First there was the Senate Republican republicans. Republican senator after republican senator threw questions at hagel that even by the debate standards of a nominating hearing were the cheapest kind of demagoguery and bullying. Why do you think that the Iranian Foreign ministry so strongly supports your nomination to be the secretary of defense . To go on al jazeera, a Foreign Network broadcasting propaganda to nations that are hostile to us and to explicitly agree with the characterization of the United States as the worlds bully, i would suggest is not the conduct one would expect of a secretary of defense. You continue to fold, i believe, extreme views far to the left of even this administration. If you were a visitor from another country and you just listen to hagels republican interlocaters, you would have had to ask where did this moral monster come from . And the answer is, of course, is mostly in the Republican Senate caucus. Watching Lindsay Graham make the pained gassy face
Southern states and the democratic contest. Joe biden, once again, the winner, the big winner in mississippi p mississippi. As far as missouri and north dakota is concerned, too early. Joe biden canceled that rally in cleveland. Hell be giving remarks press in philadelphia. There is no public audience here. A few, a handful of members of his staff will be on hand as well as the press corps that is traveling with him roshgeportin him. That will include a portion about coronavirus. But theyre also expected to give an overall arching vision for his vision of the country. They canceled the rallies because of the coronavirus. Joe biden, the winner in mississippi. He will win the democratic president ial primary, 36 delegates at stake in mississippi. Joe biden, the winner in missouri right now. Were not yet able to make a projection on the vote. Similarly in north dakota too early to call between biden and sanders. Only 14 delegates at stake in north dakota. But were not, not able to make a
This is the daily rundown. Lets get right to my first reads of the morning. Get ready for a three and a half month sprint to the finish. The 2014 midterms are just 99 days away. Voters nationwide will cast ballots in 36 senate races, 36 contests for governor and pick their representatives. In all 435 house districts. One thing thats striking so far, we still dont know for sure what this election will be about. Will republicans net six seats and win 2014s big prize, control of the u. S. Senate . For democrats, avoiding a gop wave and a total disaster might actually represent a small victory. Can democrats offset potential losses at the federal level by picking off some vulnerable republican governors . Given gop gains over the last few cycles it was always see as an advantage prospect but democrats have their own vulnerable incumbent governors to defend. Both the democrats and the republicans legitimately believe they are going to pick up a few seats in november. Somebody has got to be
Conventions rather than through these statebystate contests but in 1964 there were a bunch of statebystate primaries and about two months into them 11 primaries into it that year, by 11 primaries in six different guys had won at least one of the primaries and a bunch of them are really guys you truly have never heard of. Any of these guys look familiar . But one of the candidates who competed that year and never won a thing ended up becoming a future president. He had no luck at all that year in 1964, but he did run hard in this big field of all these unknowns with everybody winning a different one, each state being a new never heard of him before winner. This future president did run hard in 1964. In one state he ran in he went is a far as to higher and hide away a secret all female phone squad in an effort to win the primary that year in the great state of oregon. It was exposed by a news crew. Watch this. His headquarters in still another store looks the same as all the others. But