2016 Election

And that’s that. But it was a pretty decent departure speech.

Moments after the polls closed in the Florida Panhandle, CNN has called the state for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Pundits believe the margin of Trump’s victory may force Marco Rubio to change his mind about staying in the race after tonight. Finishing in third on the GOP side is Ted Cruz, who has a paltry 16% of the vote …

The polls are just closing in most of Florida and results will start rolling in shortly. Embedded below is a live stream from CNN. Watch along with us and weigh in.

Failed 2014 US House candidate Clay Aiken, who was also the runner-up on both American Idol and Celebrity Apprentice, appeared on Fox News today where he declared, “Donald Trump is like your drunk uncle. You love him, but you never know what he’s going to do.” His comments spawned an immediate Twitter backlash and above is his response. Aiken is …

Via Rolling Stone: No matter how many delegates Hillary Clinton picks up during Tuesday’s primaries, the Democratic frontrunner will undoubtedly receive a bigger boost among young voters the next night: She’s making a guest appearance episode of Broad City. Comedy Central has released a preview clip of the candidate’s cameo, and — given the extent to which Abbi and Ilana …

Pundits are heralding today’s primaries as do-or-die for Marco Rubio, John Kasich, and to a less extent, Bernie Sanders. If you’re voting today, tell us about your experience at the polls. Also weigh in below with your forecasts. I’ll bump this post up a couple of times today and will be working tonight until we have all the results.

Oh, brother. Via People Magazine: Caitlyn Jenner is ready to make nice. On Monday night, the reality star posted a photo of herself posing with presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and a group of pals, including actress Candis Cayne, who already endorsed the Democrat. A Clinton campaign source recalls for PEOPLE that the photo was taken in January in Iowa after …

And once again, Donald Trump doesn’t seem to understand how videotape works. Via Mediaite: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has rewritten every rule in electoral politics this cycle, so why not simply rewrite reality? In one of Trump’s more stunning displays of gumption-encrusted chutzpah, Trump now claims that he never offered to pay the legal fees of supporters who roughed …

Last night Samantha Bee totally educated her audience about Ted Cruz, his batshit father, and his buddies David Barton and Pastor Kevin “Kill The Gays” Swanson. Watch this. Raw Story recaps: Samantha Bee examined Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) faith on Monday’s episode of Full Frontal, saying that it was significant that it was allies or his relatives claiming to receive …

Equality PAC yesterday endorsed Hillary Clinton. She reacts via press release: “I’m honored to receive the endorsement of the Equality PAC and the leaders of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, who are fighting every day for full and equal rights for LGBT Americans. We achieved a tremendous victory in the fight to make our country fairer and freer for all …

He celebrates via press release: We may not know who will be representing the GOP at the Republican National Convention, but I know one person who will be representing Louisiana — me! For the second time, I’ll be serving as a delegate for my home state when the Cleveland event gets underway July 18. Just as importantly, I’ve been elected …

Remember the guys who burst into a Ted Cruz town hall and attempted to perform an exorcism? And the guy who stood up at a Marco Rubio event to declare that Rubio had stolen his girlfriend? Well, those same pranksters achieved the ultimate today when they got Fox News to report that Trump supporters have begun wearing Nazi-esque armbands. Watch …

Here’s the payoff for last week’s endorsement. Ben Carson today appeared on right wing radio where he revealed that Donald Trump has promised him a position in his administration. Carson refused to say if it would be a cabinet position as “the situation is still very liquid.” Watch below. On Breitbart they are speculating that Carson would be Surgeon General.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who fought relentlessly against same-sex marriage, today endorsed Donald Trump. As with all things Trump, there’s a shady backstory. Via The Intercept: Trump just won a key endorsement going into Tuesday’s Florida primary: the state’s attorney general, Pam Bondi. But her bigger favor to Trump may have been her decision in 2013 not to pursue …

From the Washington Post: A North Carolina sheriff’s office is investigating whether Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s actions at a Fayetteville, N.C., rally last week “rose to the level of inciting a riot,” according to a statement from the department’s lawyer. “We are continuing to look at the totality of these circumstances . . . including the potential of whether there was conduct …

“What we don’t have time for is all that petty punk-ass little thuggery stuff that’s been going on with those quote-unquote protesters who are doing nothing but wasting your time and trying to take away your first amendment rights, your rights to assemble peacefully. And the media being on the thugs’ side — what the heck are you guys thinking, …

Jezebel reports: This weekend, following the deeply unsurprising revelation that Breitbart News Network leadership was significantly more concerned with preserving ties to the Donald Trump campaign than with showing an ounce of integrity, reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro publicly announced their resignations. Now, two more staffers—National Security Correspondent Jordan Schachtel and Editor Jarrett Stepman—have also left the organization. …

From KTLA-TV: A Republican group looking to block GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the nomination is going on-air with an ad showing women reading some of his sharpest knocks on other women. “Bimbo,” reads one woman. “Dog,” reads another. “Fat pig,” reads a third woman, as the ad, “Real quotes from Donald Trump about women,” is introduced. Our Principles …

And that’s JUST in the last week. Via Politico: With the GOP front-runner scooping up delegates in a march toward the Republican nomination, POLITICO subjected a week’s worth of his words to our magazine’s fact-checking process. We chronicled 4.6 hours of stump speeches and press conferences, from a rally in Concord, N.C., on Monday to a rally on Friday in …

Sarah Palin today abruptly canceled her appearance at a Trump rally near Orlando after getting word that her husband, Todd Palin, has been seriously injured in a snowmobile crash in Alaska. NBC News reports that Palin has been on the phone with doctors all morning, but will stop by a Trump rally in Tampa later today before flying home. JUST …