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| Jeb Bush re-emerges to bash Trump – campaign live | Jeb Bush re-emerges to bash Trump – campaign live |
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| Paul Lewis in San Francisco and Nina Lakhani in Mexico City reveal that Trump and Cruz aides advised Guatemalan candidate vowing televised executions. | |
| The two men hired by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz to spearhead their presidential campaigns in California are, for the moment, rivals in what could be the most important primary race of 2016. | |
| But four years ago, Tim Clark and Ron Nehring, who are running the California campaigns for Trump and Cruz respectively, worked as paid advisers to a campaign to elect a Guatemalan presidential candidate whose platform included a call for public executions. | |
| Clark and Nehring, the Guardian can reveal, spent six weeks in Guatemala in 2011 working as advisers to Manuel Baldízon, a rightwing populist and business tycoon who campaigned on the promise of broadcasting the executions of criminals on TV. | |
| The pair of Republican political consultants, now at the helm of competing presidential campaigns in California, were paid to advise Baldízon by what Clark elliptically refers to as “business interests”. | |
| Clark confirmed the pair’s involvement in the Guatemalan campaign during a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian. | |
| “Ron called and asked me to come down. He had the contact,” Clark said. “‘Hey Clark, I could use a little help down here. What do you think?’” | |
| “We had bodyguards. We had translators. We drove around in a black SUV full of semi-automatic machine guns in the back.” | |
| “It was interesting,” Clark said of the experience. “Glad I came out alive.” | |
| Read the rest of the article here. | |
| Related: Trump, Cruz aides advised Guatemalan candidate vowing televised executions | |
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| Happy Friday and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. | Happy Friday and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. |
| Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters turned up at a Donald Trump rally last night in Orange County, California, where the angry crowd smashed a police car window, threw rocks and attempted to flip a police car. | Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters turned up at a Donald Trump rally last night in Orange County, California, where the angry crowd smashed a police car window, threw rocks and attempted to flip a police car. |
| Back window has been smashed out of a Costa Mesa police cruiser. Protester: "I think Donald Trump did it!" pic.twitter.com/FTj4JoiAdN | Back window has been smashed out of a Costa Mesa police cruiser. Protester: "I think Donald Trump did it!" pic.twitter.com/FTj4JoiAdN |
| Most of the crowd were young Latinos, protesting against Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists”, and his plans to build a wall between Mexico and return all undocumented migrants. | Most of the crowd were young Latinos, protesting against Trump calling Mexican immigrants “rapists”, and his plans to build a wall between Mexico and return all undocumented migrants. |
| Crowd tried to flip a cruiser a couple minutes ago, but police have moved in. pic.twitter.com/IHsB5hzc9q | Crowd tried to flip a cruiser a couple minutes ago, but police have moved in. pic.twitter.com/IHsB5hzc9q |
| Orange County police arrested around 20 protesters. | Orange County police arrested around 20 protesters. |
| As all the candidates start preparing for California and the battle for its crucial 172 delegates, there’s a GOP state convention south of San Francisco today, with Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich all appearing. The Guardian’s Maria La Ganga and Julia Carrie Wong will be there. It runs all weekend, kicking off today with a lunchtime Trump speech, followed by a Kasich dinner speech. | As all the candidates start preparing for California and the battle for its crucial 172 delegates, there’s a GOP state convention south of San Francisco today, with Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich all appearing. The Guardian’s Maria La Ganga and Julia Carrie Wong will be there. It runs all weekend, kicking off today with a lunchtime Trump speech, followed by a Kasich dinner speech. |
| The Cruz/Fiorina ticket is dominating tomorrow, with Cruz speaking at a lunch banquet and his new running mate Carly Fiorina the Saturday dinner keynote. Today Cruz has a “retail stop” with Fiorina in Anderson, Indiana, before he goes on to host a rally in Jeffersonville, Indiana. | The Cruz/Fiorina ticket is dominating tomorrow, with Cruz speaking at a lunch banquet and his new running mate Carly Fiorina the Saturday dinner keynote. Today Cruz has a “retail stop” with Fiorina in Anderson, Indiana, before he goes on to host a rally in Jeffersonville, Indiana. |
| Failed GOP candidate Jeb Bush finally spoke to the media in the first sit-down since his presidential run to hate on the man who repeatedly dubbed him a “low-energy candidate”. | Failed GOP candidate Jeb Bush finally spoke to the media in the first sit-down since his presidential run to hate on the man who repeatedly dubbed him a “low-energy candidate”. |
| “I don’t think he’s a serious person,” Bush told CNN reporter Jamie Gangel. “I don’t know which Donald Trump to believe, the one who read from a teleprompter a speech that was inside the lines or the one that wants to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Which Donald Trump is expressing is the one that’s expressing these views? There’s two of them. And I think we need a president with a steady hand.” | “I don’t think he’s a serious person,” Bush told CNN reporter Jamie Gangel. “I don’t know which Donald Trump to believe, the one who read from a teleprompter a speech that was inside the lines or the one that wants to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Which Donald Trump is expressing is the one that’s expressing these views? There’s two of them. And I think we need a president with a steady hand.” |
| So … if Trump gets the GOP nomination, will Bush vote for him? “I hope I won’t have to be faced with that dilemma,” he said. | So … if Trump gets the GOP nomination, will Bush vote for him? “I hope I won’t have to be faced with that dilemma,” he said. |
| But the Bush dynasty family member would not vote for Hillary Clinton? “No way,” he replied. | But the Bush dynasty family member would not vote for Hillary Clinton? “No way,” he replied. |
| Bush quietly came out in support of Cruz a month after he left the race, but hasn’t been out campaigning for him. | Bush quietly came out in support of Cruz a month after he left the race, but hasn’t been out campaigning for him. |
| It’s a relatively quiet Friday for the Democrats. Today Hillary Clinton has fundraisers in New York – while husband Bill fundraises for her in Florida – but no public events are planned. After a rally with 8,000 people in Oregon yesterday afternoon, Bernie Sanders seems to have no public events planned until a rally in Indiana on Sunday. | It’s a relatively quiet Friday for the Democrats. Today Hillary Clinton has fundraisers in New York – while husband Bill fundraises for her in Florida – but no public events are planned. After a rally with 8,000 people in Oregon yesterday afternoon, Bernie Sanders seems to have no public events planned until a rally in Indiana on Sunday. |