Donald Trump wins Indiana; Ted Cruz drops out; RNC chair tweets Trump will be presumptive GOP nominee
From http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/indiana-primary-highlights/ :
"His [Ravi: Mr. Trump's] victory amounts to a stunning takeover of the Republican Party by a candidate with no political experience. Along the way, he eviscerated the GOP's most accomplished presidential field in a generation and captured the Zeitgeist of a party in which grass roots voters harbor deep ill will toward establishment elites."
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:
The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time. For example, the Zeitgeist of modernism motivated the creation of new forms in the fields of architecture, art, and fashion during much of the 20th century. Zeitgeist is a powerful force embedded in the individuals of a society. The German word Zeitgeist, translated literally as "time ghost" is often attributed to the philosopher Georg Hegel, but he never actually used the word. In his works such as Lectures on the Philosophy of History, he uses the phrase der Geist seiner Zeit (the spirit of his time)—for example, "no man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time is also his own spirit."
--- end wiki extract ---
RNC chair Reince Preibus' tweet, ".@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton", https://twitter.com/Reince/status/727665447684820992, dated 3rd May 2016
Ravi: So I think there is no doubt now that unless something truly extraordinary happens between now and the Republican party convention in Cleveland in July, Mr. Donald Trump will be the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the USA.
What a truly extraordinary journey to Republican party nominee it has been for Mr. Trump & his supporters for around a year now, which has attracted worldwide attention due to the extraordinary nature as well as extraordinary successes of his political campaign!
Ted Cruz suspends his presidential campaign, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXvBL30dyg4, 14 min 8 secs.
Given below are some excerpts from transcript of Ted Cruz speech provided by Ted Cruz' campaign which has been put up here: http://time.com/4317340/ted-cruz-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/ [BTW one could see teleprompter displays on both sides of Ted Cruz as he spoke in the video above.]:
Let me tell you about the America that I love. Our nation is an exceptional nation. We were founded by risk takers and pioneers, brave men and women who put everything on the line for freedom. We began with a revolutionary idea that our rights don’t come from kings or queens or even presidents but from god almighty.
(APPLAUSE)
That every one of us has an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
(APPLAUSE)
And that to protect those rights the constitution serves as change [Ravi: chains] to bind the mischief of government.
(APPLAUSE)
...
America is the land that gave my mom, an Irish Italian girl growing up in a working class family the chance to be the first in her family ever to go to college, to become a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s.
(APPLAUSE)
I love you, mom. America is the land that welcomed my father as a penny immigrant. He’d seen oppression, prison and torture in Cuba and for him America was hope. It was opportunity. In 1957, if someone had told that teenager washing dishes for $0.50 an hour that one day his son would be elected to the Senate and he would get a chance to cast his ballot for his son to be president of the United States …
(APPLAUSE)
That teenage immigrant washing dishes could never have believed it and yet that’s exactly what happened. Only in America.
(APPLAUSE)
In recent months, a lot of people have been talking about what happened 40 years ago at the Republican convention in Kansas City — our party’s last contested convention. When I look back at that convention in Missouri, I think of the speech that Ronald Reagan gave to our party. He spoke not of the next four years. He saw not the close horizons that of interest to those who seek to build their own fortunes in the short term but instead he looked to the distance times and — that concerned the men and women who’s purpose it is to secure the blessings of liberty to their posteriority.
Ronald Reagan spoke of the next 100 years and of the generations of Americans who would come to know whether our nation had escaped the existential threat of nuclear war, who would know whether our party had succeeded in its fight against the erosion of constitutional freedoms that only grow and multiple under rule of the Democratic party. Ronald Reagan spoke of the purpose that defined our party then and that must unite and drive our party now.
(APPLAUSE)
...
This year, two weeks before our party gathers in Cleveland all Americans will celebrate the 240th birthday of the United States of America.
(APPLAUSE)
American parents and grandparents will watch the fireworks with their kids and will dream of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren to come and wonder how those future generations of Americans will remember what we do not only this summer but in the coming decades. Will we rise to meet the challenges that face our nation on the international stage or will we withdraw and cower timidly from the world?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we secure freedom of thought, expression and religion for future generations?
(APPLAUSE)
Or will we succumb to the tyranny of a political correctness and the temptation of radical politics and balkanization here at home?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we hold fast to our founding values of rewarding talent, hard work and industry or will we continue on that path of creeping socialism that incentivizes apathy and dependency?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we deliver control of health care to citizens and their doctors or will we continue down the Obamacare road to second rate socialized medicine?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we keep America safe from the threats of nuclear war and atomic terrorism?
(APPLAUSE)
Or will we pass onto future generations a land devastated and destroyed by the enemies of civilization?
(APPLAUSE)
This is the responsibility with which we have been charged by history. This is our challenge. This is the fight that falls to our generation. When we launched this campaign 13 months ago we saw a movement grow. The pundits all said it was hopeless but we saw over 300,000 volunteers all across this nation.
(APPLAUSE)
Over 1.5 million contributions averaging about $60 each.
(APPLAUSE)
Many of those volunteers, many of those contributions you never forget. Just a few days ago two young kids ages four and six handed me two envelopes full of change. All of their earnings from their lemonade stand. They wanted the campaign to have it. That’s what built this campaign. That’s what fuels this movement.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you to each of you. Incredible patriots who have fought so hard to save our nation.
(APPLAUSE)
And I’m with you. I am so grateful to you, to my amazing wife, Heidi.
(APPLAUSE)
To our precious girls, Caroline (ph) and Kathryn (ph).
(APPLAUSE)
To my mom, the prayer warrior.
(APPLAUSE)
To my dad who has traveled this nation preaching the gospel.
(APPLAUSE)
To Carly Fiorina who has been an incredible, phenomenal running mate.
(APPLAUSE)
What you have done — the movement that you have started is extraordinary. I love each and every one of you.
(APPLAUSE)
From the beginning I’ve said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Tonight, I’m sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed. Together, we left it all on the field in Indiana. We gave it everything we’ve got but the voters chose another path. And so with a heavy heart but with boundless optimism for the long term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign. But hear me now I am not suspending our fight for liberty.
(APPLAUSE)
I am not suspending our fight to defend the constitution, to defend the Judeo-Christian values that built America.
(APPLAUSE)
Our movement will continue and I give you my word that I will continue this fight with all of my strength and all of my ability.
(APPLAUSE)
You are extraordinary and we will continue to fight next week and next month and next year and together we will continue as long as god grants us the strength to fight on.
(APPLAUSE)
For one thing remains as true today as it was 40 years ago in Kansas City. In this fight for the long term future of America there is no substitute for victory. There is no substitute for the America that each and every one of us loves with all of our heart, that we believe in with all of our heart and that together we will restore as a shining city on the hill for every generation to come. Thank you to each of you and god bless you.
(APPLAUSE)
--- end extracts from Ted Cruz speech transcript ---
Donald Trump's Indiana victory speech (entire speech), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEzYSWwiSU, 19 min 30 secs.
Please note that I have a NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about the USA presidential elections. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me voting in these elections.
[I thank cnn.com (two sentence extract), Wikipedia & USA Senator Ted Cruz' campaign (& time.com), and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above extracts from their websites on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
"His [Ravi: Mr. Trump's] victory amounts to a stunning takeover of the Republican Party by a candidate with no political experience. Along the way, he eviscerated the GOP's most accomplished presidential field in a generation and captured the Zeitgeist of a party in which grass roots voters harbor deep ill will toward establishment elites."
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:
The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age or spirit of the time) is the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time. For example, the Zeitgeist of modernism motivated the creation of new forms in the fields of architecture, art, and fashion during much of the 20th century. Zeitgeist is a powerful force embedded in the individuals of a society. The German word Zeitgeist, translated literally as "time ghost" is often attributed to the philosopher Georg Hegel, but he never actually used the word. In his works such as Lectures on the Philosophy of History, he uses the phrase der Geist seiner Zeit (the spirit of his time)—for example, "no man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time is also his own spirit."
--- end wiki extract ---
RNC chair Reince Preibus' tweet, ".@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton", https://twitter.com/Reince/status/727665447684820992, dated 3rd May 2016
Ravi: So I think there is no doubt now that unless something truly extraordinary happens between now and the Republican party convention in Cleveland in July, Mr. Donald Trump will be the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the USA.
What a truly extraordinary journey to Republican party nominee it has been for Mr. Trump & his supporters for around a year now, which has attracted worldwide attention due to the extraordinary nature as well as extraordinary successes of his political campaign!
Ted Cruz suspends his presidential campaign, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXvBL30dyg4, 14 min 8 secs.
Given below are some excerpts from transcript of Ted Cruz speech provided by Ted Cruz' campaign which has been put up here: http://time.com/4317340/ted-cruz-drops-out-suspends-campaign-speech-transcript/ [BTW one could see teleprompter displays on both sides of Ted Cruz as he spoke in the video above.]:
Let me tell you about the America that I love. Our nation is an exceptional nation. We were founded by risk takers and pioneers, brave men and women who put everything on the line for freedom. We began with a revolutionary idea that our rights don’t come from kings or queens or even presidents but from god almighty.
(APPLAUSE)
That every one of us has an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
(APPLAUSE)
And that to protect those rights the constitution serves as change [Ravi: chains] to bind the mischief of government.
(APPLAUSE)
...
America is the land that gave my mom, an Irish Italian girl growing up in a working class family the chance to be the first in her family ever to go to college, to become a pioneering computer programmer in the 1950s.
(APPLAUSE)
I love you, mom. America is the land that welcomed my father as a penny immigrant. He’d seen oppression, prison and torture in Cuba and for him America was hope. It was opportunity. In 1957, if someone had told that teenager washing dishes for $0.50 an hour that one day his son would be elected to the Senate and he would get a chance to cast his ballot for his son to be president of the United States …
(APPLAUSE)
That teenage immigrant washing dishes could never have believed it and yet that’s exactly what happened. Only in America.
(APPLAUSE)
In recent months, a lot of people have been talking about what happened 40 years ago at the Republican convention in Kansas City — our party’s last contested convention. When I look back at that convention in Missouri, I think of the speech that Ronald Reagan gave to our party. He spoke not of the next four years. He saw not the close horizons that of interest to those who seek to build their own fortunes in the short term but instead he looked to the distance times and — that concerned the men and women who’s purpose it is to secure the blessings of liberty to their posteriority.
Ronald Reagan spoke of the next 100 years and of the generations of Americans who would come to know whether our nation had escaped the existential threat of nuclear war, who would know whether our party had succeeded in its fight against the erosion of constitutional freedoms that only grow and multiple under rule of the Democratic party. Ronald Reagan spoke of the purpose that defined our party then and that must unite and drive our party now.
(APPLAUSE)
...
This year, two weeks before our party gathers in Cleveland all Americans will celebrate the 240th birthday of the United States of America.
(APPLAUSE)
American parents and grandparents will watch the fireworks with their kids and will dream of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren to come and wonder how those future generations of Americans will remember what we do not only this summer but in the coming decades. Will we rise to meet the challenges that face our nation on the international stage or will we withdraw and cower timidly from the world?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we secure freedom of thought, expression and religion for future generations?
(APPLAUSE)
Or will we succumb to the tyranny of a political correctness and the temptation of radical politics and balkanization here at home?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we hold fast to our founding values of rewarding talent, hard work and industry or will we continue on that path of creeping socialism that incentivizes apathy and dependency?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we deliver control of health care to citizens and their doctors or will we continue down the Obamacare road to second rate socialized medicine?
(APPLAUSE)
Will we keep America safe from the threats of nuclear war and atomic terrorism?
(APPLAUSE)
Or will we pass onto future generations a land devastated and destroyed by the enemies of civilization?
(APPLAUSE)
This is the responsibility with which we have been charged by history. This is our challenge. This is the fight that falls to our generation. When we launched this campaign 13 months ago we saw a movement grow. The pundits all said it was hopeless but we saw over 300,000 volunteers all across this nation.
(APPLAUSE)
Over 1.5 million contributions averaging about $60 each.
(APPLAUSE)
Many of those volunteers, many of those contributions you never forget. Just a few days ago two young kids ages four and six handed me two envelopes full of change. All of their earnings from their lemonade stand. They wanted the campaign to have it. That’s what built this campaign. That’s what fuels this movement.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you to each of you. Incredible patriots who have fought so hard to save our nation.
(APPLAUSE)
And I’m with you. I am so grateful to you, to my amazing wife, Heidi.
(APPLAUSE)
To our precious girls, Caroline (ph) and Kathryn (ph).
(APPLAUSE)
To my mom, the prayer warrior.
(APPLAUSE)
To my dad who has traveled this nation preaching the gospel.
(APPLAUSE)
To Carly Fiorina who has been an incredible, phenomenal running mate.
(APPLAUSE)
What you have done — the movement that you have started is extraordinary. I love each and every one of you.
(APPLAUSE)
From the beginning I’ve said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. Tonight, I’m sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed. Together, we left it all on the field in Indiana. We gave it everything we’ve got but the voters chose another path. And so with a heavy heart but with boundless optimism for the long term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign. But hear me now I am not suspending our fight for liberty.
(APPLAUSE)
I am not suspending our fight to defend the constitution, to defend the Judeo-Christian values that built America.
(APPLAUSE)
Our movement will continue and I give you my word that I will continue this fight with all of my strength and all of my ability.
(APPLAUSE)
You are extraordinary and we will continue to fight next week and next month and next year and together we will continue as long as god grants us the strength to fight on.
(APPLAUSE)
For one thing remains as true today as it was 40 years ago in Kansas City. In this fight for the long term future of America there is no substitute for victory. There is no substitute for the America that each and every one of us loves with all of our heart, that we believe in with all of our heart and that together we will restore as a shining city on the hill for every generation to come. Thank you to each of you and god bless you.
(APPLAUSE)
--- end extracts from Ted Cruz speech transcript ---
Donald Trump's Indiana victory speech (entire speech), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEzYSWwiSU, 19 min 30 secs.
Please note that I have a NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about the USA presidential elections. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me voting in these elections.
[I thank cnn.com (two sentence extract), Wikipedia & USA Senator Ted Cruz' campaign (& time.com), and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above extracts from their websites on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever.]
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