2016 Campaign Watch

CNN hosted the three Republican candidates last night in a town hall event, and it appears to have produced a number of noteworthy moments. Here’s how CNN described some of the key takeaways from the event:

Takeaways from the GOP town hall

The ironclad commitment each Republican presidential candidate gave to support the party’s nominee — no matter who that may be — is no more.

Donald Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich explicitly renounced the commitment they’d made last fall, while ...

There isn’t much doubt that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had a good weekend, winning all three Democratic caucuses by wide margins. The question seems to be, is there still a path for him to win enough delegates to overcome the substantial lead the frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently holds? According to Bloomberg Politics, things get much tougher from Sanders from this point forward:

Sanders Second-Half Comeback Plans Running Into Tougher Primary Calendar

After routing Hillary Clinton in three western-state ...

As the possibility of a contested GOP convention becomes more likely, the three remaining Republican candidates are planning how to eke out a win on the first or any other ballot to be held. National Journal has an interesting look at the pursuit of so-called “unbound delegates,” those who arrive at the convention without any binding pledge to support a specific candidate:

The Race Is on for Unbound Delegates

On March 12, Rich Counts won a tick­et to the Re­pub­lic­an Na­tion­al Con­ven­tion ...