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New York Times:
Biden Comes Under Attack From All Sides in Democratic Debate  —  MIAMI — Joseph R. Biden Jr. repeatedly found himself on the defensive in the Democratic debate on Thursday over his record as well as his personal views, with the most searing moment of the night, and the primary campaign to date …
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NBC News:
Live Blog / First Democratic debate 2019: Live updates from Night Two  —  Thanks for following our live coverage of the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate, headlined by Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg.  This wraps up our two nights …
Discussion: Vox
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Kamala's Killer Instinct, Biden's Glass Jaw, and Williamson's Mesmerizing Lunacy  —  The headline out of tonight's debate is going to be Kamala Harris starting off the second hour by turning to Joe Biden and just kicking the snot out of him on the previously long-forgotten issue of forced busing in Delaware.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kamala Harris breaks out  —  MIAMI — For the first half of Thursday's presidential debate, Joe Biden looked as if he would somehow be able to stand at center stage yet not be the center of the bullseye of other candidates' attacks.  —  California Sen. Kamala Harris changed that …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
This wasn't the way Joe Biden wanted the first debate to go  —  His exchange with Kamala Harris was the standout moment of the entire first debate.  —  The biggest single question going into the first Democratic debate was whether any candidate would manage to lay a glove on the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
Joe Biden: Bruised Over Busing, But Still Standing  —  It was the great nineteenth-century American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who gave this advice to would-be literary upstarts: “Never strike a king unless you are sure that you can kill him.”  —  In presidential debates …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Haris Alic / Breitbart:
Fact Check: Biden Did Praise Racists
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
6 Takeaways From Night 2 of the Democratic Debate
Discussion: Slate and Vanity Fair
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's bad night
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Pete Buttigieg gets put on the hot seat for his handling of South Bend shooting in the debate
Discussion: Breitbart, New York Times and CNN
Emma Green / The Atlantic:   Pete Buttigieg Takes Aim at Religious Hypocrisy
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Eric Swalwell swipes at Biden's age: I'll be a president that will ‘actually have to live with the decisions I make’
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Democratic Debate: Will Biden and Sanders Face Off?
Discussion: Variety and New York Times
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Debate night: Bernie Sanders attacks Trump as “a pathological liar and a racist”
Discussion: Breitbart, Vox and The Week
Nick Givas / Fox News:
Most Dems vow to decriminalize illegal immigration during Night 2 debate
Discussion: Politico
Michael Calderone / Politico:
Moderators step back, watch Democrats take each other on
Discussion: TVNewser
ABC News:
Democratic debate night 2: Fact checking the candidates on the issues
Discussion: Axios
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Harris upstages Biden and Sanders with dominating performance
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Breitbart and Axios
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Debate night: 3 top candidates back abolishing private health insurance
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Breitbart
New York Times:
House Passes Senate Border Bill in Striking Defeat for Pelosi  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a Senate humanitarian aid package without any of the House's strict protections for migrant children in overcrowded border shelters after Speaker Nancy Pelosi capitulated to Republicans …
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
‘Everyone hates this place’: Border bill tears apart Democratic caucus  —  Democrats broke into open warfare Thursday over Speaker Nancy Pelosi's surrender to the Senate's emergency border aid package, with the caucus' long-simmering divide between progressives and centrists playing out in dramatic fashion on the House floor.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Roll Call and New York Times
Washington Post:
House passes $4.6 billion border bill as leaders cave to moderate Democrats and GOP
Discussion: The Week, Vox and Washington Monthly
Burgess Everett / Politico:
House clears border aid bill after Pelosi bows to McConnell
Washington Post:
In Japan, Trump appears to make light of Russian interference during meeting with Putin  —  OSAKA, Japan — President Trump on Friday appeared to make light of Russian election interference during a bilateral meeting with President Vladi­mir Putin, telling him “don't meddle in the election” …
Discussion: Politico and UPI
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Associated Press:
Trump jokes to Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election'  —  OSAKA, Japan (AP) — With a smirk and a finger point, President Donald Trump dryly told Russia's Vladimir Putin “Don't meddle with the election” in their first meeting since the special counsel concluded that Russia extensively interfered with the 2016 campaign.
Discussion: Axios
NBC News:
Smiling Trump tells Putin: 'Don't meddle in the election'  —  Trump's casual comments to Putin at a meeting during the Group of 20 Summit are unlikely to satisfy his critics.  —  OSAKA, Japan — Under pressure to stand firm against Russian election meddling, President Donald Trump touted his …
Discussion: MSNBC
NBC News:
Trolls target online polls following first Democratic presidential debate  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan and Reddit implored fellow members to vote for lower-polling candidates, specifically Tulsi Gabbard and Bill de Blasio.  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Having A MAGA Moment After Her Debate Performance  —  “I think a lot of people would vote for her over Trump,” Mike Cernovich said.  “MAGA people.”  Ann Coulter is considering it.  —  Among some conservative pundits there was one clear winner of Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate …
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
First poll has Tulsi Gabbard as the shock winner of the first Democratic debate and Beto O'Rourke as the clear loser  —  Tulsi Gabbard is the winner of the first Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, according to a Drudge Report poll.  —  The popular news aggregation internet site took …
Richard L. Hasen / New York Times:
The Gerrymandering Decision Drags the Supreme Court Further Into the Mud  —  Ignoring the racial redistricting problem won't make it go away.  —  Mr. Hasen is a law professor and a political scientist.  —  The Supreme Court decision on Thursday in Rucho v. Common Cause purports …
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Promising to Fight the Census Case. That Might Actually Work.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why the Supreme Court's split decisions may not mean what you think
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Bars Challenges to Partisan Gerrymandering
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Bill De Blasio Roasted for Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Campaign Stop … New York politics and Miami politics are not the same.  This may seem like an obvious statement.  But at a rally today for striking workers at the Miami International Airport, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential …
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Twitter:
Defining public interest on Twitter  —  Our highest priority is to protect the health of the public conversation on Twitter, and an important part of that is ensuring our rules and how we enforce them are easy to understand.  In the past, we've allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules …
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Marianne Williamson's “girlfriend” call to New Zealand and her other best moments in the debates  —  And by best, we mean all of them.  —  Marianne Williamson did not speak for the first 27 minutes of the Democratic debate on Thursday.  But when she finally did, everything she said was awesome.
Discussion: Mashable and Breitbart
 
 
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