From the NYT: Dozens of interviews with Democratic establishment leaders this week show that they are not just worried about Mr. Sanders’s candidacy, but are also willing to risk intraparty damage to stop his...
Bloomberg believes Sanders will lose to Trump. Therefore, once Sanders wins the Dem nomination, it follows that the only possible path to defeating Trump is for Bloomberg to run as an Independent. It’s also...
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf should resign immediately. To get these basic facts so incorrect means he needs to leave. Right now. Wolf says (see video below) that the Wuhan virus...
From Worldometers as of February 27, 2020, at 0400 Greenwich Mean Time: Total Infected: 82,166 Total Dead: 2,804 Mortality Rate: 2,804/82,166 x 100 = 3.4% mortality rate. This means the Wuhan virus has a...
From National Interest: “China put export restrictions on those masks and then nationalized an American factory that produces them there,” said President Donald Trump’s director of trade and manufacturing policy, referring to N95 masks, used for...
From Coronavirus is Killing China’s Factories and Creating Economic Chaos: Americans are angry. “I was on the phone with leaders from several hospitals in New York, and they told me that they had contracts...
From CBS LA: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A flight attendant for Korean Air who worked several flights out of Los Angeles International Airport has been diagnosed with coronavirus. The 24-year-old was diagnosed Tuesday in southern...
Betsy McCaughey in the NY Post on where the virus is now: The only known US cases are travelers to China, their spouses and cruise-ship passengers. But people carrying the virus entered the United States...
From The Washington Post, via MSN: “The party has shifted to the left, and I don’t think many of the more traditional, legacy leaders of the party got it,” said Andrew L. Stern, a...
WSJ: Meantime, many state and local health departments in the U.S. don’t have the test kits they need to rapidly diagnose coronavirus infections because federal health authorities are still working out kinks. The limited availability...
What? CNBC gives airtime to the Allianz Chief Economic Advisor who warns the market not to buy the dip. The Wuhan virus must be undeniably serious: Economist Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC on Tuesday that investors should...
Devine in the NY Post: Her former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, admitted last year, in a conversation reported by The Washington Post, that the Green New Deal “wasn’t originally a climate thing at...
From The Guardian: It may seem ludicrous to deny Sanders the nomination if he wins the most delegates and sweeps the primaries. What’s the point in having primaries if party insiders at the convention...
I predicted that Trump would win the primary and the general election, to derision from people who literally could not cope. A year ago I said it was highly likely Sanders would win, to...
Vox: “If Joe Biden wins by a small margin, then I think his campaign is on life support,” says Anton Gunn, Barack Obama’s 2008 South Carolina political director. “If he comes in second or...
“If no one drops out by Super Tuesday, is it even possible to stop Bernie Sanders?” NBC’s Chuck Todd asked former Obama White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer on Sunday. “I do not believe it is,”...
It is important to note that the use of the word “diagnosed” may not, likely does not mean these patients have been tested and confirmed as being infected with the Wuhan virus. If these...
From Vox: this outbreak might be much larger than it looks now, said Sylvie Briand, the director of infectious hazard management at the WHO, in a media briefing Friday.“We are wondering about the potential...
Politico: Problems with a coronavirus test developed by the CDC have delayed the Trump administration’s efforts to expand screening to state and local public health labs, more than two weeks after the FDA granted...
From Politico by Korecki and Siders: “In 30-plus years of politics, I’ve never seen this level of doom. I’ve never had a day with so many people texting, emailing, calling me with so much...
From Politico by Korecki and Siders: “For the establishment, I think it’s Joe or bust,” said Simon Rosenberg, New Democrat Network president, who served as a senior strategist for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
From the Washington Post via MSN: “People who have been locked out of power are speaking up about corporate influence over the issues that matter in their lives,” said Abdul El-Sayed, a Sanders ally...
DEMpire gives Clyburn center stage, from Politico: Several panicked Democrats, including one with direct knowledge of the planned endorsement, said they see it as a last-ditch effort to blunt Bernie Sanders’ momentum before he...
From the Intelligencer: Is there going to be someone like Obama was in ’08 — not in a majority, but so clearly ahead that it’s a foregone conclusion? Or a muddle in the delegates,...
From Ryan Lizza in Politico: Sanders wasn’t supposed to be able to break through with black and brown voters, but the group was racially and ethnically diverse. (Sanders won 27% of African Americans and...
From Politico: LAS VEGAS — Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors allied with his moderate opponents to flip their allegiance to him —and block Bernie Sanders— in the event of...
From ABC News: Sen. Bernie Sanders ran competitively in unaccustomed support groups amid the Nevada Democratic caucuses while sweeping the table among Latino, young and very liberal voters, leaving his competitors wrestling inconclusively over the sharply...
CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES in The New Yorker: On President’s Day, Daniel Parra met a group of friends at Eldorado High School, in East Las Vegas. The Bernie Sanders campaign was holding a soccer tournament there that a...
Taibbi in the Rolling Stone: What a catastrophe Wednesday night was for Mike Bloomberg. The New York plutocrat was kicked in the teeth by Elizabeth Warren in the first minutes — she denounced him as a Trump-like...
From CNN: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar first publicly vented her chief frustration with Pete Buttigieg nine months ago in a parking lot in Cresco, Iowa. He is benefiting from male privilege and wouldn’t be treated the same if...
From The Intelligencer: At last night’s debate, every candidate not named Bernie Sanders refused to endorse the principle that whoever wins the most delegates before the Democratic convention should automatically be the Democratic nominee, even if...
From The Bulwark: Lesson Two: The Lanes Are A Figment of Your Imagination Lanes? Where we are going we don’t have lanes. Sure, there are certain candidates whose support bases overlap more than others....
The DEMpire’s hall pass to Bloomberg on his past regarding women and race — which have been handed out enthusiastically by the Party and media DEMpire — has made this a post-sexism and post-racism...
From the American Spectator: ‘Today, I’m reflecting on the three years we’ve spent preparing for this moment, the changes we’ve made to make sure we are ready.’ That was Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic...
From the Miami Herald: Tens of millions of people who have chosen not to vote in recent U.S. elections could be headed to the polls this November in a massive wave that would change...
From the Washington Examiner: Pete Buttigieg’s campaign called on Michael Bloomberg to drop out of the Democratic presidential race following his rough debate performance, flipping the Bloomberg’s campaign argument about the threat of Bernie...
From Cillizza at CNN: “Bernie Sanders in all likelihood is the nominee, unless it gets taken away from him at the convention,” predicted David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Thursday morning on...
Podhoretz in The New York Post: Bloomberg saying he was too rich to release his returns because he can’t do Turbo Tax like all of you losers. And then there was Elizabeth Warren, desperately...
From the Wall Street Journal: Public-health officials in the U.S. are striving to keep tabs on thousands of Americans who have quarantined themselves at home after returning from mainland China to curtail the new coronavirus,...