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3:40 PM ET, February 9, 2020

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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.
Discussion: The Hill
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Trumpists Boosting Bernie Sanders Might Get What They Wish for—and Regret It  —  Republicans are engaging in a very dangerous, high-stakes game that could easily backfire.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  The favorite in New Hampshire after battling to an effective draw in Iowa, Bernie Sanders has a real shot at the Democratic nomination.
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS News:   CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: In New Hampshire, Sanders' support v. Buttigieg bounce
Axios:
Sanders: There's a difference between “my socialism and Trump's socialism”
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Buttigieg launches digital ad buy in Super Tuesday states
Discussion: YouTube and The Hill
Washington Post:   No, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not ‘centrists’
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Propose $4.8 Trillion Budget With Big Safety-Net Cuts  —  White House seeks savings through curbs on Medicare, Medicaid while boosting funds for military, veterans  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to release a $4.8 trillion budget Monday that charts a path for the start …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Fox News
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Washington Post:
Trump budget plan would fail to eliminate deficit over 10 years, briefing document shows  —  After initially seeking to eliminate the fiscal gap over a decade, the White House has found that target too elusive  —  The White House is preparing to propose a budget that would fail to eliminate …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Politico, The Hill, The Daily Caller and CNN
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.
Discussion: NB Blog
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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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CNN:   Unlike Trump, Vindman's conduct was unimpeachable
Washington Post:
‘Not just chilling but frightening’: Inside Vindman's ouster amid fears of further retaliation by Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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.
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post:   Bernie Sanders says he won't release post-heart attack medical records
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.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Laura Belin / Bleeding Heartland:
Fred Hubbell caucused for Mike Bloomberg  —  Iowa's 2018 Democratic nominee for governor Fred Hubbell and his wife Charlotte Hubbell initially stood for Mike Bloomberg at their precinct caucus in Des Moines, the couple confirmed to Bleeding Heartland on February 8.
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:   Iowa caucus 2020: Inside the Iowa Democratic Party's ‘boiler room,’ where ‘hell’ preceded the results catastrophe
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.
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 …
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
In the Long Run, Romney Wins  —  It is a useful exercise to think about our current moment not from where we are, or even where we will be in five years, but where we will be in 50.  Viewed from that perspective, the most important thing about the impeachment of Donald Trump will probably …
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.”
Discussion: Associated Press
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Biden faces competition for black vote in his SC ‘firewall’  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden is facing increasingly formidable competition in South Carolina, a state his campaign has long assumed was safely in his column and one he's repeatedly described as a “firewall” in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: Vox, Politico, NBC News and Associated Press
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Maya King / Politico:
With an avalanche of cash, Steyer surges in South Carolina
Discussion: Post and Courier
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
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.
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Joe Biden has a few (actually many) things on his mind  —  For 20 minutes it was Joe Biden, live and unplugged.  —  Standing with a hand-held microphone, before a dozen TV cameras and scores of reporters, the former vice president held forth Saturday.  Not as someone whose decades-long political career …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:   ‘This guy has some guts’: Democratic establishment eyes Bloomberg as Biden falters
 
 
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Political idolatry is the enemy of religious faith
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats' new fatalism after a week from hell
Discussion: Associated Press
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Voting Process Under Spotlight After Iowa Confusion
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Post Impeachment, a Key Republican Suburban Area Rallies Around Trump
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Clare Foran / CNN:
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Discussion: The Hill
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John Williams / New York Times:
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
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Wall Street Journal:
The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
AIPAC apologizes for ads that called some Democrats ‘radicals’ pushing ‘anti-Semitic’ policies
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