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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/17/2018 8:43:58 PM
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The Chinese are wary of Donald Trump’s creative destruction - THEY CONSIDER HIM THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL OF THE LAST FIVE PRESIDENTS AT LEAST ft.com Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing. Most Chinese think the US president’s goal is nothing less than remaking the global order © EPADonald Trump is leading a double life. In the west, most foreign policyexperts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician. One of the people I met was the former vice-foreign minister He Yafei. He shot to global prominence in 2009 when he delivered a finger-wagging lecture to President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen climate conference before blowing up hopes of a deal. He is somewhat less belligerent where Mr Trump is concerned. He worries that strategic competition has become the new normal and says that “trade wars are just the tip of the iceberg”. Few Chinese think that Mr Trump’s primary concern is to rebalance the bilateral trade deficit. If it were, they say, he would have aligned with the EU, Japan and Canada against China rather than scooping up America’s allies in his tariff dragnet. They think the US president’s goal is nothing less than remaking the global order. They think Mr Trump feels he is presiding over the relative decline of his great nation. It is not that the current order does not benefit the US. The problem is that it benefits others more in relative terms. To make things worse the US is investing billions of dollars and a fair amount of blood in supporting the very alliances and international institutions that are constraining America and facilitating China’s rise. In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington. Once the order is destroyed, the Chinese elite believes, Mr Trump will move to stage two: renegotiating America’s relationship with other powers. Because the US is still the most powerful country in the world, it will be able to negotiate with other countries from a position of strength if it deals with them one at a time rather than through multilateral institutions that empower the weak at the expense of the strong. My interlocutors say that Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade, military and ideology. They describe him as a master tactician, focusing on one issue at a time, and extracting as many concessions as he can. They speak of the skilful way Mr Trump has treated President Xi Jinping. “Look at how he handled North Korea,” one says. “He got Xi Jinping to agree to UN sanctions [half a dozen] times, creating an economic stranglehold on the country. China almost turned North Korea into a sworn enemy of the country.” But they also see him as a strategist, willing to declare a truce in each area when there are no more concessions to be had, and then start again with a new front. For the Chinese, even Mr Trump’s sycophantic press conference with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in Helsinki had a strategic purpose. They see it as Henry Kissinger in reverse. In 1972, the US nudged China off the Soviet axis in order to put pressure on its real rival, the Soviet Union. Today Mr Trump is reaching out to Russia in order to isolate China. In the short term, China is talking tough in response to Mr Trump’s trade assault. At the same time they are trying to develop a multiplayer front against him by reaching out to the EU, Japan and South Korea. But many Chinese experts are quietly calling for a rethink of the longer-term strategy. They want to prepare the ground for a new grand bargain with the US based on Chinese retrenchment. Many feel that Mr Xi has over-reached and worry that it was a mistake simultaneously to antagonise the US economically and militarily in the South China Sea. Instead, they advocate economic concessions and a pullback from the aggressive tactics that have characterised China’s recent foreign policy. They call for a Chinese variant of “splendid isolationism”, relying on growing the domestic market rather than disrupting other countries’ economies by exporting industrial surpluses. So which is the real Mr Trump? The reckless reactionary destroying critical alliances, or the “stable genius” who is pressuring China? The answer seems to depend on where you ask the question. Things look different from Beijing than from Brussels. The writer is director of the European Council on Foreign Relations Listen: Gideon Rachman — The dawn of the Chinese century Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2018. All rights reserved. Explore the series

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/18/2018 9:12:58 AM
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FORMER FBI SPECIAL AGENT and counter-terrorism expert says “Muslims should be banned from holding office” - ABSOLUTELY!!! AUGUST 17, 2018 BY BARENAKEDISLAM 13 COMMENTS John Guandolo, who offers training to law enforcement agencies around the country through his organization ‘Understanding The Threat,’ recounted during his radio program on Monday a conversation that he says he had recently with an unnamed influential conservative activist who was concerned about a Muslim candidate who was running for state office as a Republican. Guandolo told this activist […]

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/19/2018 7:32:57 PM
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The Democrat Party’s 12-Step Plan to Destroy America ANALYSIS/OPINION: If I wanted to destroy an enemy society, and had a long-term focus, wanted to do it stealthily, and effectively, to make the society destroy itself and the ability to defend itself, I would do the following: 1. I would destroy the religious ideals that built the country and held it together, allowing it to thrive and be exceptional. In short, I would destroy Christianity in the West. 2. I would destroy the family, the fabric of society. I would tear apart the nuclear family, that produced stable children, future contributors to the nation’s wealth and power. I would promote a “gay agenda,” one that targeted fertility and the subsequent lowering of the birth rate. I would make children not know what gender they are; I would confuse them. I would destroy the centuries-old family unit that produced generations of Americans that became the most powerful nation on earth. A society that does not reproduce is a dying society. 3. I would promote the concept “toxic masculinity” and extremist feminism. What better way to make the society less masculine, less able to field a strong military?I would push to have as many women as possible in the armed forces. I would push to put women in frontline infantry units. I would make the military conduct societal experiments rather than focus on fielding the strongest armed forces possible — the most lethal, the most dangerous. I would make officers-in-training wear high heels to feel what is was like to be a woman. In short, I would feminize the male population, making it less effective in battle. 4. I would destroy the education system. I would plant Marxist professors throughout the university system, teaching new generations nothing about American history, but filling their heads full of communist propaganda. They would know nothing of Washington, Lincoln, or Jefferson, but of Malcolm X and Lenin. 5. I would divide the races. What better way, what better method of “dividing and conquering,” than to foster a race war, filling minorities’ heads full of lies of police brutality, and developing a culture of hate towards law enforcement? 6. I would corrupt the federal government. I would fill the intelligence and security services with traitors to the nation’s founding. When any political figure arose which threatened my diabolical agenda, I would use these corrupt agencies to target and frame any rising star who loved America, even if he was a duly-elected president of the United States. 7. I would take away the population’s means to defend itself - meaning, I would take away their guns. The fear of an armed population would stop any invasion. I would get rid of this problem. 8. I would destroy self-reliance and ingenuity by making over half of the population dependent on the government, unable to take care of themselves. 9. I would use big-tech to completely remove any viewpoints or ideas that were associated with the “old America.” I would ban them from the internet. Heck, I’d take over the internet. I would work with other tyrannical powers to develop internet censorship to eventually prevent any opposing views to be heard by anyone. 10. I would corrupt the nation’s leadership with money, finding those who would sell out the country for pieces of silver. I’d make sure they were strategically placed in powerful positions. I’d shell out money throughout the legislature to make sure no laws were passed that opposed my agenda. 11. I would promote the disrespect of the nation’s symbols. I would have people kneel during the national anthem, burn the flag, tear down statues of the nation’s history. I would make people hate the very fabric of the nation that gave them such wealth and power. 12. I would find a straw man, a country who is also a malicious adversary to America, though much less powerful, and I would focus all the negative energy and recriminations towards this straw man country. In this manner, the targeted nation would be ignorant of my true intentions. The regime that would promote all of this change in the targeted country would be the largest communist regime in the world. It would have a 100-year plan to destroy its enemies and become the dominant force on the planet. It would have millions of its own citizens in concentration camps. It would force abortions on women and the sterilization of those it didn’t want to reproduce within its own borders. Many of its workers would live as slaves, with a life of no meaning. Its factories would have suicide nets around the roofs to prevent these workers from killing themselves in despair. This nation would kill tens of thousands of its own citizens who dared stand up for a future of freedom. Everything I have written above is happening right now in front of your eyes. I’ll give you a hint - it’s not Russia.

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/21/2018 8:33:29 PM
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WHAT HAPPENED TO AL SHARPTON FOR THIS? MANAFORT SHOULD GET THE SAME PENALTY. "The New York Times reports that Sharpton and his for-profit business owe more than $4.5 million in unpaid taxes."

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/22/2018 9:07:04 AM
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Ignore the Noise, Mueller Still Has Nothing spectator.org August 22, 2018, 12:05 am Let him keep indicting and convicting ham sandwiches. Most Americans won’t care. For all of the media’s oohing and ahhing over Robert Mueller’s legal victories on Tuesday, his impeachment case remains hopelessly threadbare. In terms of his Department of Justice mandate, he has made no progress whatsoever. He is presiding over a “collusion” probe that has absolutely nothing to do with collusion. Let him keep indicting and convicting ham sandwiches. Most Americans won’t care. It just underscores the superfluous and abusive character of his probe. He is not compiling an air-tight legal case for impeachment; he is simply using abusive prosecutorial tactics to foment an anti-Trump political firestorm. Rod Rosenstein is the Dr. Frankenstein in this political horror show. He birthed a monster in Mueller, who is now rampaging through the streets of Manhattan in search of pre-presidential dirt. Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that all of his claims about Trump-Cohen corruption are true. Is that impeachable material? No, it is not. The American people voted for Trump knowing full well that his pre-presidential record was checkered. Does anybody really think the American people are going to rise up and demand that not only the House but most of the Senate expel Trump from the presidency over an alleged campaign finance violation that doesn’t bear in the slightest upon the collusion question? Mueller is expert at finding flaky witnesses. Cohen is his latest. His memories of conversations and meetings with Trump are no more reliable than Jim Comey’s. Cohen has given baldly contradictory accounts of his payments to Stormy Daniels. The notion that Trump could lose the presidency owing to the testimony of a sleazy casino lawyer strains all plausibility. Mueller’s report will culminate in nothing more than an epic political food fight — a mode of combat Trump has perfected. Through his relentless tweeting, Trump has thoroughly educated the American people on the raw politics of Mueller’s probe — that he inherited a hopelessly tainted investigation from Trump haters ensconced in the Obama administration, that Mueller assembled a team of Hillary supporters to continue the probe, and that he has abandoned his DOJ mandate for a partisan fishing expedition of staggering proportions. The unfairness of it all has not been lost on the American people. The media routinely calls Trump a “bully” even as it forms a mob encircling him, bellowing about this or that utterly trivial offense. None of it adds up to anything even close to impeachable material. From the fulminating, one would think that aforeign occupier had invaded Washington. Trump’s great crime was colluding not with Russians but with neglected American voters, with whom he ended the Clinton dynasty. While Hillary was waiting with bated breath for dirt from Russians conveyed to her British spy, Trump plunged into the American heartland, winning the election the old-fashioned way, by simply outhustling Hillary in places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. I just got back from the latter state. Not a single mechanic, trucker, or waitress I met in Pennsylvania ever showed the slightest bit of interest in Mueller’s probe. Most of them probably don’t even know who Mueller is. That the media is staking its demolition of Trump on this gray, little-known ruling-class darling is a measure of its alienation from the American people. They simply don’t care about Trump’s pre-presidential sins, political screw-ups, and minor law-bending, if that even occurred. Mueller is desperately trying to stitch together an impeachment case based on these thin threads. He struck out on collusion, then turned to obstruction of justice, only to realize that his star witness, Comey, is himself under investigation. So he resorted to a search for pre-presidential dirt and papered over the nothingness of his probe with indictments and convictions on matters far afield. Only members of the ruling class and media, who devote every waking moment to studying all things Trump at the granular level, could portray this probe as “momentous.” To most Americans, it remains a giant bore — an inside-the-Beltway parlor game of no particular interest to them or relevance to their lives. Trump on Tuesday night resumed his mockery of the probe, asking at a rally in West Virginia, “Where is the collusion? You know, they’re still looking for collusion! Where is the collusion? Find some collusion. We want to find the collusion.” Mueller called off that search a long time ago, shifting to a Cohen, rather than collusion, probe, to which the America people will ask upon the release of his report: Why are we supposed to care?

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/23/2018 9:31:12 PM
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ILLEGALS COMMIT MORE CRIMES, AND MORE SERIOUS CRIMES

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/24/2018 1:05:23 PM
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The Comey-Mueller ‘Cash In’ Revealed: Tag-Teamed ‘Billion-Dollar Boondoggle’ for Lockheed Martin and Were Paid Millions — DC Swamp ‘Choir Boys’ Spent Decades Building Surveillance State Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption, explained how former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government positions to enrich themselves. He joined Peter Schweizer, GAI president and Breitbart News senior editor-at-large, for a Wednesday interview with Sean Hannity. “This is a familiar story [about] the revolving door; turning public service into self service,” said Bruner. “We followed the money. We followed it to the top, and we found that these choir boys or boy scouts — as the media likes to depict them — James Comey and Robert Mueller, they’re really no better than anyone else in the swamp. They use their public service [and] their contacts and they cash in through the revolving door.” Bruner described Lockheed Martin’s — the country’s largest national defense and security contractor — hiring of James Comey in 2005 to the dual position of general counsel and senior vice president as unusual. Comey was 44 at the time and without requisite corporate experience. Listen to the discussions below: LOVERS MUELLER AND COMEY LOOK DEEPLY INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	8/27/2018 11:53:41 AM
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Schweizer Exposes More Joe Biden Corruption — It's 'Going to be a Central Issue' in 2020 BY TYLER O'NEIL AUGUST 27, 2018 pjmedia.com Rumors swirl that former Vice President Joe Biden will be a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Extremely early polls find strong support for him in his party. But investigative journalist and bestselling author Peter Schweizer has unearthed Biden's history of corruption, and that will prove a major issue in the upcoming election. "This is, I think, going to be a central issue" for 2020, Schweizer, best known for uncovering Hillary Clinton's corruption but also the author of the new book " Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends," told Fox News' Steve Hilton. Schweizer's book came out in March, but since then new evidence of the Biden family corruption has come to light. Schweizer told Hilton about a bank account unearthed in a New York conviction against Devon Hunter, a friend of the former vice president's son, Hunter Biden. "A bank account that Hunter Biden drew a lot of money from and that a lot of foreign entities put a lot of money into," the author noted. "Just to give you an idea, over a 14-month period, from 2014 through early 2016, while Joe Biden is Vice President of the United States, a Ukrainian company called Burisma — it's controlled by a very corrupt oligarch — sends three million dollars into this account." "A Chinese government entity called Bohai Harvest — which is run by the Bank of China — sends $650,000 into this account," Schweizer added. "There's $1.2 million that comes from an LLC with a small boutique Swiss bank. We don't know who's behind the LLC. The bank itself has been charged in six countries for money laundering, so that makes it kind of sketchy." How does this connect to Joe Biden? Not only was the elder Biden vice president at the time, but he was directly involved with the countries his son struck deals with. "If you look at the trajectory of Joe Biden as Vice President, he was essentially U.S. point person on Chinese policy, and he was widely criticized for going very soft on them as it related to the South China Sea," Schweizer said. "That’s at the same time his son is getting large checks from the Chinese government." "Joe Biden is also point person on U.S. policy towards Ukraine, at the same time that his son is getting large checks from the Ukrainian government. And he’s accused of looking the other way at fraudulent behavior and corruption in the government of Ukraine," the author added. Ouch. As Biden and Kerry Went Soft on China, Sons Made Nuclear, Military Business Deals with Chinese Gov't Even so, all the money is only going to Hunter Biden, right? Why does this implicate his father? "We’re all familiar with globalization and the phenomenon as it relates to the economy and corporations. Well, corruption is being globalized as well," Schweizer pointed out. With a more and more globalized economy, U.S. policy has a direct impact on other countries. Those countries "look for friends in Washington, and one of the best ways to make friends in Washington is to do deals with family members," he explained. He laid out how it works: "Joe Biden, every year he’s Vice President, he has to disclose his income. Assuming those disclosures are honest, he can’t have a big fat check from the Chinese government in that disclosure form. But this adult son, Hunter Biden? He doesn’t have to disclose anything." Schweizer's recent book is a must-read. The investigative journalist documented a great deal of corruption, but Joe Biden and Barack Obama came under the most scrutiny. Biden's son Hunter and John Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz both profitedfrom their father's soft policy towards China. Hunter Biden also reaped rewardsfrom his father's blind eye to Ukraine corruption. Obama's policies enriched his best friend — and now head of the Obama Foundation — Marty Nesbitt. Biden may pose a powerful threat to President Donald Trump in 2020. He appeals to many of the same blue-collar sentiments, and he has his own macho posturingagainst Trump. If Democrats choose Biden, however, they may face the same kind of fundamental weakness they experienced with Hillary Clinton. The skeletons in Biden's closet may not be as bad as those in Hillary's — but they are real, and very serious. Peter Schweizer has the story, and he won't stop telling it.

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	9/1/2018 9:21:27 PM
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Poll: 68% of Voters Believe Illegal Immigration ‘Major Problem,’ Feds Not Doing Enough - DEM PLATFORM: 'LET'S ABOLISH ICE' A Rasmussen Reports poll shows a majority of American voters — 68 percent — believe that illegal immigration is a “major problem.”

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	9/4/2018 1:04:42 PM
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Dow Drops 116 Points Because There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Growth SNIP: If the ISM is correct, then real gross-domestic-product growth could come in around 4.6% during the third quarter, explains MKM's Michael Darda, well above the Federal Reserve's estimate of real growth potential. The ninth year of an expansion is not when the Fed wants to see that kind of growth, Darda writes. "Expect sustained Fed tightening to continue unabated until we see a significant break in PMI momentum and, more importantly, the pace of payroll growth," Darda explains. "This is bullish for the dollar, but not for emerging markets/commodities, which are likely to continue facing strong headwinds (as was the case in the late 1990s)." The U.S. Dollar index has gained 0.5% to 95.588. barrons.com

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	9/5/2018 1:33:15 AM
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This looks more realistic than that IBD outlier. Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats 42% (+2) Republicans 40%@MorningConsult/@politico 8/28-31https://t.co/xfQbAVJsyx — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) September 5, 2018

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	10/18/2018 8:12:12 PM
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‘JAW-DROPPING’: THOUSANDS LINE UP IN COLD for President Trump Rally in Missoula, Montana – Photos and Video (Update: Cars Abandoned as Attendees Walk for Miles to Rally) October 18, 2018, 4:41 pm by Kristinn Taylor

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	10/18/2018 8:12:46 PM
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Krysten Sinema Shows Utter Disgust For Arizona in March 2018 Speech October 18, 2018, 3:29 pm by Kristinn Taylor

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	10/20/2018 3:00:11 AM
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RED TIDAL WAVE: 77,000 Sign Up for President Trump Rally for Ted Cruz in Houston at Venue That Fits 18,000 - FOX NEWS At least 77,000 people have signed up for President Trump’s Houston rally on Monday to support incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who is locked in the Texas Senate battle with Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke. ...

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	10/21/2018 2:33:54 PM
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UPDATE: Mexico Says There Are Up to 10,000 in the Caravan Heading for US Independent Sentinel

To: locogringo who wrote (212073)	10/22/2018 3:15:56 AM
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Trump supporters line up more than 24 hours ahead of Toyota Center rally chron.com By Nicole Hensley Updated 11:00 pm CDT, Sunday, October 21, 2018 Police set up barricades before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A Trump cut-out stands next to a tent selling the Trump Tweets book before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. Deejay Miller (left) kisses her fiancée Glenn Collins, Waco, Tx, as they stay warm hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. Lisa Brewer and her daughter-in-law Jami Brewer were the first in line, 10 a.m. Sunday, hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. Police set up barricades before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A large line of supports camp out hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A large line of supports camp out hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A large line of supports camp out hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A large line of supports camp out hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A covered parking meter on Austin Street before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. A City Work covers parking meter on Austin Street before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. See the road closures and parking areas in Downtown planned during President Donald Trump's rally in Houston Monday. Photo: Steve Gonzales, Staff Photographer Image 1 of 17 A large line of supporters camp out hours before President Donald Trump's rally Monday night at Toyota Center Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Houston. "I just got out of bed and ran down here," said Brewer, a freight logistics manager. "I didn't know people would be here right after me." Brewer and her daughter-in-law, Jami Brewer, will have spent more than 24 hours waiting in line with little to no shut-eye before Trump speaks. For Brewer, she said raising kids and taking care of grandchildren was good practice for staying awake. "We're not planning on sleeping," Brewer said. "Just the adrenaline alone will fuel us all." To prepare for Trump's first campaign visit to the region since snagging the presidency, police began barricading two blocks of streets surrounding the Toyota Center to vehicle traffic Sunday night. The streets are expected to remain closed until around 10:30 p.m. Monday. Leeland, Caroline, Capitol and Chartres have been designated as detours, according to police. Glen Collins and his fiancee, DeeJay Miller, are among the supporters flocking to the Houston area to see the president. The couple left their 5-month-old baby with a relative in Waco to see Trump stump for Cruz. After driving 180 miles, the couple planned to spend Sunday night at a Howard Johnson hotel along the Katy Freeway, but Collins took one look at the growing line on Crawford Street and called the reservation a wash. "We thought we'd get down here at 6 a.m., but when I drove down here to scout it out, I seen the line and I said 'We can't take our chances. We just gotta sit out here,'" said Collins. The unused booking made a $111.12 dent in the couple's finances, but it was no big deal to Collins. The 39-year-old tow truck wrecker attributed the extra cash in his paycheck to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Trump signed last year. "He's the one who gave me the money, so I'm alright with that. It's totally worth it," Collins said. Dozens of folding chairs that lined the sidewalk on Crawford Street remained empty as their owners took a break from the queue. Sitting outside all night was not an option for Air Force veteran Cheryl Henson, who recently underwent surgery undo the damage to her back for years of carrying service members on stretchers. "It just wrecked havoc on my spine," Henson said of her military service. A room at the Embassy Suites on Dallas Street was waiting for Henson for when she decides to step away. Her husband, Billy Henson, will watch their place in line. For Henson's husband, Trump was the draw to drive to Houston from Lake Jackson — not Cruz, who is leading the polls against Democratic state Rep. Beto O'Rourke in the contested November election. For the past month, Vice President Mike Pence, the president's children Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump have attended campaign events for Cruz, Trump's former political rival during the 2016 presidential election. "If there was a better Republican, I'd vote for them," Henson said. "But Cruz will work.