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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Donald Trump on Sunday blasted the Virginia Republican Party for a new requirement that residents voting in the Republican primary must sign a statement declaring that they are Republicans. TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal points out that the presidential candidate is likely concerned that the pledge could deter any independent voters who currently support him from heading to the polls.
Say What?!
“They made it seem like I’m saying there are a bunch of Chinese boots on the ground. Chinese have physical characteristics that would make them pretty easy to identify in a setting like that.”
-Ben Carson acknowledged to the Washington Post that he probably “shouldn’t have said” that the Chinese army was involved in Syria’s civil war, but insisted that the media twisted his words.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The Big Short,” a film adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book about the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s, left me “feeling some despair. It seems to me that this is going to happen again, that very little has changed, and I don’t see a way to change it in this political climate. As the film says at the end, these instruments are back in motion.”
Related: Jon Stewart pointed out that Wall Street enjoys the ultimate “grade inflation.“
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