Summary
Wow, Corey Lewandowski, my campaign manager and a very decent man, was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Look at tapes-nothing there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2016
1. Scott Walker endorses Cruz
Just a week before Wisconsin votes, the governor and former presidential candidate endorsed Ted Cruz, the only Republican left with a (slim) chance of beating Trump to the nomination.
The governor and the lobbyists
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Point
“To me, I’m all in. This is not a default,” Walker pealed in his ringing endorsement. “Ted Cruz is in the best position by far to win the nomination of the Republican party.”
Trump berates Walker for not raising taxes
Counterpoint
Trump on Scott Walker this morning "We sent him packing like a little boy"
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 29, 2016
2. Campaigning like Brooklynites
The Democratic candidates turned to Wisconsin and New York, where an aide to Hillary Clinton said her rival, Bernie Sanders, will “campaign like a Brooklynite, and she’s going to campaign like a senator”.
Is ‘campaign like a Brooklynite’ an insult?
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Clinton courts black voters
Hillary Clinton in Milwaukee. "There are a lot of powerful lobbies... Nothing is more powerful than the gun lobby." pic.twitter.com/fIu2ctptW8
— David Smith (@SmithInAmerica) March 29, 2016
3. Barack Obama blames the media for enabling Trump
“There was a price if you said one thing and then did something completely different,” Obama told reporters on Monday night. “The question is, in the current media environment, is that still true?”
John Kerry: elections ‘embarrass’ US
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4. Unions win at supreme court
The death of Antonin Scalia left the eight justices tied on whether to gut the power of public unions, something the late conservative very much wanted to do. Republicans still don’t want to confirm Obama’s nominee.
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Summary
But cracks in Republican opposition to a successor are starting to show: three senators have called for hearings, and more than a dozen have said they’ll meet the nominee.
Merrick Garland, the piñata nominee
… and another thing.
5. Trump campaign manager charged
Florida police charged Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, with assaulting a reporter at a rally this month. They released footage of the incident, too.
Denial, video and denial again
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