Primary nights in New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota offer Donald Trump a victory lap, while the Democratic primaries will be closely watched, even as Hillary Clinton has reportedly secured the delegates necessary for the Dem nomination. Her rival Bernie Sanders has pledged to stay in the race, perhaps as late as the convention. Here’s how Tuesday evening’s events are expected to unfold:
8 p.m. ET:
Polls closed in New Jersey.
9 p.m. ET:
Polls close in New Mexico.
Democratic caucus begins in North Dakota.
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at a press conference in Westchester, New York.
10 p.m. ET:
Polls close in Montana.
Hillary Clinton is expected to speak at a rally in Brooklyn, according to MSNBC.
Final polls close in South Dakota.
Donald Trump slated to appear on Sean Hannity’s Fox show.
11 p.m. ET:
Polls close in California.
Also, Bernie Sanders is holding an election night rally in Santa Monica, California, where he is expected to speak.
Biggest story will be Trump’s speech and the brand new ‘presidential’ persona it reveals. The MSM will be gobbling up it, declaring him transformed. Republican pols will re-endorsing him. All because of one speech written by some hack. Immediate counter-narrative required along the lines of: Well, he’s a scam-artist, what else would he do? (And note how he has taken all of Sanders most aggressive lines of attack and explicitly running with them. Thanks, Bernie.)
Wow! Something incredible happening in North Dakota peeps! Can’t you feel it? Bernie wins a caucus…feel the bernmentum’! Won with 162 votes… wait! whuuut??? gawwdamighty’… the numbers actually represent delegates to the state convention next weekend, not people present at the caucus…although in some of the more rural counties they may be the same number. WTF is this? ~facepalm!~
What line of attack against Hillary originated with Bernie? The GOP has a right wing attalking points rolodex going back 40 years on her, I don’t think they needed nor drew inspiration from Bernie’s attacks.
It would be great if we could get though this without “Hillary supporters continue to be sore winners” being a trending story.