'BradCast' 2/10/2020 (Dem Battle Rages After Iowa Despite Calls for Unity)

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 1:56 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Voters in New Hampshire go to vote on Tuesday in the first-in-the-nation primary. Despite the increasing animosity between supporters of the candidates, Friday night's lively 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate in the state included many calls for unity by most of the candidates, in order to defeat Donald Trump this November. Whether their supporters heard those pleas or not is another matter. In the ongoing effort to examine the reported results in the chaotic first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Mayor Buttigieg appear largely tied, due in part to the absurdly complex Iowa Caucus math and a number of seemingly random math errors \\u2013 but state party lawyers claim that correcting erroneous precinct worksheets would violate state law against election tampering. Some Democratic partisans are still roiled, charging that the contest was stolen. Based on the available evidence \\u2013 including the fact that every candidates' campaign signed off on precinct math worksheets at every caucus site -- we disagree, and explain why.\\xa0 Also today:\\xa0 new revelations from the past few days underscore what a dangerous and unprecedentedly dishonest menace this American President represents to both the nation and the world.\\xa0 The venerable VFW demands Trump apologize for downplaying traumatic brain injuries among U.S. troops \\u2013 now numbering more than 100 \\u2013 injured by an Iranian retaliatory missile strike on an Iraqi military base after Trump's assassination of an Iranian general. Trump's new federal budget proposal, released Monday, increases spending for the military, his border wall, and extends tax cuts to the rich, while slashing student loan assistance, affordable housing, food stamps, health care, Medicaid, education and the environment.\\xa0 Finally, an interesting update on vote-by-mail election security \\u2013 or lack thereof \\u2013 in California."