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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:
Many Errors Are Evident in Iowa Caucus Results Released Wednesday — Vote counts are riddled with inconsistencies, though there is no evidence that the mistakes were intentional. — Results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses were delayed by “quality control checks” on Monday night.
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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
New York Times:
Snail Mail and Nuisance Calls: New Details on the Iowa Caucus Problems — On a private conference call, Iowa Democratic leaders revealed more about how the reporting process on Monday night went calamitously awry. — Iowa Democratic officials said on a private conference call on Wednesday night …
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New York Post
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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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 — Asking just shy of two dozen Senate staffers, reporters, and observers what they thought of the question, on background, the answers ranged from bewildered to hysterical to depressing. — What does Mitt Romney stand for?
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Romney: One Man Alone
Romney: One Man Alone
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, Politico, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Wrenching Truth About Mitt Romney's Vote Is That It Doesn't Matter
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
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Conrad Black / American Greatness:
Romney's Discreditable, Dishonest Vote
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty
How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Democracy in Inaction: How Trump Beat the Rap
Democracy in Inaction: How Trump Beat the Rap
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Washington Post and The Hill
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Romney impeachment vote heartens some, angers others in Utah
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 …
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 — DES MOINES — Days before Iowa Democrats went to their precinct caucuses, the news dropped like a bomb. — Leaked poll numbers from what would have been the final Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed Joe Biden in fourth place with 13 percent.
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Bloomberg seizes on chaos in Democratic presidential race to escalate his campaign
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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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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One America News Network and The Week
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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
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IJR, Raw Story, CNN, The Hill and Washington Free Beacon
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Nancy Pelosi ‘pre-ripped’ pages of Trump's SOTU speech, video shows — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently made tiny tears into her copy of President Trump's State of the Union address — so that her speech-ripping moment could go off without a hitch. — As Trump introduced cancer …
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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
Liz Plank / NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi tears up Trump's State of the Union speech in possible 2020 tipping point
Nancy Pelosi tears up Trump's State of the Union speech in possible 2020 tipping point
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CNN, Washington Post and Townhall
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, Daily Kos, The Week, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, POLITICUSUSA and HuffPost
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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National Review and The Hill
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
VICE:
An ‘Off-the-Shelf, Skeleton Project’: Experts Analyze the App That Broke Iowa — The app used to report early results in Iowa's Democratic Presidential primary caucus was rudimentary in many ways, according to analyses by multiple Android app development experts and cybersecurity professionals …
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Mother Jones, Instapundit and Wall Street Journal
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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?
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees — Regulators unexpectedly banned broker fees for renters, which in the city have long amounted to as much as 15 percent of the annual lease. — In New York's City intensely competitive rental market, tenants usually deal with middlemen known as brokers …
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Simple Justice
Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
VP Raimondo? Bloomberg, gov keep the door open — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg and Gov. Gina Raimondo played it coy Wednesday about whether she could be his running mate, after she became the first governor in the country to endorse the former New York City mayor.
Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Troops in Standoffs With Russian Military Contractors in Syria — Top U.S. envoy warns that rise in tensions could lead to hostile action between two powers — WASHINGTON—Russian personnel are engaging in tense standoffs with U.S. troops on highways in northeastern Syria in violation …
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Foreign Policy
New York Times:
Draft Executive Order Would Give Trump a New Target: Modern Design — The proposed order, called “Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again,” favors classical design for buildings in Washington. It has drawn opposition from architects. — WASHINGTON — Should every new government building …
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