether Trump should still apologize to his wife for invoking her in the debate about immigration, Bush said: “Yeah”.
“Some people might like her because she’s a woman, but I don’t really think that’s it”, said Steele, who is not backing any candidate just yet.
Kasich says he’d “know what to do” if elected because of his resume.
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on Thursday, Trump did not correct an audience member who said that Obama is a Muslim and “not even an American”.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled to speak at an Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition event in Des Moines Saturday night. I’m very disappointed he’s not here.
The presidential contender has come under criticism from Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton for generalizing about Latinos after telling a story about a note left for him by a hotel maid that said she valued his stay.
“Everybody used to think that Michigan was a blue state”, Bush told the group of the state’s party leaders that included Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. “A conservative can win the presidency and then fix these things so that you all will have a chance to live a great life”, he said. The political class has failed us all, not because they’re bad people, but because they’ve been part of the system for so long. The president of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce says he didn’t find the comments offensive. “What Washington wants, what the Washington establishment wants, is to divide us”.
Roughly 22-hundred Republicans can be found on Mackinac Island when it comes to the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference.
Friday night at an event in Michigan, Bush pounced on the latest controversy involving Trump and a supporter who argued at a rally this week that the president was a Muslim and questioned his status as an American. Rand Paul won the presidential straw poll at this weekend’s Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, capturing 22 percent of the vote among a field of 16 candidates.
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Natalie Griffin, a junior at Western Michigan University, said she was voting for Kasich because his views on the issues most closely align with hers, especially prioritizing mental health treatment and prison reform.
