Interactive Election Game: 2016 (TURN 5)

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Turn Two: Monday, June 15

State of the Presidential Race:

Almost every pundit had assumed Hillary Clinton would be a shoo-in to the Democratic nomination, which makes it all the more shocking that she will likely not announce a campaign. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, despite technically not being a member of the Democratic Party, was the first to announce his campaign. Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, has had a reputation for being an outspoken progressive, and his base is expected to draw from both progressive and anti-establishment voters. Soon after, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden announced his campaign as well. Biden is thought of as more of a moderate candidate, and the establishment is expected to be split between him and Warren for the most part. Most recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has announced her campaign. A former advisor to President Obama, she became nationally famous after defeating incumbent Senator Scott Brown in 2012. Warren has a reputation as a progressive, although less liberal and more establishment-friendly than Sanders.

In the Republican primaries, Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Florida) both announced their campaigns quickly, as pundits had predicted. Cruz mainly draws his voters from the Tea Party, while Rubio is more of an establishment candidate, although a rather conservative one. The third announcement, however, came out of left field even for most pundits. Ratt lead singer Stephen Pearcy, who had previously been uninvolved in politics for the most part, announced his candidacy, stating dissatisfaction with the current set of candidates. Although many pundits don't expect him to do well, his candidacy has won over voters who are against the Republican establishment and would prefer an outsider over a politician. In a slightly less surprising announcement, Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas, who had mostly been overlooked as a potential candidate, also announced his candidacy. Moran is in a position where he could potentially get supporters from both mainstream conservatives and the Tea Party, but his low name recognition could be an obstacle. The next candidate to enter the race was Rand Paul, who had been predicted to be a candidate for quite a while. Although not as libertarian as his father, Paul is quite libertarian even by Tea Party standards. It is unknown where his voters will come from ideologically at this point in time, although supporters of his father in 2012 may also support him. In another rather surprising development, Donald Trump, after multiple times teasing a run for the presidency only to refuse, finally entered the race. His politics, which have been called populist and anti-establishment, could get voters from a variety of right-wing ideologies. The most recent candidate to enter the race was Mitch Daniels, a former governor of Indiana. Daniels is the first candidate to enter the race who could be described as a moderate, which could potentially be a major benefit to him, but could also backfire.

Recent News:

On June 2, the Senate passed the USA Freedom Act, and President Obama subsequently signed it into law. The USA Freedom Act's purpose was mainly to replace the USA Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. Although some sections of the USA Patriot Act were toned down, there are still parts that remain intact.
The Turkish general election was held on June 7. President Recep Erdogan's party, the Justice and Development Party, lost 69 seats and their majority in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Given that no party has a majority, negotiations for a coalition government are in process.

Polls:

National Primary - Democrats

Vice Pres. Joe Biden: 36%
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 29%
Sen. Bernie Sanders: 23%

Iowa Caucus - Democrats

Vice Pres. Joe Biden: 33%
Sen. Elizabet Warren: 29%
Sen. Bernie Sanders: 27%

New Hampshire Primary - Democrats

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: 33%
Vice Pres. Joe Biden: 28%
Sen. Bernie Sanders: 28%

National Primary - Republicans

Sen. Marco Rubio: 24%
Sen. Ted Cruz: 17%
Sen. Rand Paul: 14%
Donald J. Trump: 11%
Stephen Pearcy: 11%
Sen. Jerry Moran: 5%
Gov. Mitch Daniels: 4%

Iowa Caucus - Republicans

Sen. Ted Cruz: 20%
Sen. Marco Rubio: 19%
Donald J. Trump: 13%
Stephen Pearcy: 12%
Sen. Rand Paul: 11%
Sen. Jerry Moran: 7%
Gov. Mitch Daniels: 4%

New Hampshire Primary - Republicans

Sen. Marco Rubio: 20%
Sen. Ted Cruz: 15%
Stephen Pearcy: 15%
Donald J. Trump: 14%
Sen. Rand Paul: 11%
Gov. Mitch Daniels: 7%
Sen. Jerry Moran: 5%

For those of you who did not post an announcement last turn, you may still do so now. All of you may now feel free to post schedules, advertisements, endorsements, etc.

[Jaguar4life]

PERCY CAMPAIGN TO BE GRASSROOTS
Brietbart.com

Republican Presidental candidate and Ratt Lead Singer Stephen Percy says that his campaign will be grassroots and will accept no donations from corporations or political donors

Percy in a interview stated

"I don't want any politican or corporation's money on my campaign for all I know it could be from some insider political donor or Goldman Sachs.

I want my campaign to be funded by actually people who actually have to work their tails off in their life and not be born with a golden spoon in their mouth.

[NewYorkExpress]

Press Release from EMILY's list on behalf Elizabeth Warren

It's time to make history and elect the first female President of these United States. For this reason, we have decided to endorse Senator Warren at this time. She is a fighter for a women's right to choose, their political and labor rights, and against the rampant sexism in society, and she will continue this fight in the Oval Office.

Other Endorsements

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey (Will campaign for Warren in New Hampshire), Former Massachusetts Governor, 1988 Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis (Will campaign for Warren in New Hampshire)

[Jaguar4life]

PERCY RENO NEVADA TOWN HALL ON A LESS COURRPT GOVERMENT



If elected I will take down the corrupt nature of the administrations of Clinton,Bush and Obama.

I fully believe that they have abuse their powers of government and just love to push their war mongering agenda to people.  

You look at the Patriot act and the Freedom act that was just passed.

If you look at these things front and center it's pure Fascism!!

I have respect for the military don't get me wrong but I believe that even since the end of the Cold War the role of it has been used horribly. Iraq was a total disaster and we basically lied about WNDs for oil!!

Now Obama is pushing Syria and possibly arming people we don't know about. They could be ISIS for all we know!

*Crowd claps*

And despite all these withdrawals we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq! And I fear that anything that we will get involved in Syria.

In a Percy presidency war and military action will be a last resort if we can't deal things properly.

[NewYorkExpress]

Schedule for Elizabeth Warren

June 15, 2015

Speech in Portsmouth New Hampshire

I don't believe that our prohibition on online poker is particularly productive. It would be much more helpful to legalize it, and tax player's revenue. Banning it draws comparisons to Prohibition, in the 1920's, with the unenforceable Volstead act, compared with the unenforceable UGIEA, and it's attempts to regulate behavior. That is not something America should be in the business of, and it is something we will seek to correct.

Meet Voters in Epworth, Iowa

June 17, 2015

Meet Voters in Peosta, Iowa

Meet Voters in Luxemburg, Iowa

Appearance on Anderson Cooper 360, by satellite, from Luxemburg, Iowa

Senator, what do you believe should be done about ISIS?

Anderson, President Obama's drone strategy to disrupt ISIS operations is working slowly, but surely. We still need to be vigilant for ISIS inspired attacks on our soil, but we are winning the war ISIS in Iraq. In Syria, we need to be able to remove both jihadists like ISIS and the Al-Nusra front and Bashar Al-Assad, and replace him a with an individual acceptable to all parties.

June 18, 2015

Meet Voters in New Vienna, Iowa

Meet Voters in Cascade, Iowa

Meet Voters in Anamosa, Iowa

Meet Voters in Sioux Center, Iowa

June 19, 2015

Meet Voters in Sheldon, Iowa

Meet Voters in Primghar, Iowa

Meet Voters in Rock Rapids, Iowa

June 20, 2015

Meet Voters in South Congaree, South Carolina

Meet Voters in Kingstree, South Carolina

Meet Voters in Stuckey, South Carolina

June 21, 2015

Senate Duties, Washington D.C until 6:00 PM

Speech in Laconia, New Hampshire (With Ed Markey)

Just like Senator Sanders I am a loyal Progressive, but unlike him, I am a registered, loyal Democrat, meaning that should we win back the House and Senate, I can work with Congress to pass a progressive agenda. He will not, due to the fact, millions outside of Vermont view him as a communist.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Is it too late for me to enter? I'm thinking Jon Hunstman.

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Is it too late for me to enter? I'm thinking Jon Hunstman.

The first debate has yet to occur, so you could probably get in if you so chose.

[wjx987]

Joe Biden
JUNE 15-22

V.P. Biden started off his campaign strong this week, with visits to both Iowa and New Hampshire. He focused on building his campaign's infrastructure and had his first town halls with voters.

June 15
-Announce campaign in Scranton, PA  in Courthouse Square
-Meet voters after announcement
-build campaign infrastructure at HQ in Wilmington, DE
-meet with donors

June 16
-Fly to Davenport, Iowa
-Barnstorm in Davenport area
-Hold a fundraising dinner in Bettendorf
-Barnstorm in rural Clinton County
-Town hall in DeWitt

June 17
-Meet with liberal activists
-build campaign infrastructure by setting up a donation system
-press conference on campaign finance

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-Barnstorm in Dubuque
-meet and greet voters in Dubuque

June 18
-open regional campaign HQ in Marion
-Barnstorm in Cedar Rapids
-Rally at Coe College
-Fly to Concord, New Hampshire
-Barnstorm in Concord
-Make a brief statement about the previous night's shooting in Charleston:

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June 19
-Town hall in Franklin
-Rally at NHTI in Concord
-Barnstorm rural Grafton County
-open regional campaign HQ in Laconia

June 20
-Policy speech on opioid epidemic at SNHU

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-Meet and greet voters in Manchester
-Rally at SNHU Arena
-Fly to Washington D.C.

June 21
-Appear on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd

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-Vice Presidential duties
-policy speech on Turkey with Sec. State John Kerry

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-town hall with college voters/first time voters at GWU
-start playing ads in New Hampshire (to be described later)

[Jaguar4life]

STEPHEN PERCY AT UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY COLLEGE REPUBLICANS LUNCHEON ON THE ECONOMY

Thank you New Hampshire university college Republicans for this opportunity and I  appreciate the endorsement

Our economy is a total mess folks. President Obama is out there despite in 2008 claiming he was against Wall Street is now bailing out and pardoning courpt Wall Street bankers.

Obama's tax cuts are really tax cuts for the super rich and a tax hike on the middle class

If I win we will go tough on Wall Street and give a affordable tax rate to the middle class!

*Claps are heard*

I am proposing a 10% tax on Wall Street and billion dollar corporation and a 20 tax cuts on the middle class get rid of the Captial gains and property tax and will get the IRS out of your life!

*Loud claps*

We will get out of NAFTA a disaster that Vice President Biden and Elizabeth Warren want to continue with!

*Boos heard* But with me we are going to withdrawn our involvement from this deal.

*They clap*

And for TPP? Not even gonna think about joining about that! *Laughs*

[Jaguar4life]

Endorsements so far of Stephen Percy

1.Sammy Hagar
2.Scott Baio
3.Alice Cooper
4.College Republicans of New Hampshire

[CMB222]

Senator Jerry Moran Campaign Schedule
Turn 2

June 15:
Open campaign in McConnell Airforce Base, Wichita, Kansas with a speech and meet and greet.
Fly to Sioux City, Iowa

June 16:
Hold rally and give speech in Sioux City
Fundraising event
Meet with voters in rural areas surrounding Sioux City

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Jerry Moran on entrepreneurs at rally in Sioux City, Iowa

June 17:
Barnstorm in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Meet with rural voters in Cass and Pottawatamie counties.
Barnstorm Osceola, Iowa

June 18:
Barnstorm and rally in Des Moines
Meet and greet voters in Des Moines
Fundraising event



June 19:
Meet voters in Ames, IA
Meet voters in Waterloo, IA
Meet voters in Mason City, IA
Fly to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

June 20:
Barnstorm in Portsmouth, NH
Meet voters in Dover, NH
Meet voters in Rochester, NH

June 21:
Meet voters in Nashua, NH
Meet voters in Manchester, NH
Meet voters in Concord, NH

June 22:
Meet voters in Keene, NH
Speech in Keene, NH

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Jerry Moran on the future of America's energy

Official Jerry Moran bumper sticker:

[Jaguar4life]

STEVEN PERCY RELEASED NEW CAMPAIGN AD. GOES VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA

*A message pops up on screen*
Why Percy?

Random man:Cause he says what he means

Random young voter:Cause he isn't a politican

Young Lady:Cause he's a different kind of Republican?

Another random young male voter:I think it's because he wants a better government and vision for this country

Vote Percy for a perfect America

[GoTfan]

Bernie 2016 Campaign schedule for June 15-June 22, 2015

June 15
-Announce campaign in Burlington, Vermont
-Finalise campaign staff

June 16
-Kick off campaign with major rally in Montpelier, Vermont
-Fly to Iowa
-Rally in Des Moines, Iowa

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-Barnstorm in Scott County, Iowa
-Barnstorm in Adams county, Iowa

June 17
-Barnstorm in Wayne County, Iowa
-Rally in Iowa City, Iowa
-Fly to New Hampshire
-Town Hall in Machester, New Hampshire
-Policy speech in Concord, New Hampshire: Explaining Democratic Socialism

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June 18
-Barnstorm in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
-Meet with voters in Lancaster, New Hampshire
-Rally in Laconia, New Hampshire
-Fly to Iowa
-Rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

June 19
-Build volunteer operations in Iowa
-Build GOTV operations in Iowa
-Build campaign structure in Iowa

June 20
-Build volunteer operations in New Hampshire
-Build GOTV operations in New Hampshire
-Build campaign structure in New Hampshire

June 21
-Fly to Washington DC
-Senatorial duties

June 22
-Fly to Iowa
-Rally in Sioux City, Iowa
-Barnstorm in Dubuque County, Iowa
-Town Hall in Muscatine, Iowa

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-Barnstorm in Webster County, Iowa

Summary: Sanders began his long-shot campaign by focusing in Iowa and New Hampshire, hoping for strong placings in both states. Sanders continued to hit his populist message on the campaign trail, appealing to voters with anti-establishment and progressive rhetoric. He also hit back hard at Warren's insinuations that he's a fringe candidate, calling her out for using the communist talking point that has been extensively used by the Republican Party against him.

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's campaign schedule
June 15, 2015-June 22, 2015
Part 1

June 15, 2015
-Flight to Des Moines, Iowa
-Build campaign infrastructure in Iowa
-Agriculture policy speech at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Gardenbuilding in Des Moines, Iowa

Agriculture is Iowa's main economic activity. But in this time of economic stagnation, the American people, including farmers, are struggling to recover and to prosper. Many farmers lost their jobs and rising inflation raised the cost of buying agricultural products, which hurts agricultural businesses. We have to reverse this situation and I have a plan for it.

What we have to do to boost America's agriculture is to cut taxes on businesses, including tractor, seed and agriculture companies, in order to help them to innovate and to manufacture more tractors, seeds and agricultural products, to create jobs, to improve agricultural technologies, thus helping Iowans and Americans to accomplish their agricultural activities and ensure their subsistence.

Energy independence will also boost tractor manufacturing as well as the effectiveness of new agricultural technologies. My plan will reduce Iowans' and Americans' dependence on food stamps through reduction of inflation and food prices, which will reinforce their purchasing power and give them more access to food as well as better living conditions.

-Fundraising event at Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, Iowa
-Freedom of religion policy speech at Dowling Catholic High School in Des Moines, Iowa

June 16, 2015
-Advertisement filming in Des Moines, Iowa
-Energy policy speech at MidAmerican Energy Company headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa
-Bus trip to Sioux City, Iowa
-Anti-abortion policy speech in front of the Central Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa :

Abortion is never good. Everybody, whether or not they are yet eligible to vote, has the right to live. If we tolerate abortion, future generations are likely to look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.

This is not only a social issue, it's also an economic issue. One of the main reasons why the Glorious Thirty (1945-1972) were so prosperous was the great number of young baby boomers who were available to find a job and work. Today, it's exactly the opposite : many baby boomers are going to retirement, which hurts our workforce and slows our GDP and our economy. So if we want longer term economic growth and prosperity, we need to fight abortion in order to let future generations live and make sure that our workforce will get stronger and stronger, making our economy growing again. That's what I'm going to do if I'm elected President of the United States.

-Foreign policy speech at Sioux City Air National Guard Base in Sioux City, Iowa

June 17, 2015
-Marco Rubio's campaign broadcasts an advertisement about the Florida Senator's accomplishments and agenda. This ad is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada :

Marco Rubio is a man of honor and integrity who devoted his life and energy to Florida and America, serving in the Florida House of Representatives and in the United States Senate. We need a person with great political experience and with a great accomplishment record. In the Senate, Marco Rubio has worked in the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Foreign Relations; Select Committee on Intelligence and Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committees.

In the Florida House of Representatives, he introduced a book called “100 Innovative Ideas For Florida’s Future” and 24 of those ideas became law.

In the Senate, Marco Rubio supported military intervention in Libya that contributed to Gaddafi's fall and to democratic transition in Libya in 2011. That same year, he cosponsored the AGREE Act, a bill that increased tax credits and exemptions for companies investing in R & D, equipment and other capital and gave tax credits for veterans opening a business franchise. In 2013, Marco Rubio co-sponsored the Regulation Costs to Small Businesses Act, which required the Small Business Administration to conduct an annual study to estimate the total cost of regulations on small businesses. He successfully co-sponsored the 2014 VA reform law by introducing a measure empowering the VA secretary to hold managers accountable for incompetence, negligence and corruption and to care more about veterans than bureaucrats because it's another way to reward our veterans for their military service and their sacrifices for America. He successfully pushed Venezuela human rights sanctions into law in order to condemn the tyrannical Venezuelan regime led by Nicolas Maduro and promote freedom in this country. Senator Rubio's Girls Count Act is now signed into law, U.S. foreign assistance on the establishment of birth registries to properly document childbirth and prevent kids' exploitation, trafficking or exclusion from society. Rubio's efforts in the Senate to defund Obamacare saved taxpayers $2.5 billion that would have otherwise bailed out health insurance companies under Obamacare. He authored legislation that became law which sanctions the terrorist group Hezbollah and, by extension, Iran for supporting terrorism, thus showing leadership when it comes to standing with America's allies, especially Israel.

As President of the United States of America, Marco Rubio, a son of immigrants, will restore the American Dream.

He will repeal Obamacare to save Medicare.

 
He will balance the budget, abolish regulations, cut government spending, cut taxes for all Americans and business owners to strengthen the American people's purchasing power and to make sure our businesses will increase their ability to innovate, hire and create jobs, improve our education system to create opportunities for every children, give us energy independence through oil production and drilling and then the promotion of the development of renewable energies a promote free trade to make our country competitive and grow our economy by innovating, finding new consumers around the world and reducing tariffs barriers.


The Rubio administration will stand with our allies and against our enemies by increasing military spending in order to make sure that we will be able to defeat any threat. Under Marco Rubio's watch as President, we and our allies will form a great international military coalition and intervene in Syria and Iraq to eliminate ISIS. In order to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, President Rubio will restore sanctions against Iran and build a regional military alliance in order to increase pressure on Tehran and destroy any missile thrown against us and our allies. To put an end at the Russian aggression in the Eastern Europe, Marco Rubio will reinforce military presence in this region to ensure security and Ukraine, train and arm the Ukrainian army, vanquish the pro-Russian rebellion and free Ukraine from Russia's tyranny. President Rubio will ensure South China Sea's territorial integrity by reinforcing our navy's presence there, multiply military exercises in the region with our allies to make sure they will be ready and able to stop China's aggression and, if they have to, defeat the Chinese navy. He will show his courage to take action against North Korea by putting Pyongyang back on the list of states supporting terrorism and build a great and powerful intergovernmental military alliance organization with our allies around the Pacific to deter North Korea from making nuclear tests or attacks and attacking it's neighbors, to avoid any war with North Korea and to ensure peace, stability, security and freedom on the Pacific.

Choose a path to justice, integrity, fairness, freedom, national unity, economic prosperity, strength and security. Vote for Marco Rubio for the sake of a New American Century!


I'm Marco Rubio and I approve this message.

-Flight to Manchester, New Hampshire
-Build campaign infrastructure in New Hampshire
-Economic policy speech at the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, New Hampshire
-Fundraising event at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, New Hampshire
-Rally at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Coliseum in Manchester, New Hampshire

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's campaign schedule
June 15, 2015-June 22, 2015
Part 2

June 18, 2015
-Bus trip to Concord, New Hampshire
-Meet with college voters at Franklin Pierce University in Concord, New Hampshire
-Fundraising event at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire
-Town hall meeting with voters at the Concord Public Library in Concord, New Hampshire
-Space policy and economic policy speech at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, New Hampshire

June 19, 2015
-Flight to Charleston, South Carolina
-Announcement of the opening of five campaign offices in Des Moines, Iowa; Manchester, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; Las Vegas, Nevada and state campaign headquarters in Miami, Florida
-Foreign policy speech at the Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina
-Interview with Jake Tapper of CNN :

Jake Tapper : Good evening, Senator Rubio.

Marco Rubio : Thank you. This is a great honor, Jake.

Jake Tapper : Recently, the U.S. Senate adopted the USA Freedom Act, and President Obama subsequently signed it into law. The USA Freedom Act's purpose was mainly to replace the USA Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. Although some sections of the USA Patriot Act were toned down, there are still parts that remain intact. What's your advice on this matter?

Marco Rubio : That's a bad deal for America's national security since it imposes new limits on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata on suspected terrorists, which deprives us of the necessary tools to fight terrorism. Without these tools, we risk suffering another terrorist attack after the recent attack in Garland, Texas, last month.

Jake Tapper : You know, Turkish President Recep Erdogan's party, the Justice and Development Party, lost 69 seats and their majority in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. President Erdogan is recently negotiating with the opposition to form a coalition government. How do you think he will manage to do so?

Marco Rubio : Well, even though Turkish political parties don't share the same views on social issues and economic issues, they have common goals such as fighting and defeating radical Islamic terrorism and stopping Russia's intrusion in Syria. In Turkey, the terrorist threat is stronger than ever before, so I believe Erdogan's minority government is an opportunity for the Turkish people to work together in order to face and overcome their challenges. And they are not alone, we are behind them.

June 20, 2015
-Foreign policy speech at the Charleston Arsenal in Charleston, South Carolina
-Economic policy speech ahead of college students at the College of Charleston School of Business and Economics in Charleston, South Carolina
-Technology policy speech at Cummins Inc. facility in North Charleston, South Carolina
-Free trade policy speech at the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce in North Charleston, South Carolina
-Speech at the Greater Charleston Naval Memorial in North Charleston, South Carolina
-Manufacturing policy speech at Detyens Shipyards headquarters in North Charleston, South Carolina

June 21, 2015
-Flight to Washington D.C.
-Senate duties in Washington D.C.

June 22, 2015
-Senate duties in Washington D.C.

[Jaguar4life]

Part of Stephen Percy's anti NAFTA speech in Des Monies Iowa


I am very disappointed to see that other candidates in this field want to countine and some even expand NAFTA. Well not me!!

People here have told me and this campaign  all around the state of Iowa which are and they have people who are farmers and who know farmers that they got their jobs and corn exports shipped off the Mexico!

Senator Rubio wants to get now TPP involved and I say to that NO!!

*Crowd cheers*

This trade agreements such has CAFTA,NAFTA and TPP favor big businesses over small people working their tail off to make a living and that is totally unfair!!

When I am President that is gonna change!!

[UWS]

Marco Rubio's response to Stephen Percy's accusations in Manchester, New Hampshire

I have respect for Stephen Percy, but I'm sorry to tell him that he's wrong to say that free trade is bad for the economy. Do I need to remind you that one of the main reasons why the Great Depression got longer and worse is the legislation of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that increased tariffs and reduced American exports and imports, thus increasing unemployment rate from 8 % in 1930 to 25 % in 1932?

One of the factors of the actual economic sluggish in which we are living is that President Obama did not sign a single free trade agreement during his presidency. Many agricultural companies, especially dairy companies, in New England, including New Hampshire, are benefiting from free trade partly because American milk is approximately twice less expensive than the Canadian milk, which encourages American and Canadian consumers to buy more American milk than Canadian milk to keep their purchasing power strong.

The Transpacific Partnership will be an asset for America because regional potential members of the TPP that are usually great trade partners to China will be orienting more and more to us as trade partners. In addition, American cars will be less expensive than Asian cars thanks to energy independence, which will result to the purchase of more American cars than Asian cars. By opening more markets and look for new ones, we will increase our ability to innovate and compete in this world economy. Goods and services crossing borders ensure the development of new ideas and models and allow our producers to learn about the market through the failure and success of traded products. By learning more, they will be favored to innovate and keep their competitiveness.

So if Percy believes that free trade is bad for the economy, then I think he seeks to be a leader of the past and seeks to be a champion of big government's intrusion in the economy through higher tariffs. Prosperity does not come from government, but from the American people's ingenuity, hard work and entrpreneurship and that's why we need to put the government aside, to cut taxes for all the American people, including the middle-class, to increase their purchasing power, and for business owners to make them competitive and able to produce, innovate and hire. This election must be about the future, not about the past, and I seek to make that future a New American Century.

[Jaguar4life]

STEVEN PERCY's response to Marco Rubio on social media

Dear Senator Rubio, NAFTA has resulted in jobs lost to Mexico and Canada which resulted 1,000+ people being laid off with our job.

If we pass the TPP all top manufacturering jobs will be lost to countries such as India,Japan and China

I am all for free trade however this free trade agreements are only good if you are a corporation and make millions of dollars a year.

I want people to trade however they want but those aggrements seem very restricted.

It if makes you sleep at night I will find out a way to negotiate with NAFTA sand make it at least tolerable.

[diptheriadan]

I request a 24 hour extension.

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Granted.

By the way, just letting you all know that from the next turn on, turns will last two weeks rather than one, so that we can hopefully get through the debates and primaries faster.

[diptheriadan]

Donald Trump withdraws

[Jaguar4life]

CLIP From STEVEN PERCY ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH STEVEN COLBERT

Colbert:Alright now our very special guest is someone who you would never thought in a million years would run for president but ladies and gentleman Steven Percy!

*On drugs*

Colbert:One of the things I have curious to know is what is your view on well marijuana?

*Percy laughs*

Percy:Oh that is a totally important issue to me. I mean I don't do drugs anymore let alone weed since my daughter was born but I support it being legal 100%. There are worse out there trust me *Laughs*

It's crazy how many people are going to jail over peacefully smoking a plant I mean come on folks there were worst things back in my heyday!

Colbert:What I want to know is what do you think when people see you put in your book Sex,Drugs, Ratt n Roll  what do you say when they say that is not presidentalZ

Percy:I tell them that was in the past and I am clean and 100% sober and even since my daughter was born I haven't done that stuff and I said that before and I will say that again.


Colbert:

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Update coming shortly

[UWS]

Just wondering, when I speak Spanish in some parts of my speeches, should I put English subtitles or do you understand Spanish well?

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I understand it well enough.

Sorry I was unable to update recently, the update will happen tonight.