Democrats go on the offensive ahead of New Hampshire primary – live – The Guardian, Theguardian.com
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The president has continued with his early morning thoughts on the impeachment process … he might not have shaken her hand, but he just can’t stop thinking about Nancy Pelosi.
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Because of how badly they did with the Impeachment Hoax, AOC will primary Cryin ‘Chuck Schumer, and win, and Jerry Nadler has a good chance of losing to his far left primary opponent! It is all getting quite interesting. Pelosi will lose the House, AGAIN! My poll numbers great.
While the Iowa caucuses still haven’t wrapped up yet, it looks like it might be some time before they get to the bottom of what has happened in what is being described as an “epic fiasco”.
As disastrous as the Iowa caucuses have appeared to the public, the failure runs deeper and wider than has previously been known, according to dozens of interviews with those involved. It was a total system breakdown that casts doubt on how a critical contest on the American political calendar has been managed for years.
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Donald Trump is due to present his $ 4.8 trillion budget proposal for the fiscal year later today, which includes plans to slash spending on foreign aid, social safety net programs like Medicaid, housing assistance and disability insurance and provide billions of additional dollars for a wall along the southern border.
Democrats are expected to object to the deep spending cuts in what is essentially a pre-election budget highlighting what Trump sees as his as as he seeks re-election. It will include $ 2 billion to fund further construction on a border wall with Mexico, a project that is especially popular with his political base, and funding for an infrastructure bill that is unlikely to be passed by (Democrats) and the Republicans in Congress.
The White House plans to unveil the budget blueprint at 17: pm eastern time, but before the budget plans are announced, and ahead of Trump’s visit to Manchester, New Hampshire later this evening, he has been tweeting about the Democrats and last week’s impeachment trial. Seems like he’s looking forward to his rally later too.
With one more day until what could be a make or break vote for some of the Democratic candidates in the New Hampshire primary, many of them spent the weekend stepping up their attacks on one another.
Former vice-president Joe Biden’s poor performance in Iowa has left him under pressure to revive his campaign, and he began his fight back saying Bernie Sanders’ democratic socialism would turn off voters
in moderate states. He also was critical of Pete Buttigieg, questioning whether the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana had enough experience to lead the party.
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. @ GStephanopoulos : “So you think flat out Democrats can’t defeat Trump if they have to defend socialism? “
Meanwhile it seems that Buttigieg’s strong showing in Iowa has made him the main target for the other candidates’ attacks.
Sanders accused him of taking contributions from the very wealthy and asked if he will stand up to Wall Street tycoons or the “corporate elite”, while Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren voiced similar concerns on ABC’s This Week. She said that “the coalition of billionaires is not exactly what’s going to carry us over the top”. Biden told the same program that Buttigieg hasn’t been able to “unify the black community”.
Buttigieg later acknowledged he was doing well and addressed some of the criticisms while campaigning in New Hampshire. “We are the campaign with the strongest momentum in the state of New Hampshire, thanks to you,” he told a crowd of several hundred in Dover, while at an earlier event in Nashua, he said: “Let’s remember we’re facing the most divisive president of our time, which is why we can’t risk dividing Americans further. ”
While most of the candidates will be out campaigning across New Hampshire today, it emerged that Sanders’ campaign plans to ask for a “partial recanvass” of the results of last week’s chaotic Iowa caucuses.
A campaign aide confirmed the plans on Sunday night, ahead of a Monday deadline for candidates to ask the Iowa Democratic party to recanvass the results. A recanvass is not a recount, but a check of the vote count to ensure the results were added correctly. You can read more about that here .
We’ll be keeping an eye on that and also some of the other key events happening today including;
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