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We’re not a step closer to freedom in Cuba because of the steps the president is taking.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by the Washington Post, commenting on President Obama’s decision to remove Cuba from the terror sponsor list.
I’ve done more immigration than Hillary Clinton ever did. I mean, I helped pass an immigration bill in a Senate dominated by Democrats. And that’s more than she’s ever done. She’s given speeches on it, but she’s never done anything on it.
— Sen. Marco Rubio, quoted by Politico.
$1 billion
Estimated amount of spending on U.S. online political advertising in the 2016 election, creating huge opportunities for digital strategy firms eager to capitalize on a shift from traditional mediums like television, according to Reuters.
69%
Of registered voters think Gov. Chris Christie (R) would not make a good president, a 10-point increase since February, a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll in New Jersey finds.
Hillary Clinton on this woman thing, I think, is lacking subtlety. I don’t need her to drown me in estrogen every time she opens her mouth.
— GOP strategist Anna Navarro, quoted by TPM.
I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community. With this state and all of its resources, we could sponsor a whole new class of potential innovators like George Washington Carver and eventually have a class of African-American billionaires. That would really adjust income differentials and make the diversity and outcome of the state much better so that the black community is not the one we drive faster through.
— Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), telling the Peoria Journal Star that his constituents try to avoid African-American neighborhoods.
24
Number of consecutive years Hillary Clinton has been in the headlines as a political figure, according to Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik: “… Hillary Clinton is one of the most durable political figures in American history. Immersed in politics since the early 1970s, she has been a universally recognized national figure since 1992.”
If they get to nominate Hillary Clinton, why don’t we get to nominate Dick Cheney?
The argument for Clinton in 2016 is that she is the candidate of the only major American political party not run by lunatics. There is only one choice for voters who want a president who accepts climate science and rejects voodoo economics, and whose domestic platform would not engineer the largest upward redistribution of resources in American history. Even if the relatively sober Jeb Bush wins the nomination, he will have to accommodate himself to his party’s barking-mad consensus. She is non-crazy America’s choice by default. And it is not necessarily an exciting choice, but it is an easy one, and a proposition behind which she will probably command a majority.
She was a supporter of mine in the general election, she was an outstanding secretary of State, she is my friend. I think she would be an excellent president.
— President Obama, quoted by The Hill, on Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
