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What a week! The Democratic field is in disarray as everything in the 2020 election seems to come up Trump.


And it just keeps going: tomorrow is the Nevada primary -- as well as the 40th anniversary of the "miracle on ice," the 1980 Olympic hockey game in which a young, inexperienced U.S. team beat the USSR. (You can guess what movie we'll be watching this weekend.)

Next week will bring another debate, the primary in South Carolina, and the final weekend push before Super Tuesday on March 3. We could be 11 days out from learning the presumed Democratic candidate for president ... or we could be in for months of more campaigning. It's 2020; anything is possible.

 

Before you head into the weekend, here's the news you'll want to know.

 

Bloomberg gets one question right: President Trump is "the real winner" of the Nevada debate.

"'Look, the real winner of the debate last night was Donald Trump, because I worry that we may be on the way to nominating someone who cannot win in November,' Bloomberg said at a campaign event in Salt Lake City, Utah." [Read the full story from National Review.]

It was fight night in Nevada all right, as the gloves did come off in the Democratic primary debate.

 

Every candidate knocked the others on stage -- and they all took swings at Michael Bloomberg, who seemed un-prepared and surprised to discover himself under the prime time TV lights.

 

The only thing he seemed to get right came from a campaign event the next day: President Trump emerged as the "real winner" of the Democratic debate, as Michael Bloomberg said.

 

Trump's party -- and his supporters -- are united behind him and his message, while the Democrats seem increasingly frantic to pick a winner ... in a process that increasingly resembles the final showdown in an action movie.

 

President Trump agreed with Bloomberg's sentiment on Twitter (of course!). The longer the Democratic primary drags on, the happier he and his campaign team must be.

The numbers are in: the Trump economy is booming!

"The U.S. economy continues to outperform expectations across a number of areas, according to the annual Economic Report of the President. [...] The administration’s economic policies have helped the U.S. economy to overcome hurdles that previously suppressed growth." [Read the full story from Fox News.]

After nearly four years of pro-business, pro-growth policies, the Trump Administration can point to major accomplishments, according to a new report out this week:

  • The U.S. unemployment rate is at its lowest since 1969. There are 2.1 million new jobs in America, which brings the total to 4 million new jobs since President Trump's tax reform bill passed.

  • The economy is out-performing predictions. In particular, stats for employment and employee compensation are ahead of where experts pre-2017 predicted they'd be.

  • And the current economic growth in America is the longest on record, with more good news likely ahead -- especially with American energy production. 

There's a reason Democrats are debating "electability": they see the early polling in key states like Wisconsin.

"A new swing-state poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that President Trump leads every Democratic candidate by at least seven points in the battleground state of Wisconsin." [Read the full story from the National Review.]

An interesting theme in this past Wednesday's Democratic debate was a focus on electability.

 

After Elizabeth Warren utterly destroyed Michael Bloomberg on the issue of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), she took the moral high ground for a moment -- before immediately pivoting to what this meant for his "electability" in a head-to-head race against President Trump.

 

It was a surprisingly pragmatic moment for one of the far left's self-declared moral crusaders.

 

But it's a theme that will likely be repeated in next week's debates -- and the ones ahead, should this race drag on far past Super Tuesday -- as early polling in battleground states comes out, and the answers again turn up, as they did in Wisconsin (see the linked story above) ... for President Trump!

It's hard to go further left than Bernie Sanders and AOC ... but Elizabeth Warren is trying her best.

“'Uh, I want to see us move entirely to green, and let me say on this, I not only support a Green New Deal, I don’t think it goes far enough,' Warren continued. 'I also have a blue new deal cause we have got to be thinking about our oceans as well that we need to protect.'" [Read the full story from The Daily Wire.]

Bernie Sanders has received the lion's share of coverage for being too far to the left (read: socialist) for a general election. But the policies in much of the remainder of the primary field isn't too removed from his.

 

Just take Elizabeth Warren's enthusiastic embrace of the Green New Deal, complete with a push to take it 1) even further and 2) into uncharted territories.

 

The mainstream media won't report on the primary field's continued push to the far left, but you can see in the policies proposed each week.

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