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20% of Maine Republican Voters Wouldn’t Vote for Trump

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

20%

“Roughly one in five Republican voters in Maine’s largest towns left President Trump’s oval blank or wrote in another name during Tuesday’s presidential primary,” the Portland Press Herald reports. “Unlike Democratic voters in Maine, who could choose among 12 candidates listed on the ballot, Maine Republicans had only one official option for their party’s nominee during the Super Tuesday primary: Donald Trump.”

Trump Terrified by Coronavirus

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

“As Trump pushes a nothing-to-see-here message in public, sources said he’s privately terrified about getting the virus… Stories about Trump’s coronavirus fears have spread through the White House. Last week Trump told aides he’s afraid journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One… The source also said Trump has asked the Secret Service to set up a screening program and bar anyone who has a cough from the White House grounds.”

Bloomberg Underwrites Effort to Get Out Black Vote

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

$2 million

Mike Bloomberg has poured $2 million into efforts to boost turnout by African-American voters in eight key states, an indication of his intention to continue bankrolling Democratic causes ahead of November’s elections, CBS News reports.

Markets Expect Interest Rates to Hit Zero

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

0%

Bloomberg: “Traders are pricing in about 80 basis points of cuts in March, and 100 basis points by July, which would drag borrowing costs down to zero.”

— Eric Trump, tweeting on February 28.

Biden Picked Up Warren’s Support

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

52% to 36%

A new CNN poll finds Joe Biden leading Bernie Sanders nationally by double-digits among Democrats, 52% to 36%, with Elizabeth Warren, who has since dropped out of the race at 7%. Among those interviewed after Warren left the contest, Biden’s support rose to 57%, Sanders stood at 36%.

Buttigieg: Biden Earned the Nomination

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

“Getting into this race was never just about becoming president. For us it was about working to unify the country and making sure we defeat Donald Trump and there came a point where I realized the best thing I could do in the service of those goals was to step aside and to support Vice President Biden.”

— Pete Buttigieg told NBC News that “by the time we had ran our fourth race it was clear the numbers weren’t there.”

Trump Is No Match for the Coronavirus

March 10, 2020 Buck Banks

“For a president who lives in the moment, rarely planning too far ahead, the coronavirus has proved to be a leadership challenge he was not prepared for either. The outbreak that has rattled the nation does not respond to Mr. Trump’s favorite instruments of power: It cannot be cowed by Twitter posts, it cannot be shot down by drones, it cannot be overcome by party solidarity, it cannot be overpowered by campaign rally chants.”

Trump’s response to coronavirus has been just pathetic —
He’s sidelined the scientists and muzzled the medics.
He can’t maintain his focus,
The stats he cites are bogus,
And it seems like we’re in for a full-blown Trumpidemic.

Fewer than 2,000 People in the U.S. Have Been Tested for Coronavirus

March 6, 2020 Buck Banks

20%

— Gabriel Sherman

$2 million

Mike Bloomberg has poured $2 million into efforts to boost turnout by African-American voters in eight key states, an indication of his intention to continue bankrolling Democratic causes ahead of November’s elections, CBS News reports.

0%

Bloomberg: “Traders are pricing in about 80 basis points of cuts in March, and 100 basis points by July, which would drag borrowing costs down to zero.”

“In my opinion, it’s a great time to buy stocks or into your 401K. I would be all in… let’s see if I’m right ….”

— Eric Trump, tweeting on February 28.

52% to 36%

A new CNN poll finds Joe Biden leading Bernie Sanders nationally by double-digits among Democrats, 52% to 36%, with Elizabeth Warren, who has since dropped out of the race at 7%. Among those interviewed after Warren left the contest, Biden’s support rose to 57%, Sanders stood at 36%.

— Pete Buttigieg told NBC News that “by the time we had ran our fourth race it was clear the numbers weren’t there.”

— New York Times

1,895

An analysis by The Atlantic shows that it’s unlikely many more than 1,895 people have been tested for coronavirus in the United States.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“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.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

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

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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%