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11:45 PM ET, February 3, 2020

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Campaign Ejects Bloomberg News Reporter From Iowa News Conference  —  President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer to approve credentials for the news organization.  —  Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published.  It's Still Influencing What You Read.  —  DES MOINES — The Des Moines Register spiked its poll Saturday night, but by the next day it seemed most reporters here had seen the numbers — or something purporting to be the numbers.
The Hill:
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great'  —  Joe Biden's campaign team is setting expectations low for the Iowa caucuses Monday night.  —  While some campaign aides were unsure how the results would turn out hours before the caucuses would begin …
Axios:
Iowa caucuses 2020: State party blames delay on “quality checks”  —  The conclusive results on the Iowa Democratic caucuses are coming in later than expected tonight, with the state party reporting the need to do “quality checks.”  —  What's next: The Iowa State Democratic Party said... “The integrity of the results is paramount.
Discussion: Politico, Twitchy, Associated Press and KTLA
Washington Post:
Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Washington Times
ABC News:
Iowa caucuses live updates: Technical issues causing delay in reporting
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart, Vox and New York Times
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:   AP VoteCast: Iowa Democratic voters seek fundamental change
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Iowa Dems Cite ‘Quality Control’ Efforts to Explain Delay in Reporting Caucus Results
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:   Technical glitches delay Iowa Democratic caucus results
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:   Iowa caucuses turnout: Entrance poll shows dip in first-timers
Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Iowa Precinct Chairs Report Issues Using Caucus App, Potentially Delaying Results
Associated Press:   AP VoteCast: Health care, climate are top issues in Iowa
New York Times:   User-Error Problems With Iowa Caucus App Cause Online Confusion
Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform
Discussion: Fox News and National Review
Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band  —  President Donald Trump has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem, and publicly chastises those who don't as disrespectful of the troops.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies  —  Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information.  Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also...  BY - GABRIEL SHERMAN  —  Person of Interest
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   Powerful Trump supporters urge donors to shun John Bolton's super PAC after bombshell book revelations
Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
That Last, Unreleased Des Moines Register Poll Of Iowa Really Did Show Biden In Fourth  —  If you're the sort of person who was glued to political Twitter on Saturday night — and God help you if you are — you would have seen a mass freak-out when it was announced that that the Des Moines Register …
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Shelby Fleig / Des Moines Register:   As Iowa caucus begins, Amy Klobuchar urges Democrats to remember ‘what unites us’
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The five senators who might break with their party in Trump's trial  —  There will be no witnesses.  The House managers and White House counsel have rested their cases.  And President Donald Trump is going to be acquitted on Wednesday.  But there's still drama left to the impeachment trial.
Discussion: The Hill
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Washington Post:
How the Senate can still hold Trump accountable
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and NBC News
Politico:
Here's what we learned at Trump's trial on Monday
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and Breitbart
Politico:
Trump has the votes for Senate acquittal
Discussion: The Hill, Axios and Breitbart
David Matthews / New York Daily News:
Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars’  —  Years before conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his show Monday that he'd been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he downplayed the health risks of smoking on his show.
Discussion: NB Blog
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’  —  Discussing President Trump's economic success, Rush Limbaugh says Democrats  —  Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 27-million member audience Monday with the announcement he's been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.”
Washington Post:
Manchin calls for censuring Trump over pressuring Ukraine to investigate a domestic political rival  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), a moderate who is friendly with the White House, on Monday asked his colleagues to consider censuring President Trump as the Senate moves toward votes on impeachment.
Discussion: National Review, The Hill and Daily Kos
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
‘An unacceptable and upsetting environment’: 2020 Democratic Host Committee under investigation  —  The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.
Tom Piatak / Chronicles Magazine:
an arrogance justified by nothing  —  It was a revealing moment.  Former GOP consultant turned Never Trumper Rick Wilson began ridiculing Trump supporters on CNN as “credulous Boomer rube[s]” who believe “Donald Trump is the smart one and y'all elitists are dumb.”
Discussion: Instapundit
Axios:
Scoop: Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne fired  —  Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne was fired Monday morning, three Trump administration officials tell Axios.  The White House confirmed that Byrne is no longer with the administration.  —  Why it matters: The VA has recently been in inner turmoil.
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Andrea N. Goldstein / Jezebel:
‘He Was Implying I Was a Liar’: What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted at the VA
Discussion: New York Times
Poppy Noor / The Guardian:
Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist  —  A growing number of women are paying to confront their privilege - and racism - at dinners that cost $2,500  —  Freshly made pasta is drying on the wooden bannisters lining the hall of a beautiful home in Denver, Colorado.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's foreign policy is a risk for Democrats against Trump  —  Bernie Sanders's foreign policy record poses an underappreciated risk for Democrats in a general election contest against President Trump.  —  For decades, the Vermont senator has bucked the foreign policy establishment …
Discussion: The Hill
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company  —  The two states, shall we say, are not exactly close to each other.  —  A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Press Herald
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Cards Against Humanity Bought ClickHole  —  Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased ClickHole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal, BuzzFeed News has learned.  ClickHole's employees will become the majority owners of the site.
BuzzFeed News:
Mueller Memos Part 5: Hundreds Of Pages Of FBI Witness Interviews Declassified  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government under the Freedom of Information Act for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the fifth installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with witnesses.
 
 
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Up Schiff's Creek  —  Adam Schiff is starting to wear on his own.
U.S. Congressman Gerry Connolly:
Connolly to Bring Hatice Cengiz, Jamal Khashoggi's Fiancée, to State of the Union Address
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Spread of coronavirus threatens to strain U.S.-China relations along with global health system
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Schiff: Trump Will Sell Alaska To Russia If We Don't Impeach Him
Discussion: Twitchy and The Gateway Pundit
Fox News:
Bennett and Kennedy: Despicable impeachment of Trump — decent people must decry this attack on our system
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Washington Post:
Most Trump clemency grants bypass DOJ and go to well-connected offenders
Discussion: The Independent
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
How does Fox News cover the Democratic field? With Peter Doocy, son of morning host Steve Doocy.
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Behind Amazon's HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk
Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Over Three Years After His Doomsday Prediction, Paul Krugman Makes Reluctant Admission About the Trump Economy
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

 
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