Joe has won Minnesota

Biden wins Alabama

Just heard on NPR

NPR: Coronavirus is a big factor today, and overwhelmingly favors . . . Biden!

Now that's a silver lining!

SC was a big win, not just for the delegates

but because it demonstrated decisively that Biden is best positioned to win in November because he's the candidate with closest ties to Barack and thus to African-American voters who supported him. Many have challenged that wisdom but last night proved it. And now Joe is going to Move on Up!!

NPR first numbers: Biden 54.6% in SC, Bernie & Styer tied at 18.6%

from their website: https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20200229-south-carolina/
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UPDATE 1: Now it's as follows:
Joe Biden - 46.3%
Bernie Sanders - 20.3%
Tom Steyer - 12.7%
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UPDATE 2:
Joe Biden - 50.0%
Bernie Sanders - 19.1%
Tom Steyer - 12.3%
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UPDATE 3 @ 4:30 pst:

Joe Biden - 50.8%

Bernie Sanders - 18.3%

Tom Steyer - 11.4%

"Why did you vote to give gun makers immunity?" Sanders: "Joe voted for terrible trade deals!"

Audience: booooooooo

Biden: NRA I'm coming after you!

Audience: YAYYYYYYYY!!

Biden: the only interest we can't go after are gun manufacturers thanks to my buddy here

Culinary Workers Secretary-Treasurer refuses to promise support for Sanders should he win the nom

In this Weekend Edition NPR segment, Nevada Culinary Workers Union Secretary-Treasurer Geoconda Arguello-Kline refuses to promise support for Sanders should he win the nomination (4-minute radio story; no transcript yet):

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/16/806417317/culinary-workers-union-officer-discusses-decision-not-to-endorse-candidate

She won't endorse any candidate in the primary, but says she and another woman of color in the Culinary Workers leadership found the Sanders supporters attacks on them "very concerning."

The NPR host tries three times to get her to rally behind Bernie if he wins, or at least for the winner whoever he is, and Arguello refuses, tersely leaving it at "we will defeat Trump."

p.s. The host confirms this in another story I just heard (she's talking to a political correspondent about Nevada) so I heard right.

Take it away Charleston

Politico: Tulsi Gabbard's daredevil act

Not a puff piece, but not a hit job either. She addresses Trojan horse accusations at the end (bolded). In respect of the DU rule I included only the last 4 paragraphs:
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By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO, ERIN DURKIN and DANIEL STRAUSS 08/08/2019 05:02 AM EDT

With her attack on Kamala Harris and defense of Joe Biden, the Hawaii congresswoman is stoking speculation about her endgame.

(snip)

In the lead-up to the most recent debate, Gabbard hinted that she would criticize Harris but not Biden, unlike other Democrats. Gabbard also said that Harris’ criticism of Biden’s positions on busing for desegregation was really “a false accusation that Biden is a racist.” A spokesman for Biden’s campaign declined to comment on Gabbard. On Wednesday, Gabbard was at a co-working space in Manhattan with more than 100 supporters. The focus was on her presidential campaign, and some were wearing leis and chanting “Tulsi.”

Gabbard still needs to register at least 2 percent in three more polls to make the next debate. So she’s been instructing her supporters to answer calls from unknown numbers in the unlikely case they are from a pollster. Mixed in with her talk about the need to end costly regime-change wars and stand up to powerful interests, hallmarks of her speeches, Gabbard alluded to the heat she's gotten since the debate.

“It is about the truth and speaking truth to power. It’s amazing how power reacts to the truth,” she said at the New York gathering.“Because what happened after last Wednesday night? Was the truth responded to with facts, substance or issues?” Urged on by the crowd, she summed up her view of the backlash: “Smears.” “They responded by calling you a puppet of Assad,” a supporter cried out.

Also "smeared," said Gabbard, were Iraq War opponents in the post-9/11 era. “It’s popular today to say, ‘Yes of course I was against the war in Iraq.’ It’s an easy thing for politicians to say today. But what about standing up courageously and speaking against the regime-change wars that are happening today?” she asked. “The gall that these people have now today to try to smear me and tell me that I don’t love my country, that I’m a Trojan horse for some foreign country, that I’m a Russian, whatever you want to call it," she added. The suggestion "that my oath and loyalties lie anywhere but to the country and to the people I have sworn to put my life on the line for is offensive.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/08/tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris-2020-1452578