The states voting: California, with 415 delegates Texas, with 228 North Carolina, with 110 Virginia, with 99 Massachusetts, with 91 Minnesota, with 75 Colorado, with 67 Tennessee, with 64 Alabama, with 52 Oklahoma, with 37 Arkansas, with 31 Utah, with 29 Maine, with 24 Vermont, with 16 Democrats abroad, with 13 American Samoa, with 6…
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Nashville takes direct hit from tornadoes; at least nine confirmed dead as state prepares to vote
Tennessee state officials have announced that “all polling stations will remain open.” However, it’s unclear just how many of those polling stations were themselves either destroyed or made unsafe, or are inaccessible due to the storms. Also, more than 50,000 people in the city remained without power on Tuesday morning, suggesting that other polling stations…
Democratic candidates have a few things to say about Trump’s coronavirus response
Warren, too, hit Pence’s role hard, describing him as “actively disqualified” because of his HIV outbreak history. “This vice president has dealt with a public health emergency before, in Indiana,” she said. “And what was his approach? It was to put politics over science and let a serious virus expand in his state and cost…
Trump didn’t just hand off the coronavirus epidemic to Pence—he lied about the threat to Americans
This is an accurate transcript of a small portion of Trump’s press event. See if you can discover the true number of coronavirus cases in the United States from listening to what he told the public. Uh, as most of you know, uh, the … the level that we’ve had in our country is very…
Morning Digest: Louisiana congressman is the latest House Republican to call it quits in 2020
Campaign Action Abraham first won his seat in 2014 by defeating incumbent GOP Rep. Vance McAllister, who had won an upset in a 2013 special election but had quickly found himself embroiled in scandal after he was caught on security camera tape passionately making out with a staffer who was not his wife. Under pressure…
Sanders expected to come under fierce attack at Tuesday debate, but can Bloomberg pull it off?
Bloomberg isn’t expected to be the only candidate trying to break Sanders’ momentum. Sanders has been largely immune from serious attacks to this point, but that time seems to be over. Former Vice President Joe Biden is also signaling plans to challenge Sanders, and Warren may also sharpen her thus-far-mild criticisms of Sanders. That Sanders’ dedicated base…
If impeachment was bad politics for House Democrats, American voters sure don’t know it
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nearly six in 10 Americans say that the U.S. representative in their congressional district deserves to be reelected, the highest level of such sentiment recorded by Gallup since 2012. While only 35% similarly say that most members of Congress deserve reelection (as opposed to their own member), that’s also a higher…
Morning Digest: Former Hawaii congresswoman enters what could be a crowded race for Honolulu mayor
Campaign Action Hanabusa has a long history in Hawaii politics, though she lost two high-profile primaries during the last decade. Hanabusa gave up her House seat representing the 1st District, which includes just over 70% of Honolulu, in 2014 to challenge appointed Sen. Brian Schatz, a campaign she very narrowly lost. Fellow Democrat Mark Takai…
It’s sentencing day for Roger Stone, but is it also the day we bid a final farewell to justice?
Trump already spent this week giving a middle finger to justice by looking down the list to find the most corrupt people in America and give them pardons—or at least the most corrupt people in America who also wrote him a minimum six-figure check. It was clear that Trump’s pardon-a-thon was just an extension of the absolute…
Eight takeaways from the Nevada Democratic primary debate (No. 1: Warren won)
Absolutely brutal. But it wasn’t just Bloomberg on the receiving end of her sharp, piercing wit—it was pretty much everyone. Check out how she took out everyone’s healthcare plan in one fell swoop, leaving the rest of the field in one disjointed, noisy, muddled mess. It was a master class in debating. Just the way…