memeorandum: Democrats should be wary of backing Joe Biden and his ‘senior moments’ (Miranda Devine/New York Post)

11:05 AM ET, March 5, 2020

Top Items:

Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race — Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy. — BOSTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop …

Discussion: CNN, Mother Jones, Redstate, BuzzFeed News, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Week, Daily Kos and The Wrap

Jessica Valenti / GEN — :

It Will Be Hard to Get Over What Happened to Elizabeth Warren — I've had to come to terms with America's sexism again and again — knew going into Super Tuesday that Elizabeth Warren was unlikely to win big. I had prepared myself for that. What did take me by surprise, though …

Discussion: Althouse, New York Times, Team Warren, The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice and CANNONFIRE

NBC News:

Elizabeth Warren ends presidential run — Warren wowed crowds with her sharp intellect, her clear prognoses for complex problems, and her endless stream of policy blueprints to tackle them. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is suspending her presidential campaign, a source familiar …

Discussion: The Atlantic

Washington Post:

Warren, Sanders allies scramble to find her an exit ramp — DETROIT — Top surrogates and allies of Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are discussing ways for their two camps to unite and push a common liberal agenda, with the expectation that Warren is likely to leave the presidential campaign soon …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, IJR, Breitbart, NewNowNext, Common Dreams, The Week, New York Post, The Independent, The Daily Caller, The Hill and The Guardian

Connie Schultz / Connie Schultz …: A Not-So-Super Tuesday — Last week, I sat on a stage in front …

Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:

Latest poll of Florida primary shows Joe Biden with massive lead over Bernie Sanders — Even before Mike Bloomberg dropped out of the race for President, voters in Florida were consolidating behind Joe Biden. — More than 61% of likely Florida voters favor Biden, according to the most recent survey …

Discussion: The Hill

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:

Joe Biden: Not a Socialist, Just a Scoundrel — He is a vicious partisan, a coward, and a habitual liar. — Poor Bernie Sanders! The youth vote failed to show up for him. The youth vote always fails to show up — it will break your heart every time. Senator Sanders didn't lose to Joe Biden …

Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Democrats should be wary of backing Joe Biden and his ‘senior moments’

Discussion: Power Line

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Super Tuesday results have Trump spooked — for good reason

Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill and Townhall

Matthew Yglesias / Vox: Bernieworld's reaction to Super Tuesday's defeat, explained

Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's political movement faces a reckoning after Super Tuesday setbacks

Discussion: Associated Press, Politico and The Hill

Wall Street Journal:

One Doctor's Life on the Coronavirus Front Lines. ‘If We Fail, What Happens to You All?’ — Short on supplies and sleep, medical staff are being stretched to the limit to stop a pandemic no one fully understands — Driving one evening in Wuhan, China, last month, Zhang Xiaochun pulled her car to the side of the road.

Rod Dreher:

Trump: Public Health Menace — The president in his meeting this week with his coronavirus task force (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) — This is a thing that just happened: … You just shake your head in disbelief at the utter idiocy of this man, and his reckless irresponsibility.

Discussion: Vox, news.com.au and Daily Kos

Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:

Roberts Denounces Schumer for Talking About Kavanaugh the Way Kavanaugh Talked About the Senate — On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had a message for Donald Trump's two nominees to the Supreme Court as the court heard oral arguments in a landmark abortion case that threatens one of the underpinnings of Roe v. Wade.

Discussion: Washington Post

Pete Williams / NBC News:
In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Schumer for ‘threatening’ comments

Discussion: The American Spectator, The Hill, Breitbart, Raw Story, New York Times, Washington Post, Redstate, Vanity Fair, Jezebel and National Review

David Harsanyi / National Review: Schumer to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh: Nice Little Court, Ya Got There, Hate to See Anything Happen to It ...

Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Schumer Successfully Blocks Black Woman From N.C. Senate Nom

Discussion: New York Times

Public Policy Polling:

Democrats lead by at least 4 in 4 GOP held Senate seats — New PPP polls find Sara Gideon leading Susan Collins 47-43 in the Maine Senate race and Mark Kelly leading Martha McSally 47-42 in the Arizona Senate race. Additionally a PPP poll for a private client last week found Cal Cunningham …

Discussion: Political Wire and The Intellectualist

Matt Dixon / Politico:

What does Gov. DeSantis owe Trump? — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The close relationship between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump is souring, and the bad blood is threatening to spill into the president's reelection effort in the nation's biggest swing state.

Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McConnell to denounce Schumer on the Senate floor

Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, The Daily Beast, New York Times and IJR

Daniel Flatley / Bloomberg:

U.S. to Miss Rollout Goal This Week on Virus Tests, Senators Say — GOP senators says kits to be in mail by end of this week — Distribution, training ‘going to take time,’ Lankford says — The Trump administration won't be able to meet its promised timeline of having …

Discussion: Political Wire

Bloomberg:
Trump Blames Obama Decision for Coronavirus Test Kit Shortage

Discussion: Mother Jones, VICE, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and New York Post

Charles Levinson / Protocol:

Through apps, not warrants, ‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to track phones — Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street. Depending on where you've traveled, your movements may be in the company's data. — U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions …

Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:

Democracy is in decline around the world — and Trump is part of the problem — Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday, along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.

Discussion: Bloomberg, NPR and Radio Free Europe/Radio …

Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:

Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago. Then the money dried up. — “We just could not generate much interest,” a researcher said of the difficulty in getting funding to test the vaccine in humans. — HOUSTON — Dr. Peter Hotez says he made the pitch to anyone who would listen.

Discussion: STAT and CBS Boston

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Steve Bullock Is Poised to Run for Senate in Montana, Officials Say — After months of insisting he would not challenge the Republican incumbent, Mr. Bullock, the governor and ex-Democratic presidential candidate, has until Monday to file to run in Montana.

Discussion: CNN, Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Kos, Politico and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

Facebook allows Trump campaign to run deceptive Census ads — November's election will have an enormous impact on politics in the United States for the next four years. But the 2020 Census, which starts in earnest in just one week, will shape the country for the next decade or longer.

Discussion: CalMatters

Farah Stockman / New York Times:

Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students — The worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire was confirmed with the disease only after attending the mixer. Now a second man has tested positive.

Arden Farhi / CBS News:

New White House questionnaire serves as litmus test for potential appointees — A White House questionnaire being sent to potential political appointees appears to be a litmus test of the applicant's loyalty to the president. — The questionnaire, a copy of which was obtained by CBS News …

Just The News:

Missouri case that toppled GOP governor boomerangs on Soros-backed prosecutor — St. Louis circuit attorney faces grand jury probe, chief investigator indicted in echoes of Trump-Russia collusion reversal in Washington. — Kimberly Gardner made history in 2016, roaring to an election victory …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Ned Ryun / American Greatness:

The Left's Politicization of Coronavirus Backfires—Bigly — Even first year political science students know how difficult it is to beat an incumbent president and that it is nearly impossible to beat one leading a soaring economy; only five incumbent presidents have lost their re-election bids since 1900.

Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:

Here's What Barack Obama Is Thinking Now — Barack Obama got exactly what he wanted out of the Democratic primary—and not just because Joe Biden has suddenly pulled ahead. His party managed to start sorting out its year-long mess without him. — But Obama is still not going to speak out.

Discussion: Washington Post, Sun-Sentinel and New York Times

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:

James Murdoch makes investment to combat fake news — The former Fox CEO commits millions to battle against disinformation — James Murdoch, the younger son of Rupert Murdoch, is making a seven-figure investment in start-ups aimed at combating fake news, only weeks after criticising …

Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:

Awkward: Intellectual Giant Whoopi Goldberg Already Has a Job Picked Out for Jill Biden — (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) — Opinion leader Whoopi Goldberg wound up with egg on her face during yesterday's broadcast of “The View.” — Whoopi, delighted by Joe Biden's blowout …

Lili Bayer / Politico:

EU lawyer: Hungary's Central European University measures broke law — Hungarian legal changes that prompted the Budapest-based Central European University to shift operations to Vienna are incompatible with EU and World Trade Organization laws, an adviser to the EU's top court concluded.

Discussion: One America News Network

Houston Chronicle:

Harris County Democrats waited for hours to vote. Two-thirds of polling sites were in GOP areas. — Many of the 322,000 Harris County Democratic primary voters who surged to the polls Tuesday faced long lines that forced several balloting sites to stay open late into the evening.

Discussion: Off the Kuff and Mother Jones

Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:

A Secret Memo Revealed How A Transgender Immigrant Bleeding From Her Rectum Waited 13 Days For Care While Jailed By ICE — An email from Homeland Security investigators to ICE leadership revealed poor health care conditions at a remote jail in New Mexico. ICE officials waited months to move people from the facility.

Washington Post:

How coronavirus spread in New York: From a man to his family. Then a neighbor. Then friends. — NEW YORK — First, a lawyer who commutes between the suburbs and his midtown Manhattan office was diagnosed with the coronavirus. Then, his wife and two children tested positive, along with a neighbor who drove him to the hospital.

Discussion: Jewish Insider

New York Times:

Coronavirus Updates: Countries Intensify Efforts to Halt Outbreaks — A cruise ship is held off the California coast as the state declares an emergency. A sense of crisis builds as new cases are detected around the globe. — RIGHT NOW With the first confirmed case in Tennessee, the virus is now in 18 U.S. states.

Discussion: The Daily Beast and SPIN

Washington Post:

Coronavirus pummels Iran leadership as data show spread is far worse than reported — ISTANBUL — The coronavirus outbreak sweeping through Iran has delivered a jarring blow to the senior ranks of its government, infecting about two dozen members of parliament and at least 15 other current …

Discussion: Radio Free Europe

Sharon Otterman / New York Times:

She Was Excited for a New School. Then the Anti-Semitic ‘Jokes’ Started. — First, a deeply offensive photo. Three students' college plans were soon derailed, and a community closed ranks. — The letters stretch over 30 feet, written into the sand on a beach in New Jersey.