Before he got his explanation of why he had to quit in first place. Ross perot explained that the previous reason he had given for why he had to quit the race had been a lie. It had been a cover story because the real truth was too scandalous and too dangerous to admit at the time. After he got back in october, 1992, right before the general election, he decided he was finally ready to go public. To go public with the whole unbelievable scandal of truth about why he had really been forcd out of race for all those months. He made the charge sunday in his First Campaign outing since getting back this the race saying the republicans planned to distribute the fake photo of his daughter before her august 23rd wedding and to. Smear her before her wedding and actually disrupt the wedding ceremony. He repeated the charges last night on 60 minutes. This is watergate two. Top aides called the allegations preposterous. There hasnt been any dirty tricks. Now he claims it was because the republicans mounted a dirty Tricks Campaign against his daughter. The family says the plan was to portray her as a lesbian. I got this report through an intermediary seeing he had seen a photograph they were going to give the tabloids to mere my daughter before the wedding and they were beginning to disrupt the wedding in the church. In the church. Thats how ross perot explained why he got back in the president ial race when he did. That was a week before the election in 1992. He said, listen, what happened here, forget what i said before. What actually happened in his words was watergate two. He believed the Republican Party had ginned up a fake photograph that would make his daughter look like she was gay and they were going to use the faked lesbian photograph of his daughter to not only upset her ahead of her wedding but the Republican Party had plans to physically disrupt her wedding inside the church. That is why he had to quit the race back in july but now that the wedding had come and gone, it was okay. I guess it was safe to get back in the race. It was a very weird thing. It was a very strange thing. Ross perot is a strange candidate. He did go onto win 19 to 20 candidate. That whole getting in and out of the race thing was period. I should also tell you the fake reason that ross perot gave when he did drop out of race in july, which he later said was a made up ruse that he used that they would show up and tell everybody she was a lesbian. The explanation what he didnt think he would be able to win the presidency in a threeway race between him and president bush and bill clinton. We have said among ourselves and publicly that we must win in november. We must win a majority of electoral votes. Now that the Democratic Party has revitalized itself, i have concluded that we cannot win in november, and that the election will be decided in the house of representatives. Since the house of representatives is made up primarily of democrats and republicans, our chances of winning would be pretty slim. That is how ross perot quit the president ial race in the summer of 1992 before several months later he got back into the race saying that explanation was a lie. He never meant any of that. It was all about his daughter looking like a lesbian at her wedding. People talk about the prospect of a third party or independent president ial Campaign Like a normal thing. Thats something that happened before. We forget just how exquisitely weird it was. When Michael Bloomberg announced he would not mount his own run for the presidency this year, the reason he gave for why he wont run is the same reason why ross perot said he quit the race in the summer of 1992 before revising the explanation for being the whole lesbian disruption plot. Michael bloomberg said its unlikely any candidate would win a majority of votes and the power of the president would be taken out of hands of the American People and thrown to congress. Most members of congress would vote for their partys nominee. Its ross perot minus the later revision of the reason he quit. Then you will not get that this year from Michael Bloomberg. Even though he will not run, we now know on the occasion of him quitting, just how big the operation was that he put into motion when he was considering the prospect of running. The New York Times reports tonight that mr. Bloomberg commissioned polling of his chances in 22 states. He opened Campaign Offices not just in texas as nbc reported last week but in North Carolina. His would be president ial campaign produced this campaign ad. Sort of a run of the mill tv ad talking about what a Great Success mike Michael Bloomberg has been in his life showing buildings where people work. The Michael Bloomberg might run for President Campaign went so far to pick his running hate. He was going to try to run with Michael Mullin or maybe. Its being reported that Michael Bloomberg finished a vetting process. The Campaign Liked what they found. He didnt ask the admiral if he would join but the implication is he would have had he run. Michael bloomberg took a lot of steps to investigate the possibility of whether he should run for president. Alas, he will not. What that means for all of us, until july, at least, this is the field. One of these six people is on track to be the next president of the united states. On the democratic side, vermont senator Bernie Sanders continues to trail mightily in the delegate count even as he keeps winning states across the country. As Hillary Clinton won just one state this weekend. When you look at the overall progress thats about delegates, this was the delegate haul for those two candidates this weekend. This is the daunting delegate lead that secretary clinton holds over senator sanders overall. The next big contest will be competing. It shows secretary clinton with a 13point lead in michigan but i should say both candidates are competing really hard in that state not only debating there this weekend but both of them making lots of Campaign Appearances in the state really slugging it out. On the republican side, michigan is also the biggest prize in terms of delegates tomorrow night. This evening on the eve of those contests the republican president ial frontrunner is campaigning in mississippi. Donald trump held a large rally in madison mississippi in what was a all white crowd in a not all white state. Hes continued to rack up lopsided victories across the deep south. Some of the troubling racial elements for his overt support for white supremacist groups and klan groups continues and continues to be unsettling. Today we got the latest in the series of White Nationalist robocalls that continue to go out on behalf of mr. Trump. His campaign has nothing to do with them. This American National super pac makes this call in support of donald trump. Im a farmer and White Nationalist. This goes out to all millennials and other who is are honest in their dealings. Mitt romney has viciously attacked donald trump. They are mean spirited and dishonest. The white race is being replaced by other people in america and in all white countries. Donald trump stands strong as a nationalist. He cares about the working man. Vote trump. This is one in a series of protrump robo calls thats been made by the overtly racist White Nationalist group. Usually they end by saying this is not associated with or paid for by the Trump Campaign. In this case they dont make the disclaimer. Theres no indication the Trump Campaign is overtly connected with this at all. In terms of Southern States theres not much left. Mississippi will vote tomorrow. North carolina and florida will vote in a week on march 15th. It will be interesting to see if the Trump Campaigns continues to be surrounded by this overtly racist, White Nationalist noise even as the Republican Campaign next week leaves the south and movers onto big delegate number states like wisconsin and new york and connecticut. It will be interesting to see if the ambient racist noise changes at all once hes not looking at all white electorates and republican primaries in those Southern States. Tomorrow will come first. Along side mississippi voting tomorrow, the biggest will be michigan. The latest michigan polling on the republican side is from mommoth, michigan poll. Donald trump is leading by 13. Hes leading in michigan. That doesnt feel like news anymore. That puts poor marco in fourth place in michigan. The campaign reportedly is expecting a very bad night overall tomorrow night. A cnn report this evening sites one Marco Rubio Campaign source talking about the campaigns expectation for tomorrows contest. Quote, were not going to have a great day. Thats an understatement. That comes in a story thats the worst possible headline. Some rubio advisors say get out before florida. This is a report the campaign is denying tonight. That cnn headline follows this headline. Some supporters of rubio say bad strategy and poorly run campaign are killing his chances. That follows this ugly lead story for marco rubio from politico. The headline is not as bad. Rubios path forward gets rockier. Check out the lead. Marco rubio is sinking further into a hole with donald trump and ted cruz heaping piles of dirt on top of him. He did win the puerto rico primary. The result means hes improved his record to only losing 18 out of last 20 states. The most of the 18 states hes lost he didnt even get second. Most of them hes come in third. Saturday was a disaster. His best was in kentucky and he lost by 20 points. Everywhere else that voted on saturday he did worse. He came in fourth out of four in maine. He lost by 31 points in kansas. He campaigned hard and had high level endorsements but he did terribly this those states. Kentucky was a miserable remind der that hes not just going to be not president. Hes also not going to be anything else. Hes also out of a job. Senator rubio made this Bold Decision when he decided to run that he would give up his senate seat and not run for reelection in order to mount this run for the presidency. Thats fine if youll win. Ben carson lives in florida and there is Florida Republican appetite for him to run for marco rubios seat in the senate since it will be available. If and win marco rubio does not win the republican president ial no nomination, it will mean he doesnt have a next thing to do which is kind of remarkable. It did not have to be that way. Rand paul did not make that same mistake. Those kentucky caucuses where marco lost by 20 points, they are a mess. Voting ended at 4 00. They expected to have results so people could make call in that race by 7 00. Results took so long to come in that we didnt know who won until almost 11 00. There were long lines across the state. Mostly because the party couldnt get it together or count the vote in any reasonable amount of time. They can be forgiven for being a little rusty. This is the first time they have held a caucus since 1984. The only thing they had to have a caucus is something that is making rubio crazy. Rand paul didnt screw this up the same way marco rubio did. He decided he would run for reelection to his senate seat. He had a safety school. He was playing with a net. The reason that resulted in there being a caucus in kentucky is theres state law in kentucky that says you cant have your name on the same ballot for two different offices. They will vote for who they want for senate in a primary held in may. It was just for republicans to vote for president. The reason they did a separate primary was a favor to rand paul so he could run for both offices without being on the same ballot for two different offices at the same time. Its very nice for the Republican Party of kentucky to have done this favor for rand paul especially considering that he ended up dropping out of the race more than a month ago. They did make rand paul pay for the caucuses. He had to cough up 250,000 in Campaign Funds to pay for this fairly disorganized exercise that was put on just to benefit him. If youre a Kentucky Republican maybe it seems like it was worth it to you. If youre like a College Sophomore who got all excited about rand paul this year and saved up and sent him a campaign donation, i cant imagine how it feels to know this is where your donation went. People who donated to the Rand Paul Campaign for president ended up having their donations pay for the kentucky Republican Party to hold caucus in addition to the primary theyre going the hold in may. Thats what rand pauls Campaign Donations ended up going for. If he runs for anything again im sure it will be hard to explain to his supporters this is where your Campaign Donations went this year. I doubt he cares. He just wants to keep his job. Marco rubio, unless he wins the presidency doesnt have that option. Made of michigan and mississippi and idaho and the hawaii Republican Caucus tomorrow night, there is one major and increasingly escapable dynamic in the republican race. It concerns all the candidates. Its about donald trump and john kasich and ted cruz. Its becoming clear as day. The Republican Party as an institution appears to be in complete and total denial about it. The story is for real. We can tell from here its going to make for a dramatic summer of politics. 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That story is next. Stay with us. Here are the Southern States that have voted so far on the republican side. Ted cruz has won his home state of texas and neighboring oklahoma. Donald trump has won everywhere else. Tomorrow night mr. Trump will be trying to fill in that little gap in the map. Mississippi where theres been no polling. The polling that does exist shows him in the lead. Hes won all the other states that border mississippi. Tonight he held rally in the jackson mississippi suburbs. That said, tonight mississippis governor endorsed ted cruz. Well see in mississippi. The other holes in the map in the south right now are North Carolina and florida. Both of them will be voting next week. Then the whole southern part of the primary will be over next week. Heres the thing about this next week. The whole reason everybodys already talking about florida, which votes a week from tomorrow. The reason everyone is talking about florida a week before they vote when theres all these other states between now and then, the reason talking about there only been seven days to stop donald trump from winning florida and winning the republican nomination is because theres only seven days for republicans to stop donald trump from winning florida and there by winning the republican nomination. Mississippi and michigan are going to vote tomorrow. They matter for sure. Mississippi and michigan combined have the same number of delegates that will be at stake in florida alone. In florida, whoever wins in the state of florida, wins all of those delegates. Mathematically speaking theres only two real possibilities in the republican president ial race from here on out. Either nobody locks up the nomination before the convention and the Republican Party goes to its convention without having chosen a nominee. Thats one option. The other option available to the Republican Party right now besides that, the only other way it might go is that they will know who their nominee will be going into that convention because their nominee is going to be donald trump. When you look at the delegate math, no other candidate has a path to win a majority of delegates and lock up the nomination other than donald trump. If hes going to do it, if hes going to win it and deny anybody else the chance of getting it, the one state he has to win in other words in order to get there is florida, which is why everybody has been talking about florida and its such a big deal that marco rubio is crater. Conventional wisdom used to say he should win because hes the senator there. Now its nothing to say about rubio because of his campaign. If he is in free fall and the only way t