RED THROUGH AND THROUGH: Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, ‘I Don’t Know What’s So Wrong’ With Cuba.

American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Sen. Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when he came to visit him behind bars.

Sanders visited Cuba as part of a congressional delegation in 2014, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Jon Tester.

During the one-hour meeting, Sanders told the prisoner that he didn’t understand why others criticized Cuba, Gross said in an interview with NPR.

“He said, quote: ‘I don’t know what’s so wrong with this country,’ ” Gross recalled.

Sanders’ campaign declined to comment about the meeting with Gross, and Tester said he did not recall the discussion.

Plus: “The first year of my captivity was akin to sensory deprivation because I saw about 20 minutes of sunlight during the first year.”

BREAKING: Bloomberg suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden.

He came up short.

YET ANOTHER REMINDER THAT TWITTER IS NOT THE REAL WORLD:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Super Tuesday—Fauxcahontas Farewell Edition. “Super Tuesday was a super bust for the super unlikable Elizabeth Warren, the truth-challenged former Native American from Massachusetts. In her bid for the ‘Worst Candidate of This Cycle’ title, Warren wasn’t even the favorite socialist in her home state, where she finished third.”

For once, Kruiser is too kind.

IT’S OVER: Liz Warren Is Finished After This EMBARRASSING Loss in Massachusetts.

IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF BOZ SCAGGS, IT’S OVER: Mike Bloomberg Scores His Big Win… in American Samoa?!

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Drunkblogging Super Tuesday. “Brokered Democratic conventions are fun, provided you’re watching from a safe distance. Via satellite. And have a Praetorian guard of riot cops with firehoses.” (Bumped, by Glenn).

MOLON LABE: Biden Taps Beto to ‘Take Care of the Gun Problem with Me.’

COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: Leaked documents suggest Huawei violated Iran sanctions. “Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show that Huawei shipped computer equipment made by Hewlett-Packard to Iran’s largest mobile operator in 2010. The documents provide strong evidence that Huawei was involved in alleged trade sanction violations. They could potentially be used to strengthen the United States’ multifaceted case against Huawei.”

THE RETURN OF SCRAPPLEFACE: Joe Biden Drops Out of Race, Endorses Biden.

HMM: Twitter’s newest major investor wants to oust CEO Jack Dorsey.

SUPER TUESDAY: For what it’s worth, FiveThirtyEight’s model has Joe Biden doing well enough to put “No one” back in the lead to secure the nomination before the convention.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: These Are the Weirdest Things MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Has Said on the Air.

HE’S LOSING IT, EXHIBIT #1,000,006: Biden Tries to Quote Declaration of Independence: ‘You Know, the Thing…’

COMPLETING THE WORK OBAMA STARTED: A Bernie Sanders win would destroy America’s alliance with Great Britain.

I LIKE BRAVE: Brave deemed most private browser in terms of ‘phoning home.’

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Circle the Wagons for Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep. “The message is clear: establishment Democrats are still buying the ‘Biden electability’ argument, despite his increasingly erratic and mistake-prone behavior on the campaign trail. That they’re willing to throw in with a candidate who can’t go an hour without making an incredibly stupid mistake rather than rally behind Bernie indicates that they think socialism is a losing issue.”

HEH: These suburban white women are ‘mortified’ they voted for Trump. But they’ll do it again.

There are lots of these women in North Carolina, which holds its Democratic primary this week on Super Tuesday, the single day when more voters head to the polls than any other this primary season. Winston-Salem is a progressive university town in the northwest part of the state, but considerably more conservative than nearby Durham or Raleigh. As one woman said, it’s a place with roughly equal numbers of “tattooed, pierced hippies” and people for whom “What church do you go to?” often immediately follows “What is your name?” Most people, multiple women noted, seem to identify as some brand of “moderate.” While the city itself went for Hillary Clinton in 2016, if you drive 15 minutes out in any direction, you’ll find yourself in a light pink precinct that voted, ever so hesitantly, for Trump.

With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) now the clear Democratic front-runner, many centrist women in Winston-Salem find themselves in a tough spot. They hoped they’d be able to vote for someone other than Trump in 2020: Biden, maybe, or Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

But if Sanders is the nominee, they say, “No way.”

Murphy doesn’t regret voting for Trump: She was never going to support Clinton. She will always remember the “60 Minutes” appearance Clinton made when Bill Clinton was running for president in 1992. Responding to a question about her legal career, Clinton said, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies.” To Murphy, that comment felt personal: If the two of them met at a party, Murphy says, she feels sure Clinton would not bother to talk to her, a marketing specialist who took years off to raise her kids, educated far from the Ivy League. Many of her friends feel the same way, she says.

“We’ll talk about how horrible Trump is, how embarrassing. We’re mortified. But then we’ll look at each other and be like, ‘Not having Hillary Clinton as president — worth it.’”

Indeed.

ROLLING STONE: Democrats Have a Turnout Problem.

The article keeps insisting that Democrats will turn out in yuge numbers in November, just to oust Trump. But that seems like a slender reed when Trump voters are already energized, and Democratic voters aren’t.

So many candidates, so little enthusiasm.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Surfaces? Sneezes? Sex? How the Coronavirus Can and Cannot Spread.

WELL, GOOD: West Virginia Abandons Blockchain Voting in Favor of Paper.

West Virginia’s decision to ditch Voatz comes following a recent security audit conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that was published on Feb. 13.

The report found that “Voatz has vulnerabilities that allow different kinds of adversaries to alter, stop, or expose a user’s vote.” While West Virginia had used Voatz during its 2018 midterm elections, no malicious actors were found to have exploited its vulnerabilities.

MIT’s findings were shared with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency prior to publication. They were then forwarded to state and local electoral officials who had planned to pilot or use Voatz during the 2020 election cycle.

I had been assured by all the brightest people that blockchain was tamper-proof.

BECAUSE PORTLAND: Radical Enviros Who Sabotaged Train Tracks for ‘Climate Necessity’ Freed in Portland.

First, they want everybody to have to ride the trains. Then, they blow up the train tracks. They really don’t want us on this planet.

NICE: California homeowner uses motion-activated sprinkler with ‘impressive amount of pressure’ to thwart thieves.

THIS HARDLY JIBES WITH THE DEMOCRAT MEME THAT TRUMP IS BUNGLING THE RESPONSE: Dow roars back from coronavirus sell-off with biggest gain since 2009, surges 5.1%.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Road to ’68? Wargaming Super Tuesday.

That one is just for our VIP members, but the VODKAPUNDIT coupon code will still get you a discount if you were thinking of joining.

If not, I hope you’ll join me for tomorrow’s free-for-all Super Tuesday drunkblog.