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Bloomberg:
Trump Fans Flooded Iowa Caucus Hotline, Democrats Say — State party official discussed breakdown with party leaders — Party officials held conference call on Wednesday night — Supporters of President Donald Trump flooded a hotline used by Iowa precinct chairs …
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New York Times:
Iowa Caucus Results Riddled With Errors and Inconsistencies — The mistakes do not appear intentional, but they raise questions about whether there will ever be a completely precise accounting. — Results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses were delayed by “quality control checks” on Monday night.
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Townhall, The Hill, FiveThirtyEight, The Guardian and Twitchy
NBC News:
‘Clog the lines’: Internet trolls deliberately disrupted the Iowa caucuses hotline for reporting results — Several officials at caucuses attended by NBC News reporters struggled with lengthy hold times that made it impossible for them to report results over the phone.
Hunter Moyler / Newsweek:
New poll shows every Democratic frontrunner beating Donald Trump in 2020 election — New poll results from Morning Consult released Monday showed all five of the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination defeating President Donald Trump in hypothetical match-ups.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, NewsOne and Vanity Fair
Salt Lake Tribune:
Tribune Editorial: Mitt Romney's profile in courage — By The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board … — Sen. Edmund G. Ross, R-Kansas, reflecting on his deciding vote to acquit the impeached President Andrew Johnson in 1868. — Mitt Romney could have ducked this one.
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Politico, The Hill and Washington Post
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Christopher Barron / Washington Examiner:
Mitt Romney is not ‘principled’ — and he never has been — On Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor while announcing his intention to vote to convict and remove President Trump from office. The speech was lauded by Democrats, liberal journalists …
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The Week, Washington Post and Mother Jones
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
What Does Mitt Romney Even Stand For? An Investigation
What Does Mitt Romney Even Stand For? An Investigation
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National Review, The Atlantic and Deseret News
Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Romney: One Man Alone
Romney: One Man Alone
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Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, Washington Monthly, BizPac Review and The Week
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
Don Jr. Calls Sen. Mitt Romney a ‘Pussy’ for Announcing Vote to Convict Trump
Don Jr. Calls Sen. Mitt Romney a ‘Pussy’ for Announcing Vote to Convict Trump
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Wrenching Truth About Mitt Romney's Vote Is That It Doesn't Matter
Marie L. Yovanovitch / Washington Post:
These are turbulent times. But we will persist and prevail. — Marie L. Yovanovitch served most recently as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. — After nearly 34 years working for the State Department, I said goodbye to a career that I loved. It is a strange feeling to transition …
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Politico, Fox News, Foreign Policy, CNN, HuffPost, Axios, The Hill, New York Times and Raw Story
CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Tracking Poll: Sanders Continues To Lead, Buttigieg Closing In — BOSTON (CBS) - In a continuation of movement we picked up in last night's WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University tracking poll, it's another day of good results in New Hampshire for Pete Buttigieg.
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Politico:
Biden campaign agonizes over Iowa shellacking
Biden campaign agonizes over Iowa shellacking
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NBC News, Washington Post, Des Moines Register, The Week and Twitchy
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Bloomberg seizes on chaos in Democratic presidential race to escalate his campaign
Bloomberg seizes on chaos in Democratic presidential race to escalate his campaign
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The Smoke Eater
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President — One day last fall, I sat down to create a new Facebook account. I picked a forgettable name, snapped a profile pic with my face obscured, and clicked “Like” on the official pages of Donald Trump and his reelection campaign.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump impeachment live updates: President lashes out at Democrats as ‘corrupt people’ at National Prayer Breakfast, in his first public remarks after acquittal — President Trump used his remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday to lash out at House Democrats responsible …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
‘Dishonest and corrupt’: Trump unloads at National Prayer Breakfast after acquittal
‘Dishonest and corrupt’: Trump unloads at National Prayer Breakfast after acquittal
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
TV Ratings Declined for Trump's State of the Union Speech
TV Ratings Declined for Trump's State of the Union Speech
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Insights - Nielsen, The Week and Axios
Gregg Re / Fox News:
DHS suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for New York residents in response to sanctuary law — Homeland Security reviewing two administration immigration programs looking to expedite deportation process — Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf exclusively told Fox News' …
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Bloomberg, Politico, The Week, Slate, American Greatness, Jezebel, New York Times, CNN, The Daily Beast, Axios, New York Post and Contemptor
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David Freedlander / Politico:
An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter — What if everything you think you know about politics is wrong? What if there aren't really American swing voters—or not enough, anyway, to pick the next president? What if it doesn't matter much who the Democratic nominee is?
Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:
Zelensky Adviser on Trump Impeachment: ‘It Definitely Was Stressful’ — “If we could choose, this thing wouldn't have happened. It would have been building the relationship rather than trying to save it from something very political, very loud.” — The finale of President Donald Trump's …
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Raw Story
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Investigations Into 2020 Candidates Must Be Cleared by Top Justice Dept. Officials — The move is intended to help avoid upending the election as the F.B.I. inadvertently did in 2016 when its campaign inquiries shaped the outcome of the race. — WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr issued …
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Talking Points Memo, National Review and The Hill
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Senate report faults Obama administration's paralysis on Russian election interference — Widespread paralysis in the Obama administration prevented the U.S. from developing an effective response to combat Russian hacking in the 2016 election, according to a new, bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Associated Press, Fox News and The Hill
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Inside Acronym, the Tech Consultancy Behind the Disastrous Iowa-Caucus App — In downtown Washington, D.C., in a gleaming new WeWork building that's still mostly uninhabited, one office suite is occupied by a nonprofit called Acronym, a left-leaning digital consultancy whose mission is to build …
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Politico and Washington Free Beacon
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Tara McGowan / Medium:
A note to supporters of ACRONYM
A note to supporters of ACRONYM
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Eschaton, The Daily Beast, HuffPost and Vox
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Impeachment Hurt Somebody. It Wasn't Trump. — The impeachment struggle is now over. Historians may one day vindicate Democrats for exposing Donald Trump's abuse of power. But as of now, they have lost. Not only will Trump remain president, and not only does he appear stronger politically …
Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
The Night Sky Will Never Be the Same — Last year, Krzysztof Stanek got a letter from one of his neighbors. The neighbor wanted to build a shed two feet taller than local regulations allowed, and the city required him to notify nearby residents. Neighbors, the notice said, could object to the construction.
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
These southern Utah sites were once off limits to development. Now, Trump will auction the right to drill and mine there. — The Interior Department finalized plans Thursday that will expand drilling, mining and grazing in southern Utah that had once been protected as two separate national monuments …
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
At Embassies Abroad, Trump Envoys Are Quietly Pushing Out Career Diplomats — “There's zero support or pushback from the department for the career people,” said one former U.S. official. — Lana Marks is a successful fashion designer and member of U.S. President Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Sherrod Brown / New York Times:
In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear — One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?” — Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio. — Not guilty. Not guilty.
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Washington Post, The Week, Daily Kos, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost and Vanity Fair
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
New High of 90% of Americans Satisfied With Personal Life — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nine in 10 Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in their personal life, a new high in Gallup's four-decade trend. The latest figure bests the previous high of 88% recorded in 2003.
New York Daily News:
ICE agent, while arresting undocumented Brooklyn immigrant, shoots brother of wanted man — A federal ICE agent trying to arrest an undocumented immigrant shot the Brooklyn man's brother in the face during a wild Thursday morning scuffle, officials and witnesses said.
Associated Press:
Venezuela rounds up US oil executives as Guaidó visits DC — FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2019 file photo, Dennysse Vadell sits between her daughters Veronica, right, and Cristina holding a digital photograph of father and husband Tomeu who is currently jailed in Venezuela with five …
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Soaring Death Toll Heightens Concerns About Care — Here's what you need to know: — Day 2 of a cruise ship quarantine: permission to breathe. — Death toll in China rises to 564 as lockdown enters third week. — The death toll and number of infections continued …
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