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In light of that Politico piece everyone is discussing today about the end of the Sanders’ campaign I thought I’d reup this piece from a month ago.
Statement from President Obama just released by the White House Press Secretary. Pay particular attention to the last paragraph.
People on TV right now are asking how it is that Donald Trump is now so much wobblier than he was in past blowups. Or why is the press being harder on him now? All these different questions. All of them, I think, miss the point. The issue is that Trump is now operating in front of a different electorate. It wants different things. It is willing to accept different things. That is the entirety of the matter. The general electorate is not the GOP primary electorate. He has to react to that. The press inevitably reacts to that. But the real issue is that press scrutiny didn’t matter in the GOP primaries because Trump’s supporters generally liked or were indifferent to what reporters found. This is all about a different electorate.
New Jersey polls closed at 8:00PM
8:07 PM: Don’t read too much into the networks saying both New Jersey races are “too early to call.” There are no exit polls tonight in New Jersey. So nothing to base predictions on until there are some actual results.
8:13 PM: And oh my … Hillary hit Trump so hard he’s using a teleprompter tonight!
It’s a minor part of the Trump University swindle saga. But one of the most humorous parts of it is Trump’s continued reference to the 98% satisfaction rating given by students of ‘Trump University’. They even gave emphatic video testimonials saying how great Trump University was! Now, there’s been abundant reporting on the pressure tactics ‘students’ received to give rave reviews – begging, hounding, guilting, threatening or just whether or not you’d give a good grade to the person whose support you were relying on to help you get rich. But step back. Does anything get a 98% approval ratings? Anything? Trump University was basically the North Korea of student evaluations.
Only in the Trump universe would this be a positive rather than comical.
Donald Trump just released a kinda sorta not really taking back of his comments about Judge Curiel. I’ll let the text speak for itself (after the jump) …
As Lauren Fox explains here, Trump has managed to shatter the fragile and improbable unity Republicans achieved after he clinched the GOP nomination last month. As of today, he seems to have achieved something even more impressive. A who’s who of Republican elected officials over the last 36 hours have openly said Trump’s attacks are “racist” and “unforgivable” and yet they will continue to support him. Because they need him to be president.
Good look at how Trump’s war against Judge Curiel has basically shattered the fragile unity Republicans were able to muster after Trump clinched the nomination.
Bernie Sanders may win California today, but whether or not he does, he won’t have enough delegates to deny the nomination to Hillary Clinton. But Sanders says he is going to carry the fight to the convention, and his campaign talks of prying loose super-delegates and waging platform battles. I voted for Sanders in the primary, so perhaps I can offer advice that rises above the partisan clamor: drop out of the race, give Clinton your full support, and train your sights on Donald Trump, who thinks a judge whose parents were from Mexico, and who was born in Indiana, is not an American.
Sanders had a commendable political agenda, and he can return to it with some authority after November if Clinton wins and he becomes the Budget Chair. But a convention