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This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results. — The tech arm of ACRONYM, a Democratic digital nonprofit group that has rapidly expanded in recent years …
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Tom Perez:
How We Prepared for 2020 — Tonight, our party's presidential nominating process officially kicks off in Iowa. Today, I'm reflecting on the three years we've spent preparing for this moment, the changes we've made to make sure we are ready. I'm proud of the historic reforms we passed …
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New York Times:
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested — The state Democratic Party commissioned a new app to tabulate caucus results. It did not appear to go as planned. — DES MOINES — The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results …
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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
That Last, Unreleased Des Moines Register Poll Of Iowa Really Did Show Biden In Fourth — If you're the sort of person who was glued to political Twitter on Saturday night — and God help you if you are — you would have seen a mass freak-out when it was announced that that the Des Moines Register …
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New York Times:
‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down — Unexplained “inconsistencies” in results, heated conference calls and firm denials of hacking left the contest in a strange state of almost suspended animation. — DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming.
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
The death of Iowa — DES MOINES — There can be no doubting it now, not after so many years spent in the crosshairs, not after active presidential candidates began challenging its privileged position atop the nominating calendar, and certainly not after Monday night's debacle that left seven candidates …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Democrats Did the Russians' Work for Them — Iowa Democrats brought this conspiracy theory on themselves. — The Iowa Democratic party had one job: tally the results for the party's first-in-nation caucus. It's almost unbelievable the Democrats could fail to perform what has been, in previous years, an exceedingly trivial task.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Iowa caucus mess nothing compared to intra-Democratic Party chaos on the horizon — The Iowa caucuses reveal not only a Democratic Party deliriously incompetent at handling a vote tally — this from the folks who have been screaming about voting fraud and irregularities for years …
New York Times:
Iowa Caucus Results 2020: Live
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:
Move Fast and Break the Caucus
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Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion seizes Iowa with no official results in sight
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Campaign Ejects Bloomberg News Reporter From Iowa News Conference
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Buttigieg races to push narrative that he won Iowa despite no official results
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
R.I.P. the ‘First-In-the-Nation’ Iowa Caucuses (1972-2020)
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
After Iowa — Everyone loses. Literally everyone.
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BuzzFeed News:
The Iowa Caucus Results Are Still Delayed And Campaigns Are Angry
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
App used in Iowa Democratic caucus fiasco linked to ex-Clinton campaign staffers
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Iowa's coveted status in doubt following results delay
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Iowa caucuses 2020 live updates: Iowa Democratic Party promises results ‘as soon as possible today’
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Wall Street Journal:
Iowa Caucus Results Delayed by Apparent App Issue
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall:
‘Trainwreck’: Dems Blasted For Failing to Manage a Caucus But Wanting to Run Government, Healthcare
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Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times:
Tech firm started by Clinton campaign veterans is linked to Iowa caucus reporting debacle
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Democratic Party Withholds Results Of Iowa Caucuses, Citing Tech Errors
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump claims he'll protect Iowa's first-in-the-nation status
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NBC News:
Results for Iowa caucuses delayed as state Democratic Party finds ‘inconsistencies’
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
‘It kind of failed us’: With eyes of the world on Iowa, another hiccup in American democracy
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Frustration, questions as delays hamper Iowa caucuses
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The Nation
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval at Personal Best 49% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has risen to 49%, his highest in Gallup polling since he took office in 2017. — The new poll finds 50% of Americans disapproving of Trump, leaving just 1% expressing no opinion.
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David Enrich / New York Times:
The Money Behind Trump's Money — The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort. — One Day in early 2017, Mike Offit went to the Yale Club in Manhattan for a lunch hosted by a group called Business Executives for National Security.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process — In trying to build a forecast model of the Democratic primaries, we literally had to think about the entire process from start (Iowa) to finish (the Virgin Islands on June 6). Actually, we had to do more than that.
Nick R. Martin / The Informant:
Threat against Adam Schiff — Hi, and welcome to The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in America, written and edited by me, Nick R. Martin. — A lot has happened in the past several days, so today's intelligence briefing is packed full of links and information.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
White House excludes CNN from annual pre-SOTU lunch with news anchors — New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's targeting of CNN is moving to yet another arena: The annual presidential lunch with television network anchors. — CNN anchors are being excluded from Tuesday's lunch, three sources said on Monday night.
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Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem, and publicly chastises those who don't as disrespectful of the troops.
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Federal Judge Reverses Conviction of Border Volunteers, Challenging Government's “Gruesome Logic” — A federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, reversed the conviction of four humanitarian aid volunteers on religious freedom grounds Monday, ruling that the government had embraced a “gruesome logic” …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump's Jokes About Defying Election Results Could Create Chaos — There's a real possibility he could declare victory before all the ballots are counted. — As President Donald Trump plans a triumphant State of the Union address anticipating his likely acquittal by the Senate …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bloomberg says he hopes Sanders changes — Mike Bloomberg tells me he'd support Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump if those were his two options, but that people should understand Sanders at this moment is “so far to the left it's not practical” and that “what he wants to do would never get through Congress.”
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
‘An unacceptable and upsetting environment’: 2020 Democratic Host Committee under investigation — The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.
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David J. Neal / Miami Herald:
Congresswoman will bring Jeffrey Epstein victim to State of the Union as guest — California Congresswoman Jackie Speier's guest at Tuesday's State of the Union address will be Courtney Wild, who was molested by wealthy Palm Beach sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein when she was a girl and after whom a victims' rights bill is named.
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