Heidi Cruz Likens Husband's Campaign to Efforts to End Slavery

Drawing a parallel between the long-term efforts of her husband's supporters and the fight to end slavery, Heidi Cruz said Tuesday that it took "a lot longer than four years" for the latter fight to be successful.

On a conference call with the campaign's National Prayer Team, Heidi Cruz portrayed Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, which ended a week ago, as one part of a broader journey similar to the abolition of slavery.

“I don’t want you to feel like any of this was in vain," Heidi Cruz said. "I believe in the power of prayer. This doesn’t always happen on the timing of man, and God does not work in four-year segments."

"Be full of faith and so full of joy that this team was chosen to fight a long battle," she continued. "Think that slavery — it took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years."

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Poll shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump neck and neck in Florida

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are running neck and neck in Florida, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll that finds Clinton with 43 percent support and Trump with 42 percent.

It looks like a Women are from venus, men are from Mars election: She leads Trump by 13 points among women, and he leads Clinton by 13 points among men.

Republicans’ weakness among minority voters is well known. But the reason this race is so close overall is Clinton’s historic weakness among white men. In Florida, she is getting just 25 percent from white men,” Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Poll.

Quinnipiac's April 27 through May 8 telephone poll also surveyed likely voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio, finding Clintin leading 43 to 42 percent in Pennsylvania, and Trump leading Ohio 43 percent to 39 percent. The margin of error in each poll was plus or minus 3 percent.

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South Carolina News - 5/10/2016

Duke Energy to construct $55M power facility on Duke University campus

DURHAM — Duke Energy has announced plans to construct a 21-megawatt power facility on Duke University’s campus, which would use waste heat from generating electricity to produce thermal energy and steam.

The facility — a natural gas combined heat and power plant — is subject to approval by the North Carolina Utilities Commission under a 35-year agreement and is estimated to cost $55 million. If approved, the plant is expected to start operations in 2018.

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“This partnership will provide value for Duke University and will accelerate our progress towards climate neutrality,” Duke University’s executive vice president Tallman Trask said in a statement. “By combining steam and electricity generation systems, we can increase efficiency and reduce our overall consumption by millions of units of energy each year, and have a positive effect on the community at large.”

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NAACP calls for full federal investigation of Harnett County Sheriff’s Office

Lillington -- The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has asked U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to send federal officials to Harnett County to protect residents from the deputies sworn to protect them.

The NAACP cites an News & Observer investigation, “Deadly Force,” in its request for federal intervention. The series highlighted several incidents in which residents say they have been battered or harassed by Harnett sheriff's deputies. Two men died; others have been shot with Tasers, sprayed with toxic pepper spray, punched and kicked.

“This means the problem is systematic,” Rev. William J. Barber II, state president of the NAACP, told a crowd of media and relatives of those who lost loved ones at the hands of Harnett County law enforcement. The NAACP held a press conference at the county courthouse in Lillington Monday morning.

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Family members of some victims stood behind Barber as he spoke. Dolly Griggs, mother of Christian Griggs, told the crowd that her son’s 2013 death was covered up by Harnett deputies. A cousin of Brandon Bethea, who died after being shot with a Taser by a Harnett detention officer while being held in the jail in March 2011, broke into tears as she tried to explain how he was left to die in a cell. Carmen Cardwell, the sister-in-law of John Livingston, told the crowd that Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Kehagias had not been punished for killing Livingston.

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