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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Reclaims National Lead With Buttigieg, Klobuchar Exits — 36% of Democratic primary voters back the former VP as Super Tuesday contests unfold — Former Vice President Joe Biden is joined on stage by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who endorsed Biden during a rally on Monday night in Dallas …
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Redstate, The Hill, NBC News, POLITICUSUSA, Townhall, New York Times, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Post, National Review and Paste
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CBS News:
Live updates: Biden and Sanders pick up wins in first Super Tuesday states — The first polls have closed in the Super Tuesday states of Virginia and Vermont. CBS News projects Joe Biden will win Virginia and North Carolina and Bernie Sanders will win Vermont.
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CNN, The Week, WREG-TV and WCCO | CBS Minnesota
FiveThirtyEight:
Our Final Forecast For Super Tuesday Shows Biden's Surge — And Lots Of Uncertainty — Former Vice President Joe Biden has gotten a lot of good news over the past few days. A huge, almost 30-point win in South Carolina. A series of impressive endorsements.
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Vox, Washington Post, Insights into Impact, The Bulwark, Slate, Breitbart, The Independent, Four Freedoms, Reason, Patterico's Pontifications, The Mahablog and IJR
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Why Elizabeth Warren is losing even if all your friends love her — White college grads are living in the Warren bubble. — A lot of people I know are voting for Elizabeth Warren on Super Tuesday. They're doing so even though they're aware she's way down in the polls and that her hopes …
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CNN
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sanders Campaign Was Caught Off Guard by Quick Massing of Opposition — “It's becoming clear that in order for us to win this nomination, that road clearly flows through Joe Biden,” Bernie Sanders's campaign manager said. — ST. PAUL, Minn. — On Sunday night, Faiz Shakir …
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New York Magazine, IJR and Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's new attack on Biden exposes his own unfitness
Trump's new attack on Biden exposes his own unfitness
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New York Times, Raw Story and Vanity Fair
J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
Bloomberg on Warren: 'I didn't realize she's still in'
Bloomberg on Warren: 'I didn't realize she's still in'
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Political Wire, The Daily Beast, IJR, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Caller
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Twitter suspends liberal journalist for quoting Joe Biden gaffe
Twitter suspends liberal journalist for quoting Joe Biden gaffe
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New York Post
Politico:
Trump launches an urgent fight to save his ticket to reelection — Eight months from a general election, President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are considering an urgent effort to rescue the U.S. economy from a coronavirus panic. — Trump advisers and GOP lawmakers have spent …
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Washington Post and New York Post
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
White House questionnaire adds new litmus tests for prospective hires
White House questionnaire adds new litmus tests for prospective hires
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Daily Kos, Raw Story and The American Independent
ABC News:
Super Tuesday live updates: Sanders projected to win Colo.; Biden to win Tenn. and Okla., ABC News analysis shows — More than a third of delegates are at stake. — LIVE NOW — As Super Tuesday, the single biggest day of voting gets underway, the candidates are competing across 15 contests …
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Townhall, The Daily Beast, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
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Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: Many Democratic voters made last-minute picks — WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Democratic voters in Super Tuesday's presidential primaries made up their minds just before casting a ballot — a sign of fluidity in a race recently upended by Joe Biden's blowout in South Carolina.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump coronavirus effort undermined by mixed messages and falsehoods — When Anthony Fauci, clad in a white lab coat, invited an NBC Nightly News correspondent into his offices this week and described the coronavirus as an “outbreak” that was reaching “likely pandemic proportions,” …
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Sarah Owermohle / Politico:
'You don't want to go to war with a president'
'You don't want to go to war with a president'
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Associated Press, ABC News, The Hill, New York Times, Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Raw Story
Politico:
Coronavirus emergency bill held up over vaccine cost concerns
Coronavirus emergency bill held up over vaccine cost concerns
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Acquisition.GOV, The Hill and Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's baffling coronavirus vaccine event
Trump's baffling coronavirus vaccine event
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Press Watch, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA and STAT
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Will Risk Making Ross Perot and Ralph Nader Look Good”: Bloomberg Resists Advisers' Push to Exit the Race — With his path disappearing after South Carolina, advisers pressed for a quick exit. But Mike has so far refused: I'll be damned if I walk away before a single vote is cast for me.
New York Times:
As Coronavirus Numbers Rise, C.D.C. Testing Comes Under Fire — Federal health officials botched an initial diagnostic test and restricted widespread screening. Missteps may have raised the risks to Americans, critics say. — The coronavirus has found a crack in the nation's public health armor …
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The Atlantic, The Hill, Bustle, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Marginal REVOLUTION, Slate and Daily Kos
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The real reason Chris Matthews had to go — Give Chris Matthews partial credit for his apology on his way out the door Monday night. In his abrupt and unexpected farewell, the MSNBC host acknowledged his history of what he called “compliments on a woman's appearance.”
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Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:
Bill Gates Is Really Worried About the Coronavirus. Here's Why. — The debate is splitting into two broad camps: Call them the “growthers” and the “base-raters.” — Just how bad will the new coronavirus be? I can't answer that question, but I have observed the debate splitting into two broad camps …
CNBC:
WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought — World health officials say the case fatality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%. — “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” …
NBC News:
Amid outbreak, Trump admin's proposed rollback of nursing home regulations faces criticism — “These are frail, medically compromised people,” said an attorney at the nonprofit Center for Medicare Advocacy, who opposes the change. — The Trump administration last year moved to roll …
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New York Times
Jennifer Millman / NBC New York:
Midtown Lawyer Positive for Coronavirus Is NY's 1st Case of Person-to-Person Spread — New York now has two confirmed cases of coronavirus; now health officials are working to trace the man's movements to see who else may have been exposed to risk — What to Know
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The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Cuomo Confirms Second Case in the State
Coronavirus in N.Y.: Cuomo Confirms Second Case in the State
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Florida Politics and Patterico's Pontifications
Dan Diamond / Politico:
CDC blocked FDA official from premises — In a sign of growing tension among the Trump administration's health agencies, officials are expressing frustration that a top scientist was initially rebuffed when attempting to visit the CDC in Atlanta last month to help coordinate …
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The Long Version, Twitchy and Raw Story
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Washington State risks seeing explosion in coronavirus cases without dramatic action, new analysis says — The coronavirus outbreak in the Seattle area is at a critical juncture and could see explosive growth in cases much like Wuhan, China, if public officials don't take immediate …
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UPI
CBS Miami:
Coronavirus Confusion: Miami Woman Allegedly Denied Proper Testing — MIAMI (CBSMiami) - In what may be the first case of coronavirus in South Florida, a woman who recently returned home from Italy says she was told by doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital that she “likely” has COVID-19 …
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Raw Story and National Review
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
I just remembered Joe Biden is fine — This is a little awkward, but better late than never! I suddenly remembered that Joe Biden is a dynamite candidate, something I had forgotten over the past few months of watching Joe Biden campaign. Joe Biden is the best hope of the party and its logical standard-bearer!
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National Review
Carlos R. Munoz / Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
Coronavirus Florida: Mother and son at Sarasota Military Academy under quarantine — By Carlos R. Munoz By Timothy Fanning By Zac Anderson — They are not showing any symptoms of COVID-19 but came in contact with a patient who the CDC now says tested “positive,” the schools says.
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Bloomberg, The Week, The Independent, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Florida Politics, Sarasota Military Academy, Townhall, Mediaite and Raw Story
Graham Vyse / Politico:
‘The Worst Possible Scenario’: Never Trumpers Wonder What to Do About Bernie — It's been a rough four years for Never Trumpers, the cadre of Republican and former-Republican commentators, strategists and veterans of the conservative movement who tried and failed to thwart the president's rise to power in 2016.