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New York Times:
Democratic Leaders Willing to Risk Party Damage to Stop Bernie Sanders — Interviews with dozens of Democratic Party officials, including 93 superdelegates, found overwhelming opposition to handing Mr. Sanders the nomination if he fell short of a majority of delegates.
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National Review, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
C.D.C. Confirms First Possible Community Transmission of Coronavirus in U.S. — A case in California may be the first infection without a known link to travel abroad. — A person in California who was not exposed to anyone known to be infected with the coronavirus, and had not traveled …
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Patient in California Was Not Tested for Days — A California coronavirus patient had to wait days to be tested because of restrictive federal criteria, despite doctors' suggestions. — The patient, who has tested positive, may be the first person to be infected through community spread …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
First person in U.S. tests positive for coronavirus with no known link to foreign travel — A person in Northern California has contracted the coronavirus without traveling to regions hit by the outbreak or coming in contact with anyone known to have the infection, the first sign the disease …
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Centers for Disease Control …, Slate and HuffPost
Jaclyn Cosgrove / Los Angeles Times:
California coronavirus case could be first spread within U.S. community, CDC says — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating what could be the first case of novel coronavirus in the United States involving a patient who neither recently traveled out of the country nor was in contact with someone who did.
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The Week
New York Times:
Trump Has a Problem as the Coronavirus Threatens the U.S.: His Credibility
Trump Has a Problem as the Coronavirus Threatens the U.S.: His Credibility
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Washington Post and Bloomberg
Politico:
Bloomberg tumbles heading into Super Tuesday — The Mike Bloomberg bubble has burst. — After a steady, weeks-long climb in national polls, fueled by extravagant spending on ads, staff and events, Bloomberg's presidential campaign has plateaued. The abrupt reversal of fortune …
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The Daily Beast
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Buttigieg plots risky delegate strategy to survive Super Tuesday — The former mayor is unlikely to win any states on March 3 but hopes to rack up delegates in select places to keep his campaign going. — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What The Race Looks Like If Biden Wins — Or Doesn't Win — South Carolina — Joe Biden didn't get off to the start his campaign was hoping for in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the news has been better for him lately. He finished a (distant) second place in Nevada behind Bernie Sanders, his best performance of the campaign so far.
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ABC News, Brutal South, Washington Post and The Independent
Washington Post:
Obama demands South Carolina TV stations pull misleading ad attacking Biden
Obama demands South Carolina TV stations pull misleading ad attacking Biden
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ugly pro-Trump ad weaponizes audio of Obama, showing what's coming
Ugly pro-Trump ad weaponizes audio of Obama, showing what's coming
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FiveThirtyEight and The Hill
New York Times:
'He Hasn't Been Here': Why Joe Biden Lags in Super Tuesday States
'He Hasn't Been Here': Why Joe Biden Lags in Super Tuesday States
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Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Obama to TV stations: Take down misleading Biden attack ad
Obama to TV stations: Take down misleading Biden attack ad
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The State, Political Flare and Raw Story
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: What Our Forecast Says About Every Super Tuesday State
Election Update: What Our Forecast Says About Every Super Tuesday State
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Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, IJR and Frontloading HQ
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani complains he only has ‘five friends left’ after forgetting to hang up on Daily News reporter — Rudy Giuliani is having phone trouble again — and this time, it's sad. — The former New York mayor forgot to hang up on a Daily News reporter Wednesday and, thinking he was off the line …
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Raw Story
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Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Rudy Giuliani asked me to cancel elex so he'd stay mayor post-9/11: Pataki
Rudy Giuliani asked me to cancel elex so he'd stay mayor post-9/11: Pataki
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The Hill
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll: Biden retakes lead in Florida — Former Vice President Joe Biden is reclaiming his frontrunner status in Florida, according to a survey released on Thursday by St. Pete Polls. — The poll shows Biden pulling ahead of the pack in the Sunshine State with 35 percent support.
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Florida Politics
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A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Latest poll: Joe Biden surging, Mike Bloomberg fading in Florida primary
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden falsely attacks Trump over a food stamp policy supported by Bloomberg
Biden falsely attacks Trump over a food stamp policy supported by Bloomberg
BBC:
Joe Biden drops claim he was arrested seeing Mandela
Joe Biden drops claim he was arrested seeing Mandela
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NB Blog, Townhall and New York Times
Corey Brettschneider / Politico:
Why President Trump Can't Pardon Roger Stone — Speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon Roger Stone has reached a fever pitch after Stone's sentencing by a federal judge and the president's repeated hints that he thinks the verdict unfair. But fortunately, the Constitution's framers imagined …
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Raw Story
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Catastrophic”: Trump Is Fighting With Advisers Over Pardoning Roger Stone
“Catastrophic”: Trump Is Fighting With Advisers Over Pardoning Roger Stone
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The Independent, The Daily Caller and NBC News
Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
Marine commandant banishes Confederate symbols from all Corps installations — Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has ordered all Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from Marine Corps installations, his spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. — Military analyst B. A. Friedman …
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Gina Harkins / Military.com:
Top Marine Orders Confederate Paraphernalia to Be Removed from All Bases
Top Marine Orders Confederate Paraphernalia to Be Removed from All Bases
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Slate
Justin Wise / The Hill:
WHO official calls Trump comments on coronavirus response ‘incoherent’ — Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, special advisor to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Wednesday that he found President Trump's press conference on his administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak a “little incoherent.”
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Politico:
Pentagon policy chief's firing was part of White House purge — The White House demanded the ouster of Pentagon policy chief John Rood last week after the former industry executive opposed the administration on plans to pull U.S. troops from Syria and its policy toward Chinese tech giant Huawei …
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The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Takes Coronavirus So Seriously He Just Put Mike Pence in Charge
Donald Trump Takes Coronavirus So Seriously He Just Put Mike Pence in Charge
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Politico, The Wrap, Mother Jones, NPR, Breitbart, Fox News, New York Post, New Republic, Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The White House Shouldn't Downplay the Coronavirus
The White House Shouldn't Downplay the Coronavirus
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National Review
David Wasserman / New York Times:
To Beat Trump, Democrats May Need to Break Out of the ‘Whole Foods’ Bubble — Election results in places near Whole Foods, Lululemon, Urban Outfitters and Apple — It's no secret that Democratic primary voters prize fall “electability.” But for all the clamor about progressive versus moderate choices …
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow set to drop 400 points as worst week since the financial crisis continues — Wall Street set for more losses at open — U.S. stock futures on Thursday morning pointed to declines at the day's open amid concerns the coronavirus may be spreading in the U.S.
Discussion:
The Week and Letters from an American
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
At least seven dead including shooter in rampage at Molson Coors — In one of the worst shootings in Wisconsin history, at least seven people were killed — including a gunman — during a shooting rampage Wednesday afternoon on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors, according to multiple sources.
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John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America:
After Trump appoints Pence to oversee coronavirus response, initial reports don't include how he enabled Indiana HIV outbreak — President Donald Trump has announced that Vice President Mike Pence would oversee the coronavirus response. — While there are many troubling aspects …
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Vanity Fair, Washington Post and The Verge
Politico:
Cops repeatedly called on Bernie backers — Bernie supporter protests at house of Nevada Democratic Party chair — The night before the Nevada caucuses, the chairman of the state's Democratic Party called police after several supporters of Bernie Sanders gathered outside his home at 11 p.m …
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National Review, TheBlaze and Townhall
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Election security, integrity worry Americans — FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, a man feeds a ballot card into a digital voting machine during a demonstration in Raleigh, N.C. Americans have widespread concerns about the security and integrity of elections.
Bethania Palma / Snopes.com:
Did Trump Fire the US Pandemic Response Team? — Claim — The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs. — Rating — Origin — Amid warnings from public health officials that a 2020 outbreak of a new coronavirus could soon become …
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Fortune, The Bulwark and Raw Story