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This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results. — The tech arm of ACRONYM, a Democratic digital nonprofit group that has rapidly expanded in recent years …
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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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Tom Perez:
How We Prepared for 2020 — Tonight, our party's presidential nominating process officially kicks off in Iowa. Today, I'm reflecting on the three years we've spent preparing for this moment, the changes we've made to make sure we are ready. I'm proud of the historic reforms we passed …
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BuzzFeed News:
The Iowa Caucus Results Are Still Delayed And Campaigns Are Angry — The Iowa Democratic Party is delaying releasing the results of Monday night's Iowa caucus because of reporting inconsistencies, infuriating campaigns eager to move on with the election. — “We found inconsistencies …
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New York Times:
Iowa Caucus Results 2020: Live — Iowa Democratic officials say a delay in results is largely because of a “quality control” effort. Read more. — 51m ago — Candidate Votes S.D.E.s* Pct. Pledged delegates Del. — 1,811 — 1,636 — 1,553 — View all candidates
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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New York Times:
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested — The state Democratic Party commissioned a new app to tabulate caucus results. It did not appear to go as planned. — DES MOINES — The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results …
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NBC News:
Results for Iowa caucuses delayed as state Democratic Party finds ‘inconsistencies’ — After 11 p.m. ET, no data had yet been made public in the first-in-the-nation voting state. “The app is f—ing up,” a senior campaign aide said. — Iowa Precinct Captain has tried to report results for 2 hours
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Spectator USA, The Verge and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Iowa Caucus Results Delayed by Apparent App Issue — Shadow Inc. describes itself as a company that builds ‘affordable and easy-to-use tools’ for progressives — The mobile app that appears to have caused problems during the Iowa presidential caucuses was built by a small Washington …
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ABC News:
Iowa caucuses fail to declare Democratic winner after major snafu with reporting results — Iowa Dems cited “inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results.” — DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a year, the Democratic presidential contenders have been camping out in Iowa …
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Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion seizes Iowa as officials struggle to report results — DES MOINES, Iowa — A technical meltdown in Iowa Monday night set off bedlam in the critical first contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, triggering competing claims of victory and stoking doubts …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues
Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues
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Axios, Associated Press, CNN, The Hill and Washington Times
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Frustration, questions as delays hamper Iowa caucuses
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Iowa caucus mess nothing compared to intra-Democratic Party chaos on the horizon
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
So far, there's only one loser in Iowa: The state's Democratic party
Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Iowa caucuses 2020 live updates: Iowa Democratic Party delays release of results, citing ‘inconsistencies’
Iowa caucuses 2020 live updates: Iowa Democratic Party delays release of results, citing ‘inconsistencies’
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Associated Press:
Democratic caucus results delayed by mobile app issues
Democratic caucus results delayed by mobile app issues
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump calls Iowa Democratic caucuses an ‘unmitigated disaster’
Trump calls Iowa Democratic caucuses an ‘unmitigated disaster’
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New York Times:
2020 Iowa Caucus Updates: Delayed Results Lead to Confusion
2020 Iowa Caucus Updates: Delayed Results Lead to Confusion
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New York Magazine, The Guardian, Slate, Daily Kos, Twitchy and Mother Jones
Axios:
Iowa caucuses 2020: State party blames delay on “quality checks”
Iowa caucuses 2020: State party blames delay on “quality checks”
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The Bulwark, Twitchy, Politico, Associated Press and KTLA
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It's Still Influencing What You Read.
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It's Still Influencing What You Read.
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Des Moines Register, more at Mediagazer »
John F. Harris / Politico:
The winner is ... no one — “Iowa,” a smiling Pete Buttigieg said …
The winner is ... no one — “Iowa,” a smiling Pete Buttigieg said …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
‘It kind of failed us’: With eyes of the world on Iowa, another hiccup in American democracy
‘It kind of failed us’: With eyes of the world on Iowa, another hiccup in American democracy
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Associated Press and Raw Story
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Biden Campaign Demands Iowa Dems Explain ‘Acute Failures’ in Caucus Results Reporting
Biden Campaign Demands Iowa Dems Explain ‘Acute Failures’ in Caucus Results Reporting
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Redstate, Instapundit and WHOTV
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
The Iowa caucuses just died forever
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Iowa caucuses delays revive concerns and conspiracy theories of Bernie Sanders supporters
Iowa caucuses delays revive concerns and conspiracy theories of Bernie Sanders supporters
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Townhall, JONATHAN TURLEY and Real Clear Politics
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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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.
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Politico
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Rush Shares His Cancer Diagnosis — RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this... This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me because I've known this moment was coming in the program today. Now, I'm sure that you all know by now, I really don't like talking about myself …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
White House excludes CNN from annual pre-SOTU lunch with news anchors — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's targeting of CNN is moving to yet another arena: The annual presidential lunch with television network anchors. — CNN anchors are being excluded from Tuesday's lunch, three sources said on Monday night.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process — In trying to build a forecast model of the Democratic primaries, we literally had to think about the entire process from start (Iowa) to finish (the Virgin Islands on June 6). Actually, we had to do more than that.
David Enrich / New York Times:
The Money Behind Trump's Money — The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort. — One Day in early 2017, Mike Offit went to the Yale Club in Manhattan for a lunch hosted by a group called Business Executives for National Security.
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.”
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