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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Axelrod: “Large Numbers Of People” Oppose Medicare For All, Healthcare For Illegals, Decriminalizing Border — Former chief strategist for former President Obama's presidential campaign and advisor to the president David Axelrod said the agenda presented by Democratic presidential candidates …
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New York Times:
Sanders and Warren Battle Accusations of ‘Fairy Tale’ Promises as Intraparty Rift Flares — DETROIT — The leading liberals in the Democratic presidential primary, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, strenuously fought back on Tuesday against accusations of making fanciful promises …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The realists attacked the revolutionaries, and the revolutionaries won, in the Democratic debate — THE BIG IDEA: CNN treated Bernie Sanders like a front-runner and took the senator's policy proposals seriously during Tuesday night's debate in Detroit.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Here's Who Won (and Lost) the Second Democratic Debate, Night One — Days after a heavily armed sociopath unleashed hell on yet another American community — and the president directed yet another racist tantrum at his nonwhite constituents — ten of the Democratic Party's top 2020 hopefuls gathered …
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Winners and losers from the first night of the CNN debate
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John F. Harris / Politico:
It's a center-left party after all
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
7 takeaways from the Democratic debate's first night
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Delaney says Warren's put-down of him on the debate stage was ‘dishonest’ and ‘lazy’
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Elizabeth Warren's Big Night
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John Verhovek / ABC News:
5 key takeaways from the Democratic debate: The major battle lines of night 1
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Axios:
A progressive win: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders own the first Democratic debate
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Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:
It's Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren v the 'No We Can't' Democrats
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
John Delaney Had One Good Point on Medicare for All
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Washington Post:
In contentious Democratic debate, deep divisions on health care separate liberals and moderates
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
America deserves a debate between Joe Biden and his main progressive critics
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Jonathan Merritt / Washington Post:
I've worked for Marianne Williamson. She is no kook. — In a surprise twist on the first evening of the second Democratic debate, spiritual writer and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson received some of the night's largest applause lines. She ably argued for paying financial reparations …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
New Age Marianne Williamson is breakout winner of Democratic debate — Used to be that Republicans running for president had the monopoly on unknowns, also-rans and non-politicians who would suddenly step up and deliver standout performances in debates. — It happened in 2008 …
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Marianne Williamson supporters organize ‘occult task force’
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Why People Like Marianne Williamson
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Marianne Williamson's fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Marianne Williamson makes the case for reparations in her breakout debate moment
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Noah Berlatsky / NBC News:
Marianne Williamson's Democratic debate performance raised eyebrows. But she's no friend of the left.
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Cary Aspinwall / Dallas Morning News:
'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life — Tony Timpa wailed and pleaded for help more than 30 times as Dallas police officers pinned his shoulders, knees and neck to the ground. — “You're gonna kill me! You're gonna kill me!
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Ratcliffe questioned intelligence community's role in Russia investigation — CNN security analyst sounds the alarm on Trump's pick 03:47 — (CNN) — President Donald Trump's pick to be the next director of national intelligence, which has oversight over the CIA, has pushed …
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New York Times:
Trump's Pick for Top Intelligence Post Overstated Parts of His Biography — Aides revised old claims about Representative John Ratcliffe's role in prosecuting a prominent terrorism case. — WASHINGTON — Aides to the congressman chosen by President Trump to lead the nation's intelligence agencies …
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Danger of John Ratcliffe
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
How Long Can Real Conservatives Make Excuses for Trump? — Republicans who made the so-called transactional case for Trump didn't anticipate the full cost. — During each week of the Donald Trump presidency, but especially the last few, liberals and conservatives have been splitting further apart on race.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Nunes Ally Kash Patel Who Fought Russia Probe Gets Senior White House National Security Job — Patel was one of the leading staffers pushing back against FBI investigations of Trump-Russia. He's now senior director of the National Security Council's terrorism directorate.
John Archibald / al.com:
George Wallace's daughter: 'I've never seen anything like it' — This is an opinion column. — Peggy Wallace Kennedy went to political rallies with her dad - George Wallace - as he ran for president in the '60s and '70s. — She saw hate and anger that a child should not have to see.
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
North Carolina gun shop puts up ‘4 Horsemen’ billboard to slam progressive congresswomen — A gun shop in western North Carolina is facing backlash for using a billboard to insult “the Squad,” four progressive minority congresswomen, as “idiots,” calling them the “four horsemen” of the apocalypse.
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Richard Gonzales / NPR:
North Carolina GOP Operative Faces New Felony Charges That Allege Ballot Fraud
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Election Fraud in North Carolina Leads to New Charges for Republican Operative
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Associated Press:
Trump ‘rodent’ tweets ring true at Kushner-owned apartments — BALTIMORE (AP) — Davon Jones doesn't have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump's tweets that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess.” His apartment owned by the president's son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago.
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Tim Naftali / The Atlantic:
Ronald Reagan's Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon — The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People's Republic of China, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Search of Gilroy gunman's home finds items suggesting massive attack, white supremacy materials — Investigators who searched the Nevada home of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter found the makings of a massive attack, including a gas mask, bulletproof vest and empty boxes of ammunition …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Is Divided Over Tax Cut for Investors — WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are divided over whether to give investors a big tax cut that would primarily benefit the rich before the 2020 election heats up in earnest. — Republican senators and conservative anti-tax groups …
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Incredibly, GOP senators are demanding billions more in tax cuts for the rich
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Washington National Cathedral:
have we no decency? a response to president trump — The escalation of racialized rhetoric from the President of the United States has evoked responses from all sides of the political spectrum. On one side, African American leaders have led the way in rightfully expressing outrage.
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Washington Post:
White House races to come up with health-care wins for Trump's campaign — White House advisers, scrambling to create a health-care agenda for President Trump to promote on the campaign trail, are meeting at least daily with the aim of rolling out a measure every two to three weeks until the 2020 election.
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