The Race

 I’m one of those people who used to take one of his kids with me to the polls on Election Day — in the old days.

I wanted them to understand our democratic system and to think about their future role in it.

So voting to me was a big enough deal to me that I did that, but I always knew plenty of people who didn’t vote and who clearly did not take it at all seriously.

The operative term back in those days was apathy. They just didn’t think that it mattered.

But those people were wrong. It matters. Last night, “Super Tuesday,” notwithstanding.

Once again, it will be Biden vs. Trump in November. Democracy vs. autocracy. Haley has dropped out. Our children and grandchildren will live with the consequences.

HEADLINES:

• 4 takeaways from Super Tuesday (NPR)

• Nikki Haley is dropping out of the US presidential race following the Super Tuesday primaries. (Reuters)

• Administration officials watered down Kamala Harris' Gaza speech before delivery (NBC)

• Earmark battle emerges as late threat to spending bill (The Hill)

• Georgia defense attorney subpoenaed to appear before state committee investigating Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (CNN)

• Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won’t seek reelection, avoiding 3-way race (AP)

• Supreme Court ballot ruling darkens critics’ hopes for a judicial curb on Trump (WP)

• The Supreme Court may have saved Trump, but is it dooming itself?  (The Hill)

• Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme (NYT)

• Trump again seeks to delay $83M judgment in E. Jean Carroll case (ABC)

• A top pipeline for local journalists is saying no to hedge funds (WP)

• Treasury sanctions Intellexa spyware consortium in unprecedented move (Axios)

• Netanyahu’s War Cabinet Is at War With Itself (WSJ)

• Only a Trickle of Aid Reaches Northern Gaza, as Hunger Worsens (NYT)

• Ukrainian sea drones damaged a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea. (Reuters)

• Haiti gangs try to take over Port-au-Prince airport (BBC)

• France becomes the only country to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right (AP)

• James Crumbley's manslaughter trial begins weeks after wife found guilty in son's school shooting (ABC)

• The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation (Guardian)

• Facebook and Instagram outage: Widespread disruption affects services (CNN)

• Anthropic claims its new AI chatbot models beat OpenAI’s GPT-4 (TechCrunch)

• Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices (ArsTechnica)

• Last-Minute Change To Super Tuesday Primary Rules Requires All 14 States To Vote At Same Polling Place (The Onion)