RationalWiki:What is going on with the elections?/February 2016

February 2016
Donald Trump goes to a non-ultra-conservative Virginia university to speak in preparation for Super Tuesday. It goes about as well as you think. Alabama Senator, Jeff Sessions, endorses Trump. Democratic National Committee Vice Chair, Tulsi Gabbard, has resigned in order to endorse Bernie Sanders. Who's got two thumbs and a bad habit of re-tweeting white supremacists? Hillary Clinton wins the South Carolina primary with over 70% of the vote, vastly outperforming the polling in that state. Jean-Marie Le Pen endorses Trump. [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35674917 Hashim Thaci is elected as Kosovo's new president. The opposition party had released tear gas in Kosovo's parliament in order to prevent a vote.] Giant windbag Chris Christie endorses giant windbag Donald Trump for president. Hillary Clinton is not a friend of labor. Many TV pundits fail to disclose their relationship with Hillary Clinton as they praise her. Trump nabs the important David Duke endorsement Sanders is leading Clinton in national polling. Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary Clinton. Why Bernie Sanders is the only Democrat who can defeat Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders accuses Hillary of copying his message. Trump is winning with the racist vote. Now Hillary Clinton says she will release her big bank speeches after the Republicans do. Trump wins Nevada in a landslide. No, Trump, General John Pershing didn't execute Filipino Muslims with bullets soaked in pig's blood. Donald Trump is now boycotting Apple's products because they won't create a backdoor in their phones for the FBI. No, Sanders's supporters didn't yell 'English only' to activist Dolores Huerta. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jeb-bush-suspends-2016-campaign/2016/02/20/d3a7315a-d721-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html Jeb! drops out of the clown car!] Trump wins the GOP primary in South Carolina [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-emails-nevada-219516 Another batch of Hillary's emails have been published. Mostly a non-story.] Update:More of her emails are out and they detail her push for free trade agreements. Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Nevada Caucuses. Hillary Clinton has pledged unwavering support for Israel. John Kasich and the Clintons helped pass welfare reform that increased extreme poverty. The Donald threatens to sue Ted Cruz over his citizenship and run as a third party candidate. The DNC has rolled back Obama's campaign finance reforms Update: Sanders has called for the ban to be reinstated and has asked Hillary Clinton to join him. Sanders and Clinton debate on PBS get into a disagreement about Henry Kissinger Rabid fetus fetishist Carly Fiorina doesn't carry her campaign to full term. After the New Hampshire primary, Bernie Sanders campaign had raised $64 million in a single day. Even though Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly won in NH Hillary Clinton will leave with a tie in delegates because of Democratic superdelegates. The Congressional Black Caucus's PAC has endorsed Hillary Clinton; it is full of lobbyists and did not consult the actual CBC before they made an endorsement. Meanwhile John Lewis has attacked Bernie Sanders by saying he never met him during his fight for civil rights. Vermin Supreme has come fourth in the Democratic primary He even got more votes than Republican presidential candidate Jim Gilmore did in the GOP primary. [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/us/politics/new-hampshire-primary.html?_r=0 Bernie Sanders makes US history by becoming the first non-Christian to ever win a US primary... oh and Trump won too.] Bloomberg considering run for prez as independent. How Hillary Clinton is the representative of the military industrial complex.

A recent poll shows that 54% of voters agree that "In the next decade, a political revolution might be necessary to redistribute money from the wealthiest Americans to the middle class." Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton agree to have 4 more debates. The clown bus loses Rand Paul. UPDATE: Santorum's also out. Some big news in American politics today. Ted Cruz the Canadian earns a 3% victory over Orange Orangutan. Mrs. Obvious Hillary Clinton beats burning socialist Bernie Sanders by less than one point. Martin O'Malley and Mike Huckabee have both dropped out of the presidential race.