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Release Detail — February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Primary As Biden Falls, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Bloomberg Rises In Primary, Runs Strong Against Trump — In the wake of the Iowa caucuses and heading into the New Hampshire primary …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
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Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third
Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is right. We might have to impeach him again. — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC. — “So we'll probably have to do it again.” — So said the already-once-impeached President Trump on Thursday in the East Room …
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Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Tulsi Gabbard Defends Donald Trump Firing Alexander Vindman: ‘Whether People Like It or Not, There Are Consequences to Elections’ — In breaking with some of her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Tulsi Gabbard defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump's Senate acquittal
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump's Senate acquittal
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Washington Post:
Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani's information on Bidens — Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged Monday that the Justice Department would evaluate material that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lindsey Graham Implicates William Barr in Massive Scandal, on Live Television — Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Face the Nation and blurted out an apparent confession of what, if true, would be a scandal of Nixonian proportions. Graham reported he had spoken with Attorney General William Barr that morning.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Considered How To Punish States That Deny Access To Driver Records, A Memo Says — The Trump administration drafted a slew of plans to consider not only circumventing state laws limiting the Department of Homeland Security's access to driver records, but to retaliate against states …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
New York sues Trump administration over ‘punitive’ ban from traveler programs
New York sues Trump administration over ‘punitive’ ban from traveler programs
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, ‘significant escalation’ against left-wing sanctuary cities
Barr announces sweeping new sanctions, ‘significant escalation’ against left-wing sanctuary cities
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
New York sues Trump administration over Global Entry ban: It's ‘political retribution’
New York sues Trump administration over Global Entry ban: It's ‘political retribution’
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Prosecutors recommend Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison — Federal prosecutors recommended in a sentencing memo filed Monday that Trump associate Roger Stone serve 87-108 months in prison — or 7-9 years — for crimes that include obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that — President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a White House session with the state governors on February 10, 2020. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images — The president is either brazenly lying about his 2021 budget or doesn't know what's in it.
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New York Times:
Trump's $4.8 Trillion Budget Would Cut Safety Net Programs and Boost Defense
Trump's $4.8 Trillion Budget Would Cut Safety Net Programs and Boost Defense
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon budget shows what new Air Force One paint job will look like — The Pentagon on Monday revealed the final paint job plans for the revamped Air Force One presidential aircraft — a red, white and blue style reminiscent of the planes in President Trump's former airline.
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge cancels Michael Flynn sentencing — A judge has indefinitely postponed former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing on a charge of lying to the FBI as Flynn presses to withdraw the guilty plea he entered more than two years ago in a case prosecuted by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump, looking to ‘shake up the Dems a little bit,’ hits ‘mumbling’ Pelosi in rally ahead of key NH primary — President Trump said he was looking to get under Democrats' skin Monday with a rally in New Hampshire on the eve of the state's first-in-the-nation primaries, and he wasted little time …
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Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
As Louisiana GOP censures Mitt Romney, David Duke laughs — The same Louisiana Republican Party that 30 years ago refused to censure former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke decided last Saturday to censure Sen. Mitt Romney. — The mind reels. The stomach sickens.
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump world's latest attack on Romney: Tie him to Burisma — The MAGA machine is attempting to turn President Donald Trump's latest nemesis — Sen. Mitt Romney — into the next Hunter Biden. — Trump in recent days took a new turn in his attacks on the Utah senator, veering from assailing …
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HuffPost:
Trump's First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama's Last 3 — New Labor Department statistics show that despite Trump's repeated boasts, job creation was a lot higher during Barack Obama's final years. — MANCHESTER, N.H. - As President Donald Trump takes the stage …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bernie Bros and the Internet of Beefs — What if Bernie Sanders' internet mobs are an asset, and not a liability? — 1. Bernie's Bros — I was reading the 417th piece about how Bernie supporters form online mobs that are basically the mirror-image of Twitter MAGA world. — It's this one, from CNN:
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Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 100 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack - officials — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
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Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
1 A Slow-Motion Looting — OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot. Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness.
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Some Experts Worry as a Germ-Phobic Trump Confronts a Growing Epidemic — When President Barack Obama contended with an Ebola oubreak, Mr. Trump demanded measures like canceling flights, forcing quarantines and even denying the return of American medical workers.
W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Exclusive: Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite, General Says — A pair of Russian satellites are tailing a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface, a top U.S. military commander tells TIME, underscoring a growing threat …
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The Daily Beast:
The FBI Makes a Bizarre Claim About Pro-Choice Terrorism — The bureau revamped its homegrown-terror efforts to include “people on either side” of the abortion debate. But there's almost no evidence of pro-choice violence. — The FBI is expanding its focus on domestic terrorism …
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Republicans vow ‘revenge’ at ballot box after volunteers nearly hit by van — TALLAHASSEE — Florida and Duval County Republican leaders on Monday vowed “revenge” at the ballot box after a man drove his van into a tent of GOP volunteers who were registering voters over the weekend.
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Clay Aiken / USA Today:
Clay Aiken on 2020 primary: Why I'm changing my vote from Joe Biden to Amy Klobuchar — It was difficult for me to move my support from Joe Biden. But Amy Klobuchar is simply a better candidate for the 2020 race against Donald Trump. — For 2020, for Democrats, for America, Amy Klobuchar is the answer.
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