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CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Tracking Poll: Sanders And Buttigieg Lead Amid Signs Of Momentum For Klobuchar — BOSTON (CBS) — This wild, fluid New Hampshire primary just got a little wilder. — All week long, the story has been the rise of Pete Buttigieg to co-frontrunner status with Bernie Sanders.
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CNN:
Bernie Sanders holds lead in second release of CNN's New Hampshire tracking poll — Bernie Sanders holds lead in CNN's New Hampshire poll — (CNN)Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' lead in New Hampshire continues to hold, according to the second release from a tracking poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire for CNN.
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Axios, The Week, New York Post and KTLA
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Is Running Out Of Gas — The former VP has lost the plot, voters say. And they're wondering if he will ever get it back. — Forty-five minutes before Joe Biden's first campaign event was supposed to start on Saturday, his crowd had grown restless.
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Politico, The Hill, Breitbart and Talking Points Memo
Axios:
Sanders: There's a difference between “my socialism and Trump's socialism” — More voters than ever oppose capitalism. That fact has profound implications for the 2020 presidential election, but also for the future of the entire U.S. and global economy. — By the numbers: A Harris poll for …
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The Hill
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: In New Hampshire, Sanders' support v. Buttigieg bounce — In New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders is trying to hold onto his lead against Pete Buttigieg, who has made gains coming off of the Iowa caucuses. Here, we present three of the possible scenarios …
Blair Guild / Washington Post:
The 2020 Fix — This is your 2020 fix. — Voters across the country turn to Iowa as the litmus test for what's to come from future primaries and caucuses, and who may be the eventual party nominee in the presidential election. If Monday's contest taught us anything, it's that 2020 will be a bit bumpy.
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Fox News, The Hill, Politico, Associated Press and The Dispatch
ABC News:
Biden doubles down on warning of Sanders nomination, concedes New Hampshire an ‘uphill battle’
Biden doubles down on warning of Sanders nomination, concedes New Hampshire an ‘uphill battle’
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Politico, University of New … and The Hill
The Boston Globe:
Sanders, Buttigieg lead; debate performance appears to lift Klobuchar
Sanders, Buttigieg lead; debate performance appears to lift Klobuchar
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WHDH-TV and Political Wire
Regina Zilbermints / The Hill:
Biden defends performance in Iowa, cites support from African Americans
Biden defends performance in Iowa, cites support from African Americans
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ABC News, Politico and Contemptor
New York Times:
Republican Senators Tried to Stop Trump From Firing Impeachment Witness — A handful of senators reached out to the White House to warn the president not to dismiss Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union who testified in the House hearings. But Mr. Trump went ahead anyway.
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Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, Slate, The Week, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Hill, CNN, Raw Story, Politico, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, The Guardian and New York Post
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Washington Post:
‘Not just chilling but frightening’: Inside Vindman's ouster amid fears of further retaliation by Trump — He had been publicly vilified by President Trump, marched out of his national security office across from the White House, so Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman wanted only to get his mind off politics …
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Man arrested after allegedly driving van into GOP registration tent — “Be careful tough guys who you play with!,” President Donald Trump tweeted. — A man has been arrested after allegedly deliberately driving a van into a tent full of Trump supporters who were working to register new voters at a shopping center parking lot.
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NB Blog
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Joseph Brean / National Post:
Jordan Peterson's year of ‘absolute hell’: Professor forced to retreat from public life because of addiction — The controversial author and professor is recovering from addiction to tranquilizers and near-death in Russia, his family says — SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK — We want to improve your reading experience
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Balloon Juice and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
White House to Reduce Budget Request for Border Wall — Trump administration plans to ask for $2 billion, significantly less than last year's figure, following transfers of money from the military — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration plans to request $2 billion in new funding …
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CNN
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Audrey McNamara / CBS News:
Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for the border wall
Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for the border wall
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Vox and Associated Press
New York Times:
What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World — A city council member in California took the dais and quoted from QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about “deep state” traitors plotting against the president, concluding her remarks, “God bless Q.”
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Associated Press
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa caucus 2020: Inside the Iowa Democratic Party's ‘boiler room,’ where ‘hell’ preceded the results catastrophe — At a brief training the Sunday before the Iowa caucuses, Iowa Democratic Party officials told the volunteers tasked with staffing a telephone hotline system to arrive Monday morning …
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Nevada Democrats debut to volunteers new iPad-based ‘tool’ to calculate math on Caucus Day in the wake of Iowa fiasco — Democratic supporters cheer at the the Nevada Democratic Party election night event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent)
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Michael Graham / InsideSources:
EXCLUSIVE: NeverTrump-Funded Phone Calls Push GOP-Leaning Independents to Vote in NH Dems Primary — GOP-leaning independent voters in New Hampshire are receiving phone calls and texts from anti-Trump Republicans urging them to cross the aisle and vote in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, NHJournal has learned.
YouTube:
020820 - Stumptown Matters Gets Chased Off By Antifa Assailants … On Saturday February 8th 2020, Stumptown Matters went into Downtown Portland Oregon to film and document the protest of a KKK rally that was reported to take place that day. When I arrived at the scene, I learned that the KKK cancelled their event.
New York Times:
On Trump's To-Do List: Take Back The Suburbs. Court Black Voters. Expand the Electoral Map. Win. — With impeachment behind the president, his re-election campaign wants to address political weaknesses exacerbated by his policies and behavior. — WASHINGTON — Buoyed …
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Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Trump's ‘Orange Face’ Photo Appears Edited to Show Stark Contrast … DT took to Twitter Saturday, writing ... “More Fake News. This was photoshopped, obviously, but the wind was strong and the hair looks good? Anything to demean!” The black and white rendition of the pic was also posted by this Moon guy.
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Mother Jones, The Independent, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Sputnik News, HuffPost and Althouse
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