A Somali community leader who claims to have known Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) for an extensive period of time said she married her brother to help him stay in the United States. 
Nina Turner, the national co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I., Vt.) presidential campaign, quoted Shakespeare Thursday when asked about socialism's unpopularity with voters. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said that Russian trolls may be responsible for online attacks on members of Nevada’s Culinary Union. “It’s not thinkable” that his supporters would harass union leadership, Sanders said at Wednesday evening’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas.
Sen. Doug Jones (D., Ala.), who has claimed to reflect Alabama values while serving in the Senate, laughed off a question about limiting late-term abortions. 
Senate Republicans are again pushing for a bill to protect newborns who survive abortions in a vote that could force top Democratic presidential candidates to stake out an extreme position on the issue or risk angering abortion groups. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has "never adequately addressed" his supporters' online harassment of his critics, according to MSNBC analyst Zerlina Maxwell. 
Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) said that California should have more influence over the Democratic primary process because the state has so many wealthy donors. 
Businessman Andrew Yang announced he is suspending his presidential campaign, telling reporters he could not believe he lost to the Democratic candidates he was running against. 
A local Democratic party is calling on a Florida mayor to resign after the mayor called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) an "anti-Semitic socialist" in a campaign advertisement. 
A New Hampshire voter told an MSNBC anchor the network's criticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) made the voter "angry enough" to vote for Sanders. 