Thread: Mark Zuckerberg Warns Iowa Ahead of Vote to Reject Trump

by JULIA HAHN
1 Feb 2016
Washington D.C.
4,064 comments

As first-in-the-nation Iowa voters prepare to caucus, open borders financier Mark Zuckerberg weighed in on the race through the president of his powerful immigration lobbying firm, FWD.us.

In a Monday CNBC interview, FWD.us President Todd Schulte made clear his view that Iowans should reject the candidacy of Donald Trump.

Zuckerberg’s spokesman Schulte told CNBC’s Sqawk Alley:

For the first time, a major party [is] putting forth people who are saying they are going to round up and deport 11.5 million people; they’re going to eliminate high-skilled immigration… And look, that may get you a win or second place in the Iowa caucuses. That is just a horrible and fatal position in a general election.

Shulte elaborated just a few hours ago with more attacks on the GOP frontrunner. Schulte tweeted: “Trump’s a hack, runs for [sic] policy specifics. Be it immigration, trade, foreign policy – answer is always he’s a strongman, others are weak.”

Schulte continued: “On immigration, he wandered into something awful that credentialed past apostasies as ok – rounding up every last undocumented immigrant.”

Zuckerberg’s FWD.us is also backed by tech giant Bill Gates. Gates has argued for the unlimited admission of foreign workers authorized to take American jobs.

FWD.us is also backed by other supporters of mass immigration, such as Google’s Eric Schmidt and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Todd Schulte was named president of the organization in September of last year after his predecessor, Joe Greene, was reportedly “forced” out after revealing his organization’s apparent view that foreign workers are better than Americans.

This is not the first time Zuckerberg’s lobbying firm has attacked the GOP frontrunner.

Ahead of September’s CNN GOP debate, Zuckerberg’s immigration firm released an attack ad targeting Donald Trump, in which the lobbying group lectured the Republican Party on the need to pass so-called “immigration reform,” by which FWD.us means mass amnesty combined with more foreign workers on visas for big businesses.

Similarly, following the release of Donald Trump’s immigration policy paper last summer, Schulte wrote a blog post on the FWD.us website in which he described Trump supporters as “hard-line anti-immigrant restrictionists” who “rant that immigrants are taking jobs away from ‘real’ Americans.”

The number of immigrants in the U.S. is currently at a record high of more than 42 million. Nearly 1 in 7 U.S. residents was born in a foreign country. In eight years time, the foreign born share of the U.S. population will reach an all-time high. If Silicon Valley’s lobbying efforts prove successful, that record will be shattered with even greater force and rapidity.

There is simply no historical precedent for the pace of immigration transforming American communities and economic structures since the Kennedy-backed immigration rewrite in 1965 opened up the American visa to the entire globe.

In his immigration reform plan, Donald Trump directly took on the foreign worker policies being pushed by Mark Zuckerberg and other GOP donors. Trump wrote, “Real immigration reform puts the needs of working people first – not wealthy globetrotting donors.” Trump went on to describe Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) whose immigration expansion bills have been endorsed by FWD.us, “as Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-reject-trump/

Trump lost Iowa. What a shame.

Originally Posted by Judy

Trump lost Iowa. What a shame.

Trump ... Cruz ...... I wouldn't have been disappointed with either winning. However, I'm extremely disappointed that Rubio finished with such a high percentage of the votes!

Originally Posted by MW

Trump ... Cruz ...... I wouldn't have been disappointed with either winning. However, I'm extremely disappointed that Rubio finished with such a high percentage of the votes!

I agree.

Ditto. No real surprise. The establishment votes had to go somewhere and they were not going to Trump or Cruz just yet. The other candidates are clearly sucking up the oxygen in the room. When the rest exit the race as they should very soon, the math is clear. The cumulative anti-immigration vote is still much larger than the establishment. Trump will need to be a very quick study on debating skills when it comes down to the three of them. Cruz and Rubio are debaters (Cruz was the top debater in his class when attending Harvard, OUCH!).

I actually thought Trump did very well considering his ground organization vs. Cruz, total time and $ spent in Iowa vs. others and skipping the last debate.

Z'berg got votes for his personal senator rubio so the IT industry can access more cheap indian it workers at our American it workers' expense. How much are our IT workers in debt to student loans req'd for jobs they NO NOT HAVE NOW - DISGUSTING!. How will the older workers cope? There are many reasons why I avoid facebook and greedy, self serving Z'berg is one.


















berg is one

I'm votin' Trump or nuthin'! It's Trump or Bust!

That's alright a lot of candidates lost Iowa and finally ended up winning the nomination. Trump is still going strong!

What makes me mad is that 2/3 of the supposed "evangelical Christians" and "conservatives" gave their votes to two people, Cruz and Rubio, who are NOT Natural Born citizens. That's what's bad! Where's the Rule of Law? And the Republican Party don't care. I was mad when Obama ran uncontested without the Republican Party challenging Obama. The Republican Party are cowards. Cowards. I'm votin' Trump---Nothing has changed my mind!

Originally Posted by Clinias

I'm votin' Trump or nuthin'! It's Trump or Bust!

That's alright a lot of candidates lost Iowa and finally ended up winning the nomination. Trump is still going strong!

What makes me mad is that 2/3 of the supposed "evangelical Christians" and "conservatives" gave their votes to two people, Cruz and Rubio, who are NOT Natural Born citizens. That's what's bad! Where's the Rule of Law? And the Republican Party don't care. I was mad when Obama ran uncontested without the Republican Party challenging Obama. The Republican Party are cowards. Cowards. I'm votin' Trump---Nothing has changed my mind!

Me, too, Clinias. I'm a Trump Supporter and All-In To Win. Yes, it's very bad that Republicans of those persuasions who hail the Constitution would be so willing to violate it on the simplest most obvious but important clause,the natural born citizen requirement
for eligibility to be President of the United States, something Americans have known the meaning of since our country was formed.

Also, here's the deal as I believe it came down. Trump Supporters are the most All-In, most devoted, most loyal. But there were also Trump Supporters in Iowa who were in the less committed category, and that was about 30% of Trump's followers. Of that 30%, about 15% were were very likely and the last 15% were somewhat likely to vote for Trump.

Okay, in the last 2 days, Trump was ahead by 5% to 7%. So, with a large turnout which he got, if half of his "somewhat likelies" or half of tht 15% were diverted by some scheme, like what Steve King did, to raise doubts about his character, honesty, integrity regarding the endorsements, then that could bite into that 15%. The first time King ran it through was before the Des Moines Register poll, and it didn't stick. So after that poll came out, he ramped it up again on Caucus day with "I know things and felt I had an obligation to tell the voters", and did in on multi-media methods on Caucus Day, that morning.

Then when it was obvious during the Caucus that this was working from the early votes, it didn't look like it was enough to put Cruz over the top, they pulled the stunt with the Carson voters and if his voters who hadn't voted yet voted for Cruz, then that would be enough to close it out from Cruz. No Republican voter in Iowa or anywhere else would have reason to doubt Steve King on such a statement, they would accept that as true, so enough of the Carson voters who hadn't voted yet and the somewhat likely to vote for Trump turned off by the Steve "I know things" fraud on Trump's endorsements, were together more than enough to cost Donald Trump the win he was otherwise entitled to and would have had but for these dishonest frauds against voters and candidates.

The polls prove it wasn't Trump, he was leading in every poll, it wasn't the debate because he got bumps in the polls taken after the debate, it wasn't the weekend, because the toughest most exact poll, the Des Moines Register poll had him leading on Sunday night.

No, it was the dishonest actions of Steve King on Monday, Caucus Day, 1 against Trump ramping up the endorsement buying lie and 1 against Carson during the Caucus claiming Carson was suspending his campaign. Some of those Trump votes went to Cruz and some went to other candidates, like Rubio.
Steve King is the National Co-Chairman for the Ted Cruz Campaign. So these tactics will not be limited to Iowa. Every campaign in every state needs to have a heads-up, beware and be ready not to rely on anything that comes out of the mouth of Steve King or Rick Tyler, who is the Communications Director of the Ted Cruz Campaign and bunker down for an absolutely filthy campaign.

Trump Supporters need to go on the War Path. Also, the actual tally was not a four point difference being reported, it was 3.6%, about 6,200 votes out of 180,000 votes.

Cruz is shamelessly dishonest in my view, and Steve King ... well, he has no ethics at all.

Winning Iowa for Cruz is almost a promise of defeat in the national primary based on history. For Trump it would have been a plus. But for anyone else probably their first and last victory speech which is all voting on values will get you, which according to Fox News today is what the plurality of Cruz voters were voting. The plurality of Trump voters were voting on immigration, so he won his policy issue. The plurality of Rubio voters were voting on electability.

Cruz opening statement at his victory speech last night was "To God Be the Glory" with that snake Steve King standing behind him. Well, for most of US, cheating to win is not the "Glory", it's just cheating. Hopefully this election Americans will be heads up, election-wise, snake hunters. We've been robbed enough by these dishonest all talk, no action reptiles, so we're not going to let them steal our elections too.

STAY TRUE!! STAY TRUMP!!

CSPAN livestream New Hampshire.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?404064-...-new-hampshire

Originally Posted by Judy

Me, too, Clinias. I'm a Trump Supporter and All-In To Win. Yes, it's very bad that Republicans of those persuasions who hail the Constitution would be so willing to violate it on the simplest most obvious but important clause,the natural born citizen requirement
for eligibility to be President of the United States, something Americans have known the meaning of since our country was formed.

Also, here's the deal as I believe it came down. Trump Supporters are the most All-In, most devoted, most loyal. But there were also Trump Supporters in Iowa who were in the less committed category, and that was about 30% of Trump's followers. Of that 30%, about 15% were were very likely and the last 15% were somewhat likely to vote for Trump.

Okay, in the last 2 days, Trump was ahead by 5% to 7%. So, with a large turnout which he got, if half of his "somewhat likelies" or half of tht 15% were diverted by some scheme, like what Steve King did, to raise doubts about his character, honesty, integrity regarding the endorsements, then that could bite into that 15%. The first time King ran it through was before the Des Moines Register poll, and it didn't stick. So after that poll came out, he ramped it up again on Caucus day with "I know things and felt I had an obligation to tell the voters", and did in on multi-media methods on Caucus Day, that morning.

Then when it was obvious during the Caucus that this was working from the early votes, it didn't look like it was enough to put Cruz over the top, they pulled the stunt with the Carson voters and if his voters who hadn't voted yet voted for Cruz, then that would be enough to close it out from Cruz. No Republican voter in Iowa or anywhere else would have reason to doubt Steve King on such a statement, they would accept that as true, so enough of the Carson voters who hadn't voted yet and the somewhat likely to vote for Trump turned off by the Steve "I know things" fraud on Trump's endorsements, were together more than enough to cost Donald Trump the win he was otherwise entitled to and would have had but for these dishonest frauds against voters and candidates.

The polls prove it wasn't Trump, he was leading in every poll, it wasn't the debate because he got bumps in the polls taken after the debate, it wasn't the weekend, because the toughest most exact poll, the Des Moines Register poll had him leading on Sunday night.

No, it was the dishonest actions of Steve King on Monday, Caucus Day, 1 against Trump ramping up the endorsement buying lie and 1 against Carson during the Caucus claiming Carson was suspending his campaign. Some of those Trump votes went to Cruz and some went to other candidates, like Rubio.
Steve King is the National Co-Chairman for the Ted Cruz Campaign. So these tactics will not be limited to Iowa. Every campaign in every state needs to have a heads-up, beware and be ready not to rely on anything that comes out of the mouth of Steve King or Rick Tyler, who is the Communications Director of the Ted Cruz Campaign and bunker down for an absolutely filthy campaign.

Trump Supporters need to go on the War Path. Also, the actual tally was not a four point difference being reported, it was 3.6%, about 6,200 votes out of 180,000 votes.

Cruz is shamelessly dishonest in my view, and Steve King ... well, he has no ethics at all.

Winning Iowa for Cruz is almost a promise of defeat in the national primary based on history. For Trump it would have been a plus. But for anyone else probably their first and last victory speech which is all voting on values will get you, which according to Fox News today is what the plurality of Cruz voters were voting. The plurality of Trump voters were voting on immigration, so he won his policy issue. The plurality of Rubio voters were voting on electability.

Cruz opening statement at his victory speech last night was "To God Be the Glory" with that snake Steve King standing behind him. Well, for most of US, cheating to win is not the "Glory", it's just cheating. Hopefully this election Americans will be heads up, election-wise, snake hunters. We've been robbed enough by these dishonest all talk, no action reptiles, so we're not going to let them steal our elections too.

STAY TRUE!! STAY TRUMP!!

I see you're still rationalizing and making excuses for Trump's loss. Not very becoming. At least I can give Trump credit for being humble in the loss and accepting it with a positive message for moving forward.