Cruz Wins Texas and Oklahoma Primaries, Trump Captures Georgia, Virginia and Other States

National   |   Steven Ertelt   |   Mar 1, 2016   |   10:56PM   |   Washington, DC

Super Tuesday tonight belonged to two candidates with pro-life Senator Ted Cruz capturing Texas and Oklahoma and businessman Donald Trump, running as a pro-life candidate, winning a handful of states — including Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Massachusetts.

After tonight’s elections, the Republican Party remains bitterly divided between the pro-Trump and anti-Trump fractions.

Trump supporters point to the massive delegate lead Trump has and the number of states he’s won as proof that  his nomination is inevitable and that Republican voters ought to get on board and support the eventual nominee. Trump opponents say the candidates running against Trump can amass enough delegates after the Ohio and Florida primary elections to prevent Trump from having enough delegates needed to capture the nomination and they point to a brokered convention or one or more candidates supporting a unity candidate to deny Trump the GOP nod.

For pro-life voters, the number one agenda remains getting a pro-life president in the White House to help put in a pro-life-friendly justice in the Supreme Court to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, to sign pro-life legislation like the 20-week abortion ban and to sign a bill defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. That means finding a nominee who i able to defeat pro-abortion Hillary Clinton, who captured 6 more primary and caucus states tonight on her way to the Democratic nomination.

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When it comes to the pro-life views of the Republican candidates, each of them compare favorably to the extreme pro-abortion views Clinton holds.

Recently, for the first time, Trump specifically promised he would sign a bill as president to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Trump has repeatedly indicated he opposes Planned Parenthood funding but has always stopped short of committing to sign legislation to stop the flow of taxpayer funds to the nation’s biggest abortion business.

In a new interview with David Brody of CBN, Trump made that promise. Although his promise will go a long way towards reassuring pro-life voters he would implement specific pro-life policy on abortion as president, Trump continued to praise Planned Parenthood — following up on his “good things” and “wonderful work” comments that have turned off some pro-life voters.

Meanwhile, Trump said he thinks the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that ushered in an era of 48 million abortions was “wrongly decided.” Trump said he would appoint “very good judges” who would ultimately “change it” but he opposed Roe without specifically saying it should be overturned.

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Ted Cruz is one of the pro-life candidates seeking the GOP nod to take on pro-abortion Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Cruz has a long pro-life track record in office and it’s one he says in a new video he will continue as president.

“A candidate that can’t be trusted to protect the right to life can’t be trusted to protect any of our other God-given rights either. When you look at the voting records of politicians…if they’re bad on life, they’re always — I repeat always — bad on everything else, too,” Cruz says in the new video.

“As president of the United States, I pledge to you that I will do everything within my power to end the scourge of abortion once and for all. That I will use the full constitutional power and the bully pulpit of the presidency to promote a culture of life,” Cruz continues. “That I will sign any legislation put on my desk to defend the least of these, including legislation that defends the rights of all persons, without exception other than the life of the mother, from conception to natural death. That I will not only defund Planned Parenthood, but I will instruct the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood and to prosecute any and all criminal conduct which those videos that we saw from the Center for Medical Progress so powerfully evidenced.”

“Everything I just pledged to you should be an automatic requirement for any prospected president who takes an oath of office before an all-powerful God to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution,” Cruz adds.

During last week’s Republican presidential debate, pro-life Florida Sen. Marco Rubio laid out his agenda for the kind of nation he wants to see and one he will try to lead the country to if elected president. And Rubio clearly wants a pro-life nation.

Our culture’s in trouble. Wrong is considered right and right is considered wrong.

All the things that once held our families together are now under constant assault. And around the world, America’s reputation is in decline. Our allies don’t trust us, our adversaries don’t fear us, Iran captures our sailors and parades them before the world on video.

These are difficult times but 2016 can be a turning point. That’s why I’m running for president and that’s why I’m here today to ask you for your vote. If you elect me president, we are going to re- embrace free enterprise so that everyone can go as far as their talent and their work will take them.

We are going to be a country that says that, “life begins at conception and life is worthy of the protection of our laws.” We are going to be a country that says, “the constitution and the rights that it talks about do not come from our president, they come from our creator.”

During the debate, Rubio also talked about the passing of pro-life Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Rubio pointed out the importance of the Supreme Court in light of the passing of pro-life Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. His death underscores the importance for electing a pro-life president — as the next president will appoint at least one and likely multiple judges to the nation’s highest court — judges who will set the future for abortion in the Untied States.

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