Bernie Sanders denounces Russia's reported efforts to aid his campaign – as it happened

Today Trump wrapped a four-day visit to the western US with a rally in Las Vegas, doubling down on his mockery of the Oscars and Joe Biden’s speech impediment as he called on his base to help defeat the “radical socialist Democrats” in November.

The ridicule of Biden’s stutter isn’t new. This January the Atlantic focused on Biden’s speech, and the lengths he’s gone to in order to overcome it, in a profile. That didn’t stop Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary, from taking to Twitter to mock Biden’s performance in a debate. And it provoked a response by Biden, himself.

Huckabee Sanders was roundly criticized for making the joke, but that didn’t mean it was off limits for Trump, apparently.

Talking to the crowd, Trump cracked wise the former vice president’s speech.

Democrats in Nevada have once again changed plans for how votes will be tracked in the caucuses, the day before voters cast their ballots.

After announcing results would be relayed online via Google form last week, Democrats have seemingly reversed course and decided instead to instruct precinct leaders to call and text votes in to a dedicated hotline, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The change was announced through a memo sent by Alana Mounce, the state party’s executive director, to the presidential campaigns.

“The hotline report will be the primary source of the precinct caucus results reported on Caucus Day,” Ms. Mounce wrote. The email made no mention of the Google document forms initially slated to be used for the caucuses.

Nevada Democrats initially planned to use the app used in the Iowa caucuses but abandoned those plans after the first state’s caucus went terribly wrong due to technological issues.

Nevada, like Iowa, adopted new rules from the Democratic National Committee this year requiring states to report three sets of numbers from the caucuses: the initial vote number, the number of votes a candidate receives after “realignment” – when voters choose new candidates if their top choice fails to receive enough support – and the number of state delegates ultimately awarded to candidates.

In order to report these numbers, volunteers are expected to use a caucus “tool” on iPads distributed by the Democratic party to precinct chairs. This is meant to help avoid some of the technical difficulties experienced in Iowa by chairs unable to download the app.

Nevada Democrats were reportedly consulting with Google on best practices for using the document forms, but Google did not confirm. Nevada Democrats did not respond to request for comment regarding the change.

Cash-strapped democratic candidates are relying more and more on super PACs, which can raise unlimited money.

That’s one takeaway from a new report from Politico, which says it got its first look this week at how the start of the presidential primaries are shaping the money chase.

Other takeaways include:

• The Democratic Party’s biggest donors are getting in on the action.

“Priorities USA, the main Democratic super PAC preparing to back the party’s nominee against Trump, took in $5 million from hedge fund magnate Donald Sussman in January — more than double the biggest check Sussman cut in 2019. The super PAC also raised $2 million from financier and philanthropist George Soros’ Democracy PAC, which didn’t give to any big Democratic PACs in 2019. And it raised $1 million from real estate broker George Marcus, who only donated big money to downballot causes in 2019,” Politico reports.

• Big differences in cash will lead to big differences in airtime.

Sanders, Bloomberg and financier Tom Steyer have all dropped big money on TV ads and bought more than $2m of upcoming airtime. Bloomberg has earmarked $10m for ads in coming days. Joe Biden and ex-South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, meanwhile, don’t have any television airtime currently reserved in Super-Tuesday states.

• Klobuchar’s third-place finish in New Hampshire primary was preceded by January fundraising bump

She took in $5.5m in January — close to Buttigieg’s $6.6 million but well shy of Biden’s $8.9 m.

• Trump’s cash dwarfs the rest of the field’s. Except Bloomberg’s.

Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have netted $452 million since January 2019. Bloomberg, meanwhile, has said he may spend $1 billion to defeat Trump this year. The former NYC mayor has nearly outspending every other candidate after spending $409 million through January, according to Politico.

Here’s a dispatch from our west coast political reporter Maanvi Singh from Nevada, where she’s on the ground keeping an eye on the lead up to tomorrow’s caucus:

Another group that 2020 hopefuls are hoping to win over are senior citizens. Several campaigns have stopped by the MLK senior center in North Las Vegas.

Jill Biden didn’t make it to a monthly birthday celebration there today, choosing not to cross a Carpenters Union picket line protesting working conditions at a nearby construction site, according to the Biden campaign. The campaign offered to transport anyone interested to a Biden rally in the evening.

On Thursday, Joaquin Castro dropped by the center. And Tom Steyer visited last week.

At the Friday event — where attendees were happy to eat and dance with or without Biden — Marshall Collins, 90, said he’d already voted early. “I voted for Biden,” he said -- though he’s happy to vote for any Democrats. “I hope things come together in the election. There’s too many Democrats right now.”

Collins’ second choice is Steyer, he said. “All I care” — regardless of who the candidate is — “is if he does what he says he’s going to do,” Collins said.

David Outland, 60, was another Biden supporter. “I like sleepy Joe,” he chuckled. “He probably had more experience than anyone else.”

Outland said he wishes the candidates would reach out more to older Nevadans. “Boots on the ground, like we used to do,” he said.

He’d like to know more about the other candidates, he said. “Right now it’s too confusing.” The former Vice President is the only one he’s familiar with.

Yvette, 62, who said didn’t want to use her full name because she didn’t want Trump supporters to come after her on Facebook, said she’s going to vote for any Democrat.

“I just don’t want to lose my benefits because Trump got pissed,” she said. “Or to have our kids locked up.”

As we blog, pundits on CNN discuss the interesting dynamic between Sanders and Trump that today’s news on Russian interference sets up.

While Sanders has both acknowledged and condemned Russian interference across the board, Donald Trump and his supporters have continued to dismiss and downplay the role Russian actors may have played in getting him elected.

The New York Times reported today that US intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign in an effort to re-elect Trump.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, the president berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump was particularly irritated that Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the leader of the impeachment proceedings, was at the briefing.

During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that he had been tough on Russia and that he had strengthened European security...

Mr. Trump has long accused the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 interference as the work of a “deep state” conspiracy intent on undermining the validity of his election. Intelligence officials feel burned by their experience after the last election, when their work became a subject of intense political debate and is now a focus of a Justice Department investigation.

Pundits note that it will be interesting to see how Trump responds as he’s potentially pulled between two conflicting impulses: To throw mud at Sanders and his position as a frontrunner versus the desire to protect the legitimacy of his presidency.

Today’s surprise Russian-interference news aside, Sanders’ campaign marches on in their efforts to reach out to Latino voters in often overlooked corners of California.

Sanders emerged early on as a front-runner in California, a position his campaign has attributed to a massive ground game across the Golden State. Young Latino voters in particular have embraced the Vermont senator for his history of supporting unions and taking to the streets in protest.

Reuters has more on the efforts in California:

A record 32 million Latinos are projected to be eligible to vote in the general election, exceeding the number of black eligible voters for the first time, according to the Pew Research Center. About 62% of Latino registered voters identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while 34% affiliate with or lean to the Republican Party, the organization says...

Across California, and in neighboring Nevada and Texas, the Sanders campaign has also put on soccer matches and house parties, some billed as “Tamales for Tío Bernie,” an affectionate Spanish-language term for “Uncle Bernie.”

The campaign wants to be deeply embedded in Latino communities, said Bianca Recto, communications director for the campaign in Nevada. She said at least half of the 200 paid staff on the ground ahead of the caucuses are people of color, many of them locals.

“It’s Bernie’s message that resonates to the economic hardships of people and not treating constituencies as if they’re a monolith, as if they’re a one-issue voter,” Recto said.

As news trickles out that the Russian government is currently working to aid Sen. Sanders through online disinformation tactics, the Vermont Senator has suggested that a recent dust-up over purported Sanders supporters and culinary workers in Nevada can be traced to Russian bots.

Sanders said in a statement:“In 2016, Russia used Internet propaganda to sow division in our country, and my understanding is that they are doing it again in 2020. Some of the ugly stuff on the Internet attributed to our campaign may well not be coming from real supporters.”

After the culinary union distributed flyers that was critical of Sanders’ health care plan and broadly supportive of Warren’s, members of the union-members said they received threatening messages from who they believed to be Sanders supporters, or so-called Bernie Bros.

So far no evidence has been reported that ties Russian interference to the controversy.

In light of the report that Russia is attempting to interfere in the Democratic presidential primary to benefit Bernie Sanders, it’s worth returning to this earlier tweet from the former CIA chief of Russian operations on the Kremlin’s reported preference for Trump:

During this week’s debate, Bernie Sanders suggested “vicious attacks” against Nevada’s Culinary Union, which were blamed on his supporters, may be coming from Russia.

“All of us remember 2016, and what we remember is efforts by Russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us up,” Sanders said. “I’m not saying that’s happening, but it would not shock me.”

Twitter responded by saying that it would have disclosed any evidence it collected of a disinformation campaign.

The news about Russian efforts to aid Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign comes one day after reports emerged that the Kremlin was interfering with the 2020 election to benefit Trump.

The president pushed back against the reports of Russia’s preference for him by suggesting Vladimir Putin would rather have one of the “do-nothing Democrats” in the White House.

“Wouldn’t he rather have Bernie, who honeymooned in Moscow?” Trump said moments ago at his Las Vegas rally. “These people are crazy.”

In his statement addressing the non-disclosure agreements, Mike Bloomberg acknowledged that such contracts can be harmful to workplace culture.

“I recognize that NDAs, particularly when they are used in the context of sexual harassment and sexual assault, promote a culture of silence in the workplace and contribute to a culture of women not feeling safe or supported,” Bloomberg said.

Compare that to what he said on Wednesday’s debate stage: “They signed those agreements, and we’ll live with it.”

Elizabeth Warren was the first of Bloomberg’s opponents to raise the issue of the NDAs during the debate, but other candidates quickly piled on.

“You think the women, in fact, were ready to say I don’t want anybody to know about what you did to me? That’s not how it works,” Joe Biden said.

“The way it works is they say, look, this is what you did to me and the mayor comes along and his attorneys said, I will give you this amount of money if you promise you will never say anything. That’s how it works.”

It is important to note, however, that Mike Bloomberg is not releasing everyone who signed one of his company’s non-disclosure agreements.

Bloomberg is only allowing three women who complained about his alleged comments to be released from the agreements they signed.

A number of political commentators marveled at the fact that it took Mike Bloomberg two full days after the debate to release a statement about the non-disclosure agreements.

Bloomberg appeared blindsided when Elizabeth Warren raised the issue on Wednesday’s debate stage, which was surprising considering the former New York mayor’s history of making sexist comments was thoroughly reported in the days leading up to the debate.

The Nevada Democratic Party is asking site leaders for tomorrow’s caucuses to sign non-disclosure agreements, according to CNN.

Nevada is the first state to hold caucuses since the disastrous Iowa contest earlier this month, which resulted in a days-long delay in reporting of results.

Democratic leaders in Nevada have said they have taken steps to prevent that sort of chaos, but the NDAs certainly don’t inspire a lot of confidence on that front.

At his Las Vegas rally, Trump once again lamented the South Korean film “Parasite” winning best picture at the 2020 Academy Awards.

“The movie was made in South Korea,” Trump said. “They used to call it best foreign movie. Now, we do it that way. I don’t get it.”

The president made a similar comment yesterday during his Colorado Springs rally, prompting this comeback from the film’s movie studio:

Trump has taken the stage for his Las Vegas campaign rally, his third this week.

The president kicked off by mocking Democrats for their mishandling of the Iowa caucuses and predicting the chaos would be repeated in tomorrow’s Nevada caucuses.

“I hear their computers are all messed up, just like they were in Iowa,” Trump said. “They can’t count votes.”

Democratic officials in Nevada are taking preemptive steps to try to avoid the days-long delay in reporting of results that occurred in Iowa.

Trump will soon take the stage for his Las Vegas campaign rally, his third this week after appearances in Phoenix and Colorado Springs.

Trump has been counterprogramming the early contests in the Democratic presidential primary by holding rallies in the same states that are voting.

He has already done this before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, and Nevada will hold its caucuses tomorrow.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine who became a key figure in Trump’s impeachment, reportedly has a book deal.

The AP reports:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed Friday to The Associated Press that it had acquired Yovanovitch’s planned memoir, currently untitled. According to the publisher, the book will trace her long career, from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Kyiv and ‘finally back to Washington, D.C. — where, to her dismay, she found a political system beset by many of the same challenges she had spent her career combating overseas.’

‘Yovanovitch’s book will deliver pointed reflections on the issues confronting America today, and thoughts on how we can shore up our democracy,’ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said in an announcement.

Yovanovitch testified to House investigators in November that she was pushed out her role in Kyiv, after decades of foreign service, because of a smear campaign by the president’s allies, namely Rudy Giuliani.

A number of prominent Democrats offered birthday wishes to John Lewis, the congressman and civil rights icon who is turning 80 today.

Lewis announced late last year that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer but said he would continue his work in Congress despite his illness.

“I have been in some kind of fight -- for freedom, equality, basic human rights -- for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now,” Lewis, who marched alongside Martin Luther King, said at the time.

“While I am clear-eyed about the prognosis, doctors have told me that recent medical advances have made this type of cancer treatable in many cases, that treatment options are no longer as debilitating as they once were, and that I have a fighting chance. ... I may miss a few votes during this period, but with God’s grace I will be back on the front lines soon.”

All senators will reportedly receive a briefing on election security on March 10, after intelligence officials briefed the House intelligence committee last week.

Following reports of intelligence officials telling commitee members Russia is interfering in the 2020 election, Nancy Pelosi announced last night that all House members would receive a similar briefing on March 10.

Mike Bloomberg’s billboards denouncing Trump for, among other things, losing the popular vote and cheating at golf are clearly visible on the Strip in Las Vegas, where the president is campaigning today.

Trump will hold a campaign rally in Las Vegas in about an hour and a half, and it seems likely the president will have some comments about “Mini Mike,” as he calls the former New York mayor.

Some government officials are blaming House intelligence commitee Democrats for asking “leading questions” during last week’s election security briefing in order to hear an assessment that Russia favors Trump in this year’s race.

Bloomberg News reports:

In response to questions from Democrats, lawmakers were told that Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, prefer Trump over his Democratic challengers and is still actively interfering in this year’s election, according to the people. But little information has emerged on any specific or ongoing interference by Russia detailed in the briefing last week.

The information provided to the committee was described by one official as more of a general assessment. Democrats asked leading questions to obtain the analysis that Russia favors Trump’s re-election, according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter.

The White House suspects Democrats hoped the intelligence analysis would be leaked, an official said. ...

The president expressed his frustration to [acting director of national intelligence Joseph] Maguire in an Oval Office meeting the day after the House briefing, according to officials. Trump was told that [Shelby] Pierson, who delivered the briefing, felt her comments were being misrepresented and that she could only say that the Russians were continuing to interfere in U.S. politics -- not that they were putting a finger on the scale to help Trump.

It’s unclear which four candidates Trump is considering for the job of director of national intelligence, but one frontrunner for the role has already ruled it out.

The president told reporters yesterday that he was considering Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House judiciary commitee, for the job.

But Collins, who is running for a Senate seat in Georgia, said he would not take the job in an interview this morning.

“This is not a job that’s of interest to me at this time, and it’s not one that I’d accept,” Collins said.

“Everybody knows I’m a supporter of the president, they know how much I supported him through sham impeachment and everything else,” he added. “But I’m running against a senator who was just newly appointed who decided to support the president three weeks before she got the appointment.”

Collins has launched a primary challenge to senator Kelly Loeffler, who was recently appointed to Georgia’s vacant seat and has since been backed by Senate Republicans’ campaign arm.

After Trump dismissed reports of Russia’s preference for him in the 2020 race as a Democratic “misinformation campaign,” the former CIA chief of Russian operations tweeted this:

House intelligence committee Republicans reportedly pushed back against intelligence officials’ conclusion that the Kremlin was interfering in the 2020 campaign to aid Trump, arguing the president has been tough on Russia.

But Trump has repeatedly cast doubt upon the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered with the 2016 race and has peddled the baselss claim that it was actually Ukraine who meddled in the election.

In her testimony during the impeachement hearings, Fiona Hill, the White House’s former top Russia expert, called the accusation against Ukraine a “fictional narrative” pushed by Vladimir Putin’s government.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced a round of congressional endorsements today through her Courage to Change political action committee, which she launched last month.

The New York Times has more details on the initiative:

The endorsements of the congressional candidates — including one who is challenging Senate Democrats’ preferred candidate in Texas — amount to a powerful stamp of approval for a diverse group of newcomers. They also are a clear sign that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a celebrity of the liberal left, intends to leverage her influence among activists to try to reshape the Democratic Party. ...

Her own upset victory in 2018 over a 20-year Democratic congressman has inspired a slew of Democratic primary challenges across the nation targeting powerful incumbents — though many have little chance of winning. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who toppled a top party leader in her primary election, has carefully selected the races in which she is intervening with an eye for districts where her seal of approval would help the primary challenger prevail.

Trump also said moments ago that his administration would continue offering subsidies to farmers until various trade deals “fully kick in.”

Over the past two years, the Trump administration has spent $28 billion on subsidies to farmers harmed by the president’s trade wars. Last year marked a 14-year high in payments to the nation’s farmers.

Some critics of the policy have complained that the substantial funds are a means of appeasing some of the president’s supporters and that they come at the expense of other programs, like food stamps.

Nancy Pelosi said last night that all House members would receive a briefing on election security following reports of Trump’s anger at intelligence officials for briefing lawmakers on Russian interference in the 2020 campaign.

Officials briefed the House intelligence commitee last week on Russia’s alleged attempts to sway the 2020 election in Trump’s favor, but this briefing would be for all members.

Joe Biden is counting on strong performances in Nevada tomorrow and South Carolina next week to reinvigorate his presidential campaign after disappointing results in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Biden has especially pointed to South Carolina, where more than half of primary voters were African American in 2016, as the launchpad for his candidacy.

However, a new poll shows Biden and Bernie Sanders are now essentially tied with black voters, who had tilted strongly in favor of Biden until recently.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Mr. Biden has long bet that his strong support among black voters would be the linchpin of his candidacy. Journal/NBC News surveys in 2019 found that about half of black voters who said they would participate in Democratic primaries named Mr. Biden as their top choice for nominee. In the new poll, both he and Mr. Sanders had support from just under one-third of black voters. ...

The survey found that black Democrats have reservations about several candidates who fared well in Iowa and New Hampshire: Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Both drew single-digit support when black Democratic primary voters were asked their top choice for nominee. And in a measure of voter enthusiasm, more black voters said they had reservations about Ms. Klobuchar or Mr. Buttigieg, or were very uncomfortable with their candidacies, than said they were enthusiastic or comfortable.

Mike Bloomberg has taken his trolling of Trump beyond Twitter to Phoenix and Las Vegas, where the president is campaigning today.

Bloomberg’s campaign has placed billboards near Trump’s Vegas hotel and along potential motorcade routes as the president heads to his campaign rally later today.

The billboards include messages like, “Donald Trump lost the popular vote” and “Donald Trump eats burnt steak.”

“Americans deserve to know that Donald Trump cheats at golf and went broke running a casino,” a Bloomberg campaign spokesperson said in a statement.

Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic adviser, said he thought Roger Stone’s sentence should be “vacated,” calling the president’s former associate a “longtime friend.”

Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison yesterday for obstructing the congressional Russia investigation, and his allies are now angling for a presidential pardon.

Speaking in Las Vegas yesterday, Trump said he wanted to see Stone’s case “play out” in the courts, but he did not rule out the possibility of an eventual pardon.

Former deputy attorney general Sally Yates said Trump’s reported frustration with intelligence officials for briefing lawmakers on Russian election interference is a “screaming red siren.”

Yates was famously dismissed from her role as acting attorney general in 2017, when she instructed the justice department not to defend Trump’s travel ban.

This is Joan Greve in Washington, taking over for Paul Owen.

We are just one day away from the Nevada caucuses, and Democratic leaders in the state are expressing confidence that they will avoid the chaos of the Iowa caucuses.

Speaking of the Iowa caucuses, the recanvass of results is still ongoing, as Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders are neck-and-neck in the state delegate equivalent column.

The Des Moines Register reports:

The campaigns for Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg each requested full recounts of 63 Iowa caucus precincts, according to the Iowa Democratic Party.

Sanders, a U.S. Senator for Vermont, requested a recount for 10 precincts; Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, asked for a recount of of 54 precincts. One precinct was duplicated.

The party will respond to the requests within 48 hours of receiving the recount requests. Party officials will give an estimated time to complete the recount if the requests are deemed valid.

The two candidates are virtually tied in state delegate equivalents, the traditional measure of victory in the caucus, although a recount of presidential preference cards filed by caucusgoers could change that. Under current reporting, Buttigieg holds a 14-12 lead over Sanders in national delegates from Iowa.

As a reminder, the AP, the outlet of record for elections, has so far refused to declare a winner in the Feb. 3 caucuses because of inconsistencies in the results and the race’s razor-thin margin.

The Kremlin has responded to the reports that US intelligence officials briefed members of Congress that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election to boost Donald Trump – as the intelligence community believes it did in 2016.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters:

These are more paranoid announcements which, to our regret, will multiply as we get closer to the election. They have nothing to do with the truth.

The Kremlin denies meddling in the 2016 election too.

Good morning.

It was an eventful evening yesterday in US politics. Here’s what you might have missed:

• US intelligence officials are reported to have warned members of Congress last week that Russia was trying to interfere in the 2020 election campaign in favour of Donald Trump, in a briefing that led to the abrupt removal of the acting director of national intelligence.

• Roger Stone, a longtime ally of Trump’s and a self-described political dirty trickster, was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his attempts to sabotage a congressional investigation that posed a political threat to the president. After his sentencing, a representative for Stone urged Trump to “right this horrible wrong” and pardon him – before the president suggested he might do so.

• A heavily edited video of Mike Bloomberg’s performance at Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Nevada has prompted fresh questions about disinformation policies on social media platforms.

• Elizabeth Warren’s strong debate performance has re-energized her campaign and fired up supporters in Nevada before the state’s Democratic caucuses.

• Trump has taken a typically bizarre jab at the Oscars for awarding this year’s best picture honor to Parasite, because the film is South Korean. “The winner is a movie from South Korea, what the hell was that all about?” Trump asked at a rally. “We got enough problems with South Korea with trade and on top of it, they give them the best movie of the year.”
  

Today, Trump and vice-president Mike Pence will hold a rally in Las Vegas, an event obviously meant to wind up the Democrats as they get ready for the next vote in their primary season in Nevada tomorrow.

Leading Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Amy Klobuchar are all campaigning there today. Mike Bloomberg is not on the ballot – he is joining the race on 3 March for Super Tuesday.

Sanders – the socialist Vermont senator who is now the frontrunner in the Democratic race – seems to have increased his lead in Nevada. Latest polling averages show him with an impressive 14-point lead over his ailing centrist rival Biden. The former VP’s fellow moderate Buttigieg and Warren – like Sanders, a leftwing senator – are neck and neck close behind Biden, with businessman Tom Steyer and centrist Klobuchar fighting for fifth place.

Sanders has also strengthened his lead in national Demcoratic polling, and is now 11 points clear of Biden in the popular-vote horse-race. Bloomberg is now in third place, and very close behind Biden. Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar slot in after that.

We’ll cover all this and more throughout the day right here.