It’s just a cringefest in this statement put out by Missouri’s Republican speaker of the House apologizing for, well, he doesn’t actually come out and say for what, but presumably sexting with an intern. But this line takes the cake: “I also regret that the woman has been dragged into this situation.” The woman.
And now Rubio says he wouldn’t have invaded Iraq, knowing what we know now.
Even though he said the opposite two months ago.
Governor Bush has a fun moment in Reno …
“Your brother created ISIS,” the young woman told Jeb Bush. And with that, Ivy Ziedrich, a 19-year-old college student, created the kind of confrontational moment here on Wednesday morning that presidential candidates dread.
We’ve got some fascinating polling data looking at the GOP primary race through the prism of the federal military takeover of Texas, separating out “takeover” voters (who believe the federal government is trying to take over Texas) and “squishes” (who are taking the Pentagon’s word for it that the takeover isn’t happening). Among “Takeover” voters the top choice is Scott Walker. For “Squishes”, it’s Jeb Bush.
The two candidates with the highest percentage of takeover voters are Rick Perry (76%) and Ted Cruz (56%). That’s the percentage of their supporters who are “takeover” voters.
Jeb: Answering that Iraq question would be a “disservice” to the troops.
Chris Christie’s wife, Mary Pat: Yeah, there’s a lot less enthusiasm for Chris running for President.
You’ll remember back in the fall we reported on three political scientists from Stanford and Dartmouth who stumbled and bumbled their way into all kinds of controversy in Montana with a research project pegged to state Supreme Court elections. Now the state’s commissioner of political practices has released his report on the fiasco, and found that Stanford and Dartmouth are on the hook for violating state elections laws. Here’s our complete report on his decision, including the backstory on the research project for those who missed this back in the fall.
How three Poli Sci profs ridiculous experiment broke Montana law and created headaches for researchers probably forever.
Jeb Bush went on Hannity yesterday afternoon to try to recover the Iraq answer from the day before. It wasn’t pretty. In case you missed it, here’s what happened.
Kilgore: No, the Cameron victory in the UK really doesn’t have many lessons for the US or the 2016 election.