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"I'm a Georgia Voter" stickers with peaches are handed out to residents as they vote during Georgia's primary election at their polling station at South Lowndes Recreation Complex in Lake Park, Ga., on March 1, 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Andrew Harnik, AP)
[h=2]Results coming ...[/h]We'll have them live,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as they roll in. These are the primary poll closing times:
7 p.m. ET: Georgia, Vermont, Virginia
8 p.m. ET: Alabama, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee
8:30 p.m. ET: Arkansas
8 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET: Texas
Caucuses<span style="color: Red;">*</span>start at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>7 p.m. ET in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Alaska,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>8 p.m. ET in Minnesota and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>9 p.m. ET in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Colorado.
[h=2]Clinton wins Georgia, Virginia; Sanders takes Vermont[/h]The Associated Press called the Democratic primary races shortly after the polls closed.
[h=2]Trump victorious in Georgia[/h]Fox and NBC project he will win the Republican primary in the Peach State.
[h=2]Trump spars with Nikki Haley[/h]The New York businessman came out swinging at the South Carolina governor Tuesday.
The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2016
Haley, who during an event with Marco Rubio on Monday said Trump should release his tax returns, had a very Southern retort.
[h=2]Trump calls our correspondent ‘horrible’[/h]At a rally in Ohio on Tuesday, Trump continues denying responsibility for black students being ejected from one of his rallies in Georgia on Monday.
He called USA TODAY correspondent and Des Moines Register reporter Jennifer Jacobs “horrible” for writing about it and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>her news organization “a failed paper in Iowa.”
“(T)hey wrote this vicious story, and it gets picked up by everybody. And this is a paper that's an enemy of ours, with a writer who is horrible, and they pick it up all over the place!” Trump exclaimed.
Still, the police chief in Georgia confirmed Tuesday that his aides had asked the students to leave the rally before Trump spoke.
[h=2]Ted Cruz wins (one) court case[/h]An Illinois judge on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the Texas senator’s eligibility for the ballot, USA TODAY’s Aamer Madhani reports:
“An Illinois judge on Tuesday dismissed a legal challenge brought by a voter who contends that Sen. Ted Cruz is ineligible to run for president because he was born in Canada.Similar lawsuits have also been filed in Texas, New York, Alabama and Utah.
Judge Maureen Ward Kirby of the Cook County Circuit Court dismissed the complaint brought by Lawrence Joyce, because he failed to properly serve Cruz and members of the Illinois State Board of Elections as required by law.”
One down, four to go…
[h=2]Um, this is happening...[/h]Cardboard cutouts of the faces of GOP candidates are set up on urinals in a pub in London on March 1, 2016, as part of an informal poll for customers to log which they dislike the most.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Justin Tallis, AFP/Getty Images)
[h=2]Hillary takes questions![/h]The move followed an NBC story Monday that counted the days since the Democratic front-runner did so, and compared her to other presidential candidates:
“Clinton's last media availability took place on December 4 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She took seven questions from a small group of journalists on a Friday night. In the three months since, Clinton has held hundreds of events across more than 20 states. She did not formally answer questions from her traveling press corps once during that time …Press conferences, while ostensibly for reporters’ benefit, also provide important opportunities for the public to see candidates saying what they think on the fly, rather than sticking to a campaign script.
"Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich have all held press conferences in the last week.”
So what did Hillary say? Via ABC’s Liz Kreutz, Clinton said Trump is doing very well but someone else could still snatch the Republican nomination.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>She said the GOP race has turned into a turned into<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“kind of a one upmanship on insulting” that’s inappropriate for a presidential campaign.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>And she declined to talk about whether Bernie Sanders will be able to continue to compete with her for the Democratic nomination, given his widely expected losses on Tuesday.
[h=2]Bernie votes for himself 'after a lot of thought'[/h]The senator arrived at his polling station in Vermont around 7:30 a.m. and joked with a worker there about the 12-degree weather (“Nice Vermont day,” the worker quipped).<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sanders cast his ballot and then took selfies with voters.
"I will tell you after a lot of thought, I voted for me for president," he told one man, according to a pool report.
As he prepared to leave, reporters asked how he was feeling. "We're feeling great," he replied.
[h=2]Kasich taunts Trump[/h]The Ohio governor, who is virtually tied for last in the Republican field, attempts to taunt Trump with a poll in the one state where he leads:
[h=2]Ben Carson: Can’t we all just get along?[/h]The retired neurosurgeon calls for a meeting of all five campaigns in Detroit before a scheduled debate on Thursday.
"A house divided cannot stand, and it is imperative the Republican Party exhibit unity by the candidates coming together with a pledge to talk about the many serious problems facing our country, instead of personally attacking each other," he said in a statement issued by his campaign.
Um, let us know what you hear, doctor ...
[h=2]Rand Paul: Can I get a do-over?[/h]The Kentucky senator joked that he was ready to re-enter the presidential race after the Union Leader in New Hampshire said it regretted endorsing Chris Christie, who has now endorsed Donald Trump:
[h=2]Alabama official in Twitter tiff <span style="color: Red;">*</span>[/h]Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has been dealing with something of a tweetstorm after the state’s website helping voters find their polling places went down.
Merrill alternately appeared to blame voters:
And a contractor:
Before inviting people to call him directly. Like now.
At least he’s accessible, right? The Montgomery Advertiser has more here.
[h=2]Oh, and emojis...[/h]Twitter has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>created custom emojis<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that pop up when users use the #SuperTuesday hashtag.
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