2016 Election

Just a couple of months ago Carly Fiorina denounced Ted Cruz as a liar who will “say anything to get elected.” And then there’s today: “Ted Cruz is a fearless fighter for our constitutional rights. He has spent his life protecting Americans’ God-given liberties, and he has always stood by his word. Unlike the status-quo political class in D.C., Ted …

From the Huffington Post: Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering. The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Apple CEO Tim …

Among the many failed companies run by Donald Trump was a Ponzi scheme vitamins distributorship which analyzed customers’ urine samples and then sent them a list of the “essential nutrients” they needed to buy. For real. Via the National Review: It’s far from clear whether Ideal Health’s (that is, the Trump Network’s) products had any substantive nutritional value. Take the …

From the Los Angeles Times: Michigan was the day’s big prize, not only because it offered the largest number of delegates, 59, but because it presented the first test of the candidates’ appeal in the industrial Midwest, a traditional fall battleground. If nominated, Trump hopes his protectionist talk could win over blue-collar workers skeptical of foreign trade deals and put …

The first real upset of the primary season. Via the Guardian: Bernie Sanders pulled off his biggest win of the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday, defeating Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary on a night which also confirmed strong anti-establishment support for Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination. In an industrial state hit hard by the decline …

Donald Trump has been declared the winner of the Michigan primary with John Kasich running about 12 points behind at this writing. Bernie Sanders currently has a slight lead in Michigan and it may be some time before we get the Democratic winner there.

Literally seconds after the polls officially closed, CNN projected Hillary Clinton as the winner of the Mississippi primary based on exit polls conducted earlier. This is Clinton’s 12th state win this primary season. UPDATE: Mississippi has now also been called for Trump.

Above are the GOP delegates at stake in Michigan, Mississippi, Hawaii, and Idaho. Democrats are voting in Michigan (130 delegates) and Mississippi (36 delegates). Embedded below is a live news feed. Watch along with us as the results roll in.

World Net Daily founder Joseph Farah, the man who spawned anti-Obama birtherism, has endorsed Canada-born Ted Cruz. He writes: Ted Cruz’s history demonstrates he has the clearest, most Reaganesque vision of where the country needs to go in its much-needed recovery from eight years of Barack Obama. Cruz is principled, sophisticated and a solid conservative whose understanding of and commitment …

Mediaite recaps the clip: DeGeneres was surprised that anyone could be excited about the debates anymore, saying that whether the GOP was trying to appeal to younger audiences or not, “I don’t think the debates are really appropriate for anyone of any age.” DeGeneres, of course, was talking about how Trump responded to Marco Rubio‘s “small hands” jabs by twisting …

The Washington Post reports: Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is now playing an even more active role in the 2016 campaign: He’s working the phones. On Monday, Romney recorded a phone call paid for by the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that is being sent to Republicans in four states voting on Tuesday — Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho …

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s standing among Republican registered voters nationwide fell slightly in the latest ABC News/Washington Post national poll released Tuesday. Trump, who earned 34 percent (down 3 points from January), is losing steam to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, up four points from the last survey, conducted in January, to 25 percent. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio came next with …

Fuck. Shit. Pussy. Via Politico: A new anti-Donald Trump TV ad takes a unique approach in trying to take down the brash front-runner: It highlights his foul language. The 30-second commercial, from American Future Fund Political Action, is titled “Best Words,” and takes a montage of clips from Trump rallies and imagines a storm of bleeped-out words, profanities, and vulgarities …

Yesterday Ted Cruz was supposed to share the stage with raving loon Bryan Fischer, but his campaign canceled the event, saying Cruz is “very very ill.” The Biloxi Sun-Herald reports: “I got a call from the national campaign chairman and he said he’s known Cruz for a long time and he’s very very ill,” State Sen. Chris McDaniel, Cruz’s Mississippi …

CNN reports: A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say. Rubio himself is “bullish” on his odds of winning the critical primary, despite some advisers who are less hopeful and believe a loss there would …

Via the New York Times: Michael R. Bloomberg, who for months quietly laid the groundwork to run for president as an independent, will not enter the 2016 campaign, he said Monday, citing his fear that a three-way race could lead to the election of a candidate who would imperil the security and stability of the United States: Donald J. Trump. …

Oh brother. Via Pink News: Caitlyn Jenner has claimed that Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton only cares about herself. The former Olympian, who is a staunch Republican, made the claim on her reality show I Am Cait, which has just begun its second season. During the show, Jenner is discussing politics with her transgender friends, when she insists that the …

From the New York Times: Donald J. Trump released a savage attack ad about Senator Marco Rubio that’s set to air in his home state of Florida, a 60-second takedown that calls the legislator “corrupt” and accuses him of intentionally misusing a Republican party credit card to line his pockets. The ad is one of the most brutal of a …

David Badash writes at New Civil Rights Movement: The Log Cabin Republicans today posted an ad demanding Donald Trump tell them where he stands on same-sex marriage. The gay GOP group as recently as December had been supportive of the Republican frontrunner, with their president proclaiming the brash billionaire is “one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican …

From the Times Of Israel: Former Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman excoriated Donald Trump for urging his supporters at a weekend rally to raise their right hands and promise to support him, a gambit Foxman said evoked echoes of Hitler salutes from Nazi rallies in the 1930s and ’40s. For Foxman, who was born in Poland in 1940 and was …