MSNBC staffers were reportedly forced out of Rachel Maddow’s studio after bed bugs were found inside, just days ahead of Super Tuesday election coverage at the left-leaning network.
An ‘unidentified insect’ was spotted in studio 3A, home to The Rachel Maddow Show and the networks amped-up special election coverage, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Post.
Additional studios on the third floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza were reportedly closed down and an exterminator was called to treat the studio, green rooms and control room.
The memo said, ‘An environmental K-9 detection team will ensure the remediation efforts were complete and will take an extra pass, through extended areas of newsrooms [on the third floor].’
An NBC source told The Post, ‘They are scrambling. They’ve already been borrowing an unused local studio for some shows in recent weeks. So studio space is tight.’
MSNBC staffers were reportedly forced out of Rachel Maddow’s studio after bed bugs were found inside the studio in recent days
An ‘unidentified insect’ was spotted in studio 3A, home to The Rachel Maddow Show and the networks amped up special election coverage, according to an internal memo
Additional studios on the third floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza were reportedly closed down and an exterminator came to treat the studio, green rooms and control room
Sources said the studios were reopened approximately one hour after the memo was distributed, MSNBC anchors returned to their desks and the network is set to produce their Super Tuesday coverage from the studio.
Thousands of voters from 15 states will head to the polls for what has been known since the 1970s as Super Tuesday.
For Republicans, 865 delegates will be decided, about one third of the total, and a large chunk of the 1,215 a candidate needs to clinch the party’s presidential nomination.
The states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, Idaho, Missouri and North Dakota, along with Washington DC and the U.S. Virgin Islands, will have all voted before Super Tuesday.
This year, 15 states will vote on Super Tuesday: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia.
Former President Donald Trump has won every early contest except for Sunday’s primary in Washington, D.C., where Nikki Haley beat the former president among the small population of registered Republicans who live in the nation’s capital.
The Republican frontrunner has a chance of winning all the states on Tuesday, leaving Nikki Haley’s path to the White House even narrower than before.
He is already focused on November and his likely general election rematch with President Joe Biden.
Sources said the studios were reopened approximately one hour after the memo was distributed, MSNBC anchors returned to their desks and the network is set to produce their Super Tuesday coverage from the studio. Former President Donald Trump has the chance to win delegates from 15 states in his quest to win the Republican nomination
Trump has a chance of winning all the states on Tuesday, leaving Nikki Haley’s path to the White House even narrower than before
Former South Carolina Governor Haley’s future in the race is hanging by a thread, and a loss in most of the states, including California, will make comeback all but impossible.
President Joe Biden could face more ‘uncommitted’ challenges in Super Tuesday Democratic primaries, after supporters of Palestine found success last week in the state of Michigan.
The campaign urges Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in the Democratic presidential primary instead of President Joe Biden, in order to protest the administration’s support for the Israeli war in Gaza.
More than 100,000 voters voted uncommitted in Michigan, demonstrating the president’s serious problems with Democrat voters in an important swing state.
Other states mobilizing voters to vote uncommitted in Tuesday’s primary include Washington, Colorado and Minnesota.