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Clinton Answered Questions from the Media Yesterday (and Why Is This a Headline?)

May 20, 2015May 21, 2015 Buck Banks

1,433

Number of minutes (as of 12:08 p.m. May 20) since Hillary Clinton last answered a journalist’s question at 12:15 p.m. May 1, reports the Washington Post. Prior to that, it was 40,150 minutes since she last answered a reporter’s question in New Hampshire.

Rubio & Braman — By the Numbers

May 19, 2015May 21, 2015 Buck Banks

Tampa Bay Times has some interesting insights into the relationship between presidential candidate Marco Rubio and his Miami billionaire patron Norman Braman. Recently, Braman announced he was giving Rubio $10 million to help finance his campaign.

It appears Rubio is accustomed to feeding at the Braman trough. Here are some numbers that illuminate their relationship:

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Clinton Kiboshes ‘Third Term’ Talk

May 19, 2015 Buck Banks

We’re going to make clear, I’m not running for my husband’s third term or for President Obama’s third term. I’m running to make history on my own.

— Hillary Clinton, addressing a critical issue about her candidacy — the loaded “third term” question, the New York Times reports.

Hillary Clinton Paid $225,000 Speaking Fee by Jeb Bush’s Company

May 19, 2015 Buck Banks

$225,000

Amount Hillary Clinton received nearly “for a speaking engagement on behalf of Academic Partnerships, a for-profit education company in which Jeb Bush held an ownership stake and on whose board he served,” The Intercept reports.

From the ‘People Unclear on the Concept’ File

May 19, 2015 Buck Banks

They want me to stay.

— Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by the New York Times, explaining why a poll showed that New Jersey residents, by a 65% to 29% margin, think he would not make a good president.

Christie Knows Baloney

May 19, 2015 Buck Banks

They want you to think that there’s a government spook listening in every time you pick up the phone or Skype with your grandkids. They want you to think of our intelligence community as the bad guys, straight out of ‘The Bourne Identity’ or a Hollywood thriller, and they want you to think that if we weakened our capabilities, the rest of the world would love us more. Let me be clear: All these fears are baloney.

— Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by the Huffington Post, defending the National Security Agency.

Huckabee Explains the Fantasy GOP Nominating Process

May 19, 2015 Buck Banks

his whole process is to elect a Republican nominee. It’s not to provide a media circus. It’s not to provide entertainment to the masses and to create a show that would be delightfully pleasant for the opposition to watch.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by the Washington Post, commenting on the growing worry about a wide-open nominating contest featuring a historically large and diverse field.

Clinton Says She’ll Appoint Justices Who Would Overturn Citizens United Ruling

May 19, 2015 Buck Banks

I will do everything I can to appoint Supreme Court justices who protect the right to vote and do not protect the right of billionaires to buy elections.

— Hillary Clinton, a billionaire trying to buy an election, said while on Day 1 of a two-day swing through Iowa, reported the ABC News.

We’re not yet halfway through 2015 but the 2016 race for control of the U.S. Senate is starting to take shape. This week The Hill ranked the 10 most competitive races — and since then there has been a development in the race The Hill listed as likely to be the easiest pickup for Democrats.

Yesterday former Sen. Russ Feingold, the Democratic incumbent who was unseated by current Sen. Ron Johnson in 2010, announced he was entering the race. Johnson, a tea partyist, won by 5 percentage points in the tea party’s anti-Obamacare wave election after spending millions of his own money. The Hill quotes him as saying he won’t self-fund this year — which only means he’ll rely on his wealthy cronies to spend unlimited money anonymously to fund his campaign. The Hill cited a poll by PPP taken before Feingold’s announcement that found Feingold with 50 percent support against Johnson’s 41 percent. Wisconsin has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential cycle since 1984.

Within hours after Feingold’s announcement, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts endorsed him, according to an email sent by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

The Hill’s other nine most-competitive races are:

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1,433

Number of minutes (as of 12:08 p.m. May 20) since Hillary Clinton last answered a journalist’s question at 12:15 p.m. May 1, reports the Washington Post. Prior to that, it was 40,150 minutes since she last answered a reporter’s question in New Hampshire.

We’re going to make clear, I’m not running for my husband’s third term or for President Obama’s third term. I’m running to make history on my own.

— Hillary Clinton, addressing a critical issue about her candidacy — the loaded “third term” question, the New York Times reports.

$225,000

Amount Hillary Clinton received nearly “for a speaking engagement on behalf of Academic Partnerships, a for-profit education company in which Jeb Bush held an ownership stake and on whose board he served,” The Intercept reports.

They want me to stay.

— Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by the New York Times, explaining why a poll showed that New Jersey residents, by a 65% to 29% margin, think he would not make a good president.

— Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by the Huffington Post, defending the National Security Agency.

his whole process is to elect a Republican nominee. It’s not to provide a media circus. It’s not to provide entertainment to the masses and to create a show that would be delightfully pleasant for the opposition to watch.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by the Washington Post, commenting on the growing worry about a wide-open nominating contest featuring a historically large and diverse field.

I will do everything I can to appoint Supreme Court justices who protect the right to vote and do not protect the right of billionaires to buy elections.

— Hillary Clinton, a billionaire trying to buy an election, said while on Day 1 of a two-day swing through Iowa, reported the ABC News.

I have a lot of people that I talk to (about foreign policy) but I’m not a student. I’m not being tutored anywhere. I’m not going to fly to, you know, London to go get some education or something.

— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), who said he “doesn’t need to go to other countries to learn about foreign policy like some candidates,” the Columbus Dispatch reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“There are a lot of Ukrainian drones in the air. It would be dangerous.”

— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by the Associated Press, when President Trump asked him if he would accept Moscow as a venue for peace talks.

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%