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2:20 PM ET, February 3, 2020

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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.
New York Times:
What Is the Election Needle?  And Why Will We Have 4 of Them Tonight?  —  A closer look at our election forecaster before the Iowa caucuses.  —  Shortly before 9 p.m. Eastern on Monday, we expect the first returns from the Iowa Democratic caucuses.  If you choose to follow the results live tonight …
Discussion: Vox and Mediaite
John F. Harris / Politico:
Iowa Road Trip: Do Reporters Know Anything?  —  DES MOINES—What's going to happen?  —  The Uber driver, learning my occupation, wants to know.  So, too, newsroom colleagues who cover beats other than politics.  So, too, family members, who not unreasonably imagine that I must have gained some insight by leaving them to travel here.
The Intercept:
Pork Plant Workers Turn Out for Sanders in First Caucus in the State of Iowa  —  The first caucus in Iowa was held at noon at a union hall in Ottumwa, about an hour and a half from Des Moines, where meatpackers and other workers unable to vote in the evening's official caucuses were given …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Whoever Wins Iowa, They Won't Be Back  —  After tonight, Democrats have no plans to contest a state once seen as a general-election battleground.  —  Boxes containing materials used in caucus night activities wait at the Polk County Democrats headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa.  M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Post
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:   2020 Democrats Are Bringing Butter Knives to a Gunfight
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Conspiracy theories swirl over canceled Iowa poll, pushed by Sanders and Yang supporters
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:   Bernie Sanders climbing in new NH poll on eve of Iowa caucuses
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
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.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans  —  The former vice president said 'no one's' found anything wrong with his son Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine.  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden said the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump haven't …
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Liz Peek / Fox News:   Democrats' impeachment flop sets stage for boffo State of the Union speech by Trump
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Joe Biden Snaps at NBC's Savannah Guthrie For Hunter Questions: 'You Don't Know What You're Talking About!'
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
‘Truly bizarre circumstances’: Anonymous book agents refute whisper campaign against Trump official  —  The literary agents for the senior Trump administration official who penned an anonymous New York Times op-ed and best-selling book are breaking their silence to swat down a whisper campaign pinning …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
The Guardian:
Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news  —  The day's political developments, including Johnson's speech on EU trade talks, and Barnier publishing EU's draft negotiating guidelines  —  In response to my colleague Rowena Mason's report …
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BBC:
Brexit: Boris Johnson says ‘no need’ for UK to follow EU rules on trade
Discussion: Breitbart
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs  —  For years, one of the Republican Party's favorite digs at President Barack Obama was to point to his “57 states” flub.  Obama momentarily confusing his having visited 47 states with 57 states was cause for much laughter at his expense.
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New York Times:
New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa's Biggest Economy, Nigeria  —  The visa rules will affect nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent, including many hoping to join loved ones already in the U.S.  —  The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage.
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Daniel Larison / The American Conservative:   Trump Expands The Cruel, Unnecessary Travel Ban
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:
As Vault 7 trial begins, Joshua Schulte's attorneys will argue he's a whistleblower  —  Nearly three years after WikiLeaks began publishing secret CIA hacking tools, the legal team for the former agency employee who allegedly stole those files will try to convince a jury he did so in order …
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / Wall Street Journal:   Ex-CIA Engineer Goes on Trial for Massive Leak
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name  —  Guardian findings support watchdog's report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is actually Michael J Thompson  —  A new report has revealed that a prominent white nationalist author …
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 Political Wire
Cliff Sims / Washington Times:
Bolton now promotes the anti-Trump agenda of Schiff and Pelosi  —  Mr. Bolton's entire career could be summed up as “Bolton First”  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  Nobody elected John Bolton to anything.  —  That reality is at the core of what appeared to frustrate Mr. Bolton and numerous …
Discussion: Breitbart
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
How a Clash of Egos Became Bigger Than Fixing the Subway  —  Even as New York transit emerged from a crisis, a feud grew between Andy Byford, the subway leader, and his boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  —  One day in October, three powerful figures in New York affairs met for a serious lunch at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek  —  Subscribe  —  Welcome to Sneak Peek, our weekly lookahead from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, plus our best scoops.  —  Tonight's newsletter is 2,027 words, < 8-minute read.  —  1 big thing: Trump's sense of invincibility  —  President Trump often says he's …
Nicole Gaudiano / Politico:
DeVos threatened with subpoena by House oversight panel  —  House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney on Monday threatened Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a subpoena, saying DeVos' office “stonewalled and delayed” when the committee tried to confirm a date for her testimony.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
‘You basically are nothing’: the Americans shut out of the Iowa caucuses  —  Hundreds of thousands of Iowans are barred from the Iowa caucus because of physical and legal barriers  —  As Democratic candidates began a last-minute blitz across Iowa on Friday evening, nearly a dozen men gathered …
 
 
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Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Over Three Years After His Doomsday Prediction, Paul Krugman Makes Reluctant Admission About the Trump Economy
Washington Post:
Conservatives push false claims of voter fraud on Twitter as Iowans prepare to caucus
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
The State of the Union Is Trump's Biggest Speech. Who Writes It?
Gabriella Hoffman / The Resurgent:
Majority of House Democrats Want to Put Freelancers Like Me Out Of Business
Discussion: Redstate
Donald K. Sherman / Washington Post:
A Trump ally's ‘$25,000 cash giveaway’ for black voters could mean legal trouble
Discussion: CREW
Politico:
Graham and Biden's falling out, closing arguments and other news from today's trial
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Breitbart
Clint Hendler / Mother Jones:
The Iowa Caucuses Are a Democracy Disaster
 Earlier Items: 
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Republican Sen. Susan Collins finds it's lonely in the middle
Discussion: Daily Kos, Politico and Press Herald
MSNBC:
Klobuchar: I'm sickened by what my GOP colleagues have said on impeachment
Manu Raju / CNN:
Trump and Pelosi haven't spoken in months
Discussion: Raw Story
New Yorker:
Qassem Suleimani and How Nations Decide to Kill
Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
The Supreme Court May No Longer Have the Legitimacy to Resolve a Disputed Election
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Simple Reason Trump Does What He Does
Discussion: Althouse
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Leak: Man Who Bankrolled Brexit Boasted of WikiLeaks Backchannel
Discussion: Raw Story
Amy Qin / New York Times:
Virus Pummels Wuhan, a City Short of Supplies and Overwhelmed
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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