One Republican candidate after the other ditched the Republican National Committee’s loyalty pledge Tuesday night. All three did so on national television, appearing on CNN’s primetime town hall. The three candidates varied in clarity in their answers. Trump was quite direct, telling moderator Anderson Cooper, “No. I don’t anymore.” Cruz and […]
The Clinton campaign has agreed to a debate in New York, a day after it said that there would be no further debates unless Senator Bernie Sanders “goes back to the kind of tone he said he was going to set early on.” Speaking on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, […]
In Pennsylvania, Democrats sense an opportunity to defeat Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) who was elected as part of the Tea Party wave in 2010. There are three major Democratic candidates lining up for an opportunity to take on Toomey in November, Braddock Mayor John Fetterman, former Secretary of Environmental Protection […]
On Saturday evening, New York Times columnist Nick Kristof published a column criticizing the media for helping lead to the rise of Donald Trump. Of the media, Kristof writes, “We were lap dogs, not watchdogs.” Kristof attributes this to three major failures on the part of the media. First, the […]
[UPDATE, 8:46 AM]: Senator Bernie Sanders has won the Hawaii caucus with 70% of the vote. Sanders has swept all three of Saturday’s contests. — Senator Bernie Sanders won the Alaska and Washington caucuses on Saturday. If he were to win the Hawaii caucus (see update), he will have had […]
