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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: Talking Points Memo, The Intercept, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Bleeding Heartland, Reason, NPR 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: The Federalist, The Capitolist, NBC News, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Redstate, Twitchy, Des Moines Register and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: PJ Media Home

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: Mediaite, Slate and Talking Points Memo

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 »

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: Fox News, Fortune, National Review, Common Dreams, The Verge, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, Vox, The Gateway Pundit, Vanity Fair, Instapundit and Mediaite

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 and Axios

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: The Boston Globe, Vox, The Hill, Big League Politics, The Bulwark, Breitbart, Townhall, New York Times and WHOTV

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 …

Discussion: Power Line and Spectator USA

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, 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

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

Discussion: Raw Story, Redstate, Mother Jones and Vox

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

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’

Discussion: National Review, Vox, The Guardian and WHOTV

Associated Press:
Democratic caucus results delayed by mobile app issues

Discussion: The Hill, One America News Network, PBS NewsHour, Breitbart and Politico

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

Discussion: Vox, The Hill, Bloomberg, Fox News and ABC News

Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump calls Iowa Democratic caucuses an ‘unmitigated disaster’

Discussion: ABC News, The Hill and Political Wire

New York Times:
2020 Iowa Caucus Updates: Delayed Results Lead to Confusion

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Guardian, Slate, Daily Kos, Twitchy and Mother Jones

New York Times:
‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down

Discussion: Shero

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It's Still Influencing What You Read.

Discussion: Des Moines Register, more at Mediagazer »

Axios:
Iowa caucuses 2020: State party blames delay on “quality checks”

Discussion: The Bulwark, Twitchy, Politico, Associated Press and KTLA

John F. Harris / Politico:
The winner is ... no one — “Iowa,” a smiling Pete Buttigieg said …

Discussion: Breitbart

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

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

Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story

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

Discussion: 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

Discussion: Townhall, JONATHAN TURLEY and Real Clear Politics

New York Times:
Waiting Years for This Night, Then Hours for an Iowa Winner

Discussion: The Atlantic

Axios:
The Iowa caucus ends in a meltdown

Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press

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: NBC News, The Hill, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, Washington Post, New York Post, The Independent, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, WFLA-TV, 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: Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo, POLITICUSUSA and Letters from an American

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.

Discussion: Politico

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.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

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 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

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.”

Discussion: Instapundit