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The big question now is where the Democratic primary goes from here. According to The New York Times, Biden has extended his delegate lead to nearly 300 delegates, with another 75 still to be awarded from Tuesday’s primaries. Around 40 of those are from Florida, where Biden currently has more than 60%. And at this point…

Trump finally seems to kinda sorta understand that he can’t make coronavirus go away by pretending it doesn’t exist, though that doesn’t mean he’s not trying. “Just stay calm—it will go away,” he said Tuesday. (It will not.) He also continued to talk up “what we’ve done with tax cuts and regulation cuts and all…

Since the coronavirus emerged in China, the Trump administration’s response has been focused largely on massaging Donald Trump’s ego. Trump did not want virus concerns to disrupt the stock market, so Trump played down those concerns. Trump went further, claiming that those warning of the virus’ danger were partisans whose only aim was to damage him. Public officials…

“There’s no question that the notion of a female V.P. is used as a strategy and I think that’s a little bit sexist,” Jennifer Lawless, the Commonwealth professor of politics at the University of Virginia, told The New York Times. “It’s sort of like an ‘insert woman here’ kind of conversation.” The women whose names The Times cites…

The plans being contemplated are, of course, the things that the authoritarian-minded Trump team either has been promising or has been trying to do all along, but that were so radical and/or illegal that even a Republican Senate willing to cover up international extortion would have never gone along with them. Trump has been threatening…

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Six states are voting Tuesday, and their results will show whether Super Tuesday’s massive Biden surge continues—and possibly all but ends the primary—or whether this race has another realignment left in it. Sen. Bernie Sanders needs to show some strength this week, or he’ll face a major delegate deficit heading…

Campaign Action As the sitting governor, Bullock has already won two hard-fought elections in 2012 and 2016, and he had a strong approval rating in the few available polls. Bullock is also starting with very high name recognition and should be able to raise ample money, making him a far more imposing challenger than the…

x Voter turnout last night vs. 2016: Virginia +23%South Carolina +21%North Carolina +20%Texas + 27%Tennessee + 19%Maine +17%Alabama +22%Oklahoma +16%Colorado +12% America is itching to get Trump out. — Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) March 4, 2020 Of those, Sanders won only Colorado. If there’s anyone expanding the electorate, it’s Biden. Ironic, I know. I would’ve never…

In the conversation, Hannity begins by asking Trump about the lethality of COVID-19, with Hannity mentioning a number of 3.4%. This value is essentially the worldwide case fatality rate (CFR): The number of 3,285 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus divided by the 96,600 confirmed cases, gives a global CFR of 3.4%. That number is currently dominated…