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4:05 PM ET, February 3, 2020

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Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform  —  The political views and primary candidate preferences of Democrats on Twitter differ from those who are not on the platform, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January.
Discussion: National Review
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover  —  If you were an alien visiting Iowa this weekend and were asked to guess the order of Monday's results based on nothing but watching the top four Democrats speak, you would predict a Bernie Sanders victory …
New York Times:
What Is the Election Needle?  And Why Will We Have 4 of Them Tonight?  —  A closer look at our election forecaster before the Iowa caucuses.  —  Shortly before 9 p.m. Eastern on Monday, we expect the first returns from the Iowa Democratic caucuses.  If you choose to follow the results live tonight …
Discussion: Vox, HuffPost and Mediaite
The Hill:
Biden allies lower expectations for Iowa: 'Most feel it's not going to be great'
Discussion: ABC News and Fox News
The Intercept:
Pork Plant Workers Turn Out for Sanders in First Caucus in Iowa
Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Iowa Precinct Chairs Report Issues Using Caucus App, Potentially Delaying Results  — Iowa Democratic Party doesn't expect problems with results  — Problems could slow reporting, counting of Iowa caucus results  —  Precinct chairs across Iowa said that some of them are struggling …
Discussion: Vox
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:   Iowa Precinct Chairs Struggle with Caucus App: Campaign Update
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Whoever Wins Iowa, They Won't Be Back
Discussion: NBC News, Breitbart and Washington Post
Sam Levine / The Guardian:   ‘You basically are nothing’: the Americans shut out of the Iowa caucuses
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
Discussion: Raw Story
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets  —  The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy.  —  The Washington Post's controversial decision to punish a reporter …
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post
Politico:
Trump has the votes for Senate acquittal  —  A Senate vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial is now a mathematical impossibility.  —  More than 34 senators have indicated they intend to acquit the president, or have declared the House's two impeachment charges …
Discussion: Axios
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CNN:   Republican senators urge Trump to avoid impeachment talk at State of the Union
Politico:
Graham and Biden's falling out, closing arguments and other news from today's trial
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Axios:
Scoop: Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne fired  —  Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne was fired Monday morning, three Trump administration officials tell Axios.  The White House confirmed that Byrne is no longer with the administration.  —  Why it matters: The VA has recently been in inner turmoil.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies  —  Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information.  Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also in West Wing crosshairs.
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and Axios
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Cliff Sims / Washington Times:
Bolton now promotes the anti-Trump agenda of Schiff and Pelosi
Discussion: Breitbart
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.
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’  —  Discussing President Trump's economic success, Rush Limbaugh says Democrats  —  Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 27-million member audience Monday with the announcement he's been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.”
Discussion: Townhall and Twitchy
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Rush Limbaugh reveals advanced lung cancer diagnosis
Washington Post:
Conservatives push false claims of voter fraud on Twitter as Iowans prepare to caucus  —  The episode showcases social media's hands-off approach and the possible perils ahead for a divisive election season  —  DES MOINES — The claims of voter fraud were false, proved untrue by public data and the state's top election official.
Discussion: NBC News
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
AP Explains: In Iowa, complex caucus now even more intricate
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
‘Truly bizarre circumstances’: Anonymous book agents refute whisper campaign against Trump official  —  The literary agents for the senior Trump administration official who penned an anonymous New York Times op-ed and best-selling book are breaking their silence to swat down a whisper campaign pinning …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Roston / Bloomberg:
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don't Know Why  —  There are dozens of climate models, and for decades they've agreed on what it would take to heat the planet by about 3° Celsius.  It's an outcome that would be disastrous—flooded cities, agricultural failures …
Lindsay Wigo / The Daily Caller:
‘Comfortably Smug’ Twitter Account Banned For Asking 'Where's Hunter, Fat?'  —  An anonymous and popular Twitter account known as “Comfortably Smug” was apparently banned Monday from Twitter for violating the site's rules on “abuse and harassment” after tweeting about Hunter Biden.
Discussion: The Federalist, Twitchy and Clash Daily
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans say Trump has learned his lesson on impeachment.  The evidence suggests otherwise.  —  As President Trump's impeachment trial winds down, the argument from many Senate Republicans is trending in a very specific direction: What he did was perhaps wrong, but it wasn't impeachable.
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Janine di Giovanni / Washington Post:
I can never forget the Bosnian genocide.  But others are trying to rewrite history.  —  Janine di Giovanni is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute and a 2019 Guggenheim fellow.  Her latest book is “The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria.”
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name  —  Guardian findings support watchdog's report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is actually Michael J Thompson  —  A new report has revealed that a prominent white nationalist author …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company  —  The two states, shall we say, are not exactly close to each other.  —  A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away …
Discussion: Press Herald and POLITICUSUSA
Associated Press:
Greta Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize  —  In nominating her, two Swedish lawmakers said the 17-year-old “has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis.”  —  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two lawmakers in Sweden have nominated Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs  —  For years, one of the Republican Party's favorite digs at President Barack Obama was to point to his “57 states” flub.  Obama momentarily confusing his having visited 47 states with 57 states was cause for much laughter at his expense.
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
How a Clash of Egos Became Bigger Than Fixing the Subway  —  Even as New York transit emerged from a crisis, a feud grew between Andy Byford, the subway leader, and his boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  —  One day in October, three powerful figures in New York affairs met for a serious lunch at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan.
The Guardian:
Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news  —  The day's political developments, including Johnson's speech on EU trade talks, and Barnier publishing EU's draft negotiating guidelines  —  In response to my colleague Rowena Mason's report …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
The Most Serious Obstruction of All: The Vote to Block Witnesses and the Public's Right to Know  —  Many criticized the Senate's vote “to deprive itself of information” by blocking John Bolton and other witnesses from testifying in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism
Discussion: Raw Story
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Over Three Years After His Doomsday Prediction, Paul Krugman Makes Reluctant Admission About the Trump Economy
Nicole Gaudiano / Politico:
DeVos threatened with subpoena by House oversight panel
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Gabriella Hoffman / The Resurgent:
Majority of House Democrats Want to Put Freelancers Like Me Out Of Business
Discussion: Redstate
Donald K. Sherman / Washington Post:
A Trump ally's ‘$25,000 cash giveaway’ for black voters could mean legal trouble
Discussion: CREW
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Conspiracy theories swirl over canceled Iowa poll, pushed by Sanders and Yang supporters
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:
As Vault 7 trial begins, Joshua Schulte's attorneys will argue he's a whistleblower
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
The Supreme Court May No Longer Have the Legitimacy to Resolve a Disputed Election
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Simple Reason Trump Does What He Does
Discussion: Althouse
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
2020 Democrats Are Bringing Butter Knives to a Gunfight
New York Times:
New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa's Biggest Economy, Nigeria