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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Winners and losers from the third Democratic debate — The Democrats met in Houston on Thursday night for the third Democratic debate of 2019, this time all on one night. After nearly three hours of sparring between the 10 candidates who qualified, here's who won, who lost, and what it means moving forward.
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Matt Welch / Reason:
There's Only 1 Democrat Talking About the Constitution, and It's (Shudder) Joe Biden — Let us not now pretend that Joe Biden brought anything like coherence to Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate in Houston. — At some point near the exhausted end of the nearly three-hour affair …
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: Biden looks like a front-runner, until he doesn't — WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the Democratic front-runner. And there were moments in Thursday night's debate when he looked the part. — Standing between a pair of liberal senators offering radical change …
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Victory Girls Blog, Fortune, FOX40 and Deseret News
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Democratic debate live updates: Candidates take their messages to the spin room — The 10 highest-polling candidates appeared for a single night of debate in Houston hosted by ABC News and Univision — the smallest roster yet in the third matchup of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned primary debates …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
For most of the night, Biden weathers a volley of attacks — HOUSTON — With all the leading Democratic candidates on the same stage for the first time this year, former vice president Joe Biden on Thursday delivered the kind of performance his supporters have been waiting for …
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Politico, Hullabaloo, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
Who talked the most during the third Democratic debate — TOTAL MINUTES SPOKEN — Ten Democratic presidential candidates qualified for tonight's debate, giving viewers their first opportunity to see former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) share the debate stage.
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Politico, PJ Media Home and Vox
Washington Post:
Transcript: The third Democratic debate — All the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates will gather on one stage Thursday night in Houston for third Democratic presidential debate. Below is a transcript of the debate. — FORMER HUD SECRETARY JULIÁN CASTRO: Good evening, y bienvenidos a Texas.
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BuzzFeed News:
The Real Democratic Primary Starts Now. And It's All About Elizabeth Warren.
The Real Democratic Primary Starts Now. And It's All About Elizabeth Warren.
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Politico, PJ Media Home and CNN
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In debate, Democrats steer clear of economy
In debate, Democrats steer clear of economy
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Power Line
John F. Harris / Politico:
Biden fails to step up or fall down
Biden fails to step up or fall down
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U.S. Political News …, ABC News, Axios, RRH Elections and New York Times
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The Big Three Are Still Dominant in the Democratic Race After the Third Debate
The Big Three Are Still Dominant in the Democratic Race After the Third Debate
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Vox, The Atlantic and Deseret News
Dylan Scott / Vox:
What we learned from the Biden-Sanders-Warren debate fight over Medicare-for-all
What we learned from the Biden-Sanders-Warren debate fight over Medicare-for-all
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The Federalist and Talking Points Memo
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Julián Castro goes there on Joe Biden's age: ‘Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?’
Julián Castro goes there on Joe Biden's age: ‘Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?’
Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Here's Joe Biden on Schools, Maduro, and, Uh, Record Players
Here's Joe Biden on Schools, Maduro, and, Uh, Record Players
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The Gateway Pundit, The Week and Mediaite
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Debate night: Biden, Warren, Sanders and the fight for frontrunner
Debate night: Biden, Warren, Sanders and the fight for frontrunner
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Breitbart
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Here's what each Democrat needs to do to win Thursday's debate
Here's what each Democrat needs to do to win Thursday's debate
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Washington Post, Axios, The Nation, Mother Jones and Breitbart
Nigel Chiwaya / NBC News:
Who's on the attack in the third Democratic debate? Live tracker
Who's on the attack in the third Democratic debate? Live tracker
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The Daily Caller
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Giuliani Divorce: It's Ugly, It's Operatic. What Did You Expect? — The marriage of Rudolph and Judith Giuliani is coming to an end, and despite a judge's urging, the wreckage is being laid bare for all to see. — On a spring afternoon in 2000, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani used a news conference …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Ivanka tells donors she got her moral compass from her dad — At a mid-August fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Ivanka Trump was asked to name the personality traits she inherited most from her parents. — Without much of a pause, Trump told the crowd of roughly 120 high-end donors …
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The Week
Boris Kachka / New York Magazine:
Among the Moderate Chic at Bari Weiss's Book Party The embattled Establishment assembles to celebrate the Times Op-Ed columnist's book on antisemitism. — Bari Weiss — editor, Times columnist, Twitter piñata, extrovert, and now author — began the launch party for her first book …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
O'Rourke responds to ‘death threat’ from Texas lawmaker — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke early Friday morning characterized an incendiary tweet from a Texas state representative as “a death threat” against him, and charged that the Republican lawmaker should be stripped of his assault weapon.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
O'Rourke's debate-stage vow: 'Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15'
O'Rourke's debate-stage vow: 'Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15'
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Andrew Yang announces $120,000 giveaway during debate — Presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced at Thursday night's debate that his campaign will randomly select 10 families and give them a total of $120,000 over the next year as part of a pilot program for his universal basic income plan.
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TIME, New Republic, U.S. Political News …, The Atlantic, Deadline, Breitbart, Washington Times, Splinter and Deseret News
Politico:
Trump counter-programs Dem debate with his greatest hits — Pelosi looks to change the subject on impeachment — Cruz will oppose Trump's judicial nominee — HOLY COW — House Republicans were hoping to have their spirits lifted at this year's annual retreat, which comes following …
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and Breitbart
Matt Fuller / U.S. Political News …:
Trump Gives A Rambling Mess Of A Speech At The GOP's Baltimore Retreat — And He's A Hit — The takeover of the Republican Party is complete. — BALTIMORE ― In disjointed, jumbled remarks delivered in a city that he proclaimed in July was “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess …
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New York Times and ABC News
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Air Force says it sent crews to Trump's Scottish resort up to 40 times — The U.S. Air Force has lodged crews at President Donald Trump's Scotland resort up to 40 times since 2015, a figure that is far higher than previously known. — The tally represents the preliminary results …
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Talking Points Memo, Financial Times, Fox News, Raw Story, U.S. Political News … and Task & Purpose
Washington Post:
Americans increasingly see climate change as a crisis, poll shows — A growing number of Americans describe climate change as a crisis, and two-thirds say President Trump is doing too little to tackle the problem. — The results, from a poll conducted by The Washington Post …
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Political Wire and The Henry J. Kaiser …
CNN:
A 12-year-old from the Bahamas has reunited with her mom in Florida after days in a shelter for unaccompanied minors — (CNN)A 12-year-old from the Bahamas who'd been held for days in a Florida shelter for unaccompanied minors has been released from custody and reunited with her mother, US Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.
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Miami Herald
Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg:
Fox News Ordered to Face Suit by Deceased DNC Staffer's Parents — Fox News must defend a lawsuit by the parents of a Democratic Party staffer whose unsolved 2016 murder touched off a flurry of right-wing conspiracy theories, an appeals court said Friday in reinstating the case.
New York Times:
Which Candidates Got the Most Speaking Time in the Democratic Debate — Each Time a Candidate Spoke on Each Topic — Candidates are sized by the length of time of each response. — Opening statements — Health care — Biden on Warren: “I know that the senator says
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
House lawmakers ask Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe — A congressional antitrust investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google entered a new phase Friday, after lawmakers called on each of the tech giants to turn over a trove of sensitive documents …
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Media Matters for America:
Sebastian Gorka and Michelle Malkin warn that “Soros-allied organizations” are working toward “demographic conquest” — Trump administration hopes to catch media flat-footed in pushing far-right lawyer toward lifetime judgeship — Wash. Post pushes Trump's spin as he makes America's waterways dirtier
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In Edward Snowden's New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal — Revealing state secrets is hard, but revealing yourself in a memoir might be harder. As Edward Snowden puts it in the preface of “Permanent Record”: “The decision to come forward with evidence of government wrongdoing …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
White House moving forward to strip California of vehicle authority: sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to revoke California's authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas standards and declare that states are pre-empted from setting …
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Political Wire
Stefanos Chen / New York Times:
One in Four of New York's New Luxury Apartments Are Unsold — A quarter of the new condos built since 2013 in New York City have not yet found buyers, according to a new analysis of closed sales. — Picture an empty apartment — there are thousands in Manhattan's new towers …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Cruz: ‘I hope to run again’ for president — Sen. Ted Cruz, the runner-up to Donald Trump in the bruising 2016 Republican presidential primary, revealed Thursday that he wants to someday mount another White House campaign. — “Look, I hope to run again,” the Texas lawmaker told The Christian Science Monitor.
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Christian Science Monitor, CNN and Political Wire