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The Tap: Sunday, June 5, 2016
From Ballotpedia
The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.
Review of the day
The excerpts below were compiled from issue #20 of The Tap, which was published on June 11, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.
Federal
- Hillary Clinton won 36 of Puerto Rico’s 60 pledged delegates on June 5 in the territory’s Democratic caucuses. She received 61 percent of the vote. Bernie Sanders received 24 percent of the vote and won 24 pledged delegates. At least five of Puerto Rico’s superdelegates have publicly expressed their support for Clinton.
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter offered his condolences to the families of multiple members of the military who lost their lives last week. Nine soldiers were killed during a June 2 training accident at Fort Hood, Texas, and Marine Corps Capt. Jeff Kuss, “a member of the Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, died at the start of an air show practice flight when his F/A-18C Hornet aircraft crashed two miles from the Smyrna Airport runway in Tennessee.”
- Jim Murphy, a former senior advisor to Bob Dole’s 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns, joined Donald Trump’s presidential campaign staff as the national political director. Murphy replaces Rick Wiley, who parted ways with the campaign on May 25.
- For more presidential staffer transitions, see: Presidential campaign staff transfers, resignations and terminations
- Three former staffers from Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign—Alex Conant, Terry Sullivan, and Will Holley—started a new campaign consulting firm, Firehouse Strategies. The firm’s approach, according to The New York Times, is “based on the premise that Mr. Trump has rewritten the rules of modern communications strategy, and candidates and corporations need to take heed.” Specifically, the strategists believe that Trump has shown that candidates “just need to deliver more content” to maximize effectiveness. Sullivan told the paper, “The solution is always more content, not less.”
Preview of the day
The excerpts below were compiled from issue #19 of The Tap, which was published on June 4, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.
Federal
- Democratic caucuses in Puerto Rico will take place on June 5. The territory has 60 pledged delegates and seven superdelegates. Polling in the territory has been lacking, though the Puerto Rico-focused website Pasquines conducted a poll between March 15 and April 15 that gave Hillary Clinton a 30-point lead over Bernie Sanders. Sanders and Bill Clinton visited Puerto Rico in May and addressed the territory’s ongoing financial crisis. Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico caucuses in 2008 against Barack Obama, 68 to 32. In 2016, Clinton has performed well with Hispanic voters and has won the Hispanic vote by large margins in states with large Puerto Rican populations, such as Florida and New York. Republicans held a primary in Puerto Rico on March 6. Marco Rubio won with more than 70 percent of the vote. Puerto Rico—like the Virgin Islands?—does not cast votes in the general election.
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