States, 865 delegates with donald trump already holding a commanding lead. No Campaign Events scheduled today. Nikki haley back home in South Carolina also not campaigning today. A Big Decision Pending On Whether or not she wants to stay in the race. Joe biden rolling out some Consumer Protection initiatives and preparing a state of the Union Address for thursday that he hopes will ignite more enthusiasm among the Democratic Base. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Its Super Tuesday. The largest single day voting contest for the republican nomination. Donald trump is on the ballot in all 15 gop races after yesterdays Supreme Court decision declaring that states cannot bar him for allegedly engaging in insurrection on january 6. 865 republican delegates are up for grabs. More than a third of the republican delegates. How they are allocated depends where you live. The biggest prize, california, with 169. Its winner take all. Its a closed primary. The majority of todays
B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
Ability to hold Public Office ever again based on a reading of the insurrection cause of the 14th Amendment. It appears likely that trump will probably be allowed to remain on the ballot but we just dont know exactly how the justices will rule or what kind of implications that may have on both the primary and on trumps legal cases. Speaking of which, the federal election interference trial in d. C. Was supposed to start tomorrow we had it not been paused due to trumps appeal of the decisions against his ridiculous absolute president ial immunity claim. A Supreme Court hearing on that claim has just been added to trumps calendar for april. Even though that trial has been delayed, trump will still find himself a criminal defendant this month. Beginning on march 25th, manhattan District Attorney, alvin bragg, will be the first to bring his case to court against the former president. Trumps former personal attorney, michael cohen, and the adult film actress, stormy daniels, are among the w
Power. You somehow reached in there and told the republicans you absolutely must not do it. A little taste of republicans, in the year 2024. And the senators also going to be joining, us talking about the same could port he might be average that the Supreme Court is taking the trump appeal. I am not i tried to make that clear last. Night not outraged by. Bit saving my outrage for the opinion if it is an outrageous opinion. But, i do find It Outrageous that Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from the case and well see what the senator whitehouse us to say about that. You could do a whole show on Clarence Thomass outlook. And i would watch all of it. We can do it, have a good show. He will, today defendant donald trump said he cannot afford to pay e. Jean carroll 83 million in the judgment against, and that she won donald trump has to court to proceed with an appeal of that judgment. Along to appeal the judgment without donald trump posting a bond that guarantees, to the, court that
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