Kamala Harris Just Endorsed Jasmine Crockett In TX Senate Primary

Kamala Harris has endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary race for the Texas Senate race, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago.

Crockett is in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial following on social media. Crockett has crafted her image as a bare-knuckled partisan fighter in an era in which Democratic voters like candidates who vocally oppose Trump.

The endorsement from Harris, first reported by The Texas Tribune, came in a recorded phone message sent to Texas Democrats.

“Texas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,” Ms. Harris says. “Jasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday endorsed U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

This is a stamp of approval from a major figure as Crockett fights fears that she’s seen as too controversial to win a general election.

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Lindsey Graham: 'This Idea You Break It, You Own It, I Don't Buy That One Bit'

Sen. Lindsey Graham has been making the rounds since Trump and Israel launched their attack on Iran, heaping praise on Dear Leader and pretending everything is going to go wonderfully, rather than admit they just opened up a can of worms with no idea what comes next with the chaos they unleashed on the region.

It was more of the same on this Sunday's Meet the Press, with Graham getting extremely testy with host Kristen Welker when she pressed him on how we make sure the regime that replaces the one we just took out isn't worse.

WELKER: Senator history tells us just how complicated regime change is. we saw that when Saddam Hussein was ousted, and the terror threat and group moved in. How will the United States make sure that the next Iranian government isn't worse than the current regime?

GRAHAM: It's not our job to pick the next Iranian government. I don't remember being attacked by Iraq any time, you know, in the past. Iraq is complicated, but, you know, we have a relationship with Iraq.

It's up to Iran to pick your leader. It's not my job. It's not President Trump's job. We're not going to occupy the country. We're going give the people of Iran a chance to do something they've never had before, chart their own destiny.

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With many users feeling uneasy about Discord's new age verification requirement, here are some alternatives that could be worth exploring.

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Fox Business: Inflation Much Hotter Than Expected

During Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, he claimed inflation was "plummeting" under his leadership, and he used bogus information to defend his erroneous claims.

"Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared," he said.

Today's PPI report proved him wrong as inflation was much hotter than expected, which has driven the markets way down in early trading.

CNBC reported, "The core PPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.8%, more than the 0.6% gain in December and well ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 0.3%".

That's a huge gain.

I tuned in to Maria Bartiromo's morning program to see how she handled the bad news in the inflation report, and the MAGA Queen did her best to make it seem like it's not a big deal.

When Stuart Varney opened up his program, he did not try to sugarcoat the results.

VARNEY: The question of the day, is inflation cooling?

Answer, looking at the Producer Price Index, no, it is not cooling.

It's hotter.

This is what used to be called the Wholesale Price Index. It measures costs to business.

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Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute

Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

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The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

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Poll: Dems' Real Problem With Voters? They're Seen As Too Weak

There's this substack, "Strength In Numbers," run by a data guy, G. Elliott Morris. He used to be the editorial director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he ran the data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight. Before that, he was the data journalist for The Economist, and runs his own consulting firm, Morris Predictive Insights.

And he just came up with some interesting polling on Democrats versus Republicans.

In his new February poll, 53% of U.S. adults say the Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans. An identical percentage — 53% — say the same about Republicans.

He tested out the "Democrats are too liberal and need to tack to the center" theory, and concluded the opposite.

"When Americans say Democrats are “out of touch” they don’t only — or even primarily — mean “too progressive.” This type of thinking is another example of people committing the Strategist’s Fallacy instead of thinking about what is really being measured by the poll question being asked.

But it's pretty wonky, go read the whole thing. He concludes:

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