Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will appear on Wednesday’s debate stage in Nevada, after qualifying in this morning’s NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll. He is likely to draw attacks from Democrats on stage for his campaign’s unprecedented ad spending that enabled his rise in the polls.
And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened up a double-digit lead in the Democratic nominating contest with 31% support nationally, up 9 points since December.
This episode: campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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