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| Donald Trump leads Republican race as Wisconsin vote nears – campaign live | Donald Trump leads Republican race as Wisconsin vote nears – campaign live |
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| Priebus: Paul Ryan won't run | |
| Priebus concedes that a lot of bile has risen up in the course of the Republican primary. | |
| “Certainly people are afraid in this country, and they’re angry at a president who hasn’t delivered,” he says. “When people are afraid and when they’re angry, sometimes they say things that they regret.” | |
| “I get that we’ve got some drama on our side of the aisle, I won’t shy away from that,” he says, and then he argues that things are somehow worse for Democrats at the moments. | |
| “I think they’re on the verge of a fiasco in terms of their convention, and I don’t know what [FBI Director James] Comey will do with the FBI [investigation into Clinton’s email server] either.” | |
| He says Clinton is losing to a socialist from Vermont, although Clinton is not losing and Bernie Sanders is not a socialist. | |
| Then Tapper asks about the possibility of a “fresh face” Republican swooping in to be the consensus nominee at the party convention. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, for instance, was raised by the former speaker John Boehner. | |
| Priebus rejects the idea outright. “No, because number one he doesn’t want to do it. I know Paul very well, he doesn’t seek out these things.” | |
| He says Ryan is a rarity in Washington DC: “His ego’s not even there and he’s not selfish and he doesn’t think like that. | |
| “So. Here’s the thing: if anything like that were to happen which I think is highly, highly unlikely … That candidate would actually have to have a floor operation and an actual campaign going on with the delegates to make something like that even possible. | |
| “Our candidate is someone who’s running.” | |
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| Republican party chairman Reince Priebus is next up on CNN, where host Jake Tapper asks him about the public’s incredibly unfavorable view of the frontrunner, Donald Trump. | |
| “Our party is the party of the open door,” Priebus says. “There’ll be plenty of time to speak to the genearl public but right now we’re having a conversation in a pretty confiend space.” | |
| How does “the open door” make any sense with Trump’s promise to build a wall, Tapper asks. | |
| “Immigration and secure borders is something every American should care about,” Priebus says, not really answering the question. | |
| Tapper asks about Priebus’ past calls for a more civil and respectful tone. “Sure, candidates have to watch their mouth, they have to watch their tone, their tenor.” | |
| “My obligation to work with the candidates when we get to the general election,” he adds. “No one really knows, obviously, who’s going to be the nominee, but it’s our job to be fair.” | |
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| Tapper then asks Sanders whether he’s “trying to have it both ways” by not criticizing Clinton personally but allowing his surrogates, including actor Rosario Dawson, to do so. | |
| On Friday Dawson raised the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and scolded Clinton for claiming that Sanders is insufficiently concerned for women’s rights. “Shame on you,” Dawson said. | |
| Tapper defends her and maintains he does not criticize Clinton, directly or indirectly, except for her positions on the issues. “We have dozens of surrogates, and Rosario is doing a great job for us,” he says. | |
| “She will say what she wants to say, that is not what I want to be focusing on and I hope my surrogates [will not].” | |
| “What we have chosen to do is run an issue-oriented campaign,” he says. | |
| Tapper then asks about a potential Democratic debate in New York, and a scheduling spat between the campaigns. “You know, who knows. if you look at some of those Democratic debates in the past,” he says, “they’re often scheduled on days when the viewer turnout would [not be high].” | |
| “She has a rough schedule, I have a rough schedule,” he says. “I think we can work that out.” | |
| Finally Tapper asks about whether Sanders will release a more comprehensive version of his tax returns. Sanders says his wife does them. | |
| “We will get out as much information as we can. There ain’t going to be very much exciting in that. I get a salary from the United States Senate.” | |
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| Alan Yuhas | |
| First up this morning is Bernie Sanders, who’s on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper. The host asks Sanders about his claim that Hillary Clinton has received millions from the fossil fuel industry. | |
| “According to Greenpeace analysis,” Sanders says, Clinton has received a total of 4.5m from fossil fuel industry. He says that 43 lobbyists have made maximum contributions. | |
| Clinton said earlier this week that she’s “sick of the Sanders campaign’s lies” about the contributions. “No, we were not lying, we were telling the truth,” Sanders says. | |
| “The point here is climate change is one of the great crises facing our country,” he says. | |
| Tapper points out that Clinton has received about $308,000 and Sanders has received about $54,000 from people who work for fossil fuel companies – both tiny fractions of their overall fundraising. Sanders says he’s talking about the broader total, including Super Pacs. The Greenpeace analysis lumps money from different sources together. | |
| “Let the voters decide whether paid lobbyists represent the fossil fuel industry,” Sanders says, “whether or not these same people are out in some cases bundling, trying to bring in more money.” | |
| He says the lobbyists are “people who are working day and night in defense of that industry.” | |
| “I don’t think we have distorted reality,” he adds, conceding that the distinctions between workers, lobbyists and others is not clear. “And that has been a confusing point, workers yes, we get workers from every industry across the country.” | |
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| Martin Pengelly | Martin Pengelly |
| Good morning, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of another day in the presidential race. Alan will be here shortly, so for now for me it’s a question of what have we this morning? We have talk shows. | Good morning, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of another day in the presidential race. Alan will be here shortly, so for now for me it’s a question of what have we this morning? We have talk shows. |
| For the next two hours, at least, Washington is talking on, and talking about, the five main talk shows – and so we shall watch and blog and fact-check as it does. And for your delight today, we have none other than Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee and thus the man charged with somehow saving the Grand Old Party from itself, doing “the full Ginsburg”. | For the next two hours, at least, Washington is talking on, and talking about, the five main talk shows – and so we shall watch and blog and fact-check as it does. And for your delight today, we have none other than Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee and thus the man charged with somehow saving the Grand Old Party from itself, doing “the full Ginsburg”. |
| What’s that, you ask? According to the resplendent and in no way overly snarky urbandictionary.com, it’s when: | What’s that, you ask? According to the resplendent and in no way overly snarky urbandictionary.com, it’s when: |
| …a PR hack or spokesperson making appearances on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in one day to push a pre-crafted talking-points message. It takes its name from William H Ginsburg, attorney for Monica Lewinsky, who was the first person to do so during the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal. | …a PR hack or spokesperson making appearances on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in one day to push a pre-crafted talking-points message. It takes its name from William H Ginsburg, attorney for Monica Lewinsky, who was the first person to do so during the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal. |
| It’s a little harsh to call Priebus a PR hack but he is a spokesperson for the Republican establishment, which it is fair to say has been having conniptions, gibbering or otherwise, about the state of the race. Why? | It’s a little harsh to call Priebus a PR hack but he is a spokesperson for the Republican establishment, which it is fair to say has been having conniptions, gibbering or otherwise, about the state of the race. Why? |
| And so there you have it. Lots to talk about, and watch, and discuss. | And so there you have it. Lots to talk about, and watch, and discuss. |
| And while we wait for it to begin, as some sort of primer for what we’re about to see, here’s Ben Jacobs’ fascinating take on what’s going on in Priebus’s party: | And while we wait for it to begin, as some sort of primer for what we’re about to see, here’s Ben Jacobs’ fascinating take on what’s going on in Priebus’s party: |
| Related: The rise of Donald Trump is a battle for the soul of the Republican party | Related: The rise of Donald Trump is a battle for the soul of the Republican party |