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CBS News:
Biden, Warren, Harris and Sanders top 2020 field — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — Joe Biden continues to be the first choice among Democratic voters across the 2020 primary states holding contests through Super Tuesday. However, rivals Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are gaining …
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Early contests by the numbers: Democratic delegate race tightens — CBS News Battleground Tracker — While Joe Biden continues to lead all Democratic candidates across early states in the presidential nominating process, his previously large advantage has shrunk since June …
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Opinion Today
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Elizabeth Warren Has Momentum. Can She Build a Movement?
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
In 88 Trips to Capitol Hill, Mueller Grew Weary of Partisanship — Dozens of hours of Robert S. Mueller III's congressional testimony since 1990 reveal his complex relationship with legislators. — WASHINGTON — Days after he was appointed special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III visited …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Nadler: Trump has broken the law “6 ways from Sunday” — House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Fox News Sunday that Donald Trump has “violated the law 6 ways from Sunday,” and that he would be indicted if he were not president. … Why it matters: Nadler …
Miami Herald:
As Trump's reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president's swamp | Editorial — Witnessing Sen. Marco Rubio's pathetic response last week to President Trump's latest racist outrages, it is impossible now to believe that Florida's senior senator was once hailed as …
CBS News:
Most Americans disagree with Trump's “go back” tweets — CBS News poll — The controversy around President Trump's tweets last week comes at a time when nearly nine in 10 Americans see a nation divided along racial lines, and most believe the parties each hold different ideas about what makes a person an American.
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The Week and Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Meet the woman who ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons — How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump? — People who know those involved say Epstein's connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Responds to $15 Minimum Wage Controversy with Better Hours for Staff — Amid a pay war within his own 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders will limit the amount of time his organizers can work to guarantee that no one is making less than $15 per hour …
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Townhall, RedState, Fox News, Daily Wire, Washington Post, Patterico's Pontifications and twitchy.com
Daily Mail:
Why I helped expose ambassador's embarrassing cables: Journalist, 19, behind Trump scoop comes forward to reveal his motivation and fears he's being targeted by security services — Lying awake at 2am last Wednesday and unable to sleep for the third night in a row, I listened as footsteps crunched …
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Bloomberg and The Guardian
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Cory Booker says Trump is “worse than a racist” — 2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Cory Booker claimed on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Trump is “worse than a racist,” and that his rhetoric weaponizes race just as Gov. George Wallace — a staunch segregationist — did in his presidential campaigns.
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Eleanor Mueller / Politico:
Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
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Breitbart
James Anderson / Associated Press:
In some states, GOP employs the recall as a political weapon — DENVER (AP) — Republicans frustrated by losing their grip on political power in some Western states have begun deploying a new weapon: the recall. — Once reserved for targeting corrupt or inept elected officials …
Holly Aguirre / Vanity Fair:
“THE GIRLS WERE JUST SO YOUNG”: THE HORRORS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PRIVATE ISLAND — Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long after his conviction for sex crimes—and authorities did nothing to stop him. “It was like he was flaunting it,” says an employee at the airstrip on St. Thomas.
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera's Far-Right Politics — The Yankees legend—who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday—has managed to keep his political leanings hidden for decades. — Mariano Rivera, the greatest relief pitcher in baseball history …
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Breitbart
Jason Stanley / Newsweek:
Yes, ‘Send her back’ is the face of evil—I know fascism when I see it | Opinion — “All effective propaganda must be confined to very few points,” Adolf Hitler wrote, “which must be brought out in the form of slogans.” — “Drain the swamp.” “Lock her up.” “Build the wall.”
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Inquirer.com, Mother Jones and The Guardian
Axios:
Scoop: Kushner to travel to Israel, Arab countries for discussions on peace plan — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will travel to Jerusalem and several other capitals in the Middle East next week to discuss how to move forward with the Trump administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, senior U.S. officials told me.
Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Two UK ministers to quit if Boris Johnson wins — U.K. Chancellor Philip Hammond and U.K. Justice Secretary David Gauke announced Sunday they will resign if Boris Johnson wins the Tory party leadership contest and becomes prime minister, with Gauke warning that a no-deal Brexit would lead to national “humiliation.”
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The Guardian, One America News Network and New York Times
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