Joe Biden Takes Delegate Lead After Super Tuesday Rout
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March 3 (UPI) — After fourth- and fifth-place finishes to start the primary season a few weeks ago before his win in South Carolina last weekend, former Vice President Joe Biden continued his comeback Tuesday night, overtaking Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the overall delegate count for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Biden notched wins on Super Tuesday in Texas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia.
Sanders won in four states — California, Colorado, Utah and his home state of Vermont. The race in Maine had not been called early Wednesday, but it appears the two candidates each won eight delegates there.
“We were told when you get to Super Tuesday, it may be over,” an energized Biden told supporters late Tuesday. “Well, it may be over for the other guy.”
“I want to thank our incredible supporters and volunteers across the country. Your faith in our campaign — especially when the pundits and the media counted us out — means the world to me,” he added later in a tweet. “Let’s go win this, together.”
Former New York City Mike Bloomberg secured a win in the territory of American Somoa, which has six delegates, but finished a distant third or fourth everywhere else. Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t win in any of the Super Tuesday voting states, including her home state of Massachusetts.
Biden responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump that criticized Warren and Bloomberg.
“You lost tonight,” he told the president. “Democrats around the country are fired up. We are decent, brave and resilient people. We are better than you. Come November, we are going to beat you.”
Biden may have been aided by three candidates who dropped out of the race just before the Super Tuesday vote — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Monday, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday and billionaire Tom Steyer on Saturday. At a rally Monday in Texas, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and former candidate Beto O’Rourke all endorsed Biden.
Following the results Tuesday, Bloomberg will reassess his campaign on Wednesday, The Hill reported.
States that cast ballots Tuesday were Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia, plus American Samoa, a U.S. territory and the birthplace of candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
A total of 1,344 delegates were up for grabs Tuesday — nearly 70 percent of the 1,991 needed to secure the Democratic nomination on the first ballot at the party’s national convention in Milwaukee in July.
With the largest populations and most delegates to award — a total of 756 — California and Texas were the top prizes Tuesday. North Carolina pledged 110 delegates.
Residents of Los Angeles County used new voting machines, the first wholesale redesign of the county’s voting system in more than 50 years.
The Los Angeles Times reported that 15 other counties experienced problems connecting their voting systems to the statewide voter database. Some counties were unable to update registration records to show that voters had already voted. To make sure voters weren’t able to vote twice, some elections officials asked them to cast provisional ballots, which are counted the day after the primary.
Los Angeles was unaffected by the problems.
“There is no evidence of malicious activity, and all counties have restored connectivity at this time,” Sam Mahood, a spokesman for Secretary of State Alex Padilla, said. “This should not prevent any voters from casting a ballot, as counties have contingency procedures in place to check in voters.
Voters faced long lines in Houston, up to 3 hours, after technical problems with some Democratic voting machines. Machines for the Republican primary had no reported problems.
“I don’t think it’s right that someone should have to wait that long to participate in our democratic process,” one voter, Karen Griffin, said.
Tornadoes in Tennessee overnight complicated the election process Tuesday. A polling location in Wilson County used paper ballots after it lost electricity due to the storm.
Lauren Breeze, a member of the county’s election commission, said two shelter sites in the county weren’t offering shuttles to polling sites. Polling locations at two high schools in the county were closed due to damage.
Biden was enriching more family members than just Hunter
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Biden was enriching more family members than just Hunter
On
January 21, Peter Schweizer’s newest book, Profiles
in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, will be released.
It should sell well given that pre-sales have already put it at #14 on the
Amazon charts. As a preview of coming attractions, the New York Post published
an extract from the book detailing “How five members of Joe Biden’s
family got rich through his connections.”
According
to Schwiezer, Biden was fibbing when he announced last year, “I never talked
with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their
business interests. Period.” The truth is that Biden’s business conversations
not only benefited Hunter, they also benefitted Biden’s son-in-law Howard, his
brothers James and Frank, and his sister Valerie. Loose lips enrich sibs.
James
Biden was a welcome friend in the Obama White House. “Sometimes, James’ White
House visits dovetailed with his overseas business dealings, and his commercial
opportunities flourished during his brother’s tenure as vice president.” For
example, just three weeks after Biden’s longtime friend Kevin Justice,
president of HillStone International, a subsidiary of a huge construction
management firm, visited the White House, HillStone announced that James Biden
was its new Executive Vice President.
No
one cared that Biden had no experience in construction management. What might
have mattered was that, six months later, the firm got a contract to build
100,000 homes in Iraq, plus a $22 million U.S. federal government contract to
manage a State Department project. An executive in the parent company later
told investors it helped to have the vice president’s brother as a partner.
The
book excerpt also tells how Hunter -- a man known for drugs, alcohol, taking up
with his brother’s widow, fathering a child on a stripper, dumping the stripper
and his child, and marrying another woman –made bank in Ukraine thanks to
his father’s connections. It’s a complicated, unsavory story, but the bottom
line is the same as for James: Hunter got an immensely profitable job for which
he was completely unqualified because Biden allowed Hunter to piggyback
off of Biden’s connections.
When
it came to his kids, Biden didn’t stop with Hunter. His daughter, Ashley,
married a doctor, Howard Krein. Howard and his siblings open StartUp Health, an
investment consultancy firm. In 2011, when the firm had just opened, two of the
firm’s executives were invited to meet with Obama and Biden. The next day, this
barely hatched entity hit the big time:
The following day the new company would be
featured at a large health care tech conference being run by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and StartUp Health executives
became regular visitors to the White House, attending events in 2011, 2014 and
2015.
How did StartUp Health gain access to the highest
levels of power in Washington? There was nothing particularly unique about the
company, but for this:
The chief medical officer of StartUp Health,
Howard Krein, is married to Joe Biden’s youngest
daughter, Ashley.
For
years after, including his years in the White House, Biden made a point of
promoting the company.
James
also wasn’t the only one of his siblings Biden helped. In March 2009, Biden
went to Costa Rica. The last time a high-ranking American official went to
Costa Rica was in 1997 when Bill Clinton traveled there. Biden’s trip may not
have been a coincidence:
Joe Biden’s trip to Costa Rica came at a
fortuitous time for his brother Frank, who was busy working deals in the
country. Just months after Vice President Biden’s visit, in August, Costa Rica
News announced a new multilateral partnership “to reform Real Estate in Latin
America” between Frank Biden, a developer named Craig Williamson, and the
Guanacaste Country Club, a newly planned resort.
[snip]
As it happened, Joe Biden had been asked by
President Obama to act as the Administration’s point man in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
Frank’s vision for a country club in Costa Rica
received support from the highest levels of the Costa Rican government— despite
his lack of experience in building such developments. He met with the Costa
Rican ministers of education and energy and environment, as well as the
president of the country.
The
same amazing coincidences played out with Biden’s sister Valerie, to whom his
campaigns ended up paying $2.5 million in consulting fees in 2008 alone.
Considering
that the New York Post article is merely a short excerpt
from Peter Schweizer’s Profiles in Corruption, readers can expect to
be exposed to a massive, but readable data dump, explaining how taxpayer funds
and political connections have been funding the lifestyles of the rich and
progressive.
NY Post: ‘Profiles in Corruption’ Reveals How the ‘Biden Five’ Made Millions
Off Joe Biden Connections
18 Jan 20202,346
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Five family members of former Vice
President Joe Biden have scored “sweetheart deals” and “favorable access” thanks
to their connection to the 2020 Democrat White House candidate, reveals the
forthcoming investigative book Profiles in Corruption:
Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite by
five-time New York Times bestselling author and Breitbart News senior
contributor Peter Schweizer.
The
Biden family’s apparent self-enrichment involves no less than five family
members: Joe’s son Hunter, son-in-law Howard, brothers James and Frank, and
sister Valerie.
When
this subject came up in 2019, Biden declared, “I never talked with my son or my
brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests.
Period.”
As
we will see, this is far from the case…
Joe
Biden’s younger brother, James, has been an integral part of the family
political machine from the earliest days when he served as finance chair of
Joe’s 1972 Senate campaign, and the two have remained quite close. After Joe
joined the U.S. Senate, he would bring his brother James along on congressional
delegation trips to places like Ireland, Rome and Africa.
When
Joe became vice president, James was a welcomed guest at the White House,
securing invitations to such important functions as a state dinner in 2011 and
the visit of Pope Francis in 2015. Sometimes, James’ White House visits
dovetailed with his overseas business dealings, and his commercial
opportunities flourished during his brother’s tenure as vice president.
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