Okay, with Trump now in a shouting match with the Pope and the Trump campaign calling Pope a hypocrite for being head of state of a country surrounded by a massive wall … I think it’s probably time for us to call it a wrap as a country.
A word of caution from TPM Reader BY …
Your reader MJ is right to be worried. I’ve seen results of a poll (and heard about another) done by a group here in DC that tested Sanders’s support before and after likely lines of attack against him. The results are bad, real bad.
Please no one, no one, no one tell Donald Trump that the original Vatican City walls were built by Pope Leo IV after Muslim raiders sacked St. Peter’s Basilica in 846.
FreedomWorks: “The very fact that people on our side feel very strongly that there shouldn’t be a hearing before we know the nominee is because it’s not really about the nominee. … Frankly, the real objection here is to Obama.”
More from Tierney Sneed on the pressure conservative groups are putting on GOP senators not to hold a hearing for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee — and why.
TPM Reader MAC ain’t buying the electability rap on Sanders …
I have been a TPM follower since the early 2000s… I have been reading responses and opinions about Sanders from readers who like him, but feel he is un-electable, or that his policies are impractical, and I needed to respond.
To the first point, I’m astounded that anyone who has been paying any attention to our toxic partisan politics in the last decade would think that the Republican attacks would be somehow less vehement for one candidate over the other. Eight years ago, I remember how Obama partisans would point out how “divisive” and “polarizing” Hillary Clinton would be as POTUS. Even then, the perpetual rage machine from right-wing talk radio and Fox News was completely disconnected from facts and logic, and I predicted pretty much what happened: If Obama was elected, the narrative and outrage from the right would be just as vigorous.
The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee is fundraising off plan to refuse to hold hearings on Obama Court nominee. Email text after the jump …
This is a painful moment. I need to defend Ted Cruz and his campaign. I didn’t think it would ever get to this point. But it has. So here goes.
Donald Trump seemed eerily rational and human in the last 15 minutes of that townhall interview.
I learned one thing and remembered another from last night’s Trump townhall, especially from the latter 10 or 20 minutes of it. The first is that Trump has friggin’ huge eyebrows. I’m not sure how I missed this. But they’re huge — and yuuuuuuge, I guess. I’m not sure how I didn’t know this before.
Evidence
Speaker Paul Ryan tries to match Trump for Scots cred and self-awareness by issuing call to “unite the [GOP] clans” to fight for “freeeedoooom.”