by Matt Taibbi Real Clear Politics March 9, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at Virginia Wesleyan University in Norfolk, Virginia Samuel Corum/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A former aide to Bernie Sanders tells a story about the old days, when the little-known House Independent used to crisscross Vermont holding town hall […]
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RIEGLE EMERGES FROM HIDING, JOINS BERNIE AT FLINT’S BALLENGER FIELDHOUSE
By Roberto Acosta MLive/Flint Journal March 9, 2020 FLINT, MI – Bernie Sanders was like a returning rock star Saturday night during a town hall on the campus of Mott Community College. “It’s great to be back here in Flint,” the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate told the crowd of roughly 1,200 supporters waving […]
DID GENDER SINK DEMOCRATIC WOMEN IN 2020? NOPE.
Warren, Klobuchar, Harris, Gillibrand: ALL GONE! Elizabeth Warren is a disrupter at a time when many voters are exhausted by Donald Trump and looking for salve. That is why the odds are on Joe Biden. Jill Lawrence March 7, 2020 USA TODAY Gone are the women, the black candidates, the Hispanic candidate, the gay candidate. The Democrats […]
WILL BIDEN KICK IT AWAY?
By Patrick J. Buchanan Real Clear Politics March 7, 2020 Share Pat’s Columns: Friday – March 5, 2020 “All in all, a triumphal week for Biden, who racked up 11 state primary victories. Before last Saturday, he had not won a single primary in three presidential campaigns. But if earlier reports of the demise of […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #93 — Interviews with state Senator Curt VanderWall (R-Ludington), state Rep. Sheryl Kennedy (D-Davison), John Couvillon of JMC Enterprises & Vanguard’s Jen Eyer
PODCAST: Prez Primary Prestidigitation/Work Requirement Repulsed/Mass Transit Meltdown
Whiplash for political junkies trying to keep track of what MI Prez Primary will really be about. Despite all the drop-outs in the past 72 hours, will we actually be the state that decides whether it’s Bernie or Joe? Judge strikes down “work requirement” for Medicaid recipients. MI House Speaker Chatfield (R-Levering) pulls plug on […]
DEMOCRATS EXECUTE A SHOCKINGLY COORDINATED PIVOT
A FRACTIOUS PARTY UNITES By Jim Newell Real Clear Politics March 4, 2020 It worked. Joe Biden used his resounding South Carolina primary victory on Saturday night to quickly knock out—and earn the endorsements of—two rivals, coalescing the other center-left candidates around his candidacy just in time for Super Tuesday. Center-left voters wary of a […]
SLATE: WE’LL MISS ‘MAYOR PETE’
by William Saletan SLATE online On Sunday night, Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, dropped out of the presidential race. With each passing week, he had lost ground—first in Iowa, second in New Hampshire, third in Nevada, fourth in South Carolina—and he was facing a grim landscape on Super Tuesday. Many […]
THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT’S ULTIMATUM: SCUTTLE BERNIE!
By Patrick J. Buchanan March 3, 2020 Share Pat’s Columns: Tuesday – March 3, 2019 “Of what is the establishment terrified? That if Sanders is nominated, Donald Trump will crush him in November. And not only will the White House be lost, all hopes of winning the Senate and blocking Trump’s second-term Supreme Court nominees […]
KLOBUCHAR DROPS OUT — AND THE ‘STOP BERNIE’ MOVEMENT IS NOW OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY
Just one day after Pete Buttigieg made his own primary exit, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced that she, too, is ending her presidential run. She is reportedly planning to endorse Joe Biden at his Dallas rally later tonight (Monday). Despite consistently low polling numbers, Klobuchar and her message of electability outlasted a crowded field of […]