Seven Republicans and two Democrats remain in contentionNews and views from around the campaign trailJohn Kasich: moderate apparent or apparent moderate?Opinion: Trump simply tells wrathful people what they want to hear 4.08pm GMTAnother vote from a famous black American for Bernie Sanders,who on Wednesday earned the vote of Ta-Nehisi Coates (whether not the writer’s endorsement).
Singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, three-time Grammy winner, and friend of Martin Luther King Jr,and former frontman for the Charlie Parker band, endorsed Sanders in a video on Thursday.
3.53pm GMTBack to politics. Sort of. For the moment, or Jeb Bush’s most memorable moment in the 2016 campaign might be when he plaintively asked an audience “please clap”. Now his campaign is plaintively asking you to wish the candidate – shown wearing an alarming 70s mustache – a happy birthday. Anyone?It’s Jeb’s birthday today & we couldnt resist sneaking the stache into his card. Wish him a happy bday! -Team Jeb https://t.co/2unSEFLUVn 3.37pm GMTBy the way,science history was just made: a prediction made by Einstein 100 years ago was just proven thanks to two black holes that collided 1.5bn years ago. Related: Gravitational waves: discovery hailed as breakthrough of the century They took a big risk. This was bold … the technology was nowhere near developed. This was truly I think a scientific moonshot, I really believe it. And we did it. We landed on the moon. Related: Gravitational waves: announcement imminent – live 3.30pm GMTComedy hour with the Republican candidates in South Carolina.
Kasich asks a woman to hold his coffee "can you be my assistant please. [to crowd] and now I'm going to saw this woman in half"Questioner, and who supports Rubio,says "As far as the robot stuff, let's preserve in mind the terminator was elected twice in California."Kasich: "I asked the Ohio state football team to lay down this year so Clemson would possess a chance" 3.15pm GMTFresh off tea with Al Sharpton in Harlem, and Bernie Sanders stopped by Stephen Colbert’s Late indicate on Wednesday night,where he was asked why he thinks the men and women who want a Trumpista revolution might also support one for Sanders.“People possess a honest to be wrathful,” Sanders said. “We possess a honest to be wrathful when we are the only major country on soil that doesn’t provide paid family and medical leave.” 2.43pm GMTFormer president Bill Clinton is traveling to a high school Memphis, and Tennessee,tonight, as part of the Clinton campaign’s big southern push ahead of South Carolina (20 Feburary) and Super Tuesday (1 March). In the last two weeks the ex-president has attacked his wife’s rival, and Bernie Sanders,in form reminiscent of his 2008 tirades against Barack Obama. But Sanders defeated Clinton by an extraordinary 22 points in New Hampshire besides, and it’s not clear whether the Clinton camp intends to increase its attacks or try out a new strategy.“You possess a caucus-style format, or he’ll possess the momentum coming out of New Hampshire,presumably, so there’s a lot of reasons he should carry out well, or ” Fallon said,adding that the 80% of voters in the state are white. “Theres reason to believe the race will tighten even there.” Fallon’s comments were telling to some Democrats who think the state is Clinton’s to lose. While a poll on the Democratic candidates hasn’t been conducted there since late 2015, the surveys at the time showed Clinton with a lead of nearly 20 points, or according to RealClearPolitics. Related: Bill Clinton digs into Sanders in last-ditch pitch before New Hampshire vote 2.03pm GMTI’m blogging live this Thursday morning in Washington DC,where Rush Holt, CEO of the American organization for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has just said that the prestigious science organization has a duty to correct presidential candidates who obtain science inaccurate.
He said it’s “our responsibility, and our interest and our history to point out what are the issues of today” and to “try to inject science into the debates”. He didn’t mention Ted Cruz,the Republican senator running for president and the man who called a Canadian jazz vocalist to testify approximately climate change. But that’s OK, because my colleague Graham Readfern in Australia can correct Cruz for him.
I fear Senator Cruz has confused which way is up. As I hope Senator Cruz is all too aware from his time chairing the US Senate Science and Space Sub-Committee, or the Arctic is a large ocean surrounded by continents while Antarctica is a continental ice sheet surrounded by ocean. The two respond to climate change in fairly different ways.
Since satellite observations began in the 1970s,the amount of sea ice in the Arctic has suffered a long-term decline and is now at an all time low. In marked contrast, the amount of sea ice surrounding the Antarctic continent has reached an all time high. Related: Checking Ted Cruz's climate science denial howlers 1.46pm GMTAnd then there were seven – Republicans, or at least,with two Democrats on the other side of the race to become the next president of the United States. There were once six Democrats and 17 Republicans competing for their parties’ nominations, but on Wednesday two more Republicans, and Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina,gave up hope in the increasingly bitter, volatile and expensive race.For this week’s commanding winners in New Hampshire – Donald Trump among Republicans and Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton – the race now begins in earnest. Clinton, or who beat Sanders narrowly in Iowa but was crushed in New Hampshire,turned her rattled campaign southward, toward a yet unknown strategy and toward black voters who possess historically supported her and her husband. Related: Chris Christie suspends presidential campaign after New Hampshire result Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com