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From The Reporter’s Notebook
In the latest audio released from Sen. Ted Cruz’s Manhattan fundraiser, we found out that Cruz would not make upending marriage equality a top priority in his hypothetical administration. TPM’s Caitlin Cruz notes that is a sharp departure from his comments after June’s Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. As she points out, if Cruz is serious about chasing Donald Trump’s coattails for the eventual nomination, he will have to reconcile both his supporters on the fringe and at the base of his party.
Say What?!
“Frankly, it’s a bigotry from the Democrats. They look down on the southern states like we’re a bunch of hicks.”
-Ted Cruz attributed Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the closure of DMV office in majority-black areas of Alabama to “bigotry.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “This is the last straw as far as I am concerned. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz needs to go…now. She has now single handedly made Clinton’s life harder in that if she wins, it will be tainted by keeping the DNC database from the Sanders campaign because she hired a sub par vendor to manage it. She has also completely alienated Sanders’ supporters in the process. If the last two election cycles were not enough…this should be. She is obviously a Clinton supporter, and as such should not run the DNC.”
Related: The Sanders campaign maintains that the DNC ultimately holds responsibility for a breach of voter data.
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