https://twitter.com/DianneG/status/1233859364466888706

South Carolinians have already exceeded one 2016 voting indicator: absentee voting.

The South Carolina Election Commission reports that 20,000 more Democratic absentee ballots have already been returned as of this morning than the 2016 primary total





The executive director of South Carolina’s Democratic Party said there’s no “mass evidence” of Republicans participating in the state’s Democratic primary, based on a review of absentee ballots. https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20200229-south-carolina/?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=twitter.com#south-carolina-democratic-party-leaders-54

https://twitter.com/howardfineman/status/1233582508350070786

Boy do #Dem Congress leaders despise
@BernieSanders
. It’s long-standing, visceral, abiding. If he wins, they’ll cringe, distance themselves and, they tell me, have no hope he’ll become a unifying statesman. “He’s a 78-year-old egomaniac,” one told me tonight. “He is what he is.”’

https://twitter.com/Biden_Train/status/1233850454389534721


The crowd at
@JoeBiden
’s Raleigh, NC event chants “Let’s go Joe!” as he wraps up his speech.

https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1233110852754198528


The report says it's spent over $5.2 million total to boost Warren. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00739110/1386602//se

And all because Warren schooled a Sanders supporter on convention rules last night on CNN’s town hall

https://twitter.com/onceuponaross/status/1232870577226092546?s=21

BREAKING: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been informed of the first case of the coronavirus in a person who did not recently return from a foreign country or have contact with a confirmed case, according to a person briefed on the case. Officials have begun tracing the contacts of the resident to find out how the person may have been infected and who else might have been exposed..

This is a developing story. It will be updated.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-china-live-updates/2020/02/26/f889693a-580e-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1232784696792297472


Azar refuses to promise a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable for anyone:

"We would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can't control that price, because we need the private sector to invest.. Price controls won't get us there."


https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1232789512490799104


Here's the clip of Azar not assuring Rep. Schakowsky a covid-19 vaccine will be affordable to all.



Biotech company Moderna says its coronavirus vaccine is ready for first tests


London (CNN Business)US biotech firm Moderna has shipped an experimental coronavirus vaccine to US government researchers just six weeks after it started working on the immunization.

Initial trials of the potential vaccine could begin in April, but the process of testing and approvals would last at least a year.

Moderna (MRNA) said in a statement Monday that the first batch of its novel coronavirus vaccine, called mRNA-1273, has been sent to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/business/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html

https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1232656200141037568


Breaking: Sources very close to
@WhipClyburn
contend the South Carolina Congressman will endorse
@JoeBiden
for president at 9:15 am this morning.
@JoeBiden
is number one with the black vote in that state. However, Blacks 35 and under are supporting
@BernieSanders
for president.


https://twitter.com/awzurcher/status/1232661148924772352

Wednesday morning in North Charleston, Congressman Jim Clyburn giving remarks at a #NAN breakfast, standing next to Joe Biden, who could desperately use his endorsement before Saturday’s South Carolina primary vote.

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1232652668579074049


Some caution about SC polling: It often under-rates the candidate with support from older black voters.

Final SC poll margin in 2008: Obama +12
Actual margin: Obama +29

Final poll margin in 2016: Clinton +28
Actual margin: Clinton +48

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/123262810977990656