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12:30 PM ET, February 4, 2020

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HuffPost:
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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Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Death of Iowa  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — There can be no doubting it now, not after so many years spent in the crosshairs, not after active presidential candidates began challenging its privileged position atop the nominating calendar, and certainly not after Monday night's debacle …
VICE:
The Democrats Screwed America With an App No One Asked For  —  Normally, by now, we'd have a clear winner in the Iowa caucus.  A Democratic candidate for president would have won their first delegates and talking heads on cable news would have started constructing narratives with the first actual votes …
Discussion: Townhall, Reason and NBC News
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 …
New York Times:
‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down  —  Unexplained “inconsistencies” in results, heated conference calls and firm denials of hacking left the contest in a strange state of almost suspended animation.  —  DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming.
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 …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
After Iowa  —  Everyone loses.  Literally everyone.  —  Marc Andreesen famously said that software is eating the world, but I never really thought it would eat Iowa.  —  And yet, here we are.  —  The short version is that everyone lost last night.  If you want the long version, it goes something like this.
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 …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The most important Iowa result is in.  Democrats should worry.  —  DES MOINES — No one knows how long it will be before it is clear which Democratic presidential candidate won the Iowa caucuses.  —  But the most important tally of the night has been reported, and it should worry Democrats.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   Iowa caucus mess nothing compared to intra-Democratic Party chaos on the horizon
Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion grips Iowa with no official results in sight
Elizabeth Elkind / CBS News:
Amid Iowa caucus chaos, Pete Buttigieg claims victory and shrugs off criticism
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kevin Roose / New York Times:   The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election
CNN:
Problematic app used in Iowa caucuses also set to be used in Nevada, sources tell CNN
Discussion: Axios and WHOTV
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Frustration, questions as delays hamper Iowa caucuses
Discussion: Redstate, Common Dreams and The Nation
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
The Iowa caucuses just died forever
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has risen to 49%, his highest in Gallup polling since he took office in 2017.  —  The new poll finds 50% of Americans disapproving of Trump, leaving just 1% expressing no opinion.
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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.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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.
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.
Nick R. Martin / The Informant:
Threat against Adam Schiff  —  Hi, and welcome to The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in America, written and edited by me, Nick R. Martin.  —  A lot has happened in the past several days, so today's intelligence briefing is packed full of links and information.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is about to get a lot more dangerous.  Here's what's coming.  —  When President Trump is acquitted by the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, he'll surely take from it the message that he can continue abusing his powers however he sees fit to corrupt the 2020 election.  He now knows he'll face zero consequences.
Discussion: Raw Story, Vanity Fair and POLITICUSUSA
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump's Jokes About Defying Election Results Could Create Chaos  —  There's a real possibility he could declare victory before all the ballots are counted.  —  As President Donald Trump plans a triumphant State of the Union address anticipating his likely acquittal by the Senate …
Vanity Fair:
“I WANT THAT GODDAMN FUCKING STATEMENT”: Behind the Scenes of Trump's Secret Birther Implosion  —  Just before his first debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump's campaign decided it was time for him to revoke birtherism at long last.  But, as Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng report in Sinking In the Swamp …
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bloomberg says he hopes Sanders changes  —  Mike Bloomberg tells me he'd support Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump if those were his two options, but that people should understand Sanders at this moment is “so far to the left it's not practical” and that “what he wants to do would never get through Congress.”
Discussion: The Hill
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Sean Colarossi / POLITICUSUSA:   Nicolle Wallace Tells Bernie Backers That Their Vicious Attacks On Fellow Dems Are Helping Trump
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: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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