{"id":134498,"date":"2020-03-02T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/02\/pete-buttigieg-drops-out-as-crucial-super-tuesday-looms-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:01:56","slug":"pete-buttigieg-drops-out-as-crucial-super-tuesday-looms-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134498","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg drops out as crucial Super Tuesday looms \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat departs race after poor showing in South CarolinaFull report: Pete Buttigieg drops out of 2020 raceWhat is Super Tuesday? Your guide to the nightSupport the Guardian\u2019s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.01pm GMT This looks like a chewy read to keep you busy for a bit over a coffee. Atlantic magazine have just published their cover story for April online. By George Packer, he is arguing that \u201cThe president is winning his war on American institutions\u201d.The [political class] were too sophisticated to see Trump\u2019s special political talents\u2014his instinct for every adversary\u2019s weakness, his fanatical devotion to himself, his knack for imposing his will, his sheer staying power\u2026They didn\u2019t grasp the readiness of large numbers of Americans to accept, even relish, Trump\u2019s contempt for democratic norms and basic decency. It took the arrival of such a leader to reveal how many things that had always seemed engraved in monumental stone turned out to depend on those flimsy norms, and how much the norms depended on public opinion. Their vanishing exposed the real power of the presidency. 1.51pm GMT It is difficult to over-estimate the importance of Super Tuesday tomorrow. 14 states across the country \u2013 Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia \u2013 as well as one US territory (American Samoa) and Democrats abroad will cast their votes on the same day. Related: What is Super Tuesday? Your guide to the night Related: California primary: what to know before the most populous state votes Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/mar\/02\/pete-buttigieg-joe-biden-mike-bloomberg-bernie-sanders-super-tuesday-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Buttigieg drops out as crucial Super Tuesday looms \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat departs race after poor showing in South CarolinaFull report: Pete Buttigieg drops out of 2020 raceWhat is Super Tuesday? Your guide to the nightSupport the Guardian\u2019s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.01pm GMT This looks like a chewy read to keep you busy for a bit over a coffee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}