{"id":23422,"date":"2016-02-29T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=23422"},"modified":"2016-02-28T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T23:31:31","slug":"political-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/02\/political-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Political developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>(1) Former presidential hopeful New Jersey governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/26\/politics\/chris-christie-endorses-donald-trump\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president.<\/a> \u00a0This, after Christie repeatedly said during his campaign that Trump was not qualified to be president. \u00a0Now Christie is appearing with Trump,\u00a0mocking Marco Rubio like he did in the recent debate. \u00a0Think he is jockeying to be Vice President? \u00a0This may be the beginning of\u00a0former \u201cestablishment\u201d Republicans jumping on the Trump bandwagon, hoping to hitch their ambitions to a winner. \u00a0(UPDATE: \u00a0It\u2019s happening: \u00a0Alabama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2016\/02\/28\/alabama_senator_jeff_sessions_endorses_donald_trump_at_huntsville_rally.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Senator Jeff Sessions has just endorsed Trump.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(2) \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/28\/politics\/donald-trump-white-supremacists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trump chalked up another endorsement from Klansman David Duke. \u00a0Trump refused to disavow his support<\/a>, saying he doesn\u2019t know enough about him and other white supremacists to turn down their endorsements.<\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\n<p>(3)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/trump-tweets-interesting-mussolini-quote-219932\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trump tweeted a quotation from Mussolini<\/a>\u2013\u201cIt is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep\u201d\u2013\u00a0but claims he didn\u2019t realize who said it, while still defending the quote.<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/2016-election\/results\/map\/president\/south-carolina\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday in a landslide<\/a>. \u00a0She took 73.5% of the vote (43 delegates), to Bernie Sanders\u2019 26% (14 delegates).<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/bernie-sanders-black-voters-south-carolina-219907\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Black voters in South Carolina overwhelmingly supported Clinton over Sanders<\/a>, 86% to 14%, a pattern that, if it holds, may doom his chances. \u00a0In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/super-tuesday-bernie-sanders-south-carolina-219913\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Super Tuesday could finish him off.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) Former presidential hopeful New Jersey governor Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. \u00a0This, after Christie repeatedly said during his campaign that Trump was not qualified to be president. \u00a0Now Christie is appearing with Trump,\u00a0mocking Marco Rubio like he did in the recent debate. \u00a0Think he is jockeying to be Vice President? 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