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Democratic Presidential Primary
Clinton has won New Jersey, according to A.P.
CANDIDATES VOTE PCT. DELEGATES
Hillary Clinton 542,656 63.3% 73
Bernie Sanders 315,194 36.7 47
857,850 votes, 99% reporting (6,314 of 6,366 precincts)
DISTRICT 5 Republican Primary
CANDIDATES VOTE PCT.
Scott Garrett 41,276 82.3%
Michael Cino 4,746 9.5
Peter Vallorosi 4,148 8.3
50,170 votes, 99% reporting (493 of 494 precincts)
Chronic imposter California has long tried to front itself as relevant to the political process as it routinely occupies New Jersey’s primary day air space, which this year falls on June 7th, tomorrow. PolitickerNJ Editor, PolitickerNJ Read more
By Gabriel Debenedetti
06/06/16 09:41 PM EDT
Bernie Sanders’ campaign on Monday evening condemned the media for its “rush to judgment” in declaring Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nominee, saying superdelegates should not be automatically counted.
“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer,” Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs said.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/sanders-clinton-nomination-223976#ixzz4Arly10cY
By AMY CHOZICKMARCH 8, 2015
MIAMI — It was supposed to be a carefully planned anniversary to mark one of the most important and widely praised moments in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political career — and to remind the country, ahead of a likely 2016 presidential campaign, about her long record as a champion for the rights of women and girls.
Instead, as Mrs. Clinton commemorates her 1995 women’s rights speech in Beijing in back-to-back events in New York, she finds herself under attack for her family foundation’s acceptance of millions of dollars in donations from Middle Eastern countries known for violence against women and for denying them many basic freedoms.
This was not how she intended to reintroduce herself to American voters.
Mrs. Clinton’s glide path to a likely April announcement that she will seek the presidency was built around women’s issues. Advancing women has been her central life’s work, as she and her admirers say proudly; she made it a priority as secretary of state and focused on it as a philanthropist. But that focus also allowed Mrs. Clinton, who played down her gender in 2008, to frame her second attempt at the White House in what could be one way to make it special and new: as a shot at history for her and for all women.
And for someone who has so long been lampooned, and demonized on the right, as overly calculating, playing up her gender as a strength would also allow her to demonstrate her nurturing, maternal — and newly grandmotherly — side to voters whom she may have left cold in the past.
Even her most strident critics could not have predicted that Mrs. Clinton would prove vulnerable on the subject.
But the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation has accepted tens of millions of dollars in donations from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Algeria and Brunei — all of which the State Department has faulted over their records on sex discrimination and other human-rights issues.
The department’s 2011 human rights report on Saudi Arabia, the last such yearly review prepared during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure, tersely faulted the kingdom for “a lack of equal rights for women and children,” and said violence against women, human trafficking and gender discrimination, among other abuses, were all “common” there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-faces-test-of-record-aiding-women.html?_r=0
BY KEN THOMAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearing the end of the primary season, a defiant Bernie Sanders predicted Saturday that the Democratic presidential process would lead to a contested summer convention against Hillary Clinton, pushing back against the likelihood that the former secretary of state will soon declare victory.
Speaking to reporters three days before the California primary, Sanders showed few signs of surrender, vowing to take his bid to the Philadelphia convention in July. He urged news organizations not to anoint Clinton as the presumptive nominee through a combination of pledged delegates and superdelegates.
“It is extremely unlikely that Secretary Clinton will have the requisite number of pledged delegates to claim victory on Tuesday night,” Sanders said. “Now I have heard reports that Secretary Clinton has said it’s all going to be over on Tuesday night. I have reports that the media, after the New Jersey results come in, are going to declare that it is all over. That simply is not accurate.”
By nightfall, Sanders was rallying supporters outside the entrance of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where he pointed to his differences with Clinton on super PACs, the federal minimum wage and the Iraq War.
EVAN HALPER
The violent protests that erupted outside Donald Trump’s rally in San Jose on Thursday night, which included punches thrown, eggs pelted and Trump supporters’ hats stolen off their heads and set ablaze, are likely to have political fallout for Democrats.
The scene was an unwelcome one for the campaign of Hillary Clinton. Campaign Chairman John Podesta quickly moved to condemn this brand of civil disobedience, admonishing the violence in a tweet in which he included video of a Trump supporter being beaten.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-trump-violence-1464967115-htmlstory.html
by JOHN FUND June 3, 2016 4:00 AM @JOHNFUND Plan B for November
My NRO colleague Andrew C. McCarthy called my suggestion “increasingly plausible,” and pointed out that Democrats had made just such a switch in 2002 when their one-vote Senate majority was in jeopardy. An ethically challenged senator, Bob Torricelli of New Jersey, was trailing his GOP opponent by double-digit margins following release of a devastating Justice Department report on his involvement in bribery and campaign-finance scandals. Democrats made Torricelli “an offer he couldn’t refuse,” forcing him to leave the Senate race only 36 days before the election and replacing him with former senator Frank Lautenberg. “The lateness of the switcheroo denied Republicans a meaningful opportunity to campaign against Lautenberg, in violation of state election laws,” writes McCarthy. “But New Jersey’s solidly Democratic judiciary predictably looked the other way.” Lautenberg went on to win in November (although Democrats still lost their Senate majority, and didn’t regain it until 2006).
Read more at: https://www.nationalreview.com/article/436160/hillary-clinton-robert-torricelli-precedent-dumping-her
by PATRICK HOWLEY2 Jun 20165,196
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Hillary Clinton posted and shared the names of concealed U.S. intelligence officials on her unprotected email system.
Federal records reveal that Clinton swapped these highly classified names on an email account that was vulnerable to attack and was breached repeatedly by Russia-linked hacker attempts. These new revelations — reminiscent of the Valerie Plame scandal during George W. Bush’s tenure — could give FBI investigators the evidence they need to make a case that Clinton violated the Espionage Act by mishandling national defense information through “gross negligence.”
Numerous names cited in Clinton’s emails have been redacted in State Department email releases with the classification code “B3 CIA PERS/ORG,” a highly specialized classification that means the information, if released, would violate the Central Intelligence Act of 1949.
The State Department produced a document to Judicial Watch in April 2014 that identifies different types of “(b)(3)” redactions, including “CIA PERS/ORG,” which it defines as information “Specifically exempted from disclosure by statute … Central Intelligence Act of 1949.”
Ashley Rae Goldenberg | June 1, 2016
Only 29 percent of white Americans believe Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton cares about them.
An Economist/YouGov poll conducted from May 20-23 asked2,000 American adults if they believe the leading presidential candidates care about people like them.
Asked whether Clinton “cares about people like you,” 38 percent of all respondents said she “cares” while 50 percent replied she “does not care.”
For whites, only 29 percent responded that Clinton “cares” about them, while 61 percent responded that she “does not care.”
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/poll-only-29-whites-think-clinton-cares-about-them
by Cathleen Decker
Hillary Clinton’s popularity has slumped in California under an unrelenting challenge from Bernie Sanders, who has succeeded in breaching the demographic wall Clinton had counted on to protect her in the state’s presidential primary, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll has found.
As he has done across the country this primary season, Sanders commands the support of younger voters by huge margins in advance of Tuesday’s primary — even among Latinos and Asians, voter groups that Clinton easily won when she ran eight years ago. Many of his backers come from a large pool of voters who have registered for the first time in the weeks before the election.
Editors notes : Most GOP voters are voting against the likes of unpopular former Gov. Whitman and the GOP Establishment
Don’t vote for Trump, former Gov. Whitman tells N.J. primary voters
By Kelly Heyboer | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 31, 2016 at 7:39 AM, updated May 31, 2016
TEWKSBURY — Donald Trump may have locked up the Republican presidential nomination, but one of the state’s most prominent GOP leaders is urging the party faithful to vote against him in next week’s New Jersey primary.
Former Gov. Christie Whitman, a two-term Republican governor, said Republicans should make a statement and cast a protest vote for Ohio Gov. John Kasich or U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the June 7 primary.
“I hope voters will express what they feel. Don’t be steamrolled into thinking you have to be for Donald Trump because he’s now locked up the nomination,” Whitman said in an interview at her Hunterdon County farm Friday.
https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/dont_vote_for_trump_gov_christie_whitman_tells_nj.html
Veteran Essex County operative Tom Barrett likes to point out that Bill Clinton turned New Jersey into a blue state, but poll numbers released today by Monmouth University show Clinton’s wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on shaky ground in the Garden State. Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more
Monmouth Poll: Clinton 38%, Trump 34% in New Jersey
It’s close. The presidential election in New Jersey is close, according to this morning’s Monmouth University Poll Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more
By Peter Sullivan – 05/30/16 06:00 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton is facing the problem of higher ObamaCare premium hikes in an election year.
ObamaCare premiums are expected to rise more sharply than they have in previous years, and Republicans are seizing on the issue for electoral advantage.
“Despite premium hikes under ObamaCare, Clinton continues to take credit for the law on the campaign trail,” the Republican National Committee wrote in a recent email, above a compilation of headlines about steep proposed increases.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/281579-hillarys-obamacare-problem
By THOMAS KAPLANMAY 29, 2016
WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan real estate mogul who boasts about his wealth, maintains a fleet of aircraft and sells his own brand of neckties, paid respects on Sunday to an incongruous constituency.
“Look at all these bikers,” Mr. Trump, standing before a crowd in front of the Lincoln Memorial, said with admiration. “Do we love the bikers? Yes. We love the bikers.”
Mr. Trump was addressing a gathering at the 29th annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle run, a vast event over Memorial Day weekend that is dedicated to accounting for military members taken as prisoners of war or listed as missing in action.
Bikers assembled at the Pentagon before riding en masse into the nation’s capital, with many dressed in leather vests covered in patches, their bikes rumbling throughout the afternoon.
For the blunt-spoken Mr. Trump, who likes to stress his desire to strengthen the military and improve how veterans are treated, the gathering provided a receptive audience, if one where he might otherwise seem out of place.
By A.B. Stoddard – 05/25/16 05:45 PM EDT
Things could be worse for Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy, perhaps an indictment pending in her email scandal, but these are still awful days in her campaign. While there are many threats to her prospects she cannot control, like an FBI investigation, she could surely butter up Bernie Sanders and stop bleeding support from his impassioned supporters. But instead, Clinton is making things worse.
Even though many Democrats are growing increasingly aggravated by Sanders overstaying his welcome in the primary contest, Clinton should leave it to others to throw salt in the wound. Declining a final debate with the Vermont senator and declaring herself the presumptive nominee on CNN last week has only made Sanders more defiant and could further injure Clinton’s own wounded campaign against a surging Donald Trump, who stands to win over some disgruntled Sanders voters on the issue of trade.
As Clinton urges Sanders to wrap it up and “do his part” to unite the party the way she did with thenBarack Obama in 2008, he is requesting a recount in Kentucky over a single delegate, planning floor votes over rule changes at what he predicts will be a “messy” convention in July and insists he is “invigorating” the party.
Sure he is losing staff and his money’s drying up, but it’s full speed ahead to try and win California on June 7 and undermine the former first lady despite knowing her delegate lead is “insurmountable,” as she has reminded him. Unity isn’t top of mind for Sanders these days. As he railed against the presumptive nominee for insulting voters from the nation’s largest state by refusing to debate, Sanders sniffed, he was “disappointed, although not surprised.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/ab-stoddard/281283-stoddard-clouds-loom-for-clinton
