| We're five days out from the Tuesday of Reckoning, which will probably really finally settle the Democratic race. Hillary Clinton needs to win only 70 of Tuesday's 694 pledged delegates to clinch the nomination, barring a mass exodus of superdelegates. A former adviser to Bill Clinton says Bernie Sanders still has a shot to win at a contested convention. We're still waiting for MTV's RoboDino to weigh in. | | So you're saying there's a chance ... | | With less than a week to go before the all-important California and New Jersey primaries, a pollster and one of Bill Clinton's former advisers says there's a chance that Bernie Sanders could still win the nomination, but only under a narrow set of circumstances. Douglas E. Schoen laid out the scenario in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday: | - Sanders wins California, Montana, New Mexico and the Dakotas next Tuesday, and at least stays close in New Jersey.
- At the Democratic National Convention, Bernie proposes a rules change that would require superdelegates to vote according to their state's popular vote.
- The vote needs to fail, because locking in superdelegates to their state's overall winner likely will give the nomination to Clinton anyway.
- Delegates take the opportunity to reflect on Clinton's email scandal, her poor favorability numbers, and/or the chances she'll beat Trump in November, and begin to coalesce around the idea of nominating Sanders.
- Elizabeth Warren dons an elaborate Bernie disguise, allowing the real Bernie to slip under the main stage undetected, where he can place the EMP devices. Meanwhile, Susan Sarandon sits in a dark room, furiously typing on a keyboard before announcing, "I'm in! I hacked the mainframe!"
- Backstage with Cornel West, Hillary lays out her entire dastardly plan. The campaigning, the voting, the fundraising - all of it has been to achieve one goal: She's been trying to win the nomination this whole time! Little does she know, West is wearing a wire. Sarandon patches in the audio to the Wells Fargo Center's sound system. The entire arena falls silent for a few moments, then delegates start booing.
- Bernie wins the nomination.
| | Schoen went on to say that Vice President Joe Biden could win the nomination. Or hell, Secretary of State John Kerry might. The important thing here is that everyone's paying attention to Douglas E. Schoen, which may have been the idea all along. | | Trump is VERY familiar with how the judiciary branch works, thankyouverymuch | | A USA TODAY analysis covering the past three decades shows that Donald Trump and his businesses have been involved in 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts. In 1,900 of the cases, Trump or one of his businesses were the plaintiff (that is, he was the one bringing the suit against another party); in 1,450, he was the defendant; while the remaining 150 were bankruptcies or cases where Trump was named as a third party. About half of the cases involve Trump's casino interests. With about 50 civil lawsuits still open with less than six months to go before the election, there's a chance we could see a sitting president involved in personal legal disputes with private individuals. Trump wins suits far more often than he loses or settles out of court, but it's probably worth checking to see if we could potentially lose Guam or the Air Force in a settlement if he loses. | | The number of cases is unprecedented for a presidential nominee - by way of comparison, Hillary has only been named in 900 lawsuits, which ... ugh. You guys, we have basically nominated two people who account for 4,400 lawsuits over the past several decades. You guys read the rest of the story here, we're gonna go lie down for a bit. | | More from the campaign trail | | • | Bernie Sanders says California Gov. Jerry Brown - who used to live in a damn commune in the 1990s and 2000s - part of the 'establishment' (USA TODAY OnPolitics) | | • | Judge reseals some Trump University documents. Forget everything we said yesterday (USA TODAY OnPolitics) | | • | California superdelegate: Hillary has been lobbying me for over a year now (Desert Sun) | | • | Jane Sanders: Bernie's still in it to win it (Asbury Park Press) | | • | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says no need to update voting rights law (Louisville Courier-Journal) | | | We may be getting too old for this election | | RoboParrot, RoboDino, RoboRobot and RoboBear, escapees from the wonkiest Chuck E. Cheese's stage show ever, will debate the key issues of this election as part of MTV's "Elect This" campaign. | |
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