MSNBC staff were reportedly forced to leave Rachel Maddow’s studio after bedbugs were found inside, just days before the left-wing network’s Super Tuesday election coverage.
An “unidentified insect” was seen in studio 3A, home of The Rachel Maddow Show, and the networks expanded 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 and an exterminator was called in to treat the studio, green rooms and control room.
The memo said: “A K-9 environmental detection team will ensure remediation efforts are complete and will conduct additional sweeps through extended areas of the newsrooms (on the third floor).”
An NBC source told The Post: “They are fighting. In recent weeks they have already been borrowing an unused local studio for some shows. So studio space is at a premium.”
MSNBC staff were reportedly forced to leave Rachel Maddow’s studio after bedbugs were found inside the studio in recent days.
An ‘unidentified insect’ was spotted in studio 3A, home of The Rachel Maddow Show, and the networks expanded special election coverage, according to an internal memo.
Additional studios on the third floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza were reportedly closed and an exterminator came to treat the studio, green rooms and control room.
Sources said the studios were reopened about an hour after the memo was distributed, MSNBC anchors have returned to their desks and the network is set to produce its Super Tuesday coverage from the studio.
Thousands of voters in 15 states will go to the polls on what has been known since the 1970s as Super Tuesday.
For Republicans, 865 delegates will be decided, about a third of the total, and a large portion 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 US Virgin Islands, will have 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 Sunday’s primary in Washington, D.C., where Nikki Haley beat the former president among the small population of registered Republicans living in the nation’s capital.
The Republican front-runner has a chance of winning every state 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 about an hour after the memo was distributed, MSNBC anchors have returned to their desks and the network is set to produce its Super Tuesday coverage from the studio. Former President Donald Trump has a chance to win delegates from 15 states in his quest to win the Republican nomination.
Trump has a chance of winning every state on Tuesday, leaving Nikki Haley’s path to the White House even narrower than before.
Former South Carolina Gov. Haley’s future in the race hangs in the balance, and a loss in most states, including California, will make her comeback nearly impossible.
President Joe Biden could face more “uncommitted” challenges in the Super Tuesday Democratic primary, after Palestine supporters achieved success last week in the state of Michigan.
The campaign is urging Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in the Democratic presidential primary instead of President Joe Biden, 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 Democratic voters in a key swing state.
Other states mobilizing voters to vote without compromise in Tuesday’s primaries include Washington, Colorado and Minnesota.