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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover — If you were an alien visiting Iowa this weekend and were asked to guess the order of Monday's results based on nothing but watching the top four Democrats speak, you would predict a Bernie Sanders victory …
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Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform — The political views and primary candidate preferences of Democrats on Twitter differ from those who are not on the platform, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January.
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National Review
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 …
The Hill:
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great'
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great'
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ABC News, The Independent and Fox News
Lissandra Villa / TIME:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
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Politico, Redstate, Axios, National Review, Jezebel, Breitbart, Washington Times, The Resurgent, The Hill and Raw Story
John F. Harris / Politico:
What we're obsessing over going into the Iowa caucuses
What we're obsessing over going into the Iowa caucuses
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Washington Post, The Hill, Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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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
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Raw Story
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sen. Manchin calls for censuring Trump over pressuring Ukraine to investigate his 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 it concludes the Senate impeachment trial.
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Washington Post:
Impeachment trial live updates: House managers argue that senators have a ‘duty’ to remove Trump from office; Sen. Manchin calls for censure — House managers argued Monday that senators have a “duty” to remove President Trump from office as they delivered closing arguments in the impeachment trial …
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Axios, The Hill, Power Line, The American Spectator, Daily Kos and Twitchy
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans say Trump has learned his lesson on impeachment. The evidence suggests otherwise.
Republicans say Trump has learned his lesson on impeachment. The evidence suggests otherwise.
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Manchin, swing-vote Dem, urges censure over removal for Trump's Ukraine actions
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism
Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism
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Raw Story
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.”
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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.
Politico:
Trump has the votes for Senate acquittal — A Senate vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial is now a mathematical impossibility. — More than 34 senators have indicated they intend to acquit the president, or have declared the House's two impeachment charges …
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Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Iowa Precinct Chairs Report Issues Using Caucus App, Potentially Delaying Results — Iowa Democratic Party doesn't expect problems with results — Problems could slow reporting, counting of Iowa caucus results — Precinct chairs across Iowa said that some of them are struggling …
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
‘You basically are nothing’: the Americans shut out of the Iowa caucuses
‘You basically are nothing’: the Americans shut out of the Iowa caucuses
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Bleeding Heartland
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets — The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy. — The Washington Post's controversial decision to punish a reporter …
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post
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Jezebel, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
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
‘He Was Implying I Was a Liar’: What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted at the VA
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New York Times and Raw Story
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.
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Twitchy
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: Iowa Democratic voters seek fundamental change — WASHINGTON (AP) — The first voters to make their choice in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination are desperate for fundamental change to the political system. — Roughly two-thirds of Iowa caucusgoers said supporting …
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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POLITICUSUSA and Press Herald
Jason Leopold / 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.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Powerful Trump supporters urge donors to shun John Bolton's super PAC after bombshell book revelations — Several of President Trump's most loyal donors and supporters are telling other conservative financiers to shun former national security advisor John Bolton's PAC and super PAC.
Eric Roston / Bloomberg:
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don't Know Why — There are dozens of climate models, and for decades they've agreed on what it would take to heat the planet by about 3° Celsius. It's an outcome that would be disastrous—flooded cities, agricultural failures …
Lindsay Wigo / The Daily Caller:
‘Comfortably Smug’ Twitter Account Banned For Asking 'Where's Hunter, Fat?' — An anonymous and popular Twitter account known as “Comfortably Smug” was apparently banned Monday from Twitter for violating the site's rules on “abuse and harassment” after tweeting about Hunter Biden.
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Bloomberg:
Behind Amazon's HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk — When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed. In meetings, the Amazon.com Inc. chief expressed envy for how Musk had pitted five Western states against one another …
Washington Post:
Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus — The episode showcases social media's hands-off approach to disinformation and the possible perils ahead in a divisive election season — DES MOINES — The claims of electoral fraud were false …
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