BIDEN wins Bay State SHOCKER — WARREN comes in THIRD at home — Mass. GOP rallies around TRUMP
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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Super Tuesday is over! Here's how it all shook out.
BIDEN WINS THE BAY STATE — How's this for an election night stunner: Joe Biden won Massachusetts, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren came in third on her home turf.
The former vice president dominated the Super Tuesday map last night, and Massachusetts was no exception. Biden took 33 percent of the vote here, 7 percentage points ahead of second-place finisher Bernie Sanders, who got 26 percent of the vote.
Just days ago, state polls showed
Biden as far back as fifth place behind Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg. But Biden won the South Carolina primary in a landslide, then Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out and endorsed him. He had momentum and tons of free media coverage.
The result was a Biden sweep.
He won suburban voters all across Massachusetts, and was able to deliver in some of the state's largest cities: Boston and Springfield. Sanders won Worcester, where he stationed a four-day music and canvassing festival in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, and held onto some towns in Western Mass. But the Vermont senator had made personal visits to Boston and Springfield in the precious days leading up to March 3, and they didn't pay off.
Biden got around 30 percent of the vote in Boston,
and knocked Sanders into second place by fewer than 100 votes.
While Biden's win came as a surprise, he is a familiar face to a large number of Bay State voters, said strategist Andrew Feldman, a Boston native. Voters here can identify with Biden's Irish Catholic roots, Feldman said, and some are used to him calling into the annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast.
"Biden has a stronger connection to Massachusetts voters than anybody ever knew or most pundits didn't realize," Feldman told me last night.
WARREN COMES IN THIRD AT HOME —
Warren suffered a tough blow in Massachusetts last night, coming in third behind Biden and Sanders. She only won about a dozen of the state's 351 cities and towns last night, despite her status as a home state senator who just ran for reelection in 2018. With 21 percent of the vote, Warren will take 17 delegates from Massachusetts. Biden will take 32 delegates, and Sanders will take 27.
"Super Tuesday states decided
Joe Biden is the one who has the best chance to beat Donald Trump and Massachusetts was no exception," said Mary Anne Marsh, a principal at Dewey Square Group. "Warren needs to demonstrate in this campaign she can beat Trump with a win or delegates like Biden did in South Carolina and that has yet to happen."
One place Warren won handily was Cambridge,
where she has lived for decades. Warren received 42 percent of the vote, and Sanders got 28 percent. In the other deep blue cities that gave her the widest reelection margins in 2018, Warren pulled out a couple wins. She won Somerville with 40 percent of the vote to Sanders' 36 percent, and she won Northampton by a little less than a percentage point.
But coming in third is tough
, and Warren will likely face calls to drop out and rally behind Sanders, her fellow progressive. For her part, Warren has said her campaign is "built for the long haul." After voting in Cambridge yesterday, Warren didn't stick around to watch the results come in. She held a rally in Michigan, a state which votes on March 10.
MEDFORD SNUBS BLOOMBERG —
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a native of Medford, didn't win his home town. He didn't even come close: Bloomberg came in fourth with 12 percent of the vote. Sanders won the city with 30 percent, followed by Warren, who received 28 percent, and Biden who got 26 percent of the vote.
Bloomberg had poured millions of his own dollars into the presidential primary. Losing Medford was more of a bruise to his ego than a make-or-break for his campaign, though Bloomberg did visit a
diner in his hometown and ran wall-to-wall TV ads for months.
BIDEN WINS GATEWAY CITIES — Biden outperformed his rivals in a number of the state's Gateway Cities, which are mid sized urban centers that face "tough social and economic challenges" as places where manufacturing jobs have disappeared, according to a state definition.
Biden won Attleboro, Barnstable, Brockton, Chicopee, Fall River, Haverhill, Leominster, Methuen, Peabody, Pittsfield, Quincy, Springfield, Taunton, and Westfield. Sanders was close behind, with victories in Lowell, Lawrence, Lynn, Worcester, New Bedford, Chelsea, Holyoke, Fitchburg, Everett, Malden, Salem and Revere.
IMHO: KENNEDY: ALL FLUFF & NO SUBSTANCE! PICKING ON TRIVIAL ISSUES WHILE PROFITING FROM FOSSIL FUEL INVESTMENTS, NO COMMENTS ABOUT ANY ISSUE THAT PERTAINS TO MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENTS LIKE COLUMBIA GAS, THE DECOMMISSIONING OF PILGRIM NUCLEAR & SALE TO HOLTEC, THE WEYMOUTH GAS COMPRESSOR....
KENNEDY WON'T LET IT GO —
In case you were getting the post-primary blues, Massachusetts has another Democratic contest coming in September. Rep. Joe Kennedy III is needling Sen. Ed Markey this morning, pointing out in a news release that it's been 161 days since he proposed a so-called People's Pledge to keep outside money at bay. Markey countered with an updated pledge to allow "positive" voices to spend money in the race if they disclose their donors, which Kennedy says is too broad.
HAPPENING TODAY -
The Horse Race podcast is taping a live post-Super Tuesday episode with Gina Christo and Wilnelia Rivera of the Deep Democracy podcast on March 4 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Boston. The live show is free to attend, but guests must register in advance. The details.
Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Get in touch: smurray@politico.com.
TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito discuss coronavirus planning with health officials. Baker and Polito
announce the filing of the administration's economic development bill in Salem. Rep. Ayanna Pressley rallies on the steps to the Supreme Court during oral arguments for abortion case June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo. Rep. Joe Kennedy III hosts a coronavirus roundtable discussion at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center. Former Rep. Mike Capuano is a guest on WBUR's "Radio Boston."
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- "Baker Casts Ballot, Won't Discuss His Preferences," by Matt Murphy, State House News Service:
"When it comes to discussing presidential politics, Gov. Charlie Baker has been nothing this cycle if not consistent. After months of resisting questions about who he would vote for on Super Tuesday, the state's top elected Republican showed up at the First Church in Swampscott on Tuesday night and cast a secret ballot. And secret it shall remain. "I said before I wasn't going to get into presidential politics and I'm not going to do it tonight," Baker said after voting across the street from his home after a day of working on Beacon Hill."
- "Mass. Taxi Companies, Decimated By Ride Share Apps, Look Toward $7M State Fund For Hope," by Bob Seay, WGBH News: "Sean McCue says his family's business was an institution, and it was booming. Four generations operated McCue's Yellow Cab of Watertown out of an office on Main Street at Watertown Square. And then Uber and Lyft came to town. At first, Sean said he thought they were just transit technology companies. And since they were only operating in Boston, he didn't pay much attention.
But in retrospect, he said, he should have."
- "Lawmakers ask DOJ to divert settlement money," by Christian M. Wade, Eagle-Tribune:
"Members of the state's congressional delegation are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to divert money from a federal court settlement with Columbia Gas to the Merrimack Valley's first-responders. In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan and other lawmakers say funds from a $53 million fine should somehow be returned to residents of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover who were affected by the Sept. 13, 2018 gas fires and explosions."
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- "Mass. Election Officials Respond To Reports Of Voter ID Issues At Dorchester Polling Location," by Simón Rios, WBUR:
"Boston election officials are reassuring voters that identification is not generally required to vote, following an incident at a polling location in Dorchester on Super Tuesday. Poll officials at Harbor Point apartments reported earlier Tuesday that security staff at the housing development repeatedly asked voters for IDs as they arrived at the front gate to cast their ballots at a building inside the complex. The secretary of state's office said it spoke with the Boston election officials — and say that the matter is now settled."
- "Mayor Walsh names Kathryn Burton his new chief of staff," by Danny McDonald, Boston Globe:
"An executive from a Boston development firm will be Mayor Martin J. Walsh's next chief of staff, marking the first time an indigenous person will hold a cabinet-level City Hall post, Walsh's office announced Tuesday. Kathryn R. Burton will assume chief of staff duties starting March 9. She succeeds Dave Sweeney, who worked in that role for two-and-a-half years before accepting a job as president and chief executive of MASCO, the Medical, Academic, and Scientific Community Organization that manages operations for the institutions that make up Boston's 210-acre Longwood medical and academic campus
."
- "'Donate Your Vote': Some Mass. Voters Are Casting Ballots On Behalf Of Disenfranchised Prisoners," by Quincy Walters, WBUR: "On the day of the Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, Kyle Bryant, who's serving time at the medium-security prison in Norfolk, was trying to get fellow inmates to tune in. But it was a struggle. "[People in prison] believe all politicians lie," he said. "And that [politicians] all make fake promises." Debate-watching is just one way Bryant
is trying to get other inmates at MCI-Norfolk to think about voting."
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- "Majority of Massachusetts voters 'dissatisfied' if Michael Bloomberg becomes Democratic presidential candidate," by The Associated Press:
"More than $500 million in spending on ads could not buy Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg much love. Bloomberg fared better among voters older than 65 compared with those younger, and similarly among those who think of themselves as moderate or conservative more so than liberals. But even among these groups, he was edged out by Biden. The former New York mayor was the Democrat voters were least enthusiastic about nominating."
- "PAC with ties to Baker sees mixed results," by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: "A SUPER PAC closely aligned with Gov. Charlie Baker saw mixed results Tuesday night. A Democrat the PAC supported easily won the state rep seat from Melrose, but the PAC's foray into two Republican primaries appeared to yield one win and one loss. Kate Lipper-Garabedian, a Melrose city councilor, cruised to victory in the general election for the House seat vacated by Paul Brodeur, who was elected mayor of Melrose.
Lipper-Garabedian, a lifelong Democrat, declared victory not long after the polls closed."
- "Here's how some people who voted early are feeling after their candidates dropped out," by Steve Annear, Boston Globe:
"Unlike the playground games of your childhood, when it comes to casting a vote early in Massachusetts, there's no take-backs and no do-overs — you only get one shot. For constituents who cast their votes for Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg — who both dropped out ahead of the Massachusetts primary on Super Tuesday, and endorsed former vice president Joe Biden — that means the deal is done."
- "Biden wins state, but Sanders strong in Hampshire County," by Dusty Christensen and Michael Connors, Daily Hampshire Gazette: "Joe Biden won the Democratic primary in Massachusetts, edging out Bernie Sanders in a surprise victory, while Elizabeth Warren finished third in her home state. Locally, Sanders did well, winning in Easthampton, Holyoke, Hadley, Hatfield, Williamsburg, Granby, Chesterfield, Worthington, Belchertown, Shutesbury and Cummington. Biden won Southampton and South Hadley, and Warren won in Pelham
and Goshen. Other municipalities had not reported results by press time Tuesday night."
- "Newton voters OK Northland's big mixed-use project, despite predictions of a traffic nightmare," by John Hilliard, Boston Globe:
"After weeks of bitter debate, the city's voters gave the go-ahead Tuesday to a plan to build hundreds of apartments and new commercial space in Newton Upper Falls. The special municipal election, timed for Super Tuesday, asked voters whether they approved of Northland Investment Corp.'s mixed-use project at the corner of Needham and Oak streets. According to the city clerk's office, 18,565 voters backed a zoning change needed for the plan to move forward, while 13,449 cast ballots against the project."
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