BERNIE’S FIRST WIN OF 2020

COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY

BY LUCY WARNER

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

THERE IS SOMETHING TRULY LOVELY ABOUT HOW BERNIE RELATES TO PEOPLE, AND THEY TO HIM. WATCH THIS. IT IS ONLY A FEW MINUTES LONG, AND SHOWS HIS ARRIVAL AT A NH POLLING SITE ON ELECTION DAY, WHERE SOME 30 OR SO PEOPLE HAD LINED UP ON EITHER SIDE OF THE PATH TO GREET HIM WHEN HIS ENTOURAGE ARRIVED. WE ALMOST NEVER SEE THEM, BUT HE DOES HAVE SECURITY, OF COURSE. THERE IS A DARK SIDE TO RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OR ANY OTHER HIGH OFFICE. THERE ARE THOSE WHO WANT TO ATTEMPT HARM, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF A STRONG CANDIDATE.

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THIS FIGURE IS A POLLING OF INDEPENDENTS, BUT THAT IS THE SOURCE OF MUCH OF HIS POWER. IT’S ONE MORE MEASURE OF HIS SUCCESS, WHICH SO MANY MEDIA OUTLETS HAVE TRIED TO DENY AND SCORN. SCORN ONLY WORKS SO WELL, WHEN YOU HAVE A CANDIDATE WHO HAS ACTUAL VIRTUES, ESPECIALLY SUCH STRONG ONES, IN THE EYES OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MORE OR LESS IGNORED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. I EXPECT THAT FROM THE REPUBLICANS, BUT NOT FROM THE DEMS. THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR PARTY.

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Sanders Crushes Trump by 18 Points Among Independent Voters in New National General Election Poll

"Bernie Sanders is undeniably the strongest candidate against Donald Trump," tweeted journalist Walker Bragman.

byJake Johnson, staff writer

PHOTOGRAPH -- Supporters wave signs and hold up their phones as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at a New Year's Eve campaign event on December 31, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

A national Reuters/Ipsos poll released Monday found Sen. Bernie Sanders leading President Donald Trump by 18 percentage points among independent voters in a hypothetical general election match-up, a result Sanders supporters viewed as evidence that the Vermont senator has the best chance of defeating the president in November.

According to the new survey (pdf), Sanders has the support of 46% of registered independent voters while Trump polled at 28% support. The poll also showed former Vice President Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bloomberg, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ahead of Trump among independents, but Sanders' lead was the largest.

"Bernie Sanders is undeniably the strongest candidate against Donald Trump," tweeted journalist Walker Bragman in response to the new survey.

The poll also found Sanders leading Trump nationally among all registered voters:

The national survey came just hours before New Hampshire voters headed to the polls Tuesday for the first-in-the-nation primary.

As Russell Berman wrote for The Atlantic Monday, independent voters could prove to be Sanders' "secret weapon" in New Hampshire and other states that allow independents to participate in the primary process.

"The Vermont senator's lead in several public polls is bolstered by his strong support among independent, or undeclared, voters, who are welcome to participate in New Hampshire's primary and could make up as much as 40% of the electorate," Berman wrote. "Beyond New Hampshire, Sanders' advantage among independent voters could be his secret weapon in the many large, delegate-rich states that allow them to cast ballots in the Democratic primary."

"Sanders has already demonstrated his strength with voters who have snubbed both parties," Berman added, "and that may prove decisive not only in New Hampshire on Tuesday, but in many states to come."

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A NEW HAMPSHIRE LADY TELLS MSNBC REPORTER ON CAMERA THAT SHE HAD VOTED FOR BERNIE OVER OTHER GOOD CANDIDATES BECAUSE OF THE TRASHINGS BY THAT PARTICULAR NEWS OUTLET. HE HUMOROUSLY TURNED TO THE CAMERAS AND SAID, “ARE YOU GETTING THAT?” PEOPLE WHO USE IT AS A WEAPON, SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE EMOTIONAL RESULT AMONG SOME PEOPLE OF BULLYING IS TO DEFEND THE VICTIM RATHER THAN REMAINING BYSTANDERS. TAKING WHACKS AT BERNIE HAS A DOWNSIDE. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE SAME IS TRUE OF BROAD ASSAULTS ON TRUMP, AMONG HIS FANS, BUT A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS AREN’T FANS. HE HAS REMAINED AROUND THE 40% APPROVAL RATING FOR A LONG TIME.

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NH Voter Says Live on MSNBC That Network's Effort to Tear Down Bernie Sanders Made Her Vote for Him

"The kind of 'Stop Bernie' cynicism that I heard from a number of people... It made me angry, so I said, Bernie's got my vote."

byEoin Higgins, staff writer

SCREEN GRAB -- A New Hampshire voter explains to MSNBC's Ari Melber that she voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic primary in large part because of MSNBC's coverage of his candidacy. (Image: screenshot/MSNBC)

MSNBC's Ari Melber got pushback Tuesday afternoon when he asked a New Hampshire voter why she decided to support Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential election primary.

"I want to say, the reason I went for Bernie is MSNBC," the woman told Melber, who was interviewing voters live in Manchester.

"Go on," said Melber.

"I think it is completely cynical to say that he has lost 50% of his vote from the last time when there were two candidates," the voter replied. "This time there are multiple, wonderful candidates that would be great candidates and people that we could unify behind."

"The kind of 'Stop Bernie' cynicism that I heard from a number of people... It made me angry, so I said, Bernie's got my vote," she added.

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"Absolutely love to see it," District Sentinel Radio co-host Sam Sacks tweeted of the exchange.

"It truly was a jackhammering for the ages," added co-host Sam Knight.

Despite a reputation as the "liberal" news network, MSNBC and NBC News have been harshly critical of Sanders, with hosts and contributors alike launching attacks on the senator.

On Monday, "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd referred to supporters of Sanders—who lost family in the Holocaust—as a "brownshirt brigade," a reference to the Nazis. "Hardball" host Chris Matthews was slammed Friday for a fantastical rant about a potential Sanders presidency that ended with Matthews being executed in Central Park.

Contributor Jason Johnson claimed Sanders and billionaire Mike Bloomberg were both oligarchs trying to purchase political power, analogizing the small dollar fundraising of the Sanders run with Bloomberg's self-finded campaign. For reference, Sanders' reported roughly $2 million in wealth is about .03% of Bloomberg's $61.8 billion personal fortune.

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FOR THE ACTUAL FULLY REPORTED NH ELECTION RESULTS, WHICH I’VE HAD A HECK OF A TIME FINDING (AGAIN) FOR SOME REASON, HERE IT IS FROM NYT. THE LEAD OVER BUTTIGIEG WAS 1.3%, AND THE VOTE COUNT WAS IN THE RANGE OF 4,000 VOTES AHEAD OF MAYOR PETE. AMY KLOBUCHAR DID WELL, ALSO. THIS PRESENTATION OF THE VOTES AND LOCATIONS REALLY IS VERY GOOD. SOMETIMES I GET ANGRY AT THE NYT, BUT THEY CAN ALSO DO A VERY GOOD JOB. NO WONDER PRESIDENT D. TRUMP DISLIKES THEM SO MUCH.

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New Hampshire 2020 Primary: Live Results

Bernie Sanders has won the New Hampshire primary.

Updated 4:54 PM ET, FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Our reporters provided real-time updates from New Hampshire and New York.

Katie Glueck

Katie Glueck, reporting from Manchester, N.H. 12:34 AM ET

The establishment is divided, and Bernie Sanders is the winner of the New Hampshire primary. Here’s our analysis of the results.

Jonathan Martin

Jonathan Martin, reporting from Manchester, N.H. 12:04 AM ET

Sanders cements his front-runner status, but his narrow margins in IA and NH and the fractured field show how volatile this race is. Here’s our story.

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF NH IS THAT BERNIE DID WIN BY A NOSE. HE SEEMS DELIGHTED WITH IT. LOOK AT HIS PHOTO AT THE TOP OF THIS BLOG SHOWING HIS REACTION.

IF YOU WANT SOMEONE FOR PRESIDENT WHO IS ALWAYS SELF-EFFACING, TIMID, INDECISIVE, OR EVEN INCREDIBLY COOPERATIVE, I THINK, JUST MAYBE YOU DON’T WANT BERNIE. EVEN SO, HE HAS NEVER BEEN A MINDLESS BULLY OR A DESPOT. HE CARES ABOUT PEOPLE, AND HE IS DEFINITELY “PRESIDENTIAL.” CAN HE WIN THE NOMINATION? WE’LL JUST HAVE TO SEE. IT ISN’T AS THOUGH HE HASN’T BEEN, AND WON’T IN THE FUTURE, BE SUFFICIENTLY TRIED AND TESTED TO PROVE HIS VIRTUES. IF HE DOES WIN, HE WILL BE A SUCCESS STORY FOR THE LESS THAN WELL-TO-DO, AND A THREAT TO THE GREEDY.

IT ISN’T THAT HE HATES THE RICH AS PEOPLE I DON’T BELIEVE, BUT THAT HE KNOWS THAT THEY NEED TO BE CURBED TO A SUFFICIENT DEGREE BY PROPER TAXATION AND RULES, ESPECIALLY IN MATTERS LIKE BUYING ELECTIONS. THEY ALSO NEED TO GIVE BACK TO THIS NATION THAT HAS GIVEN THEM SO MUCH. THE STATUS QUO HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR TOO LONG SO THAT OUR LAWS ARE CORRUPTED, AND I WANT TO SEE THAT CHANGED.

TO ME, BERNIE IS NOT A CULTIST AS A FEW HAVE SUGGESTED, BUT HE DEFINITELY IS A STRONG AND CHARISMATIC LEADER; AND THE THINGS THAT HE MOST OFTEN SPEAKS OF ARE THINGS THAT I ALSO HAVE FELT TO BE MAJOR PROBLEMS, SO I LIKE WHERE HE IS LEADING. HE IS A POLITICIAN, DESPITE HIS AGE, WHO KEEPS UP WITH EVENTS AND FORCES IN THE WORLD, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON OUR LIVES. HE IS “IN TOUCH.” I SUSPECT THAT HE WANTS TO PUT AMERICA ON THE RIGHT TRACK AGAIN, OR IN SOME CASES, FOR THE FIRST TIME. I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED IF HIS NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE GALVANIZED HIM TO STRONGER ACTION IN THE YEARS HE DOES HAVE LEFT, AND MAY THEY BE MANY. 

IF DEMOCRATS DON’T HAVE THOSE CHARACTERISTICS OF STRENGTH AND INSIGHT, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE TO REPUBLICANS, BECAUSE PLAYING DIRTY AND BEING ESSENTIALLY RUTHLESS IS THE REPUBLICAN WAY, UP IN THE POWER REALMS OF GOVERNMENT, AT ANY RATE. I’M SURE THERE ARE STILL HONEST REPUBLICANS, AND IN FACT I KNOW SEVERAL PERSONALLY. THE MAN WHO WORKS ON MY COMPUTER IS A REPUBLICAN, AND HE IS VERY NICE. THE REAL CORRUPTER IS POWER AND AN OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY. TOO MANY OF THEM DO BELIEVE IN THE MONEY AND POWER DOCTRINE AS A POSITIVE VIRTUE. THERE EVEN IS A STRAIN OF MODERN EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTISM THAT TEACHES IT. WE HAVE STRAYED FROM THE PATH.

TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THE REAL BERNIE THAT IS THE DYNAMO WITHIN HIM, LOOK AT THE SCREEN GRAB ATOP THE NYT ARTICLE BELOW OF HIS REACTION TO THE NH WIN YESTERDAY. I BELIEVE BERNIE’S HAVING FUN. MY SECRET FEAR IS THAT SOMEONE WHO IS TRULY SOULLESS WILL TRY TO ASSASSINATE HIM, AS THEY DID JFK, RFK AND MLK. THOSE THINGS HAPPENED SO LONG AGO THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT ANYMORE, BUT THEY ARE STILL POSSIBILITIES IN OUR SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY AS SO MANY GUNS ARE IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO CLEARLY SHOULDN’T HAVE THEM.

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Bernie Sanders Scores Narrow Victory in New Hampshire Primary

The Vermont senator tightened his grip on the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, benefiting from a field that has divided moderate voters.

By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns

Published Feb. 11, 2020

Updated Feb. 12, 2020, 6:03 a.m. ET

VIDEO -- New Hampshire was the first clean test for the Democratic candidates. Here’s an analysis of the results, and what they mean for the race.CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Senator Bernie Sanders narrowly won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, consolidating support on the left and fending off a late charge by two moderate rivals to claim his second strong showing in two weeks and establish himself as a formidable contender for the Democratic nomination.

Mr. Sanders had about 26 percent of the vote with 90 percent of the ballots counted, while former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., was a close second. Mr. Buttigieg split the centrist vote with Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who surged in New Hampshire to finish in third.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mr. Sanders’s progressive rival, finished a distant fourth in her neighboring state, and in a stinging blow to his candidacy, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. finished fifth.

The results raised immediate questions about how much longer Mr. Biden and Ms. Warren, onetime front-runners, could afford to continue their campaigns. Both had already cut back their advertising because of financial strain.

Mr. Sanders’s victory leveraged his own reliable strengths as a liberal champion against a moment of turmoil in the party’s more moderate wing: With Mr. Biden tumbling and Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar striving to take his place, Mr. Sanders’s grip on progressives carried him to the top of the field in both Iowa and New Hampshire.

But in both states he captured less than 30 percent of the vote, and his vote share was the lowest total ever for a winner in the primary here. Coupled with the abrupt rise of Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar, his modest success only underscored the churning uncertainty of the race and raised the prospect of a drawn-out nominating process that could last through the spring.

“This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump,” Mr. Sanders told jubilant supporters in Manchester, N.H., claiming “a great victory” even before the final results were in. And looking toward Nevada and South Carolina, the next two states to vote, he vowed he would “win those states, as well.”

READ MORE -- 5 takeaways from the New Hampshire primary.

The rise of Mr. Sanders, a democratic socialist from Vermont who remains a political independent, has distressed many centrists and traditional liberals at a time when Democratic voters are united by a ravenous desire to defeat President Trump.

Mr. Trump’s impeachment acquittal, the chaotic vote-counting in Iowa and the fractured Democratic field have many in the party worried that they are endangering their opportunity to win back the White House.

Yet for Mr. Sanders, 78, winning here and cementing his status as a front-runner represented a moment of redemption just four months after he had a heart attack that threatened his candidacy, and four years after he lost the Democratic nomination after a long and often bitter primary race.

While he has not demonstrated a capacity to appeal much beyond his left-wing base, Mr. Sanders is benefiting from something he lacked in 2016: a field of opponents who are dividing moderate voters. The centrist candidates, so far, have been unable to consolidate support.

Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar asserted themselves on Tuesday, and their rivalry may only intensify; Mr. Biden is fading but staying in the race; and the self-funding Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is gaining strength in advance of the Super Tuesday contests next month.

The field may thin out by then. The culling began Tuesday night when Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado and the entrepreneur Andrew Yang dropped out after poor showings.

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ImagePete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, left, celebrated at his primary night party in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday.

Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, left, celebrated at his primary night party in Nashua, N.H., on Tuesday.Credit...Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

As he did in Iowa, Mr. Buttigieg, 38, gave a triumphant speech Tuesday that cast himself as a victor, though Mr. Sanders was still ahead by about 4,000 votes when Mr. Buttigieg took the stage.

He used the moment to claim vindication from the most persistent attack leveled against him over the past week, chiefly by Mr. Biden and Ms. Klobuchar: that he lacked the résumé to be president.

New Hampshire voters, Mr. Buttigieg said, had concluded that “a middle-class mayor and a veteran from the industrial Midwest was the right choice to take on this president, not in spite of that experience, but because of it.”

Mr. Buttigieg was the leader among moderate and conservative voters on Tuesday and, without naming Mr. Sanders, he urged voters to reject a political approach that demanded revolution or nothing.

Mr. Buttigieg also subtly underscored the generational gulf between him and Mr. Sanders, which could become a major theme of their rivalry. “I admired Mr. Sanders when I was a high school student,” Mr. Buttigieg said. “I respect him greatly to this day.”

Helping Mr. Sanders just as much as the fragmentation of the moderate vote is the decline of Ms. Warren, whose setback in New Hampshire may allow Mr. Sanders to further coalesce the party’s left-wing voters.

Taking the stage before even half the votes were counted, but with her dismal finish apparent, Ms. Warren sought to cast herself as a candidate who could unify the party’s factions and warned against a “long bitter rehash” of the center-vs.-left tensions that plagued Democrats in 2016.

“Harsh tactics might work if you’re willing to burn down the party, in order to be the last man standing,” she said.

The night was even more damaging to Mr. Biden, who was already reeling from his fourth-place finish in Iowa. Anticipating a poor showing, Mr. Biden left New Hampshire on Tuesday and headed to South Carolina, a state he hopes can salvage his candidacy.

Trying to change the subject as Ms. Warren did, Mr. Biden appeared at a rally in Columbia, S.C., replete with a gospel choir, and sought to contrast the heavily white electorates in Iowa and New Hampshire with those of the more diverse Nevada and South Carolina, the next states to vote.

“We haven’t heard from the most committed constituency of the Democratic Party, the African-American community, and the fastest-growing segment of society, the Latino community,” he said.

But there are signs that some black voters are exploring other options, most of all Mr. Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, another self-funding billionaire who has focused much of his effort on South Carolina.

Mr. Sanders got a lift in New Hampshire from an electorate that, like Iowa’s, is fractured along ideological and generational lines. He was the overwhelming favorite of younger and more progressive Democrats, while his rivals divided older and more moderate voters.

Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar still roared into contention here thanks to a late migration of voters who said they had just made up their minds.

Image -- Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota at her primary night party in Concord, N.H., on Tuesday.Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

Mr. Buttigieg benefited from his virtual tie with Mr. Sanders in Iowa last week and steadily gained support as Mr. Biden declined in the week leading up to the primary here.

Ms. Klobuchar’s surge was even more sudden. After a lackluster finish in Iowa, the third-term Minnesota senator harnessed a standout debate performance on Friday to gain momentum and emerge as the unexpected story of New Hampshire, a state famous for springing electoral surprises.

Addressing supporters in Concord, N.H., long before the race was called, Ms. Klobuchar opened with a salutation that nodded to her relatively unknown status with most voters: “Hello, America,” she said. “I’m Amy Klobuchar, and I will beat Donald Trump.”

And she seized the moment to make the case for her own electability that doubled as a plea for political moderation. “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare,” Ms. Klobuchar said, “is that the people in the middle, the people that have had enough of the name-calling and the mudslinging, have someone to vote for in November.”

As the race moves forward, Mr. Sanders has another factor weighing heavily in his favor: money. Besides Mr. Steyer, Mr. Sanders is the only candidate who has raised enough cash to finance a robust advertising and get-out-the-vote effort in Nevada and South Carolina, which vote this month, as well as in the 15 states and territories that all vote on March 3.

His campaign raised $25 million in January, and even before polls closed on Tuesday said it had already received 600,000 contributions in the first nine days of February.

In a number of the important March primary states, including California, early and mail-in voting will have been underway for weeks by the time Super Tuesday arrives, potentially giving a head start to any candidate who is ahead of the pack in the middle of February and disadvantaging those Democrats counting on a late-breaking shift in their direction.

As promising as this moment may appear, Mr. Sanders still faces daunting obstacles. Most notably, he has not yet demonstrated an ability to build a broader coalition beyond his loyal faction of progressives.

His 26 percent of the vote in New Hampshire was less than half of what he drew here in 2016, and he received only slightly more than a quarter of the vote in Iowa. Even if his center-left opponents continue to split voters, they may still deny him the delegate majority he needs to claim the nomination because Democrats do not have winner-take-all contests.

Image -- People watched former Vice President Jospeh R. Biden Jr. speak from South Carolina at his primary night party in Nashua, N.H.Credit...Elizabeth Frantz for The New York Times

Each of Mr. Sanders’s top New Hampshire rivals insisted on Tuesday that they were forging ahead.

But the Nevada caucuses, which take place a week from Saturday, could winnow Mr. Sanders’s opposition.

Mr. Biden had been his most formidable opponent in Nevada, at least according to polls taken before Iowa and New Hampshire. But with 10 days before Nevada votes, Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar may prove stronger than Mr. Biden after their success in New Hampshire.

For both of them, Nevada represents the first test of their abilities to build support from racial minorities, something they did not have to do in the first two states, which have heavily white electorates. Both candidates scrambled to start airing broadcast television ads in Nevada this week.

A more significant challenge for Mr. Sanders may await on Super Tuesday, which takes place just three days after South Carolina’s primary on Feb. 29: Mr. Bloomberg, who did not compete in the first nominating states, has used his wealth to saturate the states voting that day with more than $300 million on advertising and organizing.

Polls show the former New York mayor rising nationally and also in some of the Super Tuesday contests, in part because no one besides him, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Steyer has been able to buy commercials in those states.

Image -- Supporters listened to Senator Elizabeth Warren speak at her primary night party in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday.Credit...Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

The central question for Democrats on the center-left is whether Mr. Biden can regain traction in the race or whether his support is likely to crumble after another poor showing in New Hampshire — and, after falling short again, whether any of the remaining moderates can sweep up the bulk of those votes.

Within the progressive wing of the party, the shape of the race seems clearer. Mr. Sanders is widely seen as having a good chance to win the Nevada caucuses, and the strength and enthusiasm of his national following may give him an upper hand on Super Tuesday over a diffuse field of rivals on the center-left.

Yet there are deep doubts across much of the party about his ability to win the general election. It is unclear whether he will be able to ease those concerns in time to take control of the race during the big-state primaries in March. For him to do that, Mr. Sanders would have to more fully sideline Ms. Warren, who still has a sizable bloc of support on the national level, and do more to chip away at moderate resistance to his candidacy.

Stephanie Saul contributed reporting from Columbia, S.C.

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Jonathan Martin is a national political correspondent. He has reported on a range of topics, including the 2016 presidential election and several state and congressional races, while also writing for Sports, Food and the Book Review. He is also a CNN political analyst. @jmartnyt

Alexander Burns is a national political correspondent, covering elections and political power across the country, including Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Before coming to The Times in 2015, he covered the 2012 presidential election for Politico. @alexburnsNYT

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