memeorandum: Long lines and lots of questions as L.A. County voters cast ballots on brand-new system (Los Angeles Times)

12:30 AM ET, March 4, 2020

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Live updates: Biden and Sanders pick up wins in first Super Tuesday states — The first polls have closed in the Super Tuesday states of Virginia and Vermont. CBS News projects Joe Biden will win Virginia and North Carolina and Bernie Sanders will win Vermont.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, National Review, CBS San Francisco, CNN, The Week, WREG-TV and WCCO | CBS Minnesota

Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:

“He Will Risk Making Ross Perot and Ralph Nader Look Good”: Bloomberg Resists Advisers' Push to Exit the Race — With his path disappearing after South Carolina, advisers pressed for a quick exit. But Mike has so far refused: I'll be damned if I walk away before a single vote is cast for me.

Discussion: Breitbart, The Week and The Wrap

FiveThirtyEight:

Our Final Forecast For Super Tuesday Shows Biden's Surge — And Lots Of Uncertainty — Former Vice President Joe Biden has gotten a lot of good news over the past few days. A huge, almost 30-point win in South Carolina. A series of impressive endorsements.

Discussion: Vox, Washington Post, Insights into Impact, The Bulwark, The Week, Breitbart, Reason, Patterico's Pontifications, Four Freedoms, The Independent, The Mahablog and IJR

Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:

Twitter suspends liberal journalist for quoting Joe Biden gaffe — A liberal journalist was hit with a temporary suspension on Twitter over a tweet quoting a gaffe from former Vice President Joe Biden. — Jordan Chariton, founder of Status Coup, knocked former 2020 hopefuls Pete Buttigieg …

Discussion: New York Post

J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:

Bloomberg on Warren: 'I didn't realize she's still in' — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a reporter Tuesday he “didn't realize” that Sen. Elizabeth (D-Mass.) was still in the primary race. — His comments came in light of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and former South Bend …

Discussion: Fox News, IJR, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and The Daily Beast

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

Why Elizabeth Warren is losing even if all your friends love her — White college grads are living in the Warren bubble. — A lot of people I know are voting for Elizabeth Warren on Super Tuesday. They're doing so even though they're aware she's way down in the polls and that her hopes …

Discussion: Reason and CNN

NBC News:

Live Blog / 2020 Super Tuesday live updates: Biden wins the South, Mass., Sanders takes Vt., Colo., Utah, NBC News projects — More than 1,300 delegates — or about a third of the total — are at play on Super Tuesday. — Fourteen states and one territory held nominating contests …

Discussion: New York Times, Breitbart, POLITICUSUSA, UPI, The Hill and The Week

Jim Geraghty / National Review: A Fantastic Night . . . If You Don't Like Bloomberg, Warren, or Sanders

Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Reclaims National Lead With Buttigieg, Klobuchar Exits

Discussion: The Hill, Redstate, POLITICUSUSA, NBC News, Townhall, New York Times, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Post, National Review and Paste

Brian Schwartz / CNBC: Joe Biden fundraisers see millions of dollars in new commitments with Super Tuesday surge

German Lopez / Vox:
American Samoa also voted on Super Tuesday. Mike Bloomberg won.

Discussion: Associated Press, ABC News, Politico and Fox News

Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Elizabeth Warren and Her Fans Reject Two-Man Race on Super Tuesday

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, The Hill, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, ABC News, American Prospect, Dallas Morning News, Mediaite, The Federalist and Daily Kos

Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
I Rode The Train With Andrew Yang On Super Tuesday And He Said He's Considering Running For Mayor Of New York

Discussion: New York Post, Fox News, Mediaite and New York Times

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new attack on Biden exposes his own unfitness

Discussion: Raw Story, New York Times and Vanity Fair

Associated Press:
The Latest: Obama's praise for Biden heard in robocall

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Vox, Politico, The Hill, KUSI-TV, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, CalMatters, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post and The Week

Detroit News:

Poll: Biden leads Sanders in Michigan ahead of Democratic primary — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders among Democratic presidential hopefuls in Michigan, according to a statewide poll that reflects a fluid Michigan race a week before the state's primary.

Discussion: The Hill

Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sanders Campaign Was Caught Off Guard by Quick Massing of Opposition

Discussion: New York Magazine, VTDigger, IJR and Washington Post

Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton says she's ‘not planning to endorse’ anyone in 2020 race

Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Breitbart

Sam Tanenhaus / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is the new Ronald Reagan

Discussion: Redstate

Byron York / Washington Examiner: Calls for unity cannot hide stark cultural differences inside Democratic Party

Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:

AP source: Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results — Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg waves to supporters as he arrives to his campaign rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

Discussion: Power Line, KUSI-TV, The Week, Florida Politics and KTLA

Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:

I just remembered Joe Biden is fine — This is a little awkward, but better late than never! I suddenly remembered that Joe Biden is a dynamite candidate, something I had forgotten over the past few months of watching Joe Biden campaign. Joe Biden is the best hope of the party and its logical standard-bearer!

Discussion: National Review

Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair: Biden's Branding Reboot: Here Comes Emo Joe

Denis McDonough / Twin Cities:
I worked closely with Joe Biden, and here's why I support him

Discussion: The Hill

Politico:

Trump launches an urgent fight to save his ticket to reelection — Eight months from a general election, President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are considering an urgent effort to rescue the U.S. economy from a coronavirus panic. — Trump advisers and GOP lawmakers have spent …

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Post

Associated Press:

Trump meets with GOP lawmakers amid surveillance rift — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is getting more deeply involved in the dispute among Republicans over what to do about expiring surveillance powers used by the FBI, meeting with Attorney General William Barr and GOP lawmakers Tuesday evening to discuss the path forward.

Discussion: ABC News and The Hill

ABC News:

Super Tuesday live updates: Sanders leading in Calif., according to exit poll analysis — More than a third of delegates are at stake. — LIVE NOW — As Super Tuesday, the single biggest day of voting gets underway, the candidates are competing across 15 contests for a treasure chest of delegates …

Discussion: Townhall, Deseret News, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Beast

New York Times: Live Analysis: Super Tuesday

Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: Many Democratic voters made last-minute picks

Discussion: ABC News, Deseret News, The Hill and courthousenews.com

Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:

Bill Gates Is Really Worried About the Coronavirus. Here's Why. — The debate is splitting into two broad camps: Call them the “growthers” and the “base-raters.” — Just how bad will the new coronavirus be? I can't answer that question, but I have observed the debate splitting into two broad camps …

Discussion: UPI and STAT

Helen Branswell / STAT:

Washington State risks seeing explosion in coronavirus cases without dramatic action, new analysis says — The coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area is at a critical juncture and could see explosive growth in cases much like Wuhan, China, if public officials don't take immediate …

Discussion: The Atlantic and UPI

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:

The real reason Chris Matthews had to go — Give Chris Matthews partial credit for his apology on his way out the door Monday night. In his abrupt and unexpected farewell, the MSNBC host acknowledged his history of what he called “compliments on a woman's appearance.”

more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:
The end of the Chris Matthews era: How the bombastic host got forced out at MSNBC

Discussion: The Nation, New York Post, Vox and Raw Story

Los Angeles Times:

Long lines and lots of questions as L.A. County voters cast ballots on brand-new system — Los Angeles voters who showed up to cast ballots in person on Tuesday reported long wait times and operational errors at a number of the county's newly designed vote centers, experiences adding …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Examiner, The Week, Associated Press, New York Post, Vox, Redstate and KTLA

New York Times:
Long Waits Frustrate Los Angeles Voters

Discussion: The Hill

CNBC:

WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought — World health officials say the case fatality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%. — “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” …

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Trump coronavirus effort undermined by mixed messages and falsehoods — When Anthony Fauci, clad in a white lab coat, invited an NBC Nightly News correspondent into his offices this week and described the coronavirus as an “outbreak” that was reaching “likely pandemic proportions,” …

Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Associated Press, Raw Story and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »

NBC News:

Amid outbreak, Trump admin's proposed rollback of nursing home regulations faces criticism — “These are frail, medically compromised people,” said an attorney at the nonprofit Center for Medicare Advocacy, who opposes the change. — The Trump administration last year moved to roll …

Discussion: New York Times

Dan Diamond / Politico:

CDC blocked FDA official from premises — In a sign of growing tension among the Trump administration's health agencies, officials are expressing frustration that a top scientist was initially rebuffed when attempting to visit the CDC in Atlanta last month to help coordinate …

Discussion: The Long Version, Twitchy and Raw Story

Marisa Schultz / Fox News:

Tight Alabama GOP Senate race poised for Round 2 as Sessions, Tuberville head to runoff — No one won the GOP nomination outright for the Alabama Senate, which means voters will head back to the polls for a runoff election later this month to determine whether former Sen. Jeff Sessions can mount a political comeback.

Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast

Abe Silberstein / The Forward:

Israelis just voted against the two state solution — Exit polls and early results from Monday's Israeli election predicted a reprise of the first of three elections that began last April: a victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his bloc of right-wing, nationalist, and religious parties.

Discussion: Washington Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency