MORNING MESSAGE
The
mainstream media used the Clinton victory in South Carolina to start posting
funeral notices for the Sanders campaign. In reality, Sanders is still building.
He’s still introducing himself to various parts of the country, and to
constituencies beyond the white left. His message has such power that Clinton
has chosen to recycle parts of it.
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BERNIE SEEKS RENEWED MOMENTUM
Bernie
Sanders sees path after Super Tuesday. Politico: “Their best-case Super
Tuesday scenario looks like this … Sanders wins Colorado, Minnesota,
Massachusetts, and Oklahoma — four states where he’s invested in television
advertising. Then he blows out Clinton in Vermont, and keeps it close in
Virginia … Sanders would be able to claim widespread support from every region
in the country, not just Southern, red states like Clinton.”
Bernie
stumps in Colorado: “Mr. Sanders was on friendly ground at [Colorado State
University’s] Moby Arena, which was near its 8,745 capacity in a state that’s
thought to still be in play for him on Super Tuesday.”
Clinton
and Sanders in Massachusetts today. Boston.com: “Recent Massachusetts polls
show the two Democratic candidates within the margin of error ahead of Tuesday’s
primary.”
DNC
Vice-Chair Rep. Tulsi Gabbard steps down to endorse Bernie. Politico quotes:
“I could no longer stand on the sidelines as elections are taking place to
determine who our potential next commander in chief could be.”
AFL-CIO
may start Super PAC. NYT: “The hope would be to mobilize voters around
issues of importance to labor as much as around candidates.”
More
candidates embrace campaign finance reform, notes Reclaim the American Dream’s
Hedrick Smith: “…the germ of political reform has spread far beyond Bernie.
It has taken root in the rhetoric of Republicans Donald Trump [and] John
Kasich … as well as with the Wall Street-connected Democratic establishment
candidate Hillary Clinton. Among the major contenders, only conservative
Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have so far resisted the reform bug.”
GOP IMPLODING
Trump
tears GOP apart. W. Post: “More splintering came late Sunday when freshman
Sen. Ben Sasse …declared on Twitter that if the reality TV star is nominated, he
will ‘look for some 3rd candidate’ … Some Republican leaders, however, are
making far different calculations. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
enthusiastically endorsed Trump…”
TNR’s
Brian Beutler lays out the challenge for the conservative movement: “The
movement has thrived on the impression that it was the institutional and
well-heeled face of a vast grassroots composed of committed, principled,
ideological voters, which allowed it to take over the party. Trump’s nomination
would demonstrate that the movement was founded upon illusions—that it’s unable
to shape campaigns, and that it represents an electorate that is actually more
demagogic than philosophical.”
Sen.
Jeff Sessions endorses Trump reports Time.
Trump
wobbles on David Duke support on NBC’s Today: “I’m sitting in a house in
Florida, with a very bad earpiece that they gave me, and you could hardly hear
what he was saying.”
W.
Post Fact Checker scorches Trump University: “‘I’ll tell you about the
school. It had an A rating from the Better Business Bureau …’ … Trump said …
Actually, the BBB rated Trump University a D- … Trump University appears to have
been a classic bait-and-switch operation, designed to lure people into paying
increasing sums of money.”
Rubio
hopes to survive with a solid second. Politico: “Rubio employed a similar
suburban strategy in South Carolina to some success. He bested Trump in
Charleston County and in Richland County with 27.9 percent of the vote in those
areas. He gained no delegates there though.”
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