Category Archives: campaigns
“Sanders surprises with controversial superdelegate strategy”
Steve Benen:
Strictly speaking, Democratic primary and caucus voters are principally responsible for choosing their presidential nominee, but the power is not entirely in their hands. While those voters elect pledged delegates for the party’s national convention, the Democratic… Continue reading
“RNC Rules: Insiders Speak Out on Contested Convention”
NBC News:
If no presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates and Republicans face a contested convention this summer, a small group of party insiders will have huge sway over who wins — and how to resolve a rift… Continue reading
“The Fundraising Guru Behind Bernie Sanders’ 27 Dollars”
Sean Braswell writes for Ozy.
“Supreme Court Nomination Drives Groups From Left and Right to Fight”
NYT:
More than 100 protest rallies are being scheduled in key electoral states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Iowa. Television advertisements are being scripted. Twitter and Facebook campaigns are rolling out, and email blasts are filling up… Continue reading
Good Luck with That Dep’t
Bernie Sanders now sees path to nomination relying on Democratic superdelegates.
“Trump as GOP presidential nominee could lean on party money”
AP:
Donald Trump says he’ll raise money for the Republican Party and there’s a good reason why: It has the resources he lacks for a general election.
Trump’s victories this week make it much more likely that he’ll be… Continue reading
“If no one else stops Trump, the Electoral College still can. It’s in the Constitution”
Derek Muller for WaPo:
Donald Trump will be the GOP’s presidential nominee. Within the party, talk of a brokered Republican National Convention or even a supporting a third-party candidate has circulated among those hoping to stop him from becoming the… Continue reading
“Ginsberg Warns of ‘Political Guerilla Warfare’ at Contested GOP Convention”
Bloomberg:
With prospects for the first contested Republican convention in 40 years on the rise, GOP super-lawyer and election-law expert Ben Ginsberg says that selecting the actual delegates at state conventions in the coming months will “be sort of… Continue reading
“Google now shows presidential campaign finance data directly in search results”
WaPo:
Looking up a presidential hopeful’s campaign finance information is now just a Google away.
If you look up a candidate’s name using the search engine, it now pulls up a quick summary of how much the candidate’s campaign… Continue reading
Harvard Law Prof Elhauge Files Amicus Brief Saying Ted Cruz Not Natural Born Citizen
The brief was filed in a NY case.
“Super PACs built a wall around Florida, and Trump destroyed it”
CPI reports.
A coalition of outside groups paid for more than 4,300 anti-Donald Trump ads during the week before Tuesday’s primary election in Florida — all to no avail as the real estate mogul sailed to an easy victory.… Continue reading
“A Situation in Which Donald Trump Wins the White House”
John Harwood for the NYT:
The number of white voters Mr. Trump attracts keeps shrinking as a share of the electorate, while the number of nonwhite voters he repels keeps growing, a pattern that helped President Obama retain the White… Continue reading
“Inside Cruz’s state-by-state plan to defeat Trump”
Shane Goldmacher for Politico:
It sounds like a nightmare for Donald Trump’s opponents: The billionaire sweeps Ohio and Florida on Tuesday and storms ahead with more than half the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the Republican nomination.
But for Ted… Continue reading