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Symone Sanders
Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders became a sensation in her own right on Super Tuesday, and was hailed almost universally as a certified badass for a moment caught on video.
As her candidate Joe Biden was taking the stage with his wife Jill Biden, and his sister, anti-dairy protesters attempted to take the stage. One such protester charged at the Bidens and was met by the speed-blurred Sanders, who jumped onto and across the stage in a flash to grab the offender.
The sensational video went wild on social media, with her quick reaction, not to mention the fearless Jill Biden, who put herself between the unknown threat and her husband.
The two were cited in articles at pretty every much publication, both last night and into today. All positive press.
Sanders spoke with Fox's Dana Perino about the moment. "I don’t think we even really thought.," she said. "We just saw what was happening and jumped in.”
It was a scary moment we hope isn't repeated, but a triumph for Symone Sanders, the winner of Most Fearless for Super Tuesday. 6.5.0 |
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Norah O'Donnell
As Green Room readers know, there are several big ratings contests in 2020, to coincide (obviously) with the political contests. And among those, Super Tuesday would definitely a memory-maker.
But for CBS News, that memory is sour, as the network's coverage came in dead last on Tuesday, in election coverage that O'Donnel anchored for the entire night.
CBS pulled just 2,642,000 in total viewers during prime time election coverage, coming in third among the three broadcast networks. And all three were well behind the leader, cable news behemoth Fox News Channel with 4,172,000.
In the key 25-54 demo, CBS News pulled only 640,000. By comparison, among the broadcast networks, leader NBC News pulled 983,000 in the demo.
On cable, the prime time in demo leader was CNN with 1,093,000.
In the major ratings events that will come during this huge election year, the relative perception of authoritative coverage and successful anchors and pundits will be judged.
By that measure, CBS News' Norah O'Donnell had a decidedly UN-Super Tuesday. 6.5.0 |
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| The Bloomberg is off the rose Super Tuesday may not have sorted the Democratic race entirely, but it went a long way. Heading into the big day, we saw both Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar end their bids and endorse Joe Biden. On the day of, we say a big Biden comeback, and a fierce delegate battle unfold.
And on the day after, Mike Bloomberg has left the race, a few hundred million dollars lighter for his trouble.
Trump taunted him, of course. He taunted back, in his odd way. He had some sour grapes, but in the end endorsed Biden.
Also Bloomberg Bloomberg News had a rocky time of it while the former mayor was in the race, and faced a good deal of criticism over memos about their coverage. But now that the namesake is no longer in it, the outlet announces they can "return to our normal coverage" of the election.
SCOTUS
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stunning rebuke to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for making what Roberts termed “threatening statements” against two of his colleagues.
It was a response to Schumer saying earlier to Justices Robert Gorsuch and Bret Kavanaugh that they have "reaped the whirlwind" and will "pay the price."
"You won't know what hit you," threatened Schumer.
Beef
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow called out Bernie Sanders surrogate Shaun King directly today for falsely claiming she had reported “multiple senior officials” were seeking to interfere to stop Sanders run for the White House.
He replied to her tweet and the beef was born.
Bashing the media
On the day after his Super Tuesday setback, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is zeroing in on one entity which he believes was responsible for his underwhelming performance — the media.
Wait, were you expecting this to be about some other politician?
Speaking of the media and Bernie
CNN analysts Kirsten Powers and John Avlon got pretty heated talking about Sanders in a segment on Tuesday. We don't want to give it away, but suffice it to say the word "demagogue" featured prominently. 6.5.0 |
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| What is: 'Uplifting'? Long-time Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has a positive message for Wednesday: "with a positive attitude, anything is possible."
Trebek marked a year of survival in his battle with pancreatic cancer, and he released an uplifting video update to his fans, friends, and well-wishers.
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