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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Ohio Gov. John Kasich formally announced that he was suspending his campaign for president in a press conference late Wednesday afternoon, TPM’s Allegra Kirkland reported. Kasich said that his message—that “the spirit, the essence of America lies in the hearts and souls of us”—failed to resonate with some voters because “it wasn’t sexy.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Sanders has managed to garner a huge amount of support for a range of policies and basic perspectives about market economies that would have seemed anathema to most Democrats or at least politically fatal only a few years ago. That’s something new. It’s not going anywhere any more than a whole generation of people is going to just disappear. It needs to be woven into the fabric of the Democratic coalition. If it has legs and I think it does it needs to start building the left wing of the party at the local and state level, where party change actually happens.”
Say What?!
“They may be laughing today, but they’re going to be rubbing their own faces in their own feces, I’ll tell you that, after this general election, because they have humiliated themselves.”
– Conservative pundit Mark Levin had some choice words Tuesday for Fox News in regards to its coverage of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Now (Trump) also has some ideas that are non-conservative, and more broadly popular, like protecting certain government welfare programs like Medicare and Social Security, but he can’t separate it from his hateful message. People have this idea that he’s some great actor, and that he’s going to change his tune, everyone will get amnesia, and then he’ll win. That’s not going to happen. Look, so far he’s tried to do the ‘More Presidential Trump’ thing twice so far, after winning Florida and after New York. It lasted a night, before he was back to retweeting White Supremacists and name calling. He especially goes crazy when women challenge him, a la Megyn Kelly or Hillary Clinton, and he just won’t be able to stop himself. There will be no successful reboot. It’s the story of the frog and the scorpion, and Trump is the scorpion will kill the frog (his electoral chances), even if it causes him to drown (lose the election) because that’s his nature.”
Related: Donald Trump dooms Republicans way beyond 2016.
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