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| New York primary: Trump and Clinton look set to win Empire State – live | New York primary: Trump and Clinton look set to win Empire State – live |
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| View from the polls: feeling the Bern in Brooklyn | |
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| Hector Santana, a building superintendent, said his support for Bernie Sanders motivated him to vote in his first primary election ever on Tuesday, reports the Guardian’s Ciara McCarthy from Brooklyn: | |
| “I don’t vote in primaries,” he said. “But Bernie speaks a lot about fighting for what’s right so that’s why I voted today.” | |
| Santana, 30, said he hopes the presidential candidates will address issues like increasing the minimum wage and the rising cost of housing in New York City. He spoke across the street from a picket line outside of a Verizon Wireless store in Brooklyn Heights. | |
| More than 40 members of the Communication Workers of America union protested outside the store on Tuesday as part of workers’ ongoing strike against the company. About 39,000 Verizon workers walked off the job last week amid contract negotiations. | |
| Santana said the Verizon workers’ strike and movements like Fight for $15 and the broader issue of income inequality should be addressed by candidates after Tuesday’s primaries. | |
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| Vicente Fernández on Trump: ‘que chingue a su madre!' | |
| At a farewell concert in Mexico City at the weekend, iconic singer Vicente Fernández included a message for Donald Trump, the Latin Times reports: | |
| “From here we are saying, ‘que chingue a su madre!’ He thinks he is going to win, he is crazy,” Adela Micha reports the singer said in his explicit message. “If I ever come across him, I will spit him in the face and tell him to go f*ck himself.” | |
| He continued, “I will tell him everything that no one has told him before in his life.” | |
| Earlier this month, former Mexican president Vicente Fox condemned Trump for what he said was a series of “racist and ignorant ideas” regarding Mexico in an op-ed for the Guardian: | |
| “He thinks building the ‘Trump Wall’ will right every wrong in the United States,” Fox wrote. “Indeed, he’s built a huge mental wall around himself already, which doesn’t allow him to see the greatness of our people.” | |
| Related: Former Mexican president Vicente Fox attacks Donald Trump's 'racist' ideas | |
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| De Blasio 'surprised' at drop in registered Democrats | De Blasio 'surprised' at drop in registered Democrats |
| The Sanders camp team is highlighting cases of mysteriously dropped voter registrations and other difficulties New Yorkers are reporting with voting: | The Sanders camp team is highlighting cases of mysteriously dropped voter registrations and other difficulties New Yorkers are reporting with voting: |
| This is a disgrace. Why are we making it so hard for people to participate in democracy?https://t.co/nNyyUUylsT | This is a disgrace. Why are we making it so hard for people to participate in democracy?https://t.co/nNyyUUylsT |
| “Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall,” WNYC reports: | “Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall,” WNYC reports: |
| The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn. | The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn. |
| But new data provided by the city Board of Elections on Monday indicates it actually removed 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from the rolls, according to executive director Michael Ryan. [...] | But new data provided by the city Board of Elections on Monday indicates it actually removed 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from the rolls, according to executive director Michael Ryan. [...] |
| As a Brooklyn Democrat himself, de Blasio said he’s concerned about the sudden slump of Democrats on the voter rolls there. | As a Brooklyn Democrat himself, de Blasio said he’s concerned about the sudden slump of Democrats on the voter rolls there. |
| “This number surprises me,” said de Blasio, “I admit that Brooklyn has had a lot of transient population – that’s obvious. Lot of people moving in, lot of people moving out. That might account for some of it. But I’m confused since so many people have moved in, that the number would move that much in the negative direction.” | “This number surprises me,” said de Blasio, “I admit that Brooklyn has had a lot of transient population – that’s obvious. Lot of people moving in, lot of people moving out. That might account for some of it. But I’m confused since so many people have moved in, that the number would move that much in the negative direction.” |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
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| The New York Daily News is reporting broken voting machines at some polling stations and other trouble as New York City votes: | The New York Daily News is reporting broken voting machines at some polling stations and other trouble as New York City votes: |
| New York primary voting at some Brooklyn and Queens polling places was a disaster Tuesday morning — with early morning voters arriving to broken machines and belated polling. | New York primary voting at some Brooklyn and Queens polling places was a disaster Tuesday morning — with early morning voters arriving to broken machines and belated polling. |
| Queens resident George Mack said he came to P.S. 52 in Springfield Gardens to vote right at 6 a.m. He, and about 50 other early voters, learned all three machines on site were broken. Volunteers at the school told voters to place their ballots in a slot, and they would all get processed later. [...] | Queens resident George Mack said he came to P.S. 52 in Springfield Gardens to vote right at 6 a.m. He, and about 50 other early voters, learned all three machines on site were broken. Volunteers at the school told voters to place their ballots in a slot, and they would all get processed later. [...] |
| Meanwhile, voters at the Cooper Park Houses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn couldn’t even get close to a machine. More than two hours after polls were supposed to open at 6 a.m., that site was still closed. [...] | Meanwhile, voters at the Cooper Park Houses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn couldn’t even get close to a machine. More than two hours after polls were supposed to open at 6 a.m., that site was still closed. [...] |
| A similar snafu happened at the Atlantic Terminal site in Brooklyn, which didn’t open until after 7:30. | A similar snafu happened at the Atlantic Terminal site in Brooklyn, which didn’t open until after 7:30. |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
| Brooklyn polling site closed at 7:50am #NYPrimary2016 pic.twitter.com/rPcgsbwCQO | Brooklyn polling site closed at 7:50am #NYPrimary2016 pic.twitter.com/rPcgsbwCQO |
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| Video – Bernie Sanders, religion and Aipac: what matters to Jewish voters | Video – Bernie Sanders, religion and Aipac: what matters to Jewish voters |
| Related: Who is God's candidate? Jewish voters speak out ahead of New York primary | Related: Who is God's candidate? Jewish voters speak out ahead of New York primary |
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| True to form, Sanders is on to the next state before the current state is done voting. Pennsylvania votes next Tuesday, along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland. | True to form, Sanders is on to the next state before the current state is done voting. Pennsylvania votes next Tuesday, along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland. |
| Expectations? Sanders starts Eerie event right off the bat: "you know what? I think we're going to win Pennsylvania" pic.twitter.com/nhUVEXwJBb | Expectations? Sanders starts Eerie event right off the bat: "you know what? I think we're going to win Pennsylvania" pic.twitter.com/nhUVEXwJBb |
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| View from the polls: agreeing with Sanders on income inequality | View from the polls: agreeing with Sanders on income inequality |
| Lauren Gambino | Lauren Gambino |
| The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino caught Michael Griesinger, 38, an emergency room doctor, outside a polling station in Brooklyn. | The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino caught Michael Griesinger, 38, an emergency room doctor, outside a polling station in Brooklyn. |
| Griesinger said he voted for Bernie Sanders because he agreed with the candidate on a range of issues, especially income inequality. | Griesinger said he voted for Bernie Sanders because he agreed with the candidate on a range of issues, especially income inequality. |
| Living in Prospect-Lefferts Garden, a gentrifying neighborhood in the past decade, Griesinger said he’s observed a marked difference among residents in quality of life. | Living in Prospect-Lefferts Garden, a gentrifying neighborhood in the past decade, Griesinger said he’s observed a marked difference among residents in quality of life. |
| “Then you look at Manhattan and the gap between the the rich and poor is enormous.” | “Then you look at Manhattan and the gap between the the rich and poor is enormous.” |
| He said he’s also hopeful for a president with a less aggressive foreign policy agenda, who invests more in domestic policy and on fixing urgent problems at home. For Griesinger, the answer is Sanders. | He said he’s also hopeful for a president with a less aggressive foreign policy agenda, who invests more in domestic policy and on fixing urgent problems at home. For Griesinger, the answer is Sanders. |
| “Even if a lot of what he hopes to achieve isn’t possible in our current political climate, I still think it’s important to vote with your conscience,” he said. | “Even if a lot of what he hopes to achieve isn’t possible in our current political climate, I still think it’s important to vote with your conscience,” he said. |
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| Here’s a new video offering circulated by the Trump camp – two-and-a-half-minutes of random montage heavily featuring people of color who support Trump backed by Quad City DJ’s C’Mon N’ ride it (the Train), followed by a minute of a singer singing about “the Trump train.” | Here’s a new video offering circulated by the Trump camp – two-and-a-half-minutes of random montage heavily featuring people of color who support Trump backed by Quad City DJ’s C’Mon N’ ride it (the Train), followed by a minute of a singer singing about “the Trump train.” |
| LETS GO AMERICA! Time to take backour country, and #MakeAmericaGreatAgainWatch video & go#VoteTrump! https://t.co/lsKdqGFyvQ | LETS GO AMERICA! Time to take backour country, and #MakeAmericaGreatAgainWatch video & go#VoteTrump! https://t.co/lsKdqGFyvQ |
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| Never doubt dad. | Never doubt dad. |
| "I've learned to never doubt my father's abilities," Donald Trump Jr. says before voting for his dad in midtown pic.twitter.com/z19P5ctVFu | "I've learned to never doubt my father's abilities," Donald Trump Jr. says before voting for his dad in midtown pic.twitter.com/z19P5ctVFu |
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| View from the polls: healthy turnout at upstate site | View from the polls: healthy turnout at upstate site |
| Megan Carpentier | Megan Carpentier |
| Megan Carpentier finds a line of voters in Wappingers Falls, New York, anxious for a polling station to open at noon: | Megan Carpentier finds a line of voters in Wappingers Falls, New York, anxious for a polling station to open at noon: |
| The polls opened at 6am in New York today - but only if you were voting in New York City, the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk, the four counties immediately north of New York City (Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam) and Erie County, which contains Buffalo. | The polls opened at 6am in New York today - but only if you were voting in New York City, the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk, the four counties immediately north of New York City (Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam) and Erie County, which contains Buffalo. |
| Elsewhere in the state, the primary polls didn’t even open until noon. And so it was that, 10 minutes before noon, a group of anxious voters was queued up outside the Fishkill Plains Elementary School in Wappingers Falls, NY, waiting until the clock ticked down and the doors opened. | Elsewhere in the state, the primary polls didn’t even open until noon. And so it was that, 10 minutes before noon, a group of anxious voters was queued up outside the Fishkill Plains Elementary School in Wappingers Falls, NY, waiting until the clock ticked down and the doors opened. |
| Poll workers said they’d never seen another primary like it, though the 2008 general election lines were also quite long; one poll worker recalled starting a pool for how many primary voters they’d get and, eventually when they closed the doors, the person who picked “five” won. That year, she said, they did exercises and played word games just to keep from getting bored in the elementary school’s little gym. | Poll workers said they’d never seen another primary like it, though the 2008 general election lines were also quite long; one poll worker recalled starting a pool for how many primary voters they’d get and, eventually when they closed the doors, the person who picked “five” won. That year, she said, they did exercises and played word games just to keep from getting bored in the elementary school’s little gym. |
| Not so this year, as folks streamed in and out in clusters through the 1:00 hour, taking perhaps more Republican than Democratic ballots. Only one person had trouble finding her name on the primary rolls: a registered Republican from age 18, the 30-something woman finally found her name and, while her daughter hid behind her legs playing peekaboo with the poll workers, cast her ballot. | Not so this year, as folks streamed in and out in clusters through the 1:00 hour, taking perhaps more Republican than Democratic ballots. Only one person had trouble finding her name on the primary rolls: a registered Republican from age 18, the 30-something woman finally found her name and, while her daughter hid behind her legs playing peekaboo with the poll workers, cast her ballot. |
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| Trump camp accuses Cruz of bribing delegates | Trump camp accuses Cruz of bribing delegates |
| A Trump surrogate told CNN that Ted Cruz has been bribing delegates and she has seen it with her own eyes. | A Trump surrogate told CNN that Ted Cruz has been bribing delegates and she has seen it with her own eyes. |
| It was a surprising charge in part because by all appearances Cruz’s dominance of Trump at capturing delegates has owed to the Cruz camp’s vastly superior organization and familiarity with the rules of the game. | It was a surprising charge in part because by all appearances Cruz’s dominance of Trump at capturing delegates has owed to the Cruz camp’s vastly superior organization and familiarity with the rules of the game. |
| But Tana Goertz, Iowa co-chair for the Trump campaign and a former contestant on The Apprentice, Trump’s reality TV show, has now accused Cruz of outright bribery. “Bribing people to be delegates for him... I’ve seen it happening,” Goertz told CNN. | But Tana Goertz, Iowa co-chair for the Trump campaign and a former contestant on The Apprentice, Trump’s reality TV show, has now accused Cruz of outright bribery. “Bribing people to be delegates for him... I’ve seen it happening,” Goertz told CNN. |
| Except when challenged on the point she lamely backed down and said she couldn’t talk about it without talking to Mr Trump first. | Except when challenged on the point she lamely backed down and said she couldn’t talk about it without talking to Mr Trump first. |
| “I have seen shady behavior, let’s just call it that. ... Until I speak with Mr Trump, I am not at liberty to discuss this.” | “I have seen shady behavior, let’s just call it that. ... Until I speak with Mr Trump, I am not at liberty to discuss this.” |
| Cruz adviser Ken Cuccinelli later forcefully rebutted the charge on CNN. “You know, I call foul and BS,” he said. | Cruz adviser Ken Cuccinelli later forcefully rebutted the charge on CNN. “You know, I call foul and BS,” he said. |
| (h/t: @TPM) | (h/t: @TPM) |
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| New York representative Peter King, who has supported calls for surveillance of US mosques but said that Donald Trump went to far in calling for a ban on Muslim immigrants, tells MSNBC that he will “take cyanide” if Ted Cruz gets the nomination. | New York representative Peter King, who has supported calls for surveillance of US mosques but said that Donald Trump went to far in calling for a ban on Muslim immigrants, tells MSNBC that he will “take cyanide” if Ted Cruz gets the nomination. |
| .@RepPeterKing: : "I'm not endorsing @tedcruz. I hate @tedcruz. I think I'll take cyanide if he got the nomination." pic.twitter.com/L1sqPek7uQ | .@RepPeterKing: : "I'm not endorsing @tedcruz. I hate @tedcruz. I think I'll take cyanide if he got the nomination." pic.twitter.com/L1sqPek7uQ |
| The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs remembers well the support of King – a son of Galway, Limerick and Wales – for the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, opposed in Northern Ireland politics, as some readers will know better than others, by the Social Democratic and Labour Party. | The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs remembers well the support of King – a son of Galway, Limerick and Wales – for the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, opposed in Northern Ireland politics, as some readers will know better than others, by the Social Democratic and Labour Party. |
| Congratulations to Ted Cruz on his endorsement by the SDLP https://t.co/ozKQbDQK9j | Congratulations to Ted Cruz on his endorsement by the SDLP https://t.co/ozKQbDQK9j |
| Ben further recalls that this is not the first time a member of Congress has contemplated death by poisoning in confronting the prospect of a Cruz nomination. But the other member to do so, Lindsey Graham, subsequently concluded that even the poison of Cruz was preferable to the fatal gunshot to which he compared Donald Trump. | Ben further recalls that this is not the first time a member of Congress has contemplated death by poisoning in confronting the prospect of a Cruz nomination. But the other member to do so, Lindsey Graham, subsequently concluded that even the poison of Cruz was preferable to the fatal gunshot to which he compared Donald Trump. |
| “You might find an antidote to poisoning, I don’t know, maybe there’s time,” Graham said in a Daily Show appearance: | “You might find an antidote to poisoning, I don’t know, maybe there’s time,” Graham said in a Daily Show appearance: |
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| The Hillary Clinton campaign is live blogging New York primary day. We’ve scrolled through and discerned a dearth of Bernie Sanders coverage. #skewed | The Hillary Clinton campaign is live blogging New York primary day. We’ve scrolled through and discerned a dearth of Bernie Sanders coverage. #skewed |
| Consider this bit of Q&A: | Consider this bit of Q&A: |
| 3. Hillary’s lead: a big deal? | 3. Hillary’s lead: a big deal? |
| It sure is. Hillary is currently leading by a wider pledged delegate margin than President Obama ever did in 2008. That’s important because no Democratic candidate has ever been nominated without winning the most pledged delegates. If Hillary wins New York even by the slimmest of margins, the path to a delegate lead becomes very difficult for Senator Sanders. | It sure is. Hillary is currently leading by a wider pledged delegate margin than President Obama ever did in 2008. That’s important because no Democratic candidate has ever been nominated without winning the most pledged delegates. If Hillary wins New York even by the slimmest of margins, the path to a delegate lead becomes very difficult for Senator Sanders. |
| It's #PrimaryDay in New York. Get all you need to know on our live blog: https://t.co/LB1MIvu39F pic.twitter.com/pXFWgcZPDt | It's #PrimaryDay in New York. Get all you need to know on our live blog: https://t.co/LB1MIvu39F pic.twitter.com/pXFWgcZPDt |
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| Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who previously said he was voting for Donald Trump but that that did not constitute an endorsement, now admits that he is endorsing Donald Trump. | Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who previously said he was voting for Donald Trump but that that did not constitute an endorsement, now admits that he is endorsing Donald Trump. |
| “Why not say, ‘I’m Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump?’” a CNN host asked Giuliani in a morning TV appearance. | “Why not say, ‘I’m Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump?’” a CNN host asked Giuliani in a morning TV appearance. |
| “I’m Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump,” the former mayor replied. | “I’m Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump,” the former mayor replied. |
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| The Guardian’s Megan Carpentier spots some creative advertising on the way upstate: | The Guardian’s Megan Carpentier spots some creative advertising on the way upstate: |
| Hopewell Junction, New York. Primary Day. pic.twitter.com/aUlCeX2KAE | Hopewell Junction, New York. Primary Day. pic.twitter.com/aUlCeX2KAE |
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| View from the polls: Trump supporter looking for a change | View from the polls: Trump supporter looking for a change |
| “I don’t think we need another politician,” says Mary Cummings in West Seneca, New York: | “I don’t think we need another politician,” says Mary Cummings in West Seneca, New York: |
| Voter Voice: Mary Cummings likes @realDonaldTrump because he's a businessman, not "another politician." #NYPrimary pic.twitter.com/u5rhlWq4ZT | Voter Voice: Mary Cummings likes @realDonaldTrump because he's a businessman, not "another politician." #NYPrimary pic.twitter.com/u5rhlWq4ZT |