* “My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”–Sen. Kamala Harris.
* Pete Buttigieg is running, in part, on an image of intelligence, eloquence, pragmatic populism and transparency. What’s a bit awkward, speaking of transparency, is having a non-disclosure agreement with a previous employer, the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Company, regarding his clients.
* “A perfectly matched odd couple.”–How Steven Levingston, the author of “The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership,” described Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
* It’s unlikely that a President Bloomberg or a President Steyer will be the 2020 successor to President Trump. Would that all the money they are committing with their costly, out-of-pocket ad buys could be channeled into helping rally the Democratic Party and ginning up the get-out-the-vote effort in critical swing states that cost Hillary Clinton the presidency in 2016.