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| Campaign live: Trump lords South Carolina win over rivals as Bush drops out of the race | Campaign live: Trump lords South Carolina win over rivals as Bush drops out of the race |
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| 3.03pm GMT | |
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| Martin Pengelly | |
| Good morning, and welcome to another edition of the never-popular show, I’m Watching Fox News Sunday So You Don’t Have To… | |
| Will Fox News Sunday break with this morning’s rather depressing precedent and mention the Kalamazoo multiple shooting and any issues arising on gun control? I’m guessing… not. | |
| They seem keener on discussing whether Trump is now “Teflon Don”, given that even a squabble with the pope can’t sink him – where does he go next? Jesus? God Himself? The Emperor Ming? – and whether Marco Rubio can win the nomination without winning any primaries or caucuses. Of course they do. | |
| Further Trumperama imminent, anyway… | |
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| What about Clinton’s new stump speech suggestion that Sanders is a “single-issue” (inequality) candidate? | |
| “I haven’t the vaguest idea what she’s talking about,” Sanders says. | |
| We’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t have a national healthcare program … We need to have free tuition in public colleges and universities … We need to have the wealthiest and biggest corporations to pay their fair share in taxes … We’re working very hard to transform our energy system so we can combat climate change. | |
| “We are talking about dozens of issues,” he concludes, “so I’m not quite sure what secretary Clinton is talking about.” | |
| He throws in a glancing jab at Clinton, saying the US has to address “this crisis of a corrupt campaign finance system in which billionaires and Super Pacs” are influencing politicians with donations. He then points out that Clinton has Super Pacs supporting her with millions of dollars. | |
| Finally, Tapper asks about a photo and article unearthed from the Chicago Tribune archives showing Sanders being arrested by police in 1963, over his participation in civil rights protests. | |
| “I remember it pretty well,” Sanders says. “This had to do with opposition to segregated schools.” | |
| “I remember being arrested, being driven in a police wagon to the police station. It was an interesting day.” | |
| Related: Footage shows a young Bernie Sanders arrested during civil rights protest | |
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| Finally, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders appears – in real time – on the CNN show. | |
| He starts off with the same argument Saturday-night Cruz used, saying that Nevada shows how far his campaign has come. Clinton’s huge lead was diminished to six points, he says. | |
| What about the wide margin in black voters in Nevada, who turned out for Clinton? | |
| Sanders insists he’s going to keep winning over those voters as they learn about his campaign. “I think the more the African American community hears our message on a broken criminal justice system,” he says, “when they hear our message about the need for an economy that represents all of us, not just the 1%, I think you’ll see us making progress there as well.” | |
| Tapper asks about Hispanic voters, and the Clinton campaign’s contention that early polls are wrong when the suggest Sanders won more of the demographic. | |
| “Nationally it is clear that we are doing better and better with Latino voters,” he says, “for a campaign that started off as a fringe campaign at 3% in the polls, we have enormous momentum.” | |
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| “As the field narrows we’re seeing more and more people coming to us because we’re looking for a strong, proven, constitutional conservative,” Cruz goes on. | |
| He then seems to suggest that Donald Trump has the similar record on issues – abortion, healthcare, immigration, Wall Street bailouts – as Hillary Clinton. | |
| I don’t think that’s a path to victory. I think the way we win is to follow Reagan’s admonition ‘we paint in bold colors, not in pastels.’ | |
| Tapper asks Cruz how he’s going to win if he can’t muster up a victory in the +70% evangelical South Carolina. Cruz uses the same argument that Sanders did about his loss in Nevada, saying of Trump’s huge lead, “much of it disappeared in this last week.” | |
| In fact, Cruz says, Marco Rubio’s the guy who should’ve won. “Marco had the popular governor support, he had the popular senator Tim Scott supporting,” he says. “All the political establishment of South Carolina came out behind him.” | |
| So Rubio’s second-place loss – which Saturday-night Cruz refuses to concede is also his third-place loss – is “particularly striking”. He thinks it comes down to him and Trump in the next few weeks. | |
| “It’s going be particularly clear that it’s a two-man race, and that I beat Donald head-to-head.” | |
| 2.37pm GMT | |
| 14:37 | |
| Jake Tapper does a smash-cut to a pre-recorded interview with Ted Cruz, from Saturday night. | |
| “I think we had a terrific night tonight,” Ted Cruz says. He’s wearing huge, white earphones of some kind. | |
| Cruz says he’s totally happy with not winning South Carolina, because it “puts us in a position of having won a strong victory in Iowa, a strong second-place victory in New Hampshire, and now a strong second- or third-place.” | |
| “The only campaign that can beat Donald Trump and has beat Donald Trump is our campaign.” He says that Trump is disliked by many Republicans, and that polls suggest “head to head Donald loses to Hillary. And head to head I beat Hillary.” | |
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| No Republican has won New Hampshire and South Carolina and then lost the nominee, Tapper tells Rubio. Are you fighting a losing battle against Trump? | |
| “We never had a race where 15 credible candidates began,” Rubio says. “We’ve never had a race like this.” | |
| He says history is no guide to 2016. “I think last night was truly the beginning of the real Republican race for president. … Here’s where it really begins at this point now.” | |
| So would he prefer a brokered convention, if it came down to it? | |
| “I don’t think it’s likely,” he says. “I most certainly don’t want party insiders deciding this.” | |
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| 14:32 | |
| How do you feel about Jeb Bush dropping out, Tapper asks. | |
| Rubio says his departure, and John Kasich’s very narrow strategy “gives us an opportunity now to coalesce, and bring together Republicans”. | |
| He makes an electability argument, saying it comes down, “ultimately, [to] who can win. Who do the Democrats fear most? Democrats now acknowledge that that’s me. That’s why they spend so much time attacking me.” | |
| Rubio says that he thinks the smaller field of rivals “accrues to our benefit”. | |
| He says twice that Americans should check out Marco Rubio dot com. | |
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| 2.28pm GMT | 2.28pm GMT |
| 14:28 | 14:28 |
| Next up is Florida senator Marco Rubio. Tapper asks: What would an endorsement from 2012 nominee Mitt Romney mean? | Next up is Florida senator Marco Rubio. Tapper asks: What would an endorsement from 2012 nominee Mitt Romney mean? |
| “That report is false. I have no reason to believe he’s about endorse,” Rubio says. | “That report is false. I have no reason to believe he’s about endorse,” Rubio says. |
| We’d love to have his endorsement, we’d love to have the support of everyone … We’re not going to defeat Hillary CLinton or Bernie Sanders in November if we don’t unite the Republican party. | We’d love to have his endorsement, we’d love to have the support of everyone … We’re not going to defeat Hillary CLinton or Bernie Sanders in November if we don’t unite the Republican party. |
| “We’d love to have his endorsement,” but there’s no reason to believe those reports are true, Rubio says. | “We’d love to have his endorsement,” but there’s no reason to believe those reports are true, Rubio says. |
| 2.26pm GMT | 2.26pm GMT |
| 14:26 | 14:26 |
| Tapper asks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Donald Trump said he would be a “neutral” in. Clinton says he missed the mark. | Tapper asks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Donald Trump said he would be a “neutral” in. Clinton says he missed the mark. |
| First of all Israel is our partner, our ally, we have longstanding and important ties with Israelis going back to the formation of the state of Israel. I will defend and do everything I can to defend Israel. | First of all Israel is our partner, our ally, we have longstanding and important ties with Israelis going back to the formation of the state of Israel. I will defend and do everything I can to defend Israel. |
| I also believe the Palestinians deserve to have a state of their own. That’s what I support and that’s what I worked on. … Three very intense conversations between the prime minister of Israel and the president of the Palestinian authority. I happen to think that moving toward a two-state solution, trying to provide more support for the ]Palestinian people] is in the long-term interests of Israel. | I also believe the Palestinians deserve to have a state of their own. That’s what I support and that’s what I worked on. … Three very intense conversations between the prime minister of Israel and the president of the Palestinian authority. I happen to think that moving toward a two-state solution, trying to provide more support for the ]Palestinian people] is in the long-term interests of Israel. |
| 2.24pm GMT | 2.24pm GMT |
| 14:24 | 14:24 |
| Are you worried about Donald Trump in the general election, secretary Clinton? | Are you worried about Donald Trump in the general election, secretary Clinton? |
| Clinton: “I don’t know Jake, I’m not thinking that far ahead. They have to finish their nomination process, we have to finish ours.” | Clinton: “I don’t know Jake, I’m not thinking that far ahead. They have to finish their nomination process, we have to finish ours.” |
| She flips into stump-speech mode: “We can do better together. We can build those ladders of opportunity again. We can have rising prosperity, and break down those barriers that are holding people back. | She flips into stump-speech mode: “We can do better together. We can build those ladders of opportunity again. We can have rising prosperity, and break down those barriers that are holding people back. |
| “That great recession was such a terrible blow to so many people, and the repercussions are still working its way through the economy and the political system … I want to find common ground wherever I can.” | “That great recession was such a terrible blow to so many people, and the repercussions are still working its way through the economy and the political system … I want to find common ground wherever I can.” |
| 2.23pm GMT | 2.23pm GMT |
| 14:23 | 14:23 |
| Tapper asks about whether Clinton believes that Hispanic voters were more won over by Sanders than her campaign, as polling data suggests. | Tapper asks about whether Clinton believes that Hispanic voters were more won over by Sanders than her campaign, as polling data suggests. |
| “That’s just not what our analysis shows,” she says. “We don’t believe that the so-called entry polls are that accurate.” | “That’s just not what our analysis shows,” she says. “We don’t believe that the so-called entry polls are that accurate.” |
| “There’s a lot of evidence that we did very, very well with every type of voter,” she goes on, adding that her campaign “held our own up in Reno, so it was a broad base of voter turnout, and we dominated of course in Clark County, which is where Las Vegas is. … We always have to work hard for every single voter, and we do that in every place.” | |
| Clinton acknowledges to Tapper that there’s a question of trust in a lot of independent voters’ minds. She says she knows voters wonder whether she’s in the race for them or for herself, and she insists she’s in it for them. | Clinton acknowledges to Tapper that there’s a question of trust in a lot of independent voters’ minds. She says she knows voters wonder whether she’s in the race for them or for herself, and she insists she’s in it for them. |
| I know that I have to make my case … I have to really make clear that we want to make progress in our country, we want to make a real difference in their lives, and that’s what I’ve always been about. | I know that I have to make my case … I have to really make clear that we want to make progress in our country, we want to make a real difference in their lives, and that’s what I’ve always been about. |
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| at 2.57pm GMT | |
| 2.19pm GMT | 2.19pm GMT |
| 14:19 | 14:19 |
| Hillary Clinton is now on the CNN program, where Tapper asks her what went right in Nevada. | Hillary Clinton is now on the CNN program, where Tapper asks her what went right in Nevada. |
| I think it was a lot of things. First of all we’ve been on the ground there for months, so we’re building an organziation, developing relationships … so as we build that we were able to udnerstand more of what was on people’s minds, how best to connet with them, to make my case to them. We have as I said thousands of people who were engaged from Las Vegas to the smallest rural town. | I think it was a lot of things. First of all we’ve been on the ground there for months, so we’re building an organziation, developing relationships … so as we build that we were able to udnerstand more of what was on people’s minds, how best to connet with them, to make my case to them. We have as I said thousands of people who were engaged from Las Vegas to the smallest rural town. |
| She thanks the people working on her campaign, who “did not get in any way knocked off course”. | She thanks the people working on her campaign, who “did not get in any way knocked off course”. |
| Tapper asks whether Bernie Sanders was gracious in his call to concede the primary. Clinton doesn’t really say: “He did call me before I made my speech and I did appreciate that very much.” | Tapper asks whether Bernie Sanders was gracious in his call to concede the primary. Clinton doesn’t really say: “He did call me before I made my speech and I did appreciate that very much.” |
| She then says that she isn’t a fighting to lead a “single-issue country”, which may be her new line of attack on Sanders’ unshakeable insistence that inequality and Wall Street are the central problems of the day. | She then says that she isn’t a fighting to lead a “single-issue country”, which may be her new line of attack on Sanders’ unshakeable insistence that inequality and Wall Street are the central problems of the day. |
| I want to knock down all the barriers that are holding people back. … Of course a lot of it is economic, and a lot of that needs to be addressed … Mroe good paying jobs with rising incomes again, you know, once and for all making sure women get equal pay … clean energy, especially in a state like Nevada that should be the solar capital of the west. | I want to knock down all the barriers that are holding people back. … Of course a lot of it is economic, and a lot of that needs to be addressed … Mroe good paying jobs with rising incomes again, you know, once and for all making sure women get equal pay … clean energy, especially in a state like Nevada that should be the solar capital of the west. |
| “We’re going to talk about the issues that are on the minds of Americans and that’s a broad number.” | “We’re going to talk about the issues that are on the minds of Americans and that’s a broad number.” |
| 2.15pm GMT | 2.15pm GMT |
| 14:15 | 14:15 |
| Tapper: What’s up with all those retweets of white supremacists…? | Tapper: What’s up with all those retweets of white supremacists…? |
| Trump: “I know nothing about these groups that are supporting me.” | Trump: “I know nothing about these groups that are supporting me.” |
| But don’t you worry about whether you can get elected against a Democrat? I don’t worry, Trump says. | But don’t you worry about whether you can get elected against a Democrat? I don’t worry, Trump says. |
| As a candidate I will bring over many, many Dems … We’re going to bring over the Reagan Democrats … the independents … tremendous youth … They say that it will be the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States elections. … | As a candidate I will bring over many, many Dems … We’re going to bring over the Reagan Democrats … the independents … tremendous youth … They say that it will be the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States elections. … |
| If it’s Hillary against me, it’s going to be a tremendous turnout. I’m going to win, I’m going to win places like Michigan that Republicans won’t even think about it. | If it’s Hillary against me, it’s going to be a tremendous turnout. I’m going to win, I’m going to win places like Michigan that Republicans won’t even think about it. |
| Trump says he’s going to have a chance at winning New York, which hasn’t been one by a Republican since Calvin Coolidge in 1924. “If I win New York I win.” | Trump says he’s going to have a chance at winning New York, which hasn’t been one by a Republican since Calvin Coolidge in 1924. “If I win New York I win.” |
| “I’ll win states that Republicans don’t even think of … Upstate New York I’m like the most popular person that’s ever lived, essentially.” | “I’ll win states that Republicans don’t even think of … Upstate New York I’m like the most popular person that’s ever lived, essentially.” |
| The billionaire doesn’t back down when asked about his commitment to healthcare reform – he just says it’ll be a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and then some other, different healthcare reform: “People are not going to die in the middle of the street when I’m president. They’re just not.” | The billionaire doesn’t back down when asked about his commitment to healthcare reform – he just says it’ll be a repeal of the Affordable Care Act and then some other, different healthcare reform: “People are not going to die in the middle of the street when I’m president. They’re just not.” |
| Finally Tapper asks about Trump’s wife, Melania, who made rare public comments at Trump’s victory celebration on Saturday night. “She’s a very, very brilliant woman. I know her academic background,” Trump says. “She’s also a very private woman … She has some interesting causes that are going to be fantastic for the country. I really just surprised her when I said that. | Finally Tapper asks about Trump’s wife, Melania, who made rare public comments at Trump’s victory celebration on Saturday night. “She’s a very, very brilliant woman. I know her academic background,” Trump says. “She’s also a very private woman … She has some interesting causes that are going to be fantastic for the country. I really just surprised her when I said that. |
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| at 3.00pm GMT | |
| 2.10pm GMT | 2.10pm GMT |
| 14:10 | 14:10 |
| Did calling Jeb Bush “low-energy” and mocking him writ large lead to the governor’s collapse? | Did calling Jeb Bush “low-energy” and mocking him writ large lead to the governor’s collapse? |
| Trump: “I can tell you I like him, he’s a good person, he’s a good man, but he really hit me with a lot of commercials.” | Trump: “I can tell you I like him, he’s a good person, he’s a good man, but he really hit me with a lot of commercials.” |
| Not as tough as Ted Cruz’s “tough, tough tough” robocalls, he adds. “I’ll tell you, this is a tough business. I think real estate in Manhattan is a lot easier.” | Not as tough as Ted Cruz’s “tough, tough tough” robocalls, he adds. “I’ll tell you, this is a tough business. I think real estate in Manhattan is a lot easier.” |
| Was the rejection of Bush a “referendum” on the family’s legacy in the White House? | Was the rejection of Bush a “referendum” on the family’s legacy in the White House? |
| Trump: “I hope not, because it shouldn’t be, it wasn’t meant to be … Jeb fought hard, it just wasn’t his time.” | Trump: “I hope not, because it shouldn’t be, it wasn’t meant to be … Jeb fought hard, it just wasn’t his time.” |
| It was really just not his time. You know, four years ago, I think he would’ve won. Although with Mitt, you know, it would’ve been a good contest. | It was really just not his time. You know, four years ago, I think he would’ve won. Although with Mitt, you know, it would’ve been a good contest. |
| 2.06pm GMT | 2.06pm GMT |
| 14:06 | 14:06 |
| We’re on to CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper. He says the state of the union is “frontrunning”, whatever that means. | We’re on to CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper. He says the state of the union is “frontrunning”, whatever that means. |
| Donald Trump is on first, which was probably a condition of his appearance. Can he be stopped? | Donald Trump is on first, which was probably a condition of his appearance. Can he be stopped? |
| “Well, certainly you can be stopped. I’m dealing with very talented people, they’re senators, do we have any governors left? I don’t know … Certainly nobody’s unstoppable.” | “Well, certainly you can be stopped. I’m dealing with very talented people, they’re senators, do we have any governors left? I don’t know … Certainly nobody’s unstoppable.” |
| Tapper asks why he’s doing so well. “Well, I’m an outsider.” | Tapper asks why he’s doing so well. “Well, I’m an outsider.” |
| I was a member of the establishment, totally … I was a very big donor to the Republicans, I used to be a donor to everybody because as a businessman that was a good thing to do. On the day I decided to run, June 16, I became an outsider. … I don’t need donor money, special interest money, and that bothers them. | I was a member of the establishment, totally … I was a very big donor to the Republicans, I used to be a donor to everybody because as a businessman that was a good thing to do. On the day I decided to run, June 16, I became an outsider. … I don’t need donor money, special interest money, and that bothers them. |
| Trump goes on: “I’m going to be fair to everybody but I’m going to do what’s right.” Politicians are bought and controlled, he says, even though the “Very talented” Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio could still beat him. That said, “I don’t think we’re going to have a convention, a brokered convention.” | Trump goes on: “I’m going to be fair to everybody but I’m going to do what’s right.” Politicians are bought and controlled, he says, even though the “Very talented” Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio could still beat him. That said, “I don’t think we’re going to have a convention, a brokered convention.” |
| 1.45pm GMT | 1.45pm GMT |
| 13:45 | 13:45 |
| Donald Trump is on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a show he calls more than maybe any other. The billionaire says he’s feeling pretty good. | Donald Trump is on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a show he calls more than maybe any other. The billionaire says he’s feeling pretty good. |
| Host Joe Scarborough asks about Trump’s spat with Pope Francis earlier this week, in which the pontiff suggested Trump is “not Christian” if he’s so committed to building a wall to keep immigrants out. | Host Joe Scarborough asks about Trump’s spat with Pope Francis earlier this week, in which the pontiff suggested Trump is “not Christian” if he’s so committed to building a wall to keep immigrants out. |
| “I don’t think it helped me or hurt me. I think it was neutral,” Trump says. | “I don’t think it helped me or hurt me. I think it was neutral,” Trump says. |
| Trump says at first he was surprised the pope said anything at all, and described his reaction to the pope’s remarks as: “I said this is bad, this is not good.” | Trump says at first he was surprised the pope said anything at all, and described his reaction to the pope’s remarks as: “I said this is bad, this is not good.” |
| But he was glad the way it turned out, in the end, with both sides stepping back from their initial statements. Trump says he was “very honored” to be talked about by the pope. | But he was glad the way it turned out, in the end, with both sides stepping back from their initial statements. Trump says he was “very honored” to be talked about by the pope. |
| “I’ve never seen a pope talk about anybody before,” he says. “They usually talk more important things than Donald Trump.” | “I’ve never seen a pope talk about anybody before,” he says. “They usually talk more important things than Donald Trump.” |
| The hosts ask about Trump’s victory in South Carolina last night, and the billionaire brags about winning all seven congressional districts. “What I thought was going to hurt me were those robocalls ,” he says, talking about automated phone calls to voters, “and they were put out by Ted.” | The hosts ask about Trump’s victory in South Carolina last night, and the billionaire brags about winning all seven congressional districts. “What I thought was going to hurt me were those robocalls ,” he says, talking about automated phone calls to voters, “and they were put out by Ted.” |
| Finally Trump waxes generous toward the primary voters so far, and mocks the way Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are describing their second- and third-place finishes as “historic”. | Finally Trump waxes generous toward the primary voters so far, and mocks the way Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are describing their second- and third-place finishes as “historic”. |
| “The person who came in third was like a superstar,” he says, describing the Rubio campaign (and the media’s) excitement after Iowa. | “The person who came in third was like a superstar,” he says, describing the Rubio campaign (and the media’s) excitement after Iowa. |
| The hosts also ask Trump about a tweet in which he appears to suggest Barack Obama is Muslim, which he is not. Trump says it was a joke. They don’t ask Trump about how last week he said: “No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith.” | The hosts also ask Trump about a tweet in which he appears to suggest Barack Obama is Muslim, which he is not. Trump says it was a joke. They don’t ask Trump about how last week he said: “No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man’s religion or faith.” |
| I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque? Very sad that he did not go! | I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque? Very sad that he did not go! |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.50pm GMT | at 1.50pm GMT |
| 1.31pm GMT | 1.31pm GMT |
| 13:31 | 13:31 |
| Hello and welcome to our coverage of the celebration, despair and soap opera spite of the 2016 election, the day after Donald Trump, the maroon menace of the Republican party, swept South Carolina, and Hillary Clinton, breaker of ceilings, fended off Bernie Sanders’ success with Hispanic voters in Nevada. | Hello and welcome to our coverage of the celebration, despair and soap opera spite of the 2016 election, the day after Donald Trump, the maroon menace of the Republican party, swept South Carolina, and Hillary Clinton, breaker of ceilings, fended off Bernie Sanders’ success with Hispanic voters in Nevada. |
| It’s still high drama the morning after. Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finished in a virtual tie, with 22.5% and 22.3% of the vote respectively in South Carolina, and both of them are spinning those results – they both lost, after all – so hard that one might well fall over on a talk show this morning. | It’s still high drama the morning after. Republicans Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finished in a virtual tie, with 22.5% and 22.3% of the vote respectively in South Carolina, and both of them are spinning those results – they both lost, after all – so hard that one might well fall over on a talk show this morning. |
| The tribulations of Jeb Bush finally came to an end last night, when the former governor of Florida conceded that Americans don’t like him lingering at their parties, Republican or otherwise. John Kasich and Ben Carson remain in the race: the Ohio governor gave up in South Carolina long ago to focus on Michigan and other states; the retired neurosurgeon hasn’t been seen for a while, and may have fallen asleep. | The tribulations of Jeb Bush finally came to an end last night, when the former governor of Florida conceded that Americans don’t like him lingering at their parties, Republican or otherwise. John Kasich and Ben Carson remain in the race: the Ohio governor gave up in South Carolina long ago to focus on Michigan and other states; the retired neurosurgeon hasn’t been seen for a while, and may have fallen asleep. |
| Trump lorded over his victory and his opponents. | Trump lorded over his victory and his opponents. |
| “It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s vicious,” he said, before departing the state for Nevada, where Republicans will caucus on Tuesday. “When you win, it’s beautiful.” | “It’s tough, it’s nasty, it’s mean, it’s vicious,” he said, before departing the state for Nevada, where Republicans will caucus on Tuesday. “When you win, it’s beautiful.” |
| In Nevada, Clinton finally put space between her and Sanders’ rising campaign, which de facto tied her in Iowa and defeated her soundly in New Hampshire. The former secretary of state won by 52.7% to 47.2%, with a huge margin of support from African American voters in urban areas. | In Nevada, Clinton finally put space between her and Sanders’ rising campaign, which de facto tied her in Iowa and defeated her soundly in New Hampshire. The former secretary of state won by 52.7% to 47.2%, with a huge margin of support from African American voters in urban areas. |
| “Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other,” she told supporters in Las Vegas. “The fight is on – the future that we want is within our grasp.” | “Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other,” she told supporters in Las Vegas. “The fight is on – the future that we want is within our grasp.” |
| But because Nevada’s caucus system is not a winner-take-all system, and because Sanders’ had more success winning over Hispanic voters than predicted, the senator’s campaign will undoubtedly spin its loss as just another step toward “political revolution”. | But because Nevada’s caucus system is not a winner-take-all system, and because Sanders’ had more success winning over Hispanic voters than predicted, the senator’s campaign will undoubtedly spin its loss as just another step toward “political revolution”. |
| With reporters on the trail and candidates going groggily back to work, we’ll distill the insults, bickering, half-truths and everything else for you this morning so you don’t have to. | With reporters on the trail and candidates going groggily back to work, we’ll distill the insults, bickering, half-truths and everything else for you this morning so you don’t have to. |