11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friends and colleagues ana cabrera here in new york and Andrea Mitchell live from washington. And just in the last hour, the contentious Battle For The White House came to a close. Donald trump is the partys presumptive nominee. It comes as former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley suspended her president ial bid just this morning after trump dominated on Super Tuesday. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And i hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing. Haley ended her Historic Campaign as the first woman in republican primary contest in the gops history. But she only managed to win two races, vermont and washington, d. C. , after failing to bid a coalition large enough to overcome Donald Trumps massiv
Nominee. How it could influence the race to replace the republican leader. And the record busting billions that president ial campaigns will pour into buying a mountain of negative ads. Can all that money buy a winning message or is it just so much white noise . Msnbc chief political analyst chuck todd will join me to talk about that, and why it may takes weeks to get an answer. We start with today, the official start of the rematch most voters say they didnt want. Joe biden versus donald trump, an unprecedented race in extraordinary ways. To candidates, older than any in history, both extremely wellknown yet deeply disliked facing a polarized electorate and toxic political climate, and yet they have essentially cemented their partys nominations even before they have the delegates to make it official. Trump is now the presumptive nominee, after this morning nikki haley suspended her Campaign Congratulating but not endorsing trump with a warning that seemed to directly target him. Our c
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Push the middle class tax cut message by spending time with an actual middle class family. The message that i got from tiffany and the message that i think we all want to send to members of congress is, this is a solvable problem. Im not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 , but i do remain optimistic that we can get something done that is good for families like this ones. And this actually appears to be working. A new poll shows the president is running ahead of the boehnerled republican team. What about basketball you say . We go to charlotte last night, and the knicks treasury secretary, carmelo anthony, top paid and big star got hurt in this dive and had to leave the game. Then the at the end it came down to this. Looking for felton and finds smith. Two seconds, one second. Smith for the win. Game over. No overtime. Deal, end game, done. Is this meaningless nba game in charlotte lead us to how the fiscal fiesta ends . We
Good evening, everybody. Im betsy fisher, the executive director of the women in Politics Institute at American University and. Welcome to our virtual series, women on wednesdays. Were glad youre here. To those of you need to want a bar. Wpi is a nonprofit and nonpartisan institute and a school of Public Affairs that aims to close the gender gap in political leadership. And we offer academic and practical campaign training, and we facilitate research and discussions like this on women, politics and leadership and. Tonight, we want to discuss a question that really is at the heart of so many conversations about in politics. Its also the subtype title of a new book, electable why america hasnt put a woman in the white house dot, dot, dot yet by ali vitali, who covers for nbc news before her post on hill, however, she covered both 2016 president ial election. Of course, saw a woman as the democratic nominee and Hillary Clinton and the 2020 president ial election saw a record breaking six