memeorandum: Shake-Up at Politico Is Expected After November Election (Ravi Somaiya/New York Times)

8:10 PM ET, January 28, 2016

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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:

Trump Campaign Manager: Trump Will Debate Cruz Once Judge Rules Him Eligible To Run — “Once you've gotten that ruling from the federal judge and you're the last man standing in this presidential contest next to Donald Trump, we'll be happy to have a debate with you one-on-one, anywhere you want.”

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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:

CNN Political Commentator Stuns Trump Spox by Blasting ‘Sick and Vile’ Wounded Warriors Stunt — The fireworks were exploding early on Thursday morning ahead of the Fox News Republican debate, which frontrunner Donald Trump has repeatedly said he will not attend.

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Kim LaCapria / snopes:

The Kelly Beguiles — A Saudi prince doesn't really “co-own” Fox News, and Fox political commentator Megyn Kelly didn't pose with him. — Claim: A photograph shows Fox political commentator Megyn Kelly posing with a Saudi prince who co-owns Fox News. — MOSTLY FALSE

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

The Trumph of the Will — I wanted to make a couple related observations about this Donald Trump debate drama. — First, an admission. — When I heard last night that Trump was pulling out of the Fox News GOP primary debate I was quite certain he had every intention of finally attending tomorrow night's event.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Little Green Footballs and The Moderate Voice

Reuters:

Trump's Fox News debate fight widens Republican rift — Donald Trump will widen a rupture between his supporters and the Republican Party establishment on Thursday when he boycotts a presidential debate in a snub to Fox News only days before the 2016 election season starts in earnest.

Discussion: Vox Popoli

Peter Sterne / Politico:
HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage

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The Federalist:

Trump's New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump's Personal Foundation — After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week's Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans.

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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:

How to watch Donald Trump's veterans event — Thursday night was supposed to belong to Fox News. — But Donald Trump upended Fox's plans by choosing to skip the latest Republican debate in favor of his own fundraiser for veterans in Des Moines, Iowa, creating unexpected competition for the cable news channel.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Washington Post

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
For Years, Trump's Charity Gave Veterans Little More Than Peanuts

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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Wanted Vets Kicked Off Fifth Avenue

Discussion: New York Times, RedState, TheStreet.com, Mediaite and The Week

Washington Post:

Bernie Sanders's fiction-filled campaign — SEN. BERNIE Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading in New Hampshire and within striking distance in Iowa, in large part because he is playing the role of uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader. But Mr. Sanders is not a brave truth-teller.

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

Bernie Sanders unloads on The Washington Post — DES MOINES — Move over, Donald Trump. Stand aside, Fox News. There's a new feud underway between a presidential candidate and a news media organization — this one between a Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and the editorial page of this newspaper.

Discussion: Common Dreams, CNN, New York Times, us11.campaign-archive1.com, The Hill, Raw Story, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo

Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:

Sanders workers are masquerading as Culinary members to campaign inside hotels — Operatives from Bernie Sanders' campaign have donned Culinary union pins and secured access to employee areas inside Strip hotels to try to garner votes for the Feb. 20 caucus, sources confirm.

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Bernie Sanders in ‘overall very good health,’ doctor writes

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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: Bernie Sanders Is Democrats' Top Beneficiary of Outside Spending, Like it or Not

TIME.com:

Barbie's dress won't fit. — I'm sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., playing with a Barbie that only 20 people in the world know exists. Her creation has been kept so secret that the designers code-named the endeavor Project Dawn so that even their spouses …

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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:

Michigan Officials Quietly Gave Bottled Water To State Employees Months Before Flint Residents — The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget decided to haul water coolers into the Flint state building in January of 2015 out of concern over the city's water quality …

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Progress Michigan:

Document: Snyder Admin Trucked In Clean Water for State Building in January 2015 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org — Latest revelation shows unequal treatment in Flint Water Crisis — LANSING — The Snyder administration quietly trucked …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Detroit Free Press and Common Dreams

Julia Lurie / Mother Jones:
Long Before Helping Flint, Michigan Officials Were Shipping Clean Water to Their Own Workers

Discussion: The Week, Common Dreams and Daily Kos

Evan Perez / CNN:

Oregon occupiers: What officials say happened at traffic stop — (CNN)A high-speed getaway attempt and a reach for the waistband are said to have prompted police SWAT team members to open fire on a group of leaders of the Oregon armed occupiers. — A law enforcement official described …

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Conrad Wilson / OPB:
More Arrests As FBI Negotiates With Remaining Militants

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Arnold Law in Eugene, Oregon:
Ammon Bundy - Malheur Wildlife Refuge Case

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

Shake-Up at Politico Is Expected After November Election — A founder of Politico, Jim VandeHei, and one of the organization's best-known journalists, Mike Allen, plan to leave the publication after the November presidential election, according to two people with knowledge of the matter …

Discussion: FishbowlDC

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Massive Shakeup At Politico With Co-Founder Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen Set To Leave

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Carrie Dann / NBC News:

Trump Strong in Three Early States as Clinton and Sanders Battle: Poll — With just four days to go until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Ted Cruz with a seven-point lead among likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers, while Hillary Clinton remains just three points in front …

Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post, Hot Air, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Politico, The Daily Beast and Politics Informer

Alex Seitz-Wald / MSNBC:
Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus

Discussion: CNBC, Engadget, The BRAD BLOG, Hot Air, The Hill and The Verge

Olivier Knox / Yahoo Politics:
Biden: Trump or Cruz nomination ‘a gift from the Lord’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation not letting up — Six months after it began, the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server shows no signs of slowing down. — Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual and speculated that a decision …

Discussion: Politico and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Ezra Klein / Vox:
Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism

Discussion: Consortiumnews.com and Campaign for America's Future

Patrick Healy / New York Times:

It's Still Bill Clinton, but the Old Magic Seems Missing — MASON CITY, Iowa — Bill Clinton came to the vote-rich city of Mason City on Wednesday night and recounted his wife's life experiences, recited her policy ideas, and ripped into the Republicans a bit.

Discussion: Althouse and The Week

Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:

Va. will once again recognize concealed carry permits from other states — RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to announce Friday that Virginia will restore handgun reciprocity agreements with nearly all states, in a stunning reversal of a firearms policy that had angered Republicans and gun rights advocates across the nation.

Discussion: RedState, Townhall.com, Washington Free Beacon and Bearing Arms

Eva Schloss / Newsweek:

Anne Frank's stepsister: ‘Donald Trump is acting like Hitler’ — Eva Schloss, 86, is an Auschwitz survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank. Both Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam together and the pair played together as children until their families were forced into hiding in 1942.

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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:

Fresh off saying Maine should revive the guillotine to decapitate drug dealers, Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that private citizens should get in on the criminal-killing action too. — “I tell ya, everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry,” LePage said in an on-camera interview in Lewiston …

Discussion: The Portland Press Herald, NPR and Daily Kos

Roberta Rampton / Reuters:

Most Americans support Obama's contested immigration plan: poll — Most Americans say they back a plan that would allow certain illegal immigrants to stay in the country, but support for the idea slips when President Barack Obama's name is attached to the question, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

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Tax Foundation:

Details and Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders's Tax Plan — FISCAL FACT No. 498: Details and Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders's Tax Plan (PDF) — Key Findings: — Senator Sanders (I-VT) would enact a number of policies that would raise payroll taxes and individual income taxes, especially on high-income households.

Discussion: TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal and Washington Free Beacon