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12:00 PM ET, March 4, 2020

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Kathleen Ronayne / Associated Press:
AP source: Bloomberg to reassess after disappointing results  —  Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg waves to supporters as he arrives to his campaign rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 3, 2020.  (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)
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FiveThirtyEight:
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Ledyard King / USA Today:
Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders' losses  —  WASHINGTON - Young voters cheer Bernie Sanders' anti-establishment message.  They turn out in throngs at his rallies.  And they form the core of his grassroots efforts to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Warren team turns grim after Super Tuesday wipeout  —  Elizabeth Warren had a plan for winning.  It didn't work: In 18 nomination contests, she hasn't finished above third place — including in her home state.  —  Now, she's facing political and financial pressures to get out.
Politico:
Bloomberg considering dropping out after Biden rout  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Mike Bloomberg is weighing dropping out as early as Wednesday after losing a string of Super Tuesday states where he invested a fortune in advertising, according to several people familiar with his plans.
New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Quits Democratic Race, Ending a Brief and Costly Bid  —  He had staked his candidacy on doing well on Super Tuesday, spending more than half a billion dollars on advertising alone.  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Michael R. Bloomberg dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday …
NBC News:
Live Blog / 2020 Super Tuesday live updates: Biden wins the South, Mass., Sanders takes Vt., Colo., Utah, NBC News projects  —  More than 1,300 delegates — or about a third of the total — are at play on Super Tuesday.  —  Fourteen states and one territory held nominating contests …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:   Michael Bloomberg Is Ending His Presidential Campaign
Dan Merica / CNN:
Michael Bloomberg ends 2020 presidential campaign and endorses Joe Biden
Discussion: Vanity Fair and fox8.com
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Bernie Sanders Gets a Rude Awakening
Robby Soave / Reason:
Democratic Primary Voters Decisively Rejected the Media's Favorite Candidates
NBC News:
NBC News Exit Poll: Texas Democratic primary voters skew older than previous years
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
CNBC:
Dow set to jump more than 600 points as Biden scores big wins on Super Tuesday
Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart and Vox
New York Times:   Biden Revives Campaign, Winning Nine States, but Sanders Takes California
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Amy Wang / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg is suspending his presidential campaign, says he's endorsing Biden  —  Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York who had hoped to self-fund his way to the Democratic presidential nomination but was spurned by voters in Tuesday's balloting, has dropped out of the race.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Sanders can't lead the Democrats if his campaign treats them like the enemy  —  What Bernie needs to learn from Biden.  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have been running very different kinds of campaigns, built on very different ambitions.  Biden's been running to lead the Democratic Party more or less as it exists today.
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Four reasons why Biden shocked Sanders  —  On Tuesday night, Joe Biden engineered one of the most monumental political comebacks in the history of party primaries.  The scale of his Super Tuesday rout over three well-funded and hyperorganized Democrats — Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren — has no comparison.
Hallie Jackson / NBC News:
Trump camp publicly batting down Joe-mentum but privately concerned
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and The Hill
Bonchie / Redstate:
Stop Gaslighting, Joe Biden Is Still Joe Biden and He's Not Ok
Mike Bloomberg for President:
Statement by Mike Bloomberg
Discussion: Redstate, POLITICUSUSA and IJR
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed News:
Jill Biden And Symone Sanders Fought Off Two Protesters Who Stormed Joe Biden's Victory Speech
Discussion: Eater and IJR
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A wild Super Tuesday boosts Biden and brings new challenges for Sanders
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   It Looks Like Democratic Primary Voters Want a President They Can Ignore 4 or 5 Days a Week
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Joe Biden's Silent Majority
Discussion: Slate and Talking Points Memo
Tim Mak / NPR:
Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  American Alan Gross, a prisoner in Cuba for five years during the Obama administration, is accusing Sen. Bernie Sanders of commending the communist country when he came to visit him behind bars.
CBS News:
Pierce Bush is first Bush to lose Texas race in over 40 years  —  Austin, Texas — Republican Pierce Bush, a grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, failed to advance out of Tuesday's primary in his bid for a Houston congressional seat, becoming the first member of his family to lose a race in Texas in more than 40 years.
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Disease Caused by Virus Is Deadlier Than the Flu  —  The World Health Organization announced on Tuesday that the global death rate of the new coronavirus was 3.4 percent.  —  RIGHT NOW Deaths outside China exceeded those inside the country for the first time since the start of the outbreak.
Discussion: who.int, IJR, The Atlantic, UPI and New York Post
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CNBC:
WHO says coronavirus death rate is 3.4% globally, higher than previously thought
Discussion: News Items
John Harwood / CNN:
Coronavirus tests Trump's credibility gap  —  Burnett: Trump said this.  Scientist corrected him seconds later  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump brought to his office voluble disdain for his White House predecessors, Congress, the Federal Reserve and the executive branch itself.
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Susannah George / Washington Post:
U.S. targets Taliban with airstrike days after peace deal  —  KABUL — The United States conducted an airstrike against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan Wednesday just days after the two sides signed a peace deal.  —  The strike comes just hours after President Trump spoke …
Discussion: CNN, VICE, The Diplomat, KTLA, Twitchy and ABC News
Holly Ellyatt / CNBC:
Italy to close all schools and universities for two weeks as coronavirus death toll rises  — Italy was the worst-affected country from the coronavirus outside Asia earlier Wednesday, temporarily overtaking Iran in terms of the number of deaths and infections from the virus.
Discussion: New York Post
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
‘One orb, slightly used’: MBS book reveals fate of Trump's mysterious Saudi sphere  —  Saudis gave gadget that briefly captivated the internet to the US - but embassy officials fearful of scandal soon hid it away  —  The mysterious glowing orb which Donald Trump, King Salman …
Discussion: The Daily Dot
 
 
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Coronavirus Is What You Get When You Ignore Science
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Divided Supreme Court rules illegal immigrants can't be shielded from ID theft prosecution
Cristin Flanagan / Bloomberg:
Health Insurance Stocks Rally on Biden Campaign Comeback
Discussion: The Week
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
GOP blocking coronavirus bill — because it limits how much drugmakers can charge for a vaccine: report
Tampa Bay Times:
Coronavirus tests DeSantis' pick for Florida surgeon general
John Haltiwanger / Business Insider:
Iran has stockpiled enough uranium to produce a nuclear weapon in the latest sign Trump's strategy …
Discussion: New York Times and Balloon Juice
Jake Adelstein / The Daily Beast:
A U.S. Embassy Refused to Test Exposed Staff for Coronavirus
Discussion: The Intellectualist and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Live Forecast: Who Will Win Super Tuesday?
Discussion: The Week, HBCU Digest and Redstate
Tom Benning / Dallas Morning News:
South Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar defeats Jessica Cisneros, progressive challenger backed by Warren and AOC
Yeganeh Torbati / ProPublica:
The Trump Administration Calls Iraq Dangerous for Christians — Until It Wants to Deport Them
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
No, Trump didn't shut down 37 of 47 global anti-pandemic programs
Discussion: FactCheck.org
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
UGA Poll: Trump builds leads in Georgia, race for Senate tightens
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds: Mystery witness will implicate 'Putin's chef' in election interference
Discussion: Redstate
 

 
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