2016 Election

Today’s installment of Infighting Is Funny comes, as it so often does, via Breitbart: TV host Glenn Beck attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Thursday, saying “too many people are looking at Trump and believing that man has ever opened a Bible … that’s the biggest crock of bullcrap I’ve ever heard.” Beck, founder of TheBlaze.com, spoke at a rally …

The Cruz campaign has pulled its latest ad after learning its self-described conservative Christian actress has also appeared in titles such as Kinky Sex Club and Insatiable Desires. Via Buzzfeed: The ad, which was set at a group therapy session of conservative voters who feel betrayed by Marco Rubio on immigration, featured actor Amy Lindsay, who played a woman telling …

Whoa. If true, the GOP did the same thing to Jimmy Carter. Via Talking Points Memo: An Iranian official said “Republican rivals of the current US administration” attempted to stall last month’s Iranian-U.S. prisoner swap until the eve of the U.S. presidential election, Tasnim News Agency reported. According to the semi-official Iranian news outlet, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s …

Tonight’s Democratic presidential debate begins at 9PM Eastern from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The event will be aired on CNN and live-streamed via the PBS feed embedded below. Moderating will be PBS NewsHour hosts Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff, the first all-female team to host a presidential debate. Watch below with us and weigh in.

CNN reports: Ted Cruz will launch his most forceful attack yet against Donald Trump in a TV ad that accuses Trump of buying political influence “in a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades.” The 60-second spot, shared first with CNN, is part of a six-figure ad buy that will hit voters’ TV screens across South Carolina starting as early as …

“Every four years gay Republicans slime out from under their rocks to remind us that the Democratic candidate wasn’t always perfect on LGBT issues. They then implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) pivot to this nonsensical argument: Since your guy/gal wasn’t always perfect on LGBT issues, the LGBT community should vote for the Republican who was terrible on LGBT issues then, is …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: “Obama is pure evil,” he said. “But he’s nothing compared to what Bernie Sanders would do.” Savage predicted that Sanders would impose “naked communism in this country” and “use the street gangs that burned down Baltimore, the street gangs that burned down Ferguson, they will use them as government enforcers as sure as …

From Sanders’ voiceover: “Our job is not to divide, our job is to bring people together. If we do not allow them to divide us up by race, by sexual orientation, by gender, by not allowing them to divide us up by whether or not we were born in America, or whether we’re immigrants, when we stand together, as white …

From Cafe.com comes a rather hilarious Oscars-esque “tribute” to the candidates that have given up their presidential bids. Watch below and enjoy the best of Frothy Mix, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Jim Webb, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, Lincoln Chafee, and Martin O’Malley. “Suspended….but never forgotten.”

“We are at a cultural crossroads in our country, and if we can be in this race to show this country the face of the God that we serve — this Christian God that we serve is the foundation of our country, our country was built on Judeo-Christian values, we are a nation of freedom of religion, but the God …

Yesterday Bernie Sanders dined with Al Sharpton at Harlem’s famed Sylvia’s restaurant with the intent of shoring up support among black voters. Today the Congressional Black Caucus PAC announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton. The vote was announced by Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY), whose words were described by CNN anchors as delivering “full-throated” support to the Clinton campaign.

Four times married Rush Limbaugh says that Ted Cruz is the only true conservative in the race. From the wingnut site Newsmax: With conservatives across the country facing a critical decision whether to back Donald Trump, top radio talker Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that true conservatives have no choice but to vote for Ted Cruz. Limbaugh told his radio audience, …

Marco Rubio last night told his supporters that his flailing debate performance was to blame for his fifth place finish in the New Hampshire primary. Today he’s singing a somewhat different song to Fox News. Politico reports: “What happened is obviously Saturday night the debate went the way it went, and then just the media coverage over the last 72 …

Bernie Sanders appealed for donations during last night’s victory speech after the New Hampshire primary and oh, how the money has poured in. The Hill reports: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign has raised more than $5.2 million in the 18 hours since the polls closed Tuesday night in New Hampshire. The campaign’s average donation in that time frame was …

Legs kicking, arms waving, Carly Fiorina has dropped out. NPR reports: Carly Fiorina is exiting the Republican presidential race after a seventh-place showing in last night’s New Hampshire primary. “While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo …

CNN set up the clip: Johnny Depp is no stranger to outlandish film roles, but he has never tried his hand — or hair — at newly crowned New Hampshire GOP primary winner Donald Trump. Until now. Presented by the comedy site “Funny or Die,” the actor stars in a nearly hour-long spoof called “Funny or Die Presents Donald Trump’s …

ABC News reports: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to formally suspend his presidential campaign as early as today after he huddles with his closest advisers, ABC News has learned. A statement announcing the suspension could come as soon as early this afternoon, according to a source briefed on Christie’s plans. “We bet the ranch on New Hampshire, and …

Last night the Democratic Rapid Response team issued a clip which depicts Donald Trump as Vito Corleone – “the candidate nobody can refuse” who will “do anything to win” and to whom “all must pay their respects.” Watch below.

From their story: Clueless New Hampshire voters handed billionaire bore Donald Trump a “yuge” victory in the first-in-the nation primary Tuesday, providing the mad mogul with a new round of ammo a week after a disappointing second-place finish in Iowa. More than three in 10 Granite State voters flocked to the foul-mouthed contender, throwing their support to him at levels …

Most of New Hampshire’s polls closed at 7PM eastern and the rest close at 8PM. Heavy turnout is expected to favor Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, both of whom began the day with double-digit polling leads. Embedded below are live-streams which will begin reporting the results shortly. Watch along with us and weigh in below.