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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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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.
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.
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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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The Hill, Axios, The Week, KTLA and New York Post
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 JONATHAN TURLEY
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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Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire:
BREAKING: Man Deliberately Rams Vehicle Into GOP Tent Full Of Volunteers, Trump Responds — Authorities in Florida said on Saturday that a man deliberately rammed a vehicle into a tent of Republican volunteers who were registering people to vote. — “Jacksonville police …
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PJ Media Home, WHDH-TV, WJAX, KIRO and Redstate
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, The Week, Slate, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Hill, CNN, Raw Story, Politico, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, The Guardian and New York Post
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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, Contemptor and Talking Points Memo
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Lev Parnas says he's got plenty of dirt that goes ‘well beyond’ Trump impeachment — Lev Parnas says he has plenty more dirt to reveal — and it's not all moot now that President Trump has been acquitted by the US Senate on impeachment charges. — The estranged onetime associate …
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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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
Clare Foran / CNN:
'There's way more hate in this business than there ever used to be': Retiring lawmaker reflects on state of politics — Washington (CNN)Democratic Rep. Denny Heck will leave Congress with a sense of gratitude and privilege for his time in office, but he laments that politics has become a lot …
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The Hill
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NBC News:
Full Sanders: ‘I am in good health’ won't release additional medical records — In an interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks about his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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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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
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Post Impeachment, a Key Republican Suburban Area Rallies Around Trump — Voters in the populous, heavily Republican suburbs west of Milwaukee did not entirely embrace Donald Trump in 2016. They do now. — WAUKESHA, Wis. — The moment President Trump was acquitted in the Senate this week …
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 …
Richard Galant / CNN:
Trump gets an unwelcome surprise — Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. We're looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. — (CNN)It seemed perfect. Everything was going Donald Trump's way.