Tuesday Night: Democratic Townhall and Republican Caucus Live Blog
Posted: February 23, 2016 Filed under: 2016 elections | Tags: Bernie Sanders South Carolina Townhall, Hillary Clinton, Nevada Republican Caucus 35 Comments
Hello from Storm and Tornado riddled New Orleans! Tonight are two big events which probably won’t rival our weather today but could be interesting. Will Rubio try to convince us losing is winning? Will Bernie continue the attacks laid out in yesterday’s Presser? Will the Donald and Hillary edge closer to November?
First up at 8 pm eastern is a CNN Townhall between Sanders and Clinton.
Bernie Sanders will try to dent Hillary Clinton’s momentum Tuesday at a CNN Democratic town hall meeting, as he faces pressure to change the dynamics of a presidential race that is starting to trend against him.
After losing to Clinton in Saturday’s Nevada Democratic caucuses and another loss likely looming this weekend in South Carolina, Sanders needs a confident performance to project strength going into the multiple contests on Super Tuesday.
He will get the chance to draw sharper contrasts with his rival at the town hall meeting in South Carolina, from 8 p.m-10 p.m. ET, which will be moderated by Chris Cuomo and air on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español and be streamed live online on CNNgo.
In the coming weeks, Clinton is counting on a strong showing in Southern states likely to showcase her dominance among African-American voters, putting the onus on Sanders to try to broaden his support or face falling behind.
It’s not quite Super Tuesday but you’ll get a taste of things to come!
The menu for politics lovers starts with a Democratic town hall featuring Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on CNN at 8 p.m. ET.
Then come the results from the Nevada Republican caucuses, where Donald Trump, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will battle it out for first place in the last GOP election before 12 states vote next Tuesday.
The Nevada Caucus will likely be won by Trump but watch closely at what goes on with Rubio he’s put up a firewall there and Cruz who seems to be struggling.
The townhall will probably show Hillary being positive and Bernie going on offense.
Trump is definitely on his way to the nomination.
With Jeb Bush out, Donald Trump has widened his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Voters finds Trump with 36% support, giving him a 15-point lead over Senator Marco Rubio who earns 21% of the vote. Senator Ted Cruz is in third place with 17%.
For Trump, that’s a five-point gain in support from the beginning of this month just after the Iowa caucus and right before the New Hampshire primary when it was Trump 31%, Rubio 21% and Cruz 20% among likely GOP voters. Rubio’s support has held steady, while support for Cruz has fallen slightly.
In mid-December, Trump led with 29% Republican support, with Cruz in second with 18% and Rubio at 15%.
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Thanks for the fresh thread, Dak.
Hey did you know there’s a Bernie Sanders dating site?
https://www.gq.com/story/bernie-sanders-dating-site
Ugh. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. That ranks up there with xtian mingle and farmer find a fuck dotcom
So it is where the boys are! Steinem was right! 🙂
Or where the girls are! lol
Here’s the Cook Report’s David Wasserman’s calculations on how many delegates Hillary and Bernie need in each of the coming state primaries in order to be on pace for the nomination. Bernie is already way behind.
http://cookpolitical.com/story/9274
Just to keep thing going until they get going …
http://www.thebeaverton.com/us/item/2465-bernie-sanders-supporters-furious-that-cat-food-commercial-fails-to-mention-bernie-sanders
That’s funny.
Hilarious!
Suddenly Sanders is hugging President Obama and praising him to the skies.
That’s really obvious pandering.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard Sanders talk directly about racism.
Okay so I just tuned in and a person asked Bernie a question about who his fav SCOTUS’s were and Bernie is lecturing about an entirely different subject while avoiding the question. What a big difference from all of the other town halls and debates.
Oh, after two minutes of bloviating he said, “Thurgood Marshal” (Not pandering at all 😀 )
He’s been pandering bigtime. Hugging President Obama for dear life.
Took him a couple of minutes to figure out just why he shouldn’t answer “Clarence Thomas.”
Okay, I have Better Call Saul on the tivo so I’m turning off the town hall. Sorry, I can’t take another one of these.
So, I can’t stand to listen to Sanders anymore, but I’m watching with the sound off. His demeanor seems a lot less Angry Professor than the debates. Interesting.
Anyway, Here is a terific video of Clinton, via Shakesville. (Hope I did the tags correctly).
He’s very low energy tonight. I think he worn out, and his voice is hoarse.
He’s seeing that sunset at the end of the ride.
Great cartoons.
He throws in a reference to getting arrested fighting segregation in a discussion of spirituality.
If you spoke out against racial injustice in the South in the 1960’s, there was a very good chance you would not be arrested. You’d be murdered. There is nothing more terrorizing in this country than state-sponsored violence.
Thurgood Marshall barely escaped with his life when he travelled there as part of the long preparation for Brown v. Board of Education. One biography, “Dream Makers, Dream Breakers”, tells of his being chased across a river by a mob who could have killed him with impunity if they’d caught him. Even as late as 1972, going undercover to gather evidence to oppose states’ circumvention of the law was risking violence. Hillary Clinton did that.
Bernie protested somewhere they wouldn’t kill him.
That’s a really interesting and powerful comment. Thank you.
Omg, shut up about the speeches already.
Late coming in, didn’t heard Bernie. I’ll assume it was just more of the same, corruption, wall street, and freebies.
Twice, Hillary had to say why am I held to another set of standard regarding the release of my speech transcripts. Let’s everybody do it, then maybe I will.
As always doing very well connecting with audience.
Hillary’s right. I’m sick of the double standard.
Fannie, you missed Bernie talking about Obama in the most positive way I’ve every heard him. His biggest applause lines were when he said nice things about the President.
FFS, Chris Cuomo is awful. And what is with showing late night talk show hosts clips?
He is terrible!
One thing that bothered me: Hillary didn’t get up there and tell someone she wanted to punch them in the face!
LOL! No, but I’m thinking it!
All hell is breaking loose in Nevada…..something about having to have been registered 10 days ago………Trump’s pissed.
I heard there were Trump people in there voting twice and Trump people counting votes.
Dana Bash, says Hillary has been giving speeches since she has been campaigning……….I don’t think so. It’s not fair, Dana says, but Bernie didn’t, and she did. Hell Dana he’s not done a damn thing of interest, doesn’t have the professionalism and experience that Hillary Clinton has around the globe.
I guess the only reason they bring this speech shit up is for ratings, Dana must get an extra pay check or something..
The CNN people are idiots. I believe in free speech, but how are these people even allowed to speak out loud, nevermind broadcast to a national audience?
American newscasting gets more embarrassing all the time.