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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 22:39:39 GMT -5
(The Guardian) The uncommitted vote in Minnesota, the state after Michigan with the most concerted organizing around the protest vote, has gotten about 14% support so far, though only about one-fourth of ballots have been counted. More than 100,000 people voted uncommitted in Michigan about a week ago, and in Minnesota, activists worked to call, text, door-knock, post online and rally around the movement that seeks to pressure Joe Biden for a permanent ceasefire. During the heavily contested Democratic primary in 2020, the uncommitted option received 2,612 votes, or 0.35% of that year’s ballots. However, the state switched from a caucus model to a presidential primary in 2020, making comparisons to previous years difficult. Other Super Tuesday states quickly spread the word to vote for options similar to uncommitted. In Massachusetts, about 9% of votes went to “no preference” so far. In North Carolina, about 12% of votes counted so far went toward no preference. Colorado had a “noncommitted delegate” option that could get traction, too. After the Michigan vote, Kamala Harris came out in support of a six-week temporary ceasefire, which organizers saw as a response to the uncommitted showing. Minnesota organizers say they want a permanent ceasefire and that the pressure campaign is clearly working to move the White House on the issue. “I saw that as an encouragement to keep going and that it is a successful tactic in order to achieve the goals that we’ve been pushing for since the beginning, since October,” said Ruth Schultz, a Minneapolis voter who organized with MN Families for Palestine around the uncommitted vote. Biden’s campaign acknowledged the movement, with campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt telling the New York Times on Tuesday that “the president hears the voters participating in the uncommitted campaigns. He shares their goal for an end to the violence and a just, lasting peace – and he’s working tirelessly to that end.”
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:00:15 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Nikki Haley wins Vermont Republican primary, notching first state victory against TrumpNikki Haley has finally won a state: Vermont, where the Associated Press reports she beat out Donald Trump. The former president has won every other state that has voted in the Republican nomination process thus far, though Haley did manage to win Sunday’s primary in Washington DC. Haley nonetheless will be under immense pressure to drop out if she cannot repeat her victory in the states whose Republican primaries have not been called tonight, namely California and Alaska.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:10:35 GMT -5
Current Democratic delegate count Joe Biden, 957 delegates Uncommitted, 82 delegates Dean Phillips, 44 delegates Marianne Williamson, 34 delegates
Current Republican delegate count Donald Trump, 465 delegates Nikki Haley, 162 delegates
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:11:30 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Trump's victory speech doubles down on nativist message“We have millions of people invading our country” through the southern border, Donald Trump said in his victory speech from Mar-a-Lago in Florida this evening. “This is an invasion. This is the worst invasion probably.” As he did at his recent speech from the US-Mexico border, Trump began pulling numbers out of the air to build up his anti-immigrant message. “The number today could be 15 million people. And they’re coming from rough places and dangerous places,” he said. As border security increasingly becomes a top issues for voters, Trump has doubled down on this message – just as he did in his 2016 campaign. Border crossings have been at or close to record highs since Joe Biden took office. Biden, who has been on the defensive on this issue, has tried to point out that Republicans tanked efforts to pass bipartisan immigration reform in congress – after Trump told them not to give the president a policy win. Trump, meanwhile, echoed Adolf Hitler by saying that immigrants entering the US illegally were “poisoning the blood of our country”, and has amped up baseless messaging that the migrants are dangerous. “We have people coming in from such, such bad places and we’re going to have to get them out. We have murderers that are being deposited into our country. We have drug dealers at the biggest highest levels that coming into our country,” he said. Trump also brought back his xenophobic name for Covid-19. “I call it affectionally the Chinese virus,” he said.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:13:22 GMT -5
Polls closed in California a few minutes ago
Delegate allocation is as follows... -Democrats: proportional -Republicans: winner-take-all statewide
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:16:11 GMT -5
(The Guardian) On CNN, Lindsay Graham – the Republican Senator from South Carolina and Trump loyalist – said Nikki Haley should drop out. “I’m pretty confident that – I‘ve known her for, you know, most of my political life – that she’ll be a team player” Graham said of Haley, the former governor of his state. “There will come a time, and I hope sooner rather than later, she’ll realize is this is not her moment.” Graham also suggested that Trump could win over Haley supporters by focusing on policy. Haley has been facing lots of pressure from within her party to drop out, by Republicans who worry that her continued candidacy could divide the party.
In Texas, Democratic US representative Colin Allred has won the senate primary, the AP projected. He is set to face off against Republican Ted Cruz this November. Democrats, who currently hold a very slim lead in the Senate, are hoping to flip Texas in what will be one of the most closely watched and most expensive races this year.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:19:54 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Joe Biden, Donald Trump claim CaliforniaJoe Biden and Donald Trump have won their primaries in the biggest prize of the night: California. The Associated Press reports that Biden won the Democratic primary and Trump the Republican primary. California, the most-populous state in the country, also has the most delegates up for grabs of any state.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:21:52 GMT -5
Current Democratic delegate count Joe Biden, 1410 delegates Uncommitted, 99 delegates Dean Phillips, 57 delegates Marianne Williamson, 46 delegates
Current Republican delegate count Donald Trump, 634 delegates Nikki Haley, 162 delegates
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:26:05 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Thousands in a newly formed Alabama congressional district designed to boost Black voting power received incorrect voting information. From the Associated Press: James Snipes, chair of the Montgomery county board of registrars, said 6,593 county voters received postcards listing the incorrect congressional district after the county’s election software misidentified some people living in Alabama’s second congressional district as living in the seventh.
Snipes said voters arriving at the polls were still able to vote for the correct candidates. The county had sent about 2,000 notices to affected voters as of Tuesday evening and will send out an additional 4,000 on Wednesday, he said.
“Everyone who came to their precinct was able to vote for the correct candidates,” Snipes said, attributing the incorrect information to a “software glitch” made when adjusting to the recent shift in state congressional districts. “This was a good-faith effort.”
Montgomery county, home to about 159,000 registered voters, now falls in Alabama’s second congressional district after a federal court drew new congressional lines in November. That was in response to a US supreme court ruling that the state had diluted the voting power of Black residents, violating the Voting Rights Act.
The three-judge panel decided that Alabama, which is 27% Black, should have a second district where Black voters comprise a large share of the population. The move has sparked a congested and competitive primary contest as Democrats hope to flip the congressional seat in the fall.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:33:20 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Donald Trump is reportedly meeting with Elon Musk as he seeks to raise campaign cash, the New York Times reports. The former president will meet with Musk, one of the world’s richest men, as well as a few wealthy Republican donors in Palm Beach, the Times reports, based on anonymous sources. It is unclear whether Musk will back Trump, but the billionaire tech CEO’s takeover of Twitter marked the platform’s shift to the right (as well as its name change). After Trump was banned from the platform for spreading misinformation, Musk welcomed him back to X last year.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:36:24 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Republican House speaker Johnson calls Trump 'my nominee', congratulates him on Super Tuesday winsMike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, has congratulated Donald Trump on his string of victories in the Super Tuesday primaries today. Johnson has endorsed Trump’s bid to return to the White House, and referred to him as “our nominee” in a just-released statement. Have a read: President Trump is our nominee and the American people are ready to return to secure borders, economic prosperity, and peace through strength we experienced under his leadership. I look forward to working together to retake the White House and grow our majority in Congress.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2024 23:40:54 GMT -5
[urll=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/mar/05/super-tuesday-primary-election-trump-haley-biden-latest-updates?page=with:block-65e7f23a8f0827d2af563bf7#block-65e7f23a8f0827d2af563bf7](The Guardian)[/url] Democrat Adam Schiff advances in California Senate primary Democratic congressman Adam Schiff has advanced in California’s Senate race, the Associated Press reports.
It’s not clear who he will run against in November’s general election, but the Los Angeles-area representative spent funds to boost Republican Steve Garvey’s candidacy. That would likely guarantee Schiff victory in a strongly Democratic state, should he make the general election.
Trailing Schiff are fellow two Democratic congresswomen, Barbara Lee and Katie Porter.
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Post by Webster on Mar 6, 2024 11:58:28 GMT -5
(The Guardian) 5:10am Summary--Joe Biden and Donald Trump picked up easy victories across the US this Super Tuesday, racking up delegates as the prepare to face off in the November elections. Biden and Trump won their respective primaries in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado and Minnesota. --The two candidates sparred in statements and speeches after polls closed. While Biden warned that Trump was “determined to destroy democracy”, Trump leaned heavily into nativist rhetoric about migrants, falsely claiming US cities are “being overrun by migrant crime”. --Biden also saw an unusual loss – in American Samoa. In the US territory, little known candidate Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes to Biden’s 40. --Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Vermont – her second victory of 2024. Her campaign declined to signal next steps amid mounting pressure from within her own party to step out of the race. --A Hitler-quoting candidate, Mark Robinson, won the North Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. He’ll will face Democrat Josh Stein in what is expected to be a heavily contested race in November. --In California, centrist Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican ex-baseball player Steve Garvey advanced in the open primary for US Senate. Garvey, who was initially seen as a long-shot candidate, was boosted by Schiff, whose ads focused on the Republican rather than fellow Democratic challengers Katie Porter and Barbara Lee.
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Post by Webster on Mar 6, 2024 12:34:36 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Last night, Nikki Haley’s campaign had been attempting to remain upbeat, even as Donald Trump cruised to victory in 14 of the 15 Republican primaries taking place. Rather than making public appearances, Haley was with staff near her South Carolina home. “The mood is jubilant,” spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas had said. “There is lots of food and music.” Perez-Cubas had gone on to say that the results showed the party was far from united, and that voters had serious concerns about another Donald Trump presidency. “Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united,’” she had said. “Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success.” Steve Peoples at AP notes that Haley’s departure would mark a painful blow to voters, donors and Republican Party officials who opposed Trump and his “Make America Great Again” politics. She was especially popular among moderates and college-educated voters, constituencies that play a pivotal role in general elections, but represent a minority of Republican primary voters. Haley is now expected to announce at 10am ET (3pm GMT) that she is suspending her campaign to be president.
Reuters is also reporting that “a source familiar with the matter” has confirmed to it that Nikki Haley will be announcing she is stepping down from the presidential race later today, but declined to make any further comment.
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