the *DON* JONES INDEX…
		GAINS POSTED in GREEN LOSSES POSTED in RED 3/11/24... 14,922.81 3/4/24... 14,984.46
	6/27/13… 15,000.00
*(THE DOW* JONES INDEX: 3/11/24... 38,722.69; 3/4/24... 39,087.38; 6/27/13… 15,000.00)**

LESSON for MARCH ELEVENTH, 2024:

“DON’S DEMONIC, DYNAMIC DAYS!”

That’s Don Jones, that is… although Donald Trump will be especially busy between all week too... Super Tuesday to Ramadan (as of today)... as will Joe Biden taking stage Thursday and numerous bad and good actors, musicians, celebrities, politicians, wnnnabees, dreamers and schemers of varied partisanship and demographics… even the clockwatchers.

GOPs will be hopping all week long as the New Trump Order consolidates its dominion - cops bopping Spring Breakers, fops on Oscar red carpets, Red State courts on the march to bring back God... spring breaking out all over with bedsprings squeaking in mansions or motels, overlords in the former extending their dominion o’er the underclasses. From Georgia to Gaza – for the rest of March, Miami residents and visitors and New York subway riders alike will quake and be shaken down under coplights by marching military call-ups; celebrities baking under spotlights and publicity pies; bit parters biting into celebrity’s leftover cake and case histories swelling. By the end of Daylignt Savings, commencement of Ramadan and imminent ending of Lent, a swell time will have been had by all with - only a few billion exceptions; the Chinese, Ukrainians, MidEasterners, retirees living off investments, neglected (if not necessarily bad) actors, passéngers on perilous airplanes and Phillies’ fans mourning Jacon Kelcy’s retirement, RINOs courted by Old White Joe whilst forced to kiss their master’s ass... aside from that, as the other Kelcy brother and get-out-the-vote vixen display... kismet.

If Don Jones was an early sleeper or just tired after his four-day-week-before-last, last week began in the wan, wee hours Sunday night to Monday morning (as Grammy winners celebrated looked forward to EGOT pieces, losers drowned their sorrows in substance and substantial borrowed cash having changed hands), he looked forward to losing another hour Saturday with horror or aplomb; secure in the insecurity of democracy in these DisUnited States and the world (or perhaps welcoming the chaos of all that would intervene between).

PRELUDE: THE GRAMMYS

Fleet feet competeD to the beat of the Grammys; the heat was on all February and Hollywood was soaked by a bomb cyclone after firehose after Pineapple Express as opposed stifling, jaw-crunching heat East of the Rockies as temperatures fifteen to twenty degrees above normal sprung spring flowers from the ground and upon trees; blooms soon to be slaughtered by winter’s return... and between the early spring and atmospheric rivers of the West. the in-between American heartland, wildfires and tornadoes that tracked as far north as Minnesota.

See some previews as Attachments One through Three... Attachment One – From The New York Times: ”Predictions From Three Critics”; Attachment Two – From The Washington Post: Grammys 2024 Performances, Ranked from Best (Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs) to Worst (U2); and Attachment Three – a roundup of performances from Pitchfork... and a list of winners as Attachment A.

SUPER TUESDAY

And then, after back-to-work Monday, redeyed and perhaps hungover from too much celebration or disappointment, Don Jones trekked out to vote in sixteen states and one colony on Super Tuesday – doing exactly what he had been told he ought to do, pulling the levers for Djonald and Joe (or snarling while writing in “Uncommitted”), pulling the plug on Sweet Nikki and Mean Dean. Both would be gone by Wednesday morning - but Haley’s voters would not be foregotten, at least by the media, who touted their RINO revulsion at some of Trump’s latest tropes (the giveaway of deadbeat NATO countries to Russia, the mocking of Haley’s soldier husband, the ninety one indictments).

That Donald, on the other hand, didn’t give a damn about those traitors... or did a good job pretending not to.

Doubling down on his reputation as a sore winner, Trump reveled Wednesday at the news that his last Republican rival was suspending her campaign and took some parting shots at former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on the heels of her Super Tuesday drubbing. (New York Post, March 6^th, Attachment Four)

“Nikki Haley got TROUNCED last night, in record setting fashion, despite the fact that Democrats, for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote in Vermont, and various other Republican Primaries,” the 77-year-old ranted on Truth Social minutes before Haley officially bowed out.

Trump now has 995 of the 1,215 delegates needed to secure the party nod compared to Haley’s 89. His team expects to officially cross the 1,215 threshold later this month.

“At this point, I hope she stays in the ‘race’ and fights it out until end! I’d like thank my family, friends, and the Great Republican Party for helping me to produce, by far, the most successful Super Tuesday in HISTORY,” Trump went on before needling Haley further by saying that “much of her money came from Radical Left Democrats, as did many of her voters.”

Perhaps he already knew that these RINOs would defect to Sleepy Joe. Or he didn’t care. “Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign,” Biden said in a statement.

What speculation remains among the RINOs, MAGA and the multiverse now centers around Trump’s selection of a running mate – given the... uh... problems experienced by Mike Pence.

Back on February 21^st, Djonald UnDecided floated a few names, mostly comprised of defeated challengers who have bowed, kissed the ring and the nether orifices (Washington Times, Attachment Five) – all of whom he now refers to as “good people”.

On the list were Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

He especially lauded Mr. Scott, who was sitting in the audience of the town hall in Greenville, South Carolina.

“A lot of people are talking about that gentleman right over there,” Mr. Trump said. “And he’s been so great. He’s been such a great advocate.

“I have to say, this is in a very positive way, Tim Scott, he has been much better for me than he was for himself. I watched his campaign and he doesn’t like talking about himself, but boy, does he talk about Trump.”

There is reason to believe that... strictly on demographical grounds, the Once and Future might be well served by pairing off with a minority veep, black like Scott or maybe a Latino. (His border policies might deter some aspirants, but there’s always Cuba... and Little Marco has been trying his darndest to prove his loyalty.) Or, to poach some votes, a female... that may have been justification for the RNC choosing Sen. Katie Britt to give the SOU response, but Nancy Mace (R-SC) has also waved the MAGA flag in public in shutting down George Stephanopolous. And there is always the failed Arizonan Kari Lake.

MTG? Not likely.

Sunday last before the voting, the WashPost ran a Q&A piece on the sixteen primaries (Attachment Six) reporting that: “There are 865 Republican delegates up for grabs in 15 states that vote on Super Tuesday... more than one-third of the 2,429 total delegates” needed to nominate.

Fishing for fermentation, the Post posted “warning signs”... about the general election and whether Haley (and Christie and DeSantis - even Doug Burgam) voters would kowtow, defect to the Democrats or stay home. They found Haleyquins like Joe Neal, 28, who said: “I’m not going to support a seditionist. I’m not going to support someone who supported terrorism...” but then reported that Americans for Prosperity, the dark money PAC backed by the Koch brothers, “announced it would stop spending on her behalf after she lost her home state of South Carolina.”

Earlier that morning, GUK’s David Smith groused and grumbled that Super Tuesday “is looking less than super this year,” and that, “(w)ith the presidential nominees all but assured, the celebrated ritual lacks suspense” and could even be ‘the worst in modern history’. (At least for the media and any advertisers careless enough to lay their money down on hygienic creams or movie promos during the night.)

Smith jumped the monkey and quoted Charlie Sykes, a contributor and columnist for the MSNBC network, who opined that: “Part of the reason that so many people take crazy pills is you look at Donald Trump and he has become more extreme, more deranged and more unhinged and yet nothing seems to matter. His authoritarian agenda couldn’t be clearer and yet Republicans who once thought of themselves as the party of liberty and the constitutional order are just falling into line behind him.” (Attachment Seven)

No resistence. No excitement.

Even the liberal Guardian U.K. reported (in the wolf hours of America, but morning in London – Attachment Eight) that not only are the candidates worried about voter boredom, but the Democratic Socialists of America, whom GUK call “a force with young progressives,” endorse a push for Super Tuesday voters to choose “uncommitted”, to register disapproval for US support for Israel and in Michigan, more than 100,000 do so.

Frank Luntz, a Republican-aligned pollster, tells the Guardian that in terms of a presidential election, Super Tuesday “never mattered less” than this year.

“I don’t know any political event that’s got more attention for being less relevant,” Luntz said. “The decision has been made. The choice is clear... (y)ou know who the two nominees are and 70% of Americans would rather it not be so,” Luntz said.

‘Super Tuesday’ Won’t Live Up to Its Name This Year,” wrote Time’s Will Weissert (March 5^th, Attachment Nine) because, as according to a new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found, a majority of Americans didn't think either Biden or Trump had the necessary mental acuity for the job.

“Both of them failed, in my opinion, to unify this country,” said Brian Hadley, 66, of Raleigh, North Carolina one of the “men on the street” whom Time surveyed.

At least, according to the liberal Slate, there were a few surprises to break the tedium; for example Sweet Nikki’s one victory in Ben, Jerry and Bernie’s Vermont/ (Attachment Ten)

And in an even more counfounding moment, Biden won every state primary by substantial, incumbent-sized margins but did not win every contest, however. He lost the American Samoa caucus 51 to 40. (That’s not percentage; those are raw vote numbers.) Biden was bested there by a fella named Jason Palmer, a self-described “entrepreneur, impact investor and philanthropist” from Baltimore who appears to have told American Samoans that he’s very popular in the mainland.

“How nice for him,” Slate excused the anomaly. Palmer (see below) will now get allowed into the convention and might even crash a debate or two.

There were also more than a few down-ballot races of note... the most important of which found Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey advancing to November’s election. The Trump-hating Schiff had spent “significant money and messaging trying to elevate Garvey as his main opponent, recognizing that it’s not especially hard to defeat a Republican in a California general election. You can call this a cynical strategy, and one that might help Republican turnout down-ballot in November. But what’s important to Schiff is that you’ll soon call him a senator.”

Trump’s triumph gets him another step closer to reclaiming the presidency, according to Time’s Eric Cortellessa and pursuing a “draconian policy agenda unlike any the nation has ever seen.” (Attachment Eleven)
Trump has vowed to “round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants; reimpose his travel ban on Muslim-majority countries; purge the federal bureaucracy of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists; force homeless Americans off the streets and into tent cities; and commandeer the Justice Department to exact revenge on his political enemies.”

But will the tents be free, and FEMA quality? If so, not a bad deal!

Retribution and retaliation were on the back burner after Trump won every SOU primary state (or colony) on Super Tuesday; his victory speech focused, instead, on the last man standing in the way of his return to power. "We've watched our country take a great beating over the last three years," Trump said. “We’re gonna take back our country."

The MAGAverse skipped past Vermont and took their victory lap. "Man I knew Trump would have a good night but this is a rout," Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance posted on X as Trump continued to stack up victories in state after state on Tuesday night. "For voters, we have the next six months to convince them that DJT deserves another term."

"But for donors and political professionals, it's time to unite behind our nominee,” he waxed serious, financially serious owing to the hemorrhaging of cash from the campaign as it is diverted to his legal bills. “Please stop wasting time and money," J. D. recommended. (Fox News, Attachment Twelve)

"It is LONG past time for us to rally around President Trump as our Republican nominee who will defeat Joe Biden this November," GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, thought by some to be in consideration for Trump’s running mate, also posted on X as did Tim Scott, another beaten challenger now vyping for Veeptistic consideration. "Voters across our country have spoken — this race is about the American people.”

California polling that predicted Schiff’s victory indicated that the most pressing issue for voters would be the cost of living, according to CBS News exit polls. (CBS – Attachment Thirteen... see charts and graphs on site) Axios contended that, at least in some states, student protests in favor of Hamas (which the older demographic castigated as “left wing anti-Semitism) led to an ominous “uncommitted” tally in half the primary states... over 100,000 of them in Michigan. (Attachment Fourteen)

President Biden’s critics included the Washington Times (which raised the senility question, stating that Old White Joe “fell into a lengthy thousand-yard stare while dodging the media this week, saying he would “get in trouble” if he took any questions from reporters.

The Daily Mail reported that: “Biden then put the microphone down and froze like a deer in headlights for about 15 seconds as reporters shouted questions at him.” (Attachment Fifteen)

In stark contrast, this far-right Times opined, former President Donald Trump, aged 77, exhibited “vigor” in a 20-minute address after sweeping the majority of the Super Tuesday primaries.

They almost called him “feisty”!

GUK, like many liberals, were at the brink of calling in the Woke Police months, now, before the election so as to avert disster. “We have every reason to believe that the hole Biden is in is real, as unfair as it might seem to his supporters,” the lefty Brits admitted.

As flawed as they might be, GUK parsed, general election polls are our surest guide to how the general electorate is feeling about the general election. (Attachment Sixteen). “In fact, as the political scientist David Faris noted recently, the leader at this point of the year in Real Clear Politics’ average of polls has gone on to win the election in every race since 2004 other than 2004 itself, with only a few points worth of difference between the margin and the final result.”

Biden will have to do substantially better than that to get his campaign right side up,” GUK poured the Kool-Aid. “Plainly, he’s become a symbol of our political system’s decrepitude: a stand-in for all the old men in Washington who voters believe, rightfully, can’t or won’t do much to dramatically improve their lives.”

The age issue, at least, seems to have been buried with the Haley campaign as Al Jazeera (Attachment Seventeen) announced that, on Wednesday morning, just hours after the Super Tuesday results trickled in, Haley “suspended” her campaign for the White House. Ordinarily, there’s little suspence in political suspensions other than that it’s a polite way to avoid the shame of “quitting” but, in Nikki’s case, there is a cure for zombification at the end of some tunnel... not only Trump’s health but his many legal cases. With a little assist from Fani’s libido, the dangerous Federal prosecution in Atlanta is probably off the table for months, if not ever, but there remains Stormy – and while conviction would be self-pardonable, the blowback on Djonald’s blow... uh... would come from both leftists (i.e. moderate, even Reagan conservatives in the Haley camp) and a handful of sincere and committed Christian rightists who might now hesitate at re-electing a convicted sinner (as well as a Republican who would give the abortionists sixteen weeks, as opposed to six) before locking up the mothers and their doctors as well as workers in fertility clinics and contraceptive pill pushers.

Haley’s victory in Vermont and suspension was the first of the Jazzies’ “five takeaways”, the others were...

The “uncommitted” protest vote against Biden;

Adam Schiff’s California “blow” to progressives (if hardly to the Never Trumpers);

A referendum on Trump’s grip over Republicans... firmer then ever and around the throat of RINOs, as in the sabotaging of Texas’s Speaker of the House Dade Phelan by MAGA; and

The Trump/Biden rematch from Hell confirmed.

“He’s the worst president in the history of our country,” Trump said of Biden, blaming the Democratic incumbent for inflation, the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border and conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. “We’ve watched our country take a great beating over the last three years.”

Biden likewise returned warned that Trump represented an existential threat to US democracy.

“My message to the country is this: Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy,” Biden said in a Super Tuesday statement.

And, atop GUK’s categorization of Old White Joe as a symbol of “decrepitude”, the Trump Youth are growing in ranks, influence and fanaticism with Turning Point USA founded in 2012 by then 18-year-old Charlie Kirk now raising “tens of millions of dollars (from leading rightwing donors including the Bradley Impact Fund, which chipped in $7.8m in 2022, the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation and dark-money behemoth Donors Trust) and is hiring hundreds of full-time employees in the three states, according to its spokesperson, Andrew Kolvet.”

Concentrating on the swing states of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, TPUSA has hooked up with MAGAnoids like “Moms for America” and some Stormy-denialist evangelicals despite losses in 2022 when it backed loony-toons “pushing conspiracies about election fraud, Covid-19 and other issues” and has disparaged the likes of Martin Luther King as well as blacks in general and brown and yellow citizens and immigrants alike as, in the words of MAGA Maharajah, “poisoners of the blood.”

“Kirk (whose day job is as a radio host on the evangelical Salem Radio Network) chases conspiracies that animate his followers and generate funds,” the long-time GOP consultant Tyler Montague said. “Kirk has used this method to push conspiracies about election fraud, Christian nationalism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, and now he’s opened a new front in racism with his Martin Luther King attacks.”

“TPUSA has a radicalized worldview that they use as a litmus test” in backing candidates, said Kathy Petsas, a GOP district leader in Phoenix. “When it comes to the general elections that matter, their ROI is lousy.”

Notably, four top Arizona candidates in 2022 who were backed by TP Action lost to Democrats, including ex-Fox News anchor Kari Lake in her race for governor, and Mark Finchem in his bid to become secretary of state.

“Virtually every major race they touched they lost in the general election in Arizona,” the former Arizona congressman Matt Salmon said. “Everyone Trump endorses they get behind. It’s not clear if it’s the tail wagging the dog, or vice versa.”

Aside from the marquee match in November, TPUSA is planning a purge of downballot RINOs in July’s Arizona primaries, with Austin Smith, a state legislator and TP Action’s enterprise director tweeting that “[we] need to clean house in Maricopa county” and cited, among other officers, the county recorder, the Republican lawyer Stephen Richer, who rejected unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud in 2020 and 2022.

Their Queen Wasp is Trump loyalist, failed gubernatorial candidate and short-list Veepster Kari Lake who has been gifted with more rolls of TP cash – as has Donald Trump Junior, giving away $333,000 worth of his books at rallies which also featured Steve Bannon and My Pillow’s Mike Lindell.

Frank Luntz (see above and Attachment Nine) now says that, with every passing week, Joe Biden “gets weaker and weaker as more and more voters come to decide that he’s simply too darn old. And so you see this gap between Trump and Biden widening.

“The gap is widening because Biden is collapsing.”

THURSDAY, 9:00 PM EST: STATE of the UNION STATED

The president will defend policies responsible for "record job creation, the strongest economy in the world, increased wages and household wealth, and lower prescription drug and energy costs,” White House communications director Ben LaBolt said in a statement.

That's in contrast, LaBolt continued, to Trump's “Make America Great Again” movement, which consists of “rewarding billionaires and corporations with tax breaks, taking away rights and freedoms, and undermining our democracy.”

Biden’s campaign called extra attention to Trump’s most provocative utterances on the campaign trail, like when he evoked Adolf Hitler in suggesting that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. and said he’d seek to serve as a dictator during his first day back in the White House.

Read a transcript of Biden’s SOU as Attachment “C”, reminisce and decide for yourself... a collection of responses, reactions and predictions through the SOU and up to the coming elections in Russia will be noted in next week’s lesson. But, over the weekend, Don’s dramatic (if shortened) days continued through Daylight Savings, the Oscars and the beginning of Ramadan (among intensification of the Hamas – Israeli war) to which we now return...

SUNDAY MORNING 2:00 AM: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BEGINS

The work of advisers and consultants to Survivors Joey B. and Donny T. began in earnest Friday... and will only escalate and exponate until November, but Don Jones welcomed the end of his crowded workweek to greet the coming forty seven hours of respite with mixed blessings. On the one hand, daylight now extends past the dinner hour and even into the gloaming, on the other, he and the family lost an hour’s sleep and faced what doctors were calling an annual medical catastrophe.

Lawmakers in more than two dozen states are attempting to keep daylight saving time permanent as part of a growing movement for brighter afternoons but others are fighting for the status quo or even to enact a universal Eastern Standard.

State lawmakers have been torn for years on whether to transition to permanent daylight saving time—which would provide an extra hour of afternoon daylight—or pivot instead to year-round standard time, a move two states have already done, though one point state lawmakers agree on is ending the practice of changing the clocks.

Federal law under the Uniform Time Act allows states to observe year-round standard time, as Arizona and Hawaii have done, though it prohibits states from switching to permanent daylight saving time. (Forbes, March 6, 2024, Attachment Fifty Eight)

"It’s time for Congress to act and I’m proud to be leading the bipartisan Sunshine Protection Act with Senator Rubio to get this done," Scott told USA Today (Attachment Fifty Nine).

"We’re ‘springing forward’ but should have never ‘fallen back.’ My Sunshine Protection Act would end this stupid practice of changing our clocks back and forth," Rubio concurred.

USA Today and Forbes more or less agree on the history of the changing times; Forbes attributing DST to World War One in 1918, as “an initiative to save energy in the afternoons and evenings and give Americans extra shopping time after work...” reversed at the national leval once the war ended.

USA Today’s Krystal Nurse and Jeanine Santucci wrote that the biannual time change next manifested as another war began.

“From February 1942 until September 1945, the U.S. took on what became known as "War Time," when Congress voted to make daylight saving time year-round during the war in an effort to conserve fuel. When it ended, states were able to establish their own standard time until 1966 when Congress finally passed the Uniform Time Act, standardizing national time and establishing current-day daylight saving time.”

Amid the energy crisis in 1973, former President Richard Nixon signed a bill restoring a permanent daylight saving time. starting in January 1974. While the American public at first liked the idea, Nurse and Santucci wrote, "the experiment “soon ran afoul of public opinion." Sunrises that could be as late as 9:30 a.m. some places in parts of winter became increasingly unpopular. It didn't take long for Congress to reverse course in October 1974.

“Researchers have shown in recent years that the twice-annual changing of the clocks might not just be a nuisance,” wrote Brian Bushard of Forbes, “it could also be harmful to Americans wellbeing.”

In addition to losing the roughly 40 minutes of sleep on the night after clocks “spring forward” (a loss that is not fully recovered when clocks “fall back” later in the year), recent studies have also shown the changing of the clocks “coincides with a spike in fatal car crashes and emergency room visits, on top of missed medical appointments, a greater chance of workplace injuries and even an increase in heart attacks and strokes. In the long-term, that transition can also accelerate mood disorders tied to sleep disruption, including depression and anxiety, studies have found.”

According to experts solicited by the Fox on Thursday, “darker mornings and lighter evenings can disrupt the body’s internal clock and cause sleep trouble for weeks or even longer.” (Attachment Sixty)

The American Heart Association points to studies that suggest an uptick in heart attacks on the Monday after daylight saving time begins, and in strokes for two days afterward.

In addition, fatal car crashes temporarily jump the first few days after the spring time change, according to a study of U.S. traffic fatalities. The risk was highest in the morning, and researchers attributed it to sleep deprivation.

Dr. Hitendra Patel, medical director of the Sleep Program at Wellstar Health System in Georgia, told FOX 5 Atlanta that Americans should brace themselves because suddenly losing an hour of sleep can be risky.

"Heart attacks increase, literally, in the day after the time change, and also the risk of car accidents as well," Patel explained. "So, people's health is at risk.

While the politicians scuffle over EST and DST, Dr. Patel advises the usual: stop drinking, using social media or watching television, eat only healthy (foul-tasting) foods, exercise under bright sunlight (presumably without sunscreen or a hat)... etcetera.

And be grateful, at least, that you chaotic and confused life is not as bad as that of the Lebanese... where religious objections to the changing clocks resultws in people waking up to find themselves “torn between two time zones” after the government made a last-minute decision to postpone the switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST). “Clocks in the country had been set to spring forward one hour on Sunday, but the speaker of Lebanon's parliament, Nabih Berri, asked the country's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati late last week to postpone the move until after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

"It's just between now and the end of Ramadan," Berri was heard saying in a video leaked online showing the two leaders discuss the matter. "Once Ramadan is over, let them have what they want." (CBS, Attachment Sixty One)

Politics in America stands to become as polarized and chaotic as in Lebanon after Sen. Tommy Tuberville joined the mob clamouring for DST... and let the run over kids at the bus stops and the Health Nazis be damned.

"Most of us in Alabama view that we need, we'd love an extra hour of daylight," said Tuberville... apparently not realizing that no legislation could add or detract from the solar order, DST would just take away in the dawnings what it extended to the dusk.

Appearing on television (November 2, 2023, Attachment Sixty Two) the football coach turned Senator lamented that full-time Daylight Saving Time is not currently allowed by federal law and would require an act of Congress to make a change before the time change could take effect in Alabama.

Who’s to blame for the furor?

Fingers at the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch pointed to none other than Mister Kite (otherwise known as Ben Franklin) who suggested the practice in a satirical essay published in 1784. “He peddled the idea to Parisians so they could change their sleep schedules and ultimately save money on candles and lamp oil....” so, because much of what lit the lamps of the 18^th century came from Moby Dick, one might call DST the original “Seve the Whales” proposition.

If not old Ben, the Dispatch otherwise proposed, it was the railroad bosses who, by the late 19^th century, had to deal with “more than 144 local times in North America,” leading to scheduling chaos worse, even, than in Beirut.

Summing up, Time’s Jeffrey Kluger declared that “Daylight Saving Time Is the Worst!” last Wednesday as Don Jones was enjoying a breather between Super Tuesday and the SOU: “...(i)t’s bad for health, bad for safety, bad for your mood, and just plain unpopular.” Senators Rubio, Tubio and Scott may not agree, “...(b)ut that doesn’t stop us from changing the clocks, pointlessly, twice a year.” (Attachment Sixty Four)

Further, Mr. Kluger harped and carped upon...

The ridiculous history of Daylight Saving Time

If Mister Franklin’s “save the whales” proposal didn’t gain traction, Kluger advanced his Time-line to 1907, when a British business man William Willett penned a pamphlet titled “A Waste of Daylight,” in which he proposed setting clocks forward one hour. “The sun shines upon the land for several hours each day while we are asleep,” he wrote, and yet there “remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal.”

Parliament eventually agreed as War Number One began, the colonials hopped on board and DST and EST then dueled over a century with one, sometimes, on top, and then ther other.

Daylight Saving Time is not even effective

“According to Stanford University, one meta-analysis of 44 studies found that it essentially does not, leading to just a 0.34% reduction in electricity consumption. A 2008 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that nationwide, added daylight can actually increase energy consumption by about 1%, due partly to greater use of air conditioning when the sun is out later in the evening.”

It’s lousy for your health

Mr. Kluger concurs with the Men of Medicine.

“Sleep expert Adam Spira, professor of mental health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, cites a range of problems that can occur when we trade an hour of sleep for an extra hour of sun—as we do with Daylight Saving Time—including daylight-induced sleeplessness when bedtime arrives and morning drowsiness when we wake up in the dark.” Studies have linked such circadian disruption to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, inflammatory markers, and even suicide... not to mention traffic accidents caused by sleep deprivation.

Setting the clocks back also harms infants; more doctors have produced more researches stating that interrupted infant sleep will cause the young ‘uns to grow up and become... well, fill in your deepest, darkest fears.

Dr. Beth Malow, professor of neurology and pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Division at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. “We need morning light to reset our clocks. Teenagers are going through puberty and their melatonin levels are delayed, and it just cuts into their sleep when they get too much light too late in the day and not enough light in the morning.” DST, then, can be blamed for adolescents having too much sex... or maybe too little. Cocks follow clocks. And pollsters say 56% of Joneses prefer the extra hour of sunshine at the end of the day, while only 26% preferred the “darker, winter way of doing things.”

SUNDAY NIGHT, 7:00 PM to EARLY MONDAY: THE OSCARS

Not only did clocks spring forward all across America at 2AM March 17th (except in Arizona and a few of the remaining American colonial possessions), the start of Sunday’s march of little golden eunuchs into the sweaty palms of the deserving or not commenced another hour earlier beginning at seven PM EST and giving celebrants another hour of importance and indulgence at the post-show parties.

The usually sober and judgmental Guardian U.K. apparently went gaga over the little gold American eunuchs, with gushing celebrity gawkings, predictions (some of which come true, some of which did not) and outrage.

Not over Russian advances in Ukraine, nor innocent Palestinians bombed, strafed and starved by evil Jews... not even about the depradatons of the global plutocracy but...

The nominator oraters snubbed snubbed “Barbie”... 2023’s biggest hit arrives with eight nominations, “but Greta Gerwig was passed over entirely in the directing category.” (Friday March 8, Attachment Sixty Six – chock fulla interviews, speculations and trivia)

The horror! The horror!

The Academy gave “65 Kens to frug alongside Ryan Gosling as he warbled “I’m Just Ken” (nominated for best song), while Billie Eilish (also nominated, and the doll people’s only winner) sang her hit song “What Was I Made For?”

Oscar.org’s Q&A website included links to all of the winners dating back to 1927 (Attachment Sixty Five) and disclosed more of the more popular nominations.. GUK’s Stuart Heritage wandered out of the corral and ventured his own predictions – snidely asidely rousting the rest of the unwoke media as “cartoonishly catty and vindictive, and it’s nuts to hear them indiscriminately badmouth everyone in sight.” (Attachment Sixty Seven)

Mister Heritage broke with the pack and suggested that Ruffalo would win out over Iron Man and, so, mount the soapbox and decry the state of the world until the music drowned him out.

He cited “sources” who despised “Poor Things” and its star (and eventually winner) Emma Stone, cursed out Bradley Cooper in “Maestro” and lifted thumbs up for “Godzilla”.

Lance Bakaro (Attachment Sixty Eight) adjudicated that “Barbie” scored a moral victory in the Academy’s over-the-top, Kensational presentation of Gosling’s performance.

“The Oscars’ executive producers Raj Kapoor, Katy Mullan, and Molly McNearney (had) pledged they are “going big” this year and in truth, their event sorely need(ed)) some of Barbie’s star wattage.

This year, Heritage reported before the really bid show, “producers say they’re moving away from the “big, pre-produced, celebrity-heavy comedy bits” involving Kimmel and a cast of guests. “We can only plant the seeds and hope things will happen naturally and spontaneously,” pledged Kapoor. It’s safe to say last year’s laboured exchanges between Kimmel and the donkey from The Banshees of Inisherin won’t be repeated.

“In their place will come starry celebrity hosts announcing the winners. Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer, Ramy Youssef, Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya are all confirmed. Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino will also both appear, leading to speculation of a Scarface reunion.

The Guardian staff polled itself (Attachment Sixty Nine) and, excepting the trashing of Native American Best Actress nominee Lily Gladstone selected most of the winners – as follows...

Best picture Oppenheimer
Best actor Cillian Murphy
Best actress Lily Gladstone
Best supporting actor Robert Downey Jr
Best supporting actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Best director Christopher Nolan
Best song What Was I Made For?
Best adapted screenplay American Fiction
Best original screenplay Anatomy of a Fall
Best documentary 20 Days in Mariupol
Best animated film The Boy and the Heron
Best international film The Zone of Interest

The BBC (attachment seventy) had mostly nice things to say about all the nominees, and provided some nice capsule reviews of the leading prospects but, in the end, went with the Oppenheimer blowout tabbing the film, director Nolan, star Murphy, supporting actor Downey – cratering only, like GUK on Gladstone.

They also encapsulated some of the mid-tier awards for the foreign films and writing and technical Oscars.

And Variety also predicted an Oppensweep... as well as missing on Emma Stone’s upset of Gladstone. They also failed on Barbie’s second award for costume design... that went to “Poor Things”.

While the reel world was celebrating 1945, the real world outside... and, in particular, Los Angeles... was bracing for protests or even terror from the Palestinians, Hamas and some left-wing anti-Semites.

Police said they would be ready for any protest that could unfold outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the 96th Academy Awards will take place. “The LAPD is preparing for all potential protests, including protests regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict,” the department said in a statement to the L.A. Times (Attachment Seventy Two) while also stating (wink, nod!) that the LAPD would “attempt to communicate” with protesters out in the street.

They rolled back the flying carpet of time to Vanessa in 1978 for her pro-Palestinian speech, and to the chorus of boos greeting Michael Moore when he (Bowling for Columbine – 2003) criticized then-President George W. Bush for the Iraq war, which had started just days before the ceremony. He called Bush a “fictitious president” and added, “Shame on you!”

Who cudda known all those now-left-wing celebs were secret RINOs?

GUK (Attachment Sixty Six above) expressed its resignation on the prospective lack of political protest... “given the activity at the Grammys, the Independent Spirit awards and elsewhere.”

Security around the venue was been “beefed up”, but the Oscars said they won’t interfere with winners’ speeches – (“unless Mark Ruffalo manages to get past Robert Downey Jr for best supporting actor... and he didn’t..., it’s hard to see where an incendiary Vanessa Redgrave-type speech is going to come from”).

Within, wrote Heritage (above), “will anyone mention the Israel-Gaza war? Historically, Hollywood has had no problem ignoring geopolitical events on its biggest night, but the scale of protest in the US and around the world, plus the subject matter of the films, might make that difficult on Sunday.

“”There have been protests such as the ones which disturbed the Independent Spirit awards and there could be more on Sunday that could force a conversation that few in Hollywood seem to want to have. “It’s too fraught,” one studio executive told the New York Times after the Independent Spirit protest. “People are worried about their careers.”

Only “Zone of Interest” filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (below and Attachment Seventy Six) waxed political.

As the Oscars closed and red carpeteers scattered to their various after-show parties to get raw and rowdy, GUK’s Benjamin Lee observed that the extent of Gaza protesting was the little red pins worn by “various celebrities, including Billie Eilish and Ramsey Youssef”. (Attachment Seventy Three)

Nobody protested Jimmy Kimmel’s Trump jokes or the inclusion of a tribute to Alexei Navalny.

GUK’s Alaina Demopoulos, corresponding at the stroke of midnight, accorded Messi, the “seriously impressive canine actor from Anatomy of a Fall” his due (Attachment Seventy Four). (Rumors had swirled that the pup would not attend, but Messi showed up in a dashing bow-tie to prove the haters wrong.)

As far as protests went, Kimmel went old school and trotted out the union bosses who supported the actors’ and writers’ strikes last year, and Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy dedicated his performance to those that he “vaguely called the peacemakers”.

“We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or worse we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world, so I’d like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere,” Murphy said.

And GUK’s Jenna Amamili (Attachment Seventy Five) reported that “just ahead of the last award of the night – best picture – getting doled out to Oppenheimer, Kimmel addressed the crowd at the 96th Academy Awards to share a review he had received about his performance as host of the ceremony.”

Said review was none other than former President Trump, who opined on his Truth Social platform that...

“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be,” Kimmel read aloud from his phone.

“Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC ‘talent,’ George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous… blah, blah, blah. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Kimmel, holding the floor, thanked Trump for watching before asking: “Isn’t it past your jail time?” eliciting support from almost all in attendance.

Time (Attachment Seventy Six) called the show a night of “feel good moments” including Gosling’s KenSpectable, rassler John Cena’s nude cakewalk and, again, Messi the Dog.

“(F)ive past acting winners presented the award in their respective categories for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, and Best Actor. The revival brought luminaries like Jamie Lee Curtis, Lupita N'yongo, Christoph Waltz, and Mahershala Ali to the stage, and added a sentimental and personal touch to the night's proceedings.”

The evenings political touches came from the two documentarians.

Glazer drew connections between his movie—which centers on the family of a German commandant living in luxury right next door to the atrocities he's overseeing at the Auschwitz concentration camp—to Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

"Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst," he said. "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people."

Silence ensued... understandable in that many of those in attendance were unrefuted Jews.

But appleause greeted 20 Days in Mariupol director Mstyslav Chernov gave an impassioned speech about the war in Ukraine.

“I wish I could exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities,” he said while accepting the award for Best Documentary Feature Film. “I cannot change history. I cannot change the past. But all together—among you, some of the most talented people in the world—we can make sure the record is set straight, and the truth will prevail…Cinema forms memories, and memories form history.”

As for those little red pins, Time (Attachment Seventy Seven) reported that not only Youssef and Eilish but defeated nominee Ruffalo war the pins, featuring an orange hand with a black heart inside, surrounded by a red circle.

“The pin symbolizes collective support for an immediate and permanent cease-fire, the release of all of the hostages and for the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza," Artists4Ceasefire said in a press release.

And then it was off to party hearty with Elton John or, perhaps, Madonna or the Governor’s Ball (sans Governor). A Fashion Roast was announced, but the edibles ran more to caviar topped pretzals and gallons of champagne; Vogue let photographers wander through its aftermath, so you can see many celebrities here.

As the glitterati bopped and bangled, however, nearer approached the Fear (for most Americans - joy for the few and the many more across the world) as Islamists... nice or naughty... celebrated (or, in the occupied territories) endured Ramadan. (See videos of the not-so-happy holiday here.)

SUNDAY at the CRESCENT MOON: RAMADAN BEGINS

(See Ramadan Q and A’s from Islamic Network Group (ING) as Attachment “F”)

“Palestinian Islamic Jihad is calling for Ramadan to be a “month of terror” and seeks to escalate attacks in the West Bank and Gaza. In a recent speech, Abu Hamza, the spokesman for PIJ’s Al-Quds Brigades, said he wants Arab countries in the region and pro-Iranian groups to continue to “unify” various arenas and fronts against Israel,” reported the Jerusalem Post last Saturday, Attachment Seventy Eight, as well as all of those disinclined to bring back and universalize the Holocaust.

Especially Americans, the West and Christians... aka “Crusaders”. . Hamza’s remarks were published by Beirut-based Al Mayadeen news channel, which is pro-Iranian and frequently highlights Hamas and Hezbollah attacks.

The Palistinian Islamic Jihad... Muslim terrorists eschewing the pork-implicative Palestinian Islamic Group as... well... unclean is considered a proxy of Iran. “It has armed men in Gaza and the West Bank, and its leaders often reside in Damascus, where they sometimes leave to meet with their Iranian handlers in Tehran or to coordinate with Hamas and Hezbollah.”

The Saudis? “Mysteriously absent,” from the fighting or negotiations, according to Foreign Policy.

“Iran has sought to surround Israel with threats that now exist along an arc of 5,000 miles, from Lebanon via Syria and Iraq to the Red Sea and then back to Gaza,” the JP stated.

There are at least seven different “fronts,” according to Iran. Israeli officials have also mentioned these fronts. Iran wants to “unify” them. This means using the Hamas massacre on October 7 to increase attacks from Hezbollah and Iranian-backed groups in Syria and Iraq. “PIJ is one of the smallest of Iran’s proxies,” wrote JP’s Seth J. Frantzman, but is still considered a menace - calling on groups in Arab countries to not “lag in the battle led by the heroes of the resistance in the Gaza Strip, on behalf of the Islamic nation, especially those who possess armies, planes, and cannons.”

The first day of Ramadan should become an international day to support Gaza and “mobilize” in “all the arenas,” Hamza said... a warning that Iran is plotting to escalate during Ramadan. The Post further explosed Hamas’ “sexual criminality” in an editorial, and has flatly denied that there is famine in Gaza... a source of tension between PM Netanyahu and President Biden.

So, at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque, Ramadan “brings uncertainty and fear” warned two reporters for the WashPost (March 9, Attachment Seventy Nine).

Jews revere the site they call the Temple Mount as the location of the first and second temples and worship at the Western Wall, a remnant of the ancient complex. Muslims know it as the Noble Sanctuary, where the prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven.

It’s the holiest site in Judaism and third holiest in Islam.

The WashPost thumbnail history of Arab-Israeli fighting in and around the Temple/Mosque most recently includes a 2021 escalation of the war in Gaza and reports of police v. Muslim conflict on the Mount itself with hard-liners in the Israeli government striving to limit the number, age and gender of Palestinians allowed on the plateau where stands Al Aqsa, “prompting warnings from both sides that restrictions could lead to violence,” which some of either faith would welcome.

Official Israel is prepping for the worst. “Police officials said they will keep about 1,000 officers deployed around the Old City on weekdays and 2,500 or more on Fridays, the Muslim holy day of Jumu’ah. The heavy presence was already evident outside of the Old City’s Damascus Gate, where police (have a history of) clash(ings) with younger Palestinians on Ramadan evenings.”

The most conservative members of the government want to cut off access to al-Aqsa for most Palestinians as long as more than 100 Israelis continue to be held hostage in Gaza.” In recent years, extremist Jewish groups have increasingly sent activists to the al-Aqsa compound to pray, sometimes openly, “which Palestinians view as a provocation,” and Itamar Ben Gvir, the firebrand national security minister who controls Israeli police, has pushed plans to largely ban (Islamic) worshipers from the site.

“The army and the intelligence professionals are telling everyone that it does not do us any good to pour fuel on the fire right now,” said a former military official familiar with discussions inside the cabinet. “The fire is burning very hot as it is.”

As of today, the prime minister’s office announced that Israel will not impose any restrictions at the start of Ramadan “but will evaluate conditions on a weekly basis.” Israelis, Palestinian and other Muslims, Americans and the world have responded to the crisis in the WashPost Peanut Gallery – emphasizing the religious division and ancient hatreds.

An Islamist nut compared “Isaeli apartheid” to the “old South African Bantustans” while an Israeli partisan countered that “...the palestinians are not israeli citizens and do not have the same rights as israeli citizens.”

“If Gazans would really want to develop themselves, elevate their quality of life and live peacefully along Israel - they would be in a much better place right now!” voiced another Jewish-sympathizing peanut. “Instead they invested in Jihad war, making weapons, missiles and fighting tunnels!”

“The willingness of "Israel" to announce a siege - a war crime- back in October that now brings bodies of children dead from starvation and dehydration, should cause fear,” posted I.D., adding that “(t)he fanaticism of settlers and Likudniks should cause fear.”

And a semi- sort-of middle grounder posted an American perspective, inasmuch as: “Firing Ben Gvir and deploying the IDF to keep settler-provocateurs away would help. Might be a sign that Biden's tone-it-down pleas are serious and are getting through. Something to watch for...”

While DA suggested the most unlikely of all outcomes: “How about free the hostages AND feed the starving?”

As for President Joe, he was concerned about violence breaking out in East Jerusalem due to the failure of any temporary ceasefire agreement in the Gaza war before the start of Ramadan.

This year’s Ramadan, set to begin on Sunday, reported the Times of Israel before the collapse of talks, “...comes amid tinderbox tensions stemming from the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the group’s shock October 7 attack, when thousands of terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages, mostly civilians.” (Attachment Eighty)

Various terrorist groups, including Hamas have vowed to punish Israel, even exterminate all Jews... whether in Tel Aviv, Timisoara or Tennessee... while Netanyahu was determined to continue the hunt for Hamas, no matter what consequences to the civilians and their children – which, of course, means that the next generation of Gazans will grow up to perpetuate the terror.

“Israel has said any ceasefire must be temporary and that its goal remains the destruction of Hamas and the return of all hostages.,” reported the ToI The terror group says it will release the hostages it has been holding since October 7 only as part of a deal that ends the war.

It is believed that 130 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive.

The premier’s office said that a “situational assessment around security and safety” will be made every week and that “a decision will be made accordingly” as to expelling Muslims from the Temple Mount and closing the site to both the Shiite (Iranian backed) or Sunni (Saudi-led) factions. Whether this would affect Christian residents or tourists (including Americans) remains to be seen.

The Qatari (Sunni) based Al Jazeera reported that the failed ceasefire-for-hostages deal collapsed when Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said that his group wants a permanent ceasefire, rather than a six-week pause, and a “complete withdrawal” of Jews from the region – a demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “delusional” and pledged again to continue the war until Hamas is dismantled and all the captives are returned.

“The Israelis say they are waiting for Hamas’s response, while Hamas says they are awaiting for Israel’s response,” said Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem.

The Jewish Chronicle (Attachment Eighty Two) predicted that Hamas would likely try to stress religious fundamentalist themes to call on Palestinian masses “to take part in violent actions, and rally under the banner of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” (the name Hamas gave its October 7 attack).”

In the West Bank, the JC reported that Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the IDF and Border Police “have been busy conducting large numbers of security raids to disrupt terror cells before they mature into deadly attacks.”

For their part, “a terrorist stabbed an Israeli at the Yitzhar Junction, before being shot dead by soldiers on the scene.”

And the JC reported that a surge of weapons has flooded the West Bank, entering mostly from the Jordanian border, but also some stolen from IDF bases or produced in local Palestinian workshops.

“Iran is investing money to get weapons into the hands of terrorists as well and tries to help direct and carry out attacks, alongside Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” they accused. According to an anomyous defence source, “weapons that originated from the radical Shi’ite axis have been seized in Judea and Samaria.”

American negotiators say that the terror and hostage problems are compounded by the diversity of the infamous “bad actors” including factions within Hamas like the Lions' Den group in Nablus or, in Jenin, The Camp’s Sons, or the Jenin Brigade.

Domestically, foes of Joe have linked the Texas and Mexican border issue with MidEast terrorism – with NewsMax (March 8^th, Attachment Eighty Three) asking: “Are Ramadan Jihad Cells Already In (the) U.S.?”

According to the Trump-friendly Newsmax... hell yes!

Two of its recent interviews — one with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and one with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., —“pointed to the gathering threat of terror violence inside the country this year.”

This year, Newsmax has predicted that Ramadan likely will be the occasion for even more renewed calls for attacks against Jews in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, the rest of Israel, and the United States (U.S.) homeland as well. “Indeed, U.S. imams already have begun calling for the killing of Jews on a genocidal scale”… only jihad can bring victory, Alhagie Jallow, imam at the Madinah Community Center in Madison, Wis., preached on Oct. 13, less than a week after Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel en masse.

The imam called for genocide against Jews. “By Allah, all of them will be killed by Muslims. They all will be executed by Muslims. They will all be killed. This is a divine promise that will inevitably be fulfilled,” he said. “This is a promise from Allah, and it is going to happen. They will all be killed. They will all be killed, and on that day, the believers will rejoice in Allah’s victory.”

At the turn of the year, “a group of former senior FBI officials sent a letter to congressional leaders warning of a “new and imminent danger."

“That danger, they wrote, arises from the ongoing mass invasion of military-age men from all over the world, among whom surely are not only Chinese Jungle Tigers but also Islamic terrorists seeking vengeance against Jews and for U.S. support of Israel.”

Epoch Times show host and reporter Roman Balmakov interviewed the Blackwater Prince at the March 2024 CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference. During the interview, entitled "Terrorist Sleeper Cells Are Already in the U.S.," Prince told Balmakov that one reason he believes the Biden administration is so reluctant to strike back in any meaningful way against Iranian terror proxies — much less any Iranian target itself — “is that the Iranian regime has already surged unknown numbers of military fighters across our wide-open southern border.”

Prince suggested that such fighters — whether Iran’s own IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), Quds Force, or proxy jihadis from HAMAS, Hizballah, or Houthis — could be flown on Iran’s Mahan Air from Iran to Venezuela then walked north to the border.

On March 3, 2024 Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., joined FOX News' "Sunday Morning Futures" program with Maria Bartiromo and warned that Chinese triads, supported by President Xi, are in cahoots with Islamist terror cells to, among other atrocities, open “a proliferation of massage parlors in Kansas as well as other states” which, along with “other Chinese fronts like hair or nail salons,” which employ enslaved Chinese women who launder money for the cause, spy on Americans and, perhaps, form a dangerous fifth column of saboteurs and assassins waiting for their orders from Beijing (or Caracas, Rafah or Tehran) to strike at the naïve Americans... perhaps also in collusion with fentanyl dealers from Mexico... and maybe even “China” Joe Biden

The Washington Examiner and other news outlets reported in early March 2024 that the Biden administration has flown some 320,000 illegal aliens directly from unknown Latin American countries into the U.S. to unsuspecting American communities that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) refuses to identify.

The secret airlift was kept secret from the American public “to minimize the numbers of illegals being processed through U.S. southern ports of entry via the CBP One cell phone app.”

NewsMax also reported... see Attachment... that American golfers were being endangered by trannie Davidson, that a so-called ‘Hair Fertilizer’ was being marched in order to grow Crazy amounts of hair and that ‘Global Elites” (see here to find out whom... and where they are filling up their mansion moats with crocodiles.)

Our Lesson: March Fouth through March Tenth, 2024

Monday, March 4, 2024

Dow: 39,069.79

Stormy Monday before Super Tuesday adds seven more inches of snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains east to the Rockies as SCOTUS unanimously puts Donald Trump back on tomorrow’s ballot. Bad weather may cut turnout but won’t change results... Joneses on the street call the primaries “negative” and “depressing” but Haley finally wins one... in Washington DC.

In his day job, Biden and Veep Harris try to broker a peace deal for Gaza but nobody wants it. Netanyahu denies shooting children scrabbling for food from the skies, says Hamas is taking it all – Hamas maintains its contention that Jews must leave Israel.

Don Jones has something to celebrate – Lebron James (NBA) and Caitlin Clark (WNBA) set career scoring records and a Space X rocket deposits four more astronauts at the ISS and France greenlights abortion. And conspicuous consumption is on the upswing among the uppermost; a from-India Indian billionaire hires Rihanna to serenade his daughter’s wedding at a cost of between six and nine million. And Jeff Bezos regains his Number One pocketbook with 200B, stranding Elon Musk at second with 198.

But Philadelphia weeps... Jason Kelce announces that he’s retiring. Travis, however, is expected to return to Kansas City.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Dow: 38,585.19

Super Tuesday finds the Dow crashing – but it’s not because of politics but, rather, tech... e-con-mystics blame Apple’s slumping IPhone sales and counsel investors to buy gold instead.

It’s a golden day for the two old candidates (as above) with the singular exception that Sweet Nicki wins one state... Vermont... while President Joe loses American Samoa to somebody named Palmer. Otherwise, the dreary, weary trek towars November continues. Rumourmongers monger that Michelle Obama will enter the race... forcing her to say she won’t.

Spin doctors spin stories... Trump’s surrogates blaming Biden for the murder of the Georgia co-ed actually killed by an illegal alien already arrested several times for this and that. Crime is never far off... a disgruntled diner whacks a Waffle House waffle with a machete, 4,000 Haitian gangsters escape from prison and are taking over the gumment there, while

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Dow: 38,661.05

The day between Super Tuesday and the State of the Union is Hump Day... and, also, National Oreo Day. To note a racially offensive note, even black Republians like Tim Scott and NC governor candidate Mark Robinson are kissing the master’s ring (or other thing). They, the white elephants... a few Asians and Latinos too... all want to be the next Mike Pence. Sad! “November fifth is going to go down as the most important day in American history,” Djonald UnSocialized tweets. Mad!

Questioners ask what is going to be done about all those migrants still crossing the Rio Grande into America and about Friday’s gumment shutdown. Speaker Mike has an answer... kick the can again. For another whole week!

Florida declares war on Spring Breakers, effectively shutting down Miami and other destinations. A TV ad warns the youth of America not to come on down and the prim and proper narrator tells the mostly male, mostly fratboy Breakers that: “You just want to get drunk in public and break laws.”

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Dow: 38,791.35

State of the Union day (above) is also National Pancake Day. Having flattened their party rivals, Joe and Donny launch what a TV pronouncer calls the beginning of the real 2024 campaign. Local reporters are toting up the down-ballot races and mostly agree that the most significant is Trump-hating Adam Schiff’s victory in California.

Donald Trump challenges Biden to a debate. President Joe challenges Trump to a debate. No debate plans manifest. So Joe is off to Pennsylvania to begin campaigning while Djonald is finding money to pay his $91M bond in the Carroll case... the larger bond still pending.

There’s more legal fineageling as “Rust” armorer is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter despite her attorneys blaming Alec Baldwin (who goes on trial later). Alabama legislators pass and Gov. Ivey signs a bill to decriminalize IVF doctors over pro-life objections,

Friday, March 8, 2024

Dow: 39,082.38

Pundits and prognosticators debate the SOU... partisans disagree on his proposals but all agree that President Joe was “feisty”. A few also say he was “on fire”... not insensitive as Texas wildfires are easing... and a few say he exhibited “vigor”. “Vim” is not heard, but George Santos is seen haunting the Capitol where he is still allowed in. He tells the press that he will run to reclaim his old seat.

Bipartisanship is also sailing along as America prepares a ban on Tik Tok unless its ChiCom owners sell it to some rich American. The Chinese, meanwhile, express alarm at their falling birthrate which has pushed their population down below India’s... so President Xi orders women to stop working, go home and have more babies. But reaction is not positive... the gumment blames the corrosive influence of American feminists and feminist movies.

United’s Boeing airplanes court three near disasters in a week... plastic bubblewrap gets into engine and starts a fire, a wheel falls off on SF to Japan flight and another jet starts swerving as it lands in Houston. No passengers are killed or seriously injured, but a military chopper crash kills three. And a serious “oops” moment in Gaza as the parachute on a pallet of food fails and it crushes five children.

Saturday, March 9th, 2024

Dow: Closed

Yet another last minute deal prevented a partial government shutdown as $450 billion was authorized for six of the twelve Biden spending bills with the rest due in two weeks. Still held up are the military aid to Israel, Ukraine and (now) Taiwan and the MAGA faction of the GOP is now muttering about replacing Speaker Mike with someone... anyone... else.

With independent sources confirming that the Gaza food drops did indeed crush five children, the United States sets to work on a floating pier that will enable supplies to be bought in by sea and avoiding the Israeli and Egyptian roadblocks. A frustrated Biden was overheard telling that Israeli PM Netanyahu needs a “come to Jesus” moment and pro-Israeli free-the-hostages mensches immediately pounced.

The war is going a little better in the Red Sea as combined US/UK forces intercept thirty deadly drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, but Republicans in Congress remain adamant in isolationism and, having finished with Hunter for the moment, pass the anti-migrant Laken Riley bill to crack down on criminal aliens.

Sunday, March 10th, 2024

Dow: Closed

It’s Oscars Night (see above). Many left-leaning celebrities... good and bad actors alike... wear red pins to show their support for the Palestinians (and, by extension) Hamas. A few others wear yellow pins to show support for Israel and/or the hostages. Street demonstrations delay the opening for a few minutes, but the night goes off without anything resembling terror.

Bipartisan killjoys start discussing whether or not to kill Tik Tok if its Chinese owners don’t sell out their interests to good ol’ Americans (or, at least, somebody in NATO). It will get the kids back to doing their homework, say fifth columnists.

On the Sunday talkshows, TranSec Pete Butt says that the ongoing firehose of crises are being manipulated by Republicans so as to make Biden appear to be a loser and re-elect Trump. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) tells her rape story and when George Stephanopolous asks why she supports convicted rapist Djonald, Mace parses her answer to the effect that he was guilty of civil, not criminal charges. (This immediately vaults her into the top tier of potential Veeps!)

Also splitting hairs is The Bern on CBS who says that he supports humanitarian aid to Palestinians, but also that Hamas is evil.

And Trump closes out the week by declaiming that “the curtain is closing on Crooked Joe’s reign and a sunrise is dawning.” But not for eight more months and an abundance of utterances.

More big losses for the Don (small losses for the Dow) attributable to two of the most volatile Indies... the balance of foreign and domestic trade and the unemployment rate. Jobs were actually added at rates better than expected, but the losses were greater. Next week, inflation rates will be posted, so we’ll see if an expanded “misery index” will motivate the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates on anything and everything from credit cards to mortgages.

THE DON JONES INDEX

CHART of CATEGORIES w/VALUE ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000

(REFLECTING… approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013)

Negative/harmful indices in RED. See a further explanation of categories here…

ECONOMIC INDICES		(60%)
CATEGORY	VALUE	BASE	RESULTS by PCTG.			SCORE		OUR SOURCES and COMMENTS
INCOME	(24%)	6/17/13 [revsd. 1/1/22	LAST	CHANGE	NEXT	LAST WEEK	THIS WEEK	RESULTS by STATISTIC.
Wages (hrly. Per cap)	9%	1350 points	2/26/24	+0.17%	3/24	1,495.34	1,497.86	https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages 29.71
Median Inc. (yearly)	4%	600	2/26/24	+0.03%	3/11/24	668.25	668.46	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 39,416
Unempl. (BLS – in mi)	4%	600	2/26/24	-5.13%	3/24	616.55	584.92	http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000/ 3.9
Official (DC – in mi)	2%	300	2/26/24	+0.14%	3/11/24	256.26	255.89	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 6,238
Unofficl. (DC – in mi)	2%	300	2/26/24	-0.18%	3/11/24	242.15	241.73	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 13,694
Workforce Participation Number Percent	2%	300	2/26/24	-0.14% +0.52%	3/11/24	302.13	303.70	In 161,433 Out 100,214 Total: 261,647 http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 62.08
WP % (ycharts)*	1%	150	2/26/24	-0.48%	3/24	150.95	150.95	https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate 62.50
OUTGO	(15%)
Total Inflation	7%	1050	1/24	+0.3%	2/24	970.22	970.22	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.3 nc
Food	2%	300	1/24	+0.4%	2/24	274.07	274.07	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.4
Gasoline	2%	300	1/24	-3.3%	2/24	246.55	246.55	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm -3.3
Medical Costs	2%	300	1/24	+0.7%	2/24	291.95	291.95	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.7
Shelter	2%	300	1/24	+0.6%	2/24	267.85	267.85	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.6
WEALTH
*Dow* Jones Index	2%	300	2/26/24	-0.92%	3/11/24	327.17	324.12	https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/ 38,722.69
Home (Sales) (Valuation)	1% 1%	150 150	2/26/24	+5.82% -0.96%	2/24	129.80 273.38	129.80 273.38	https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics Sales (M): 4.00 Valuations (K): 379.1
Debt (Personal)	2%	300	2/26/24	+0.042%	3/11/24	268.73	268.62	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 75,390
GOVERNMENT	(10%)
Revenue (trilns.)	2%	300	2/26/24	+0.28%	3/11/24	398.71	399.82	debtclock.org/ 4,703
Expenditures (tr.)	2%	300	2/26/24	-0.25%	3/11/24	319.59	318.80	debtclock.org/ 6,479
National Debt tr.)	3%	450	2/26/24	+0.11%	3/11/24	390.31	389.87	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 34,502
Aggregate Debt (tr.)	3%	450	2/26/24	+0.11%	3/11/24	406.75	406.29	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 97,846

TRADE	(5%)
Foreign Debt (tr.)	2%	300	2/26/24	+0.21%	3/11/24	300.90	300.28	http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 7,933 941 8,190 207
Exports (in billions)	1%	150	2/26/24	+0.39%	3/24	160.36	159.74	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 258.2 257.2
Imports (in billions))	1%	150	2/26/24	-1.29%	3/24	170.97	168.76	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 320.4 4.6
Trade Surplus/Deficit (blns.)	1%	150	2/12/24	+7.72%	3/24	337.91	311.84	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 62.2 67.4

SOCIAL INDICES		(40%)
ACTS of MAN	(12%)
World Affairs	3%	450	2/26/24	+0.2%	3/11/24	451.19	452.09	Chinese Communist Party orders women to stop working and have babies. The women say: “this generation is not going to be ordered around.” Sweden joins NATO and its pacifists protest.
War and terrorism	2%	300	2/26/24	-0.4%	3/11/24	292.47	291.30	The wars continue: Ukes beg for more American arms stalled in Congress; the Israelis don’t beg, they just kill, the Houthis keep wasting Iranian missiles and a new threat arises: Haitian insurrectionists free thousands of prisoners who go on rampages and call for revolution.
Politics	3%	450	2/26/24	-0.1%	3/11/24	476.67	476.20	President Biden goes to Philly and debuts his new nickname: “Smokin’ Joe.” Then he goes to Atlanta in dueling Georgia rallies while Trump goes to Rome to meet MTG. And the Hamptons tremble... George Santos says he’ll run for Congress again.
Economics	3%	450	2/26/24	-0.2%	3/11/24	445.94	445.05	Job growth predicted to fall from 350K in January to 195K but resulti are $275M, causing the Fed to take a longer look even tho’ the unemployment rate rises. Jeff Bezos regains Richest Man status (200M), Elon Number Two (198M) and that rich Swiss guy falls to 197M. Car insurance rates up 28% in 2023.
Crime	1%	150	2/26/24	-0.2%	3/11/24	239.20	238.72	Crime on NYC subways up 13% over record 2023; National Guard called in. Eight students shot on bus in Philadelphia. Disgruntled diner whacks Waffle House server with machete. Even more disgruntled worker in a Florida transit station pulls a gun from his lunchbox, kills a co-worker and shoots at cops.
ACTS of GOD	(6%)
Environment/Weather	3%	450	2/26/24	-0.2%	3/11/24	387.96	387.18	Storm after storm after storm migrates west to east, creating flooding and blizzards. Texas wildfires kill only 2 people but anywhere from 10 to 50,000 cattle were killed. Beef prices will rise. It’s not only California: flooding in Bolivian Amazon
Disasters	3%	450	2/26/24	-0.2%	3/11/24	422.19	421.35	Boeing has three fails, but nobody is killed. Then a wheel falls off. And another skids off the tarmac. Border Patrol agents killed in chopper crash while on patrol in Texas.
LIFESTYLE/JUSTICE INDEX		(15%)
Science, Tech, Educ.	4%	600	2/26/24	+0.1%	3/11/24	632.12	632.75	Space X launches four astronauts to the ISS. Trump opposes ban on Tik Tok because it will help FaceBook and Jeff Bezos, whom he hates.
Equality (econ/social)	4%	600	2/26/24	+0.2%	3/11/24	643.65	644.94	Native American Lily Gladstone loses at Oscars but other women prevail. Screenwriter Cord Jefferson trashes elite producers who trashed him for years because his movies would cost too little. Caitlin Clark sets gender inclusive sports records while Dartmouth (6-21!) becomes first NCAA team to unionize.
Health	4%	600	2/26/24	-0.1%	3/11/24	467.27	466.80	After TV doctors say Ozempic cures diabetes, weight loss and kidney disease, so many demand it that supply chain collapses. Other TV doctors say tattoos cause diarrhea and flatulence while a diet soda WILL KILL YOU! and others say the lethality will arise from kids eating parents’ melatonin. Trader Joe’s recalls dumplings contaminated with plastic, GM recalls 800K pickup trucks whose tailgates fall off.
Freedom and Justice	3%	450	2/26/24	+0.1%	3/11/24	467.74	468.21	Convicted: Russian spy Jack Texiera (16 yrs.), Trump crony Alan Weisselberg (5 months) In the wake of floods and fire, lawyers are flooding disaster zones.
CULTURAL and MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS			(6%)
Cultural Incidents	3%	450	2/26/24	+0.1%	3/11/24	521.05	521.57	Grammys! Oscars! Dean Phillips! Hoops: Lebron (NBA) and Caitlin (WNBA) set scoring recods. RIP: crooner Steve Lawrence, R(etire)IP: Sens. Mitch McConnell (Ky) and Kyrsten Sinema (Az)
Misc. Incidents	3%	450	2/26/24	+0.2%	3/11/24	507.98	509.00	Hungry hotdogger Joey Chestnutt twerks Russian, wins pierogi eating contest. 1,000 Iditarod cold dog race begins in Alaska. Chilean piscatographers discover a walking red fish (that looks sort of likt Toony from ME-TV Saturday morning cartoons). Rare yellow-billed loon found swimming in Vegas casino fountain.

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ATTACHMENT ONE – FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

PREDICTIONS FROM THREE CRITICS

February 4, 2024

See how they did in comparison to the results (Attachment A)...

Two beloved songwriters, almost half a century apart in age, are set to be stars of tonight’s Grammy Awards.

Joni Mitchell, who nearly died from an aneurysm several years ago, will give her first Grammys performance at the age of 80. And Taylor Swift has a shot to win her fourth album of the year award, something no other artist has done.

But Swift, who has six nominations, faces tough competition. SZA leads the field with nine nominations for her acclaimed “SOS” album and hit single “Kill Bill.” The pop and R&B singer Victoria Monét received seven nods; Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, and the indie-rock trio boygenius have six apiece. (Here are all the nominees.)

We asked three Times music critics — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz — to their thoughts on who might win tonight’s awards.

Let’s start with the big one, album of the year. Who do you expect will win?

Lindsay Zoladz: Taylor Swift looks like the front-runner here, less on the merits of “Midnights” than on the massive monocultural impact of her Eras Tour. But I’m going to bet the Grammy voters are experiencing a little Swift fatigue, so I’m predicting a slight upset: I think boygenius will win for “The Record,” a gently forward-thinking folk-rock album with a nonetheless traditional, Grammy-approved sound. Personally, though, I’m rooting for Olivia Rodrigo’s spunky “Guts” or Lana Del Rey’s weird, sprawling “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.”

Jon Pareles: I’d be delighted for SZA, Olivia Rodrigo, boygenius or Janelle Monáe to win — they were all among my picks for the year’s best albums — and I wouldn’t be too unhappy with a win by Lana Del Rey or Taylor Swift, either. If Swift wins, she will be the first musician with four album of the year awards, surpassing Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon.

Jon Caramanica: Taylor Swift will win, I think. Grammy voters have awarded this prize to her three times already, and they like familiarity. SZA’s album was better, though. Olivia Rodrigo’s and Lana Del Rey’s too.

How about record of the year? (For readers who are unfamiliar, this is the award for the best single.)

Jon Pareles: To be calculating about it as a longtime Grammy observer, I’d guess that “What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish’s song for the “Barbie” movie, has an edge. Grammy voters love ballads (check), soundtrack songs (check) and previous Grammy winners (check).

Jon Caramanica: I think Jon Batiste will win this, and it brings me no joy to say so. The Grammys tend to reward conspicuous musicianship, and Batiste, even though the music he makes is not popular, plays well to the Grammy voters who fancy themselves too sophisticated to acknowledge the craftsmanship that goes into the creation of pop music.

Lindsay Zoladz: I’d love to see Olivia Rodrigo take this award for “Vampire,” a sonically adventurous rock-operatic ballad produced with flair by Rodrigo’s trusted collaborator Daniel Nigro. But I fear that the voters are going to play it safe here and go with Miley Cyrus’s sleek, sturdily assembled “Flowers.”

Even if you don’t care about the winners, the Grammys usually have a live performance or two that are worth tuning in for. Are there any you’re looking forward to this year?

Jon Pareles: I can’t imagine missing the performance by Joni Mitchell. Her recovery from a life-threatening brain aneurysm in 2015 has been beyond heartening. An entire musical community rallied around her as she applied a lifetime of artistic instincts to the voice she has now. Her surprise comeback performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, and her preternatural version of “Summertime” when she accepted the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, showed surpassing musicianship and an indomitable will.

Jon Caramanica: A couple of days ago, whispers began circulating that the Grammys might successfully pull off the seemingly unthinkable. No, not the debut Grammy performance of Joni Mitchell (at 80!), but instead the coaxing of Tracy Chapman out of post-music-industry invisibility to duet with Luke Combs, whose cover of her indelible 1988 hit “Fast Car” was one of last year’s most impactful releases. Should that actually happen, it would be more than a coup.

So much great music comes out every year, and only a few artists at the top seem to win the big awards. If you were in charge, what unheralded artist would win a Grammy this year?

Jon Caramanica: The pop act with the highest batting average of the last two years is, indisputably, the K-pop girl group NewJeans. “Super Shy,” “OMG,” “Ditto” — they simply do not miss.

Jon Pareles: Not completely unheralded, but there is a glaring omission from the best new artist nominees: Peso Pluma, who spearheaded a blockbuster international year for regional Mexican music. His songs have racked up more than a billion plays on Spotify. His 2023 album, “Genésis,” did get nominated way down in category 59, música Mexicana, but he deserved some notice in prime time.

Lindsay Zoladz: I would give at least one Grammy to the absurdist pop group 100 gecs, just to see them accept it in their signature neon wizard robes.

On Popcast (Deluxe), The Times’s weekly culture show, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli dive deep into this year’s Grammy nominees, with predictions for almost two dozen awards.
In the Amplifier newsletter, Lindsay Zoladz s tracks from all the best new artist nominees.
One clear takeaway from this year’s nominees: It was a dominant year for women in pop music, Ben Sisario writes.
It might also be a big night for “Barbie.” Songs from the hit movie’s soundtrack are up for 11 awards across seven categories.

ATTACHMENT TWO – FROM THE WASHINGTON POST

GRAMMYS 2024 PERFORMANCES, RANKED FROM BEST TO WORST

Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs’s duet of ‘Fast Car’ was the highlight of the night, along with Joni Mitchell’s and Annie Lennox’s moving ballads

By Emily Yahr, Chris Richards, Shane O’Neill

Taylor Swift made history at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, winning album of the year (“Midnights”) for the fourth time — the most any artist has received in that category. (Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon each won three times.) Swift also won pop vocal album and used her speech to tell the world she’s releasing a new album in April, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

Female artists dominated the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, with a record-breaking album of the year win by Taylor Swift.

The other major wins were spread out: Miley Cyrus took home record of the year for the triumphant “Flowers,” while Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, won song of the year for “What Was I Made For?,” the mournful track from the “Barbie” movie. Victoria Monét was crowned best new artist.

But everyone knows that you tune in to the Grammys for the performances — so we ranked them from best to worst. (See a full rundown of the show here.)

The big winners at the 2024 Grammy Awards

Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs

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Luke Combs has always said that Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” is one of his favorite songs of all time, which is why he decided to cover it — he had no idea it would become one of his biggest hits. As the camera focused on Chapman (who rarely performs in public) during her duet with Combs, the audience cheered wildly. You could feel the glee radiating off Combs as he stared at Chapman in awe as they sang; Chapman strummed her guitar, looking happy and serene. The collaboration resulted in a huge standing ovation.

Joni Mitchell

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We’re still fixated on Joni Mitchell’s final, artfully sour discordant note on “Both Sides Now” followed by her sweet, wide grin. “Both Sides Now” indeed.

Annie Lennox

Taking the baton from Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox sang the second portion of the “In Memoriam” segment, delivering a stark rendition of “Nothing Compares 2 U” in tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor. Flanked by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman of Prince’s legendary Revolution, Lennox concluded the ballad by raising her fist in solidarity with Gaza: “Artists for cease-fire!”

The 2024 Grammy Awards had an historic list of winners. We ranked the Grammys 2024 performances from best to worst and picked our favorite Grammys Red Carpet looks.

Fantasia Barrino

The “In Memoriam” segment concluded in honor of Tina Turner (who else?). Fantasia Barrino nailed her interpretation of “Proud Mary” as a line of dancers shimmied in beaded dresses reminiscent of Turner’s famed Bob Mackie numbers, as was the dress worn during Cyrus’s own nod to Turner earlier in the night.

SZA

SZA didn’t disappoint. She performed “Snooze” while standing in front of dumpster fires in an outfit that closely resembled the Undertaker’s. That segued into “Kill Bill,” which brought a sword-slashing dancer to the crowd and red lights to the room.

Miley Cyrus

Cyrus joyfully took the stage for “Flowers” and chided the audience for pretending like they didn’t know the upbeat track that has been absolutely inescapable for the past year. (The camera zoomed in on both Swift and Oprah Winfrey singing along.) She took breaks from the microphone to shake and shimmy around the stage in a sparkly bodysuit, improvising a few lines throughout the song and stopping to remind everyone that she just won her first Grammy.

Miley Cyrus. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish reportedly agonized over the recording of “What Was I Made For?” so it was a quiet thrill hearing her breeze through it in one breathy swoop alongside brother Finneas.

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Jon Batiste

The epic-length “In Memoriam” segment included Jon Batiste sitting down at a piano for a medley of “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me” and then switching up the mood and dancing for a rousing rendition of “Optimistic” by Sounds of Blackness.

Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa kicked things off trapped in a jungle gym/cage, performing all sorts of tricks during a medley that included “Training Season” and “Houdini,” as well as a snippet of her “Barbie” song “Dance the Night.” The spectacle briefly became an audience-participation situation as she walked through the crowd to the main stage, where she cavorted with an impressive array of backup dancers.

Billy Joel

Did the world need a new ballad from Billy Joel? Probably not — but he seemed pretty psyched to be performing his first new song in 17 years, “Turn the Lights Back On,” as he settled into his piano. And the crowd loved him.

Travis Scott

Travis Scott started his performance a little slower with the sultry “My Eyes” from his 2023 album, “Utopia.” He soon picked up the pace with “Fein,” bringing lightning strikes and flames to the stage — not to mention the flickering strobe light and the voice-cracking scream. It was the first of just two rap performances, almost as if the criticism Jay-Z delivered in his speech a few minutes earlier was playing out in real time.

Olivia Rodrigo

Has the Grammy electorate ever met a piano ballad they didn’t like? Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” has always sounded as if it were engineered for Grammy night — and she finally got to perform it there in a flowing red ball gown, images of blood trickling down behind her. As for the song’s naughtier lyrics, Rodrigo did her own self-censoring.

Burna Boy

Nigerian superstar Burna Boy has a complicated relationship with his place in the Afrobeats genre, but he was introduced as an ambassador of the sound before his onstage collaboration with R&B hero Brandy and Atlanta rap star 21 Savage.

Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett

Stevie Wonder opened the “In Memoriam” performance with a speech honoring Tony Bennett’s dedication to civil rights before “duetting” with a recording of Bennett on “For Once in My Life.”

U2 made a very specific type of history as the first act to perform at the Grammys from the Sphere, Las Vegas’s LED-covered monstrosity/fever dream. The cameras zoomed in and out and around, and if you weren’t careful, it all made you extremely nauseous as the band performed “Atomic City” and lights flashed in the background — sorry, we got dizzy just describing this.

ATTACHMENT THREE – FROM PITCHFORK

GRAMMYS 2024: ALL OF THE PERFORMANCES

Watch SZA, Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa, Tracy Champan, and others take the stage at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena

By Jazz Monroe and Eric Torres February 5, 2024

The 2024 Grammy Awards, hosted by Trevor Noah, took place on February 4 in Los Angeles, with performances from the likes of SZA, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, and Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs. Watch footage of them below, along with Joni Mitchell, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott, Burna Boy, Billy Joel, U2, and many more.

The 16 Best and Worst Moments of the 2024 Grammys

Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox paid tribute to the late Sinead O’Connor, covering the singer’s Prince cover “Nothing Compares 2 U” during the in memoriam segment.

Billie Eilish and Finneas

Eilish added two more Grammys to her haul this year, earning Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media for “What Was I Made For?,” from Barbie. She performed the track with Finneas while wearing a green dress, tweed jacket, and pink head scarf—a nod to a vintage Barbie doll from the mid-1960s.

Billy Joel

Billy Joel returned to the Grammys stage to play his new song “Turn the Lights Back On” before closing the ceremony with the 1980 cut “You May Be Right.”

Brandy Clark

Brandy Clark was in the running for six awards, ultimately winning her first-ever Grammy, in the Best Americana Performance category, for “Dear Insecurity.” She performed the song with SistaStrings.

Burna Boy

Burna Boy performed a medley at the ceremony, breezing through “On Form” and “City Boys” before bringing out 21 Savage and Brandy for “Sittin’ on Top of the World.” In the end, he was shut out of the four categories in which he was nominated.

Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa opened the ceremony with a medley of new song “Training Season,” Barbie hit “Dance the Night,” and the Tame Impala–produced “Houdini.” Her seemingly high-risk performance involved crawling around a metal jungle gym clad in black leather. The two categories in which she was nominated—Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media—eventually went to her Barbie comrade Billie Eilish.

Fantasia Barrino

Multi-Grammy-winner Fantasia Barrino took the stage for a lively cover of Tina Turner’s “Rolling on the River” as part of the in memoriam segment. At one point, she stalked into the crowd in search of a “pretty lady who doesn’t mind moving her hips,” before picking out Dua Lipa for an impromptu dance.

Gaby Moreno and El David Aguilar

Gaby Moreno, who wound up winning Best Latin Pop Album, performed with singer-songwriter El David Aguilar at the Premiere Ceremony.

Jon Batiste

After sweeping the 2022 Grammys, Jon Batiste returned for the in memoriam segment, performing with Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Ann Nesby, and Cory Henry on a medley.

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell won Best Folk Album at this year’s Grammys for Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live). She also made her Grammys live debut playing “Both Sides Now” with a band comprising Brandi Carlile, Blake Mills, Allison Russell, Lucius, and Jacob Collier. (Longer recordings have surfaced on YouTube.)

Kirk Franklin

During the Premiere Ceremony, 19-time winner Franklin performed his Best Gospel Performance/Song–nominated “All Things.”

Laufey

Before picking up her first-ever Grammy, for Bewitched in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category, Icelandic singer Laufey performed “From the Start” during the Premiere Ceremony.

Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman

Luke Combs, who also performed at last year’s ceremony, played his Best Country Solo Performance–nominated cover of “Fast Car” with the creator herself, Tracy Chapman, in a performance that captivated viewers.

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus won both Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Flowers,” and celebrated with an ad lib–heavy rendition of the track.

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo played a suitably theatrical “Vampire” to mark her six nominations, wearing a red satin dress and lashings of fake blood. The song and Guts were eventually shut out of all six of their categories.

Pentatonix, J. Ivy, Larkin Poe, Sheila E., and Jordin Sparks

Pentatonix opened the Premiere Ceremony with a little help from Ivy, Poe, Sheila E., and Jordin Sparks.

Robert Glasper, Adam Blackstone, Bob James, Terrace Martin, and Harvey Mason Sr.

Glasper was up for two awards this year: Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance, both for “Back to Love.” At the premiere ceremony, he performed alongside Harvey Mason Sr., and fellow 2024 nominees Adam Blackstone, Terrace Martin, and Bob James.

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder was announced at the last minute, along with the other in memoriam performers. He opened the segment with a version of Tony Bennett’s “The Best Is Yet to Come.”

SZA

SZA led the pack at this year’s Grammys and converted three of her nine nods. She performed “Snooze” and “Kill Bill” from SOS during the ceremony, in a performance that featured sword-dodging and a literal onstage dumpster fire.

Travis Scott

Travis Scott performed his Utopia tracks “My Eyes,” “I Know ?,” and “Fe!n.” He was also thwarted by Killer Mike in the Best Rap Album category.

U2 performed “Atomic City” live from the Sphere in Las Vegas in the first-ever broadcast performance from the new venue.

ATTACHMENT FOUR – FROM THE NEW YORK POST

TRUMP GLOATS OVER NIKKI HALEY DROPPING OUT POST-SUPER TUESDAY: ‘GOT TROUNCED LAST NIGHT’

By Ryan King Published March 6, 2024, 11:44 a.m. ET

Donald Trump reveled Wednesday at the news that his last Republican rival was suspending her campaign and took some parting shots at former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on the heels of her Super Tuesday drubbing.

Haley, 52, scored just two primary wins against the former president, in Washington, DC, and Vermont, making her the first woman to win a Republican presidential nominating contest.

Trump now has 995 of the 1,215 delegates needed to secure the party nod compared to Haley’s 89. His team expects to officially cross the 1,215 threshold later this month.

The 45th president then extended an olive branch to Haley’s supporters, with polls indicating that many of them harbor some significant acrimony toward him.

“[I] would further like to invite all of the Haley supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our Nation,” he wrote.

President Biden, in sharp contrast to Trump, congratulated Haley on her campaign and invited her backers to get behind his re-election bid.

“Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign,” Biden said in a statement.

In a terse exit speech, Haley said she had “no regret” about running and declined to endorse her rival right away.

“In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America’s president,” she said.

“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him and I hope he does that,” she continued. “At its best politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away.”

Almost all of the other former 2024 Republican presidential contenders, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), have thrown their weight behind Trump.

By contrast, Haley — along with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence — have not.

Trump is now pivoting to his near-certain general election rematch with Biden.

“BIDEN IS THE ENEMY, HE IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump declared in his Wednesday morning message.

During a victory speech out of Mar-a-Lago Tuesday evening, Trump made no mention of Haley and pined for unity.

“[Success], that’s what’s ultimately going to unify this country and unify this party,” he said.

“We have a great Republican Party with tremendous talent. And we want to have unity, and we’re going to have unity, and it’s going to happen very quickly.”

ATTACHMENT FIVE – FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES

TRUMP CONFIRMS NAMES ON VP SHORTLIST

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed a few people he’s considering for vice president, but didn’t say when he’ll make a formal announcement.

When asked by Fox News’ Laura Ingraham about individuals who have been floated, Mr. Trump attested they’re on his shortlist.

On the list are Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

He said all of those people are “good and solid.”

He especially lauded Mr. Scott, who was sitting in the audience of the town hall in Greenville, South Carolina.

“A lot of people are talking about that gentleman right over there,” Mr. Trump said. “And he’s been so great. He’s been such a great advocate.

ATTACHMENT SIX – FROM From washpost

How many delegates are at stake on Super Tuesday?

By Nick Mourtoupalas March 4, 2024 at 10:17 a.m. EST

There are 865 Republican delegates up for grabs in 15 states that vote on Super Tuesday on March 5. That represents more than one-third of the 2,429 total delegates in the nomination contest that began in mid-January and concludes with the Republican National Convention in July.

Former president Donald Trump, the party’s front-runner, has already secured 244 delegates. While there are not enough delegates available to clinch the nomination on Super Tuesday, Trump is likely to make significant progress toward the 1,215 threshold.

California and Texas offer the largest delegate hauls on Super Tuesday, representing roughly 14 percent of all Republican delegates.

Who is running? The top contenders for the GOP nomination are former president Donald Trump and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley. For the Democrats, President Biden is running for reelection in 2024.

Republican delegate count: GOP candidates for president compete to earn enough delegates to secure their party’s nomination. We’re tracking the Republican 2024 delegate count.

Key issues: Compare where the candidates stand on such issues as abortion, climate and the economy.

Key dates and events: From January to June, voters in all states and U.S. territories will pick their party’s nominee for president ahead of the summer conventions. Here are key dates and events on the 2024 election calendar.

ATTACHMENT SEVEN – FROM THE GUARDIAN U.K.

It never mattered less’: Super Tuesday is looking less than super this year

With the presidential nominees all but assured, the celebrated ritual lacks suspense – but election could be ‘the worst in modern history’

David Smith in Washington Mon 4 Mar 2024 05.00 EST

Mirophone in hand, Nikki Haley was delivering a well-rehearsed stump speech when a primal cry came from the audience. “He cannot win a general election!” yelled a man, referring to Donald Trump and the ex-president’s chance against Joe Biden. “It is madness!”

Haley supporters at a campaign rally in a tiny Washington hotel on Friday signaled their agreement. But they are in a distinct minority within the Republican party as the biggest day of this year’s primary election campaign approaches.

Fifteen states and one territory will vote in contests known as Super Tuesday, when more than a third of delegates will be assigned to July’s Republican national convention in Milwaukee. Past results and opinion polls suggest that, by Tuesday night, Trump will have in effect wrapped up the Republican nomination against Haley, his sole remaining challenger.

On the Democratic side, incumbent Biden has swept aside token challenges by Congressman Dean Phillips of Minnesota and the self-help author Marianne Williamson and is cruising to the nomination. The lopsided contests and lack of suspense are making Super Tuesday, one of the most celebrated rituals of the American election season, look not so super this time.

Frank Luntz, a political consultant and pollster, said: “It never mattered less. I don’t know any political event that’s got more attention for being less relevant. The decision has been made. The choice is clear. You know who the two nominees are and 70% of Americans would rather it not be so.”

Trump is poised to take the latest giant stride in a dramatic political comeback. He was written off by many after his 2020 election defeat, the 6 January 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol and the barrage of 91 criminal charges against him. Yet he has seen off a dozen challengers and easily won the first eight Republican nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, the US Virgin Islands, South Carolina, Michigan, Missouri and Idaho.

The former Republican president has done it despite – or perhaps because of – a campaign based on retribution against his enemies and the promise of a second term even more radically rightwing than his first. Trump’s scattergun rhetoric, promising to be a dictator on “day one” and claiming that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”, has been rewarded with primary win after primary win.

Charlie Sykes, a contributor and columnist for the MSNBC network, said: “We’ve learned once again that the Republican party just can’t quit Donald Trump, that there is no red line, that there’s no going back. Nikki Haley and earlier Chris Christie gave speeches that would have been well within the mainstream of the Republican party as recently as 2015 but now they sound like they’re being beamed in from another country.

“Part of the reason that so many people take crazy pills is you look at Donald Trump and he has become more extreme, more deranged and more unhinged and yet nothing seems to matter. His authoritarian agenda couldn’t be clearer and yet Republicans who once thought of themselves as the party of liberty and the constitutional order are just falling into line behind him.”

Still, there have also been warning signs for Trump. The 77-year-old has repeatedly won less convincingly than opinion polls suggested he would. In the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, the Associated Press’s AP VoteCast found that college graduates backed former South Carolina governor Haley over Trump. She has been running him close in the suburbs, a perennial weakness for the former president.

Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, said: “Trump is supposed to win all these races, is supposed to be the dominant figure in the party. The fact that, depending on the state and the day, there’s still 20, 30, 40% Republicans who are saying no, I’m going to pass on this, and independent voters who are coming out to cast a vote against him, is not the unified-Republican-party theory of the case that there will be absolute fealty to him.

“I’m not saying that any of them in the race could have put together a sufficient coalition against him but, if you don’t go after him, you’ll never get it. If you don’t speak truth about him, you’ll never defeat him.”

Anti-Trump sentiment was palpable at Haley’s rally of more than a hundred people in Washington, the capital, an overwhelmingly Democratic city where there are only about 23,000 registered Republicans. The former South Carolina governor argued for a return to normality after the Trump and Biden years, which she asserted had emboldened foreign foes, run up trillions of dollars in debt and left the American dream in jeopardy.

Wearing a grey Nike tracksuit sweater with I Pick Nikki and I Voted stickers, Joe Neal, 28, said: “I’m not going to support a seditionist. I’m not going to support someone who supported terrorism, as far as I’m concerned. I certainly agree with some of the former president’s policies but he cannot get my vote this time around.”

Asked whether Haley is likely to drop out after Super Tuesday, Neal, an e-commerce business owner, added: “Typically, yes, but this is not a typical year. You’re running against someone who, quite frankly, could be in prison one day and that’s just the reality.”

Haley has taken in significant campaign money, including $12m last month, and vowed to fight on. But she has seen some of her financial support waver recently. The organisation Americans for Prosperity, backed by the Koch brothers, announced it would stop spending on her behalf after she lost her home state of South Carolina.

ATTACHMENT EIGHT – FROM GUK

Super Tuesday: Trump all but certain of Republican nomination as 16 states vote

Primary contests represent last chance for Nikki Haley to deny Trump, while Biden glides towards being Democratic nominee

Martin Pengelly in Washington Tue 5 Mar 2024 03.00 EST

Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican nomination for president is all but certain to be confirmed on Tuesday, as 16 US states and one territory hold primary votes. From Alabama to Alaska and from Arkansas to American Samoa, “Super Tuesday” represents Nikki Haley’s last chance to deny Trump a third nomination.

But the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is way off the pace, her only win in Washington DC, and in need of a political miracle if she is not to be forced to finally end her campaign.

Furthermore, the US supreme court on Monday ruled unanimously that judges in one Super Tuesday state, Colorado, erred when they said Trump should be kept off the ballot for inciting the January 6 insurrection. Maine, which will also vote on Tuesday, also attempted to stop Trump running. The third state to do so, Illinois, will hold its primary later in March.

On the Democratic side of the Super Tuesday ballot, Joe Biden is all but sure to defeat his also-ran challengers, the Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, a self-help author who last week “un-suspended” her campaign.

Amid deepening concern about the president’s age and fitness for office, as well as his record on the Israel-Hamas war, aides to Biden will be chiefly concerned with turnout and protest vote totals.

The Democratic Socialists of America, a force with young progressives, has endorsed a push for Super Tuesday voters to choose “uncommitted”, to register disapproval for US support for Israel. In Michigan last week, more than 100,000 did so.

Still, Frank Luntz, a Republican-aligned pollster, previously told the Guardian that in terms of a presidential election, Super Tuesday “never mattered less” than this year.

“I don’t know any political event that’s got more attention for being less relevant,” Luntz said. “The decision has been made. The choice is clear.”

Polling shows clear majorities of voters in both parties dissatisfied with the prospect of a Biden-Trump rematch, amid concerns over their ages (Biden is 81, Trump 77) and fitness for office, in Trump’s case also over his 91 criminal charges (for election subversion, retention of classified information and hush-money payments) and multimillion-dollar civil defeats.

“You know who the two nominees are and 70% of Americans would rather it not be so,” Luntz said.

There are also down-ballot contests to watch.

In California, in an open primary, voters will decide which two candidates for US Senate will advance to the November general election. Adam Schiff, a Democratic former chair of the House intelligence committee, and Steve Garvey, a Republican former baseball star, lead a crowded field.

In Texas, a Republican-run state forever the subject of Democratic hopes and dreams, Democrats will choose a candidate to challenge the high-profile, hard-right, Trump-supporting senator Ted Cruz. Colin Allred, a congressman and former NFL player, leads polling.

In North Carolina, the Democratic attorney general, Josh Stein, and Republican lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, are expected to advance to an election for governor in November. That race will decide who succeeds Roy Cooper, a term-limited Democrat, in what is increasingly a swing state, vital to presidential elections and control of Congress.

Robinson, a rare Black Republican in elected office, has attracted widespread criticism for harsh rightwing rhetoric. At a rally last week, Trump called him “Martin Luther King on steroids”.

ATTACHMENT NINE – FROM TIME

Why ‘Super Tuesday’ Won’t Live Up to Its Name This Year

BY WILL WEISSERT / AP MARCH 5, 2024 5:48 AM EST

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised to move much closer to winning their party's nominations during the biggest day of the primary campaign on Tuesday, setting up a historic rematch that many voters would rather not endure.

Super Tuesday elections are being held in 16 states and one territory — from Alaska and California to Vermont and Virginia. Hundreds of delegates are at stake, the biggest haul for either party on any single day.

While much of the focus is on the presidential race, there are also important down-ballot contests. California voters will choose candidates who will compete to fill the Senate seat long held by Dianne Feinstein. The governor’s race will take shape in North Carolina, a state that both parties are fiercely contesting ahead of November. And in Los Angeles, a progressive prosecutor is attempting to fend off an intense reelection challenge in a race that could serve as a barometer of the politics of crime.

But the premier races center on Biden and Trump. And in a dramatic departure from past Super Tuesdays, both the Democratic and Republican contests are effectively sealed this year.

The two men have easily repelled challengers in the opening rounds of the campaign and are in full command of their bids — despite polls making it clear that voters don’t want this year’s general election to be identical to the 2020 race. A new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds a majority of Americans don't think either Biden or Trump has the necessary mental acuity for the job.

“Both of them failed, in my opinion, to unify this country,” said Brian Hadley, 66, of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Neither Trump nor Biden will be able to formally clinch their party's nominations on Super Tuesday. The earliest either can become his party's presumptive nominee is March 12 for Trump and March 19 for Biden.

The final days before Tuesday demonstrated the unique nature of this year’s campaign. Rather than barnstorming the states holding primaries, Biden and Trump held rival events last week along the U.S.-Mexico border, each seeking to gain an advantage in the increasingly fraught immigration debate.

After the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on Monday to restore Trump to primary ballots following attempts to ban him for his role in helping spark the Capitol riot, Trump pointed to the 91 criminal counts against him to accuse Biden of weaponizing the courts.

“Fight your fight yourself,” Trump said. “Don’t use prosecutors and judges to go after your opponent.”

Biden delivers the State of the Union address on Thursday, then will campaign in the key swing states of Pennsylvania and Georgia.

Trump recently told a gala for Black conservatives that he believed African Americans empathized with his four criminal indictments, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Biden campaign and top Democrats around the country for comparing personal legal struggles to the historical injustices Black people have faced in the U.S.

Trump has nonetheless already vanquished more than a dozen major Republican challengers and now has only one left: Nikki Haley, the former president’s onetime U.N. ambassador who was also twice elected governor of her home state of South Carolina.

Haley has hopscotched across the country, visiting at least one Super Tuesday state almost daily for more than a week and arguing that her base of support — while far smaller than Trump’s — suggests the former president will lose to Biden.

“We can do better than two 80-year-old candidates for president,” Haley said at a rally Monday in the Houston suburbs.

Haley has maintained strong fundraising and notched her first primary victory over the weekend in Washington, D.C., a Democrat-run city with few registered Republicans. Trump tried to turn that victory into a loss for the overall campaign, scoffing that she had been “crowned queen of the swamp.”

Though Trump has dominated the early Republican primary calendar, his victories have shown vulnerabilities with some influential voter blocs, especially in college towns like Hanover, New Hampshire, home to Dartmouth College, or Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is located, as well as in some areas with high concentrations of independents.

Still, Haley winning any of Super Tuesday's contests would take an upset. And a Trump sweep would only intensify pressure on her to leave the race.

Biden has his own problems, including low approval ratings and polls suggesting that many Americans, even a majority of Democrats, don’t want to see the 81-year-old running again. The president’s easy Michigan primary win last week was spoiled slightly by an “uncommitted” campaign organized by activists who disapprove of the president’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Allies of the “uncommitted” vote are pushing similar protest votes elsewhere. One to watch is Minnesota, which has a significant population of Muslims, including in its Somali American community, and liberals disaffected with Biden. Gov. Tim Walz, a Biden ally, told The Associated Press last week that he expected some votes for “uncommitted” on Tuesday.

While Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history, his reelection campaign argues that skeptics will come around once it is clear it’ll be him or Trump in November. Trump is 77 and faces his own questions about age that have been exacerbated by flubs like over the weekend when he mistakenly suggested he was running against Barack Obama.

That hasn’t shaken Trump’s ardent supporters’ faith in him.

“Trump would eat him up,” Ken Ballos, a retired police officer who attended a weekend Trump rally in Virginia, said of a November rematch, adding that Biden “would look like a fool up there.”

ATTACHMENT TEN – FROM SLATE

Trump and Biden Crushed Super Tuesday. But There Were Still Some Genuine Surprises.

For example, the winner of the American Samoa caucus was entirely unexpected.

BY JIM NEWELL

MARCH 06, 202412:53 AM

The Slate Decision Desk tabulated votes and worked campaign insiders all night Super Tuesday, and to a person, we reached a conclusion: Donald Trump and Joe Biden are in excellent shape to win their respective parties’ presidential nominations. Sorry, Nikki-Pickies and neo-Deaniacs. The data is singing to us loud and clear.

In other words, there weren’t many surprises in the presidential primary results this week as more than a dozen states cast ballots for presidential nominees. (There was a surprise, though.)

Donald Trump won all but one Republican contest over Nikki Haley, and his wins were all by double-digit margins. The one state in which Haley took a victory—her second of the cycle, after winning the District of Columbia over the weekend—was Vermont, which is not a delegate-rich state.

Biden, meanwhile, won every state primary by substantial, incumbent-sized margins. He did not win every contest, however. He lost the American Samoa caucus 51 to 40. (That’s not percentage; those are raw vote numbers.) Biden was bested there by a fella named Jason Palmer, a self-described “entrepreneur, impact investor and philanthropist” from Baltimore who appears to have told American Samoans that he’s very popular in the mainland. How nice for him.

While Haley didn’t speak on Tuesday night, her next speech could be a suspension of her campaign, now that Trump is on the verge of capturing a majority of total delegates.

Vermont aside, her best chances for wins were in moderate or blue states, with high percentages of college-educated voters and open primaries for non-Republicans to infiltrate. But Haley didn’t come close to winning states that matched this profile, like Minnesota, Virginia, Colorado, or Massachusetts; her margins among her targeted voters weren’t nearly what Trump’s were among his. In Virginia, for example, exit polls—which are subject to revision—showed Haley winning college graduates, who made up about half the primary electorate, by a few points. Trump won non-college voters there, meanwhile, by a 4-to-1 margin. Yes, Trump will have issues with suburban voters in the fall. What else is new? But right now he has the group that matters in Republican primary season: Republicans. By a lot.

Among the weaknesses within Joe Biden’s coalition, “uncommitted” appears to have made noise again after winning 100,000 protest votes in the Michigan primary last week. In Minnesota, which has substantial Muslim and progressive communities, nearly 20 percent of Democratic primary voters had chosen “uncommitted” with most of the vote counted. “Uncommitted” in Minnesota was trouncing actual, human Democratic primary challenger Dean Phillips, a congressman from Minnesota. This prompted Phillips to post one of the better tweets of this sleepy primary season, although he failed to mention Jason Palmer.

In the marquee down-ballot race of the night—winners for which were called surprising quickly—Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey will advance to November’s election. Schiff had spent significant money and messaging trying to elevate Garvey as his main opponent, recognizing that it’s not especially hard to defeat a Republican in a California general election. You can call this a cynical strategy, and one that might help Republican turnout down-ballot in November. But what’s important to Schiff is that you’ll soon call him a senator. Other California races were too early to call at publication time, but both Democrats and Republicans appeared likely to get their preferred candidates onto the November ballot in the 22^nd District, one of the most competitive swing seats in the country.

In Texas, Dallas-area Democratic Rep. Colin Allred will face Sen. Ted Cruz in one of the only even marginal Senate pickup opportunities for Democrats this fall. GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, who attracted a slew of primary opponents for occasional maverick stands such as supporting a bipartisan gun safety measure, is poised for a May runoff against Brandon Herrera, a YouTuber who goes by the moniker “the AK Guy” and who … really loves guns. In the Texas state House, meanwhile, Speaker Dade Phelan appeared headed to a runoff against his Trump-backed challenger, David Covey. Attorney General Ken Paxton had made Phelan a target following the Phelan-led impeachment of him last year, which Paxton survived.

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The first member-on-member primary of the cycle, between Reps. Jerry Carl and Barry Moore on a redistricted Alabama map, was running exceptionally close late into the night, with Moore (the one who likes Rep. Matt Gaetz) and Carl (the one who doesn’t care for Mr. Gaetz) going back and forth. In the end, though, Moore narrowly finished off Carl, 52 to 48.

In North Carolina’s 6^th District, the current Trump endorsee, lobbyist Addison McDowell, was narrowly leading a loaded field of competitors that included ex-Rep. Mark Walker and former Trump endorsee Bo Hines. Hines was in a distant fourth.

Overall, the night confirmed that which so many Americans still find too mystifying to accept as reality: Trump and Biden will be heading to a rematch in November, carrying with them all of the lumps that this primary season has exposed. That is locked in. But down-ballot races are only beginning, with meaningful races across the country still to come.

Presidential primary season is effectively over. But the next few months can be seen like a midterms season, with most House, Senate, state, and local races yet to be determined

ATTACHMENT ELEVEN – FROM TIME

How Trump Steamrolled His Way to the GOP Nomination

BY ERIC CORTELLESSA UPDATED: MARCH 6, 2024 10:38 AM EST | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: MARCH 5, 2024 11:22 PM EST

Super Tuesday confirmed what’s seemed clear for months: The Republican presidential primary is all but over. With a series of smashing victories, Donald Trump has effectively clinched the nomination. Before all the polls had even closed, the Associated Press called most of the 15 states in his favor.

While it will take at least another week for Trump to officially assume the mantle of presumptive GOP nominee, his ascent is a foregone conclusion. His last remaining opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, suspended her campaign on Wednesday. All that's left is for the rest of the party to fall in line behind Trump, and for his operation to join forces with the Republican National Committee, a process already well underway.

“They call it Super Tuesday for a reason,” Trump said to a crowd of supporters at Mar-a-Lago. “This is a big one.”

Trump’s triumph gets him another step closer to reclaiming the presidency and pursuing a draconian policy agenda unlike any the nation has ever seen. He has vowed to round up and deport millions of undocumented immigrants; reimpose his travel ban on Muslim-majority countries; purge the federal bureaucracy of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists; force homeless Americans off the streets and into tent cities; and commandeer the Justice Department to exact revenge on his political enemies. Free tents???

It also gets him closer to squashing two of the four criminal prosecutions; as President, he could shut down his federal indictments against him, one for election interference and another for mishandling the nation’s secrets.

When Trump left office in January 2021, after unleashing a mob on the U.S. Capitol, few foresaw him engineering a one-sided victory three years later, in one of the least competitive open primaries in U.S. history. But Trump and his allies did. They had a plan, from the start, to kneecap GOP heretics and scare off potential challengers.

Their success was never inevitable. When Trump launched his candidacy in November 2022, he was under a dark cloud. Republicans had just suffered a disappointing midterm cycle, with many of his handpicked candidates losing critical races across the country. The party’s own top brass saw it as a sign to move on from the former President. Not a single member of Congress attended the Trump campaign kickoff at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump’s foremost priority was to neuter the man who many presumed his most formidable intra-party threat: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who had just won a landslide reelection. Trump quickly went to work—debasing him with nicknames such as “Meatball Ron” and “Tiny D”; unleashing a brigade of online trolls to mock his campaign missteps; and racking up endorsements from his state’s congressional delegation. The attacks not only undermined DeSantis’s attempt to pitch himself as a more competent version of Trump. They sent a message to would-be rivals: be prepared to face the career-destroying wrath of a MAGA onslaught.

Then came the indictments. Trump found a way to benefit from his legal peril by framing his prosecutions as an attack on his supporters. The maneuver enabled him to rise in the polls and raise millions with each new charge. At the same time, he cunningly used his ordeal to box in his GOP adversaries with a Catch-22: If they claimed he couldn’t win the White House because of his legal woes, he characterized them as part of a conspiracy to derail his candidacy. Yet if they defended him, as most did, they only amplified and corroborated his central argument with Republican voters.

From then on, Trump barely had to make an effort. He faced a weak field of rivals who were too timid to attack his greatest vulnerabilities. When Trump skipped every primary debate, he made the events seem like little more than auditions to be his running mate. That created an aura of invincibility and inevitability around Trump, leading to endorsements from party leaders such as Montana Senator Steve Daines, who runs the Senate GOP’s fundraising arm, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

By the time Haley took the gloves off, she had already lost Iowa and New Hampshire and seemed to be mounting more of a symbolic anti-Trump mission than a serious presidential bid. But as she stayed defiantly in the race, she incurred the virulence of America First adherents. Deploying a similar playbook they used against DeSantis, Trump and his allies branded her as war-mongering neocon—even though her main foreign policy experience was serving as Trump’s envoy to the United Nations—and set out to humiliate her. In her home state of South Carolina, Trump won the primary by 20 points. After securing her first primary contest, in Washington, D.C., the Trump campaign called her “the queen of the Swamp.”

Haley’s minor victory came as Trump had already signaled a turn to the general election. He proposed a revamp of the RNC, installing new loyalists to lead the organization, including his daughter-in-law Lara Trump and senior adviser Chris LaCivita. Last week, he and Biden visited separate border towns in Texas at the same time, creating a rare split-screen moment that previewed the coming matchup.

Trump could not mathematically win the nomination on Tuesday; he needs 1,215 delegates, and fewer than that have yet been afforded. The earliest he could cross that threshold is on March 12, when Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington will vote. But with Haley out of the race, the math no longer matters. The only remaining question is whether she will work to unite her supporters around Trump. Over the weekend, she seemed to renege on a previous pledge to back the eventual nominee, and sources say she doesn't plan to endorse her former boss.

None of that seemed to be on Trump’s mind Tuesday night. Or at least, he wasn’t showing it. He never mentioned Haley's name once. His victory speech focused instead on the last man standing in the way of his return to power. "We've watched our country take a great beating over the last three years," Trump said. “We’re gonna take back our country."

ATTACHMENT TWELVE – FROM FOX NEWS

Top Republicans rally behind Trump, call for unity after dominant Super Tuesday showing: 'Primary is over'

Former President Trump is projected to win 14 out of the 15 states where Republicans voted on Super Tuesday.

By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News

Published March 6, 2024 7:00am EST

Reactions poured in from prominent conservatives on social media as former President Trump cruised to victory in nearly every contest in Super Tuesday’s primaries, most of whom called on the party to unite behind him.

"Man I knew Trump would have a good night but this is a rout," Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance posted on X as Trump continued to stack up victories in state after state on Tuesday night. "For voters, we have the next six months to convince them that DJT deserves another term."

"But for donors and political professionals, it's time to unite behind our nominee. Please stop wasting time and money."

"Admit it," Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott posted on X. "The primary is over."

TRUMP REACTS TO SUPER TUESDAY VICTORIES: 'RARELY HAS POLITICS SEEN ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THIS'

"Time for Republicans to unite and restore sanity at the border."

"The GOP presidential primary is over," Ohio GOP Chair Alex Triantafilou posted on X. "President Trump’s resounding Super Tuesday victories have solidified it. It is time to listen to our voters and unite the Republican Party."

"Voters across our country have spoken — this race is about the American people," South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott, also rumored to be a potential pick for vice president, posted on X. "It's about safe streets, quality education, and a secure border. Donald J. Trump is the one candidate to unite our country around success and WIN in November."

Trump made no mention of Haley in his victory speech on Tuesday night but said that "success will bring unity to our country."

"We’re honored to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country today, including in Vermont where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primary contests," Haley’s campaign said in a statement on Tuesday as she appeared to finish Super Tuesday with only Vermont in the win column.

"Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united.’ Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump. That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better."

ATTACHMENT THIRTEEN – FROM CBS

Super Tuesday exit polls and analysis for the 2024 California Senate primary

California voters who chose Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey in the 2024 Senate primary on Super Tuesday said the most pressing issue for them is the cost of living, according to CBS News exit polls.

Schiff was viewed as the front-runner in the primary, defeating several Democrats, among them, Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee. Garvey is a former professional baseball star who jumped into the Senate race in October. Schiff and Garvey are competing to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Here are some of the issues that were on the minds of California voters as they cast their ballots for their new senator.

Super Tuesday exit polls in California and the race for the Senate

People voting in the Senate primary in California have financial concerns, picking "cost of living" as the top issue facing California.

On a national level, over half of voters rate the national economy as not so good or poor. And seven in 10 are unhappy with the way things are going in the country.

This is similar to the sentiment that we see among the public nationwide.

Voters who chose cost of living as the most important issue facing the state voted for Schiff, followed by Porter, and then Garvey, a former professional baseball star.

Fewer voters pick immigration as their top issue, but those who do voted overwhelmingly for Garvey.

Ideology

Four in 10 of those casting their votes in the California primary Senate race call themselves liberals.

Race

Compared to the Republican primary electorate for president, there are more people of color casting ballots in the California Senate race. Roughly four in 10 voters are non-white.

Melissa Quinn contrbuted to this report.

ATTACHMENT FOURTEEN – FROM AXIOS

"Uncommitted" vs. Biden: How the protest vote fared on Super Tuesday

• Sareen Habeshian,

• Emma Hurt

Note: Colorado lists the option as "non-committed delegate"; Alaska is only holding a GOP caucus; Map: Axios Visuals

While President Biden swept Democratic primaries on Super Tuesday, he faced an unusual contender: the "uncommitted" vote.

Why it matters: The movement came after over 100,000 Michigan Democratic primary voters in February cast ballots for "uncommitted" in protest of the Biden administration's support for Israel's government in its war with Hamas.

At least half of the 16 Super Tuesday states had an "uncommitted" line, no preference option or write-in slot on their Democratic presidential primary ballot, including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Alabama.

What we're watching: The movement's existence remains an alarm to the Biden campaign about how the war in Gaza may have hurt him with some supporters.

• Sareen Habeshian

Mar 5, 2024 -Politics & Policy

Biden's "uncommitted" vote problem ahead of Super Tuesday

President Biden is facing an unexpected contender ahead of Super Tuesday this week — the "uncommitted" vote.

Why it matters: The movement is building momentum after over 100,000 Michigan Democratic primary voters cast ballots for "uncommitted" in protest of the Biden administration's support for Israel's government in its war with Hamas.

• John Frank

, author of

Axios Denver

Mar 4, 2024

Axios Denver

Colorado's independent voters are wild card in GOP race

Colorado voters who are not affiliated with a political party are the wild card in Tuesday's 2024 presidential primary election.

State of play: About 45% of them have participated in the Republican primary, more than double the number who voted in the Democratic primary, an Axios analysis of new state data through Sunday shows.

• Torey Van Oot

, author of

Axios Twin Cities

Mar 4, 2024

How to vote in Minnesota's Super Tuesday presidential primary

Minnesotans head to the polls on Tuesday to vote in the state's presidential primary.

Why it matters: The results will determine how many of the Minnesota delegates are allocated at each party's nominating convention this summer.

ATTACHMENT FIFTEEN – FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Biden freezes for 15 seconds, tells reporters he’ll ‘get in trouble’ for taking questions

By Staff - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 6, 2024

President Biden fell into a lengthy thousand-yard stare while dodging the media this week, saying he would “get in trouble” if he took any questions from reporters.

The president was finishing up a photo-op on Tuesday while announcing a task force to lower the cost of living when reporters tried to launch some queries.

“I have a lot of questions. I better not start the questions. I’ll get in trouble,” Mr. Biden, 81, said after picking up the microphone halfway through his statement.

The Daily Mail reported, “Biden then put the microphone down and froze like a deer in headlights for about 15 seconds as reporters shouted questions at him. The president then muttered something that was inaudible without amplification as everyone left the room.”

The episode came amid renewed questions about Mr. Biden‘s mental acuity.

In stark contrast, former President Donald Trump, aged 77, exhibited vigor in a 20-minute address after sweeping the majority of the Super Tuesday primaries.

Mr. Biden has long dodged reporters. During past events like the G7 summit press conference in 2021, Mr. Biden alluded to the guidance of his staff members as he moderated the amount and type of press engagement.

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After taking a question from the Associated Press related to interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Biden moved on to Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg for a second question, but then cut it off saying, “I’m sorry, I’m going to get in trouble with staff if I don’t do this the right way.”

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ATTACHMENT SIXTEEN – FROM GUK

Biden and the Democrats are sleepwalking into a potential Trump win

Osita Nwanevu

Unless Biden pivots, we have every reason to believe that his falling poll numbers could be signs of coming electoral defeat

Wed 6 Mar 2024 06.08 EST

Barring an act from a God, who has seemingly forsaken the American electorate, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will, again, be the Republican and Democratic candidates for president. Tuesday’s results all but assure that, and they can’t really have been a surprise to anyone who has paid close attention to the campaign thus far.

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In fairness, most Americans still haven’t tuned in, nor many Democrats, who have spent much of the last year hoping against hope that one or more verdicts against Trump in the courts might hand them the election ⁠– and perhaps even put Trump behind bars before November. That was always a risky bet, but now the supreme court has put the trial over his attempted coup in 2020 on hold, while the other cases against him have uncertain timelines.

Meanwhile, Biden’s team and Democratic officials have been telling the press that Biden’s replacement on the ticket isn’t any likelier. The race, they insist, is already on.

Who’s ahead? All but a handful of high-quality national polls taken since January say it’s Trump. A New York Times poll fairly representative of the rest that drew a significant amount of media attention over the weekend put Trump ahead by five points, 48-43%, among registered voters. That’s the largest lead Trump has held in a Times poll since he launched his first presidential campaign in 2015.

Meanwhile, Biden, more unpopular than ever, sits at an approval rating of 38%. Ten per cent of those who voted for him in 2020 now say they will vote for Trump. And the demographic picture the poll paints is dire ⁠– not only for Biden but perhaps for the Democratic party as a whole.

Biden led strongly with women in 2020 and is now evidently tied with Trump among them; Biden won an estimated 72% of minorities without college degrees last time around and now leads by a mere six points, 47-41%. And while making broad demographic pronouncements on the basis of one poll is unwise, these results are roughly in keeping with some other data.

In Michigan for instance, where much of the focus last week was on the uncommitted vote against Biden in that state’s primary, Biden has generally been polling under 70% with that state’s crucial Black electorate, which he won with over 90% of the vote, according to exit polls, in 2020. Deficits like that with previously strong Democratic constituencies go some way towards explaining why Biden, at present, seems to be losing in every swing state given current polling.

We have every reason to believe that the hole Biden is in is real, as unfair as it might seem to his supporters

The Biden campaign’s response to these numbers has been simple: all of the polls are wrong. “Polling continues to be at odds with how Americans vote, and consistently overestimates Donald Trump while underestimating President Biden,” Biden’s communications director, Michael Tyler, said over the weekend in a statement. “Whether it’s in special elections or in the presidential primaries, actual voter behavior tells us a lot more than any poll does and it tells a very clear story: Joe Biden and Democrats continue to outperform while Donald Trump and the party he leads are weak, cash-strapped and deeply divided.”

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As Tyler and his colleagues surely know, though, the point about “actual voter behavior” is wrong. Primary election results are not very indicative of how strong candidates will be in a general election; if they were, Trump, who didn’t even win a majority of the Republican primary vote in 2016, never would have been president. And there’s basically zero relationship between results in special elections like the one Democrats just won in New York ⁠– which involve small, unrepresentative electorates in small, unrepresentative places ⁠– and presidential election results.

As flawed as they might be, general election polls are our surest guide to how the general electorate is feeling about the general election. In fact, as the political scientist David Faris noted recently, the leader at this point of the year in Real Clear Politics’ average of polls has gone on to win the election in every race since 2004 other than 2004 itself, with only a few points worth of difference between the margin and the final result.

In 2004, the exception, Kerry and Bush were virtually tied in early March, around 44-44%, while Bush went on to win the popular vote by just over two points. And even that exception is reflective of a trend that can’t be of much comfort to Democrats ⁠– in every race since 2004 save 2008’s post-crash election, the Democratic candidate has performed slightly worse in November than polls at this point in the year have suggested.

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All told, we have every reason to believe that the hole Biden is in is real, as unfair as it might seem to his supporters. As rosily as they might evaluate his record in office so far, it looks substantially more mixed now than it did six months ago. It’s true that the economy is roaring by all available macroeconomic metrics and that Democrats under Biden have managed to pass the most expansive domestic policy agenda of any president since at least Lyndon Johnson.

But it’s also true that voters have been stung by high prices and interest rates, as well as the expiration of pandemic relief programs. Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was brave and laudable ⁠– both morally and strategically overdue. But he was hammered for it in the press and now faces a progressive insurrection over the US’s support for Israel’s inhumane offensive in Gaza so severe that the campaign is reportedly reducing large in-person events to avoid protesters.

And on immigration, still at the front of mind for many voters, Biden has functionally conceded that Trump has been right about the state of the border; while immigrants are less prone to crime than the native-born population and substantially responsible for the economic boom we’re experiencing, Democrats are trying their best to outflank the right on border security and asylum, to little effect thus far, rather than countering the racist myths Trump has propagated directly and focusing on a positive immigration reform agenda.

Most voters haven’t plugged into these policy debates; Biden wears his greatest liability to them on his face. According to the New York Times’ poll, 73% of registered voters, including 61% of voters who backed Biden in 2020, say he’s too old to effectively serve as president.

And as much as Democrats might want to blame the media for that perception in the wake of the Robert Hur report, this is a problem many of them foresaw themselves during the last campaign. “If Biden is elected he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection,” one campaign adviser told Politico’s Ryan Lizza flatly in 2019; according to Lizza, four sources close to Biden at the time told him that it was “virtually inconceivable” that he would mount another campaign.

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Margaret Sullivan

Yet here we are ⁠– sitting between a Super Tuesday that Biden swept and what could be the most consequential State of the Union address in some time, given the opportunity it presents for the president both to demonstrate his lucidity and to outline, at long last, an actual plan for his next term. Previews of the speech suggest it will feature now familiar language about protecting democracy and “making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair ”, along with some proposals on the opioid epidemic and veteran care.

But Biden will have to do substantially better than that to get his campaign right side up. Plainly, he’s become a symbol of our political system’s decrepitude ⁠– a stand-in for all the old men in Washington who voters believe, rightfully, can’t or won’t do much to dramatically improve their lives. He’ll have to prove to voters that he’s capable of both dreaming and doing ⁠– to sell an ambitious vision of further material progress over the next four years, not woolly rhetoric about ending polarization and bringing serenity back to politics that will leave him looking dishonest and even more ineffectual when the tenor of political life remains the same, as it surely will.

Whether or not Democrats control Congress will naturally constrain whether Biden makes good on that policy agenda; but having a compelling agenda in the offing to begin with might lift the candidates he’ll depend upon in his next term to victory. All that aside, faith in Biden’s capacity to lead and accomplish will rest in some part on whether and when the situation in Gaza comes to a peaceable resolution ⁠– getting a handle on the situation and pressuring Netanyahu into ending the war would be a significant turning point in his presidency.

There and elsewhere, Biden needs to find a new course. Otherwise, the election may be over before he realizes it.

· Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist

ATTACHMENT SEVENTEEN – FROM AL JAZEERA

Five takeaways from the US Super Tuesday primary races

By Al Jazeera Staff

Published On 6 Mar 20246 Mar 2024

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden continue to march towards November’s United States presidential election, securing major primary victories on Super Tuesday, one of the busiest days in the country’s election calendar.

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley, meanwhile, got a glimmer of hope when she beat former President Trump in the small northeastern state of Vermont on Tuesday.

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But it wasn’t enough to keep the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador in the race. On Wednesday morning, just hours after the Super Tuesday results trickled in, Haley suspended her campaign for the White House.

Haley’s departure from the race, and President Biden’s overwhelming success on Super Tuesday – his only loss was in the US territory of American Samoa – mean a rematch of the 2020 presidential campaign is virtually guaranteed.

Super Tuesday marks the most pivotal date on the primary calendar, as the day when the most states vote. They included the two most populous, California and Texas, as well as battleground states like Minnesota and Virginia.

As a result, nearly a third of all party delegates for both Democrats and Republicans were up for grabs. While the night’s results were not enough for Trump or Biden to clinch their party’s nominations, they have both made significant strides in reaching the delegate threshold needed. A rematch of their match-up in the 2020 presidential race appears all but certain.

Here are five takeaways from the 2024 Super Tuesday results.

Haley wins big in Vermont but suspends campaign

Super Tuesday had long been the bullseye that the Haley campaign was aiming for.

“That’s as far as I’ve thought, in terms of going forward,” she said during the South Carolina primary, a race in her home state that she ultimately lost.

On Super Tuesday, she managed to squeeze out a symbolic victory in Vermont, a state in the left-leaning New England region.

But the inevitability of Trump’s nomination was beginning to discourage her donors with deep pockets. As one example, the Americans for Prosperity super PAC stepped away from her presidential bid following her defeat in South Carolina.

Haley also had only compiled 89 delegates, far behind Trump’s total of 995, and the 1,215 overall delegates needed to secure the party’s nomination.

“I congratulate him [Trump] and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America’s president,” Haley said on Wednesday morning as she announced she was suspending her campaign. “Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.”

Michael Fauntroy, a political science professor at George Mason University, told Al Jazeera that Haley’s Super Tuesday performance might be less significant as a reflection of her success – and more indicative of the weaknesses Trump faces going into the general election.

“If you look at many of the closely contested swing states that we’ve seen so far, including some tonight, there are roughly 20 percent to maybe even a third of Republican voters in those states who are voting for Nikki Haley,” he said.

“And in a closely contested state like Michigan or Wisconsin, perhaps even North Carolina, if those voters stay home in November or just can’t bring themselves to vote for former President Trump, then former President Trump cannot win those states. And if he can’t win those states, he can’t win the election.”

Protest vote against Biden spreads

Super Tuesday has likewise forced Biden to confront the vulnerabilities in his campaign. A protest campaign that started largely in Michigan continued to exert influence over the day’s races.

In last month’s Michigan primary, grassroots movements called on voters to choose the “uncommitted” option on their ballot instead of Biden, as a rebuke to his stance on Israel’s war in Gaza.

Biden has long touted his “rock-solid” support for Israel, even as its military offensive in the Palestinian enclave elicited concerns about the risk of genocide and famine. More than 30,000 Palestinians have died in Israel’s military campaign so far.

The “uncommitted” movement ultimately pulled an estimated 101,000 votes in the Michigan primary – or approximately 13 percent of the total ballots cast.

The push to vote “uncommitted” remained strong on Super Tuesday. That was particularly apparent in Minnesota, a key swing state in the Midwest. Early results showed that “uncommitted” was in second place in that state’s Democratic primary, with nearly 20 percent of the vote.

That could spell trouble for Biden in the general elections, as he faces drooping poll numbers – and a tight race against his likely opponent Trump.

Senate race in California deals blow to progressives

One of the biggest down-ballot primaries was the race to replace the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, who passed away last year after more than 30 years representing California.

To decide which two candidates would proceed to the general elections in November, California held a “jungle primary”, where Senate hopefuls from any party could participate. It proved to be a fatal contest for the race’s two most prominent progressives, Representatives Barbara Lee and Katie Porter.

Both women had decided against running for re-election to the House of Representatives in order to compete in the Senate race. It was a high-stakes gamble. The two representatives had developed national profiles, Lee as an antiwar figure and Porter as a champion against corporate overreach.

Their fellow US representative, centrist Democrat Adam Schiff, handily emerged as the frontrunner on Super Tuesday, despite criticism for his pro-Israel stance amid the Gaza war. But Lee and Porter were ultimately edged out by a Republican with no previous political experience: former baseball player Steve Garvey.

The result has left their political careers in question – and Porter’s congressional district vulnerable to being flipped. Control of both the House and the Senate are up in the air this November.

A referendum on Trump’s grip over Republicans

Other hotly anticipated races revolved around gauging just how strong Trump’s sway over the Republican Party is.

In the Republican stronghold of Texas, for instance, one state-level race showed how fierce the internal power struggle has become.

Two-term state Representative Dade Phelan had gained a relatively high profile as Texas’s Speaker of the House – a powerful figure in the state’s politics – and this year, he was up for re-election.

But he had spurred the ire of the far-right flank of his party by overseeing the recent impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican provocateur known for challenging the Biden administration in the courts. Paxton had also previously petitioned the US Supreme Court to reject Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, in support of Trump’s false claims of voter fraud.

In the Super Tuesday primary, Phelan came to represent the more establishment branch of the Republican Party, while his adversary David Covey enjoyed the endorsements of Trump and Paxton.

The Republican race was so close, however, that it is set to go to a runoff in May, teeing up another battle for the soul of the party.

Biden and Trump look ahead to November showdown

Despite a wobble for Biden in American Samoa and a loss for Trump in Vermont, the two frontrunners seem destined for a rematch in November’s general elections.

They each offered a glimpse of their campaign strategies moving forward, with comments released amid the Super Tuesday results.

Trump took the stage in person at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, greeting a ballroom full of supporters for an election night watch party.

As he spoke, though, Trump revisited familiar themes: the United States was in decline, he said, and only he could reverse the slide. He made no mentions of Haley, his only major Republican rival left standing, focusing instead on Biden.

Biden likewise returned to his familiar playbook, warning that Trump represented an existential threat to US democracy.

“My message to the country is this: Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy,” Biden said in a Super Tuesday statement. A centrist, he framed himself as the candidate of unity, offering a preview of his appeal to voters in November.

“To every Democrat, Republican and independent who believes in a free and fair America: this is our moment. This is our fight.”

ATTACHMENT EIGHTEEN – FROM GUK

A far-right US youth group is ramping up its movement to back election deniers

Turning Point USA and co-founder Charlie Kirk are raising $108m to mobilize Trump voters and ‘clean house’ of election officials

By Peter Stone Sat 2 Mar 2024 07.00 EST

Turning Point USA, a far-right youth group known for its fundraising prowess and for promoting election-conspiracy theories, is mounting a multimillion-dollar mobilization drive via its advocacy arm in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin.

Arizona-based TPUSA, a non-profit co-founded in 2012 by then 18-year-old Charlie Kirk that’s become a key ally in Donald Trump’s Maga ecosystem, has launched the drive through Turning Point Action, which has raised tens of millions of dollars and is hiring hundreds of full-time employees in the three states, according to its spokesperson, Andrew Kolvet.

While its current fundraising drive is to support the voter-outreach efforts, TP Action is likely to help finance other political advocacy initiatives, including ousting some key Arizona election officials who disputed claims of election fraud in 2020.

Dubbed “chase the vote”, the drive is being supplemented by another get-out-the-vote campaign that TP Action is starting with the Christian nationalist and televangelist Lance Wallnau.

Together with Wallnau and some other Maga allies like Moms for America, TP Action is planning a “courage tour” in the same three swing states to enlist pastors and their churches in the voter-mobilization drive, which will include booths in churches to register voters.

TP Action’s fledgling campaign is aimed at identifying and registering “patriotic” voters, encouraging early voting and getting voters to the polls in November, according to its website. Billed as the “first and most robust conservative ballot-chasing operation”, TP Action’s drive could benefit Trump and Maga-allied candidates in the three states.

The new political advocacy drives come after TPUSA and TP Action sparked strong criticism from veteran Republicans, watchdog groups and analysts for backing several hard-right candidates in Arizona who were defeated in 2022, and pushing conspiracies about election fraud, Covid-19 and other issues.

Kolvet pushed back on criticism of the group’s 2022 results, noting that TP Action only spent $500,000 in total in several states in 2022, but that this year it intends to mount a much better-financed and robust effort, hiring hundreds of full-time employees for its “chase the vote” drive and seeking to raise an eye-popping $108m dollars.

TP Action’s aggressive fundraising could prove useful in other election-related projects this year that the group is likely to get involved with.

Austin Smith, a state legislator and TP Action’s enterprise director, in a tweet this week signaled an effort to oust several key election officials in the state’s largest county, Maricopa, in primaries this July.

Smith said “[we] need to clean house in Maricopa county” and cited, among other officers, the county recorder, the Republican lawyer Stephen Richer, who rejected unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud in 2020 and 2022.

Kolvet said TP Action to date hasn’t joined the effort, but added that “it’s more likely than not we’ll get involved in some of these races. We’re going to get behind conservative candidates.”

One key example: TP Action in February endorsed Trump loyalist Kari Lake’s 2024 Arizona senate campaign.

Kirk and TPUSA’s strong fundraising talents could prove helpful to TP Action’s current drive. TPUSA’s annual revenues have soared in recent years with help from leading rightwing donors including the Bradley Impact Fund, which chipped in $7.8m in 2022, the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation and dark-money behemoth Donors Trust.

TPUSA has also benefited mightily from hosting several gaudy gatherings at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and in tony Arizona venues that have drawn some big donors and conservative stars like the representatives Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gaetz, and Don Trump Jr.

These events and mega-donor checks have helped make TPUSA a fundraising goliath: the group’s revenues soared from $39.8m dollars in 2020 to $55.8m in 2021 and $80.6m in 2022, according to public records.

TPUSA now employs 450 people and has broadened its focus from fighting left and “woke” influence on campuses to other culture war fronts by setting up a Turning Point Faith unit that’s hosted large gatherings at churches featuring Wallnau and other Christian nationalist figures.

Notwithstanding TPUSA’s fundraising successes, the organization and Kirk have been buffeted by criticism on multiple fronts. Late last year, Kirk ignited a political firestorm in mainstream GOP circles by using his eponymous radio show and an Arizona bash to make incendiary attacks on the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, which recycled old and unverified slurs about King, and disparaged Black airline pilots.

During a major TPUSA event in Arizona in December, Kirk opined that “MLK was awful. He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.”

“Kirk’s cheapening of Martin Luther King’s legacy and disparaging remarks about Black pilots hurt our cause, and don’t help it,” Salmon of Arizona said, adding that Kirk is “one of the strongest voices for factionalism in the party”.

Other GOP veterans also voiced harsh critiques.

“Kirk chases conspiracies that animate his followers and generate funds,” the long-time GOP consultant Tyler Montague said. “Kirk has used this method to push conspiracies about election fraud, Christian nationalism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, and now he’s opened a new front in racism with his Martin Luther King attacks.”

Montague’s comments are in keeping with earlier criticism of Kirk for promoting Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in 2020.

Kirk and TP Action collaborated with about a dozen other groups to bring busloads of Trump allies to DC to attend Trump’s 6 January March to Save America rally that preceded the mob attack on the Capitol.

From left, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr and Kimberly Guilfoyle in West Palm Beach, Florida, on 21 December 2019. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Prior to the rally, Kirk predicted in a tweet it “would likely be one of the largest and most consequential in American history”, but he quickly deleted the tweet after the day’s violence.

Independent analysts who study misinformation criticize Kirk’s penchant for pushing conspiracies and false narratives on the Charlie Kirk Show, which runs daily on the evangelical Salem Radio Network.

“The Charlie Kirk Show consistently ranks high in the top 100 shows on Apple podcasts, and has been a leader in spreading false and unverified claims,” said Valerie Wirtschafter, a Brookings Institution fellow in AI and emerging technologies.

Kirk’s dubious claims range “from the idea that the Covid-19 vaccine was poison, to the belief that the election was stolen in 2020 with fraudulent ballots, to claims that purported Ukrainian bioweapons facilities are somehow linked to Anthony Fauci,” she added.

Kirk had company in backing Trump’s election fraud claims, which could pose legal risks to a top TP Action official: Tyler Bowyer, the COO, who also had that title with TPUSA, and who was one of Arizona’s 11 fake electors for Trump in 2020. He and the other fake electors are facing a state attorney general probe.

The 11 fake electors filmed themselves signing documents stating they were legitimate electors, even though the then GOP governor, Doug Ducey, had certified Biden’s win by more than 10,000 votes.

Bowyer, an Arizona GOP national committeeman who signed paperwork falsely claiming that Trump had won, introduced a resolution at a Republican National Committee meeting that began in late January seeking to get the RNC to indemnify RNC members in multiple states who had been fake electors and who face legal bills due to state probes.

Bowyer justified his resolution by writing on X that “we need to send a clear signal that the RNC will defend those who serve as electors against Democratic radicals trying to criminalize civic engagement and process”.

The resolution didn’t pass, but to appease Trump backers the RNC pledged to “vocally” back individuals who “lawfully” served as Trump electors in states that Biden actually won.

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Prosecutors in three states have brought charges against fake electors for sending certificates to Congress falsely stating Trump had won their states, and the justice department has probed fake elector schemes in multiple states in its wide-ranging inquiry into efforts by Trump and his allies to thwart Biden’s election.

Serendipitously, right before the RNC meeting, TP Action hosted a two-day summit dubbed Restoring National Confidence, which drew several big-name election deniers including My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, ex-Trump senior White House strategist Steve Bannon and Don Jr.

In a tweet, Don Jr wrote: “It was great speaking to all my friends at the Turning Point Restoring National Confidence Summit earlier this week.”

The tight ties between TPUSA and Don Jr were underscored in 2020 when TPUSA paid a company owned by Don Jr $333,000 to buy copies of one of his books, which TPUSA gave away as part of a fundraising drive, according to the Associated Press.

But watchdog groups are alarmed by TPUSA and TP Action’s record of promoting the ex-president’s bogus claims of election fraud, and candidates in Arizona in 2022 who espoused similar election falsehoods. They’re bracing for more in another heated election year.

“They’ve backed conspiracy theorists for high office, mobilized activists around the ‘big lie’ and hired one of Arizona’s fake electors to help run their campaign arm,” said Heather Sawyer, the president of the watchdog group American Oversight.

“Since January 6, TPUSA has become an animating force behind the election-denial movement.”

Donors could be tempted to pull the plug after Super Tuesday, where the map heavily favours Trump. Polls show him to be an overwhelming favourite in California and Texas, as well as in states such as Alabama, Maine and Minnesota. His campaign projects that he will win at least 773 delegates on the night and formally clinch the nomination a week or two later.

Biden, for his part, is assured of the Democratic nomination when party loyalists vote for delegates to August’s Democratic national convention in Chicago. But the 81-year-old also has plenty of political headaches. Polls show deep voter concerns about his age as well as rising prices and an influx of people crossing the southern border.

Some Democrats are unhappy with his steadfast support of Israel in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza. An organised attempt to vote “uncommitted” in the Michigan primary to protest Biden’s handling of the war garnered more than 100,000 votes, a significant protest, although the 13% was only slightly higher than that option got in the last primary under a Democratic president.

Last week, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll found Biden trailing Trump in seven swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin – when voters were asked who they would support in a hypothetical general election. On average, Trump was leading by 48% to 43%. On Saturday, a New York Times/Siena College poll found that the of voters who strongly disapprove of Biden was at its highest in his presidency, at 47%.

Luntz, who had a long track record of advising Republican campaigns before Trump seized control of the party, said: “With every passing week, Joe Biden gets weaker and weaker as more and more voters come to decide that he’s simply too darn old. And so you see this gap between Trump and Biden widening.

“The gap is widening because Biden is collapsing. With the economy getting stronger and conditions on the ground getting better, Joe Biden is still getting weaker. That’s a three-alarm fire in America. The lights are flashing, the people are screaming but Joe Biden doesn’t hear them.”

Super Tuesday is not only about the presidential election. Among the most notable down-ballot races is the one in California to succeed the late Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein. Vying to replace her are Democratic representatives Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball star.

Most pundits will be studying the results for clues about a presidential race that is sure to be close and decided in a handful of swing states.

Asked what he had learned from the primaries so far, Luntz said: “That Donald Trump has lost suburban women that used to vote Republican, that Joe Biden has lost Latinos and a fair number of union members that used to vote Democrat, that there is going to be some serious and significant shifting of certain demographic and geographic voters. And that this election is going to be the worst in modern history.”

STATE of the UNION THURSDAY

Read a transcript of Biden’s SOU as Attachment “C”, reminisce and decide for yourself... a collection of responses, reactions and predictions through the SOU and up to the coming elections in Russia will be noted in next week’s lesson – including attachments 19 to 57. But, over the weekend, Don’s dramatic (if shortened) days continued through Daylight Savings, the Oscars and the beginning of Ramadan (among intensification of the Hamas – Israeli war) to which we now return...

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS...

ATTACHMENT FIFTY EIGHT – FROM FORBES

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME: HERE ARE THE STATES TRYING TO MAKE IT PERMANENT—OR MOVE ON

By Brian Bushard Mar 5, 2024, 03:59pm EST Updated Mar 6, 2024, 09:44am EST

With Americans gearing up to change their clocks forward on Sunday, lawmakers in more than two dozen states are attempting to keep daylight saving time permanent as part of a growing movement for brighter afternoons, though that switch is contingent on congressional action that has so far been unsuccessful.

Lawmakers in 10 states have pushed for year-round standard time, which is already observed in Hawaii ... [+]

KEY FACTS

State lawmakers have been torn for years on whether to transition to permanent daylight saving time—which would provide an extra hour of afternoon daylight—or pivot instead to year-round standard time, a move two states have already done, though one point state lawmakers agree on is ending the practice of changing the clocks.

Federal law under the Uniform Time Act allows states to observe year-round standard time, as Arizona and Hawaii have done, though it prohibits states from switching to permanent daylight saving time.

A separate bipartisan bill would enable states to permanently switch to daylight saving time, though that bill is held up in committee.

If Congress passes that bill, a switch to permanent daylight saving time could take effect in more than two dozen states that have passed measures or have pending legislation contingent on congressional action, including Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Nearly a dozen states have legislation in the works to switch to year-round standard time: Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Oregon, whose Senate voted Monday in favor of a bill that would end daylight saving time.

Voters in California approved a resolution in 2018 allowing the state legislature to put the state on permanent daylight saving time, though lawmakers have not acted on the measure, while a bill in New York would establish a daylight saving time task force to study the effects of switching to year-round daylight saving time.

More than 500. That’s how many bills and resolutions state legislatures have considered to address time changes between 2014 and 2023, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

CHIEF CRITICS

Researchers have shown in recent years that the twice-annual changing of the clocks might not just be a nuisance, it could also be harmful to Americans wellbeing. U.S. adults, on average, lose roughly 40 minutes of sleep on the night after clocks “spring forward,” a loss that is not fully recovered when clocks “fall back” later in the year. Recent studies have also shown the changing of the clocks coincides with a spike in fatal car crashes and emergency room visits, on top of missed medical appointments, a greater chance of workplace injuries and even an increase in heart attacks and strokes. In the long-term, that transition can also accelerate mood disorders tied to sleep disruption, including depression and anxiety, studies have found.

KEY BACKGROUND

Daylight saving time began in 1918 as an initiative to save energy in the afternoons and evenings and give Americans extra shopping time after work, though initially the practice was a patchwork of nonuniform time changes, left up to each state to decide. Congress standardized the practice in 1966 with the Uniform Time Act, and amended that act in 1996 to extend daylight saving time by one month in the spring and another month in the fall.

CONTRA

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have attempted for years to do away with the twice-annual practice, introducing—and reintroducing—the so-called Sunshine Protection Act. If approved, the bipartisan legislation would shift the clocks forward into daylight saving time for the entire year, doing away with standard time altogether, meaning later sunrises and sunsets, darker mornings and more daylight in the late afternoon. A bipartisan group of lawmakers pushed for the legislation for the fourth consecutive congressional session last year, though the bill has been stagnant in recent attempts, passing the Senate in 2021 but not coming up for a House vote.

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ATTACHMENT EIGHTY FOUR – FROM NEWSMAX

ARE RAMADAN JIHAD CELLS ALREADY IN U.S.?

By Clare M. Lopez Friday, 08 March 2024 01:16 PM

Two recent interviews — one with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and one with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., — pointed to the gathering threat of terror violence inside the country this year.

Aside from these two and a few more, though, there seems to be scant attention being paid to the likelihood that a confluence of threat indicators will erupt into street violence on a scale we’ve not seen since the summer of 2020.

This year, the Islamic month of Ramadan begins on March 10.

It runs until sundown on April 10.

Against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing Swords of Iron military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a month that even in less tumultuous years often sees an accelerated pace of jihad attacks globally, this year’s Ramadan likely will be the occasion for even more renewed calls for attacks against Jews in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, the rest of Israel, and the United States (U.S.) homeland as well. Indeed, U.S. imams already have begun calling for the killing of Jews on a genocidal scale.

Intelligence officials warned in January 2024 that Hezbollah may be plotting terror attacks inside the homeland this year.

Also in January, a group of former senior FBI officials sent a letter to congressional leaders warning of a “new and imminent danger."

That danger, they wrote, arises from the ongoing mass invasion of military-age men from all over the world, among whom surely are not only Chinese Jungle Tigers but also Islamic terrorists seeking vengeance against Jews and for U.S. support of Israel.

Epoch Times show host and reporter Roman Balmakov interviewed Erik Prince at the March 2024 CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference. During the interview, entitled "Terrorist Sleeper Cells Are Already in the U.S.," Prince told Balmakov that one reason he believes the Biden administration is so reluctant to strike back in any meaningful way against Iranian terror proxies — much less any Iranian target itself — is that the Iranian regime has already surged unknown numbers of military fighters across our wide-open southern border.

Then from there, they could head north through the Darien Gap that lies between Colombia and Panama, and then on up to and across the U.S. southern border.

Combined with other hostile military forces already certainly here, to include Chinese Jungle Tigers and Hezbollah cadres, these forces are likely forming cells, conducting pre-attack casing, surveillance, and training, and getting ready to launch combined attacks inside the homeland later in 2024, or should the U.S. do anything to upset Iran’s mullahs.

On March 3, 2024 Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., joined FOX News' "Sunday Morning Futures" program with Maria Bartiromo.

Sen. Marshall warned about Chinese triads operating across America.

Triads are transnational organized crime syndicates based in Communist China, but operating globally, including the U.S.

It must be understood that these triads operate with the full knowledge and at least tacit acquiescence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Sen. Marshall noted that in Kansas and the U.S. more broadly, there has been "an explosion of human trafficking."

Specifically, he was talking about a proliferation of massage parlors in Kansas as well as other states.

Those massage parlors, plus other Chinese fronts like hair or nail salons, are evidence not only of human smuggling and the enslaved Chinese women who work there, but also of a sophisticated money laundering operation.

Sen. Marshall spoke also about the flood of fentanyl trafficking across that southern border, a drug trade that he pointed out dates back to the era of Mao Zedong, when methamphetamine precursors were first sent into the U.S. in collaboration with the Mexican cartels.

Now, in addition to that early Chemical Warfare (CW), the CCP in collusion with the Mexican cartels, are smuggling fentanyl chemical precursors into Mexico, with American users the ultimate intended target.

With over 100,000 drug deaths in the U.S. every year, and most of those due to fentanyl (sometimes laced into other counterfeit drugs often bought online), there is no question that the CCP is waging Chemical Warfare against the U.S.

Sen. Marshall called out the Biden administration for permitting the drug and human trafficking across the U.S. southern border with Mexico, despite the clear national security implications that put our entire nation in danger.

On a final note, the Washington Examiner and other news outlets reported in early March 2024 that the Biden administration has flown some 320,000 illegal aliens directly from unknown Latin American countries into the U.S. to unsuspecting American communities that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) refuses to identify.

The secret airlift was kept secret from the American public to minimize the numbers of illegals being processed through U.S. southern ports of entry via the CBP One cell phone app.

America’s friends, allies, and enemies alike all see this happening. They all know that those with malign intent have a free pass into the U.S. under the Biden administration.

As the FBI officials wrote in their letter to Congress, "the warning lights are blinking."

Clare M. Lopez is the Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC, with a mission to alert Americans to national security threats, both international and from the Islamic Movement/Muslim Brotherhood and their Marxist/communist collaborators in the U.S. From 2014-2020, she served as vice president for research and analysis at the Center for Security Policy. Read Reports by Clare M. Lopez — More Here.

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2024 GRAMMYs: See The Full Winners & Nominees List

Music's Biggest Night saw history-making wins, exciting new Categories, and an incredible amount of talent. Check out the complete list of winners and nominees from the 2024 GRAMMYs.

MORGAN ENOS

|GRAMMYS/NOV 10, 2023 - 11:16 AM

Editor’s Note: Updated Sunday, Feb. 4, to reflect the winners at the 2024 GRAMMYs, officially known as the 66th GRAMMY Awards.

The Recording Academy has officially revealed the winners of the 2024 GRAMMYs, which took place Sunday, Feb. 4, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Artists made history and made memorable moments at the 2024 GRAMMYs: women won several of the major GRAMMY categories and general dominated the night; several artists won their first-ever GRAMMY, including Miley Cyrus; and Taylor Swift became the artist with the most GRAMMY wins for Album Of The Year. Elsewhere, the Recording Academy debuted three new GRAMMY categories at the 2024 GRAMMYs: Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording.

These history-making category additions were part of a larger set of updates and amendments, which went into effect at the 2024 GRAMMYs, aimed at making the GRAMMY Awards process "more fair, transparent and accurate", according to Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr.

The GRAMMYs voting process begins with members and record companies submitting entries, which are then screened for eligibility and category placement. The Online Entry Process (OEP) Access Period took place from July 17, 2023 – Aug. 31, 2023. First Round Voting occurred from Oct. 11 to Oct. 20, 2023. Lastly, Final Round Voting took place Dec. 14, 2023 to Jan. 4, 2024. The Recording Academy's voting members, all involved in the creative and technical processes of recording, then participate in the nominating process that determines the five finalists in each category and the final voting process, which determines the GRAMMY winners.

For more information, view the GRAMMY Awards Journey, an interactive, engaging online resource about the complete GRAMMY Awards process, from Online Entry and Eligibility Screening to Peer Voting and Nominations.

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General Field

1. Record Of The Year

Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s) and mastering engineer(s), if other than the artist.

Worship

Jon Batiste

Jon Batiste, Jon Bellion, Pete Nappi & Tenroc, producers; John Arbuckle, Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea & Pete Nappi, engineers/mixers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer

Not Strong Enough

boygenius

boygenius & Catherine Marks, producers; Owen Lantz, Catherine Marks, Mike Mogis, Bobby Mota, Kaushlesh "Garry" Purohit & Sarah Tudzin, engineers/mixers; Pat Sullivan, mastering engineer

Flowers - WINNER

Miley Cyrus

Kid Harpoon & Tyler Johnson, producers; Michael Pollack, Brian Rajaratnam & Mark "Spike" Stent, engineers/mixers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer

What Was I Made For? [From The Motion Picture "Barbie"]

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish & FINNEAS, producers; Billie Eilish, Rob Kinelski & FINNEAS, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

On My Mama

Victoria Monét

Deputy, Dernst Emile II, Jeff Gitelman & Victoria Monét, producers; Patrizio Pigliapoco, Victoria Monét & Todd Robinson, engineers/mixers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Vampire

Olivia Rodrigo

Dan Nigro, producer; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, Michael Harris, Chris Kasych, Daniel Nigro & Dan Viafore, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Anti-Hero

Taylor Swift

Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, producers; Jack Antonoff, Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, Laura Sisk & Lorenzo Wolff, engineers/mixers; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Kill Bill

SZA

Rob Bisel & Carter Lang, producers; Rob Bisel, engineer/mixer; Dale Becker, mastering engineer

2. Album Of The Year

Award to Artist(s) and to Featured Artist(s), Songwriter(s) of new material, Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), Mixer(s) and Mastering Engineer(s) credited with 20% or more playing time of the album.

World Music Radio

Jon Batiste

Jon Batiste, Jon Bellion, Nick Cooper, Pete Nappi & Tenroc, producers; Jon Batiste, Pete Nappi, Kaleb Rollins, Laura Sisk & Marc Whitmore, engineers/mixers; Jon Batiste, Jon Bellion, Jason Cornet & Pete Nappi, songwriters; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer

the record

boygenius

boygenius & Catherine Marks, producers; Owen Lantz, Will Maclellan, Catherine Marks, Mike Mogis, Bobby Mota, Kaushlesh "Garry" Purohit & Sarah Tudzin, engineers/mixers; Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus, songwriters; Pat Sullivan, mastering engineer

Endless Summer Vacation

Miley Cyrus

Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson & Mike Will Made-It, producers; Pièce Eatah, Craig Frank, Paul David Hager, Stacy Jones, Brian Rajaratnam & Mark "Spike" Stent, engineers/mixers; Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein, Thomas Hull, Tyler Johnson, Michael Len Williams II & Michael Pollack, songwriters; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer

Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

Lana Del Rey

Jack Antonoff, Zach Dawes, Lana Del Rey & Drew Erickson, producers; Jack Antonoff, Michael Harris, Dean Reid & Laura Sisk, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Mike Hermosa, songwriters; Ruairi O'Flaherty, mastering engineer

The Age Of Pleasure

Janelle Monáe

Sensei Bueno, Nate "Rocket" Wonder & Nana Kwabena, producers; Mick Guzauski, Nate "Rocket" Wonder, Jayda Love, Janelle Monáe & Yáng Tan, engineers/mixers; Jarrett Goodly, Nathaniel Irvin III, Janelle Monáe Robinson & Nana Kwabena Tuffuor, songwriters; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer

GUTS

Olivia Rodrigo

Daniel Nigro, producer; Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, Chris Kasych, Sterling Laws, Ryan Linvill, Mitch McCarthy, Daniel Nigro, Dave Schiffman, Mark "Spike" Stent, Sam Stewart & Dan Viafore, engineers/mixers; Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Midnights - WINNER

Taylor Swift

Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, producers; Jack Antonoff, Zem Audu, Bryce Bordone, Serban Ghenea, David Hart, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Ken Lewis, Michael Riddleberger, Laura Sisk & Evan Smith, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

SOS

SZA

Rob Bisel, ThankGod4Cody & Carter Lang, producers; Rob Bisel, engineer/mixer; Rob Bisel, Cody Fayne, Carter Lang & Solána Rowe, songwriters; Dale Becker, mastering engineer

3. Song Of The Year

A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

A&W

Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Sam Dew, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)

Anti-Hero

Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

Butterfly

Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Jon Batiste)

Dance The Night (From Barbie The Album)

Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Dua Lipa)

Flowers

Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein & Michael Pollack, songwriters (Miley Cyrus)

Kill Bill

Rob Bisel, Carter Lang & Solána Rowe, songwriters (SZA)

Vampire

Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo)

What Was I Made For? [From The Motion Picture "Barbie"] - WINNER

Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

4. Best New Artist

This category recognizes an artist whose eligibility-year release(s) achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape.

Gracie Abrams

Fred again..

Ice Spice

Jelly Roll

Coco Jones

Noah Kahan

Victoria Monét - WINNER

The War And Treaty

5. Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

A Producer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses.)

Jack Antonoff - WINNER

• Being Funny In A Foreign Language (The 1975) (A)

• Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Lana Del Rey) (A)

• Midnights (Taylor Swift) (A)

Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II

• JAGUAR II (Victoria Monét) (A)

Hit-Boy

• Bus Stop (Don Toliver Featuring Brent Faiyaz) (T)

• Just Face It (Dreamville With Blxst) (T)

• Kings Disease III (Nas) (A)

• Magic 3 (Nas) (A)

• Magic 2 (Nas) (A)

• Slipping Into Darkness (Hit-Boy & The Alchemist) (S)

• Surf Or Drown Vol. 1 (Hit-Boy) (A)

• Surf Or Drown Vol. 2 (Hit-Boy) (A)

• Victims & Villains (Musiq Soulchild & Hit-Boy) (A)

• Metro Boomin

• Am I Dreaming (Metro Boomin Featuring Roisee & A$AP Rocky) (S)

• Calling (Metro Boomin Featuring NAV, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & Swae Lee) (S)

• Creepin' (Metro Boomin Featuring 21 Savage & The Weeknd) (S)

• More M's (Drake & 21 Savage) (S)

• Oh U Went (Young Thug Featuring Drake) (S)

• Superhero (Heroes & Villains) (Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown) (S)

• Til Further Notice (Travis Scott Featuring James Blake & 21 Savage) (S)

• Trance (Metro Boomin Featuring Travis Scott & Young Thug) (S)

• War Bout It (Lil Durk Featuring 21 Savage) (S)

• Daniel Nigro

• Casual (Chappell Roan) (S)

• Divide (Dermot Kennedy) (S)

• Guts (Olivia Rodrigo) (A)

• Hot To Go! (Chappell Roan) (S)

• Kaleidoscope (Chappell Roan) (S)

• Red Wine Supernova (Chappell Roan) (S)

• Welcome To My Island (Caroline Polachek) (S)

6. Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

A Songwriter's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses.)

Edgar Barrera

• Cuestion De Tiempo (Don Omar) (T)

• Falsa Alarma (En Vivo) (Grupo Firme) (T)

• Gucci Los Paños (Karol G) (T)

• La Despedida (Christian Nodal) (T)

• Mi Ex Tenía Razón (Karol G) (T)

• Que Vuelvas (Various Artists) (T)

• Un Cumbión Dolido (Christian Nodal) (T)

• un x100to (Grupo Frontera & Bad Bunny) (T)

• Yo Pr1mero (Rels B) (S)

Jessie Jo Dillon

• Buried (Brandy Clark) (T)

• Girl In The Mirror (Megan Moroney) (T)

• Halfway To Hell (Jelly Roll) (T)

• I Just Killed A Man (Catie Offerman) (S)

• Memory Lane (Old Dominion) (S)

• Neon Cowgirl (Dan + Shay) (T)

• screen (HARDY) (T)

• The Town In Your Heart (Lori McKenna) (T)

• Up Above The Clouds (Cecilia's Song) (Brandy Clark) (T)

Shane McAnally

• Come Back To Me (Brandy Clark) (S)

• Good With Me (Walker Hayes) (S)

• He's Never Gunna Change (Lauren Daigle) (S)

• I Should Have Married You (Old Dominion) (S)

• Independently Owned (Alex Newell & Original Broadway Cast of Shucked) (S)

• Never Grow Up (Niall Horan) (S)

• Start Nowhere (Sam Hunt) (S)

• Walmart (Sam Hunt) (S)

• We Don't Fight Anymore (Carly Pearce & Chris Stapleton) (S)

Theron Thomas - WINNER

• All My Life (Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole) (S)

• Been Thinking (Tyla) (S)

• Cheatback (Chlöe & Future) (T)

• How We Roll (Ciara & Chris Brown) (S)

• Make Up Your Mind (Cordae) (S)

• Pretty Girls Walk (Big Boss Vette) (S)

• Seven (Jung Kook & Latto) (S)

• Told Ya (Chlöe & Missy Elliot) (T)

• You And I (Sekou) (T)

Justin Tranter

• Gemini Moon (Reneé Rapp) (T)

• Honey! (Are U Coming?) (Måneskin) (S)

• I Want More (Marisa Davila & Cast Of Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies) (S)

• Jersey (Baby Tate) (S)

• A Little Bit Happy (TALK) (S)

• Pretty Girls (Reneé Rapp) (S)

• River (Miley Cyrus) (S)

Field 1: Pop & Dance/Electronic Music

7. Best Pop Solo Performance

For new vocal or instrumental pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.

Flowers - WINNER

Miley Cyrus

Paint The Town Red

Doja Cat

What Was I Made For? [From The Motion Picture "Barbie"]

Billie Eilish

Vampire

Olivia Rodrigo

Anti-Hero

Taylor Swift

8. Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative pop recordings. Singles or Tracks only.

Thousand Miles

Miley Cyrus Featuring Brandi Carlile

Candy Necklace

Lana Del Rey Featuring Jon Batiste

Never Felt So Alone

Labrinth Featuring Billie Eilish

Karma

Taylor Swift Featuring Ice Spice

Ghost In The Machine - WINNER

SZA Featuring Phoebe Bridgers

9. Best Pop Vocal Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new pop vocal recordings.

Chemistry

Kelly Clarkson

Endless Summer Vacation

Miley Cyrus

GUTS

Olivia Rodrigo

- (Subtract)

Ed Sheeran

Midnights - WINNER

Taylor Swift

10. Best Dance/Electronic Recording

For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.

Blackbox Life Recorder 21F

Aphex Twin

Richard D James, producer; Richard D James, mixer

James Blake

James Blake & Dom Maker, producers; James Blake, mixer

Higher Than Ever Before

Disclosure

Cirkut, Guy Lawrence & Howard Lawrence, producers; Guy Lawrence, mixer

Strong

Romy & Fred again..

Fred again.., Stuart Price & Romy, producers; Fred again.. & Stuart Price, mixers

Rumble - WINNER

Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan

BEAM, Elley Duhé, Fred again.. & Skrillex, producers; Skrillex, mixer

11. Best Pop Dance Recording

For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.

Baby Don't Hurt Me

David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray

Johnny Goldstein, Toby Green, David Guetta & Mike Hawkins, producers; Serban Ghenea, mixer

Miracle

Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding

Burns & Calvin Harris, producers; Calvin Harris, mixer

Padam Padam - WINNER

Kylie Minogue

Lostboy, producer; Guy Massey, mixer

One In A Million

Bebe Rexha & David Guetta

Burns & David Guetta, producers; Serban Ghenea, mixer

Rush

Troye Sivan

Styalz Fuego, Novodor & Zhone, producers; Alex Ghenea, mixer

12. Best Dance/Electronic Music Album

For vocal or instrumental albums. Albums only.

Playing Robots Into Heaven

James Blake

For That Beautiful Feeling

The Chemical Brothers

Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022) - WINNER

Fred again..

Kx5

Quest For Fire

Skrillex

Field 2: Rock, Metal & Alternative Music

13. Best Rock Performance

For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative rock recordings.

Sculptures Of Anything Goes

Arctic Monkeys

More Than A Love Song

Black Pumas

Not Strong Enough - WINNER

Boygenius

Rescued

Foo Fighters

Lux Æterna

Metallica

14. Best Metal Performance

For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative metal recordings.

Bad Man

Disturbed

Phantom Of The Opera

Ghost

72 Seasons - WINNER

Metallica

Hive Mind

Slipknot

Jaded

Spiritbox

15. Best Rock Song

A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal songs. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Angry

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Andrew Watt, songwriters (The Rolling Stones)

Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl

Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, songwriters (Olivia Rodrigo)

Emotion Sickness

Dean Fertita, Joshua Homme, Michael Shuman, Jon Theodore & Troy Van Leeuwen, songwriters (Queens Of The Stone Age)

Not Strong Enough - WINNER

Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus, songwriters (boygenius)

Rescued

Dave Grohl, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear, songwriters (Foo Fighters)

16. Best Rock Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new rock, hard rock or metal recordings.

But Here We Are

Foo Fighters

Starcatcher

Greta Van Fleet

72 Seasons

Metallica

This Is Why - WINNER

Paramore

In Times New Roman...

Queens Of The Stone Age

17. Best Alternative Music Performance

For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative Alternative music recordings.

Belinda Says

Alvvays

Body Paint

Arctic Monkeys

Cool About It

boygenius

A&W

Lana Del Rey

This Is Why - WINNER

Paramore

18. Best Alternative Music Album

Vocal or Instrumental.

The Car

Arctic Monkeys

The Record - WINNER

boygenius

Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

Lana Del Rey

Cracker Island

Gorillaz

I Inside The Old Year Dying

PJ Harvey

Field 3: R&B, Rap & Spoken Word Poetry

19. Best R&B Performance

For new vocal or instrumental R&B recordings.

Summer Too Hot

Chris Brown

Back To Love

Robert Glasper Featuring SiR & Alex Isley

ICU - WINNER

Coco Jones

How Does It Make You Feel

Victoria Monét

Kill Bill

SZA

20. Best Traditional R&B Performance

For new vocal or instrumental traditional R&B recordings.

Simple

Babyface Featuring Coco Jones

Lucky

Kenyon Dixon

Hollywood

Victoria Monét Featuring Earth, Wind & Fire & Hazel Monét

Good Morning - WINNER

PJ Morton Featuring Susan Carol

Love Language

SZA

21. Best R&B Song

A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Angel

Halle Bailey, Theron Feemster & Coleridge Tillman, songwriters (Halle)

Back To Love

Darryl Andrew Farris, Riley Glasper, Robert Glasper & Alexandra Isley, songwriters (Robert Glasper Featuring SiR & Alex Isley)

ICU

Darhyl Camper Jr., Courtney Jones, Raymond Komba & Roy Keisha Rockette, songwriters (Coco Jones)

On My Mama

Dernst Emile II, Jeff Gitelman, Victoria Monét, Kyla Moscovich, Jamil Pierre & Charles Williams, songwriters (Victoria Monét)

Snooze - WINNER

Kenny B. Edmonds, Blair Ferguson, Khris Riddick-Tynes, Solána Rowe & Leon Thomas, songwriters (SZA)

22. Best Progressive R&B Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded progressive vocal tracks derivative of R&B.

Since I Have A Lover

6LACK

The Love Album: Off The Grid

Diddy

Nova

Terrace Martin And James Fauntleroy

The Age Of Pleasure

Janelle Monáe

SOS - WINNER

SZA

23. Best R&B Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new R&B recordings.

Girls Night Out

Babyface

What I Didn't Tell You (Deluxe)

Coco Jones

Special Occasion

Emily King

JAGUAR II - WINNER

Victoria Monét

CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP

Summer Walker

24. Best Rap Performance

For a Rap performance. Singles or Tracks only.

The Hillbillies

Baby Keem Featuring Kendrick Lamar

Love Letter

Black Thought

Rich Flex

Drake & 21 Savage

SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS - WINNER

Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future And Eryn Allen Kane

Players

Coi Leray

25. Best Melodic Rap Performance

For a solo or collaborative performance containing both elements of R&B melodies and Rap.

Sittin' On Top Of The World

Burna Boy Featuring 21 Savage

Attention

Doja Cat

Spin Bout U

Drake & 21 Savage

All My Life - WINNER

Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole

Low

SZA

26. Best Rap Song

A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Attention

Rogét Chahayed, Amala Zandile Dlamini & Ari Starace, songwriters (Doja Cat)

Barbie World [From Barbie The Album]

Isis Naija Gaston, Ephrem Louis Lopez Jr. & Onika Maraj, songwriters (Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua)

Just Wanna Rock

Mohamad Camara, Symere Woods & Javier Mercado, songwriters (Lil Uzi Vert)

Rich Flex

Brytavious Chambers, Isaac "Zac" De Boni, Aubrey Graham, J. Gwin, Anderson Hernandez, Michael "Finatik" Mule & Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, songwriters (Drake & 21 Savage)

SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS - WINNER

Andre Benjamin, Paul Beauregard, James Blake, Michael Render, Tim Moore & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Killer Mike Featuring André 3000, Future And Eryn Allen Kane)

27. Best Rap Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new rap recordings.

Her Loss

Drake & 21 Savage

MICHAEL - WINNER

Killer Mike

HEROES & VILLIANS

Metro Boomin

King's Disease III

Nas

UTOPIA

Travis Scott

28. Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

For albums containing greater than 50% playing time of new spoken word poetry recordings.

A-You're Not Wrong B-They're Not Either: The Fukc-It Pill Revisited

Queen Sheba

For Your Consideration'24 -The Album

Prentice Powell and Shawn William

Grocery Shopping With My Mother

Kevin Powell

The Light Inside - WINNER

J. Ivy

When The Poems Do What They Do

Aja Monet

Field 4: Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Instrumental & Musical Theater

29. Best Jazz Performance

For new vocal or instrumental solo, duo/group or collaborative jazz recordings.

Movement 18' (Heroes)

Jon Batiste

Basquiat

Lakecia Benjamin

Vulnerable (Live)

Adam Blackstone Featuring The Baylor Project & Russell Ferranté

But Not For Me

Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding

Tight - WINNER

Samara Joy

30. Best Jazz Vocal Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal jazz recordings.

For Ella 2

Patti Austin Featuring Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Alive At The Village Vanguard

Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding

Lean In

Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke

Mélusine

Cécile McLorin Salvant

How Love Begins - WINNER

Nicole Zuraitis

31. Best Jazz Instrumental Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new instrumental jazz recordings.

The Source

Kenny Barron

Phoenix

Lakecia Benjamin

Legacy: The Instrumental Jawn

Adam Blackstone

The Winds Of Change - WINNER

Billy Childs

Dream Box

Pat Metheny

32. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new ensemble jazz recordings.

The Chick Corea Symphony Tribute - Ritmo

ADDA Simfònica, Josep Vicent, Emilio Solla

Dynamic Maximum Tension

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society

Basie Swings The Blues - WINNER

The Count Basie Orchestra Directed By Scotty Barnhart

Olympians

Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest

The Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions

Mingus Big Band

33. Best Latin Jazz Album

For vocal or instrumental albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded material. The intent of this category is to recognize recordings that represent the blending of jazz with Latin, Iberian-American, Brazilian, and Argentinian tango music.

Quietude

Eliane Elias

My Heart Speaks

Ivan Lins With The Tblisi Symphony Orchestra

Vox Humana

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band

Cometa

Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente

El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2 - WINNER

Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo

34. Best Alternative Jazz Album

For vocal or instrumental albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new Alternative jazz recordings.

Love In Exile

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily

Quality Over Opinion

Louis Cole

SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree

Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue

Live At The Piano

Cory Henry

The Omnichord Real Book - WINNER

Meshell Ndegeocello

35. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new traditional pop recordings.

To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim

Liz Callaway

Pieces Of Treasure

Rickie Lee Jones

Bewitched - WINNER

Laufey

Holidays Around The World

Pentatonix

Only The Strong Survive

Bruce Springsteen

Sondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions), Vol. 3

(Various Artists)

36. Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new contemporary instrumental recordings.

As We Speak - WINNER

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia

On Becoming

House Of Waters

Jazz Hands

Bob James

The Layers

Julian Lage

All One

Ben Wendel

37. Best Musical Theater Album

For albums containing greater than 51% playing time of new recordings. Award to the principal vocalist(s), and the album producer(s) of 50% or more playing time of the album. The lyricist(s) and composer(s) of 50 % or more of a score of a new recording are eligible for an Award if any previous recording of said score has not been nominated in this category.

Kimberly Akimbo

Victoria Clark, principal vocalist; John Clancy, David Stone & Jeanine Tesori, producers; Jeanine Tesori, composer; David Lindsay-Abaire, lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)

Parade

Micaela Diamond, Alex Joseph Grayson, Jake Pedersen & Ben Platt, principal vocalists; Jason Robert Brown & Jeffrey Lesser, producers; Jason Robert Brown, composer & lyricist (2023 Broadway Cast)

Shucked

John Behlmann, Andrew Durand, Caroline Innerbichler & Alex Newell, principal vocalists; Brandy Clark, Jason Howland, Shane McAnally & Billy Jay Stein, producers; Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)

Some Like It Hot - WINNER

Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks & NaTasha Yvette Williams, principal vocalists; Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Bryan Carter, Scott M. Riesett, Charlie Rosen & Marc Shaiman, producers; Scott Wittman, lyricist; Marc Shaiman, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Annaleigh Ashford & Josh Groban, principal vocalists; Thomas Kail & Alex Lacamoire, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer & lyricist) (2023 Broadway Cast)

Field 5: Country & American Roots Music

38. Best Country Solo Performance

For new vocal or instrumental solo country recordings.

In Your Love

Tyler Childers

Buried

Brandy Clark

Fast Car

Luke Combs

The Last Thing On My Mind

Dolly Parton

White Horse - WINNER

Chris Stapleton

39. Best Country Duo/Group Performance

For new vocal or instrumental duo/group or collaborative country recordings.

High Note

Dierks Bentley Featuring Billy Strings

Nobody's Nobody

Brothers Osborne

I Remember Everything - WINNER

Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves

Kissing Your Picture (Is So Cold)

Vince Gill & Paul Franklin

Save Me

Jelly Roll With Lainey Wilson

We Don't Fight Anymore

Carly Pearce Featuring Chris Stapleton

40. Best Country Song

A Songwriter(s) Award. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Buried

Brandy Clark & Jessie Jo Dillon, songwriters (Brandy Clark)

I Remember Everything

Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves, songwriters (Zach Bryan Featuring Kacey Musgraves)

In Your Love

Tyler Childers & Geno Seale, songwriters (Tyler Childers)

Last Night

John Byron, Ashley Gorley, Jacob Kasher Hindlin & Ryan Vojtesak, songwriters (Morgan Wallen)

White Horse - WINNER

Chris Stapleton & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Chris Stapleton)

41. Best Country Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new country recordings.

Rolling Up The Welcome Mat

Kelsea Ballerini

Brothers Osborne

Zach Bryan

Rustin' In The Rain

Tyler Childers

Bell Bottom Country - WINNER

Lainey Wilson

42. Best American Roots Performance

For new vocal or instrumental American Roots recordings. This is for performances in the style of any of the subgenres encompassed in the American Roots Music field including bluegrass, blues, folk or regional roots. Award to the artist(s).

Butterfly

Jon Batiste

Heaven Help Us All

The Blind Boys Of Alabama

Inventing The Wheel

Madison Cunningham

You Louisiana Man

Rhiannon Giddens

Eve Was Black - WINNER

Allison Russell

43. Best Americana Performance

For new vocal or instrumental Americana performance. Award to the artist(s).

Friendship

The Blind Boys Of Alabama

Help Me Make It Through The Night

Tyler Childers

Dear Insecurity - WINNER

Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile

King Of Oklahoma

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

The Returner

Allison Russell

44. Best American Roots Song

A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Americana, bluegrass, traditional blues, contemporary blues, folk or regional roots songs. A song is eligible if it was first released or if it first achieved prominence during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Blank Page

Michael Trotter Jr. & Tanya Trotter, songwriters (The War And Treaty)

California Sober

Aaron Allen, William Apostol & Jon Weisberger, songwriters (Billy Strings Featuring Willie Nelson)

Cast Iron Skillet - WINNER

Jason Isbell, songwriter (Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit)

Dear Insecurity

Brandy Clark & Michael Pollack, songwriters (Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile)

The Returner

Drew Lindsay, JT Nero & Allison Russell, songwriters (Allison Russell)

45. Best Americana Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental Americana recordings.

Brandy Clark

The Chicago Sessions

Rodney Crowell

You're The One

Rhiannon Giddens

Weathervanes - WINNER

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

The Returner

Allison Russell

46. Best Bluegrass Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental bluegrass recordings.

Radio John: Songs of John Hartford

Sam Bush

Lovin' Of The Game

Michael Cleveland

Mighty Poplar

Bluegrass

Willie Nelson

Me/And/Dad

Billy Strings

City Of Gold - WINNER

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

47. Best Traditional Blues Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental traditional blues recordings.

Ridin'

Eric Bibb

The Soul Side Of Sipp

Mr. Sipp

Life Don't Miss Nobody

Tracy Nelson

Teardrops For Magic Slim Live At Rosa's Lounge

John Primer

All My Love For You - WINNER

Bobby Rush

48. Best Contemporary Blues Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental contemporary blues recordings.

Death Wish Blues

Samantha Fish And Jesse Dayton

Healing Time

Ruthie Foster

Live In London

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram

Blood Harmony - WINNER

Larkin Poe

LaVette!

Bettye LaVette

49. Best Folk Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental folk recordings.

Traveling Wildfire

Dom Flemons

I Only See The Moon

The Milk Carton Kids

Joni Mitchell At Newport [Live] - WINNER

Joni Mitchell

Celebrants

Nickel Creek

Jubilee

Old Crow Medicine Show

Seven Psalms

Paul Simon

Folkocracy

Rufus Wainwright

50. Best Regional Roots Music Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental regional roots music recordings.

New Beginnings - WINNER

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band

Live At The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers

Live: Orpheum Theater Nola - WINNER

Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Made In New Orleans

New Breed Brass Band

Too Much To Hold

New Orleans Nightcrawlers

Live At The Maple Leaf

The Rumble Featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.

Field 6: Gospel & Contemporary Christian Music

51. Best Gospel Performance/Song

This award is given to the artist(s) and songwriter(s) (for new compositions) for the best traditional Christian, roots gospel or contemporary gospel single or track.

God Is Good

Stanley Brown Featuring Hezekiah Walker, Kierra Sheard & Karen Clark Sheard; Stanley Brown, Karen V Clark Sheard, Kaylah Jiavanni Harvey, Rodney Jerkins, Elyse Victoria Johnson, J Drew Sheard II, Kierra Valencia Sheard & Hezekiah Walker, songwriters

Feel Alright (Blessed)

Erica Campbell; Erica Campbell, Warryn Campbell, Juan Winans & Marvin L. Winans, songwriters

Lord Do It For Me (Live)

Zacardi Cortez; Marcus Calyen, Zacardi Cortez & Kerry Douglas, songwriters

God Is

Melvin Crispell III

All Things - WINNER

Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, songwriter

52. Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

This award is given to the artist(s) and songwriter(s) (for new compositions) for the best contemporary Christian music single or track, (including pop, rap/hip-hop, Latin, or rock.)

Believe

Blessing Offor; Hank Bentley & Blessing Offor, songwriters

Firm Foundation (He Won't) [Live]

Cody Carnes

Thank God I Do

Lauren Daigle; Lauren Daigle & Jason Ingram, songwriters

Love Me Like I Am

for KING & COUNTRY Featuring Jordin Sparks

Your Power - WINNER

Lecrae & Tasha Cobbs Leonard; Alexandria Dollar, Jordan Dollar, Antonio Gardener, Micheal Girgenti, Lasanna “Ace” Harris, David Hein, Deandre Hunter, Dylan Hyde, Christian Louisana, Patrick Darius Mix Jr., Lecrae Moore, Justin Pelham, Jeffrey Lawrence Shannon, Allen Swoope, songwriters

God Problems

Maverick City Music, Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine; Daniel Bashta, Chris Davenport, Ryan Ellis & Naomi Raine, songwriters

53. Best Gospel Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, traditional or contemporary/R&B gospel music recordings.

I Love You

Erica Campbell

Hymns (Live)

Tasha Cobbs Leonard

The Maverick Way

Maverick City Music

My Truth

Jonathan McReynolds

All Things New: Live In Orlando - WINNER

Tye Tribbett

54. Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, contemporary Christian music, including pop, rap/hip hop, Latin, or rock recordings.

My Tribe

Blessing Offor

Emanuel

Da' T.R.U.T.H.

Lauren Daigle

Church Clothes 4 - WINNER

Lecrae

I Believe

Phil Wickham

55. Best Roots Gospel Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded, vocal, traditional/roots gospel music, including country, Southern gospel, bluegrass, and Americana recordings.

Tribute To The King

The Blackwood Brothers Quartet

Echoes Of The South - WINNER

Blind Boys Of Alabama

Songs That Pulled Me Through The Tough Times

Becky Isaacs Bowman

Meet Me At The Cross

Brian Free & Assurance

Shine: The Darker The Night The Brighter The Light

Gaither Vocal Band

Field 7: Latin, Global, Reggae & New Age, Ambient, or Chant

56. Best Latin Pop Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new Latin pop recordings.

La Cuarta Hoja

Pablo Alborán

Beautiful Humans, Vol. 1

AleMor

A Ciegas

Paula Arenas

La Neta

Pedro Capó

Don Juan

Maluma

X Mí (Vol. 1) - WINNER

Gaby Moreno

57. Best Música Urbana Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new Música Urbana recordings.

SATURNO

Rauw Alejandro

MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO - WINNER

Karol G

DATA

Tainy

58. Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new Latin rock or alternative recordings.

MARTÍNEZ

Cabra

Leche De Tigre

Diamante Eléctrico

Vida Cotidiana - WINNER

Juanes

De Todas Las Flores - WINNER

Natalia Lafourcade

EADDA9223

Fito Paez

59. Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new regional Mexican (banda, norteño, corridos, gruperos, mariachi, ranchera and Tejano) recordings.

Bordado A Mano

Ana Bárbara

La Sánchez

Lila Downs

Motherflower

Flor De Toloache

Amor Como En Las Películas De Antes

Lupita Infante

GÉNESIS - WINNER

Peso Pluma

60. Best Tropical Latin Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new tropical Latin recordings.

Siembra: 45º Aniversario (En Vivo en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico, 14 de Mayo 2022) - WINNER

Rubén Blades Con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta

Voy A Ti

Luis Figueroa

Niche Sinfónico

Grupo Niche Y Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia

VIDA

Omara Portuondo

MIMY & TONY

Tony Succar, Mimy Succar

Escalona Nunca Se Había Grabado Así

Carlos Vives

61. Best Global Music Performance

For new vocal or instrumental Global music recordings.

Shadow Forces

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily

Alone

Burna Boy

FEEL

Davido

Milagro Y Desastre

Silvana Estrada

Abundance In Millets

Falu & Gaurav Shah (Featuring PM Narendra Modi)

Pashto - WINNER

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia

Todo Colores

Ibrahim Maalouf Featuring Cimafunk & Tank And The Bangas

62. Best African Music Performance

Amapiano

ASAKE & Olamide

City Boys

Burna Boy

UNAVAILABLE

Davido Featuring Musa Keys

Rush

Ayra Starr

Water - WINNER

Tyla

63. Best Global Music Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental Global Music recordings.

Epifanías

Susana Baca

History

Bokanté

I Told Them...

Burna Boy

Timeless

Davido

This Moment - WINNER

Shakti

64. Best Reggae Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new reggae recordings.

Born For Greatness

Buju Banton

Simma

Beenie Man

Cali Roots Riddim 2023

Collie Buddz

No Destroyer

Burning Spear

Colors Of Royal - WINNER

Julian Marley & Antaeus

65. Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new vocal or instrumental new age recordings.

Aquamarine

Kirsten Agresta-Copely

Moments Of Beauty

Omar Akram

Some Kind Of Peace (Piano Reworks)

Ólafur Arnalds

Ocean Dreaming Ocean

David Darling & Hans Christian

So She Howls - WINNER

Carla Patullo Featuring Tonality And The Scorchio Quartet

Field 8: Children's, Comedy, Audio Books, Visual Media & Music Video/Film

66. Best Children's Music Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new musical or spoken word recordings that are created and intended specifically for children.

Ahhhhh!

Andrew & Polly

Ancestars

Pierce Freelon & Nnenna Freelon

Hip Hope For Kids!

DJ Willy Wow!

Taste The Sky

Uncle Jumbo

We Grow Together Preschool Songs - WINNER

123 Andrés

67. Best Comedy Album

For albums containing greater than 75% playing time of new recordings.

I Wish You Would

Trevor Noah

I'm An Entertainer

Wanda Sykes

Selective Outrage

Chris Rock

Someone You Love

Sarah Silverman

What's In A Name? - WINNER

Dave Chappelle

68. Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

Big Tree

Meryl Streep

Boldly Go: Reflections On A Life Of Awe And Wonder

William Shatner

The Creative Act: A Way Of Being

Rick Rubin

It's Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism

Senator Bernie Sanders

The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times - WINNER

Michelle Obama

69. Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

Award to the principal artist(s) and/or 'in studio' producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album. In the absence of both, award to the one or two individuals proactively responsible for the concept and musical direction of the album and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable. Award also goes to appropriately credited music supervisor(s).

AURORA

Brandon Davis, Pete Ganbarg, Joseph Khoury & Blake Mills, compilation producers; Frankie Pine, music supervisor

(Daisy Jones & The Six)

Barbie The Album - WINNER

Brandon Davis, Mark Ronson & Kevin Weaver, compilation producers; George Drakoulias, music supervisor

(Various Artists)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Music From And Inspired By

Ryan Coogler, Archie Davis & Ludwig Göransson, compilation producers; Dave Jordan, music supervisor

(Various Artists)

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3: Awesome Mix, Vol. 3

Kevin Feige, James Gunn & Dave Jordan, compilation producers; Dave Jordan, music supervisor

(Various Artists)

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson & Al Yankovic, compilation producers; Suzanne Coffman, music supervisor

Weird Al Yankovic

70. Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)

Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series, or other visual media.

Barbie

Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, composers

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Ludwig Göransson, composer

The Fabelmans

John Williams, composer

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

John Williams, composer

Oppenheimer - WINNER

Ludwig Göransson, composer

71. Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, video games and other interactive media.

Call Of Duty®: Modern Warfare II

Sarah Schachner, composer

God Of War Ragnarök

Bear McCreary, composer

Hogwarts Legacy

Peter Murray, J Scott Rakozy & Chuck E. Myers "Sea", composers

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - WINNER

Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab, composers

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Montaigne, Tripod & Austin Wintory, composers

72. Best Song Written For Visual Media

A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television, video games or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

Barbie World [From "Barbie The Album"]

Naija Gaston, Ephrem Louis Lopez Jr. & Onika Maraj, songwriters (Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua)

Dance The Night [From "Barbie The Album"]

Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Dua Lipa)

I'm Just Ken [From "Barbie The Album"]

Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Ryan Gosling)

Lift Me Up [From "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Music From And Inspired By"]

Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Robyn Fenty & Temilade Openiyi, songwriters (Rihanna)

What Was I Made For? [From "Barbie The Album"] - WINNER

Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

73. Best Music Video

Award to the artist, video director, and video producer.

I'm Only Sleeping - WINNER

(The Beatles)

Em Cooper, video director; Jonathan Clyde, Sophie Hilton, Sue Loughlin & Laura Thomas, video producers

In Your Love

Tyler Childers

Bryan Schlam, video director; Kacie Barton, Silas House, Nicholas Robespierre, Ian Thornton & Whitney Wolanin, video producers

What Was I Made For

Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish, video director; Michelle An, Chelsea Dodson & David Moore, video producers

Count Me Out

Kendrick Lamar

Dave Free & Kendrick Lamar, video directors; Jason Baum & Jamie Rabineau, video producers

Rush

Troye Sivan

Gordon Von Steiner, video director; Kelly McGee, video producer

74. Best Music Film

For concert/performance films or music documentaries. Award to the artist, video director, and video producer.

Moonage Daydream - WINNER

(David Bowie)

Brett Morgen, video director; Brett Morgen, video producer

How I'm Feeling Now

(Lewis Capaldi)

Joe Pearlman, video director; Sam Bridger, Isabel Davis & Alice Rhodes, video producers

Live From Paris, The Big Steppers Tour

(Kendrick Lamar)

Mike Carson, Dave Free & Mark Ritchie, video directors; Cornell Brown, Debra Davis, Jared Heinke, Hank Neuberger & Jamie Rabineau, video producers

I Am Everything

(Little Richard)

Lisa Cortés, video director; Caryn Capotosto, Lisa Cortés, Robert Friedman & Liz Yale Marsh, video producers

Dear Mama

(Tupac Shakur)

Allen Hughes, video director; Steve Berman, Jody Gerson, Allen Hughes, John Janick, Lasse Jarvi & Charles King, video producers

Field 9: Package, Notes & Historical

75. Best Recording Package

The Art Of Forgetting

Caroline Rose, art director (Caroline Rose)

Cadenza 21'

Hsing-Hui Cheng, art director (Ensemble Cadenza 21')

Electrophonic Chronic

Perry Shall, art director (The Arcs)

Gravity Falls

Iam8bit, art director (Brad Breeck)

Migration

Chang Yu Chung, Li Jheng Han & Yu Wei, art director (Leaf Yeh)

Stumpwork - WINNER

Rottingdean Bazaar & Annie Collinge, art directors (Dry Cleaning)

76. Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel

Jeff Mangum, Daniel Murphy & Mark Ohe, art directors (Neutral Milk Hotel)

For The Birds: The Birdsong Project - WINNER

Jeri Heiden & John Heiden, art directors (Various Artists)

Gieo

Duy Dao, art director (Ngot)

Inside: Deluxe Box Set

Bo Burnham & Daniel Calderwood, art directors (Bo Burnham)

Words & Music, May 1965 - Deluxe Edition

Masaki Koike, art director (Lou Reed)

77. Best Album Notes

Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (Live)

Ashley Kahn, album notes writer (John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy)

I Can Almost See Houston: The Complete Howdy Glenn

Scott B. Bomar, album notes writer (Howdy Glenn)

Mogadishu's Finest: The Al Uruba Sessions

Vik Sohonie, album notes writer (Iftin Band)

Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings From The Collection Of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971

Jeff Place & John Troutman, album notes writers (Various Artists)

Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos - WINNER

Robert Gordon & Deanie Parker, album notes writers (Various Artists)

78. Best Historical Album

Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17

Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Steve Addabbo, Greg Calbi, Steve Fallone, Chris Shaw & Mark Wilder, mastering engineers; Michael H. Brauer, restoration engineer (Bob Dylan)

The Moaninest Moan Of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922 Colin Hancock, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Richard Martin, mastering engineer; Richard Martin, restoration engineer (Various Artists)

Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings From The Collection Of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971

Jeff Place & John Troutman, compilation producers; Randy LeRoy & Charlie Pilzer, mastering engineers; Mike Petillo & Charlie Pilzer, restoration engineers (Various Artists)

Words & Music, May 1965 - Deluxe Edition

Laurie Anderson, Don Fleming, Jason Stern, Matt Sulllivan & Hal Willner, compilation producers; John Baldwin, mastering engineer; John Baldwin & Steve Rosenthal, restoration engineers (Lou Reed)

Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos - WINNER

Robert Gordon, Deanie Parker, Cheryl Pawelski, Michele Smith & Mason Williams, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer; Michael Graves, restoration engineer (Various Artists)

Field 10: Production, Engineering, Composition & Arrangement

79. Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

An Engineer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses.)

Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

Daniel Harle, Caroline Polachek & Geoff Swan, engineers; Mike Bozzi & Chris Gehringer, mastering engineers (Caroline Polachek)

History

Nic Hard, engineer; Dave McNair, mastering engineer (Bokanté)

JAGUAR II - WINNER

John Kercy, Kyle Mann, Victoria Monét, Patrizio "Teezio" Pigliapoco, Neal H Pogue & Todd Robinson, engineers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer (Victoria Monét)

Multitudes

Michael Harris, Robbie Lackritz, Joseph Lorge & Blake Mills, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Feist)

The Record

Owen Lantz, Will Maclellan, Catherine Marks, Mike Mogis, Bobby Mota, Kaushlesh "Garry" Purohit & Sarah Tudzin, engineers; Pat Sullivan, mastering engineer (boygenius)

80. Best Engineered Album, Classical

An Engineer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.)

The Blue Hour

Patrick Dillett, Mitchell Graham, Jesse Lewis, Kyle Pyke, Andrew Scheps & John Weston, engineers; Helge Sten, mastering engineer (Shara Nova & A Far Cry)

Contemporary American Composers - WINNER

David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Fandango

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (Gustavo Dudamel, Anne Akiko Meyers, Gustavo Castillo & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Sanlikol: A Gentleman Of Istanbul - Symphony For Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney & Tenor

Christopher Moretti & John Weston, engineers; Shauna Barravecchio & Jesse Lewis, mastering engineers (Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, George Lernis & A Far Cry)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces

Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

81. Producer Of The Year, Classical

A Producer's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.)

David Frost

The American Project (Yuja Wang, Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra) (A)

Arc II - Ravel, Brahms, Shostakovich (Orion Weiss) (A)

Blanchard: Champion (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Latonia Moore, Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Stephanie Blythe, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra) (A)

Contemporary American Composers (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra) (A)

The Guitar Player (Mattias Schulstad) (A)

Mysterium (Anne Akiko Meyers, Grant Gershon & Los Angeles Master Chorale) (A)

Verdi: Rigoletto (Daniele Rustioni, Piotr Beczala, Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Andrea Mastroni, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra) (A)

Morten Lindberg

An Old Hall Ladymass (Catalina Vicens & Trio Mediæval) (A)

Thoresen: Lyden Av Arktis - La Terra Meravigliosa (Christian Kluxen & Arktisk Filharmoni) (A)

The Trondheim Concertos (Sigurd Imsen & Baroque Ensemble Of The Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) (A)

Yggdrasil (Tove Ramlo-Ystad & Cantus) (A)

Dmitriy Lipay

Adès: Dante (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic) (A) Fandango (Gustavo Dudamel, Anne Akiko Meyers & Los Angeles Philharmonic) (A)

Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Philadelphia Orchestra) (A)

Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody (Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic) (A)

Walker: Lyric For Strings; Folksongs For Orchestra; Lilacs For Voice & Orchestra; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (Asher Fisch & Seattle Symphony) (A)

Elaine Martone - WINNER

Ascenso (Santiago Cañón-Valencia) (A)

Berg: Three Pieces From Lyric Suite; Strauss: Suite From Der Rosenkavalier (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

Between Breaths (Third Coast Percussion) (A)

Difficult Grace (Seth Parker Woods) (A)

Man Up / Man Down (Constellation Men's Ensemble) (A)

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

Rachmaninoff & Gershwin: Transcriptions By Earl Wild (John Wilson) (A)

Sirventés - Music From The Iranian Female Composers Association (Brian Thornton, Katherine Bormann, Alicia Koelz, Eleisha Nelson, Amahl Arulanadam & Nathan Petipas) (A)

Walker: Antifonys; Lilacs; Sinfonias Nos. 4 & 5 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra) (A)

Brian Pidgeon

Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (John Wilson & Sinfonia Of London) (A)

Music For Strings (John Wilson & Sinfonia Of London) (A)

Nielsen: Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 4 (James Ehnes, Edward Gardner & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra) (A)

Pierre Sancan - A Musical Tribute (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Yan Pascal Tortelier & BBC Philharmonic) (A)

Poulenc: Orchestral Works (Bramwell Tovey & BBC Concert Orchestra) (A)

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3; Voclaise; The Isle Of The Dead (John Wilson & Sinfonia Of London) (A)

Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Edward Gardner & City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) (A)

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 12 & 15 (John Storgårds & BBC Philharmonic) (A)

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works (Alpesh Chauhan & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra) (A)

82. Best Remixed Recording

(A Remixer's Award. (Artists names appear in parentheses for identification.) Singles or Tracks only.)

Alien Love Call

BADBADNOTGOOD, remixers (Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD Featuring Blood Orange)

New Gold (Dom Dolla Remix)

Dom Dolla, remixer (Gorillaz Featuring Tame Impala & Bootie Brown)

Reviver (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, remixer (Lane 8)

Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix) - WINNER

Wet Leg, remixers (Depeche Mode)

Workin' Hard (Terry Hunter Remix)

Terry Hunter, remixer (Mariah Carey)

83. Best Immersive Audio Album

For vocal or instrumental albums in any genre. Must be commercially released for physical sale or on an eligible streaming or download service and must provide a new immersive mix of four or more channels. Award to the immersive mix engineer, immersive producer (if any) and immersive mastering engineer (if any).

Act 3 (Immersive Edition)

Ryan Ulyate, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Ryan Ulyate, immersive producer (Ryan Ulyate)

Blue Clear Sky

Chuck Ainlay, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Chuck Ainlay, immersive producer (George Strait)

The Diary Of Alicia Keys - WINNER

George Massenburg & Eric Schilling, immersive mix engineers; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Alicia Keys & Ann Mincieli, immersive producers (Alicia Keys)

God Of War Ragnarök (Original Soundtrack)

Eric Schilling, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Kellogg Boynton, Anthony Caruso, Peter Scaturro & Herbert Waltl, Immersive producers (Bear McCreary)

Silence Between Songs

Sean Brennan & Mike Piacentini, immersive mix engineers; Aaron Short, immersive mastering engineer; Madison Beer & Leroy Clampitt, immersive producers (Madison Beer)

84. Best Instrumental Composition

A Composer's Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) first released during the Eligibility Year. Singles or Tracks only.

Amerikkan Skin

Lakecia Benjamin, composer (Lakecia Benjamin Featuring Angela Davis)

Can You Hear The Music

Ludwig Göransson, composer (Ludwig Göransson)

Cutey And The Dragon

Gordon Goodwin & Raymond Scott, composers (Quartet San Francisco Featuring Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)

Helena's Theme - WINNER

John Williams, composer (John Williams)

Motion

Edgar Meyer, composer (Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)

85. Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

Angels We Have Heard On High

Nkosilathi Emmanuel Sibanda, arranger (Just 6)

Can You Hear The Music

Ludwig Göransson, arranger (Ludwig Göransson)

Folsom Prison Blues - WINNER

John Carter Cash, Tommy Emmanuel, Markus Illko, Janet Robin & Roberto Luis Rodriguez, arrangers (The String Revolution Featuring Tommy Emmanuel)

I Remember Mingus

Hilario Duran, arranger (Hilario Duran And His Latin Jazz Big Band Featuring Paquito D'Rivera)

Paint It Black

Esin Aydingoz, Chris Bacon, Alana Da Fonseca, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, arrangers (Wednesday Addams)

86. Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

April In Paris

Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Patti Austin Featuring Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)

Com Que Voz (Live)

John Beasley & Maria Mendes, arrangers (Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Metropole Orkest)

Fenestra

Godwin Louis, arranger (Cécile McLorin Salvant)

In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning - WINNER

Erin Bentlage, Jacob Collier, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick & Amanda Taylor, arrangers (säje Featuring Jacob Collier)

Lush Life

Kendric McCallister, arranger (Samara Joy)

Field 11: Classical

87. Best Orchestral Performance

Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.

Adès: Dante - WINNER

Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra; Four Pieces

Karina Canellakis, conductor (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra)

Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Scriabin: Symphony No. 2; The Poem Of Ecstasy

JoAnn Falletta, conductor (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)

Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

88. Best Opera Recording

Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists, and to the Composer and Librettist (if applicable) of a world premiere Opera recording only.

Blanchard: Champion - WINNER

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore & Eric Owens; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

Corigliano: The Lord Of Cries

Gil Rose, conductor; Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kathryn Henry, Jarrett Ott & David Portillo; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera Chorus)

Little: Black Lodge

Timur; Andrew McKenna Lee & David T. Little, producers (The Dime Museum; Isaura String Quartet)

89. Best Choral Performance

Award to the Conductor, and to the Choral Director and/or Chorus Master where applicable and to the Choral Organization/Ensemble.

Carols After A Plague

Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing)

The House Of Belonging

Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Miró Quartet; Conspirare)

Ligeti: Lux Aeterna

Ragnar Bohlin, conductor (San Francisco Symphony Chorus)

Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil

Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

Saariaho: Reconnaissance - WINNER

Nils Schweckendiek, conductor (Uusinta Ensemble; Helsinki Chamber Choir)

90. Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

For new recordings of works with chamber or small ensemble (twenty-four or fewer members, not including the conductor). One Award to the ensemble and one Award to the conductor, if applicable.

American Stories

Anthony McGill & Pacifica Quartet

Beethoven For Three: Symphony No. 6, 'Pastorale' And Op. 1, No. 3

Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos

Between Breaths

Third Coast Percussion

Rough Magic - WINNER

Roomful Of Teeth

Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walker

Catalyst Quartet

Field 11: Classical

91. Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor when applicable.

Adams, John Luther: Darkness And Scattered Light

Robert Black

Akiho: Cylinders

Andy Akiho

The American Project - WINNER

Yuja Wang; Teddy Abrams, conductor (Louisville Orchestra)

Difficult Grace

Seth Parker Woods

Of Love

Curtis Stewart

92. Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Award to: Vocalist(s), Collaborative Artist(s) (Ex: pianists, conductors, chamber groups) Producer(s), Recording Engineers/Mixers with greater than 50% playing time of new material.

Because

Reginald Mobley, soloist; Baptiste Trotignon, pianist

Broken Branches

Karim Sulayman, soloist; Sean Shibe, accompanist

40@40

Laura Strickling, soloist; Daniel Schlosberg, pianist

Rising

Lawrence Brownlee, soloist; Kevin J. Miller, pianist

Walking In The Dark - WINNER

Julia Bullock, soloist; Christian Reif, conductor (Philharmonia Orchestra)

93. Best Classical Compendium

Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) and Engineer(s) of over 50% playing time of the album, and to the Composer and Librettist (if applicable) with over 50% playing time of a world premiere recording only.

Fandango

Anne Akiko Meyers; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer

Julius Eastman, Vol. 3: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?

Christopher Rountree, conductor; Lewis Pesacov, producer

Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright

Peter Herresthal; Tim Weiss, conductor; Hans Kipfer, producer

Passion For Bach And Coltrane - WINNER

Alex Brown, Harlem Quartet, Imani Winds, Edward Perez, Neal Smith & A.B. Spellman; Silas Brown & Mark Dover, producers

Sardinia

Chick Corea; Chick Corea & Bernie Kirsh, producers

Sculptures

Andy Akiho; Andy Akiho & Sean Dixon, producers

Zodiac Suite

Aaron Diehl Trio & The Knights; Eric Jacobsen, conductor; Aaron Diehl & Eric Jacobsen, producers

94. Best Contemporary Classical Composition

A Composer's Award. (For a contemporary classical composition composed within the last 25 years, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year.) Award to the librettist, if applicable.

Adès: Dante

Thomas Adès, composer (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)

Akiho: In That Space, At That Time

Andy Akiho, composer (Andy Akiho, Ankush Kumar Bahl & Omaha Symphony)

Brittelle: Psychedelics

William Brittelle, composer (Roomful Of Teeth)

Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright

Missy Mazzoli, composer (Peter Herresthal, James Gaffigan & Bergen Philharmonic)

Montgomery: Rounds - WINNER

Jessie Montgomery, composer (Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry & Roomful Of Teeth)

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13 min ago

In Arizona, Democrats look to drive up turnout in key county

From CNN's Miguel Marquez in Tucson, Arizona

Arizona Democrats are facing a dilemma in Pima County. Home to Tucson, the blue county boasts a deep well of Democratic voters, but many with deep uncertainty about President Joe Biden's age and his administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Read more about that here.

But state and county Democrats say they have a strategy to target these unenthused voters: Focus on local and state issues to drive up turnout and reap the benefits at the top of the ticket.

Advocates are gathering signatures to place a state constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights on the November ballot. They’re hoping to replicate the success of similar efforts across the country since the fall of Roe v. Wade by turning out Democrats, independents and even some supportive Republicans.

“A lot of people have been extremely shocked to see women's rights reversed after all of these years,” said Corinne Cooper, who has been volunteering since September to get Arizonans to sign the petition.

Democrats here point to competitive US Senate and House races as a draw for centrist and progressive voters alike, along with the possibility that the party could flip both chambers of the state Legislature – a duopoly they haven’t enjoyed since 1966.

“When people realize that voting rights, women’s rights, public schools, all these things are settled at the state Legislature, the light bulb goes on,” said John McClean, a Democratic state Senate candidate. “These are issues important to their everyday lives.”

Democrats are also counting on another factor: fear about what a second Trump presidency would look like. Becky Richards, a 37-year-old Realtor, moved to Arizona from much more Democratic Illinois a few years ago.

“It's terrifying to see that Trump is basically doing nothing, and still gaining momentum,” she said. “In Arizona, that scares me, in a way, because I see the Trump flags and the MAGA hats and things as you drive through the state.”

If it comes down to a rematch between Biden and Trump, Richards said that despite her hope for a younger candidate, she’ll vote for Biden “no question.”

41 min ago

McConnell defends Trump endorsement despite blaming him for Jan. 6 insurrection

From Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defended his endorsement of former President Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee, despite Trump’s barrage of attacks against him and his wife and McConnell's harsh criticism of the former president after the January 6 insurrection.

“February 25th, 2021, shortly after the attack on the Capitol, I was asked a similar question, and I said I would support the nominee for president even if it were the former president,” he told CNN.
Pressed again, he said, “I don’t have anything to add to what I just said. I said in February of 2021, shortly after the attack on the Capitol, that I would support President Trump if he were the nominee of our party, and he obviously is going to be the nominee of our party.”

Earlier Wednesday, Trump thanked McConnell for the endorsement. The pair have had a rocky relationship over the past few years, but Trump says he’s willing to work with him.

“Thank you, Mitch,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I look forward to working with you and a Republican Senate MAJORITY to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

1 hr 1 min ago

Trump calls for debates with Biden hours after Haley suspends campaign

From CNN's Kate Sullivan

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for debates with President Joe Biden hours after Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign.

Trump, who did not participate in any GOP primary debates, has previously said he wanted to debate Biden in the general election.

"It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People. Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE! The Debates can be run by the Corrupt DNC, or their Subsidiary, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). I look forward to receiving a response. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Trump posted on Truth Social.

12 min ago

In Arizona, Biden has a problem where he can least afford it

From CNN's Miguel Marquez in Tucson, Arizona

President Joe Biden has a problem where he can least afford it: with Democratic voters in Pima County, Arizona. The county, home to Tucson, boasts a deep well of Democratic voters, but many with deep uncertainty about the president’s age and his administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

Just how critical is Pima County? Biden won Arizona in 2020 by about 10,000 votes out of more than 3 million cast. He bested Trump by nearly 100,000 votes in Pima County. He’ll need every one of those votes, and maybe more, if he hopes to keep Arizona — and his job — come November.

Tucson business owner Jenna Majchrzak, a self-described “reluctant Democrat,” sums up the expected November choice between Biden and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump this way: “It's hard to vote for someone with multiple felony charges,” she says, “and it's also very hard to vote for someone that is pro-genocide.”

It’s an opinion d by many Democratic voters whom CNN talked to in this diverse county of just over a million residents, with Mexico on its southern border and the Tohono O’odham Nation to the west.

Grady Campbell, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Arizona, is looking forward to voting in his first presidential election. But — and it’s a big one — he’s so put off by the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s offensive in Gaza that he’s voting for Marianne Williamson in the March 19 Democratic primary.

“I think that just by voting against him in the primary, we can send a message to hopefully help him change his viewpoints a little bit more progressively into the general election,” Campbell said.

Another concern for some Pima County Democrats: Biden’s age.

“It's not even so much even the mental acuity as it is just kind of being out of touch,” Amanda Bruno, 31, said of the 81-year-old president. “I'd love to see somebody a little bit younger, who's whose impact will be felt by their generation.”

How are state and county Democrats responding to the challenge of unenthused voters? Read more about that here.

1 hr 55 min ago

White House implies Biden does not want Trump to receive classified briefings as presumptive GOP nominee

From CNN's Nikki Carvajal

The White House implied that President Joe Biden still does not want to see former President Donald Trump receive classified intelligence briefings — even as Trump is set to officially become the Republican nominee for president.

“I think the president's words stand today,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “I don't think his mind has changed on that.”

It’s tradition for past presidents to be allowed to request and receive intelligence briefings. In 2021, Biden said he didn’t believe Trump should receive the briefings due to his “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”

“I’d rather not speculate out loud,” Biden previously said when asked what he fears could happen if Trump continued to receive the briefings. “I just think that there is no need for him to have the — the intelligence briefings. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”

Asked if Biden would do anything to try to block Trump from receiving the briefings, Jean-Pierre declined to answer on Wednesday.

“I don't have anything to add,” she said, “but the president was very clear about how he felt about that, and I would say those comments certainly do stand today.”

The nominees of the two major parties have received classified intelligence briefings from top government officials for more than 60 years, a decision aimed at facilitating a smooth transition from candidate to commander in chief.

2 hr 37 min ago

Supreme Court sets April 25 argument date in Trump immunity case

From CNN’s John Fritze

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 25 in the blockbuster case dealing with whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case.

The court previously said it would hear arguments in the case during the week of April 22. On Wednesday, it announced that it would hear the case during a rare Thursday session.

The timing of the case has drawn considerable scrutiny as it could help determine whether Trump faces trial over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election before the November 2024 election.

Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the criminal charges, has sought to speed up the proceedings over Trump’s immunity claim so that he can bring the matter to trial as quickly as possible.

An original trial date that had been set for early March already has been postponed.

3 hr 24 min ago

Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips ends his presidential campaign and endorses Biden

Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips is ending his long-shot Democratic primary challenge to President Joe Biden.

The Democrat announced his decision in a post on X and endorsed President Joe Biden, saying it is "clear that Joe Biden is OUR candidate and OUR opportunity to demonstrate what type of country America is and intends to be."

He thanked his supporters, and urged them to do everything they can "to help keep a man of decency and integrity in the White House. That's Joe Biden."

3 hr 50 min ago

Analysis: Why Donald Trump is so different from traditional candidates

From CNN's Stephen CollinsonFormer president Donald Trump steps out to deliver remarks at a campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on January 20. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images

Donald Trump has put America on notice – his second term would be even more disruptive and turbulent than his first.

The new presumptive Republican nominee booked his place in a general election rematch with President Joe Biden when his distant, last-remaining rival Nikki Haley conceded to reality and suspended her campaign on Wednesday.

The triumph of the once and possibly future president – an incredible comeback given his attempt to steal the 2020 election and a crush of criminal and civil trials threatening his liberty and fortune – sets up one of the most fateful elections in American history. His demonstrated record of contempt for democratic institutions means that the country’s political, legal and constitutional guardrails are facing a severe new test from a GOP candidate who could be a convicted felon by Election Day and who may see restored executive power as a tool to thwart federal prosecutions.

And Trump’s return to the threshold of the presidency will send shockwaves around a world still recovering from his volatile leadership and affinity for autocrats and send a warning to Ukraine, a nation fighting for its survival.

The reason Trump is so different from a traditional candidate is that he’s not campaigning as a fresh new voice pulsating with optimism for the future or brimming with policy ideas to bring the nation together. He’s portraying America as a dystopian, failed state overwhelmed by lawlessness, urban blight and slipping toward World War III abroad. In a classic trope of dictators, he’s promising to flush out enemies within, vowing revenge on political foes and posing as a strongman while conflating his own personal, political interests with the nation’s.

4 hr 48 min ago

Haley’s lone House GOP supporter urges her to unify behind Trump

From CNN's Sam Fossum and Manu Raju

Nikki Haley’s lone House Republican supporter, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, is urging her to help unite the party after she announced she will withdraw from the presidential race, telling CNN that he is speaking with former President Donald Trump later today.

“It’s time to unite. I’ll be supporting President Trump 100%. We got a country (to) save,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju.

When asked if he thinks Haley should do more to urge her supporters to get behind Trump, Norman said, “We’ll see. I hope she will. I mean, I hope she’ll 100% get behind him. I mean, what’s the other option?”

Norman, who did not speak to Haley this morning, said he hopes that she will ultimately support Trump.

“We’ll see. Hopefully she will,” he said, adding: “It’s not about Democrat and Republican, it’s about getting this country back on track.”

Norman added that Haley “did a good job" in her campaign, "but the people chose Donald Trump. That’s a good thing that it played out like this."

4 hr 54 min ago

Is Nikki Haley the future – or the past – of the Republican Party?

From CNN’s Jeff Zeleny

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has emerged from the presidential primary like few losing candidates manage to do – in a far more elevated position than when announcing her candidacy a year ago.

Haley, whose political career spans from the Tea Party to the Trump era, offered a warning about the isolationist movement that is growing inside the Republican Party.

“Our world is on fire because of America’s retreat,” Haley said Wednesday as she announced the suspension of her campaign. “Standing by our allies in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan is a moral imperative. But it’s also more than that. If we retreat further, there will be more war, not less.”

The question of Haley’s next steps will be answered in the months and years to come. But it speaks to a far larger question about whether her views are the future – or the past – of the GOP.

5 hr 12 min ago

Congressional Republicans set aside past concerns over Trump and rally behind him as nominee

From CNN's Sam Fossum and Manu Raju

Some congressional Republicans are putting aside concerns over former President Donald Trump as the party’s nominee and uniting around him following a dominant Super Tuesday showing that led to his last primary challenger dropping out.

Senate GOP Whip John Thune, who has been vocal in the past about his concerns over how Trump will fare with suburban voters, told CNN that he believes the Republican ticket will deliver a unified message.

“We’ll all go out and all help aggressively win those people in suburban areas (and) independent voters. It's now a ... straight up one-on-one,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju.

And Rep. John Duarte, a California Republican who represents a district President Joe Biden won last cycle, told CNN that he’s focused on who he is running against and that he plans to endorse Trump.

“I think Biden’s the opponent and that’s good for me. It’s easy to run against Joe Biden these days, and that’s what we’ll be doing,” he told Raju when asked if Trump at the top of the ticket could have implications for tough races down-ballot.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who also represents a Biden-won Pennsylvania district, declined to say whether he would be endorsing Trump.

5 hr 20 min ago

Biden teams look to foreign affairs in hopes of peeling off Haley voters

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

As President Joe Biden's advisers look for ways to appeal to Nikki Haley supporters, one area of potential overlap is emerging: foreign policy and world affairs.

It's not an issue traditionally at the center of presidential elections, which usually revolve around domestic matters and the economy. But for the president and his team, America's role in the world has become a key point of contrast with Donald Trump – fertile ground, they believe, for picking off disillusioned Republicans.

In his statement making a direct appeal to bring Haley's voters into the fold, Biden made specific mention of her attempts to call out Donald Trump for "cowering before Vladimir Putin" and for her support of NATO.

Likewise, in her speech announcing the suspension of her campaign, Haley spent time during the brief remarks describing the "moral imperative" of standing with traditional American allies like Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

To be sure, she wasn't endorsing Biden's approach — she said "our world is on fire because of America's retreat." But in voicing support for longstanding American alliances and a muscular role abroad, she found herself more aligned with Biden than with Trump, who has questioned NATO's role and said he would encourage Russia to invade NATO members who don't meet defense spending targets.

There is little expectation among Biden's team that world affairs will drive many votes in November, but in the abstract, they think issues like the war in Ukraine and support for NATO provide a clear point of contrast with Trump. It's also an issue they believe will resonate with donors – potentially those who contributed to Haley's campaign – as they look to peel off support.

However, even as he looks to appeal to her supporters on foreign policy, he faces discontent within his own party for his handling of Israel's war in Gaza – an indication that the issue will remain a political flashpoint going forward.

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5 hr 36 min ago

"A tale of two statements": Haley aide reacts to the difference in Biden and Trump responses to Haley's exit

Nikki Haley’s campaign spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas described the statements from President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Haley's exit from the race as "a tale of two statements."

Biden’s statement said there is a place for Haley voters in his campaign. In contrast, Trump invited Haley supporters to join him while saying the former South Carolina governor was “trounced” on Super Tuesday and that most of her donations came from Democrats.

5 hr 50 min ago

Trump campaign fundraises off Haley's exit from the race

From CNN's Alayna Treene

The Trump campaign blasted out a fundraising text to supporters on Wednesday shortly after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced she was suspending her campaign, telling them, "It was a hard-fought race, but now it's time for us to unite as a party and defeat Joe Biden!"

"Nikki Haley ends her campaign!" the appeal read in all caps. "If we're going to win back the White House, it will be all because of what you do right here, right now."

The text said former President Donald Trump is calling on one million supporters to donate following the news.

5 hr 53 min ago

RNC acknowledges Trump is the presumptive nominee

From CNN's Daniel Strauss

The Republican National Committee formally acknowledged former President Trump as the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee for president on Wednesday, shortly after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley officially dropped out of the Republican primary.

“Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump on his huge primary victory!” RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in the statement. “I’d also like to congratulate Nikki Haley for running a hard-fought campaign and becoming the first woman to win a Republican presidential contest.”

The statement comes just days before an expected leadership change at the RNC where McDaniel is likely to step down from her post and Michael Whatley, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, is expected to succeed her. Trump had endorsed Whatley to lead the RNC and has also said he would install key lieutenants at the organization once he became the presumptive nominee.

Once a party has a presumptive or formal nominee that party’s national committee normally melds closely with the nominee’s campaign. In this case, the RNC is set to align closely with the Trump campaign going forward.

5 hr 54 min ago

Elon Musk says he's not donating in presidential race

From CNN's Steve Contorno

Billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday shot down speculation that he may provide financial support to former President Donald Trump's campaign.

"Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President," he posted on X, the social media website he owns.

The public declaration comes after the New York Times reported this week that Musk met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in recent days. CNN confirmed the meeting with Musk, one of several Trump held with donors in Palm Beach last weekend as he seeks to raise more money for his financially strained campaign.

This isn't the first time this cycle Musk has flirted with supporting a presidential candidate only to pull back. Musk once praised Ron DeSantis' White House bid and infamously hosted the Florida governor's glitchy presidential campaign launch on X. However, Musk ultimately backed away from DeSantis.

5 hr 58 min ago

Biden campaign makes an appeal to Haley supporters

From CNN's Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak

President Joe Biden made a clear appeal to Nikki Haley’s supporters in the aftermath of her exit from the race, praising her “courage” in standing up to former President Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign,” Biden said in a statement moments after Haley suspended her campaign.

Biden heralded Haley for her role in her party: “It takes a lot of courage to run for President – that’s especially true in today’s Republican Party, where so few dare to speak the truth about Donald Trump. Nikki Haley was willing to speak the truth about Trump: about the chaos that always follows him, about his inability to see right from wrong, about his cowering before Vladimir Putin.”

The Biden campaign is setting out to earn the votes of moderate Republican voters turned off by Trump. Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said Wednesday there is a “home” for Haley voters with the Biden team in the moments before Haley ended her candidacy.

Haley voters “agreed with Nikki Haley when she stood up to Trump for the chaos, the division, the extremism that he represents,” Tyler told CNN’s John Berman Wednesday morning. Haley voters, he added, “rejected MAGA extremism” in 2020 and 2022, and “are now rejecting Donald Trump and MAGA extremism moving forward."

6 hr 3 min ago

Republicans spent more than $303 million on ads during the presidential primary

From CNN's David Wright

Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign this morning, ending a costly fight for the Republican nomination that drew a total of over $303 million in ad spending from the combined field of GOP candidates and outside groups, and saw the top candidates devote tens of millions to attacking each other.

Haley’s network spent about $82 million on ads, with about $17.9 million coming from her campaign and $64.4 million from SFA Fund, the lead super PAC supporting her bid. In addition, Americans For Prosperity Action, the Koch-aligned super PAC backing Haley, spent about $8 million on ads supporting Haley.

Overall, comparing the lead candidates and their main allied PACs, Haley’s network spent the most on ads in the GOP presidential primary, about $82.3 million. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his super PACs spent the second most, about $60.4 million, while former President Donald Trump and his PACs spent the third most, about $60.8 million.

According to the Haley campaign’s most recent fundraising reports and public statements, it likely ended with some untapped resources. Haley’s campaign reported nearly $13 million in cash on hand as of the end of 2023, and had recently announced it raised $12 million in the month of February.

6 hr 17 min ago

Trump goes after Haley as she drops out and invites Haley supporters to join his movement

From CNN's Alayna Treene

As Nikki Haley suspended her campaign Wednesday morning, former President Donald Trump posted on social media that the former South Carolina governor got "trounced" on Super Tuesday and invited her supporters to join his political movement.

“Nikki Haley got trounced last night, in record setting fashion, despite the fact that Democrats, for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote in Vermont, and various other Republican Primaries. Much of her money came from Radical Left Democrats, as did many of her voters, almost 50%, according to the polls,” Trump posted.

He continued, “At this point, I hope she stays in the “race” and fights it out until the end! I’d like to thank my family, friends, and the Great Republican Party for helping me to produce, by far, the most successful Super Tuesday in history, and would further like to invite all of the Haley supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our Nation."

Reminder: Vermont does not have party registration. All voters can choose which primary to vote in.

6 hr 27 min ago

Nikki Haley congratulates Trump without endorsing him as she exits race

From CNN's Shania Shelton

Nikki Haley congratulated former President Donald Trump during her announcement ending her presidential campaign but stopped short of endorsing him.

"In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be America's president. Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us," Haley said.

Haley added, "it is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that."

6 hr 21 min ago

Nikki Haley: "The time has now come to suspend my campaign"

From CNN's Aditi Sangal

"I am filled with gratitude for the outpouring of support we've received from all across our great country. But the time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets," she said Wednesday in South Carolina.

She warned Americans about the plethora of problems that lie ahead, saying, "the world is on fire." The former South Carolina governor emphasized some of the issues she ran on: the threat of national debt to the American economy, the need for small government and the importance of standing by Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel.

Haley also congratulated Donald Trump who, she said, is going to be the likely presidential nominee of the Republican Party.

"It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the vote those in our party and beyond it, who did not support him. And I hope he does that," she added.

Reflecting back on her campaign, she remarked that her mother, “a first-generation immigrant, got to vote for her daughter for president — only in America.”

6 hr 25 min ago

Haley delivers remarks in South Carolina

Nikki Haley, who is expected to exit the presidential race, is speaking from Charleston, South Carolina, where she is poised to renew her call for a return to conservative principles and warn against an isolationist foreign policy that has taken hold inside the Republican Party, an adviser said.

She is expected to mention Trump, the adviser said, but will not offer an endorsement.

6 hr 42 min ago

Hillary Clinton weighs in on the age issue, says Trump and Biden are "effectively the same age"

From CNN's Betsy Klein

Hillary Clinton downplayed concerns about President Joe Biden’s age on Wednesday amid persistent polling reflecting Democratic anxiety on the issue in notable comments, making the case to her followers that Biden and former President Donald Trump are “effectively the same age.”

“When you're lucky to live into your seventies or eighties, the difference of a few years doesn't matter all that much. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are effectively the same age. Let's use that as a baseline,” Clinton said in an Instagram post.

The morning after Trump swept a slate of states on Super Tuesday, Clinton echoed the Biden campaign, which has widely viewed this week as a crystallizing moment in the rematch between Trump and Biden.

Trump, Clinton said, “tried to overthrow our democracy, has been indicted 91 times, and says he wants to be a ‘day one’ dictator if elected again. I'm choosing Biden. How about you?”

7 hr 1 min ago

Haley’s team told donors that Super Tuesday was the day to watch

From CNN's Kylie Atwood

Top officials on Nikki Haley’s campaign told major donors in recent weeks that Super Tuesday would dictate whether or not Haley stayed in the race, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

They made a persuasive case in these private conversations: Staying in the race through Super Tuesday would give Haley’s team more data about the GOP electorate, the sources said. Haley’s team wanted that data before making the call to suspend her campaign, instead of pulling the plug after only a few states had voted.

As a result, most donors are not surprised by Nikki Haley’s move to drop out today, particularly because they didn’t expect the outcome in the Super Tuesday states to be better than Haley’s performance in the other early states.

Haley herself engaged in outreach to some top donors very late last night, one source said. Members of Haley’s team also made outreach to top donors, sources added. It is too early to tell where the donors go from here, they said.

7 hr 17 min ago

Super PAC congratulates Trump on Haley's decision to exit the race

From CNN's Kristen Holmes

The Donald Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA, Inc., congratulated the former president after news broke that his lone GOP rival, Nikki Haley, would soon announce she plans to drop out of the race.

“Congratulations to President Donald Trump for vanquishing his opponents in record time. The same movement that powered President Trump to a primary victory will power him to a general election victory. Voters are eager to have the prosperity and safety of the Trump presidency restored,” Taylor Budowich, CEO of Make America Great Again Inc.

Haley will announce that she is withdrawing from the Republican presidential race today, according to sources familiar with her plans. She is speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, at 10 a.m. ET.

8 hr 50 min ago

Haley decided to suspend campaign after "benchmark for staying in" was not reached, adviser says

From CNN's Jeff Zeleny

Nikki Haley reached the decision to suspend her presidential campaign late Tuesday, an adviser said, but did not her plans outside of an extraordinarily tight circle of senior aides that guided her candidacy.

Even as her team watched a victory in Vermont and a strong showing in the Virginia suburbs on Super Tuesday, “the benchmark for staying in the race was not reached,” an adviser said. Going into the biggest day of voting, the adviser said, Haley’s team had set a loose threshold of winning about 40% of the vote in several states to credibly stay in the race.

What she's expected to say today: Haley will speak from Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday, where she is poised to renew her call for a return to conservative principles and warn against an isolationist foreign policy that has taken hold inside the Republican Party, the adviser said. She is expected to mention Trump, the adviser said, but will not offer an endorsement.

9 hr 47 min ago

Haley won't endorse Trump — for now

From CNN's Kylie Atwood

Nikki Haley will not announce today that she is endorsing former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with her plans tell CNN.

Instead, Haley will call on Trump to earn the support of voters who backed her. That plan appears to leave the room for her to endorse Trump ahead of the general election in November.

Haley will announce that she is withdrawing from the Republican presidential race today according to sources familiar with her plans. She is speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, at 10 a.m. ET.

10 hr 4 min ago

Nikki Haley will exit GOP presidential race, clearing path for Donald Trump

From CNN's Kylie Atwood

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will announce Wednesday that she is exiting the Republican presidential race, according to sources familiar with her plans, clearing the path for former President Donald Trump.

Haley had emerged as former President Donald Trump’s sole rival in the Republican presidential primary campaign, and while he rolled to victory in 14 of the 15 GOP contests on Super Tuesday, she foiled a possible clean sweep by winning in Vermont.

Across the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, Haley won just 43 of the Republican delegates while Trump won 764.

Ahead of the South Carolina primary in February, Haley vowed to stay in the race through to Super Tuesday on March 5, saying she would continue to compete in the primary “until the last person votes, because I believe in a better America and a brighter future for our kids.”

Haley, who was Trump’s US ambassador to the United Nations, was the last of a dozen major candidates the former president vanquished in a GOP primary that he dominated from start to finish, even as he skipped the party’s debates and maintained a much lighter schedule of early-state travel than all of his rivals.

Haley is expected to deliver remarks in Charleston, South Carolina at 10 a.m. ET.

11 hr 7 min ago

Biden campaign casts Trump as "wounded, dangerous, and unpopular” in new Super Tuesday memo

From CNN's Donald Judd and Ji Min Lee

“We have a clear path to victory.”

The memo, signed by Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon and campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said Nikki Haley’s resilience in the GOP primary to date is clear evidence that Trump faces a hard ceiling in terms of support from traditionally GOP voters.

“A significant of moderate and Haley voters across the country are saying that Trump cannot count on their votes in a general election,” the memo says.

O’Malley Dillon and Chavez Rodriguez said in the memo that as the general election ramps up, those are precisely the voters that the Biden campaign will “aggressively engage.”

The memo also downplays a slew of concerning poll numbers for the incumbent president.

A new poll from the New York Times over the weekend found Biden trailing Trump, 48%-43%, but also found 10% were undecided—a figure the campaign says shows promise for Biden.

The November election, the memo says, “will be a very close general election contest like all modern presidential elections are… but, we have a clear path to victory.”

11 hr 14 min ago

Biden and Trump picked up a large number of delegates on Super Tuesday. Here's the latest delegate estimate

From CNN staff

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump picked up a large number of delegates in their dominating wins on Super Tuesday.

More than a dozen states held primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, the biggest day of the nominating races so far as the 2024 presidential campaign accelerates.

Trump's GOP rival Nikki Haley also picked up some delegates, winning the Vermont GOP presidential primary, but she remains far behind Trump. Meanwhile, in American Samoa — where 91 votes were cast in the Democratic caucuses — Biden lost to Democratic candidate Jason Palmer.

Here's the latest estimate of delegates won on Super Tuesday:

Republicans:

· Trump: 764

· Haley: 43

47 delegates from tonight’s contests are still to be allocated.

Democrats:

· Biden: 1,366

· Uncommitted: 8

· Palmer: 3

43 delegates from tonight’s contests are still to be allocated.

These are the estimated delegates won to date:

Republicans:

· Trump: 1,040

· Nikki Haley: 86

Democrats:

· Biden: 1,572

· Uncommitted: 10

· Palmer: 3

Remember: It takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination and 1,968 of 3,934 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

This post has been updated with the latest delegate estimates.

12 hr 14 min ago

Here are some of the key takeaways from Super Tuesday

From CNN's Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Simone Pathe

More than a dozen states held primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, the biggest day of the nominating races so far as the 2024 presidential campaign accelerates and leaves the one-by-one march through early-voting states behind.

Both Biden and Trump saw familiar signs of potential general election weaknesses: progressives casting ballots for “uncommitted” rather than Biden, college-educated suburbanites choosing Haley over Trump.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

· Trump wins big: The former president continued his run of dominance in the Republican nominating contest, despite losing one state, Vermont, to Nikki Haley. Though the 15 states that voted Tuesday didn’t have enough delegates for Trump to clinch the party’s nomination, he moved much closer and demonstrated that the door for Haley is all but shut.

· Biden dominates: Biden has faced difficult headlines over the last few months. His approval ratings remain low and the general election horse race polling is worrisome for Democrats. But on Super Tuesday, like every other primary day, he dominated his few rivals — typically winning around 80% of the vote. Trump, meanwhile, has rarely hit that mark. The other stark political reality is that come November, Trump is more likely to be the one facing the same headwinds he is now. Biden did lose one primary contest on Tuesday, in American Samoa.

· Haley's silence speaks volumes: On election nights so far, even when a loss was coming, Haley’s campaign has attempted to shape the narrative. But, on Tuesday night, none of that happened. Haley watched returns in her home state of South Carolina as the contests that likely represented her last hopes of a dramatic shakeup slipped by, Trump win after Trump win.

· North Carolina in the spotlight: North Carolina is Biden's best chance to flip a state from the 2020 map, and it's also home to the highest-stakes governor's race of the year. The contest is between GOP Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein, and the policy debate could be dominated by abortion rights in the Tarheel State, where the Republican legislative supermajority passed a 12-week ban over the objection of outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

12 hr 50 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win the Utah GOP caucuses

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

Former President Donald Trump will win the Utah Republican caucuses, CNN projects.

There were 40 delegates at stake in the state’s GOP contest.

11 hr 55 min ago

What we know about Jason Palmer, the candidate who delivered Biden his first defeat in a Democratic primary

From CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi

President Joe Biden was handed his first defeat thus far in the Democratic primary by a man who very few knew before Tuesday night: Venture capitalist Jason Palmer, who CNN projected will win the American Samoa Democratic nominating contest.

While Palmer won in the tiny US territory – where fewer than 100 people participate in the caucus – it will not slow Biden’s commanding march to the Democratic nomination after the president dominated Super Tuesday races across the country.

Palmer, who’s never held political office, launched his ambitious bid for the White House in November. He’s from Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently a partner at New Markets Venture Partners. He previously worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft and Kaplan, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Palmer, 52, acknowledges on his campaign website that his candidacy is a longshot bid “with very little chance of winning,” and claims his campaign is more focused on “ideas, solutions and changing the conversation.”

In a video announcing his candidacy, Palmer vowed to be a champion for young Americans and touted his plan for a “talent economy powered by mission driven entrepreneurs and conscious capitalism.”

More context: American Samoa has been a US territory since 1900. The island is a part of Oceania— about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean.

Since American Samoa is a territory and not a US state, its citizens do not vote in the federal election. But, they do get to have a say in who becomes their candidates for president, by voting in the primaries.

12 hr 2 min ago

Exit polls of Republican primaries show how Trump has transformed the party

From CNN's Ariel Edwards-Levy and Tami Luhby

With Super Tuesday in the rearview mirror, CNN’s entrance and exit polls of the Republican presidential contests so far highlight the extent to which the GOP electorate has been reshaped in former President Donald Trump’s image.

Across six states – Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and California – most GOP primary voters said they’d consider Trump fit for the presidency even if he’s convicted of a crime.

In none of those states has a majority of the GOP electorate been willing to acknowledge the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Exit polls are a valuable tool to help understand primary voters’ demographic profile and political views. Like all surveys, however, exit polls are estimates, not precise measurements of the electorate.

That’s particularly true for the preliminary set of exit poll numbers in Super Tuesday states, which haven’t yet been weighted to match the final results of the primaries.

That means that the numbers may continue to update in those states. But the results in these six states – which are the only ones where entrance or exit polls were conducted this year – provide a glimpse of the type of voters turning out.

Read more about what the exit polls show here.

13 hr 43 min ago

March 12 will bring another round of contests in multiple states

From CNN staff

While 16 US states and one US territory participated in primary contests on Super Tuesday, there are still several significant primaries to come this month.

CNN reported earlier today that former President Donald Trump’s team is aware he won’t cross the delegate threshold on Super Tuesday to become the presumptive Republican nominee, but they hope he secures enough delegates as early as next Tuesday, March 12, when another round of multistate primaries take place. It takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination.

Here's a look at the upcoming primary dates:

· March 6: Hawaiian Democratic presidential caucuses

· March 8: American Samoa GOP presidential caucuses

· March 12:

· Georgia

· Hawaii Republican presidential caucuses

· Mississippi

· Northern Mariana Islands Democratic primary (party-run)

· Washington

· Democrats abroad presidential primary

Access the full election calendar.

14 hr 24 min ago

Analysis: The general election is here — and it's Trump v. Biden

From CNN's Stephen Collinson

Donald Trump left the White House a loser. But now, only one man – President Joe Biden – can thwart his predecessor’s return in what would be the most astonishing political comeback in history.

Only three years after Trump slunk out of Washington in disgrace – days after the mob he told to “fight like hell” ransacked the US Capitol – and even as he faces four looming criminal trials, he has already engineered a bounce back for the ages in the Republican primary.

Trump went on a roll on Super Tuesday. He won the Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Texas, Alaska, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, Massachusetts and California Republican primaries. Every big state called in his favor brought the ex-president ever closer to a general election campaign against his 2020 vanquisher that polls show he’s got at least an even chance of winning.

As the results rolled in, Biden and Trump took aim at each other, setting the stage for what is sure to be a bitter clash in November certain to cleave even deeper national political divides.

Biden reacted to Trump’s Super Tuesday victories by immediately cranking up his general election attack on the former president – previewing an argument that will be at the center of his own campaign for a second term.

“Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: Are we going to keep moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to drag us backwards into the chaos, division, and darkness that defined his term in office?” Biden said in a statement.

14 hr 25 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Alaska GOP primary

From CNN’s Eric Bradner

Donald Trump will win the Alaska Republican primary, CNN projects, as the former president takes another step toward cementing the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Trump defeated former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in a contest in which 29 delegates were at stake.

The Alaska Republican party-run primary consisted of a presidential preference poll held at various locations around the state.

Alaska and its three electoral college votes have gone to Republicans all but once since the state’s admission to the union in 1959 — with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 being Democrats’ only victory.

However, the state has shown an independent streak. It elected Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola to the House in a 2022 special election and reelected her again later that year. Trump won Alaska by 10 percentage points in 2020.

14 hr 36 min ago

Longshot Democratic candidate Jason Palmer says he was surprised by win in American Samoa

From CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi

CNN

Longshot presidential candidate Jason Palmer told CNN he was surprised by his Tuesday win in the American Samoa Democratic caucuses over President Joe Biden and credited his local staff and virtual campaign events for the victory.

The first-time candidate argued that the “most important thing we can do as Democrats is defeat” former President Donald Trump, who has dominated the Super Tuesday contests.

Palmer said that part of why he entered the 2024 race was “to make sure that Biden campaigns vigorously.”

“When people say we're going to be sleepwalking into a Trump election. It's for real,” he told CNN in an interview early Wednesday.

“So I'm running to energize young voters and also center-left, center-right people with a positive vision of what we can do in the next four years. If Joe Biden's just talking about Donald Trump and he's just talking about foreign policy and foreign wars, that's not going to win in November. You got to have a clear, positive agenda,” Palmer added.

While he lauded Biden for his “tremendous service,” Palmer called on Biden to “pass the torch to the next generation of Americans.”

Palmer said he’ll continue his presidential campaign, focusing on the Arizona primary and releasing a 12-page proposal on reforming the US immigration system.

14 hr 46 min ago

CNN Projections: House primaries outside California that will likely determine their next member of Congress

From CNN staff

Brandon Gill. From Brandon Gill campaign

Many of the primaries for open seats on Tuesday are in seats that are safe for one party or the other. That means the winner of those contests – or the eventual runoffs – will very likely be coming to Congress next year. Here are some of those projected winners from Tuesday’s elections:

• North Carolina’s 10th District: Pat Harrigan will win the Republican primary, CNN projects, in the race to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry in the deep-red seat. McHenry briefly drew national attention last fall when he served as House speaker pro tempore following Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster. Harrigan, a retired Green Beret and the owner of a firearm manufacturing company, unsuccessfully ran for the US House from a Charlotte-area seat in 2022.

• Texas’ 12th District: Texas state Rep. Craig Goldman and real estate developer John O’Shea will advance to a runoff in the Republican primary, CNN projects, after neither candidate secured over 50% of the vote Tuesday. The deep-red seat in the Fort Worth area became vacant after longtime GOP Rep. Kay Granger opted against reelection after 14 terms in Congress. Granger backed Goldman as her successor, while O’Shea secured a high-profile endorsement from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

• Texas’ 26th District: Brandon Gill will win the Republican primary, CNN projects, in the race to fill the deep-red North Texas seat of retiring GOP Rep. Michael Burgess. Gill was involved in the film “2,000 Mules,” which was directed by his father-in-law, conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, and pushes conspiracy theories about voter fraud in the 2020 election. Gill received the endorsements of former President Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

This post has been updated with additional projections.

‘I Was Surprised.’ Talking to Jason Palmer, the Man Who Beat Joe Biden in American Samoa

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Democratic presidential candidate Jason Palmer speaks during an interview at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2024.Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP

BY SIMMONE SHAH

MARCH 6, 2024 1:28 PM EST

Jason Palmer, a Baltimore-based entrepreneur and largely unknown Democratic candidate, beat out President Joe Biden in Tuesday’s Democratic caucus in American Samoa.

Just 91 votes were cast in the U.S. territory that delivered Biden his first loss of the primary and his only loss on Super Tuesday, with 51 votes going to Palmer and 40 to Biden.

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The win was as much a surprise to Palmer as it was to anyone else when his phone started buzzing with hundreds of messages Tuesday night. TIME talked to Palmer by phone on Wednesday about what lessons he took from his win, what he plans to do next, and whether Biden’s age will be a problem in the general election.

The following conversation has been lightly edited and condensed.

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TIME: How did you find out about the win? What was your reaction?

Palmer: I knew we were getting a lot of support in American Samoa because we had a great team on the ground and we did multiple virtual meetings. But I was surprised to get the announcement. My phone burned up with hundreds of text messages and people all trying to call me at the same time to let me know that we had won in American Samoa.

I thought we would get one or two delegates because I knew we had all that support on the island, but to be the first Democratic challenger to an incumbent president to win a primary since 1980—I didn't think we would break a record like that.

What are the main points that you’re running on?

The main reasons I'm running are because we need to move our economy to conscious capitalism, we need to implement policies that generate millions of “new collar” economy jobs, and thirdly, we need to modernize our government to bring it up to technological 21st century standards.

What helped me win [American Samoa] was focusing on education, health care, and climate change, which are also important issues on my website and are [the issues] that resonated the most with the American Samoan people.

Why do you think American Samoa was the only place to buck Biden on Super Tuesday?

It's the first time that our advertising budget was probably about the same as Joe Biden's. The American Samoan people got to meet me and it was the first time there's been an equal matchup where he didn't outspend me 200 to one.

What do you think this says about how Democrats are feeling about Biden heading into the general election?

It seems like every three days the New York Times headline says that two thirds of Democratic voters want a younger alternative. To me, this is the first time that voters have been able to recognize that I am a younger alternative with great ideas and leadership experience.

Read More: Young Progressive Activists Lay Out ‘Roadmap’ For Biden To Win Back Gen Z

What do you hope people take from your surprise victory?

It's a real lesson to always pay attention to those whose voices most need to be amplified. And then the second thing is that there are other candidates in this race, including myself, and people really should take a look at who those other names are on the ballot and see if maybe they stand for your values more than Joe Biden does. And also that they might be younger and more energetic and be better able to beat Donald Trump in the fall.

On your campaign website, you call yourself “a longshot candidate.” Why run if you don't think you can win?

At the beginning, I did think I could win. I'm a venture capitalist, so I invest in long shots for a living. When I entered this race, I knew there was a less than 10% chance of me winning. Very few people beat incumbent presidents, but there was a 90% chance of actually changing the conversation, making sure that we were talking more about education as a key priority for our country, talking about conscious capitalism as a way to make our economy more equitable for all Americans, and talking about the new collar economy as a way to help more and more working class Americans get to $50,000 to $100,000 a year jobs.

What do you plan to do next?

I’m focusing on the next states in line, Hawaii and Arizona. I want to go to Arizona and meet with people locally on the ground there. My team and I have created a 12-page white paper on how to reform and improve and upgrade our immigration system, which we'll be releasing in the next few weeks.

We will also be launching a new organization that aims to elect 20 people to Congress this fall, who are problem solvers who also believe in conscious capitalism, the “new collar” economy, and have entrepreneurship or technology experience to carry the mantle forward.

What do you plan to do with your delegates?

Those delegates will be selected by the American Samoan people and we're going to go to the convention together and I'm going to represent American Samoa to the best of my ability. There are many more states to come, so we're hopefully going to get more delegates. The goal is to grow that number of delegates so that we show up to the convention with the largest possible number. I would love a convention speaking slot.

Any plans to visit American Samoa now?

Yes, it is a beautiful place. And I look forward to visiting at some time during this campaign season to celebrate with all 51 people who voted for me.

15 hr 14 min ago

CNN Projections: House incumbents facing primary challengers

From CNN staff

Rep. Steve Womack talks to reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting in the US Capitol on the speaker of the house nomination on Thursday, October 12, 2023. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images

Several incumbents in safe seats are facing threats from within their parties on Tuesday – and while those internecine contests might not necessarily affect partisan control, they can reveal a lot about where the base stands.

Here are the projected winners of those races:

• Arkansas’ 3rd District: Rep. Steve Womack will win the Republican nomination, CNN projects, beating back a challenge from his party’s right. Womack, the former chair of the House Budget Committee, faced a primary challenge from state Sen. Clint Penzo, who said he entered the race after Womack voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker last fall.

• Texas’ 7th District: Rep. Lizzie Fletcher will win the Democratic primary, CNN projects, as the incumbent looks to secure a fourth term. Fletcher faced a challenge from the left by engineer Pervez Agwan in the safely Democratic Houston-area district.

• Texas’ 18th District: Longtime Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee will win the Democratic primary, CNN projects, likely paving the way to a smooth reelection in the deep-blue district that she’s represented since 1995. Jackson Lee defeated former Houston City Council Member Amanda Edwards, her onetime congressional intern, who chose to stay in the primary after Jackson Lee announced for reelection after an unsuccessful – and bumpy – run for Houston mayor last year.

• Texas’ 23rd District: Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales will be forced into a runoff, CNN projects, after he failed to clear 50% of the vote in the primary. Gonzales and Brandon Herrera will face off in May for the Republican-leaning seat along the US-Mexico border. Gonzales was censured by the Texas Republican Party last year in part over his support for legislation to protect same-sex marriage and a bipartisan gun safety bill following the Uvalde mass shooting in his district.

This post was updated with additional projections.

15 hr 38 min ago

CNN Projection: GOP Rep. Barry Moore defeats fellow Republican Rep. Jerry Carl in Alabama primary

From CNN’s Clare Foran

Barry Moore. Leah Herman/US House of Representatives

GOP Rep. Barry Moore will defeat fellow Republican Rep. Jerry Carl in an Alabama primary for the state’s newly redrawn 1st Congressional District, CNN projects.

It is rare to see two incumbents run against one another, and the member-on-member matchup comes as House Republicans oversee a historically narrow majority and face a tough fight to retain control of the chamber in the 2024 elections.

15 hr 45 min ago

CNN Projection: Schiff and Garvey will face off in California Senate general election

From CNN’s Arit John

Republican Steve Garvey and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff. Getty Images

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey have advanced to the general election in the open primary for California’s open Senate seat, CNN projects, setting up an uphill battle for the state’s beleaguered GOP.

Schiff and Garvey were competing in two Senate contests Tuesday: one to fill the remainder of the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s term, from November until January; and another for a full six-year term beginning January 2025.

The incumbent senator, Democrat Laphonza Butler, was appointed to the seat last fall after Feinstein’s death. Butler announced shortly after that she would not seek a full term.

Under California’s open primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, move on to the general election. In a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 2-to-1, the seat is heavily favored to stay blue in November.

Garvey beat two Democratic congresswomen – Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee – to secure a place on the general election ballot, despite raising a fraction of what his opponents did and airing no TV ads.

14 hr 52 min ago

CNN Projections: Seats in districts that have been vastly reshaped by redistricting

From CNN staff

Brad Knott. From Brad Knott for Congress

Some voters in North Carolina and Alabama are selecting US House candidates Tuesday in contests dramatically reshaped by congressional redistricting in recent months.

In North Carolina – where members of the Republican-controlled General Assembly drew a congressional map last fall that heavily favors their party – the GOP is poised to win at least 10 of 14 House seats this year, up from the current 7-7 partisan split. Flipping several seats now held by Democrats could help Republicans retain their threadbare majority in the chamber after November’s elections.

In Alabama, meanwhile, new lines have triggered an incumbent-versus-incumbent primary Tuesday for one House seat and could set up a history-making outcome this fall if Alabamians choose, for the first time, to send two Black lawmakers to the US House. Here are the projected winners of those races so far:

• Alabama's 1st District: GOP Rep. Barry Moore will defeat fellow Republican Rep. Jerry Carl in this newly redrawn district, CNN projects.

• Alabama’s 2nd District: The Democratic primary will head to a runoff, CNN projects, with no candidate taking more than 50% of the vote Tuesday. Shomari Figures, a former US Justice Department official, and state House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels will finish ahead of a crowded field of candidates to advance.

• North Carolina’s 6th District: The Republican primary could be heading for a runoff, CNN projects, after none of the candidates secured more than 30% of the vote. Addison McDowell, a former lobbyist, and former Rep. Mark Walker finished first and second, respectively, in Tuesday’s primary. Under state law, the second-place winner must request a runoff or the candidate with the most votes will be declared the winner. Democratic incumbent Kathy Manning is not running for reelection after state Republicans redrew the seat last year to heavily favor the GOP. No Democrat is running for the seat.

• North Carolina’s 13th District: The Republican primary could be heading to a runoff, CNN projects, after none of the candidates secured over 30% of the vote. Attorney Kelly Daughtry, who ran for an earlier version of this seat in 2022, and Brad Knott, a former federal prosecutor, finished first and second, respectively, in Tuesday’s primary. Under state law, the second-place winner must request a runoff or the candidate with the most votes will be declared the winner. Democratic incumbent Wiley Nickel is not running for reelection after state Republicans redrew the seat last year to heavily favor the GOP.

• North Carolina’s 14th District: North Carolina state House Speaker Tim Moore will win the Republican primary, CNN projects. Democratic incumbent Jeff Jackson opted not to run for reelection after state Republicans redrew the Charlotte-area seat last year to heavily favor the GOP. Jackson is instead running for state attorney general. Moore had the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

This post has been updated with additional projections.

15 hr 40 min ago

House Speaker Mike Johnson congratulates Trump as "our nominee" after projected Super Tuesday wins

From CNN's Melanie Zanona

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference with House Republican leadership on February 29 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

House Speaker Mike Johnson – who recently met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida– congratulated the former president on his projected Super Tuesday wins, declaring him “our nominee.”

“I look forward to working together to retake the White House and grow our majority in Congress,” the Republican from Louisiana said in a statement.

Remember: Trump has not yet won the GOP nomination. He needs to win at least 1,215 delegates to clinch his party's nomination.

16 hr 3 min ago

Get caught up: Biden and Trump cruise through Super Tuesday as they head toward potential rematch

From CNN staff

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Getty Images

Both party’s presidential frontrunners racked up a formidable series of victories on Super Tuesday.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won their respective primaries in California and Texas — the states with the most delegates up for grabs in Tuesday's races.

In a surprising victory, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley will win Vermont, CNN projects, picking up her first state win. Still, she remains far behind Trump in the delegate count.

Alaska was the last Super Tuesday poll to close at midnight ET.

Projected winners:

• Biden: Iowa Democratic mail-in caucus, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Massachusetts, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, Utah and California Democratic primaries

• Trump: Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, Massachusetts and California Republican primaries

• Haley: Vermont Republican primary

• Jason Palmer: The Democratic candidate will win the American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses, CNN projects, handing Biden his only defeat so far this primary season.

• Other key races: Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will face each other in the North Carolina governor's race, CNN projects. Sen. Ted Cruz is also projected to win the Texas Senate GOP primary.

Estimated delegates won to date: Remember, it takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination and 1,968 of 3,934 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Republican:

• Trump: 936

• Nikki Haley: 85

Democrat:

• Biden: 1,312

• Uncommitted: 2

Haley on her future: One donor said that they were told by the campaign that Haley would "make plans and next steps tomorrow." Her campaign said in a statement it was “honored” to win Vermont and emphasized that there are voters who have an appetite for an alternative to Trump.

Biden campaign on American Samoa loss: The campaign shrugged off the president's projected loss in the territory with one official calling it “silly news.” Campaign officials said that a very small number of votes is expected in American Samoa.

Dean Phillips considers campaign: The Democratic candidate said he will make a decision in the coming days about his political future after Super Tuesday’s results. Phillips announced late last month he was laying off staff after not being able to raise the funds to run his campaign as he had hoped.

16 hr 8 min ago

CNN Projections: House races in California that will be pivotal in determining which party holds majority

From CNN staff

Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln addresses the media of the arrest of Wesley Brownlee, 43, a suspect in relation to a string of killings in Stockton and Oakland, during a press conference in Stockton, California, on October 15, 2022. Rahul Lal/Sipa USA/AP

Among all the races on the ballot Tuesday, it’s the primaries for the US House of Representatives – where Republicans are defending a razor-thin majority – that are by far the most important for the balance of power in Washington.

The outcomes of several House primaries Tuesday will shape just how competitive these key races will be in the general election. Most of them are in California, where candidates run on the same primary ballot, with the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advancing to November. Here are the projected winners of those races so far:

• California’s 3rd District: Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley and Democrat Jessica Morse will advance to the general election, CNN projects.

• California’s 9th District: Democratic Rep. Josh Harder and Republican Kevin Lincoln, the mayor of Stockton, will advance to the general election, CNN projects.

• California’s 27th District: Republican Rep. Mike Garcia and Democrat George Whitesides will advance to the general election, CNN projects. Garcia was first elected to the northern Los Angeles County seat in 2020. Whitesides, who served as chief of staff for NASA during the Obama administration, is on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue list for promising recruits.

• California’s 40th District: Republican Rep. Young Kim and Democrat Joseph Kerr, a former firefighter and labor leader, will advance to the general election, CNN projects. Democrats are targeting this seat, which President Joe Biden would have narrowly won in 2020 under current district lines.

• California’s 41st District: Republican Rep. Ken Calvert and Democrat Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, will advance to the general election, CNN projects, setting up a rematch of their 2022 race. Calvert has served in the House since 1993. Democrats are targeting this seat, which Donald Trump would have narrowly won in 2020 under its current lines.

• California’s 49th District: Democratic Rep. Mike Levin and Republican Matt Gunderson will advance to the general election, CNN projects. Republicans are targeting the seat, which Biden would have won in 2020 under its current lines.

This post has been updated with additional projections.

16 hr ago

Wisconsin voters in CNN focus group are split on who they'd vote for in presidential election

If the presidential election were today, a group of voters in Wales, Wisconsin, who participated in a CNN focus group would be split on who they would vote for.

Four voters out of the group of 11 told CNN's Gary Tuchman that they would vote for Donald Trump and four others said they would cast their ballots for Joe Biden. Three voters said they'd still vote for Trump's GOP rival, Nikki Haley.

Asked for their predictions of who would win in November, six voters said they thought Trump would win while four predicted a Biden victory.

One voter, who said she would write-in Haley on the ballot, said she would do so because she is "very concerned about what a second term would mean" for Trump.

"I feel like we have to vote between the lesser of two bad choices. I mean really bad choices," the voter said.

Another voter who said she is backing Trump said she's doing so because "he's the man for the country right now." She commended Trump's economic growth policy and his stance on border security.

As for Biden, one voter said he would vote for the president because they aren't "worried that he's not going to leave office."

"I think that Trump may want to stay in the office or may make changes that precludes his leaving," the voter said.

Wisconsin's primary is on April 2.

16 hr 45 min ago

It's midnight ET and polls are closing in Alaska. Here's what you should know

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

As the clock strikes midnight ET, voting is ending in Alaska's Republican primary. There are 29 GOP delegates at stake.

The Alaska Republican party-run primary consists of a presidential preference poll held at various locations around the state. Alaska Democrats will hold a party-run mail primary ending on April 6.

In presidential politics, Alaska is a safe state for Republicans. It's voted for the Democratic presidential candidate only once since gaining statehood in 1959.

16 hr 38 min ago

Haley campaign says Vermont win shows voters are open to Trump alternative

From CNN's Ebony Davis, Kylie Atwood and Jamie Gangel

Haley waves as she hosts a campaign event in South Burlington, Vermont, on March 3. Brian Snyder/Reuters

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s campaign said Tuesday that it was "honored" by her projected win in Vermont's GOP presidential primary and that it showed that there are voters who want an alternative to former President Donald Trump.

"We’re honored to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country today, including in Vermont where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primary contests," Haley spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said in a statement. "Unity is not achieved by simply claiming ‘we’re united.'"

While Trump has dominated GOP races on Super Tuesday — CNN has projected that he will win at least 12 states — Haley's campaign said there remains a “large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns” about the former president.

“That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better,” Perez-Cubas said.

Trump has a formidable delegate lead with 893 delegates, while Haley has 66.

A donor told CNN that they were told by Haley's campaign that she would not get out of the race tonight but the campaign would "make plans and next steps tomorrow."

16 hr 12 min ago

CNN Projection: Schiff will advance to general election in California’s open Senate primary

From CNN’s Arit John

Rep. Adam Schiff waves to supporters outside the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Union Hall, at the kickoff rally for his two-week ‘California for All Tour’, on February 11, 2023 in Burbank, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff will advance in California's Senate race for Dianne Feinstein's seat, CNN projects. It is too soon to project who he'll face.

Under California’s open primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, move on to the general election.

16 hr 56 min ago

Fact Check: Trump repeated many of his usual falsehoods during Super Tuesday victory speech

From CNN’s Kate Grise

Former President Donald Trump repeated many of his usual falsehoods Tuesday night as he addressed a crowd of supporters. His claims touched on a range of topics from how much border wall was built during his administration to the country’s energy independence.

CNN has fact-checked many of these claims before. Here are some of those previous fact-checks:

• Trump falsely claimed his administration “built 571 miles of wall.”

• Trump falsely claimed that the United States was “energy independent” even though the country never stopped importing foreign oil.

• In an apparent reference to the multiple court cases he faces, Trump claimed, without evidence, that “we have a country that a political person uses weaponization against his political opponent never happened here.”

• While talking about the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump also falsely said, “We left $85 billion worth of brand new, beautiful equipment behind — jets and tanks and everything you can think of — googles, night goggles.”

• Trump touted the economy during his administration, saying it was “the best economy our country’s ever had.”

16 hr 56 min ago

Biden campaign co-chair responds to Trump remarks: "Most, if not all, of what he said was factually incorrect"

From CNN's Donald Judd

President Joe Biden's campaign fired back at former President Donald Trump after the GOP front-runner delivered remarks from his Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday, telling CNN “most, if not all, of what he said was factually incorrect, and is provably incorrect — and to the point where you would think that if his lips are moving, he's lying or he's delusional, one of the two.”

Mitch Landrieu, who serves as a co-chair for the Biden campaign, sought to cast Tuesday’s election results as troubling for the Trump campaign, telling CNN that stronger-than-expected returns for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley are promising for Biden’s reelection bid.

“She's winning in places where presidential elections are decided, and in that group of people, those folks are tired of Donald Trump taking the Republican Party as they once knew it,” he said. “The party with the Cheneys and the Bushes and the Reagans and the Romneys and all of those folks—and eviscerate it, and it's one of the reasons that we think that we've have a really good chance, and that's where we're going to spend a lot of time, as well as securing our base.”

CNN reported earlier Tuesday that the Biden campaign sees those Haley voters as “gettable,” during the general election in November, while Biden made a direct appeal “[t]o every Democrat, Republican, and independent who believes in a free and fair America,” in a Super Tuesday statement.

Still, Landrieu acknowledged, some work remains to convince voters, including progressive voters who’ve expressed concerns over the administration’s support for Israel in Gaza.

17 hr 8 min ago

CNN Projection: Allred will win Democratic nomination in Texas Senate race

From CNN’s Eric Bradner

Rep Colin Allred speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, in 2020. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/File

US Rep. Colin Allred will win the Texas Democratic nomination for US Senate and face Republican Ted Cruz in November, CNN projects.

Allred defeated state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and seven other contenders in the Democratic primary Tuesday. And by crossing the 50% threshold, he avoids an automatic primary runoff in May.

16 hr 53 min ago

Harris calls Super Tuesday's election results "an energizing moment for our campaign"

From CNN's Donald Judd

Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Tuesday’s primary election results, calling it “an energizing moment for our campaign."

“Americans of all backgrounds are showing that they sense the urgency of this election, and that they are ready to stand with President (Joe) Biden and me in this fight to protect our fundamental freedoms,” Harris wrote in a statement.

CNN has projected that Biden will win nominating contests in all but one of the Democratic contests Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump also has had a successful night, with CNN projecting that he will win at least 12 Super Tuesday states.

The vice president warned in her statement that Trump “poses a fundamental threat to our democracy, and he must be stopped.”

Harris said that Biden will the administration's victories and its vision "of what more we can accomplish" during his State of the Union address Thursday. She added that she will travel to the swing states of Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona in the coming days.

“The president and I know reelection must be earned, and we will continue to put in the work to reach every possible voter,” she said. “Winning the fight to protect our fundamental freedoms will require nothing less.”

13 hr 25 min ago

Democratic candidate Phillips says he's assessing results and will make decision about future in "coming days"

From CNN's Ali Main and Manu Raju

Rep. Dean Phillips speaks during the South Carolina's First in the Nation Dinner at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 27. Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips is assessing Tuesday night's results and said he will make a decision in the coming days about his political future.

"While Democratic Party loyalists are clearly, consistently, and overwhelmingly registering their preference for Joe Biden, it doesn’t alter the reality which compelled me to enter the race in the first place; Donald Trump is increasingly likely to defeat him in November," he said in a statement to CNN.

"I’ll be assessing tonight’s results and all available data over the coming days before making a decision about how I can best help prevent that tragedy," Phillips said.

The Minnesota Democrat had previously set March 5 as a benchmark for determining the viability of his candidacy.

However, as his campaign progressed, Phillips said he wanted to look to polling data this summer comparing his electability versus that of President Joe Biden in hypothetical matchups against former President Donald Trump.

Phillips announced late last month he was laying off staff after not being able to raise the funds to run his campaign as he had hoped.

17 hr 11 min ago

Vermont voters anticipated Haley would do well in the state

From CNN's Eva McKend

Haley greets supporters following a speech at a campaign event at the DoubleTree Hotel on March 3 in South Burlington, Vermont. John Tully/Getty Images

Nikki Haley’s Vermont supporters projected confidence during her visit to the state Sunday at a rally that commanded an overflow crowd outside of a hotel ballroom in South Burlington. Voters proudly described themselves as “independent minded” and wanted to support a candidate they viewed as reasonable and unifying, even if some of them historically have voted for Democrats.

CNN projected Haley will win Vermont's GOP primary. The state’s Republican Party Chair Paul Dame, who stayed neutral in the contest, tonight said he was expecting a close race between Haley and former President Donald Trump.

“In Vermont, we have a lot of the old school Rockefeller Republicans. And obviously, Gov. Phil Scott remains one of the most popular governors in the country and he came out and endorsed Nikki Haley pretty early. He was very involved in the event that she had here on Sunday and pretty much whenever a presidential candidate comes to Vermont, they're usually at least getting delegates out of them,” Dame said when reached by phone Tuesday evening.

“I think it says that Vermonters are looking for a different direction. Trump's style of personality that he's injected into politics hasn't really been popular in Vermont,” Dame added.

Matthew Dickinson, a political science professor at Middlebury College, said he “underestimated the crossover vote.”

“I'm wondering how much of that was not simply a vote against Trump, among Democrats and independents, but I wonder how much was sort of a protest vote against Biden as well,” said Dickinson who described Vermont’s Republicans as “more liberal than Republicans in other states.”

Republican State Rep. James Harrison who attended Haley’s rally Sunday described her win as a “positive development.” He said that “Vermont often marches to a different drummer." Harrison says Haley is a “breath of fresh air” but is clear eyed that the race ultimately will come down to Biden and Trump. He hasn’t made up his mind who he will support.

17 hr 34 min ago

Biden campaign official calls American Samoa loss "silly news"

From CNN's MJ Lee and Kyle Blaine

The Biden campaign is shrugging off projections tonight that showed President Joe Biden losing the American Samoa Democratic primary to venture capitalist Jason Palmer, with one campaign official calling it "silly news."

Campaign officials explained to reporters that a very small number of votes is expected in American Samoa and pointed to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Democratic primary victory there in 2020.

Pressed for more details, the Biden campaign official said Palmer had a “platform of being an advocate for American Samoa.”

A Palmer campaign official told CNN the candidate had three full time campaign staffers on the ground but did not visit the island himself, instead appearing virtually at events.

17 hr 44 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win California GOP primary

From CNN’s Gregory Krieg

Former President Donald Trump will win the California Republican presidential primary, CNN projects, as he closes in on his third straight GOP nomination.

There were 169 delegates at stake in California tonight.

Who won in 2016 and 2020: Trump won both primaries.

17 hr 41 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win California Democratic primary

From CNN’s Gregory Krieg

President Joe Biden speaks at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, California, on Wednesday, February 21. Eric Thayer/Bloomberg/Getty Images

President Joe Biden will win the California Democratic primary, CNN projects, as he cruises to his party’s nomination for a second term.

There were 424 pledged delegates at stake in California tonight.

Who won in 2016 and 2020: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016; Biden beat Sanders and others in 2020.

17 hr 42 min ago

CNN Projection: Nikki Haley will win the Vermont GOP primary

From CNN staff

Nikki Haley arrives to speak at a campaign event in South Burlington, Vermont, on Sunday. Michael Dwyer/AP

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will win Vermont's Republican primary, CNN projects.

There were 17 delegates at stake in the state.

16 hr 47 min ago

CNN Projections: Competitive House races outside California

From CNN staff

Michelle Vallejo talks to people in McAllen, Texas, in 2022. Veronica G. Cardenas/Reuters/File

On the ballot Tuesday are primaries for US Senate and governor, but it’s the primaries for the US House – where Republicans are defending a razor-thin majority – that are by far the most important for the balance of power in Washington.

The outcomes of several House primaries Tuesday will shape just how competitive these key races will be in the general election. Many of those seats are in California. Here are the projected winners of those races outside the Golden State:

• North Carolina’s 1st District: Laurie Buckhout will win the Republican primary to take on Democratic Rep. Don Davis, CNN projects. The 1st District, which was redrawn last year to become friendlier toward Republicans, is North Carolina’s sole competitive seat after redistricting. Republicans are targeting the seat heading into the fall, and the GOP primary served as a test of the party’s ideological direction. Buckhout, a retired US Army colonel, had the backing of the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC tied to House GOP leadership.

• Texas’ 15th District: Michelle Vallejo will win the Democratic primary, CNN projects, putting her on track for a rematch against GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz. Democrats are targeting this South Texas seat, which Trump would have narrowly carried in 2020 under the current lines. Vallejo ran as a progressive last cycle but lost to De La Cruz by 9 points.

• Texas’ 34th District: Former Rep. Mayra Flores will win the Republican nomination, CNN projects, setting herself up for a rematch with Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez. Flores was elected to Congress in a special election in June 2022 but lost to Gonzalez in the general election held under new district lines that fall. Flores has received some high-profile endorsements, including from House Speaker Mike Johnson, in her comeback bid in South Texas.

17 hr 44 min ago

Haley leads Trump in tight race in Vermont

In Vermont, the race between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley has been close all night.

With 88% of the vote counted, Haley currently holds a small lead with 50.3% of the vote to Trump's 45.7.

CNN's John King said that there is a possibility that Haley could get a win tonight on a Super Tuesday dominated by Trump.

17 hr 45 min ago

Polls are closing in California and voting is ending in Utah's GOP caucuses. Here's what you should know

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

It's 11 p.m. ET and polls are closing in California and voting is ending in Utah's GOP caucuses.

• There are 169 Republican delegates and 424 Democratic delegates on the line in California. After holding a June primary in 2012 and 2016, the Golden State moved its primary to the first Tuesday in March for the 2020 cycle. Democrats dominate California’s urban and coastal areas, while interior and rural areas are more competitive. Coastal California is more populated, which means statewide races trend blue.

• And in Utah, there are 40 Republican delegates at stake in the GOP caucuses. Utah Republicans opted to have party-run caucuses to allocate delegates rather than participate in the state-run party. Democrats held a primary. Utah is generally one of the most Republican states in the nation. Utah has not elected a Democratic governor since 1980, a Democratic senator since 1970 or voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964.

17 hr 58 min ago

Trump and Biden are dominating Super Tuesday. Here’s what to know

From CNN staff

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have secured a large chunk of delegates after their projected wins in the Texas primaries. The two frontrunners have nearly swept all of the races so far.

In remarks, Trump said that it has been “an amazing night” and vowed to unify what he called a “divided country.” Meantime, Biden touted the work his administration has accomplished and issued a stark warning that a second Trump term would mean a return to "chaos, division, and darkness," according to a statement.

Get up to speed:

Polls closed in most states: A majority of Super Tuesday states are releasing results after polls closed earlier in the night. That includes Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, and Texas. In Utah, Democrats held a primary and the polls closed at 10 p.m. ET.

Still ahead: Utah Republicans have opted to have a party-run caucus. Voters can drop off ballots at caucus sites until 11 p.m. ET. Polls in California — where there is another large amount of delegates up for grabs — will also close at 11 p.m. ET and in Alaska at midnight ET.

Projected winners:

• Biden: Iowa Democratic mail-in caucus, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Massachusetts, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota and Utah Democratic primaries

• Trump: Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota and Massachusetts Republican primaries

• Jason Palmer: The Democratic candidate will win the American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses, CNN projects, handing Biden his only defeat so far this primary season.

Estimated delegates won to date: Remember, it takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination and 1,968 of 3,934 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Republican:

• Trump: 724

• Nikki Haley: 57

Democrat:

• Biden: 946

• Uncommitted: 2

Pressure on Haley to drop out: The GOP candidate is watching the returns with her political team in South Carolina as some of her fellow Republicans in the state ramp up calls for her to drop out and unite behind Trump. Haley's team has made clear they were focused on tonight and declined to say what's ahead for her campaign.

17 hr 59 min ago

Trump celebrates dominating GOP races on Super Tuesday

From CNN's Kate Sullivan and Tori B. Powell

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a Super Tuesday election night party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Evan Vucci/AP

Former President Donald Trump celebrated dominating the Republican races on Super Tuesday and bashed President Joe Biden during his election night victory remarks that did not mention his GOP primary rival Nikki Haley.

“This was an amazing night and an amazing day, it’s been an incredible period of time in our country’s history,” Trump said at his election night watch party at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

CNN projected he will win primary contests in at least 11 Super Tuesday states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Trump thanked his family, his campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita as well as his campaign staff. He claimed that "we have a very divided country," and vowed to unify it soon.

"We have a great Republican party with tremendous talent and we want to have unity and we're going to have unity and it's going to happen very quickly," Trump said.

Trump went on to bash Biden in his speech and said "we're going to win this election because we have no choice."

CNN reported earlier this evening that Trump’s team is aware he won’t cross the delegate threshold tonight to become the presumptive Republican nominee, but the hope is that he secures enough delegates to ensure he does meet that milestone as early as next Tuesday, March 12. The campaign is also hoping that a definitive win tonight will effectively force his lone GOP rival, Nikki Haley, to drop out of the race.

18 hr 23 min ago

Biden warns a second Trump term would mean a return to "chaos, division, and darkness"

From CNN's Donald Judd

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 5 in Washington, DC. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

President Joe Biden touted the work his administration has accomplished in its first term in office while issuing a stark warning that a second Donald Trump term would mean a return to "chaos, division, and darkness," in a statement released Tuesday.

"Four years ago, I ran because of the existential threat Donald Trump posed to the America we all believe in," Biden wrote in a statement, highlighting progress under his administration on jobs, inflation, prescription drug prices, and gun control.

He then warned that if Trump returns to the White House, the progress his administration as made will be at risk.

"(Trump) is driven by grievance and grift, focused on his own revenge and retribution, not the American people," Biden noted.

Earlier Tuesday, CNN reported that the Biden campaign was closely watching GOP primary results for Nikki Haley voters they considered “gettable” in a general election matchup against Trump in November.

18 hr 23 min ago

Haley is receiving feedback from allies about her decision to endorse Trump, sources say

From CNN's Kylie Atwood

Haley makes comments at a campaign event in Forth Worth, Texas, on Monday. Tony Gutierrez/AP

GOP candidate Nikki Haley says she has not made a final decision as to whether or not she would endorse former President Donald Trump if she ends her presidential bid, but her campaign is receiving a lot of feedback on the subject, sources familiar with recent discussions tell CNN.

People who are close with Haley have different opinions. Some believe that it would be good for her to back Trump because she would be viewed as a team player. Others ardently oppose her endorsing him because that would give Haley the freedom to be critical of Trump and build her own movement. They have d those opinions with Haley and her campaign in recent days and weeks, sources said.

Haley herself has recently said she is not focused on endorsing anyone because she is focused on winning herself.

"When you're in the middle of a fight, you don't think about what you're going to do," Haley said Tuesday.

But she has also indicated in recent days that she no longer feels bound by the pledge she made last year to support the eventual GOP nominee. Her rationale is twofold: she has said that the Republican National Convention today is different than it was when she made that pledge, and she has pointed out that Trump did not make the pledge himself.

Her comments mark an about-face for the former South Carolina governor after she initially made the pledge to get on the debate stage, and said she would honor that commitment as recently as a few weeks ago.

18 hr 23 min ago

Trump says Haley is angry because "she’s just getting nowhere"

From CNN's Kate Sullivan

Former President Donald Trump bashed his GOP primary rival Nikki Haley, saying in an interview Tuesday the former South Carolina governor was angry because her campaign is “just getting nowhere."

“She’s gone crazy, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump said on the Mark Levin Show.

Trump said Haley was bitter, and had “gone haywire,” and described her as a “very angry person.”

"She’s become really angry, and I think it’s that she’s just getting nowhere,” Trump said. "We'll see if she straightens out, maybe she will."

Remember: Haley has so far only won the GOP primary contest in Washington, DC. Trump has dominated every other early nominating contest and CNN has projected that he will win the primary in at least 11 more states Tuesday.

18 hr 28 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win the Utah Democratic primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

An election worker starts the process of curing a defective ballot at Utah County Election Headquarters during the presidential primary in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday. George Frey/AFP/Getty Images

President Joe Biden will win the Democratic primary in Utah, CNN projects.

There were 30 pledged delegates at stake in the primary.

In 2020, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic contest. Biden came in second place.

18 hr 38 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win the Massachusetts GOP primary

From CNN’s Arit John

Former President Donald Trump will win the Massachusetts Republican primary, CNN projects.

There were 40 delegates at stake in Massachusetts tonight.

18 hr 35 min ago

Widespread disbelief among GOP primary voters that Biden won the presidency in 2020, exit polls show

From CNN's Tami Luhby and Ariel Edwards-Levy

Many Republican primary and caucus voters baselessly claim that Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 presidential election, CNN’s exit and entrance polls in six states over the past two months show.

None of the states had a majority of the GOP electorate willing to acknowledge that Biden legitimately won the election. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Two-thirds of Iowa caucusgoers in January said Biden didn’t legitimately win, according to entrance polls. About six in 10 primary voters in North Carolina on Tuesday and in South Carolina last month felt this way, exit polls showed.

Just shy of six in 10 California primary voters and about half of Virginia voters on Tuesday, as well as in New Hampshire in January, said Biden was not the legitimate winner, according to exit polls.

18 hr 28 min ago

Key race alert: Haley leads Trump in Vermont

Donald Trump has lost his lead in Vermont, where it's been a seesaw between him and Nikki Haley this evening. So far, 81% of votes have been counted there, with Haley having 49.3% of the vote and Trump trailing behind with 46.8%.

Remember: Whoever wins the GOP nomination needs to win at least 1,215 delegates. Whoever wins the Democratic nomination needs to win 1,968 delegates.

17 hr 2 min ago

CNN Projection: Jason Palmer will win the American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses

From CNN staff

This screengrab from video shows Democratic presidential candidate Jason Palmer. From Jason Palmer/X

Democratic candidate Jason Palmer will win the American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses, CNN projects, handing President Joe Biden his only defeat so far this primary season.

Palmer is a business executive from Baltimore, Maryland, who previously worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to his campaign website.

He launched his extremely long-shot bid for president in November.

Palmer celebrated his win on a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi contributed reporting to this post.

18 hr 45 min ago

It's 10 p.m. ET, which means polls are closing in Utah's Democratic primary

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

As the clock strikes 10 p.m. ET, polls are beginning to close in Utah's Democratic primary, where there are 30 delegates at stake for the party.

Utah Republicans have opted to have party-run caucuses to allocate delegates rather than participate in the state-run party.

While the parties have used different processes in recent cycles amid shifting approaches from the state, in 2020 both parties participated in the state-run primary.

18 hr 52 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Minnesota GOP primary

From CNN’s Arit John

Former President Donald Trump will win the Minnesota Republican primary, CNN projects.

There were 39 delegates at stake in Minnesota tonight.

18 hr 47 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Minnesota Democratic primary

From CNN’s Arit John

President Joe Biden during an event at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin, on Thursday, January 25. Nicole Neri/Bloomberg/Getty Images

President Joe Biden will win the Minnesota Democratic primary, CNN projects.

There were 75 pledged delegates at stake in Minnesota tonight.

Who won in 2020: Biden won the Democratic primary.

18 hr 46 min ago

There is no pathway left for Haley, Sen. Graham says

From CNN's Kit Maher

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said there is no path forward for Nikki Haley and that it’s time for the Republican Party to coalesce around former President Donald Trump for their nominee.

"I think it’s pretty clear that people have spoken. I voted for Trump, not against Nikki. And at the end of the day, there's really no pathway left. The sooner we can come together, the better. I think Nikki Haley can make a case why Trump is better than Biden on a lot of issues better than most Republicans," Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash.

Even though Haley has signaled that she may not honor the Republican National Committee pledge to back the nominee, Graham said he believes she will eventually throw her support behind Trump.

"I’m pretty confident, I’ve known her most of my political life, that she’ll be a team player. That there will come a time where she realizes, and I hope this will come sooner, rather than later, that this is not her moment and there’s a lot at stake. I’d find it difficult to imagine that Nikki Haley would not support President Trump when it’s all said and done," he added.

Fellow South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is Graham’s favored choice for Trump’s potential running mate.

"We play golf, and we talk about a lot of things. He’s just really impressed with Tim’s enthusiasm, the way that Tim sells Donald Trump," Graham said.

“There are a lot of good choices. I just feel like Tim Scott’s ready to be president on day one,” Graham said.

18 hr 45 min ago

The House GOP’s lonely Haley supporter says he will stick with her as long as she's in the race

From CNN's Melanie Zanona

Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina is the lone House Republican backing GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley.

In an interview with CNN, Norman acknowledged he is on an island in the GOP — which he called “an interesting” experience — and said he has faced some pressure to fall in line behind Donald Trump. But Norman said he will stick with Haley as long as she is in the race.

“People endorse for different reasons. I didn't endorse because I want something,” Norman said. “I don't put my finger in the air and see who’s gonna go with me. I'm perfectly willing to go alone. I just do what I know in my mind was right.”

Norman did get some recent company across the Capitol from GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who both endorsed Haley ahead of Super Tuesday.

Asked about Trump’s growing irritation over Haley not dropping out, Norman said: “I don't quite understand. This is March.”

Norman also expressed concern about Trump’s viability as a general election candidate — something few in the GOP have been willing to say, at least publicly, as Trump marches his way toward the nomination. However, he will back Trump if he ultimately becomes the nominee.

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18 hr 51 min ago

The path to the House majority may run through California

From CNN's Melanie Zanona

Republican and Democratic leaders in the House agree on at least one thing: the path to the majority may run — at least in part — through California, where there are several competitive races this fall.

That’s why both parties invested heavy resources to ensure their favored candidate gets over the finish line tonight, in hopes of giving them their best chance at victory this November.

Among the races party leaders are watching closely: the swing seat represented by Rep. David Valadao, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump.

Valadao is facing a far-right challenger in Chris Mathys, while Democratic party leaders have sought to boost their preferred pick, former Assembly member Rudy Salas, over Democratic state Sen. Melissa Hurtado.

The way the race shakes out tonight could have major implications for the fall.

“We're looking for a good night for our candidates. We are watching a few of those states closely,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN, specifically naming California and Texas. “But I think it's gonna work out well for us.”

Elsewhere, party leaders are keeping tabs on some key down-ballot races in states like North Carolina.

GOP leaders are paying especially close attention to the Republican contest to take on Democratic Rep. Don Davis. The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), which is aligned with Johnson, is boosting Laurie Buckhout over repeat candidate Sandy Smith.

CLF spent against Smith in the previous election cycle and she won the primary but went on to lose the general election. And Republicans worry Smith could cost them the seat this November if she wins the primary again.

19 hr 7 min ago

Jeff Jackson's win in Democratic primary sets up high-profile race for North Carolina attorney general

From CNN's Kaanita Iyer

Jeff Jackson speaks to students while campaigning at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2021. Gerry Broome/AP/File

North Carolina Rep. Jeff Jackson will win the state’s Democratic primary for attorney general, CNN projects.

Jackson, known for his active presence on TikTok, represents the state’s 13th Congressional District but decided not to run for reelection after state Republicans redrew the seat to heavily favor the GOP.

Jackson will next face off against a fellow congressman, Dan Bishop, who was unopposed in the Republican primary. North Carolina hasn’t elected a GOP attorney general in more than a century, though a few have been appointed by Republican governors.

The state's current attorney general, Josh Stein, will win the Democratic nomination for governor, CNN projected earlier Tuesday.

19 hr 19 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump wins Colorado GOP primary

From CNN’s Gregory Krieg

Former President Donald Trump will win the Colorado Republican presidential primary, CNN projects, continuing his march toward the GOP nomination.

There were 37 delegates at stake in Colorado tonight.

Who won in 2016 and 2020: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won in 2016; Trump in 2020.

19 hr 7 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden wins Colorado Democratic primary

From CNN’s Gregory Krieg

President Joe Biden speaks about Bidenomics at CS Wind on November 29, 2023 in Pueblo, Colorado. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

President Joe Biden will win the Colorado Democratic primary, CNN projects, as he moves closer to clinching the party’s nomination.

There were 72 pledged delegates at stake in Colorado tonight.

Who won in 2016 and 2020: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won both of Colorado’s last two nominating contests.

19 hr 10 min ago

Analysis: Donald Trump dominates — but not like an incumbent

From CNN's Zachary Wolf

How, exactly, are we supposed to view Donald Trump's candidacy?

He's not an incumbent, since he's not currently president. But he is certainly incumbent adjacent — people know what kind of president he was and he enjoys near-universal name recognition. He could be the first person since Grover Cleveland to lose the White House and then come back for a redo four years later.

Viewed as a non-incumbent, Trump is performing historically well in the Republican presidential primary. He has won every primary and caucus so far except for one, in Washington, DC and there's no reason to believe he will lose any states on Super Tuesday.

It is a far better primary record so far than every non-incumbent Republican presidential candidate in the modern primary era. But, as discussed, Trump isn't entirely non-incumbent. His margins in primary contests are worse than incumbent presidential candidates of the modern primary era, including when he was an actual incumbent in 2020.

His only remaining rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley continues to win a not insubstantial portion of the vote – 20% to 30% — in some states. In Vermont, obviously not a hotbed of support for Trump, the former president has only a slim lead over Haley as early returns rolled in. There are places in Virginia and North Carolina, around cities and college campuses, where Haley is actually beating Trump in early returns. It doesn't mean his position as frontrunner is in danger. It does suggest there is a kernel of the GOP that will continue to resist him.

A major question of the coming general election campaign will be what happens to those anti-Trump Republican voters in November? If Joe Biden were losing that much of the Democratic vote to his two rivals, Rep. Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson, it's safe to assume the angst among Democrats about his candidacy would become much more pronounced. Biden faced scrutiny after "uncommitted" got a little more than 13% of the primary vote in Michigan, part of an organized protest to his policy on Israel.

19 hr 31 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Alabama Democratic primary

From CNN’s Eric Bradner

President Joe Biden will win the Alabama Democratic primary, CNN projects, continuing his march to the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.

There were 52 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention at stake in Alabama’s primary.

The state’s nine electoral college votes are a near-lock for Republicans in November. But Alabama’s Democratic primary played a role in helping Biden effectively cement the party’s nomination in 2020, when he defeated Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders there by 47 percentage points.

19 hr 29 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Alabama GOP primary

From CNN’s Eric Bradner

Former President Donald Trump looks on during the Alabama Republican Party’s 2023 Summer meeting at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel on August 4, 2023 in Montgomery, Alabama. Julie Bennett/Getty Images

Donald Trump will win Alabama’s Republican primary, CNN projects, taking another step toward locking down the party’s presidential nomination for the third consecutive election.

The former president defeated former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, his lone remaining challenger.

There were 50 delegates to the Republican National Convention at stake in Alabama’s GOP primary.

The state’s nine electoral college votes are a near-lock for Republicans in November. Trump defeated President Joe Biden there by more than 25 percentage points in 2020.

19 hr 20 min ago

RNC resolutions that would have potentially slowed Trump takeover are dead

From CNN's Kit Maher

Two resolutions circulating within the Republican National Committee that aimed to ensure the committee maintained neutrality and would have barred it from paying former President Donald Trump’s personal legal bills are dead, the bills' sponsor confirmed to CNN.

“For us to bring the legal bill resolution before the full RNC committee, we had to have two of the three RNC members from 10 states as cosponsors,” Henry Barbour, Republican national committeeman from Mississippi, said in a phone interview Tuesday. “We only had eight states cosponsoring the resolution, so we missed the deadline.” The deadline was today.

Barbour added that the neutrality resolution was given up about a week ago. It would have ensured that the RNC and its leadership maintain neutrality "and not take on additional staff from any of the Presidential campaigns until a nominee is clearly determined by reaching 1,215 delegates," according to drafts previously obtained by CNN.

"We’ve made our point," Barbour said. "The RNC has to be neutral in primaries according to longstanding party rules. In essence, we were saying that the Trump campaign was trying to change the rules in the middle of the game by declaring the primary was over after only two states voted."

The second resolution would have barred the RNC from paying the legal bills of “either former president Donald Trump or former Ambassador Nikki Haley unrelated to this 2024 Presidential election," per the drafts.

Remember: Trump has been hit with more than half a billion dollars in legal penalties in recent weeks in two civil cases. He also faces 91 charges in four other criminal cases.

19 hr 43 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Arkansas Democratic primary

From CNN’s Eric Bradner

President Joe Biden will win the Arkansas Democratic primary, CNN projects, moving closer to clinching the party’s 2024 presidential nod.

There were 31 delegates at stake in Arkansas’ primary.

Republicans are strongly favored to carry Arkansas’ 6 electoral college votes in November — something every GOP presidential nominee has done since home-state former Democratic governor Bill Clinton was last on the ballot in 1996.

But Arkansas was part of Biden’s big Super Tuesday in 2020, when he won the state by 18 percentage points and took a big step toward winning the Democratic nomination.

19 hr 43 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Arkansas GOP primary

From CNN’s Eric Bradner

Former President Donald Trump will win the Arkansas Republican primary, CNN projects, carrying a state where his former White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is now governor.

Trump defeated former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in a state where 40 delegates to the Republican National Convention were on the line.

It was another win in a contested Arkansas GOP presidential primary for Trump, who in 2016 narrowly defeated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by just 2.3 percentage points.

19 hr 44 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Maine GOP primary

From CNN’s Gregory Krieg

Donald Trump will win the Maine Republican presidential primary, CNN projects, again defeating Nikki Haley as he nears clinching the GOP nomination.

There were 20 delegates at stake in Maine tonight.

Who won in 2016 and 2020: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won in 2016; Trump in 2020.

19 hr 44 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Texas Democratic primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

President Joe Biden will win the Texas Democratic primary, CNN projects.

There were 244 pledged delegates at stake in the primary.

In 2020, Biden also won the state’s Democratic primary.

19 hr 44 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Texas GOP primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Trendsetter Engineering Inc. on November 2, 2023 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump will win the Texas Republican primary, CNN projects, as he moves toward clinching his party’s nomination for the third presidential cycle in a row.

There were 161 delegates at stake in the primary.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Ted Cruz won their respective primaries in Texas.

19 hr 44 min ago

CNN Projection: Sen. Cruz will win Texas GOP primary

From CNN staff

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a news conference on the US Southern Border at the US Capitol on February 6 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Sen. Ted Cruz will win the Texas Senate GOP primary, CNN projects.

19 hr 43 min ago

It's 9 p.m. ET and polls are closing in Colorado, Minnesota and Texas

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

It's 9 p.m. ET, which means polls are beginning to close across Colorado, Texas and Minnesota.

• In Colorado, there are 37 Republican delegates and 72 Democratic delegates at stake. Long known as a swing state, Colorado has settled into the blue column for the past four presidential elections. The Denver and Boulder areas in central Colorado are the biggest Democratic strongholds in the state. Republicans perform better south of Denver in the area around Colorado Springs.The eastern and western borders of the state are also generally more Republican, with some liberal areas like some ski resort towns in the west.

• And in Texas, there are 161 Republican delegates and 244 Democratic delegates on the line. Republicans have carried Texas in each of the last 11 presidential elections. However, the state has gotten more competitive in recent years. Democrats perform well in the state’s urban centers and have historically done well in the heavily Hispanic areas along the Mexican border, but that area has moved to the right in recent years and as the state diversifies, Republicans hope to win more support from Hispanics.

• As for Minnesota, there are 39 Republican delegates and 75 Democratic delegates at stake. Democratic support in Minnesota is generally based around the state’s biggest urban areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Rochester and Duluth. The Iron Range in the northeast corner of the state is also historically Democratic, but Republicans have had more success there in recent years. Most of the other rural areas of the state garner more Republican support.

19 hr 48 min ago

Haley is behind closed doors tonight as Trump urges surrogates to amp up pressure on her to drop out

From CNN's Kaitlan Collins and Kylie Atwood

Nikki Haley is watching the returns with her political team in the Charleston, South Carolina area, as some of her fellow Republicans in the state ramp up calls for her to drop out and unite behind Donald Trump. The former president has urged surrogates to say as much in television appearances and on X, one person familiar tells CNN.

The former South Carolina governor has no planned public appearances tonight, a stark contrast to her schedule on every other election night when she has delivered public remarks. Haley's team has made clear they were focused on tonight and declined to say what's ahead for her campaign.

When Haley was asked earlier today on Fox whether she would exit the race and back Trump if she continues to trail him in Tuesday’s contests, Haley said, "If I were to get out of the race, it would still be the longest presidential general election in history...I don't know why everybody is so adamant that they have to follow Trump's lead to get me out of this race."

19 hr 55 min ago

A flurry of polls closed in the last hour. Get up to speed on where things stand

From CNN staff

A voter enters a polling site for the presidential primary election at the town office on Tuesday evening in Elmore, Vermont. David Goldman/AP

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are projected to win in battleground states as they both aim to pick up delegates on Super Tuesday and clinch their party’s nomination.

Catch up on what is going on:

Polls that are now closed: Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas.

Coming up next: Polls in Colorado, Minnesota, and Texas are the next to close at 9 p.m. ET. After that, California and Utah polls will close at 11 p.m. ET and in Alaska at 12 a.m. ET.

Projected winners:

• Biden: Iowa Democratic mail-in caucus, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maine and Massachusetts Democratic primaries

• Trump: Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee Republican primaries

• Other key races: Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will face each other in the North Carolina governor's race, CNN projects.

Estimated delegates won to date: Remember, it takes 1,215 of 2,429 delegates to win the Republican nomination and 1,968 of 3,934 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Republican:

• Trump: 411

• Nikki Haley: 46

Democrat:

• Biden: 558

• Uncommitted: 2

Frontrunners are looking to November: Biden and Trump agree that the general election campaign is finally underway and dramatically accelerating this week. For Biden and the White House, “it can’t come soon enough,” in the words of one top adviser. Meantime, the Trump campaign intends to keep making this race “all about Biden,” an adviser said

What about Nikki Haley: The GOP candidate is not planning to make any public remarks tonight and she has not promised to keep her campaign alive after today’s results have been tallied. Haley has repeatedly said she has not thought beyond Super Tuesday, citing the importance of allowing voters in more than a dozen states that vote today to have their voices heard.

19 hr 55 min ago

Key race alert: Trump leads Vermont by only one vote

Donald Trump maintains his lead in Vermont, but only by one vote.

With 33% of the vote counted so far in the state, the former president currently has 10,992 votes, while his GOP challenger Nikki Haley has 10,991.

19 hr 42 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Massachusetts Democratic primary

From CNN’s Arit John

President Joe Biden will win the Massachusetts Democratic primary, CNN projects.

There were 92 pledged delegates at stake in Massachusetts tonight.

Who won in 2020: Biden won the Democratic primary.

20 hr 2 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Maine Democratic primary

President Joe Biden speaks about "Bidenomics" at Auburn Manufacturing Inc., in Auburn, Maine, on July 28, 2023. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

President Joe Biden will win Maine’s Democratic primary, CNN projects, as he closes in on a general election race with former President Donald Trump.

There were 24 pledged delegates at stake in Maine tonight.

Who won in 2016 and 2020: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won in 2016; Biden in 2020.

19 hr 48 min ago

There have only been 5 Black governors in US history. Not everyone is celebrating the man who could be 6th

Analysis from CNN's Zachary Wolf

Something historic could be brewing in North Carolina, where Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is projected to win the GOP gubernatorial primary.

Robinson, if he wins in November, would be the first Black Republican elected as governor in the United States — and one of only a handful of Black governors in US history.

Two of the Black governors were not elected. Gov. David Paterson, who served from 2008 to 2010 in New York, and Gov. Pinckney Pinchback, who served for a little over a month as governor of Louisiana in 1872 and 1873, were elevated to office after their predecessors resigned or were driven out

Just three Black men have ever been elected governor. The first of those was Gov. Douglas Wilder, elected in Virginia in 1990. Decades later, there was Gov. Deval Patrick, who served two terms in Massachusetts from 2007 until 2015. Finally, Gov. Wes Moore was elected in Maryland in 2022. Pinchback, who assumed the office in Louisiana during Reconstruction, was a Republican, but the four Black governors in the last three decades have been Democrats.

Robinson's campaign is controversial, however, since he has a history of saying controversial things, such as last year when he mocked survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, or when he referred to "homosexuality" as "filth." He has also compared abortion to slavery, although when it was revealed that he paid for his girlfriend, now wife, to have an abortion, he said that experience informed his current anti-abortion stance. CNN's Gregory Krieg has a more in-depth story about Robinson's controversial comments.

People who would normally be applauding the idea of another Black governor are opposed to Robinson.

"The idea you could have another elected Black governor, the first one for the Republican party... should have me excited, but I am depressed and distress and sad because he says horrifically bad stuff," CNN political commentator Van Jones, responding to Robinson's primary win.

19 hr 22 min ago

Trump dominates the GOP primaries, despite being the non-incumbent candidate

Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican primaries in every state, despite being the non-incumbent, CNN's Jake Tapper noted Tuesday night, which has not happened in modern presidential politics.

CNN projects Trump will win North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia, so far this Super Tuesday.

"People did jump into the race to run against him. There was a whole field. You might remember Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, people thought he was going to dominate. No, the dominant politician on the Republican side is Donald Trump and to give the man his due: He has won — with the exception of Washington, DC — he's won every contest," Tapper said.

Tapper also said that the ratio of delegates Trump winning tonight is 99 delegates to every one delegate Nikki Haley is winning.

CNN projects Trump will win North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia, so far this Super Tuesday.

19 hr 58 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Tennessee GOP primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

Fmer President Donald Trump will win Tennessee, CNN projects, as he marches toward clinching the GOP nomination.

There were 58 delegates at stake in the Republican primary.

In 2016, Trump and Hillary Clinton won their respective primaries in the state.

20 hr 14 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Tennessee Democratic primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

President Joe Biden will win the Tennessee Democratic primary, CNN projects, as he glides toward securing his party’s 2024 nomination.

There were 63 delegates at stake in the primary tonight.

In 2020, Biden also won the state's Democratic primary.

20 hr 15 min ago

It's 8:30 p.m. ET and polls are closing in Arkansas. Here's what you should know

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

A voter heads into the Central Methodist Church to cast their ballot on Tuesday in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Michael Woods/AP

It's 8:30 p.m. ET and polls are closing in Arkansas, where there are 40 Republican delegates and 31 Democratic delegates at stake.

In the 30 years since former President Bill Clinton’s last term as governor, Arkansas has become a thoroughly Republican state. Republicans have complete control of state government and make up the entirety of the state’s congressional delegation.

However, the state used to have a bipartisan streak in its federal representation. Prior to 2015, Arkansas hadn’t been represented by two Republican senators since the 1870s.

20 hr 16 min ago

House Democrats split over contentious California Senate race

From CNN's Melanie Zanona, Haley Talbot and Sam Fossum

Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff ride during the 53rd Annual San Francisco Pride Parade and Celebration at San Francisco Civic Center on June 25, 2023 in San Francisco. Miikka Skaffari/WireImage/Getty Images

House Democrats are divided over California’s Senate race — which has pitted several congressional Democrats against one another.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNN she was out campaigning for her close ally Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff this weekend and has been making calls today on his behalf trying to get out the vote. Schiff has secured endorsements from a number of California Democrats, including Reps. Eric Swalwell and Pete Aguilar.

"Congress overwhelming is for him. He’s a great person. And with all due respect to the other candidates they are lovely — they’re talented and fabulous — but he is the one,” Pelosi said.

But Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), is backing fellow CPC member Barbara Lee, who is the only black candidate in the race. California Reps. Maxine Waters and Ro Khanna have also endorsed Lee.

Meanwhile, Rep. Katie Porter – also a CPC member — has picked up endorsements from Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Robert Garcia of California.

More on the race: In California, the top two vote getters, regardless of party, will advance. That means that if the Republican candidate Steve Garvey finishes in the top two, it would box out two of the Democrat candidates this fall. Schiff has heavily attacked his GOP opponent in his campaign, which some Democrats have complained has effectively elevated Garvey.

20 hr 21 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Oklahoma GOP primary

From CNN’s Arit John

Former President Donald Trump will win the Oklahoma Republican primary, CNN projects.

There were 43 delegates at stake in Oklahoma tonight.

20 hr 21 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win Oklahoma Democratic primary

From CNN’s Arit John

President Joe Biden will win the Oklahoma Democratic primary, CNN projects.

There were 36 pledged delegates at stake in Oklahoma tonight.

Who won in 2020: Biden won the Democratic primary.

20 hr 21 min ago

CNN Projection: Democrat Stein and Republican Robinson will face off in North Carolina governor’s race

From CNN’s Greg Krieg

Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein. AP

Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein will face each other in North Carolina governor's race, CNN projects.

More context: Despite their total control of the state legislature, Republicans have been locked out of the governor’s office since Roy Cooper was elected to the first of two terms in 2016, on the same day that Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president. Cooper cannot run again due to term limits, paving the way for Stein – his predecessor as state attorney general – to seek North Carolina’s highest office.

20 hr 31 min ago

Biden's campaign is watching "gettable" Haley voters tonight

From CNN's MJ Lee

One thing the Biden campaign is watching very closely tonight: The “gettable” Nikki Haley voters.

Biden campaign officials told CNN that they are very interested in data points coming in from various states that show significant portions of Haley supporters who say that either that they would not vote for Trump in November, or are at the very least unwilling to say they’ll support whoever the GOP nominee is in the fall.

Those voters, the Biden campaign said, are their “gettable” and “turned off by Trump” voters.

Trump is not doing himself any favors, the Biden campaign believes, by continuing to be divisive and corrosive in his rhetoric – something the Biden campaign has been eager to highlight at every opportunity.

As CNN has reported, the president himself has directly ordered his top campaign aides to be much more aggressive in highlighting Trump’s most unhinged and erratic comments.

20 hr 44 min ago

It's 8 p.m. ET and polls are closing in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

Gregory Hackler votes at a polling station at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Caitie McMekin/Knoxville News-Sentinel/USA Today Network

It's now 8 p.m. ET and polls are closing in five states: Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

• In Alabama, 50 Republican delegates and 52 Democratic delegates are at stake. Once part of the solid Democratic South, Alabama has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1976. Democrats had a lock on the Alabama governorship for more than 100 years – from the 1870s to 1987. Republicans have held the governorship since 2003.

• Then in Maine, there are 20 Republican delegates and 24 Democratic delegates on the line. Maine was once a Republican stronghold but now has a strong independent streak. Democrats run best in the more heavily populated, urban areas in the state’s southern region. Republican candidates tend to run up large margins in the more sparsely-populated northern part of the state.

• In Massachusetts, there are 40 Republican delegates and 92 Democratic delegates at stake. No Republican has carried Massachusetts in a presidential election since 1984, and Democrats occupy all the seats in the state’s congressional delegation.

• In Oklahoma, there are 43 Republican delegates and 36 Democratic delegates up for grabs. Oklahoma City is the least Republican area of Oklahoma. Even though Donald Trump was able to win Oklahoma County, where the capital is located, his margin in 2020 was incredibly small: less than 3,400 votes.

• Tennessee has 58 Republican delegates and 63 Democratic delegates at stake. The Volunteer State only has Joe Biden as a candidate on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. Despite a deep history of political divide that dates back to the Civil War, Tennessee has begun to mirror other deep red southern states with Democratic strength limited almost exclusively to major cities: especially Memphis and Nashville, which is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country. Republicans perform better in the suburbs and then run up the score in more rural areas. Democrats also have some strength in the smaller cities of Knoxville, home to the University of Tennessee, and Chattanooga.

20 hr 36 min ago

Why North Carolina will remain a key state for both Biden and Trump well past Super Tuesday

From CNN's Steve Contorno and Jeff Zeleny

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Chris Carlson/AP

Of all the states that voted Tuesday, North Carolina stands out as the one most likely to remain a hotbed for political activity long after tonight.

For Donald Trump, already looking ahead to a potential rematch with President Joe Biden, his weekend visit ahead of Super Tuesday was likely the first of many visits to North Carolina as he seeks a third consecutive win in this key battleground. Both candidates were projected to win their respective primaries in the state tonight.

North Carolina, which Trump narrowly won in 2020, is emerging as a critical piece of Biden’s reelection strategy. The president’s advisers view its 16 electoral votes as not only attainable, considering the state’s changing demographics, but also as something of an insurance policy, given challenges in Michigan and other battleground states.

"North Carolina is going to be very competitive for both sides, and no one will be able to take it for granted," said Paul Shumaker, a veteran operative behind many of the GOP’s statewide victories in recent years. "It’s going to be in a constant state of flux."

Leading into Super Tuesday, the weekend visits from the former president, Haley and Vice President Kamala Harris underscore the increasing importance of North Carolina on the electoral map.

It has been 16 years since Barack Obama delivered a North Carolina surprise in 2008. That lonely victory — the first and only time a Democratic presidential candidate has carried the state in nearly five decades — offers less of a nostalgic enticement for Biden’s campaign than the potential for true opportunity because of fast-growing suburban areas in Wake County around Raleigh, Mecklenburg County outside Charlotte, and a handful of other cities.

Read more about why North Carolina is critical in the 2024 election cycle.

20 hr 42 min ago

Results continue to roll in from Super Tuesday states. Catch up on where things stand

From CNN staff

A Super Tuesday voter takes an "I Voted" sticker at Alexandria City Hall on Tuesday 5 in Alexandria, Virginia. Kevin Wolf/AP

Results continue to come in as polls close in some states across the country. More than one-third of the total delegates in both the GOP and Democratic primaries are at stake in contests in more than a dozen states.

Polls have already closed in Vermont, Virginia and North Carolina.

Here are the projected winners so far:

• President Joe Biden: Iowa Democratic mail-in caucus, Vermont, Virginia and North Carolina Democratic primaries

• Former President Donald Trump: Virginia and North Carolina Republican primaries

• Other key races: Republican Mark Robinson is projected to win North Carolina’s GOP governor primary. It is the nation’s most closely watched gubernatorial race. Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s attorney general, is the other party’s front-runner to advance to November, though that race has not been projected yet.

What’s coming next: More results are expected as Super Tuesday heads into its busiest hour of the night.

• 8 p.m. ET: Final polls in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Tennessee

• 8:30 p.m. ET: Polls close in Arkansas and Democratic caucuses end in American Samoa

• 9 p.m. ET: Polls close in Colorado, Minnesota and Texas

What the exit polls are saying: Nearly two-thirds of North Carolina primary voters say that they’d consider former President Donald Trump fit for the presidency if he’s convicted of a crime, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of Republican primary voters. Slightly over half of GOP primary voters in Virginia said the same.

Big picture: As Donald Trump’s team expects him to cruise through Super Tuesday, the former president is hoping to extinguish any hope for GOP challenger Nikki Haley’s campaign. Biden isn’t facing any major competition, but he's looking for a strong showing as he gears up for a possible rematch with Trump in November. His campaign announced the strongest month of grassroots fundraising in February.

This post has been updated with additional poll closing times.

21 hr 3 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win the Vermont Democratic primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

President Joe Biden will win the Democratic primary in Vermont, CNN projects.

There were 16 pledged delegates at stake in the primary.

In 2020, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic contest. Biden came in second place.

20 hr 36 min ago

Trump meets with Elon Musk amid fundraising concerns

From CNN's Kaitlan Collins

Elon Musk arrives for the “AI Insight Forum” outside the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump is watching the returns Tuesday night with his political team after spending the weekend hosting donors at Mar-a-Lago in Florida as he seeks to raise more money and is deeply concerned about his finances.

He also met with Elon Musk in recent days, a source familiar tells CNN, though it's not clear whether the Tesla CEO plans to donate to Trump.

The meeting with Musk was first reported by the New York Times.

Nikki Haley has no public appearances tonight while Trump has invited hundreds of his supporters, donors and elected officials to his Mar-a-Lago club — a Super Tuesday of contrasts for the remaining GOP presidential contenders.

21 hr 1 min ago

Biden campaign sends out fundraising push as polls begin to close in some states

From CNN's Donald Judd

Attendees hold signs during a reproductive freedom campaign rally with US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia, on Tuesday, January 23. Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg/Getty Images

As primary polls begin to close in some states, President Joe Biden's campaign is already looking to the general election and asking donors to chip in to help fight against an “onslaught of attacks,” from former President Donald Trump’s campaign.

“This month, thousands and thousands of people from across the country have contributed to help reelect Joe Biden and keep Donald Trump out of the White House,” the campaign wrote in an appeal to supporters Tuesday evening. “But here’s the thing: Today is Super Tuesday, and Trump is now closer than ever to securing the official nomination.”

The email, which the campaign blasted out just minutes after polls in Virginia and Vermont closed at 7 p.m. ET, warns that “Trump and his MAGA extremism is a threat to our democracy, and we must do everything we can to defeat him.”

But it also offers a glimpse into how the Biden campaign has largely approached the GOP field since January’s New Hampshire GOP primary, when campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez announced Trump “has all but locked up the GOP nomination,” before turning the campaign’s attention to the former president and the general election in November.

20 hr 41 min ago

CNN Projection: Robinson will win North Carolina GOP gubernatorial nomination

From CNN’s Greg Krieg

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday in Greensboro, North Carolina. Chris Carlson/AP

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will win the Republican nomination for governor, CNN projects, setting up a general election campaign in the Tar Heel State that could mirror the anticipated presidential matchup in a crucial 2024 battleground.

Robinson defeated two other candidates to get the party’s nod.

Endorsed by former President Donald Trump on the eve of the primary, Robinson has been the state’s second-ranked executive since 2021, serving under (and in opposition to) term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Robinson will slide comfortably onto a ticket with Trump in November. A fierce supporter of gun rights and abortion bans, he has also faced accusations of dabbling in antisemitic, misogynist and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

Read more about the North Carolina governor's race.

20 hr 48 min ago

CNN Projection: Biden will win North Carolina Democratic primary

From CNN’s Arit John

President Joe Biden speaks on his economic plan for the country at Abbot's Creek Community Center on January 18 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Eros Hoagland/Getty Images

Former President Joe Biden will win the North Carolina Democratic primary, CNN projects.

There were 116 pledged delegates at stake in North Carolina tonight.

Who won in 2020: Biden won the Democratic primary.

21 hr 15 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win North Carolina GOP primary

From CNN’s Arit John

Former President Donald Trump arrives during a "Get Out The Vote" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday, March 2. Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump will win the North Carolina GOP primary, CNN projects.

There were 74 delegates at stake in North Carolina tonight.

21 hr 14 min ago

It is 7:30 p.m. ET and polls are closing across North Carolina

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

Super Tuesday voters leave a polling location Tuesday, March 5, in Mount Holly, North Carolina. Chris Carlson/AP

It is 7:30 p.m. ET and polls are closing across North Carolina. There are 74 GOP delegates and 116 Democratic delegates at stake.

Unaffiliated voters can vote in either primary. Voters affiliated with a party can only vote in that primary.

The state's political landscape: Republicans have carried North Carolina in 10 of the last 12 presidential elections. Former President Donald Trump eked out a victory in North Carolina in 2020, winning the state with 49.9% of the vote to Joe Biden’s 48.6%.

Democrats generally run best in the Piedmont urban counties, which have sizable Black voting blocs and large numbers of young professionals, especially in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle. The state’s rural counties are largely Republican, besides some northeastern counties with large Black populations. The western mountains also support Republicans – although Buncombe County, home to Asheville, stands out as a dot of blue. Mecklenburg County, home to Charlotte, the state’s largest city, has undergone a political shift.

17 hr 14 min ago

Election will come down to comparison between Trump and Biden's presidential records, Sen. Warren says

From CNN's Kit Maher

Sen. Elizabeth Warren. CNN

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the general election will ultimately come down to “a comparison” between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump’s records as president.

Even though Nikki Haley is still battling former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary, Super Tuesday is expected to bring him closer to locking down the nomination.

“It’s gonna just be a comparison. We're already there, and we're going to have two people who both have been president and who will have records to run on,” Warren said.

Warren said she hopes Biden takes the State of the Union on Thursday as an opportunity to communicate directly with the American people about what he has achieved in the last three years.

Asked about the warning signs facing Biden’s reelection campaign when it comes to rebuilding the progressive coalition and those voting “uncommitted” in Michigan's presidential primary due to his role in Israel’s war in Gaza, Warren said there are things that must be done right now to move toward permanent peace in the region.

“We need those hostages returned. We need a ceasefire. We need to open up, so that there is plenty of humanitarian aid flowing in and we need to push leadership so that it's moving toward a permanent peace. That is a two-state solution,” Warren said.

21 hr 11 min ago

Trump and Biden have their eyes on North Carolina — and Haley voters

From CNN's Jeff Zeleny

The campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden have their sights set on a similar target: Nikki Haley supporters.

And fewer places are being studied closer than the fast-growing suburbs around Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The votes for Haley hold important lessons — perhaps less so for her candidacy than for Trump, Biden — or even a third-party candidate. Can Trump win back those supporters?

The Biden campaign has already sent a team to North Carolina. An office is opening soon in Raleigh, with others to open in the coming weeks and months.

It’s been 16 years since Barack Obama won the state — the last Democrat to do so — but Trump’s margin narrowed to just over 1 point in 2020 from more than 3 points in 2016.

The Biden campaign dismisses the notion that North Carolina is an insurance policy — if Michigan or other battlegrounds become more challenging — but the 16 electoral votes may be at the center of election night in November.

21 hr 14 min ago

How Virginia's political landscape has favored Democrats in recent years

From CNN's Ethan Cohen and Molly English

Virginia is among the several states that held elections on Super Tuesday. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are projected to win their respective primaries in the state and pick up more delegates in their quest for their party's nomination.

Both candidates will also be looking for clues about how the general election could shape up in November.

Here's a look at the state's political landscape:

• Democrats have won every presidential election in Virginia since Barack Obama became the first Democrat in 2008 to carry the state since 1964.

• Democratic victories in the state usually rely on strong support from the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, and the Tidewater region around Norfolk and Newport News.

• Democrats also rely on support from Richmond’s sizable Black population. Overall, Black voters made up 28% of the electorate in the 2020 Virginia Democratic primary, and 69% of them supported Biden.

• Of the GOP electorate, 32% in 2016 identified as “very conservative” and 40% identified as “somewhat conservative.” Trump won both groups with 36% and 39%, respectively.

Virginia has an open primary, which means registered voters can participate in either party's election.

14 hr 33 min ago

CNN Projection: Trump will win Virginia GOP primary

From CNN’s Daniel Strauss

Former President Donald Trump reacts to supporters as he arrives on stage during a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2 in Richmond, Virginia. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump will win the Virginia Republican primary, CNN projects.

There were 48 delegates at stake in this primary.

In 2016, Trump and Hillary Clinton won their respective contests in the Virginia primary.

21 hr 15 min ago

Republicans will host a Trump fundraiser in DC tomorrow as he looms large on Capitol Hill

From CNN's Melanie Zanona

Over 100 Republican lawmakers are co-hosting a fundraiser for former President Donald Trump in Washington DC tomorrow night – a day after Super Tuesday and on the eve of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

It’s the latest example of how Trump has loomed over just about everything inside the GOP on Capitol Hill.

On the legislative front, Trump effectively killed a bipartisan border deal and has encouraged Republicans to reject a foreign aid package.

On internal leadership races, Trump helped tank Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s speakership bid and may have some influence in the race to replace GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. Trump has encouraged Sen. Steve Daines to run for the job, while others have given Trump a heads up before announcing leadership bids: Sen. John Cornyn said he called Trump before announcing his plans to run for leader, and Sen. John Barrasso told CNN he called Trump this morning ahead of announcing his run for Republican whip.

And on congressional races, the heads of both the Senate and House campaign arms have sought to ensure alignment between Trump and some of their candidates. Speaker Mike Johnson and NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson recently trekked to Mar-a-Lago to lobby Trump to endorse some Republicans in key primaries.

“He’s gonna be the next president of the United States. I need to have a good relationship with him,” Hudson told CNN.

21 hr 27 min ago

Alabama and North Carolina are holding key down-ballot races after dramatic redistricting in recent months

From CNN's Fredreka Schouten

Some voters in North Carolina and Alabama are selecting US House candidates Tuesday in contests dramatically reshaped by congressional redistricting in recent months.

Here's what to know about the contests:

Legal confrontations lead to new Alabama lines: In a legal confrontation that drew national attention to Alabama, a federal court approved a new congressional map last year that gives the state’s African American residents – who make up about 27% of the population – the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice in a second House district.

The contest has drawn 18 candidates — 11 Democrats and seven Republicans. Given racial voting patterns in the state, political observers say a Democrat is likely to prevail in the fall and a Black candidate could emerge as the victor. Most of the Democrats seeking the nomination are African American, as are several of the Republican contenders.

The court-ordered redistricting has also thrown two Republican incumbents – Reps. Jerry Carl and Barry Moore – into the first member-versus-member primary of the 2024 election. Moore currently represents the 2nd District. Both men were first elected to Congress in 2020 and have sought to position themselves as the true conservative in the contest.

Reps. Jerry Carl and Barry Moore. US House of Representatives

North Carolina’s open seats draw multiple contenders: The five open seats in the Tar Heel State have attracted a raft of Republican contenders. Fourteen candidates, for instance, are running in the GOP primary for exiting Rep. Wiley Nickel’s redrawn 13th District seat. Multiple candidates also are vying for the open seats now held by exiting Democratic Reps. Kathy Manning and Jeff Jackson, who is running for state attorney general.

Read more about the primaries in Alabama and North Carolina.

21 hr 18 min ago

As Utah prepares to caucus — some factors could help Haley

From CNN's Brian Todd

The caucus sites in Utah are getting ready to open — on a night, and in a state, where Nikki Haley could see one of her best showings to date.

It’s still an uphill battle for her to win the Utah Caucuses, but there are some factors that are helping. The Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has said he likes Haley as a candidate — though he’s not formally endorsed her.

Meanwhile, the governor's wife, Abby Cox, and Utah’s Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, have endorsed Haley.

The years-long animus between Donald Trump and Sen. Mitt Romney could also pull Utah voters away from the former president. And Trump has previously received less support in Utah than he has in other red states. He lost the 2016 Utah Caucuses, handily, to Ted Cruz.

Another interesting dynamic tonight will be the physical turnout at the caucus sites. A former Republican state chair told CNN, the state Republican Party opted to return to a caucus format this year, in order to spark more in-person voter turnout.

In 2020, the Republicans held it as a primary, with only mail-in voting.

At the caucus site at Alta High School in Sandy, 32 precincts will be holding caucuses in 32 different rooms. People arrive and check in at 6 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. ET). The caucusing starts at 7 p.m. local (9 p.m. ET). The vote counting starts at 8 p.m. local time (10 p.m. ET).

21 hr 29 min ago

Trump's influence on down ballot races in Texas remains a question

From CNN's Ed Lavandera

At one of the busiest polling sites in East El Paso, Texas, a vast majority of Republicans are saying they are sticking with former President Donald Trump.

This Super Tuesday's primary comes as the Texas Republican Party finds itself in a civil war. Trump has injected himself into a number of state legislative races. There are tense divisions between the Bush-era Republicans, which Nikki Haley represents, and the Trump MAGA wing.

So, the question tonight will be just how much influence does Trump have over down ballot Texas Republicans.

Immigration is also a key issue Republican voters keep bringing up. It will be interesting to see how Republicans perform with Latino voters in border communities and how Trump performs with suburban voters in the biggest urban areas.

Finally, El Paso is a heavily Democratic stronghold where a large number of Democratic voters are casting ballots for President Joe Biden, but the enthusiasm level is way down.

In fact, early voting turnout is down almost 3% statewide and that is almost entirely on the Democratic side of the vote.

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Trump, Biden sweep Super Tuesday, Nikki Haley suspends campaign

Super Tuesday's results solidified Trump's hold on the Republican presidential nomination, and Nikki Haley announced Wednesday that she is suspending her campaign. That sets up a rematch between Biden and Trump.

Covered by: Paul Steinhauser, Brandon Gillespie, Kyle Morris, Andrew Mark Miller, Emily Robertson, Aubrie Spady, Matteo Cina, Gabriele Regalbuto, Anders Hagstrom, Michael Lee, Adam Shaw, Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News Decision Desk and Chris Pandolfo

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FAST FACTS:

• This year, 15 states voted on Super Tuesday: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. One territory, American Samoa, will also vote in Democratic caucuses.

• President Biden and former President Trump are the resounding frontrunners after Super Tuesday for a November 2024 rematch. Trump lost the Vermont primary to Nikki Haley, and Biden lost one contest (American Samoa caucuses) to a virtually unknown contender, Jason Palmer.

• The results of the Democratic contest in Iowa, which was being held by mail over several weeks, were also released. (Iowa Republicans held their caucuses in mid-January).

• All states are the same except for Alaska (GOP only), and Iowa (results from Dem mail-in vote only). American Samoa will only hold Democratic caucuses on Tuesday.

• Total delegates at stake on Super Tuesday is now 854 for the GOP (or about 35% of the total delegates on offer) and 1,420 for Dems.

• While most polls will close around 7 or 8 p.m., the official primary and caucus results won't be announced immediately for most states.

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5 hour(s) ago

Super Tuesday is over, what's next?

TOPSHOT - (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 04, 2020 shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (L) in Wilmington, Delaware, and US President Donald Trump (R) in Washington, DC both pumping their fist during an election night speech early November 4, 2020. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS,MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The 2024 presidential election is all but set with Democrat President Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump emerging from Super Tuesday as the presumptive nominees of their respective parties.

Republican candidate Nikki Haley dropped out of the GOP primary on Wednesday morning after winning just one state, Vermont, out of the 15 primary contests that took place Tuesday. She was the last remaining serious primary challenger to Trump. Biden has repeatedly trounced his primary challengers and does not face a serious threat to re-nomination on the Democratic side.

Barring withdrawal for reasons of health or age, Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, will be formally nominated at the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer.

The Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee from July 15-18, 2024. The Democratic National Convention will take place a month later in Chicago, from August 19-22.

After convention delegates select each party's nominee, the general election campaign will begin in earnest as Trump and Biden face off in a 2020 rematch. Election Day is Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

5 hour(s) ago

Super Tuesday is over, what's next?

Barring withdrawal for reasons of health or age, Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, will be formally nominated at the Republican and Democratic national conventions this summer.

The Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee from July 15-18, 2024. The Democratic National Convention will take place a month later in Chicago, from August 19-22.

After convention delegates select each party's nominee, the general election campaign will begin in earnest as Trump and Biden face off in a 2020 rematch. Election Day is Tuesday, November 5, 2024.

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

5 hour(s) ago

Marianne Williamson surprises by coming in second in multiple states, leapfrogging Dean Phillips

Marianne Williamson surprised Democratic insiders by coming in second behind President Biden in multiple states.

Williamson unsuspended her Democratic primary campaign on Wednesday after coming in second ahead of Biden challenger Rep. Dean Phillips in Michigan.

She managed to score second place in multiple states on Super Tuesday, including Arkansas, California, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Vermont.

While Williamson failed to scoop up any delegates — and Biden dominated every election except American Samoa — her performance shows a notable base of support compared to Phillips.

Williamson made the announcement in a video statement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Williamson said she returned to the race because she believes Biden is a vulnerable candidate to put up against former President Donald Trump.

Williamson has amassed an enthusiastic following on social media, something she believes can translate into real votes as she seeks to unseat Biden in the party's primary.

"American politics is very unpredictable," Williamson told Fox News Digital. "That's part of what makes it exciting and what makes it kind of challenging at times. If you're running, you run to win. You run to get your ideas out in front of the voters."

Fox News Digital's Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

6 hour(s) ago

'Uncommitted' protest vote against Biden draws tens of thousands on Super Tuesday

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 5: President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden announced new economic measures during the meeting. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Tens of thousands of Super Tuesday voters sent a message to President Biden, after they chose to mark "uncommitted" on their ballots over voting for him.

With 99% of the expected votes counted in Minnesota, nearly 1 in 3 voters backed someone other than the president, with nearly 46,000 voters, or nearly 19% of Democrats, marking their ballots "uncommitted," or willfully deciding not to back any named candidate, to protest his support for Israel.

The sizable protest vote in Minnesota extended to six other states — Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee — where tens of thousands of voters also refused to support Biden, undoubtedly raising questions for his re-election campaign.

The votes come just a week after Arab American and Muslim community leaders in Michigan, home to one of the largest Muslim communities in the U.S., urged voters not to support Biden.

Progressive groups have backed the "uncommitted" vote to protest Biden's support for Israel and its continued war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, which has resulted in millions of Palestinians becoming displaced from their homes and the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians.

The "uncommitted" option appeared on the Democratic ballot in six other Super Tuesday states, and each took a chunk of support away from the president.

In Alabama, over 11,000 voters, or roughly 6%, voted for "uncommitted." The option collected the second-most votes in the state.

In Colorado, over 43,000 voters, or roughly 8% of the vote, marked "Noncommitted Delegate" on the ballot.

In Iowa, 4% of the total vote backed "Uncommitted."

In Massachusetts, over 54,000 voters, or just under 10%, backed "No Preference."

In North Carolina, a whopping 88,000 voters, or nearly 13%, backed "No Preference."

Finally, in Tennessee, approximately 10,450 voters, or nearly 8%, voted "Uncommitted."

Fox News Digital's Lawrence Richard contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

BREAKING NEWS6 hour(s) ago

McConnell endorses Trump for president

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is seen outside the Senate Chamber in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2024. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell, R-Ky., endorsed former President Donald Trump for president Wednesday after Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican primary.

In a statement, McConnell acknowledged that Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and said "it should come as no surprise" that he will support Trump to win in November.

"It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States. It should come as no surprise that as nominee, he will have my support," McConnell said.

"During his Presidency, we worked together to accomplish great things for the American people including tax reform that supercharged our economy and a generational change of our federal judiciary — most importantly, the Supreme Court. I look forward to the opportunity of switching from playing defense against the terrible policies the Biden administration has pursued to a sustained offense geared towards making a real difference in improving the lives of the American people."

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

BREAKING NEWS6 hour(s) ago

Biden salutes Haley as she exits GOP primary, invites her supporters to join his campaign

President Biden said Republican Nikki Haley ran a courageous primary campaign against former President Donald Trump and invited her supporters to join him after Haley dropped out on Wednesday.

“It takes a lot of courage to run for President – that’s especially true in today’s Republican Party, where so few dare to speak the truth about Donald Trump. Nikki Haley was willing to speak the truth about Trump: about the chaos that always follows him, about his inability to see right from wrong, about his cowering before Vladimir Putin," Biden said in a statement.

"Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters. I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign. I know there is a lot we won’t agree on. But on the fundamental issues of preserving American democracy, on standing up for the rule of law, on treating each other with decency and dignity and respect, on preserving NATO and standing up to America’s adversaries, I hope and believe we can find common ground," he continued.

"We all know this is no ordinary election. And the stakes for America couldn’t be higher. I know that Democrats and Republicans and Independents disagree on many issues and hold strong convictions. That’s a good thing. That’s what America stands for. But I also know this: what unites Democrats and Republicans and Independents is a love for America.”

Although Haley came out on top in just one contest on Tuesday, recent polls suggest large portions of voters supporting her say they were motivated by their opposition to Trump, and that they might not shift their support to him as the Republican nominee in November.

Biden is making an active play for those supporters, hoping that if Trump will be unable to form a coalition that can deliver 270 Electoral College votes in November.

Fox News Digital's Brandon Gillespie contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

BREAKING NEWS6 hour(s) ago

Nikki Haley does not endorse Trump, says he needs to earn support of her voters

Nikki Haley speaks as she announces she is suspending her campaign, in Charleston, South Carolina, March 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

Nikki Haley congratulated former President Donald Trump on his Super Tuesday victories and announced she would suspend her bid for the Republican presidential nomination in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday.

"I am filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we've received from all across our great country," Haley said. "But the time has now come just suspend my campaign."

In brief remarks to a crowd of supporters, Haley did not endorse Trump but called on the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee to earn votes from those who did not back him in the Republican primary.

"It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him," Haley said. "And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away."

Trump kicked Haley on her way out of the primary in a post on Truth Social shortly after her remarks began.

"Nikki Haley got TROUNCED last night, in record setting fashion, despite the fact that Democrats, for reasons unknown, are allowed to vote in Vermont, and various other Republican Primaries. Much of her money came from Radical Left Democrats, as did many of her voters, almost 50%, according to the polls," Trump wrote.

"At this point, I hope she stays in the 'race' and fights it out until the end! I’d like to thank my family, friends, and the Great Republican Party for helping me to produce, by far, the most successful Super Tuesday in HISTORY, and would further like to invite all of the Haley supporters to join the greatest movement in the history of our Nation. BIDEN IS THE ENEMY, HE IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

6 hour(s) ago

Top Republicans rally behind Trump, call for unity after dominant Super Tuesday showing

"Man I knew Trump would have a good night but this is a rout," Ohio GOP Senator JD Vance posted on X as Trump continued to stack up victories in state after state on Tuesday night. "For voters, we have the next six months to convince them that DJT deserves another term."

"But for donors and political professionals, it's time to unite behind our nominee. Please stop wasting time and money."

"Admit it," Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott posted on X. "The primary is over."

"Time for Republicans to unite and restore sanity at the border."

Posted by Andrew Mark Miller

7 hour(s) ago

MSNBC's Psaki, Maddow laugh at and mock Virginia voters for caring about border crisis

An MSNBC panel led by Rachel Maddow laughed at and mocked Virginia Republican voters who listed the border and immigration as a top priority during coverage of Super Tuesday.

Far-left anchor Joy Reid assailed White working-class Republican voters as only making their decisions based on race and not thanking President Biden, a "White working-class guy himself," for the "benefits they're getting economically" from him.

"They're voting on race," she said. "They're voting on this idea of an invasion of Brown people over the border."

Jen Psaki, Biden's former White House press secretary, concurred, adding, "Look at some of these exit polls. I live in Virginia. Immigration was the number one issue," as Reid laughed.

Maddow added, "Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia," as others on the panel laughed.

Former President Trump carried Virginia easily Tuesday night as part of a string of primary victories over Nikki Haley, cementing his status as the GOP frontrunner. The panel referred to exit polls that showed immigration as a top priority for Republican voters.

"You're thinking like, what?" Psaki said. "Trump has indoctrinated people with this fear of people who do not look like them being a threat to them."

Maddow complained that every election cycle, especially when a Democrat is in office, "we get reminded about the borders," although Republicans have blasted Biden's border policies for years as record-breaking numbers of migrants have crossed into the United States under his administration.

"You make these things an issue, you make them into boogeymen… as long as there's a Democratic incumbent to blame on it," she said. The panel was critical of Trump's role in torpedoing bipartisan border legislation this year, saying he didn't want a solution to the problem.

Fox News Digital's David Rutz and Jeffrey Clark contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

7 hour(s) ago

Haley campaign surrogate predicts she will ultimately endorse Trump

Nikki Haley campaign surrogate Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., reacted to the news that the former South Carolina governor and U.N. Ambassador would suspend her presidential campaign on Wednesday morning.

Norman told "Fox & Friends" the timing was "right" for Haley to drop out after she lost 14 of 15 Super Tuesday primary contests to Trump, only winning Vermont by a narrow margin.

"The democratic process played out. And, you know, the people have spoken," Norman said. "I do think she will fully endorse President Trump. If not, you know, today, she will because we've got a country to save. This is bigger than anything we have ever seen. This isn't about personalities. This is really about saving America."

With Haley to bow out of the race at 10:00 a.m. ET in a speech delivered in Charleston, Norman said he will endorse Trump and support him in the November general election.

"Donald Trump can save this country," Norman said.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

7 hour(s) ago

American Samoa snubs Biden 2 caucuses in a row

President Biden overwhelmingly won the Democratic contests on Super Tuesday, with one notable exception — American Samoa.

The American territory, an island located in the South Pacific Ocean, voted for an unlikely Democratic candidate named Jason Palmer, a 52-year-old businessman from Baltimore.

Out of 91 ballots cast in the territory's caucus, Palmer won 51 and Biden won 40, according to the local party. The upset will not derail Biden’s march toward his party’s nomination, but it marks the second time the American territory has rejected Biden.

During the 2020 Democratic primaries, billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s only win came in American Samoa. He garnered 175 votes in the contest with Tulsi Gabbard coming second with 103 votes. Bernie Sanders earned 37 votes and Biden came fourth with 31.

After Tuesday’s caucus, Palmer thanked American Samoa in a message on X.

"Honored to announce my victory in the American Samoa presidential primary. Thank you to the incredible community for your support. This win is a testament to the power of our voices. Together, we can rebuild the American Dream and shape a brighter future for all."

Fox News Digital's Lawrence Richard contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

8 hour(s) ago

Biden campaign plans to bury Trump in cash, boasts $130 million war chest

President Biden's campaign has amassed a $130 million war chest and is ready to bury presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in spending to win in November, the campaign says.

A memo released after Super Tuesday argues that only Biden has the resources and infrastructure needed to reach voters and run a modern presidential campaign.

"Since its launch, Team Biden-Harris has raised nearly $280 million, and finished January with a historic $130 million in cash on hand, the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate in history at this point in the cycle," Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon and Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote.

"Groups allied with Biden are flush with resources and have already committed to spending more than $700 million to help him beat Donald Trump again," the memo states.

The memo outlines the Biden campaign's view of the state of the 2024 presidential election. Trump secured his place as the presumptive Republican nominee after winning 14 of the 15 Super Tuesday states, with the lone exception of Vermont. His last remaining challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, will suspend her presidential campaign at 10:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday.

Biden's team argues Trump is weakened by the primary fight and strapped for cash as Republicans pivot to the general election.

"In January, Trump’s campaign raised $8.8 million while spending around $11.5 million, ending the month $2.6 million in the hole. His super PAC is further in the hole: in the entire month of January, it spent more than it raised. If it couldn’t get any worse, the national Republican Party that will serve as the backbone of his general election campaign is in complete disarray: 2023 was the RNC’s worst fundraising year in almost a decade," the memo states.

"And we’ve yet to mention what appears to be an issue that will not go away this cycle: Trump’s political operation has had to shell out several million per month on legal costs — an amount that accounted for approximately one-third of their total spending last year with that number expected to get even worse."

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

8 hour(s) ago

Biden campaign labels Trump 'beleaguered and ill-equipped' to win the White House

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 29: U.S. President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn before boarding the Marine One presidential helicopter and departing the White House on February 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President Biden's campaign argues that former President Trump enters the general election "beleaguered and ill-equipped" to win the White House after his dominant showing in the Republican primary on Super Tuesday.

A memo with takeaways from Tuesday's primary contests was released to the media Wednesday morning. Biden Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley Dillon and Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez authored the document, which outlined the campaign's view of the state of the race.

"The results of last night’s Super Tuesday contests cemented what we have known for some time now: Donald Trump limps into the general election as a wounded, dangerous and unpopular candidate," the memo states. "The Republican nominee is cash-strapped, beleaguered by a host of external issues, and is running on an extreme agenda that is already proving to be a significant liability for key voting blocs that are critical to the pathway to 270 electoral votes."

The Biden campaign asserts that the primaries have demonstrated how Trump is struggling to unify a coalition needed to win 270 Electoral College votes. Though Trump won all the Super Tuesday primaries except for Vermont, the memo points to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's significant of the GOP primary vote in several states. Dillon and Rodriguez argue that even though Haley has no path to the nomination, a significant number of Republicans are still refusing to back Trump.

"A significant of moderate and Haley voters across the country are saying that Trump cannot count on their votes in a general election," the memo states.

In contrast, the Biden-Harris campaign "heads into the general election coming off of consistent wins up and down the ballot, maintains a historic and growing grassroots-powered war chest, and now adds a strong Super Tuesday showing last night to enter the general election well-prepared and well-positioned to win this November."

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

8 hour(s) ago

Texas GOP challengers defeat House incumbents by remaining 'laser focused' on border

Insurgent Republicans won big victories in the Texas primaries on Tuesday, unseating six incumbent state House lawmakers who had opposed Gov. Greg Abbott's school choice agenda.

Three primary winners, Janice Holt, Marc LaHood and Helen Kerwin, spoke to Fox News about their wins and what they plan to do if they go on to win election to the state legislature in November.

"The open border is one of the major issues in our district," said Holt, who defeated Republican state Rep. Ernest Bailes. "Our district is home to one of the largest, if not the largest illegal immigrant population in the country. And it is ground zero here and the open border is terrible here ... the people that live in our district were fed up with our incumbent not doing anything. He's been in office for eight years and they were tired and scared and they wanted change."

LaHood agreed that the border was the "number one" for voters in his primary. Kerwin, who will advance to a runoff, said voters in her district were looking for more conservative leadership.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

9 hour(s) ago

Hume warns 'the country sees' that Biden is 'palpably senile' as State of the Union approaches

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume is not surprised by the growing concerns about President Biden's age and mental acuity – he believes they have been a "ticking time bomb."

Asked on Super Tuesday whether he could have envisioned months ago current polls showing independent voters leaning toward former President Trump on a number of issues, Hume chalked it up at least in part to President Biden's cognizance.

"I was saying back when it was not at all fashionable to say it, that he is senile. And now I think he is palpably senile and the country sees it," Hume said on "Special Report" as Super Tuesday polls prepared to close in 15 states and American Samoa.

Hume said a major challenge for Biden lies later in the week when he will give the annual State of the Union on Thursday, highlighting that the president must prove to Americans that he is not too old for the job.

Biden has been dogged by several news-making gaffes in recent weeks, including a reference to Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi as the "president of Mexico" while discussing the Israel-Gaza conflict, and instances where he recounted talking to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President François Mitterrand several years after they died.

The president also caused a stir after a Connecticut speech on gun control in 2023, when he closed his remarks with "God Save the Queen, man." By that time, King Charles III had become the British monarch upon the passing of his mother Elizabeth II the year prior.

Fox News Digital's Charles Creitz contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

9 hour(s) ago

No 2 Senate Republican leader John Thune endorsed Trump in late February

Senator John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks to members of the media at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Minority Whip John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican leader, endorsed former President Trump for reelection in February.

It was a key win for Trump from the establishment wing of the Republican Party. The South Dakota Republican is Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s top deputy in the Senate GOP.

"The primary results in South Carolina make clear that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in this year’s pivotal presidential election. The choice before the American people is crystal clear: It’s Donald Trump or Joe Biden," Thune told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.

"I support former President Trump's campaign to win the presidency, and I intend to do everything I can to see that he has a Republican majority in the Senate working with him to restore American strength at home and abroad," he continued.

Thune and Trump spoke by phone on Saturday night after Trump’s commanding victory in the South Carolina Republican primary, a source familiar with the call told Fox News Digital.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

9 hour(s) ago

Ryan Binkley dropped out, endorsed Trump for president last week

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Former Republican presidential primary candidate Ryan Binkley dropped out of the race as a GOP candidate last week and immediately endorsed Donald Trump for president.

"Today, I am suspending my campaign for the Presidency of the United States of America and offering my endorsement and unwavering support for President Trump," Binkley wrote in a post on X.

Binkley is the CEO of Equity Group, a business advisory company based out of Texas.

"When I began this journey, it was with a message in my heart that our country needs to awaken to the fact that the unsustainable deficit spending and debt path we are on will undoubtedly lead us to a generational economic disruption," Binkley wrote Tuesday. "I believe that we can get off that path and begin a journey to balance the federal budget by transforming and demonopolizing the healthcare system which has been bankrupting our nation. I also felt deeply that as bad as the U.S. fiscal and monetary policy is, the political corruption and cultural divide in our country is an even greater threat. Throughout my campaign, I have seen our party struggle to find a place for a new vision while weighing the corrupt allegations and indictments against President Trump. He will need everyone’s support, and he will have mine moving forward."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

9 hour(s) ago

Pro-Palestinian protesters interrupt Adam Schiff's victory speech, demand cease-fire in Gaza

Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted Rep. Adam Schiff's, D-Calif, victory speech on Tuesday after he secured the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat.

The seat was held for more than 30 years by former Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., until her death last year, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint Democrat Sen. Laphonza Butler to fill the vacancy.

As Schiff attempted to introduce his family at his watch party following his victory, demonstrators chanted "cease-fire now" and "Free Palestine," and the chants grew louder as the lawmaker's remarks were drowned out.

At least one person was escorted away from the stage amid the protest.

Schiff addressed the protest following the disruption.

"We are so lucky to live in a democracy where we all have the right to protest," he said. "We want to make sure we keep this kind of democracy."

The California Democrat told reporters Tuesday that he supported the Biden administration’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza on the condition of the release of Israeli hostages.

"My position is the same as the administration, which is there needs to be a deal to release the hostages and have a pause in the fighting," Schiff said.

Fox News Digital's Landon Mion contributed to this update.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

10 hour(s) ago

Trump, Biden, sweep Super Tuesday contests as they move closer to a presidential election rematch

Former President Donald Trump and President Biden are a giant step closer on Wednesday morning to a 2024 general election rematch, after the Republican and Democratic Party frontrunners ran the table on Super Tuesday as 16 states from coast to coast held presidential nominating contests.

"They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one," Trump said in a primary night victory speech in front of a large group of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. "This has been a day that we've been waiting for."

And looking ahead to his all-but-certain general election battle with Biden, Trump highlighted that "November 5th is going to go down as the single most important day in the history of our country."

Biden, in a statement on the Super Tuesday results, said "today, millions of voters across the country made their voices heard—showing that they are ready to fight back against Donald Trump’s extreme plan to take us backwards."

"Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy. This is our fight," he emphasized.

Longtime Republican strategist David Kochel, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, told Fox News as the Super Tuesday votes were being tabulated that "it's pretty clear both parties are ready to get to the general election."

While Trump didn't clinch the 2024 Republican nomination on Tuesday, the former president was on course to capture the vast majority of the 854 Republican delegates up for grabs, moving him significantly closer to locking up the nomination over his last remaining rival – former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

And while the former president didn't mention Haley in his speech, pointing to his primary victories over his rival, he touted that "there's never been anything so conclusive."

Indeed, Haley will suspend her campaign for president at 10:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday during a speech in Charleston, South Carolina, Fox News Digital has learned.

Her decision to drop out comes after Trump's convincing victories in 14 of the 15 states holding GOP nominating contests — Haley narrowly edged the former president in Vermont.

Posted by Paul Steinhauser

BREAKING NEWS10 hour(s) ago

Nikki Haley to suspend presidential campaign, won't endorse Trump yet

FORT WORTH, TEXAS - MARCH 4: Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley poses for pictures with her supporters following a campaign rally on March 4, 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Emil Lippe/Getty Images)

Nikki Haley will suspend her Republican presidential primary campaign in a speech Wednesday morning, Fox News Digital has confirmed.

The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is scheduled to deliver remarks in Charleston, S.C., at 10:00 a.m. ET. She will make the announcement official in that speech, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

Haley will not endorse former President Trump during her speech, a source with knowledge of her plans told Fox News Digital.

In a Republican presidential field that topped a dozen candidates last summer, Haley was the final remaining rival to Trump, who for months has been the commanding front-runner in the GOP race as he makes his third straight White House bid.

Haley – who in 2021 and 2022 made numerous trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, the two lead-off states in the Republican presidential nominating calendar – formally launched her 2024 campaign in February of last year.

But after a disappointing string of defeats by Trump, who dominated his rivals in all primary contests save for Washington, D.C., and Vermont, Haley will now put her White House ambitions on hold.

Posted by Chris Pandolfo

10 hour(s) ago

Dana Perino on 'The Five': Haley 'not going to be the nominee'

Tonight on "The Five," co-host of "America's Newsroom" Dana Perino looked back on Trump's campaign and the former president's suggestion that Nikki Haley can't beat Biden.

"I think you saw one Donald Trump in Iowa, in terms of being very conciliatory, and 'Let's all get along, and everything's great', and then in New Hampshire he was like 'She's absolutely the worst, and a total loser," Perino said of Trump from mid to late January.

"The election is eight months from today. So, there's time," she added. "But I do think after tonight, it is not without question that you will likely be saying that Donald Trump is a presumptive nominee."

Perino also responded to Trump's past remarks that Haley could not beat Biden in the November election.

"She could," Perino said. "But she's not going to be the nominee."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

BREAKING NEWS13 hour(s) ago

Trump declared winner of Utah Republican caucuses

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Super Tuesday election night party Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Associated Press can now project that Donald Trump will win the Utah Republican caucuses.

The race was called for the former president at 3:39 a.m. on Wednesday. Trump is estimated to have gathered about 58.2% of the vote with Nikki Haley coming in at 40.7% with 65% of the ballots counted, as of 4 a.m.

With the win in Utah, Trump was declared the winner of 13 of the 14 Republican caucuses and primaries that took place on Super Tuesday, only losing Vermont to challenger Nikki Haley.

Posted by Elizabeth Pritchett

13 hour(s) ago

Rounding out the top moments from the Super Tuesday elections

President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. (Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump and President Biden came out on top on Super Tuesday as they both swept nearly every contest in the largest primary night of the 2024 election cycle.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley hoped to find some light at the end of the tunnel after staking her candidacy on the 15 states casting ballots, while Biden's top challengers looked for any glimmer of success after making their case against the president's age and ability to take on Trump in a general election rematch.

From Haley securing her first statewide victory to Biden suffering a shocking defeat to an obscure businessman, here are the top moments from what many thought would be an uneventful Super Tuesday:

1. Haley secures a win in the Vermont primary

2. Biden suffers first 2024 loss to challenger Jason Palmer

3. Haley remains vague on her campaign's future

4. Concern grows over Trump's ability to win over Haley supporters

Fox News Digital's Brandon Gillespie has more on the top moments from Super Tuesday here.

Posted by Elizabeth Pritchett

BREAKING NEWS14 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Alaska Republican caucuses

Former President Donald Trump gestures to supporters at an election-night watch party at Mar-a-Lago on March 5, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Sixteen states held their primaries and caucuses today as part of Super Tuesday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Associated Press can now project that Donald Trump will win the Alaska Republican caucuses.

The race was called for the former president at 2:17 a.m. on Wednesday. Trump is estimated to have gathered about 87.6% of the vote with Nikki Haley coming in at about 12% with 99% of the ballots counted.

As of 3 a.m. Wednesday, Trump has been declared the winner of 12 of the 14 Republican primaries and caucuses that took place on Super Tuesday, only losing Vermont to Haley.

The result of the Utah Republican caucuses has not yet been determined.

Posted by Elizabeth Pritchett

15 hour(s) ago

'Fox News Night' panelists discuss Haley campaign's statement after Super Tuesday results

Steve Hilton and Vik Bajaj discuss a statement from Nikki Haley's campaign following a lackluster performance in the Super Tuesday elections on "Fox News Night" with Trace Gallagher.

With races called in all but two of the 16 states that held presidential nominating contests on Super Tuesday, Haley only won the Vermont primary. While she has not spoken herself as of early Wednesday morning, her campaign issued a statement celebrating her win and claiming there is a "large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump."

The campaign's statement was met with criticism from both Hilton and Bajaj considering her chance at becoming the GOP nominee is unlikely at this point in the race.

"She's lost every single state except for Bernie Sanders' backyard. It is completely delusional every single day she continues to stay in this race and put out divisive statements like that," Hilton said. "There's only one person that benefits – it's not Nikki Haley, it's Joe Biden. If she really cares about the country and its future, as she claims, then she would stop her team putting stuff out like that and just get out of this race and get behind an effort to get rid of this destructive Joe Biden administration."

Posted by Elizabeth Pritchett

BREAKING NEWS17 hour(s) ago

Schiff, Garvey advance to California Senate general election: AP

Photos of U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., at left, a U.S Senate candidate, and his Republican opponent Steve Garvey flash on a television screen during an election night party for Schiff, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Republican former baseball player Steve Garvey have advanced to the general election for the California Senate race, the Associated Press projects.

Schiff and Garvey will advance to the November election to decide who will fill the seat previously held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Democrats will be expected to hold the seat comfortably. But the state puts all candidates on the same ballot, and the two who get the most votes moves forward to the general election.

Others in the race included Democrats Rep. Katie Porter and Rep. Barbara Lee.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Posted by Adam Shaw

17 hour(s) ago

Haley campaign claims 'large block' of GOP voters still have 'deep concerns' about Trump

BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA - FEBRUARY 26: Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel on February 26, 2024 in Bloomington, Minnesota. Minnesota holds its primary election on March 5. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

In a statement reacting to the results of the Super Tuesday elections, the campaign for Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said there remains a large amount of Republican voters who continue to have "deep concerns" about former President Donald Trump's candidacy.

Haley defeated Trump in the Vermont GOP primary election, but lost to the former president in nearly every one of the other elections held Tuesday.

“We’re honored to have received the support of millions of Americans across the country today, including in Vermont where Nikki became the first Republican woman to win two presidential primary contests," Haley's campaign said in a statement.

Vermont appears likely to be the only state that Haley will win on Super Tuesday.

Posted by Kyle Morris

17 hour(s) ago

Biden to win California Democratic primary

President Joe Biden arrives to board Air Force One, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Hagerstown, Md. The President is traveling to Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the California Democratic primary.

The Golden State's primary was held on Super Tuesday, a day of multi-state primary contests that historically sets the tone for the rest of the election cycle and narrows out the candidate field.

In 2020, Biden was defeated by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, in the California primary race by nearly 10 points. After winning the Democratic nomination later that year, the president bested former President Donald Trump by almost 30 points in the 2020 general election in the state.

California is a traditionally blue state, voting Democratic every presidential election since 1988.

Amid growing concerns over Biden's fitness and capability to serve another full-term, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has been floated as an alternative candidate to put up against Trump. He has said he will not run this election cycle if Biden stays in the race.

Posted by Fox News Decision Desk

BREAKING NEWS17 hour(s) ago

Trump projected to win California GOP primary race

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The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the California Republican primary.

Trump's latest win comes on Super Tuesday, a multi-state primary contest that allows voters in 15 states and one U.S. territory to cast their votes for who they want to represent them as their party’s nominee in 2024. Trump's win also marks another defeat for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who remains in the Republican race despite losing nearly every single primary race to the former president.

In the 2016 GOP primary, Trump won the Golden State race against his Republican competitors by about 60 points.

California traditionally votes blue in presidential general elections, voting Democratic in every presidential election since 1988. Trump lost the state to his Democrat opponents in both 2016 and 2020, losing to then-Vice President Joe Biden by about 30 percentage points in the 2020 general election.

Posted by Fox News Decision Desk

17 hour(s) ago

Biden reacts to Super Tuesday election results, claims the 'choice is clear' ahead of 2024 election

President Joe Biden speaks at the Border Patrol Brownsville station in Olmito, Texas, on Feb. 29, 2024.(Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

President Biden issued a statement Tuesday night following a series of victories in the Super Tuesday elections that took place in different corners of the country, claiming the "choice is clear" ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

“Four years ago, I ran because of the existential threat Donald Trump posed to the America we all believe in. Since then, we’ve made enormous progress: 15 million jobs, wages rising faster than inflation, taking on Big Pharma and the gun lobby — and winning. But we have more to do."

Biden claimed the progress he has made since taking office in 2021 will be placed "at risk" if Trump is elected later this year.

"He is driven by grievance and grift, focused on his own revenge and retribution, not the American people. He is determined to destroy our democracy, rip away fundamental freedoms like the ability for women to make their own health care decisions, and pass another round of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy — and he’ll do or say anything to put himself in power," the president claimed.

Biden went on to claim that "millions of voters" made clear Tuesday that they're prepared "to fight back against Donald Trump’s extreme plan to take us backwards."

“My message to the country is this: Every generation of Americans will face a moment when it has to defend democracy. Stand up for our personal freedom. Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights. To every Democrat, Republican, and independent who believes in a free and fair America: This is our moment. This is our fight. Together, we will win," he concluded.

Posted by Kyle Morris

17 hour(s) ago

Who is Jason Palmer, the obscure presidential candidate who delivered Biden's first 2024 loss?

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Who is Jason Palmer, the obscure presidential candidate who delivered Biden's first 2024 loss?

President Biden lost his first 2024 contest to an obscure Maryland businessman named Jason Palmer in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.

President Biden lost his first contest in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday to an unknown candidate in the U.S. territory of American Samoa.

The Fox News Decision Desk projected that Jason Palmer, a self-described entrepreneur and investor, would win American Samoa's caucuses, taking four delegates to Biden's two.

On his campaign website, Palmer describes himself as a 52-year-old resident of Baltimore, Maryland, with leadership and executive experience working for companies like Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others.

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17 hour(s) ago

California polls close and Utah Republicans finish caucusing

"I Voted" stickers are offered to Voters after casting their ballot on Super Tuesday, at the Ranchito Elementary School polling station in the Panorama City section of Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

It’s 11PM and polls have closed in California.

The Golden State offers more delegates than any other tonight.

Republicans have also finished caucusing in Utah

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BREAKING NEWS18 hour(s) ago

Haley wins Vermont GOP primary

Nikki Haley and Donald Trump (Getty Images)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former Governor Nikki Haley will win the Vermont Republican primary. This is her second primary contest win, following D.C.

Haley was widely expected to do well in Vermont which is one of the few states that held an open primary on Tuesday night where both Republicans and Democrats could vote.

Vermont appears likely to be the only state that Haley will win on Super Tuesday.

Leading up to the Vermont primary, Haley held an event in the state featuring Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott, a vocal critic of Trump, who has endorsed Haley's White House bid.

Vermont will award 17 delegates in the primary. If Haley hits 50% she will be awarded all of the state's delegates. If not, the delegates will be divided up between Haley and Trump.

Vermont had been a staunch red state up until the election of Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1992. Former President George H.W. Bush defeated former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the state four years prior. Democrats have easily won the state every election since.

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18 hour(s) ago

Rep. Colin Allred wins Texas Democratic Senate primary

Rep.-elect Colin Allred, D-Texas., arrives for orientation for new members of Congress, Nov. 13, 2018, in Washington.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Democratic Representative Colin Allred will win his Texas Senate primary.

Democrats hope the former Titans linebacker can oust Republican Senator Ted Cruz in November.

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18 hour(s) ago

Trump reacts to Super Tuesday victories: 'Rarely has politics seen anything quite like this'

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Trump reacts to Super Tuesday victories: 'Rarely has politics seen anything quite like this'

Former President Trump said Super Tuesday was 'great evening,' and that it is his 'honor to represent not just the Republican Party but our country in leading it back to health and prosperity.'

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump, reacting to Super Tuesday primary victories, told Fox News Digital that it is a "great evening," and that it is his "honor to represent not just the Republican Party but our country in leading it back to health and prosperity."

Trump, the GOP frontrunner, won Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maine, Alabama, Arkansas, and Minnesota by 9:45 p.m. ET Tuesday night.

"It is a great evening," Trump told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview after races were called in his favor in 11 states, and while awaiting race calls and polls closing in others.

"Rarely has politics seen anything quite like this," he said.

Trump added: "It is my honor to represent not just the Republican Party but our country in leading it back to health and prosperity."

Trump's reaction came after 11 states were called. The Fox News Decision Desk is still awaiting race calls in Vermont, and poll closures in Alaska, Utah, and California.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Brooke Singman

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BREAKING NEWS18 hour(s) ago

Biden to win Utah Democratic primary

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of his Competition Council to announce new actions to lower costs for families in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Utah Democratic primary.

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DEVELOPING STORY18 hour(s) ago

Election polls close in Utah Democratic presidential primary

Voting booth

It’s 10PM and polls have just closed in the Utah Democratic presidential primary. Biden is expected to win this state easily.

There are 40 delegates at stake.

Republican caucusing is ongoing.

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BREAKING NEWS19 hour(s) ago

Biden loses Super Tuesday Dem caucus in American Samoa

President Joe Biden meets with UAW members during a campaign stop, Feb. 1, 2024, in Warren, Mich.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Jason Palmer, a self-described entrepreneur and investor, will win the American Samoa Democratic caucus.

This marks President Biden’s first loss in the 2024 primaries. Palmer takes 4 delegates, Biden takes 2.

During the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries, Biden lost the territory against his competitors. The president captured 8% of the vote compared to Vermont Senator Bernie Sander’s 10%, Hawaiian Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s 29%, and New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s 50%.

As a territory, Samoa does not get a vote in the general presidential election. They are only permitted to send delegates to the convention during the primary season.

Roughly 230 Samoans voted in the 2020 Democratic presidential caucus.

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19 hour(s) ago

Rep. Dean Phillips reacts to Super Tuesday election results

Rep. Dean Phillips (Getty Images)

Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips responded to Super Tuesday's developing election results on social media by sarcastically congratulating others on the ballot.

"Congratulations to Joe Biden, Uncommitted, Marianne Williamson, and Nikki Haley for demonstrating more appeal to Democratic Party loyalists than me," Rep. Phillips posted on X on Tuesday night.

Phillips, a long shot primary challenger to President Biden, has struggled to gain traction so far in the Super Tuesday competitions and is currently trailing "Uncommitted" in Alabama.

Phillips is registering around 9% in Oklahoma. The Democratic congressman is also registering at 9% in his home state of Minnesota but also trails "Uncommitted" which is registering 17%.

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BREAKING NEWS19 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Minnesota on Super Tuesday 2024

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 23: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the south lawn of the White House on December 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Trumps are headed to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays with a government shutdown possible on Monday December 28. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Minnesota Republican primary.

In 2020, during the presidential election , Trump lost to Biden with 45.28% to 52.4% of the vote, and did not win any delegates. Biden won 10, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Trump won 97.7% of the votes and 39 pledged delegates during the 2020 Republican presidential primary in Minnesota. Other candidates had 2.0% of votes with 0 delegates, according to Ballotpedia.

In general presidential elections, state has seen 20 Democratic wins, 10 republican wins and one other win between the years 1900 and 2020. The last time a Republican won the state was in 1972. Starting in 1900, the state has voted for Democrats 64.5% of the time and only 32.3% for Republicans.

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BREAKING NEWS19 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Republican Colorado primary election

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Super Tuesday election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Colorado Republican primary.

Trump secured a win in The Centennial State on Super Tuesday, one of 15 states and one U.S. territory voting on who they want to represent their party as the nominee in 2024.

When Trump was making his first bid for the presidency in 2016, Republicans canceled their presidential primary in the state. The former president lost Colorado to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the general election that fall.

In the 2020 general election, Trump again lost the state of Colorado to then-Vice President Joe Biden, who received 55% of the vote.

The Colorado Supreme Court recently attempted to Trump from the primary ballot in 2024, but the Colorado secretary of state said the former president will be on the 2024 Colorado primary ballot after Republicans filed an appeal with the court.

Several states have successfully d Trump from their primary ballots, but despite his removal from the ballot in Nevada, the former president still won the state's primary.

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BREAKING NEWS19 hour(s) ago

Biden wins Minnesota on Super Tuesday 2024

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The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Minnesota Democratic primary.

The state of Minnesota had a population of 5.7 million as of 2021.

In 2020, during the presidential election, Biden beat Trump with 52.4% of the votes to 45.28%, and won 10 delegates while Trump did not receive any, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

During the primary election in 2020, Biden won 38.6% of the vote, 38 delegates, Sen. Bernie Sanders won 29.89%, 27 delegates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren won 15.4%, 10 delegates.

Since 2000, the state has voted in favor of the Democratic candidates 100% of the time in presidential elections, and has voted for the winning candidate 50% of the time, according to Ballotpedia. Minnesota has participated in 31 presidential elections. The last time a Republican candidate won was in 1972.

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19 hour(s) ago

President Biden wins Democratic primary election in Colorado

President Joe Biden delivers remarks to service members, first responders, and their families on the 22nd of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on September 11, 2023. Getty Images.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Colorado Democratic primary.

The president's win comes on Super Tuesday, the day where voters in 15 states and one U.S. territory vote in a multi-state primary race for their preferred party nominee. Super Tuesday marks a significant point in presidential primary races, winnowing out the candidate field and revealing the Democrat and Republican frontrunners.

Biden lost the 2020 Super Tuesday Democratic primary in Colorado to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, but after being named the party's nominee, defeated former President Donald Trump on the general election ballot that fall.

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller and Aubrie Spady contributed to this report

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BREAKING NEWS19 hour(s) ago

Trump, Biden and Cruz win their Texas primary elections

Voters use umbrellas to beat the heat as they wait in line at a polling site, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

It’s 9PM and all polls have closed in Texas.

Texas presidential primaries

In Texas, the Fox News Decision Desk can project that President Biden will win the Democratic primary, and former President Trump will win the Republican primary.Texas has the second highest number of delegates at stake for both parties tonight.

Texas Senate primaries

In the Texas Senate primaries, the Fox News Decision Desk can project that Republican Senator Ted Cruz will ‘cruise’ to the nomination.In the Democratic race, House Representative Colin Allred has a lead.

Colorado and Minnesota

Polls have also closed in Colorado and Minnesota. At the beginning of the night, Haley had hopes for these states, and the former governor spent time in both. Based on the results so far this evening, that seems like a steep climb.

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19 hour(s) ago

Trump wins GOP primary in Massachusetts

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump talks reporters at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters headquarters on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Getty Images.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Massachusetts Republican primary.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Arkansas GOP primary election

A supporter attends a Super Tuesday election night party before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Arkansas Republican primary.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Biden declared winner of Arkansas Dem primary

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Arkansas Democratic primary.

Biden's victory in the state comes on Super Tuesday, a multi-state primary night where voters across various states make their pick for a preferred Republican and Democrat presidential nominee. The president is currently leading the Democrat primary race, and is the likely party nominee after winning all but one primary state of the 2024 cycle.

The president also won the state's Democrat presidential primary in the 2020 race, but was defeated in November on the general election ballot.

Biden was defeated by former President Trump in Arkansas in the 2020 general election, losing the race in the Bear State by nearly 30 points.

Trump, the frontrunner of the GOP primary race, won Arkansas in the general election in both 2016 and 2020 against his Democrat competitors. Biden and Trump are both leading their party's primary race, inching closer to a general election rematch in November.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Maine GOP primary election

Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Arizona. Getty Images.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Maine Republican primary.

Maine, which uses ranked-choice voting, is allocated 20 Republican delegates.

Maine has favored Democratic presidential candidates for the last eight elections. A Republican candidate has not won the state since 1988, according to Ballotpedia. During the 2020 primary, Trump won 83.8% of the votes, with 22 pledged delegates, leaving the remaining candidates with 16.2% of the votes and 0 pledged delegates.

In the 2020 general election, Trump lost to Biden with only 44% of the votes and one electoral vote, while Biden won 53.1% and 3 electoral votes, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Maine’s Democratic secretary of state disqualified Trump from Maine’s presidential ballot back in December, citing the 14th Amendment, which bars anyone from running for office who engages in an insurrection. Earlier in January, Trump appealed the decision to the state Superior Court. The Superior Court ruled that for the time being, Trump could remain on the ballot until a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court was made regarding a related Colorado case.

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DEVELOPING STORY20 hour(s) ago

Trump, Haley locked in tight primary race in Vermont

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event Feb. 28, 2024, in Orem, Utah.

The Fox News Decision Desk believes we have a very close race in Vermont. Nikki Haley is performing well in suburban areas.

As expected, Trump dominates rurally.

Haley has a chance to win her first state of the primaries

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20 hour(s) ago

Election polls close in Arkansas

Donald Trump, Super Tuesday 2024

It’s 8:30PM and polls have closed in Arkansas.

Trump is expected to dominate in the state thanks to a heavily White rural population.

Biden should also pick up an easy win.

There are 40 delegates at stake for the Republican candidates and 31 delegates for the Democrats.

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20 hour(s) ago

Biden wins Oklahoma Democratic primary election

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Supreme Court's decision on the Administration's student debt relief program in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday, June 30, 2023. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Oklahoma Democratic primary.

Oklahoma has had 10 Democratic wins and 19 Republicans wins from 1900-2020 during the presidential elections. Since 1968, the Republican candidates have won the state, according to Ballotpedia.

Biden lost to Trump in the Oklahoma presidential election with 32.2% to 65.3%

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Oklahoma Republican primary

Supporters arrive before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Super Tuesday election night party Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Oklahoma Republican primary.

Former South Carolina Governor and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will come in second place.

There were 43 delegates to be allocated to the Republican candidates.

In 2020, Trump won 92.6% of the votes and 43 delegates, while former Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh came in second at 3.7% with 0 delegates.

Trump won the state over then-former Vice President Biden during the 2020 presidential election, with 65.37% to 32.29% of the votes, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Historically, Oklahoma has had 19 Republican wins and only 10 Democratic wins, participating in 29 presidential elections between 1900-2020, according to Ballotpedia.

The state voted for the winning presidential candidate 72.4% of the time, and the last time a Democratic candidate won the state was in 1964.

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20 hour(s) ago

Biden wins Maine Democratic primary

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Maine Democratic primary.

Maine, which uses ranked-choice voting, is allocated 24 Democratic delegates.

Despite Democrats winning the state in the last eight presidential elections, there have only been 11 Democratic victories from 1900 through 2020, while Republicans have secured 20 wins, as reported by Ballotpedia.

In the 2020 general election, Biden won with 53.1% of the vote with three electoral votes, while Trump had 44% of the votes and one electoral vote, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller and Emily Robertson contributed to this report

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Biden wins Massachusetts on Super Tuesday 2024

President Joe Biden speaks at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Saturday, April 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Massachusetts Democratic primary.

There were 92 delegates to be won by a Democratic candidate for the state.

Biden beat former President Donald Trump in the 2020 general election in Massachusetts, leading with 65.6% of the votes and earning the state’s 11 electoral votes. Trump trailed behind at 32.1% and 0 electoral votes, according to U.S. Elections Analysis.

During the Democratic primary, Biden won 33.5% of the votes and received 37 pledged delegates, while Sen. Bernie Sanders came in second at 26.6%, earning 30 pledged delegates. Sen. Elizabeth Warren came in third at 21.4% of the votes and 24 pledged delegates.

Between the years 1900 and 2020, the state has voted for the winning presidential candidate 74.2% of the time, and between 2000 and 2020 they voted for the winning presidential candidate 50% of the time, according to Ballotpedia.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Biden will win Tennessee Democratic primary

President Joe Biden arrives to board Air Force One, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Hagerstown, Md. The President is traveling to Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Tennessee Democratic primary.

The win was expected, as the president has cruised to victory against his challengers, Rep. Dean Phillips and health guru Marianne Williamson.

In 2020, Biden swept Super Tuesday, winning ten out of fifteen states. Tennessee was no different, with Biden capturing the state with 42% of the vote. Despite this, Tennessee remains a ruby red state with little sign of changing. Trump won the state with 61% of the vote to Biden’s 37% in the general election, according to state data. Biden’s only strong showing at the time was with Black voters, capturing 88% of the vote, AP reported at the time.

An important issue for the state in 2020 was the removal of Confederate statues — 65% of voters opposed the measure, and Trump captured 83% of that demographic, according to the Associated Press.

Republican strength in the state relies on White evangelicals, with Trump in 2020 capturing 69% of a voter demographic that makes up 84% of the state.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Tennessee GOP primary

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The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Tennessee Republican primary.

The victory was expected, with Trump winning all of the GOP primary elections so far.

In 2016, Trump won a plurality of Super Tuesday states, capturing Tennessee with 39% of the vote. In 2020, Trump won the state’s primary handedly with 96% of the vote. During the presidential election, Trump won the state with 61% of the vote to Biden’s 37%, according to state data. A particularly important issue for the state was the removal of Confederate statues — 65% of voters opposed the removals and Trump captured 83% of that demographic, AP reported at the time.

"We’ve got an incompetent president who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing," Trump said during a rally in Nashville last month. "He will not lead us to the promised land, as the expression goes.”

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20 hour(s) ago

Stein, Robinson win North Carolina governor primaries

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that Attorney General Josh Stein will be the Democratic candidate for governor in North Carolina.

Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson will be the Republican candidate.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Trump wins Alabama GOP primary on Super Tuesday 2024

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the Alabama Republican primary.

The GOP frontrunner's victory comes on Super Tuesday, a vital night for presidential contenders. Republicans in 15 states and one territory will make their pick for a preferred party nominee to represent them on the 2024 general election ballot.

Total delegates at stake on Super Tuesday are 854 for the GOP. In order to win the GOP presidential nomination, however, a candidate must have 1,215 delegates or more out of the 2,429 delegates in total.

Trump won the Cotton State during his first presidential bid eight years ago, securing 43% support in the Alabama Republican presidential primary in 2016. At that year's general election, the former president won the state by a whopping 50 points over former Secretary of State and then-Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

In 2020, Trump also won the general election in Alabama against President Biden, finishing the race with a lead of almost 30-percentage points.

Trump defeated former United Nations Ambassador and GOP candidate Nikki Haley in the Tuesday night primary.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Biden declared winner of Alabama Democrat primary election

US President Joe Biden meets with China's President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 15, 2021. Getty Images.

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the Alabama Democratic primary.

Super Tuesday is a defining night for Republican and Democrat presidential contenders . Democrats in 14 states and one territory make their pick for a preferred party nominee to represent them on the general election ballot. With no serious competition in the Democrat primary, Biden was named the winner shortly after polls closed.

Former President Trump, the commanding frontrunner of the Republican primary race, won Alabama in both the 2016 and 2020 general elections against his Democrat competitors.

Biden was defeated by Trump in the Alabama general election in 2020, losing to the former president by nearly 30 percentage points in the Cotton State race.

Biden and Trump are currently leading their party primary races going into Super Tuesday, and are heading towards competing in a likely general election rematch.

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20 hour(s) ago

Election polls close in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee

It’s 8PM and all polls have closed in Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

There are 211 delegates at stake for the Republican candidates, and 267 for the Democrats.

President Biden and former President Trump have posted strong results so far tonight and could significantly expand their leads this hour.

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BREAKING NEWS20 hour(s) ago

Trump wins North Carolina primary on Super Tuesday 2024

Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump points to supporters at the conclusion of a campaign rally at the Atkinson Country Club on January 16, 2024 in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win the North Carolina Republican primary.

There were 74 delegates for a Republican candidate to receive.

Back in 2016, Trump won 40% of the GOP primary vote in North Carolina and walked away with 29 delegates. Sen. Ted Cruz, then a candidate for the GOP nomination, came in second with 27 delegates, but he later dropped out of the race.

In the 2020 presidential election, Trump won 49.9% of votes and secured all of the North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes. Biden won 48.59% and 0 electoral votes.

Between 1900-2020, the southern state has had 18 Democratic wins and 13 Republican wins, according to Ballotpedia. North Carolina has voted for the Democratic candidate 58.1% of the time and for the Republican 41.9% of the time since 1900. Since 2000, the Democratic candidate was voted for 16.7% of the time while the Republican candidate was voted for 83.3% of the time.

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BREAKING NEWS21 hour(s) ago

Biden wins North Carolina on Super Tuesday 2024

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the North Carolina Democratic primary.

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries , then-Vice President Biden won 42.95% and 68 delegates in North Carolina, Sen. Bernie Sanders won 24.2% and 37 delegates. Michael Bloomberg won 12.95% and 3 delegates, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren won 10.5% and 2 delegates, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Between the years 1900 and 2020, the southern state has voted for the winning presidential candidate 64.5% of the time and between 2000 and 2020, the state has voted for the winning presidential candidate 66.7% of the time, according to Ballotpedia.

In presidential elections, North Carolina has had 18 Democratic wins and 13 Republican wins from 1900-2020.

The state has participated in 31 presidential elections up to the year 2020.

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21 hour(s) ago

Trump sails to victory in Virginia Republican primary election

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former President Trump will win Virginia’s Republican primary.

This was former Governor Haley’s best chance to win a state with significant delegates at stake.

During the 2016 Republican Presidential Primaries, Trump narrowly won the state against his competitors. Trump captured 35% of the vote compared to Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s 32%, Texas Senator Ted Cruz’ 17%, and former Ohio Governor John Kasich’s 10%.

During the general election, Biden defeated Trump, capturing 54% of the vote compared to Trump’s 44%.

The Virginia electorate has voted unpredictably over the last few decades. Through most of its history it was a deep blue state, voting Democrat in virtually every election until President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke the trend in 1952. Republicans regularly won the state until 2008 when Barack Obama returned the state to solid Democrat control.

Despite this, Republicans have had a slight resurgence in the state, narrowly electing Republican Glenn Youngkin for Governor in 2021.

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DEVELOPING STORY21 hour(s) ago

The view as polls close in North Carolina

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2, 2024

It’s 7:30 p.m. ET and polls have closed in North Carolina.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to do well in most of the state. But North Carolina will award delegates proportionally, giving Nikki Haley a chance to pick up in highly populated areas like Raleigh.

There are 74 delegates at stake.

North Carolina voters will also choose candidates for one of the most watched governor’s races. The leading candidates are Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, who Trump endorsed at a rally on Saturday.

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BREAKING NEWS21 hour(s) ago

Biden wins Vermont Democratic primary

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2024. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win Vermont’s Democratic primary.

During the 2020 Democrat primary, Vermont was a landslide defeat for the president. Biden ultimately lost the state with 22% of the vote compared to Vermont Senator Bernie Sander’s 51% of the vote and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 13% of the vote.

During the 2020 Presidential Election, Democrats performed on par with their traditional record, with 66% of the vote going to Biden compared to Trump’s 37%, easily capturing the state.

Sanders not being on the ballot has not dampened Democrat voter outreach in the state.

Vermont had been a staunch red state up until the election of Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1992. Interestingly, former President George H.W. Bush defeated former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the state four years prior. Democrats have easily won the state every election since.

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BREAKING NEWS21 hour(s) ago

Biden cruises to Virginia Dem primary election victory

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The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win Virginia’s Democratic primary.

During the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries, Biden dominated in the state against his competitors. The President captured 53% of the vote compared to Vermont Senator Bernie Sander’s 23%, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 10%, and New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s 10%. Turnout in the Democratic primary was at an all-time high of 1.3 million.

During the general election, Biden defeated former President Trump, capturing 54% of the vote compared to Trump’s 44%.

Biden’s recent campaigning in Virginia, hoping to take advantage of pro-abortion sentiment, has been confronted by pro-gaza activists upset over his perceived inaction in the region. The President was heckled at a political event last month in Manassas.

Virginia has had a turbulent election history over the past few decades. Through most of its history it was a deep blue state, voting Democrat in virtually every election until President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke the trend in 1952. Republicans then reliably won the state until Barack Obama’s election in 2008 returned the state to solid Democrat control.

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21 hour(s) ago

The view in Vermont and Virginia as first primary election polls close

Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign rally on March 4, 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas. Haley won her first Republican primary, besting former President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. on Friday. Voters in 16 states, including Texas, head to the polls tomorrow on Super Tuesday. (Photo by Emil Lippe/Getty Images)

It’s 7 p.m. ET and all polls have closed in Vermont and Virginia.

Vermont could be Nikki Haley’s best chance to win a state tonight, thanks to moderate northeast Republican voters and an open primary system.

Virginia is also holding an open primary, and she could do well in suburban areas near D.C.

Both states also host Democratic presidential primaries tonight, where President Biden is widely expected to win.

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22 hour(s) ago

Democrat Jessica Tarlov: 'This will be another big night for Donald Trump'

"The Five" co-hosts discussed the GOP showdown between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley taking place across the U.S. today.

Election results from Super Tuesday, the biggest primary day of the year, are expected to roll in tonight and into tomorrow.

"I certainly think that this will be another big night for Donald Trump, we've seen that consistently," said Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov.

But Tarlov added that everyone is looking at what Haley voters are going to do if Trump wins the GOP nomination.

"They exist, they're coming out in primaries, and a lot of them are saying 'We won't be happy if Donald Trump is the nominee,'" she added.

On Super Tuesday, 15 states are voting in primaries, including in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. One territory, American Samoa, is also holding primary elections.

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22 hour(s) ago

Haley's team announced a 7-figure ad-buy before she lost in DC last week

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Nikki Haley’s team announced a seven-figure ad-buy in various states in the weeks leading up to Super Tuesday.

"Nikki is moving full steam ahead to Super Tuesday states because 70 percent of Americans don’t want to see two grumpy old men duke it out in November, and they deserve a real choice in this election," Haley campaign spokeswoman AnnMarie Graham-Barnes told Fox News Digital in late February. "Her message is resonating, and she’s got the resources to keep fighting."

Haley made clear in the days ahead of the primary election in South Carolina, her home state, that she planned to stay in no matter the outcome of the day, saying she would "refuse to quit."

This week, Haley rallied in Houston and Fort Worth, Texas.

"We're touching as many people as we can," Haley told Fox News' Martha MacCallum in an interview this morning. "The crowds are passionate. They're fired up. They want a new generational leader, they want to turn the page, and we're excited about that."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

22 hour(s) ago

'I think this is a two person race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden': Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, joined Fox News' Sandra Smith on "America Reports" today to discuss former President Donald Trump and today's Super Tuesday presidential primary elections.

"Obviously, I think this is a two person race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden," Sanders said. "President Trump has all of the momentum on his side, a huge and unanimous win earlier this week from the Supreme Court, heavily in his favor. There are a number of states voting today including Arkansas, which I know is going to deliver a big win for Donald Trump, as well as I think the vast majority of states voting today."

In November, Sanders endorsed Trump during a Trump rally in Hialeah, Florida.

"Our country has never needed Donald Trump more than we do right now," she said. "We've got out-of-control inflation, violent crime, an open border, a rising China. Biden and the left have failed over and over again, and they know it, and you know it, and it is time for a change. That is why tonight I am so proud to endorse my former boss, my friend, and everybody's favorite president, Donald J. Trump."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

BREAKING NEWS22 hour(s) ago

Biden wins Democratic primary in Iowa

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House on March 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden announced new economic measures during the meeting. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that President Biden will win the mail-in Democratic primary in Iowa.

The state held its caucuses in January, but didn't release results until today in order to comply with new Democratic National Committee rules.

Posted by Adam Shaw

23 hour(s) ago

'Arrogant' Democrats 'massively surprised' by ex-MLB star's surge in California Senate race: Hilton

From left to right: Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Katie Porter, Republican Candidate Steve Garvey, and Rep. Adam Schiff. (Getty Images)

As voters head to the polls on Super Tuesday, California's Senate race is taking center stage as an unlikely GOP candidate, former MLB star Steve Garvey, surges in popularity against likely November opponent Adam Schiff.

"Golden Together" founder and Fox News contributor Steve Hilton told "America's Newsroom" that the turn of events has Democrats "massively surprised" as California voters battle statewide issues stemming from immigration and homelessness.

"They're massively surprised because they're incredibly arrogant," Hilton told Dana Perino on Tuesday.

"They assume that California is just a total Democratic one-party state. Republicans have got no chance. That was their attitude when Steve Garvey got in the race and the assumption among the California political press and all the Democrats was 'well, it's obviously going to be Adam Schiff and Katie Porter,' but what it tells you is that this state, my beautiful home state of California, is much more Republican than people think."

"Garvey has been helped by the fact that we have this top-two system, which means that the top two finishers, regardless of party, go through," he continued. "Because of their arrogance, because they assume that a Republican cannot win… Adam Schiff has been spending enormous amounts of money to try and get Steve Garvey into the general election because he assumes that he's going to have a walkover."

California voters are casting their ballots Tuesday to fill late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's seat, which is currently being filled temporarily by Laphonza Butler. Four candidates are in the running for her seat – Reps. Schiff, Porter and Barbara Lee alongside Garvey, who is the only Republican in the race.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Bailee Hill

Posted by Kyle Morris

23 hour(s) ago

Taylor Swift has a message for Super Tuesday voters

Taylor Swift performs during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at the National Stadium on March 02, 2024 in Singapore. (Photo by Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

Taylor Swift is urging Americans to go to the polls and vote in their respective presidential primaries during Super Tuesday.

"Today, March 5, is the Presidential Primary in Tennessee and 16 other states and territories. I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power," the 'Midnights' singer wrote in an Instagram story. "If you haven't already, make a plan to vote today."

"Whether you're in Tennessee or somewhere else in the US, check your polling places and times at vote.org," she added.

Former President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are competing in the Republican primary, with President Biden running to secure the Democratic nomination.

Fox News' Lawrence Richard and Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.

Posted by Paul Steinhauser

23 hour(s) ago

Five areas could tell us a lot about the GOP on Super Tuesday

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Five areas could tell us a lot about the GOP on Super Tuesday

As results pour in for the 2024 Super Tuesday, let's take a close look at five areas in the United States that reveal something about the Republican candidates and voters.

Fifteen states and one U.S. territory are holding presidential primaries this evening.

President Biden only faces nominal opposition on Democratic primary ballots, and barring any surprises, could get close to securing his party’s nomination tonight.

On the Republican side, 35% of the total delegates at stake will be settled.

Former President Trump comes into the race with formidable advantages. He has six times as many delegates as Haley, and has polled well ahead of her in recent national surveys.

Haley will be hoping for an upset to make this race competitive, and even if she doesn’t, she is likely to walk away with some delegates, thanks to varying rules.

But regardless of the overall result, the vote count in certain parts of the country tonight will tell us something about Republican voters in 2024.

Posted by Kyle Morris

23 hour(s) ago

Why did Colorado attempt to Trump from primary ballot?

Former President Donald Trump speaks in the library at Mar-a-Lago on March 4, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida.(Alon Skuy/Getty Images)

In December, the Supreme Court in Colorado ruled to disqualify Donald Trump from the state's 2024 presidential primary ballot.

The court found that Trump was disqualified under the 14h Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states that office holders who engage in insurrection are ineligible for federal office. The court argued that the Trump engaged in insurrection due to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.

"We do not reach these conclusions lightly," the court's majority wrote. "We are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us. We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach."

In early January, Trump filed an appeal and asked the court to keep his name on the ballot. The Colorado secretary of state ultimately kept Trump's name on the ballot pending the Supreme Court's decision.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court sided unanimously with Trump. The ruling of all nine justices will impact the status of efforts in several other states, including Maine and Illinois , that had attempted to the likely GOP nominee from their respective ballots.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Hillary Clinton on Biden's age: 'You know what, Joe Biden is old'

Hillary Clinton speaks during the "A Special Evening With Hillary Clinton" at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival at Theater des Westens on February 19, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. (Franziska Krug/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton says people need to "accept the reality" that President Biden is old, move on and focus on beating Donald Trump.

The former Secretary of State appeared on the "Mornings with Zerlina" radio show on SiriusXM Tuesday where she discussed what she saw as the authoritarian threat of Trump winning the 2024 presidential election. By contrast, she advised people to acknowledge Biden’s age and move on to protect democracy.

"Somebody the other day said to me… 'Well, but, you know, Joe Biden's old.' I said, 'You know what, Joe Biden is old . Let's go ahead and accept the reality. Joe Biden is old.' So we have a contest between one candidate who's old, but who's done an effective job and doesn't threaten our democracy. And we have another candidate who is old, barely makes sense when he talks, is dangerous, and threatens our democracy," Clinton said.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Lindsay Kornick

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Michelle Obama shuts down speculation that she is planning to run for president

Michelle Obama will not launch a bid for the White House amid rumors that the former first lady was eyeing a presidential run, according to her office.(Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)

Michelle Obama will not launch a bid for the White House amid rumors that the former first lady was eyeing a presidential run, according to her office.

"As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president," Crystal Carson, the director of communications for Obama’s office, said in a statement provided to ITK on Tuesday.

Obama supports President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, her office said. Fox News Digital has reached out to Obama's communication team.

Rumors of Obama's candidacy came as questions about Biden's mental capacity continue to swirl. The rumors began to circulate after some Republicans floated the idea that she could replace Biden on the November ballot.

Some political commentators said the former first lady has the best chance of beating former President Donald Trump , who is the leading candidate to secure the GOP presidential nomination.

Biden is struggling with low poll numbers amid concerns from Republicans and some Democrats about his age and ability to lead the country.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Louis Casiano

Posted by Kyle Morris

March 5th

These GOP lawmakers endorse Trump in his 2024 run for POTUS

Many GOP lawmakers are standing in support of Trump as he runs in the 2024 election against his Republican and Democrat opponents, including President Biden and GOP hopeful Nikki Haley.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.

Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.

Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn.

House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson, R-N.C.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell could also endorse former President Donald Trump in the 2024 race as one of his last major actions before leaving leadership.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Possible VP picks for Trump

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Former President Donald Trump told supporters in the days leading up to the New Hampshire primary that he likely will not choose 2024 Republican nomination rival Nikki Haley as his running mate.

"She is not presidential timber," Trump said of Haley as he spoke at January rally in New Hampshire's capital city. "Now, when I say that, that probably means that she’s not going to be chosen as the vice president."

Some potential Vice President picks are former primary candidate and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, New York, House Rep Elise Stefanik, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, South Carolina House Rep Nancy Mace, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Scott, who remains popular with primary voters, is an enticing choice but Stefanik is said to have recently impressed Trump with her grilling of Ivy League presidents over antisemitism on campus.

With an abundance of options, few in Trump’s political orbit have a good feel for whom Trump is leaning toward as his running mate. Veteran Republican strategist Ryan Williams noted that "Trump prizes loyalty and fealty above everything else when it comes to his supporters."

Posted by Matteo Cina

March 5th

Trump reacts to House Democrats working to him from ballot: 'They're real losers'

Posted by Michael Lee

March 5th

Haley staying in the race despite loss in her home state of South Carolina

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Former S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, despite her loss in her home state of South Carolina in February, said she is staying in the GOP presidential primary race.

Haley had pledged to stay in the race even if she lost the Palmetto State, and she said she's sticking with that.

"I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden," she told supporters after her loss on Feb. 24.

Former President Donald Trump won the state's GOP primary.

"We’re headed to Michigan tomorrow. And we’re headed to the Super Tuesday states throughout all of next week," she said.

Last week, Trump beat Haley in Michigan where the remaining 39 of the state's 55 presidential delegates went to Trump.

Michigan Republicans were forced to split their primary into two parts after Democrats who control the state government moved Michigan into the early primary states, violating the national Republican Party’s rules.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Biden plans to 'trigger Trump' in new 'aggressive' election strategy: Report

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In a major shift of his political strategy with just months to go before the election, President Biden wants to take every opportunity to attack former President Trump, according to a recent report.

Biden, who has frequently refused to call Trump by name in interviews, "is privately pushing for a much more aggressive approach to 2024: Go for Donald Trump's jugular," Axios reported Tuesday.

The report revealed that "Biden is convinced he'll rattle Trump if he taunts him daily" and that the president has told friends and allies that "he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him."

One advisor told Axios that Biden could make Trump "go haywire in public."

"The ‘trigger Trump’ approach would be a departure from a traditional Rose Garden re-election campaign," according to the outlet.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Jeffrey Clark

Posted by Michael Lee

March 5th

Ramaswamy warns liberal justices 'buying political latitude' with 9-0 ruling

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Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy praised the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling against Colorado's removal of former President Trump from the 2024 ballot but warned of potential foreshadowing within the written decision.

After the decision was handed down, Ramaswamy echoed Trump's belief that it represented a "case of national unity," and that the United States cannot essentially be united if a "patchwork" of states can make unilateral decisions about a national candidate's eligibility beyond the typical age and tenure statutes.

"That doesn't work if we're one nation. So that's what this case was really about," he said. "I do think that this is not just about President Trump, but about the future unity of our country itself. And the Supreme Court, 9-0, came down on the right side of that question."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Charles Creitz

Posted by Michael Lee

March 5th

Mark Cuban would vote for Biden even if 'he was being given last rites'

Billionaire Mark Cuban reiterated his support for President Biden over Trump, even to the point of death, in a recent comment.

The Dallas Mavericks minority owner and media personality spoke to Bloomberg News after he visited the White House on Monday to take part in a roundtable discussion on controlling drug prices. Cuban explained that while he voted for Nikki Haley in the Texas GOP primary, he would vote for Biden in the general if Trump was his opponent.

Despite ongoing and growing concerns over Biden’s age, Cuban shrugged off the issue, claiming he would vote for the president even on his deathbed.

"If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden," Cuban emphasized.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Lindsay Kornick

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Kellyanne Conway on Trump: 'It's going to be another dominant day'

Fox News contributor and former campaign manager to Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, joined "Fox & Friends" Tuesday to discuss the Supreme Court's ballot ruling on Monday in favor of the former president.

"We should all applaud the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court, Conway said to Fox News' Lawrence B. Jones. "You have so many of our institutions now racked with Trump derangement syndrome, weaponizing themselves against him, trying to stop him politically, damage him financially."

All nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a unanimous decision to side with Trump in his challenge to Colorado’s attempt make him an ineligible candidate on the 2024 presidential primary ballot.

"Let the voters decide," she added.

Regarding voter turnout on Super Tuesday, Conway believes voters will support Trump today.

"I think it's going to help turnout and there's no suspense today. It's going to be another dominant day for the former and future President Donald Trump."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

How many delegates does Trump presently have secured?

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In the nationwide Republican Presidential Primary process there are 2,429 total delegates: 2,325 pledged and 104 unpledged. Pledged delegates are bound to vote for the candidate they were elected to vote for and unpledged delegates may vote for whomever they choose.

A candidate must receive 1,215 delegates, a majority, to receive the Republican’s nomination for president. Anything less than that will end in a contested convention where candidates will jockey for delegates live and in person. Certain states have winner take all systems, where whoever gets the most delegates wins them all, while most have proportional delegate systems, candidates get a number of delegates based on the percentage of votes they secure.

Currently, former President Donald Trump sits at 122 delegates compared to former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s 24 delegates. The combined 12 delegates won by former Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are considered lost and not redistributed. 36% of the available delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday.

Posted by Matteo Cina

March 5th

Keith Olbermann calls for SCOTUS to be ‘dissolved’ for overturning Trump Colorado ballot ban

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called for the Supreme Court to be "dissolved" following Monday’s unanimous ruling against Colorado's removal of former President Trump from the 2024 ballot.

"The Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the ‘court’ has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved," Olbermann posted on X.

A follower responded, "Dissolve the separation of powers to save democracy?" And Olberman shot back, "If the political whores on the court are overruling quite explicit language in the constitution to benefit one politician, your ‘separation of powers’ died long ago."

The far-left media personality also responded to a conservative who told him to "cry more" by declaring, "Those aren't tears, Fascist. They're urine. I'm sure you enjoy being bathed in it."

Olbermann also said the Supreme Court is "betraying America yet again," on a video posted to social media. All nine justices ruled in favor of Trump in the case, which will impact the status of efforts in several other states to GOP frontrunner from their respective ballots.

This is an excerpt of an article by Fox News' Brian Flood

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Trump hits back at Haley's claim that she is a better candidate to beat Biden

Former President Donald Trump refuted opponent Nikki Haley's claim that she is a better general election candidate to compete against President Biden, as voters head to the polls in a variety of states on Super Tuesday.

"It's a lie. She knows it's a lie," Trump told Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade during a "Fox & Friends" phone interview Tuesday, downplaying polls that have shown Haley performing better versus Biden.

"We are winning against Biden in every single poll, and everybody knows it, whether it's the New York Times, whether it's any of the polls that have been taken over the last three months. So she is misrepresenting that fact and it's fine. It's not going to matter because I think we're going to win every state tonight."

His remarks come after Haley suggested she has a better chance to oust Biden than Trump does during a campaign event on Monday, despite only having one primary victory under her belt.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Bailee Hill.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

OPINION: Democrats rush to keep Trump off ballot because election can't be left to voters

The following is an excerpt from an opinion article by Jonathan Turley:

Calling it "one on a huge list of priorities," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D., Md., announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., to disqualify not just former President Donald Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office.

The alternative, it appears, is unthinkable: allowing the public to choose their next president and representatives in Congress. It appears that the last thing Democrats want is for the unanimous decision to actually lead to an outbreak of democracy. Where the Court expressly warned of "chaos" in elections, Raskin and others appear eager to be agents of chaos in Congress.

Soon after the decision, Raskin went on CNN to assure people that he and his colleagues would not stand by and allow the right to vote to be restored to citizens in the upcoming election. He pledged to reintroduce a prior bill that would declare Jan. 6 an "insurrection" and that those involved "engaged in insurrection."

I previously wrote about these "ballot cleansing" efforts because it would not just disqualify Trump but potentially dozens of sitting Republican members of Congress. Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory. Similar legislation offered by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats.

Raskin's participation in this effort is crushingly ironic. In 2016, he sought to block certification of the 2016 election under the very same law as violent protests were occurring before the inauguration.

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

McConnell in talks to endorse Trump in 2024 presidential race: report

McConnell is currently the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Trump's return to the White House

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell could endorse former President Donald Trump in the 2024 race as one of his last major actions before leaving leadership.

McConnell's office and Trump's presidential campaign have been in talks over a possible endorsement, as well as a strategy to unite Republicans just eight months away from the November election, according to The Associated Press, citing a person familiar with the situation.

McConnell is currently the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to back the former president's bid to return to the White House.

Any potential endorsement comes as Trump is competing with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to win the Republican nomination, and as both candidates compete for a whopping 854 delegates at stake on Super Tuesday, March 5.

Fox News Digital reached out to both the Trump campaign and McConnell’s Senate office but did not immediately receive a response.

McConnell, who turned 82 last month, announced on Wednesday that he would step down as Republican leader and would pursue "life's next chapter."

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Nikki Haley on the eve of Super Tuesday: 'The crowds are passionate'

Nikki Haley spoke with anchor and executive editor of "The Story" Martha MacCallum on Monday ahead of Super Tuesday's kickoff.

MacCallum asked Haley, "Is it fair to say that you will be making some kind of decision on Wednesday?"

"What's fair to say is we've been in 10 states in the past week," Haley replied. Last night, Haley held rallies in both Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. As of now, Haley has yet to signify any end to her presidential campaign trail.

"We're running through the tape," Haley said. "We're touching as many people as we can. The crowds are passionate. They're fired up. They want a new generational leader, they want to turn the page, and we're excited about that."

Today, voting will take place in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia.

In terms of which states Haley believes she could win tonight, she isn't detailing them.

"We have some internal numbers that we're looking for and that's what we're gonna focus on," Haley told MacCallum. "I'm not gonna those today, but our goal is just to be competitive."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Hannity tells Trump he fears illegal immigrants will 'plot, plan, scheme' the next 9/11 'or worse'

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump sat down with Sean Hannity in late February in Eagle Pass, Texas to discuss the crisis at the southern border, the influx of illegal immigrants migrating into the U.S. and the possible ramifications of the less than secure border.

"We're just started to see, I call it migrant crime," Trump said. "I really call it Biden migrant crime but it's too long so let's just call it migrant crime and everyone's gonna know it's because of Biden."

"You go back to New York, and you see hundreds of thousands of people and you can see, look, the mayor is trying, he wants to do a job, but it's just, it's impossible," Trump said of Eric Adams.

Adams was recently rebuffed by his own Democratic supermajority city council after he signaled a willingness to slacken New York City's "sanctuary" policies and cooperate more with ICE.

Hannity went on to mention the thousands of illegal, unvetted immigrants coming into the country from Egypt, Afghanistan, Russia and China.

"Now, why would they make that long journey to our southern border?" he asked Trump.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Trump hits at Nikki Haley's claim that she's a better choice to beat Biden: 'She knows it's a lie'

Donald Trump, Nikki Haley join 'Fox & Friends' as voters head to polls for Super Tuesday

His remarks come after Haley suggested she has a better chance to oust Biden than Trump does during a campaign event on Monday, despite only having one primary victory under her belt.

"If you look at any of the general election polls, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are even. I think there was a Fox poll today, he was up by two. That's still margin of error," Haley said during a campaign event in Fort Worth, Texas. "Between last week's poll. In this week's poll, I defeat Joe Biden by up to 18 points."

Trump doubled down on Haley pivoting on her previous pledge to not run against Trump, warning there is "no path" to victory for her 2024 campaign.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Bailee Hill

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Colorado Republicans threaten secretary of state with recall after Trump wins at Supreme Court

Rep Lauren Boebert told Secretary of State Jena Griswold to 'start packing your bags'

Colorado Republicans have threatened the state's top election official with a recall effort after the Supreme Court decided 9-0 that Colorado cannot stop former President Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., led state party officials in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Jena Griswold Monday that accused her of attempting to "disenfranchise millions of Coloradans" and called the effort to bar Trump from the ballot "a stain on our Republic and an outright embarrassment."

"With today's unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to keep President Donald J. Trump on the Colorado primary ballot, it is now even more clear Coloradans should have zero faith in you to adequately protect their right to vote and oversee elections in the state of Colorado," the letter states.

The GOP officials charge that Griswold made "a selfish political decision to rig the primary election" against Trump and declare that "all legal options" are on the table for payback, "including a formal recall effort."

The letter was signed by Boebert, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Wiliams, state party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman and Secretary Anna Feguson.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Chris Pandolfo

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Trump maintains grip on GOP nod with victory in North Dakota caucuses

Trump will now look to make his commanding lead insurmountable on 'Super Tuesday'

Former President Donald Trump inched closer to becoming the Republican nominee for president with another primary victory Monday, this time with a win in the North Dakota caucuses.

Trump won North Dakota's caucuses, finishing first in voting conducted at 12 caucus sites, according to an Associated Press call of the race shortly after polls closed Sunday, earning the former president 29 delegates.

The win continues Trump's dominant streak in this year's GOP primary races, marking the 9th win in 10 tries for the former president as he closes in on representing the Republican Party for a third time.

The only contest Trump has lost so far was last weekend's primary in Washington D.C.

The win comes as Trump's campaign has largely shifted its attention to the general election and an all-but-certain rematch of 2020's matchup against President Biden, with the Trump campaign telling Fox News Digital before this week's slate of contests that the primary race is "over."

"Republican voters have delivered resounding wins for President Trump in every single primary contest and this race is over," a spokesperson for the campaign said. "Our focus is now on Joe Biden and the general election."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Michael Lee

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Could Super Tuesday’s weather impact voter turnout?

Voters in Iowa faced record-cold temperatures in January, while New Hampshire residents were treated to mild conditions. Research published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that some voting groups’ turnout increased by 0.14% for every 1.8-degree jump in temperature.

One of the most anticipated voting days of the primary cycle will take place on Tuesday when 15 states and one territory will hold contests in the races for the presidential nominations.

Contests will be held from Alaska to Maine, and voters could face everything from snow showers to severe thunderstorms.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, three storm systems will impact the country on Tuesday – one stretching from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys to the Gulf Coast, one over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast and another in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

Neither storm system is expected to be historic regarding the strength of impacts. However, according to political experts, even nuisance weather could affect voter turnout, especially during caucuses.

"In states like Virginia where they’ve been voting more than a month at this point, early voting really kind of reduces the weather impact," said David Richards, Ph.D., an associate professor and political chair at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia.

On Tuesday, primaries will be held in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and American Samoa.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Andrew Wulfeck

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Restoring America Editor on the must-watch California primary election today

Restoring America Editor from the Washington Examiner Kaylee McGhee White joined "Fox & Friends First" hosts Carley Shimkus and Todd Piro early Tuesday morning to discuss the primary elections taking place today.

Piro asked McGhee White what she will be watching out for today.

"I'm really interested to see what happens in California," she replied. "Newsom's approval ratings just dropped below 50% to 47% for the first time since 2019. That's lower than it's ever been, even lower than when he had that recall effort against him."

Though Newsom maintained his position as governor in California in 2021, the recall election against him sparked in 2020 mainly over accusations that he mishandled his state’s response to the coronavirus, the worst pandemic to strike the globe in a century.

McGhee White went on, "There's clearly a lot of discontent among Democratic voters in California against the state's current policies."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Trump on the crisis at the border: 'This border makes 2016 look like baby stuff'

Donald Trump sat down with Sean Hannity on "Hannity" in Eagle Pass, Texas in late February to discuss President Biden and the border crisis.

"I ran on the border, and I ran on other things, but I ran on the border largely. And we fixed the problem and in 2020 it wasn't even a subject," Trump told Hannity. "I'd go out and I'd say 'I want to talk about the border' they'd say 'Sir, you fixed the border. Nobody cares about the border anymore.'"

"This border makes 2016 look like baby stuff," he said. "It's the worst border ever in the history of the world."

"So you have 28,000 from China, all fighting age, you don't see women and you don't see men much older than that," Trump said. "It's from 18 to 25, 26 years old. And there's something going on. And they're coming from Yemen that we're bombing. They're coming from the Congo, from prisons in the Congo."

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by Fox News in February shows that Chinese nationals are the second-largest nationality encountered at the border in San Diego Sector since the fiscal year began in October.

"The only good thing is, it makes our prisoners look like very nice people," Trump continued. "These are rough people that are coming in."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Haley’s Super Tuesday barometer: Keep your eyes on these two states

Keep your eyes on Vermont and Virginia, where polls close at 7pm ET - the first two states to wrap up voting on the Republican side.

We should get an early indication if Nikki Haley's going to have any success on Super Tuesday in her extreme long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination against former President Donald Trump.

Keep your eyes on Vermont and Virginia, where polls close at 7pm ET - the first two states to wrap up voting on the Republican side.

Only 65 GOP delegates are up for grabs in the two states - which is just a small slice of the overall 854 at stake in the 15 states from coast to coast holding Republican nominating contests on Super Tuesday.

But the states may be a good barometer of how the night will turn out for Haley, the former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration.

Vermont and Virginia both hold open primaries, where registered voters are allowed to cast a ballot in either the GOP or Democratic presidential primaries, regardless of any party affiliation.

In the nine Republican primaries or caucuses already held so far this year, Haley has performed best in contests where independents and even some crossover Democrats have been able to vote.

Haley held a rally in each state in the final days leading up to Super Tuesday. And in Vermont, she was joined by anti-Trump Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who has endorsed her White House bid.

If Haley does well in both states, it could be a sign there's still some life left in her challenge against Trump.

But a poor showing in Vermont and Virginia would be a strong indicator that Trump will run the table on Super Tuesday.

Posted by Paul Steinhauser

March 5th

'She's not trying to win the Republican primary by ordinary means': Kaylee McGhee White on Haley

Kaylee McGhee White sat down with "Fox & Friends First" hosts Carley Shimkus and Todd Piro to analyze the highly anticipated Republican race today between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump.

Piro outlined the question that is on much of America's mind -- why is Haley still in the race?

"She's vowed to stay," he said. "So long as it is competitive. She says today will be competitive. But Kaylee, will it be competitive?"

McGhee White believes it's "set in stone" and leaning in favor of Trump.

"The only person who seems to not be confused by Nikki Haley's strategy here is Nikki Haley, and even she doesn't really seem to know what she's doing anymore" she said.

"One thing is clear; she's not trying to win the Republican primary by ordinary means," McGhee White added. "She knows that she is not going to get enough delegates today, or any other day, to beat Donald Trump. At best, she's hoping that something happens to Donald Trump in the next several months, probably with one of the many court cases against him, that would take him out of the race."

But, would Republicans rally behind Haley if this were the case? Last week, Haley lost to Trump in her home state of South Carolina.

"I'm not quite sure why she thinks that she would just be the back up candidate if something were to take Donald Trump out of the race," McGhee White said. "Republican voters are going to remember every single thing that she said about the former president over the past several months, and they're not going to take too kindly to that."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Nikki Haley confirms she has no plans to make 3rd party run if Trump wins GOP primary

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley confirmed that she still has no plans to run as an independent if she fails to secure the GOP presidential nomination.

Haley made the statement during a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox News as voters across the country prepared to cast their ballots in Super Tuesday primaries.

"I am a conservative Republican. I have been all my life. And the problem is right now everybody is saying if you don't if you don't support Donald Trump, you're a Democrat. That's terrible. And that's not unifying and that's not going to get anyone to win a general election. What I will tell you is I'm a conservative Republican," Haley said in an interview.

"I have said many, many times I would not run as an independent. I would not run as no labels because I am a Republican. And that's who I've always been. That's what I'm going to do. And so that's my focus. What we wanted was to give people a voice. We're going to have that today. 16 states and territories are going to vote. God bless America that we get to do that. And and then we're going to take it from there. That's what we've always said," she added.

Trump is expected to walk away from Super Tuesday with major victories.

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March 5th

When was the first Super Tuesday in America?

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The Super Tuesday that we recognize today has occurred every presidential election since 1988, but the very first Super Tuesday took place on May 25, of 1976 when Ronald Reagan was running against Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination.

There were six primaries held on that day and each candidate ended up gaining three states. During 1980, seven primaries and caucuses were held in early March, according to the National Constitution Center.

The website highlights that the special day was “used to describe the final Tuesday of the primary season in June, when a key group of states that included California and New Jersey cast votes.” Then in 1984, nine states participated and by 1988, the day was known as Southern Super Tuesday due to 21 states, a majority from the South, holding elections in March that year.

Now there are multiple “mini-Super Tuesday” events that come after the Super Tuesday in March.

Posted by Emily Robertson

March 5th

Super Tuesday expected to boost Trump closer to clinching GOP nomination as Haley makes last stand

Trump is hoping to push Nikki Haley out of the race on Tuesday

Donald Trump won't clinch the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday.

But with the former president likely to capture the lion's of the 854 Republican delegates up for grabs when 15 states hold GOP primaries or caucuses on what's known as Super Tuesday, Trump is expected to move significantly closer to locking up his party's presidential nomination over his last remaining rival – Nikki Haley.

"It’s big stuff and it’s the single most important primary day of the year," Trump told his supporters in a video posted on social media ahead of Super Tuesday.

Trump has swept all but one of the first nine contests on the GOP nominating calendar, including North Dakota's Republican presidential caucuses on the eve of Super Tuesday.

Another strong showing by the former president in Tuesday's coast-to-coast primaries and caucuses will help him in his mission to completely pivot from a primary battle with Haley to a general election rematch with President Biden, who defeated Trump four years ago to win the White House.

"If every single conservative, Republican, and Trump supporter in these states shows up on Super Tuesday, we will be very close to finished with this primary contest," Trump emphasized. "Republicans will then be able to focus all of our energy, time, and resources, on defeating crooked Joe Biden."

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Economic woes dominate Americans' worries on Super Tuesday

Americans are frustrated with the economy headed into Super Tuesday

Voters are headed to the polls on the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle with one issue in particular at the top of their minds: the state of the U.S. economy.

About one-third of Americans think that economic problems are the most important issue facing the country today, according to a monthly poll published by Gallup. That includes 12% of voters who are worried about the economy in general and 11% who identified the high cost of living and ongoing inflation crisis as the top problem in the country.

Another 3% expressed concern about the steep federal budget deficit, while 2% said taxes.

By comparison, 28% of Americans said that immigration is the No. 1 problem, while 20% said the top issue is the government and poor leadership. Another 6% identified poverty and homelessness as the biggest problems.

The findings come ahead of Super Tuesday, the day in the presidential primary cycle when many states vote. More than one-third of Republican delegates are up for grabs in the 15 states that are voting on Tuesday. About a third of Democratic delegates will also be decided, with nominating contests in 14 states plus American Samoa.

Former President Trump, the GOP frontrunner, is widely expected to dominate the races, as he goes up against the last standing Republican challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. President Biden, as the incumbent and only major candidate for the Democrats, is also likely to sweep the races.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox Business' Megan Henney

Posted by Anders Hagstrom

March 5th

Kaylee McGhee White on Haley: 'She could end up being just as despised as Hillary Clinton'

Restoring America Editor Kaylee McGhee White joined "Fox & Friends First" hosts Carley Shimkus and Todd Piro early Tuesday morning.

McGhee White touched on Nikki Haley's continued participation in the presidential primary race and what it could mean for her future with Republicans.

"Nikki Haley is not predicting victory in any single one of the states that heads to the polls today, but she's still insisting that she's going to stay in the race anyway," she said.

"And you know, I may be young, but I am old enough to remember the last female politician who came along, who also belittled her primary opponent by saying that he couldn't win a general election, that no one liked him, and that candidate's name was Hillary Clinton," McGhee White added. "So, Nikki Haley has a choice to make here. She could end up being just as despised as Hillary Clinton if she continues down this road, or she could drop out now and save some of her dignity in the Republican party."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Years of historic Super Tuesday moments from past primary nights

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Every election cycle there is one detrimental Tuesday that makes or breaks presidential campaigns - Super Tuesday.

Since the late 1970s, Super Tuesday has worked to lock in the nominations of presidential candidates, including former President George H.W. Bush who won 16 out of 17 states in the 1989 primary election, as well as former President Bill Clinton in 1992.

Super Tuesday usually sees around 10 states holding primaries on the same night. On Super Tuesday in 2008, however, history was made when 24 states held primaries on the same Tuesday in February.

In the weeks ahead of Super Tuesday in 2020, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was seemingly leading the Democrat presidential primary contest, however, then-candidate Joe Biden’s campaign made an unexpected comeback. The now-president had lost the Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada primary races, but went on to win 10 Super Tuesday states. This boost in his campaign quickly led to him securing the Democrat nomination and eventually winning the presidency.

Posted by Aubrie Spady

March 5th

What happened to Bernie Sanders supporters on Super Tuesday in 2020?

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., entered the 2020 presidential race with momentum stemming from his 2016 run and early wins, but his Super Tuesday results changed the trajectory of his entire campaign.

In 2016, while Sanders trailed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he secured wins in several vital states and was expected to perform going into his 2020 campaign.

Sanders nearly tied with Pete Buttigieg for the Iowa 2020 caucus, with a 0.1% difference, the state that used to kick off of the Democrat nomination calendar. Sanders then secured a win in both the New Hampshire and Nevada caucuses.

In his home state of Vermont, however, where Sanders won 86% of the vote over Hillary Clinton four years prior, the progressive only won 50% of the vote.

While Sanders appeared to be in the run for the Democrat nomination, he did not perform well on Super Tuesday despite major 2016 victories.

Despite Sanders carrying the Super Tuesday states over Clinton in 2016, now-president Biden was named the victor of 10 states on the primary night.

Sanders suspended his campaign just one month later in April.

Posted by Aubrie Spady

March 5th

Flashback: Super Tuesday 2020 results between Trump and Biden

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As we continue to see results pour in on this Super Tuesday for the 2024 presidential election, let’s look at the results back in 2020.

In 2020, Super Tuesday took place on March 3, and then-former Vice President Joe Biden won 10 primaries and received 650 pledged delegates, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won four primaries and received 556 delegates. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., won 0 primaries and received 76 delegates. Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard won 0 primaries but received 2 delegates. Michael Bloomberg won one primary, gaining 60 delegates, however he eventually dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden, according to U.S. Election Atlas.

Around 40% of the United States held primary events on that Super Tuesday, according to Ballotpedia.

Former President Donald Trump ran unopposed for the Republican primary in Maine and Minnesota. A couple of his opponents were Joe Walsh and Bill Weld. Trump ended up winning 13 states.

Posted by Emily Robertson

March 5th

What does it mean to "win" Super Tuesday?

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The 2024 presidential contenders are gearing up for one the defining nights of the presidential primary election, known as Super Tuesday.

On a Tuesday, normally held in February or March, several states hold presidential primaries or caucuses. These events help determine the candidates who will appear on the ballot for the general election later in the year. This cycle, 15 states and one U.S. territory will vote for their preferred nominees in the 2024 presidential election.

A Super Tuesday "win" means one candidate from each of the two political parties will secure a number of valuable delegates. Whoever wins the majority of delegates is likely to become their party’s nominee.

Historically, any remaining candidates in the field who failed to secure enough statewide wins will bow out of the race shortly after and the party will begin to back a single candidate as the nominee.

Alabama, Alaska (Republican only), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and the U.S. territory of American Samoa will all be participating in Super Tuesday primary voting.

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March 5th

South Carolina primary showed Trump’s strength in Haley’s home state

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The South Carolina presidential primary took place on Saturday, February 24, between former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on the Republican ticket. President Biden functionally ran unopposed and captured 96% of the vote when the Democrats held their primary.

South Carolina was highly anticipated to see how Haley’s name recognition as former governor would fare against Trump’s immense lead among GOP voters. Ultimately, Trump won with 60% of the vote compared to Haley’s 40%. This was comparable to Trump’s past victories in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.

Haley remained defiant, insisting that an incumbent president losing 40% of the vote is evidence he can’t defeat Biden in November.

"Donald Trump as, technically, the Republican incumbent did not win 40% of the vote," Haley said to reporters during her campaigning in Michigan. "So, what you are looking at is something is shifting and this has been happening for a while."

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March 5th

New York Jets owner stood behind Trump during SC victory speech in February

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New York Jets owner and billionaire businessman Woody Johnson stood in support behind former President Trump in South Carolina after Trump was quickly projected the winner of the state’s primary.

Johnson, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom during the Trump administration, was on stage alongside his wife Suzanne behind Trump as the former president delivered a speech after his quick victory in the Palmetto State primary on Feb. 24.

Johnson, a member of the founding family of Johnson & Johnson, has previously expressed support for the former president during the 2024 campaign.

"Americans remember how good it was or how much better it was on the border, and inflation, and gas prices, and grocery prices, all that, during the Trump administration, and they want to get back there," Johnson told News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo earlier in February.

"So I think the most important thing is getting the former president back in the White House, which looks like it’s happening."

Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Dana Perino, Bill Hemmer and other Fox News hosts to break down Super Tuesday results in real-time

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Starting at 7 p.m. ET, FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will lead live marathon coverage surrounding the results during Democracy 2024: Super Tuesday Primaries.

Throughout the evening, the co-anchors will be joined by a rotating team of commentators and hosts including Dana Perino, Sandra Smith and Bill Hemmer who will break down the latest developments in real-time on the electronic “Bill-Board.”

Chief political analyst Brit Hume, Harold Ford Jr. and Kellyanne Conway will also contribute to the live coverage, along with appearances from Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, Shannon Bream, Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy, Jessica Tarlov, Kayleigh McEnany, Trey Gowdy and Karl Rove who will analyze the impact of the critical primary races for the presidential candidates.

7-11 PM/ET – Democracy 2024: Super Tuesday Primaries anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum11 PM-1 AM/ET – Democracy 2024: Super Tuesday Primaries anchored by Trace Gallagher1-4 AM/ET – Democracy 2024: Super Tuesday Primaries anchored by Gillian Turner and Mike Emanuel.

Super Tuesday results are not expected to all follow closely behind polls closing between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET.

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March 5th

Haley secures first win, upping her delegate count in the presidential primary race

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Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley still pushes through in the 2024 GOP presidential primary even after losing several states to former President Donald Trump.

After the South Carolina primary results came in, Trump and Haley gave speeches to their supporters.

"I said earlier this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina, I would continue to run for President. I’m a woman of my word. I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of Americans disapprove of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden," Haley said.

As of the recent primary in the state of Michigan, Haley had only 24 delegates while her opponent, Trump, had 122.

Haley lost to Trump in Michigan having only 26.60% of votes cast while the former president had 68.11%.

Posted by Emily Robertson

March 5th

How did Super Tuesday get its name?

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In the United States’ election system, primaries are by each party to determine who their nominee for president will be. While the general election has some regulation from the federal government – like mandating that the election takes place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November – primaries are well and truly governed by the state parties.

As such, parties will often jockey to have their state vote during strategically important times to try and maximize their influence on the presidential nomination process.

Enter Super Tuesday.

Why the day matters is simple: over 30% of the delegates that are available to win will be up for grabs on a single day. Primary campaigns often live and die off of Super Tuesday.

Prior to this recent trend, “Super Tuesday” used to refer to the last Tuesday of the election cycle, when big states like California were in play. However, since 2008, in an effort by parties to avoid politically bloody and costly primary elections, more and more states started frontloading their election dates in an effort to select a nominee early.

Posted by Matteo Cina

March 5th

President Biden won 9 states on Super Tuesday in 2020

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President Joe Biden won 10 out of 15 states on Super Tuesday in 2020, ultimately securing his lead in the Democratic presidential primary race.

Ahead of Biden's night of wins, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, was a top contender in the Democratic presidential primary after tying for first place at the Iowa Caucus, and then winning both New Hampshire and Nevada.

However, Biden's slow start was given a boost when he was declared the victor of the South Carolina primary – the state where Democrats held their first contest this year.

Just before Super Tuesday in 2020, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat, ended their presidential bids and backed Biden ahead of the multi-state primary event, giving his campaign a final push to victory.

The night of Super Tuesday, Biden secured wins in Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Sanders, Biden's last standing competition, dropped out of the race weeks later and endorsed the now-president.

Posted by Aubrie Spady

March 5th

Flashback: Super Tuesday results from 2016

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As more results for the 2024 Super Tuesday come in, let’s take a look back at the 2016 primary results.

The primaries took place on March 1, involving both Democratic and Republican candidates.

Looking at the totals for Republican candidates, Trump was in the lead with 283 total delegates, according to U.S. Election Atlas. Around 595 delegates were reported by Ballotpedia to be allocated to Republican candidates.

Trump won 7 primaries in the 2016 Super Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz won 3 primaries and gained 245 delegates. Sen. Marco Rubio won one primary and received 97 delegates. Former Ohio Governor John Kasich won 0 primaries and gained 21 delegates. Ben Carson won 0 primaries and received 3 delegates.

For the Democrats, Ballotpedia reports that around 865 delegates were to be allocated by the presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton won 8 primaries and allocated 517 delegates, while Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won 4 primaries and received 347 delegates.

Posted by Emily Robertson

March 5th

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds: 'Donald Trump is the nominee'

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds joined "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream this weekend to discuss Super Tuesday.

"Donald Trump overwhelmingly won every single state," Donalds said. "Now we move to Super Tuesday and let me just tell you, it's basically over already. It's going to be over Tuesday night when Super Tuesday ballots come in because there is no path to victory for Nikki Haley."

Donalds represents Florida's 19th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives.

"On our side of the aisle, we believe in choices, we want options. The Democrats are the one who basically kicked Robert F. Kennedy out of their primary. They basically stopped Dean Phillips from being able to even try to mount a campaign against Joe Biden," he told Bream.

"Nikki Haley had an opportunity to run like everybody else. They all lost. Donald Trump is the nominee. We're going to move forward to November," he concluded.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Fox News' Bill Melugin says Tuesday could 'make or break' Nikki Haley's campaign

Fox News' Bill Melugin joined Arthel Neville on FOX News Live from Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend in the days leading up to Super Tuesday.

"She told me, when I caught up with her, she has no interest whatsoever in running on a third party, no labels ticket," he told Neville of GOP hopeful Nikki Haley. "Why? She says she doesn't want a Democrat as a VP and she is a Republican. She says she is Republican's best shot at beating Joe Biden this November."

Earlier in the day, Haley held a campaign event with more than 1,100 people.

"She says she's been seeing bigger crowds in recent days," he said.

Haley recently received endorsements from Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Maine Sen. Susan Collins.

"Let's face it, Super Tuesday could be a make or break moment for her campaign," Melugin said. In speaking with Haley, he told Neville that he asked Haley about whether she will endorse Donald Trump if Tuesday doesn't go her way.

"First of all, I'll tell you when you're running a race, you don't think about anything negative happening," Haley said in response. "You only look at running through the tape. So, I am running through the rape, I'm not thinking about anything after that."

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

Results from past Super Tuesday primary elections

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Super Tuesday’s history is littered with the bones of presidential campaigns. In an average post 2008 election year, upwards of 20% of available delegates are up for grabs.

In 2020, Super Tuesday was instrumental in securing President Joe Biden’s victory. Up until then, Biden had been struggling in early-voting states. But the day before Super Tuesday, many moderate Democrats dropped out and endorsed Biden. Biden swept 10 out of the 14 states, winning 53% of the delegates and solidifying his victory as the Democratic nominee.

In 2016 there were two days that the media deemed “Super Tuesday I & II”. On Super Tuesday I almost half of the remaining delegates required for victory were up for grabs, but on Super Tuesday II four states with winner-take-all delegate distribution were up for grabs.

Former President Trump won a plurality of delegates on Super Tuesday I and a majority on Super Tuesday II, all but locking down the nomination for him.

Posted by Matteo Cina

March 5th

Which primary elections are on Super Tuesday?

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Presidential primaries, which are entirely run by state parties, are prone to changes based on the current political winds.

For Super Tuesday 2024, candidates face an intimidating gauntlet of 16 states and territories including Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.

While many of these states are mainstays of Super Tuesday, what is notable is the inclusion of delegate-rich states Texas and California on the same election day. While most Super Tuesdays have about 20% of the potential delegates up for grabs, the inclusion of both these states at once rockets that number to be 30% of Democrat electors and 36% of Republican electors available to be won.

The inclusion of these two powerful states could be interpreted as a desire for both parties to avoid a drawn out primary and focus on defeating the opposition in November.

Posted by Matteo Cina

March 5th

Will Super Tuesday end in a 2020 rematch between Biden and Trump?

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Voters in Michigan handed decisive victories to President Biden and former President Trump last week, increasing the odds of a 2020 rematch as the candidates look to solidify their frontrunner positions on Super Tuesday.

The Associated Press called Michigan for Biden and Trump shortly after polls closed last Tuesday, leaving both candidates undefeated in their bid to once again represent their respective parties in 2024's presidential election.

Biden's victory in the state came despite a late push among Arab Americans to "abandon" their support for the president over his continued support of Israel in the War in Gaza.

A growing movement called on voters to cast an "uncommitted" ballot instead of continuing what has typically been overwhelming support for the president.

The movement picked up the support of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who announced her public opposition to supporting the president ahead of her home state's primary.

"I was proud today to walk in and pull a Democratic ballot and vote uncommitted. We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that our government is about us, about the people," Tlaib said in a video d by Listen To Michigan, a group supportive of the uprising against Biden.

Fox News' Michael Lee contributed to this report.

Posted by Gabriele Regalbuto

March 5th

What is Super Tuesday?

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Super Tuesday is a day during the U.S. presidential primary election season when several states, typically from various regions across the country, hold their primary elections or caucuses in early March.

New Hampshire and Iowa were the first states to hold contests in the 2024 presidential election cycle in January.

Super Tuesday is considered a critical day in the primary process, as the outcomes of millions of voters can significantly influence the overall nomination for presidential candidates. This year’s Super Tuesday will be held on March 5 with polls closing around 7 or 8 p.m. Results will not be immediately announced for many states.

On 2024's Super Tuesday, states participating in casting ballots include California, Colorado, Alabama, Arkansas, Alaska, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia.

GOP candidate Nikki Hailey’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, wrote in a memo early Tuesday that “despite the media narrative, there is significant fertile ground for Nikki.”

“After Super Tuesday, we will have a very good picture of where this race stands. At that point, millions of Americans in 26 states and territories will have voted,” the memo read.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump has picked up several significant endorsements from key Republican senators. A growing number of GOP lawmakers urge Hailey to withdraw, advocating for party unity behind Trump before Super Tuesday.

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham have endorsed Trump, snubbing Hailey, despite her being a former governor of the state from 2011-2017.

Fox News' Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.

ATTACHMENT “C”– FROM the WHITE HOUSE (VIA TIME)

STATE of the UNION

The following are President Biden’s full remarks, as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House...

Good evening.

Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans.

In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.

He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.”

Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe.

President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary moment.

Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.

Tonight I come to the same chamber to address the nation.

Now it is we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.

And yes, my purpose tonight is to both wake up this Congress, and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.

Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.

What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time.

Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond.

If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not.

But Ukraine can stop Putin if we stand with Ukraine and provide the weapons it needs to defend itself. That is all Ukraine is asking. They are not asking for American soldiers.

In fact, there are no American soldiers at war in Ukraine. And I am determined to keep it that way.

But now assistance for Ukraine is being blocked by those who want us to walk away from our leadership in the world.

It wasn’t that long ago when a Republican President, Ronald Reagan, thundered, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

Now, my predecessor, a former Republican President, tells Putin, “Do whatever the hell you want.”

A former American President actually said that, bowing down to a Russian leader.

It’s outrageous. It’s dangerous. It’s unacceptable.

America is a founding member of NATO the military alliance of democratic nations created after World War II to prevent war and keep the peace.

Today, we’ve made NATO stronger than ever.

We welcomed Finland to the Alliance last year, and just this morning, Sweden officially joined NATO, and their Prime Minister is here tonight.

Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever known.

I say this to Congress: we must stand up to Putin. Send me the Bipartisan National Security Bill.

History is watching.

If the United States walks away now, it will put Ukraine at risk.

Europe at risk. The free world at risk, emboldening others who wish to do us harm.

My message to President Putin is simple.

We will not walk away. We will not bow down. I will not bow down.

History is watching, just like history watched three years ago on January 6th.

Insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy.

Many of you were here on that darkest of days.

We all saw with our own eyes these insurrectionists were not patriots.

They had come to stop the peaceful transfer of power and to overturn the will of the people.

January 6th and the lies about the 2020 election, and the plots to steal the election, posed the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.

But they failed. America stood strong and democracy prevailed.

But we must be honest the threat remains and democracy must be defended.

My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth of January 6th.

I will not do that.

This is a moment to speak the truth and bury the lies.

And here’s the simplest truth. You can’t love your country only when you win.

As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask you all, without regard to party, to join together and defend our democracy!

Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.

Respect free and fair elections! Restore trust in our institutions! And make clear—political violence has absolutely no place in America!

History is watching.

And history is watching another assault on freedom.

Joining us tonight is Latorya Beasley, a social worker from Birmingham, Alabama. 14 months ago tonight, she and her husband welcomed a baby girl thanks to the miracle of IVF.

She scheduled treatments to have a second child, but the Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF treatments across the state, unleashed by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

She was told her dream would have to wait.

What her family has gone through should never have happened. And unless Congress acts, it could happen again.

So tonight, let’s stand up for families like hers!

To my friends across the aisle, don’t keep families waiting any longer. Guarantee the right to IVF nationwide!

Like most Americans, I believe Roe v. Wade got it right. And I thank Vice President Harris for being an incredible leader, defending reproductive freedom and so much more.

But my predecessor came to office determined to see Roe v. Wade overturned.

He’s the reason it was overturned. In fact, he brags about it.

Look at the chaos that has resulted.

Joining us tonight is Kate Cox, a wife and mother from Dallas.

When she became pregnant again, the fetus had a fatal condition.

Her doctors told Kate that her own life and her ability to have children in the future were at risk if she didn’t act.

Because Texas law banned abortion, Kate and her husband had to leave the state to get the care she needed.

What her family has gone through should never have happened as well. But it is happening to so many others.

There are state laws banning the right to choose, criminalizing doctors, and forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states as well to get the care they need.

Many of you in this Chamber and my predecessor are promising to pass a national ban on reproductive freedom.

My God, what freedoms will you take away next?

In its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court majority wrote, “Women are not without electoral or political power.”

No kidding.

Clearly, those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women in America.

They found out though when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again, in 2024.

If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again!

America cannot go back. I am here tonight to show the way forward. Because I know how far we’ve come.

Four years ago next week, before I came to office, our country was hit by the worst pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century.

Remember the fear. Record job losses. Remember the spike in crime. And the murder rate.

A raging virus that would take more than 1 million American lives and leave millions of loved ones behind.

A mental health crisis of isolation and loneliness.

A president, my predecessor, who failed the most basic duty. Any President owes the American people the duty to care.

That is unforgivable.

I came to office determined to get us through one of the toughest periods in our nation’s history.

And we have. It doesn’t make the news but in thousands of cities and towns the American people are writing the greatest comeback story never told.

So let’s tell that story here and now.

America’s comeback is building a future of American possibilities, building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, investing in all of America, in all Americans to make sure everyone has a fair shot and we leave no one behind!

The pandemic no longer controls our lives. The vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat cancer.

Turning setback into comeback.

That’s America!

I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is the envy of the world!

15 million new jobs in just three years—that’s a record!

Unemployment at 50-year lows.

A record 16 million Americans are starting small businesses and each one is an act of hope.

With historic job growth and small business growth for Black, Hispanic, and Asian-Americans.

800,000 new manufacturing jobs in America and counting.

More people have health insurance today than ever before.

The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.

Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down!

Inflation has dropped from 9% to 3%—the lowest in the world!

And trending lower.

And now instead of importing foreign products and exporting American jobs, we’re exporting American products and creating American jobs—right here in America where they belong!

And the American people are beginning to feel it.

Consumer studies show consumer confidence is soaring.

Buy American has been the law of the land since the 1930s.

Past administrations including my predecessor failed to Buy American.

Not any more.

On my watch, federal projects like helping to build American roads bridges and highways will be made with American products built by American workers creating good-paying American jobs!

Thanks to my Chips and Science Act the United States is investing more in research and development than ever before.

During the pandemic a shortage of semiconductor chips drove up prices for everything from cell phones to automobiles.

Well instead of having to import semiconductor chips, which America invented I might add, private companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in America!

Creating tens of thousands of jobs many of them paying over $100,000 a year and don’t require a college degree.

In fact my policies have attracted $650 Billion of private sector investments in clean energy and advanced manufacturing creating tens of thousands of jobs here in America!

Thanks to our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 46,000 new projects have been announced across your communities—modernizing our roads and bridges, ports and airports, and public transit systems.

Removing poisonous lead pipes so every child can drink clean water without risk of getting brain damage.

Providing affordable high speed internet for every American no matter where you live.

Urban, suburban, and rural communities—in red states and blue.

Record investments in tribal communities.

Because of my investments, family farms are better be able to stay in the family and children and grandchildren won’t have to leave home to make a living.

It’s transformative.

A great comeback story is Belvidere, Illinois. Home to an auto plant for nearly 60 years.

Before I came to office the plant was on its way to shutting down.

Thousands of workers feared for their livelihoods. Hope was fading.

Then I was elected to office and we raised Belvidere repeatedly with the auto company knowing unions make all the difference.

The UAW worked like hell to keep the plant open and get those jobs back. And together, we succeeded!

Instead of an auto factory shutting down an auto factory is re-opening and a new state-of-the art battery factory is being built to power those cars.

Instead of a town being left behind it’s a community moving forward again!

Because instead of watching auto jobs of the future go overseas 4,000 union workers with higher wages will be building that future, in Belvidere, here in America!

Here tonight is UAW President, Shawn Fain, a great friend, and a great labor leader.

And Dawn Simms, a third generation UAW worker in Belvidere.

Shawn, I was proud to be the first President in American history to walk a picket line.

And today Dawn has a job in her hometown providing stability for her family and pride and dignity.

Showing once again, Wall Street didn’t build this country!

The middle class built this country! And unions built the middle class!

When Americans get knocked down, we get back up!

We keep going!

That’s America! That’s you, the American people!

It’s because of you America is coming back!

It’s because of you, our future is brighter!

And it’s because of you that tonight we can proudly say the State of our Union is strong and getting stronger!

Tonight I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together.

A future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and biggest corporations no longer get all the breaks.

I grew up in a home where not a lot trickled down on my Dad’s kitchen table.

That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well the poor have a way up and the wealthy still does well.

We all do well.

And there’s more to do to make sure you’re feeling the benefits of all we’re doing.

Americans pay more for prescription drugs than anywhere else.

It’s wrong and I’m ending it.

With a law I proposed and signed and not one Republican voted for we finally beat Big Pharma!

Instead of paying $400 a month for insulin seniors with diabetes only have to pay $35 a month!

And now I want to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for every American who needs it!

For years people have talked about it but I finally got it done and gave Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs just like the VA does for our veterans.

That’s not just saving seniors money.

It’s saving taxpayers money cutting the federal deficit by $160 Billion because Medicare will no longer have to pay exorbitant prices to Big Pharma.

This year Medicare is negotiating lower prices for some of the costliest drugs on the market that treat everything from heart disease to arthritis.

Now it’s time to go further and give Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for 500 drugs over the next decade.

That will not only save lives it will save taxpayers another $200 Billion!

Starting next year that same law caps total prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare at $2,000 a year even for expensive cancer drugs that can cost $10,000, $12,000, $15,000 a year.

Now I want to cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year for everyone!

Folks Obamacare, known as the Affordable Care Act is still a very big deal.

Over one hundred million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.

But my predecessor and many in this chamber want to take that protection away by repealing the Affordable Care Act.

I won’t let that happen!

We stopped you 50 times before and we will stop you again!

In fact I am protecting it and expanding it.

I enacted tax credits that save $800 per person per year reducing health care premiums for millions of working families.

Those tax credits expire next year.

I want to make those savings permanent!

Women are more than half of our population but research on women’s health has always been underfunded.

That’s why we’re launching the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, led by Jill who is doing an incredible job as First Lady.

Pass my plan for $12 Billion to transform women’s health research and benefit millions of lives across America!

I know the cost of housing is so important to you.

If inflation keeps coming down mortgage rates will come down as well.

But I’m not waiting.

I want to provide an annual tax credit that will give Americans $400 a month for the next two years as mortgage rates come down to put toward their mortgage when they buy a first home or trade up for a little more space.

My Administration is also eliminating title insurance fees for federally backed mortgages.

When you refinance your home this can save you $1,000 or more.

For millions of renters, we’re cracking down on big landlords who break antitrust laws by price-fixing and driving up rents.

I’ve cut red tape so more builders can get federal financing, which is already helping build a record 1.7 million housing units nationwide.

Now pass my plan to build and renovate 2 million affordable homes and bring those rents down!

To remain the strongest economy in the world we need the best education system in the world.

I want to give every child a good start by providing access to pre-school for 3- and 4-year-olds.

Studies show that children who go to pre-school are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a 2- or 4-year degree no matter their background.

I want to expand high-quality tutoring and summer learning time and see to it that every child learns to read by third grade.

I’m also connecting businesses and high schools so students get hands-on experience and a path to a good-paying job whether or not they go to college.

And I want to make college more affordable.

Let’s continue increasing Pell Grants for working- and middle-class families and increase our record investments in HBCUs and Hispanic and Minority-serving Institutions

I fixed student loan programs to reduce the burden of student debt for nearly 4 Million Americans including nurses firefighters and others in public service like Keenan Jones a public-school educator in Minnesota who’s here with us tonight.

He’s educated hundreds of students so they can go to college now he can help his own daughter pay for college.

Such relief is good for the economy because folks are now able to buy a home start a business even start a family.

While we’re at it I want to give public school teachers a raise!

Now let me speak to a question of fundamental fairness for all Americans.

I’ve been delivering real results in a fiscally responsible way.

I’ve already cut the federal deficit by over one trillion dollars.

I signed a bipartisan budget deal that will cut another trillion dollars over the next decade.

And now it’s my goal to cut the federal deficit $3 trillion more by making big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their fair .

Look, I’m a capitalist.

If you want to make a million bucks—great!

Just pay your fair in taxes.

A fair tax code is how we invest in the things that make a country great—health care, education, defense, and more.

But here’s the deal.

The last administration enacted a $2 Trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefits the very wealthy and the biggest corporations and exploded the federal deficit.

They added more to the national debt than in any presidential term in American history.

For folks at home does anybody really think the tax code is fair?

Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion in tax breaks?

I sure don’t. I’m going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair!

Under my plan nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes.

Nobody. Not one penny.

In fact the Child Tax Credit I passed during the pandemic cut taxes for millions of working families and cut child poverty in HALF.

Restore the Child Tax Credit because no child should go hungry in this country!

The way to make the tax code fair is to make big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their .

In 2020 55 of the biggest companies in America made $40 Billion in profits and paid zero in federal income taxes.

Not any more!

Thanks to the law I wrote and signed big companies now have to pay a minimum of 15%.

But that’s still less than working people pay in federal taxes.

It’s time to raise the corporate minimum tax to at least 21% so every big corporation finally begins to pay their fair .

I also want to end the tax breaks for Big Pharma, Big Oil, private jets, and massive executive pay!

End it now!

There are 1,000 billionaires in America.

You know what the average federal tax rate for these billionaires is? 8.2 percent!

That’s far less than the vast majority of Americans pay.

No billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher, a sanitation worker, a nurse!

That’s why I’ve proposed a minimum tax of 25% for billionaires. Just 25%.

That would raise $500 Billion over the next 10 years.

Imagine what that could do for America. Imagine a future with affordable child care so millions of families can get the care they need and still go to work and help grow the economy.

Imagine a future with paid leave because no one should have to choose between working and taking care of yourself or a sick family member.

Imagine a future with home care and elder care so seniors and people living with disabilities can stay in their homes and family caregivers get paid what they deserve!

Tonight, let’s all agree once again to stand up for seniors!

Many of my Republican friends want to put Social Security on the chopping block.

If anyone here tries to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age I will stop them!

Working people who built this country pay more into Social Security than millionaires and billionaires do. It’s not fair.

We have two ways to go on Social Security.

Republicans will cut Social Security and give more tax cuts to the wealthy.

I will protect and strengthen Social Security and make the wealthy pay their fair !

Too many corporations raise their prices to pad their profits charging you more and more for less and less.

That’s why we’re cracking down on corporations that engage in price gouging or deceptive pricing from food to health care to housing.

In fact, snack companies think you won’t notice when they charge you just as much for the same size bag but with fewer chips in it.

Pass Senator Bob Casey’s bill to put a stop to shrinkflation!

I’m also getting rid of junk fees those hidden fees added at the end of your bills without your knowledge. My administration just announced we’re cutting credit card late fees from $32 to just $8.

The banks and credit card companies don’t like it.

Why?

I’m saving American families $20 billion a year with all of the junk fees I’m eliminating.

And I’m not stopping there.

My Administration has proposed rules to make cable travel utilities and online ticket sellers tell you the total price upfront so there are no surprises.

It matters.

And so does this.

In November, my team began serious negotiations with a bipartisan group of Senators.

The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen in this country.

That bipartisan deal would hire 1,500 more border security agents and officers.

100 more immigration judges to help tackle a backload of 2 million cases.

4,300 more asylum officers and new policies so they can resolve cases in 6 months instead of 6 years.

100 more high-tech drug detection machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles from smuggling fentanyl into America.

This bill would save lives and bring order to the border.

It would also give me as President new emergency authority to temporarily shut down the border when the number of migrants at the border is overwhelming.

The Border Patrol Union endorsed the bill.

The Chamber of Commerce endorsed the bill.

I believe that given the opportunity a majority of the House and Senate would endorse it as well.

But unfortunately, politics have derailed it so far.

I’m told my predecessor called Republicans in Congress and demanded they block the bill. He feels it would be a political win for me and a political loser for him.

It’s not about him or me.

It’d be a winner for America!

My Republican friends you owe it to the American people to get this bill done.

We need to act.

And if my predecessor is watching instead of playing politics and pressuring members of Congress to block this bill, join me in telling Congress to pass it!

We can do it together. But here’s what I will not do.

I will not demonize immigrants saying they “poison the blood of our country” as he said in his own words.

I will not separate families.

I will not ban people from America because of their faith.

Unlike my predecessor, on my first day in office I introduced a comprehensive plan to fix our immigration system, secure the border, and provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and so much more.

Because unlike my predecessor, I know who we are as Americans.

We are the only nation in the world with a heart and soul that draws from old and new.

Home to Native Americans whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years. Home to people from every place on Earth.

Some came freely.

Some chained by force.

Some when famine struck, like my ancestral family in Ireland.

Some to flee persecution.

Some to chase dreams that are impossible anywhere but here in America.

That’s America, where we all come from somewhere, but we are all Americans.

We can fight about the border, or we can fix it. I’m ready to fix it.

Send me the border bill now!

A transformational moment in our history happened 59 years ago today in Selma, Alabama.

Hundreds of foot soldiers for justice marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a Grand Dragon of the KKK, to claim their fundamental right to vote.

They were beaten bloodied and left for dead.

Our late friend and former colleague John Lewis was at the march.

We miss him.

Joining us tonight are other marchers who were there including Betty May Fikes, known as the “Voice of Selma.”

A daughter of gospel singers and preachers, she sang songs of prayer and protest on that Bloody Sunday, to help shake the nation’s conscience. Five months later, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law.

But 59 years later, there are forces taking us back in time.

Voter suppression. Election subversion. Unlimited dark money. Extreme gerrymandering.

John Lewis was a great friend to many of us here. But if you truly want to honor him and all the heroes who marched with him, then it’s time for more than just talk.

Pass and send me the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!

And stop denying another core value of America our diversity across American life.

Banning books.

It’s wrong!

Instead of erasing history, let’s make history!

I want to protect other fundamental rights!

Pass the Equality Act, and my message to transgender Americans: I have your back!

Pass the PRO Act for workers rights! And raise the federal minimum wage because every worker has the right to earn a decent living!

We are also making history by confronting the climate crisis, not denying it.

I’m taking the most significant action on climate ever in the history of the world.

I am cutting our carbon emissions in half by 2030.

Creating tens of thousands of clean-energy jobs, like the IBEW workers building and installing 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.

Conserving 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030.

Taking historic action on environmental justice for fence-line communities smothered by the legacy of pollution.

And patterned after the Peace Corps and Ameri Corps, I’ve launched a Climate Corps to put 20,000 young people to work at the forefront of our clean energy future.

I’ll triple that number this decade.

All Americans deserve the freedom to be safe, and America is safer today than when I took office.

The year before I took office, murders went up 30% nationwide the biggest increase in history.

That was then.

Now, through my American Rescue Plan, which every Republican voted against, I’ve made the largest investment in public safety ever.

Last year, the murder rate saw the sharpest decrease in history, and violent crime fell to one of the lowest levels in more than 50 years.

But we have more to do.

Help cities and towns invest in more community police officers, more mental health workers, and more community violence intervention.

Give communities the tools to crack down on gun crime, retail crime, and carjacking.

Keep building public trust, as I’ve been doing by taking executive action on police reform, and calling for it to be the law of the land, directing my Cabinet to review the federal classification of marijuana, and expunging thousands of convictions for mere possession, because no one should be jailed for using or possessing marijuana!

To take on crimes of domestic violence, I am ramping up federal enforcement of the Violence Against Women Act, that I proudly wrote, so we can finally end the scourge of violence against women in America!

And there’s another kind of violence I want to stop.

With us tonight is Jasmine, whose 9-year-old sister Jackie was murdered with 21 classmates and teachers at her elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Soon after it happened, Jill and I went to Uvalde and spent hours with the families.

We heard their message, and so should everyone in this chamber do something.

I did do something by establishing the first-ever Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the White House that Vice President Harris is leading.

Meanwhile, my predecessor told the NRA he’s proud he did nothing on guns when he was President.

After another school shooting in Iowa he said we should just “get over it.”

I say we must stop it.

I’m proud we beat the NRA when I signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years!

Now we must beat the NRA again!

I’m demanding a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines!

Pass universal background checks!

None of this violates the Second Amendment or vilifies responsible gun owners.

As we manage challenges at home, we’re also managing crises abroad including in the Middle East.

I know the last five months have been gut-wrenching for so many people, for the Israeli people, the Palestinian people, and so many here in America.

This crisis began on October 7th with a massacre by the terrorist group Hamas.

1,200 innocent people women and girls men and boys slaughtered, many enduring sexual violence.

The deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

250 hostages taken.

Here in the chamber tonight are American families whose loved ones are still being held by Hamas.

I pledge to all the families that we will not rest until we bring their loved ones home.

We will also work around the clock to bring home Evan and Paul, Americans being unjustly detained all around the world.

Israel has a right to go after Hamas.

Hamas could end this conflict today by releasing the hostages, laying down arms, and surrendering those responsible for October 7th.

Israel has an added burden because Hamas hides and operates among the civilian population. But Israel also has a fundamental responsibility to protect innocent civilians in Gaza.

This war has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined.

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed.

Most of whom are not Hamas.

Thousands and thousands are innocent women and children.

Girls and boys also orphaned.

Nearly 2 million more Palestinians under bombardment or displaced.

Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin.

Families without food, water, medicine.

It’s heartbreaking.

We’ve been working non-stop to establish an immediate ceasefire that would last for at least six weeks.

It would get the hostages home, ease the intolerable humanitarian crisis, and build toward something more enduring.

The United States has been leading international efforts to get more humanitarian assistance into Gaza.

Tonight, I’m directing the U.S. military to lead an emergency mission to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean on the Gaza coast that can receive large ships carrying food, water, medicine and temporary shelters.

No U.S. boots will be on the ground.

This temporary pier would enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day.

But Israel must also do its part.

Israel must allow more aid into Gaza and ensure that humanitarian workers aren’t caught in the cross fire.

To the leadership of Israel I say this.

Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip.

Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority.

As we look to the future, the only real solution is a two-state solution.

I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel and the only American president to visit Israel in wartime.

There is no other path that guarantees Israel’s security and democracy.

There is no other path that guarantees Palestinians can live with peace and dignity.

There is no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors, including Saudi Arabia.

Creating stability in the Middle East also means containing the threat posed by Iran.

That’s why I built a coalition of more than a dozen countries to defend international shipping and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea.

I’ve ordered strikes to degrade Houthi capabilities and defend U.S. Forces in the region.

As Commander in Chief, I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and military personnel.

For years, all I’ve heard from my Republican friends and so many others is China’s on the rise and America is falling behind.

They’ve got it backward.

America is rising.

We have the best economy in the world.

Since I’ve come to office, our GDP is up.

And our trade deficit with China is down to the lowest point in over a decade.

We’re standing up against China’s unfair economic practices.

And standing up for peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.

I’ve revitalized our partnerships and alliances in the Pacific.

I’ve made sure that the most advanced American technologies can’t be used in China’s weapons.

Frankly for all his tough talk on China, it never occurred to my predecessor to do that.

We want competition with China, but not conflict.

And we’re in a stronger position to win the competition for the 21st Century against China or anyone else for that matter.

Here at home I’ve signed over 400 bipartisan bills.

But there’s more to do to pass my Unity Agenda.

Strengthen penalties on fentanyl trafficking.

Pass bipartisan privacy legislation to protect our children online.

Harness the promise of A.I. and protect us from its peril.

Ban A.I. voice impersonation and more!

And keep our one truly sacred obligation, to train and equip those we send into harm’s way and care for them and their families when they come home, and when they don’t.

That’s why I signed the PACT Act, one of the most significant laws ever, helping millions of veterans who were exposed to toxins and who now are battling more than 100 cancers.

Many of them didn’t come home.

We owe them and their families.

And we owe it to ourselves to keep supporting our new health research agency called ARPA-H and remind us that we can do big things like end cancer as we know it!

Let me close with this.

I know I may not look like it, but I’ve been around a while.

And when you get to my age certain things become clearer than ever before.

I know the American story.

Again and again I’ve seen the contest between competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation.

Between those who want to pull America back to the past and those who want to move America into the future.

My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy.

A future based on the core values that have defined America.

Honesty. Decency. Dignity. Equality.

To respect everyone. To give everyone a fair shot. To give hate no safe harbor.

Now some other people my age see a different story.

An American story of resentment, revenge, and retribution.

That’s not me.

I was born amid World War II when America stood for freedom in the world.

I grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, among working people who built this country.

I watched in horror as two of my heroes, Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy, were assassinated and their legacies inspired me to pursue a career in service.

A public defender, county councilman, elected United States Senator at 29, then Vice President, to our first Black President, now President, with our first woman Vice President.

In my career I’ve been told I’m too young and I’m too old.

Whether young or old, I’ve always known what endures.

Our North Star.

The very idea of America, that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.

We’ve never fully lived up to that idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either.

And I won’t walk away from it now.

My fellow Americans, the issue facing our nation isn’t how old we are, it’s how old our ideas are.

Hate, anger, revenge, retribution are among the oldest of ideas.

But you can’t lead America with ancient ideas that only take us back.

To lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future of what America can and should be.

Tonight you’ve heard mine.

I see a future where we defend democracy not diminish it.

I see a future where we restore the right to choose and protect other freedoms not take them away.

I see a future where the middle class finally has a fair shot and the wealthy finally have to pay their fair in taxes.

I see a future where we save the planet from the climate crisis and our country from gun violence.

Above all, I see a future for all Americans!

I see a country for all Americans!

And I will always be a president for all Americans!

Because I believe in America!

I believe in you the American people.

You’re the reason I’ve never been more optimistic about our future!

So let’s build that future together!

Let’s remember who we are!

We are the United States of America.

There is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together!

May God bless you all.

May God protect our troops.

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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME WORKS IN MARCH 2024

BY SIMMONE SHAH MARCH 9, 2024 3:00 AM EST

Longer days—kickstarted by an hour less of sleep—lie ahead for most of North America as the clocks “spring forward” this Sunday, March 10, marking the beginning of daylight saving time.

The practice has spurned plenty of debate over the years, as many feel it adds unnecessary disruption to our circadian rhythms. Most recently, the Sunshine Protection Act aimed to make daylight saving time permanent beginning in spring 2023, but was stalled in the House, despite unanimously passing through the Senate. And in the absence of nationwide movement, states are taking the matter into their own hands—at least 29 states considered legislation related to daylight saving time in 2023.

Here’s what to know about the upcoming time change:

How does daylight saving time work?

In the spring, daylight savings begins, moving an hour of sunlight from the morning to the evenings, allowing people to take advantage of the natural light during the supposedly warmer months.

In the spring, clocks will move forward by an hour at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, making it 3 a.m. and making the day an hour shorter.

In the fall, clocks jump back an hour at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November, making it 1 a.m and making the day an hour longer.

Who participates in daylight savings?

Roughly a third of the world participates in some form of clock changing, though the exact timeline varies by region.

Most U.S. states and Canada participate in daylight savings. The Uniform Time Act, passed in 1966, allowed states in the U.S. to choose whether they would participate in daylight savings. As a result, daylight saving time is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and most of Arizona, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

What is the history of daylight savings time?

The U.S. has practiced many different versions of daylight savings over the years. The practice began in 1918, but was repealed and re-established several times over the decades. It finally stuck during World War I and World War II, when it was adopted as an energy saving tactic. The Uniform Time Act standardized the practice across most of the country.

How is the day determined?

In the United States, daylight savings lasts for eight months—starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November. These dates were established in 2005 by Congress.

ATTACHMENT “E”– FROM VARIETY

Here’s the complete list of winners:

Best Picture

“American Fiction,” Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, producers

“Anatomy of a Fall,” Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, producers

“Barbie,” David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, producers

“The Holdovers,” Mark Johnson, producer

“Killers of the Flower Moon,” Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, producers

“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers

“Oppenheimer,” Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, producers (WINNER)

“Past Lives,” David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, producers

“Poor Things,” Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, producers

“The Zone of Interest,” James Wilson, producer

Best Director

Justine Triet — “Anatomy of a Fall”

Martin Scorsese — “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Christopher Nolan — “Oppenheimer” (WINNER)

Yorgos Lanthimos — “Poor Things”

Jonathan Glazer — “The Zone of Interest”

Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper — “Maestro”

Colman Domingo — “Rustin”

Paul Giamatti — “The Holdovers”

Cillian Murphy — “Oppenheimer” (WINNER)

Jeffrey Wright — “American Fiction”

Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening — “Nyad”

Lily Gladstone — “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Sandra Hüller — “Anatomy of a Fall”

Carey Mulligan — “Maestro”

Emma Stone — “Poor Things” (WINNER)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown — “American Fiction”

Robert De Niro – “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Robert Downey Jr. — “Oppenheimer” (WINNER)

Ryan Gosling — “Barbie”

Mark Ruffalo — “Poor Things”

Actress in a Supporting Role

Emily Blunt — “Oppenheimer”

Danielle Brooks — “The Color Purple”

America Ferrera – “Barbie”

Jodie Foster — “Nyad”

Da’Vine Joy Randolph — “The Holdovers” (WINNER)

Adapted Screenplay

“American Fiction,” written for the screen by Cord Jefferson (WINNER)

“Barbie,” written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach

“Oppenheimer,” written for the screen by Christopher Nolan

“Poor Things,” screenplay by Tony McNamara

“The Zone of Interest,” written by Jonathan Glazer

Original Screenplay

“Anatomy of a Fall,” screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (WINNER)

“The Holdovers,” written by David Hemingson

“Maestro,” written by Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer

“May December,” screenplay by Samy Burch; story by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik

“Past Lives,” written by Celine Song

Cinematography

“El Conde” – Edward Lachman

“Killers of the Flower Moon” – Rodrigo Prieto

“Maestro” – Matthew Libatique

“Oppenheimer” – Hoyte van Hoytema (WINNER)

“Poor Things” – Robbie Ryan

Original Song

“The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot,” music and lyric by Diane Warren

“I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie,” music and lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt

“It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony,” music and lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson

“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon,” music and lyric by Scott George

“What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie,” music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (WINNER)

Costume Design

“Barbie” – Jacqueline Durran

“Killers of the Flower Moon” – Jacqueline West

“Napoleon” – Janty Yates and Dave Crossman

“Oppenheimer” – Ellen Mirojnick

“Poor Things” – Holly Waddington (WINNER)

Sound

“The Creator,” Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

“Maestro,” Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

“Oppenheimer,” Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O’Connell

“The Zone of Interest,” Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn (WINNER)

Original Score

“American Fiction” – Laura Karpman

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” John Williams

“Killers of the Flower Moon” – Robbie Robertson

“Oppenheimer” – Ludwig Göransson (WINNER)

“Poor Things” – Jerskin Fendrix

Live Action Short Film

“The After,” Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham

“Invincible,” Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron

“Knight of Fortune,” Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk

“Red, White and Blue,” Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane

“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” Wes Anderson and Steven Rales (WINNER)

Animated Short Film

“Letter to a Pig,” Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter

“Ninety-Five Senses,” Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess

“Our Uniform,” Yegane Moghaddam

“Pachyderme,” Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius

“War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko,” Dave Mullins and Brad Booker (WINNER)

Documentary Feature Film

“Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek

“The Eternal Memory”

“Four Daughters,” Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha

“To Kill a Tiger,” Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim

“20 Days in Mariupol,” Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath (WINNER)

Documentary Short Film

“The ABCs of Book Banning,” Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic

“The Barber of Little Rock,” John Hoffman and Christine Turner

“Island in Between,” S. Leo Chiang and Jean Tsien

“The Last Repair Shop,” Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers (WINNER)

“Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó,” Sean Wang and Sam Davis

International Feature Film

“Io Capitano” (Italy)

“Perfect Days” (Japan)

“Society of the Snow” (Spain)

“The Teachers’ Lounge” (Germany)

“The Zone of Interest” (United Kingdom) (WINNER)

Animated Feature Film

“The Boy and the Heron,” Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki (WINNER)

“Elemental,” Peter Sohn and Denise Ream

“Nimona,” Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary

“Robot Dreams,” Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal

Makeup and Hairstyling

“Golda,” Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue

“Maestro,” Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell

“Oppenheimer,” Luisa Abel

“Poor Things,” Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston (WINNER)

“Society of the Snow,” Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé

Production Design

“Barbie,” production design: Sarah Greenwood; set decoration: Katie Spencer

“Killers of the Flower Moon,” production design: Jack Fisk; set decoration: Adam Willis

“Napoleon,” production design: Arthur Max; set decoration: Elli Griff

“Oppenheimer,” production design: Ruth De Jong; set decoration: Claire Kaufman

“Poor Things,” production design: James Price and Shona Heath; set decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek (WINNER)

Film Editing

“Anatomy of a Fall” – Laurent Sénéchal

“The Holdovers” – Kevin Tent

“Killers of the Flower Moon” – Thelma Schoonmaker

“Oppenheimer” – Jennifer Lame (WINNER)

“Poor Things” – Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Visual Effects

“The Creator,” Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould

“Godzilla Minus One,” Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima (WINNER)

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek

“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould

“Napoleon,” Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould

ATTACHMENT “F”– FROM THE ISLAMIC NETWORK GROUP (ING)

RAMADAN INFORMATION SHEET

To learn more, check out our free public presentations on Ramadan and Fasting and Muslim Americans and Their Faith.

For the dates of Ramadan this year, visit our Calendar of Important Islamic Dates.

Introduction

Ramadan is considered one of the holiest months of the year for Muslims. In Ramadan, Muslims commemorate the revelation of the Qur’an, and fast from food and drink during the sunlit hours as a means of drawing closer to God and cultivating self-control, gratitude, and compassion for those less fortunate. Ramadan is a month of intense spiritual rejuvenation with a heightened focus on devotion, during which Muslims spend extra time reading the Qur’an and performing special prayers. Those unable to fast, such as pregnant or nursing women, the sick, or elderly people & children, are exempt from fasting.

When does Ramadan take place?

Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, which is based on a 12-month lunar year of approximately 354 days. Because the lunar year is 11 days shorter than the solar year, each lunar month moves 11 days earlier each year. It takes 33 solar years for the lunar months to complete a full cycle and return to the same season. The month traditionally begins and ends based on the sighting of the new moon. In recent years, however, many Muslims follow a pre-determined date based on astronomical calculations. For the start and end dates of Ramadan this year, see our Calendar of Important Islamic Dates.

The Length and Purpose of Fasting

Muslims fast from pre-dawn to sunset, a fast of between 11-16 hours depending on the time of year for a period of 29-30 days. Ramadan entails forgoing food and drink, and if married, abstaining from sex during sunlit hours. For Muslims, Ramadan is a time to train themselves both physically and spiritually by avoiding any negative acts such as gossiping, backbiting, lying, or arguing. Muslims welcome Ramadan as an opportunity for self-reflection and spiritual improvement, and as a means to grow in moral excellence. Ramadan is also a highly social time as Muslims invite each other to breakfast together and meet for prayers at the mosque.

The ultimate goal of fasting is gaining greater God-consciousness, known in Arabic as taqwa, signifying a state of constant awareness of God. From this awareness, a person should gain discipline, self-restraint, and a greater incentive to do good and avoid wrong. In commemoration of the revelation the Qur’an, which began in the month of Ramadan, Muslims attempt to read the entire book during Ramadan. The entire Qur’an is also recited during special nightly prayers.

Who Fasts

All Muslims who have reached puberty are obligated to fast. However, people for whom fasting would be a hardship are exempted from fasting. This includes anyone who is sick or traveling; women who are pregnant, nursing, or on their menses; or older people who are too weak or ill to fast. They should make up the fast later, except for those who cannot fast due to age or chronic illness. Instead, they can feed a poor person for every day of fasting which they miss.

Children

While children are not required to fast until they reach puberty, it is customary for children beginning around seven years of age to perform limited or symbolic fasting such as fasting half days or on weekends. This trains them gradually and helps to engender a sense of inclusion during the month-long observance. Mosques often give special recognition to children who are fasting their first full day or first Ramadan.

Family Routines

A Muslim family usually rises before dawn and eats a modest, breakfast-like meal called suhur. After the meal, the family performs the morning prayer, and depending on the circumstances, goes back to bed or begins the day. Particularly during the long summer months, people often take a nap in the late afternoon after work or school. At sunset, family members break the fast with a few dates and water, and depending on the culture, other light foods such as soup, appetizers or fruit. This is referred to as iftar which means “breaking the fast.” After performing the sunset prayers, the family eats dinner. Inviting guests to break the fast or going to someone else’s house for iftar is very common in Ramadan. Many families then go to the mosque for the night prayer and a special Ramadan prayer called Taraweeh. After completing their prayers, families return home often quite late in the evening depending on the time of year. All of these times vary depending on the time of year, with shorter days in the winter and longer days in the summer.

Special Activities

Many mosques host daily community dinners where Muslims can break their fast together. This is a great service for students, the poor, and anyone who desires a break from cooking. Many mosques also host a community dinner on the weekends.

Special Ramadan prayers called Taraweeh are held in most mosques after the night prayer. During Taraweeh, the prayer leader recites at least one thirtieth of the Qur’an so that by the end of the month the entire Qur’an will have been recited.

Since Ramadan is a time for Muslims to be especially charitable and fasting helps Muslims feel compassion for the hungry and less fortunate, many mosques hold food drives or fundraisers for charity during Ramadan. Many mosques also host open houses for their friends and neighbors of other faiths to join them for their fast-breaking dinner or iftar at the end of the fasting day.

The Night of Power known as Lailat al-Qadr, is believed to fall on one of the odd nights during the last ten days of Ramadan, but is most widely observed on the 27th night of Ramadan. It is considered the most blessed night in Ramadan because it is believed to be the night in which the Qu’ran was first revealed. Mosques are open all night as Muslims hold vigils in prayer, Qur’anic recitation, and contemplation.

Special Foods

Breaking the fast with dates or water is the only strictly traditional culinary custom associated with Ramadan. It is interesting to note the suitability of dates for this purpose as they are a concentrated source of energy and easily digestible. Different Muslim-populated countries have a variety of special dishes and desserts for Ramadan.

Benefits of Fasting

Doctors agree that fasting is extremely beneficial for lowering cholesterol levels and for other health benefits. Fasting is a means of purifying the body as well as the spirit, as it gives the body a rest from the continuous task of digesting food.

Eid ul-Fitr

At the end of Ramadan, Muslims celebrate one of their major holidays called Eid ul-Fitr or the “Festival of the Breaking of the Fast.” For the date of the holiday, see our Calendar of Important Islamic Dates. Children traditionally receive new clothes, money, or gifts from parents, relatives, and friends. A special prayer and sermon are held on the morning of Eid day, followed by a community celebration usually in a park or large hall. Food, games, and presents for children are important parts of the festivities, as friends and family spend the day socializing, eating, and reuniting with old acquaintances. The greeting Eid Mubarak means “blessed holiday!”