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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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Breitbart, YouTube, New York Times, Daily Kos and The Atlantic
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Castro's kamikaze mission makes Biden more sympathetic - and six other debate takeaways — THE BIG IDEA: When you come at the former vice president, you best not miss. — Julián Castro finally took his shot at Joe Biden last night in Houston, but he got his facts wrong.
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Townhall, U.S. Political News … and Mercury News
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
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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Jacobin, Business Insider, Politico, Hullabaloo, New York Times, Vox, Los Angeles Times, Outside the Beltway, Politifact.com Truth … and Deadspin
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Think Castro was ‘mean’ to Biden? Get ready for an absolute bloodbath. — Joe Biden's Democratic rivals have now begun to raise questions about his age and mental competence. But they are doing so ever so gingerly, and even apologetically. — President Trump is not being nearly as cautious or circumspect.
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New York Times, PJ Media Home and Mother Jones
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 …
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Splinter, Townhall, Patterico's Pontifications, The Federalist and Raw Story
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How Warren Won Without Having a Big Moment
How Warren Won Without Having a Big Moment
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ABC News, U.S. Political News … and The Week
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Biden's debate performance was either ‘presidential’ or ‘disqualifying’ — depending on your media source
Biden's debate performance was either ‘presidential’ or ‘disqualifying’ — depending on your media source
John Nichols / The Nation:
¡Viva Jorge Ramos! — The Univision anchor's brilliant …
¡Viva Jorge Ramos! — The Univision anchor's brilliant …
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Washington Post, Michigan Advance, WHYY, Politico and Advocate
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Democratic Debate #3 Ratings Surge For ABC As Biden & Warren Finally Share Stage
Democratic Debate #3 Ratings Surge For ABC As Biden & Warren Finally Share Stage
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The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Who talked the most during the third Democratic debate
Who talked the most during the third Democratic debate
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Politico, PJ Media Home and Vox
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Democratic debate live updates: Candidates take their messages to the spin room
Democratic debate live updates: Candidates take their messages to the spin room
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Axios, FiveThirtyEight, U.S. Political News …, Politico, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, WayneDupree.com, Raw Story, Bleeding Heartland, The Week, The Federalist, Salon, IJR, The Guardian, One America News Network, Deadline, TVNewser, Reason, PJ Media Home, The Gateway Pundit, Deseret News, ABC7, Slate and twitchy.com
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
What was going on between Biden and Castro on health care?
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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PJ Media Home, CNN and Politico
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, Breitbart and Talking Points Memo
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In debate, Democrats steer clear of economy
In debate, Democrats steer clear of economy
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Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, The Week and Mediaite
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?’
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Fox News, JustOneMinute, Raw Story and Slate
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 …
Bloomberg:
Trump Finances Closer to Scrutiny as U.S. Court Revives Suit — Emoluments lawsuit is reinstated by New York appeals court — Trump says his family now manages his business empire — President Donald Trump was ordered by a federal appeals court to defend a lawsuit accusing him of profiting from his presidency.
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Washington Post, Politico, Axios, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
U.S. Court of Appeals Brings Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump Back to Life
U.S. Court of Appeals Brings Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump Back to Life
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Breitbart
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 …
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Splinter
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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RedState, Axios, Washington Post and Political Wire
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Beto O'Rourke Is Mortgaging His Future
Beto O'Rourke Is Mortgaging His Future
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CNN, RedState and Talking Points Memo
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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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Week
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
As Democrats Debate, Trump Offers Alternative: A Rambling Speech
As Democrats Debate, Trump Offers Alternative: A Rambling Speech
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Mother Jones
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Trump's plan to pay for border wall with Air Force funds risks national security, report says — The report, compiled by the U.S. Air Force and obtained by NBC News, details the importance of each of the 51 military projects chosen by the Trump administration to lose their funding.
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Political Wire, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Max Rose / Staten Island Advance:
Rep. Max Rose: Why I oppose Trump impeachment — For the past decade, the American people have been sending a clear and unmistakable message: End the hyper-partisanship and do your jobs. Yet, both parties have taken electoral victories as mandates to ignore that message to do what they want.
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CNN and New York Post
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Trump: I look orange, but so do you because of energy-efficient light bulbs — “The light is the worst,” Trump said. His administration earlier this month announced it would roll back regulations for increased energy efficiency. — On a night that featured the Democratic debate …
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The Hill, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Root, Political Wire and Raw Story
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.
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Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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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New Republic, TIME, U.S. Political News …, The Atlantic, Deadline, Breitbart, Splinter, Washington Times and Deseret News
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Andrew Yang Said He Would Give 10 People $1,000 Each Month. Is That Legal?
Andrew Yang Said He Would Give 10 People $1,000 Each Month. Is That Legal?
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Axios, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Vox, Observer, BizPac Review, Real Clear Politics, The National Interest and The Week
Jacob Solis / The Nevada Independent:
At UNLV panel, Reid, Heller say don't count on Trump losing in 2020 — Dean Heller and Harry Reid didn't agree on much during their time together in the U.S. Senate. But in Las Vegas on Thursday, they agreed on one thing: Don't count out President Trump. — “I think you would be misguided …
Washington Post:
Andrew McCabe's legal team asks Justice Dept. if grand jury rejected charges in his case — The legal team for Andrew McCabe has asked federal prosecutors in D.C. whether a grand jury had rejected their bid to indict the FBI's former acting director on charges of lying to investigators …
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The Crime Report, New York Times and CNBC
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 and U.S. Political News …