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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 20:57:05 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Joe Biden wins Arkansas Democratic primaryJoe Biden has won Arkansas’s Democratic primary, the Associated Press reports, as the incumbent president piles up the wins on this Super Tuesday. Alabama voters choose Trump, BidenThe Associated Press has called the presidential primaries in Alabama, and no surprises are to be had: Joe Biden is the choice of the state’s Democrats, and Donald Trump the pick of Republicans. Donald Trump wins Massachusetts's GOP primaryDonald Trump has won Massachusetts’s Republican primary, the Associated Press reports.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 20:58:56 GMT -5
(The Guardian) On a rainy Super Tuesday in Oakland, California, voters trickled sparingly into polling stations throughout the afternoon. Analysts have projected California may have the weakest primary turnout in the state’s history, with one estimate as low as 29%. Polling stations in the East Oakland, Fruitvale, and Rockridge neighborhoods saw slow foot traffic throughout the day. One Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) survey found that fewer than four in ten California voters identified as “enthusiastic” about voting for President or Congress members this election year, a sentiment echoed by those at the polls Tuesday. “I’m not excited about any of the issues, I just needed to take a walk today so I decided to drop off my ballot,” said Daniel, a 50-year-old voter who declined to share his last name. “Just doing my civic duty, I guess.” The low turnout comes even as dramatic headlines claim Oakland is at a breaking point regarding crime and public safety, with California governor Gavin Newsom deploying California Highway Patrol officers into Oakland in February to crack down on rising rates of property crime. Chris Moore, a candidate for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, said such issues caused him to run for office for the first time this year. He said his background in auditing positions him well to examine how the city’s budget is being used to address crime and homelessness. “I’m a non-career politician, I got into this race because everybody is tired of a lot of the chaos going on in Oakland,” he said, standing outside a polling station in Oakland’s neighborhood of Rockridge. “We don’t feel safe in this community anymore, small businesses are being chased out. People are afraid to come to Oakland.”
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:09:20 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Polls close in Colorado, Minnesota, far west TexasIt’s 9pm ET, which means polls have closed in Colorado and Minnesota, as well as Texas’s far west counties, which are on mountain time. We’ll see if Joe Biden and Donald Trump continue their romp of the respective Democratic and Republican primaries in these states. We’ll also be keeping an eye out for signs that the “uncommitted” campaign has sapped support for Biden, particularly in Minnesota, where its organizers are making a stand. Trump, Biden triumph in TexasDonald Trump has won Texas’s Republican primary, the Associated Press reports, giving him a crucial victory in the state with the second-highest number of delegates up for grabs tonight. Joe Biden was the pick of the state’s Democrats, according to the AP. After Texas, the state with the most delegates is California, where polls close at 11pm ET.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:10:19 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Haley has tiny lead over Trump in Vermont with third of votes countedIf Nikki Haley has any chance of winning a state tonight, it’s in Vermont. The former governor of South Carolina, who has notched loss after loss in the primaries so far, is currently locked in a tight race in Vermont. With just over a third of votes counted, Haley has a tiny lead over Donald Trump, who has won every other state that is voting tonight. In Vermont, Haley may benefit from its open primary and high numbers of independent voters in her long-shot quest to undermine Trump. Vermont Public Radio also interviewed Democrats who were voting for Haley: Haley’s chances Tuesday hinge on turnout by Democrats such as Brandon resident Wyatt Waterman. Waterman, who held a Nikki Haley sign he made himself before the rally, said he’s willing to support a candidate whose ideology veers substantially from his in a primary, so long as that vote has the potential to undermine Trump’s electoral success. “I’ve never seen democracy threatened by fascism so much in my entire life,” Waterman said. “This is not how I want to leave it for the generations following us, so I’m taking what time and resources I have to stand up to this tyranny.”
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:25:11 GMT -5
(The Guardian) In California, homelessness is a central issue in 2024 elections. A Public Policy Institute of California survey finding four in ten Californians say economic conditions and homelessness are the top issues for governor Gavin Newsom and the legislature to work on in the coming year. One measure on the ballot Tuesday seeks to address the homelessness crisis by redirecting some mental health funding toward supportive housing and mental health treatment beds. Proposition 1, backed by Newsom, is opposed by disability rights groups because it helps fund “locked door facilities” for mental health treatment, and works with other measures to force people experiencing mental crises into treatment and institutions. Despite what the polls say, experts say that the low turnout makes results difficult to predict, and “strange” outcomes more likely, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Unexpected things are more likely to happen when you have these lower turnout elections,” political analyst Paul Mitchell told the Chronicle. “It’s really easy to predict what’s going to happen when it’s 100% turnout, because you can just look at the numbers and say, ‘OK, this is what’s gonna happen, but when it’s a quarter of that turnout, small changes in turnout for different populations can really distort outcomes.”
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:31:40 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Joe Biden wins Minnesota Democratic primaryJoe Biden has won Minnesota’s Democratic primary, the Associated Press reports. The president’s victory is no surprise, but it’s worth noting that Minnesota is one of the states where supporters of the campaign to vote “uncommitted”, in protest of his support for Israel’s invasion of Gaza, were hoping to rack up big numbers. We’ll tell you more about that in a second.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:36:42 GMT -5
Current Democratic delegate count Joe Biden, 851 delegates Uncommitted, 48 delegates Dean Phillips, 39 delegates Marianne Williamson, 22 delegates
Current Republican primary count Donald Trump, 429 delegates Nikki Haley, 121 delegates
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:37:53 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Minnesotans vote 'uncommitted' to send anti-war messageVoters in Minneapolis turned out on Tuesday to send an anti-war protest message to Joe Biden, voting “uncommitted” on the state’s Democratic ballot instead of bubbling in Biden’s name. Imam Hassan Jama voted for, campaigned for and endorsed Biden in 2020, but didn’t vote for him on Tuesday because he is disappointed at Biden’s inaction on a ceasefire in Gaza. “Hopefully we’ll send a strong message from Minnesota to White House,” he said. “And if they don’t listen, November is coming.” Jama said he wouldn’t vote for Trump in November, but wouldn’t vote for Biden without a ceasefire. There are more than two choices for president, including not voting for either major party candidate, he said. Khalid Omar is a Minneapolis voter who has been spreading the word to the community to vote uncommitted by calling, texting, knocking on doors, going on social media. He said the uncommitted vote was the “best way to practice democracy” to get the Biden administration to listen to Democratic voters who want a permanent ceasefire. Morally, he said, sitting at home and watching the atrocities committed in Gaza was not an option. Voting uncommitted gave him a way to further drive the message for a ceasefire. “I’m not going to be sitting out this November, I’m going to vote,” Omar said. “And I’m going to vote (for) the person that is going to make sure to create a path for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.” Ruth Schultz, a Minneapolis voter, was inspired by Michigan’s uncommitted vote and started reaching out to people she organized within a group called MN Families for Palestine. She saw the vote as a way to show the Biden administration how many registered Democrats want a ceasefire, pressuring him to be accountable to that base of people. She said she probably would not have voted in the Minnesota presidential primary if there wasn’t an uncommitted campaign. In November, it’s a “given” that she won’t vote for Trump, but she wants to see Biden move on a ceasefire. “I want to see President Biden take a stronger stance for peace and how to get a ceasefire and to use all the tools at his disposal in order to do that,” she said. “I am watching that as a voter in the general election. I believe that there is the ability and time for him to be a stronger leader in this arena.”
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:44:33 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Ted Cruz has easily won Texas’s Republican Senate primary. The big question is who will face off against Cruz in November. Democrats are seeking to flip the seat, which Cruz has held since 2013. Currently, US representative Colin Allred, a former NFL player and three-term congressman, is leading in the Democratic primary over state senator Roland Gutierrez. Either of them will have an uphill battle in November. No Democrat has won a statewide office in Texas in 30 years, but after Cruz won with a narrow margin in 2018, Democrats believe he could be vulnerable. A victory in Texas would be a boon in their quest to maintain their narrow majority in the Senate.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 21:51:04 GMT -5
Current Democratic delegate count Joe Biden, 958 delegates Uncommitted, 55 delegates Dean Phillips, 44 delegates Marianne Williamson, 26 delegates
Current Republican delegate count Donald Trump, 489 delegates Nikki Haley, 138 delegates
States remaining -Utah, 10pm ET -California, 11pm ET -Alaska, 12am ET
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 22:06:28 GMT -5
(The Guardian) The Minnesota congressman running against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary lost his home state on Tuesday, capping off a stretch of poor showings. Dean Phillips, who represents a wealthier suburban area outside Minneapolis, entered the Democratic race seemingly against his will and against the advice of most of his Democratic colleagues. The congressman, who first took office in 2019, first tried to recruit more prominent Democrats to challenge Biden, publicly saying the president needed to let the next generation lead the party. Phillips alluded to potentially dropping out of the race on Tuesday, saying on X (formerly Twitter) that he would be “making decisions over the coming days” on how he could best fulfill his mission to ensure Trump loses the election. He also allowed that he could drop out if asked nicely, saying his wife “has always found I respond better to honey than vinegar when she asks me to drop something. Just sayin … ” He then congratulated all the people – or the lack of a person, in the case of the uncommitted vote – who had beaten him at the polls.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 22:21:06 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Donald Trump expected to deliver remarks as he routs Nikki Haley in Super Tuesday statesDonald Trump is expected to in a few minutes speak from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, as voters in Super Tuesday states hand him win after win. The former president has won every state whose race has been called tonight so far, including Texas, which has the second-biggest number of delegates up for grabs after California. Only in Vermont is Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor who is the last major challenger remaining for the Republican presidential nomination, putting up much of a fight. Polls closed in that state three hours ago, but the race still has not been called. Joe Biden wins Utah's Democratic primaryJoe Biden has won the Democratic primary in Utah, the Associated Press reports. Polls closed there about 15 minutes ago.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 22:24:53 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Joe Biden is projected to lose a primary … in American Samoa. The president has swept every primary today, except in this US territory. A little known candidate called Jason Palmer has snagged the lead, according to the local Democratic party. Palmer, an educational technology entrepreneur, won 51 of the territory’s 91 delegates, while Biden won 40. His win will have little bearing on the general election, in which American Samoa residents are also not eligible to vote. Still, Biden’s loss in the territory marks the first time an incumbent president has lost a primary contest in a good long while.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 22:25:31 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 22:28:20 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Trump bashes Biden on border in victory speechDonald Trump is speaking at a watch party at his private club, Mar-a-Lago. “Our cities are being overrun by migrant crime,” Trump said, repeating nativist lines that have become a refrain of his campaign. He celebrated his wins in the Super Tuesday primaries today, saying there has “never been anything like this”. Biden slams Trump as focused on 'revenge and retribution' as Super Tuesday results propel both men towards rematchJoe Biden assailed Donald Trump in a statement released by his campaign, saying the former president would “take us backwards” if he returns to the White House. The president’s comments came as both men appear on track for a rematch in November’s general election, after winning almost every single state that has voted in the nominating process thus far. “Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Are we going to keep moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backwards into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office?” Biden said. He continued: “If Donald Trump returns to the White House, all of this progress is at risk. He is driven by grievance and grift, focused on his own revenge and retribution, not the American people. He is determined to destroy our democracy, rip away fundamental freedoms like the ability for women to make their own health care decisions, and pass another round of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy — and he’ll do or say anything to put himself in power. Today, millions of voters across the country made their voices heard — showing that they are ready to fight back against Donald Trump’s extreme plan to take us backwards.
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