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| Good morning, Daily Briefing readers! And welcome to Super Tuesday aka the battle royale for about a third of the delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. |
| After a recent flurry of dropouts, there are five Democrats still in the mix: former Vice President Joe Biden, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Some of them may not be there after today's voting bonanza. |
| BTW: Are you sure you're registered to vote? You should probably check your status. |
| It's N'dea, and here's all the news you need to know today. Hope you have a super day! |
Super Tuesday could be pivotal for Democratic presidential race |
| The biggest day of the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign comes Tuesday, with 14 states and one territory holding primary elections . With a huge trove of 1,344 delegates up for grabs – about a third of the total – Super Tuesday could set the course for the rest of the race. Frontrunner Bernie Sanders seems poised to do well, with polls showing him leading in the delegate-rich states of California, Texas and North Carolina. Joe Biden hopes to get a bounce from his dominating victory in South Carolina and the subsequent withdrawal from the race of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. Biden received endorsements from Buttigieg, Klobuchar and another former Democratic candidate, Beto O'Rourke, on Monday in Dallas. Despite Biden's recent windfall, he could face competition for the votes of moderates from Mike Bloomberg, who will appear on ballots for the first time. |
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Emergency funding for coronavirus may soon be on the way |
| A $7 billion to $8 billion measure to confront coronavirus could be unveiled as early as Tuesday, according to media reports, with the hope of getting it through the House and Senate by the end of the week . The emergency measure would finance both federal and state response efforts, fund the development and production of a vaccine, and offer Small Business Administration disaster loans to help businesses directly affected by the growing coronavirus crisis. As of Monday, six people have died of the coronavirus in Washington state . The worldwide death count has risen to 3,100 and the number of confirmed cases increased to more than 90,000. Though 80,000 of those have been reported in mainland China, the crisis appears to be shifting away from that country, where hundreds of patients have been released from hospitals. |
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Speaking of coronavirus: Here's the latest information |
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Rotating subs to fill MSNBC prime-time slot Chris Matthews abruptly vacated |
| MSNBC said that beginning Tuesday, rotating substitute hosts will cover the weeknight prime-time slot previously occupied by Chris Matthews, who abruptly retired on the air at the beginning of his long-running show "Hardball" on Monday. The network will fill the spot with a permanent replacement. Matthews, 74, hosted "Hardball" since it began on CNBC in 1997. But he has run into multiple issues recently, including accusations of making inappropriate comments. New allegations surfaced Friday when journalist Laura Bassett revealed Matthews made her "uncomfortable" ahead of a "Hardball" appearance. Also, just last month, Matthews apologized for comparing Bernie Sanders' win in the Nevada caucuses to Nazi Germany's defeat of France in World War II, which caused an uproar. On Friday, Matthews confused the identities of South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison and Sen. Tim Scott, both black men. |
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Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stay in office? |
| Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced an uncertain path to staying in office on Tuesday, even as preliminary results showed his Likud party pulling ahead of its opponents in the country's third election in less than a year. Exit polls showed Likud and its allies capturing 59 seats out of the 120 in parliament, short of the majority needed to form a government. With roughly 60% of votes counted, final results are expected to be announced later Tuesday. If the official results match the exit polls and Netanyahu's camp is unable to draw in defectors from the opposing camp, Israel's prolonged political gridlock looks set to continue with the prospect of a fourth election. The uncertainty didn't stop Netanyahu, who will soon go to trial to face corruption charges, from declaring victory early Tuesday in front of a raucous crowd of supporters. "This is a victory against all the odds, because we stood against powerful forces," he said. "They already eulogized us. Our opponents said the Netanyahu era is over." |
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March Madness: NCAA tournament |
| The field of 68 teams for the NCAA men's basketball tournament won't be announced until March 15, but the madness that's known to come in the month of March begins Tuesday with the run of 32 conference tournaments that results in automatic NCAA tournament bids. The Atlantic Sun, Big South, Horizon and Patriot will start first Tuesday with more conferences joining in the fun as the week goes on. Now that the conference tournaments are starting, it's worth taking a closer look at the "bubble" team – those that are on the cusp of either getting into the big dance or being left out to play in the NIT. Our latest bracketology projections have UCLA, North Carolina State, Rutgers and Texas as the last four teams in the tournament and Richmond, Cincinnati, Rhode Island and Mississippi State as the first four being left out. But a lot can change between now and March 15. |
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In better news: We're going to need a bigger boat 🎣 |
| A fisherman in New Hampshire broke a more than 60-year-old state record by reeling in a fish weighing 37 pounds. Thomas Knight, 58, caught the big laker Feb. 25 at Big Diamond Pond in West Stewartstown. The trout was so large that a typical state-certified scale to weigh a fish – which maxes out at 30 pounds – couldn't handle it. The fish weighed in at 37.65 pounds, shattering the previous record by almost 10 pounds. |
 | | Thomas Knight, a fisherman in New Hampshire, broke a state record by reeling in a fish weighing a whopping 37 pounds. | | New Hampshire Fish and Game | |
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