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6:55 AM ET, February 4, 2020

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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 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Guardian, NPR, Bleeding Heartland, The Intercept, Reason and Associated Press, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: NBC News, Townhall, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Redstate, Des Moines Register, Twitchy and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: Slate, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

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

Discussion: Redstate and TalkLeft

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »

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

Discussion: Spectator USA, The Verge, Axios and Associated Press

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:

Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues — About two-thirds of voters participating in the caucus said they would rather see the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who “can beat Donald Trump.” — By a decisive margin, Democrats attending Iowa's Democratic …

Discussion: Axios, CNN, The Hill and Washington Times

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 …

Discussion: Vox, Associated Press, New York Times, The Bulwark, Townhall, Breitbart and WHOTV

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 …

Discussion: Fortune, National Review, Bloomberg, The Verge, The Guardian, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, Vox and Instapundit

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: Twitchy, Politico, Associated Press and KTLA

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.

Discussion: Des Moines Register, more at Mediagazer »

Wall Street Journal:
Iowa Caucus Results Delayed by Apparent App Issue

Discussion: Redstate, Mother Jones and Vox

Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Iowa Democratic vote-reporting meltdown hands opening to Trump

Discussion: The Capitolist and WHOTV

Jonathan Allen / NBC News: So far, there's only one loser in Iowa: The state's Democratic party

New York Times: The 1,600 Volunteers Who Were Supposed to Make the Iowa Caucuses Run Smoothly

Quint Forgey / Politico:
Bernie and Buttigieg elbow each other with claims of leads in Iowa

Discussion: The Hill

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Technical glitches delay Iowa Democratic caucus results

Discussion: Slate

Daniel Arkin / NBC News: Iowa caucuses turnout: Entrance poll shows dip in first-timers

John F. Harris / Politico:
The winner is ... no one — Iowa shocks the nation in more ways than one.

Discussion: Politico

Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion seizes Iowa as officials struggle to report results

Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times

Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Biden Campaign Demands Iowa Dems Explain ‘Acute Failures’ in Caucus Results Reporting

Discussion: Redstate, Instapundit and WHOTV

Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press: AP VoteCast: Iowa Democratic voters seek fundamental change

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: ‘It kind of failed us’: With eyes of the world on Iowa, another hiccup in American democracy

CBS News:
Iowa caucus results delayed as state Democratic Party does “quality control”

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, NBC News and WCCO | CBS Minnesota

The Hill:
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great'

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, Fox News, Breitbart, One America News Network, ABC News and The Daily Beast

Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: Health care, climate are top issues in Iowa

Discussion: Axios

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.

Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post, Mediaite, HuffPost, The Independent, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, New York Post, Page Six, The Root and Raw Story

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: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Letters from an American

Brian Schwartz / CNBC: Powerful Trump supporters urge donors to shun John Bolton's super PAC after bombshell book revelations

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

Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Lisa Murkowski will vote to acquit Trump

Discussion: Washington Post, National Review, Raw Story and Breitbart

Politico:
Trump has the votes for Senate acquittal

Discussion: The Hill, One America News Network, Axios and Breitbart

The Iowa Standard:

Secretary of State Pate says Judicial Watch's claims about Iowa voter rolls are false — A Washington D.C.-based organization made false claims today in a news release regarding voter registration information in eight Iowa counties. Judicial Watch claims that total registration numbers …

Washington Post:
Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus

Discussion: NBC News, Associated Press, ABC News and Raw Story

Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Iowa caucuses 2020 live updates: ‘Quality control checks’ delay results, Iowa Democrats say

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon and The Intercept

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 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 …

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

Brian Flood / Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’

Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, Townhall, No More Mister Nice Blog and Twitchy

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

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.

Discussion: Twitchy and Patterico's Pontifications