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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty  —  Mitt Romney didn't want to go through with it.  —  “This has been the most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my life,” he told me yesterday afternoon in his Senate office.  Roughly 24 hours later, Romney would deliver a speech announcing …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Romney votes to convict Trump on charge of abuse of power, becoming the first Republican to break ranks  —  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) sealed a place in history Wednesday when he voted to convict President Trump of abuse of power, becoming a rare lone voice in a Republican Party that otherwise …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Romney denies Trump unanimous Republican support  —  Romney: President's actions 'most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office'  —  Mitt Romney brought a stunning twist to the end of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial: A bipartisan vote to convict the president on charges of abuse of power.
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
A Profile in Courage  —  Mitt Romney is doing something nearly unheard of these days: He's putting his country above his party.  He's voting his conscience when doing so comes at a cost.  He's not rationalizing weakness and timidity by prettying them up as virtues.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney shows us all is not lost
Discussion: Breitbart
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:   ‘The president is guilty’: Mitt Romney's speech on his vote to convict Trump, annotated
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What's next — giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to David Duke?  —  So that the right-wing, faux-outrage crowd does not have a meltdown, let me be clear: I am sorry to hear talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has cancer.  Any decent person should hope he has a full recovery.
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Politico:
Pelosi unloads on Trump in private meeting after SOTU standoff  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into President Donald Trump in a private meeting with Democrats Wednesday, just hours after the two jousted in a silent sparring match during his State of the Union address.
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Nancy Pelosi ‘pre-ripped’ pages of Trump's SOTU speech, video shows  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently made tiny tears into her copy of President Trump's State of the Union address — so that her speech-ripping moment could go off without a hitch.  —  As Trump introduced cancer …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Speech Was a Bataan Death March of Bullsh*t  —  And it was a wakeup call for Democrats, who have acted as if 2016 was a fluke and Trump's personal sh*tshow, corruption, and idiocy all but ensure an easy win in November.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Donald's Trump State of the Union speech Tuesday night …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Nancy Pelosi should resign  —  The House has its share of infamies, great and small, real and symbolic, and has been the scene of personal infamies from brawls to canings.  But the conduct of Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the State of the Union address this week will go down as a day of infamy for the chamber as an institution.
The Hill:
Pelosi trashes Trump address: ‘He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech’
Discussion: Redstate, Townhall and Breitbart
Cganemccalla / NewsOne:
Rush Limbaugh's Most Racist Quotes: A Timeline Of Destructive Commentary
Discussion: The Nation
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Pompeo accidentally proves the wrong point with Simpsons reference
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and Vanity Fair
theepochtimes.com:   Pelosi Does Her Best to Reelect Trump at State of the Union
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says she will vote to convict President Trump on impeachment charges  —  Citing her concern for the Constitution as well as the conduct of future presidents, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will vote Wednesday to convict President Donald Trump on the impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Discussion: CNN, Townhall, The Hill and Twitchy
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Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
Alabama Senate Moves From Toss Up to Lean Republican  —  Alabama Democratic Senator Doug Jones was always going to be the most endangered incumbent in 2020.  He narrowly won a 2017 special election over Roy Moore, the deeply flawed and controversial GOP nominee, and has had a target on his back ever since.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Sen. Jones says he will vote to convict Trump, drawing criticism from GOP rivals
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
First head rolls after Biden's weak Iowa finish  —  DES MOINES — Joe Biden's campaign has parted ways with its Iowa field director, two days after the former vice president came in an embarrassing fourth place in the primary caucus state.  —  Adrienne Bogen, who headed field operations for Biden …
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Marianna Sotomayor / NBC News:
After Iowa ‘gut punch,’ Biden sharpens criticism of Sanders and Buttigieg
Discussion: Politico and UPI
Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:   The DNC can't steal the election from Bernie Sanders despite the Iowa chaos
William Saletan / Slate:
How Pete Won  —  Last week in Iowa, former Vice President Joe …
Washington Post:
House managers: Trump won't be vindicated.  The Senate won't be, either.  —  Reps. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Val Demings (Fla.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.) and Jason Crow (Colo.) were the Democratic House managers in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
McConnell announces he will award Chief Justice Roberts the ‘Golden Gavel’
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
Trump barrels into reelect fight, emboldened after acquittal
Discussion: Politico
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: State of the Union Falls in Early Broadcast Numbers  —  Preliminary figures show the annual address down by double digits versus 2019.  —  The State of the Union address drew a considerably smaller audience on the broadcast networks than it did a year ago, at least in the preliminary ratings from Tuesday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
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Tony Maglio / The Wrap:   Donald Trump's 3rd State of the Union Address Tumbles in Broadcast TV Ratings
Deadline:
State Of The Union Viewership Down Double-Digits From 2019; Fox News Tops All, Only Net To Rise Over Last Year - Update
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
George Conway / Washington Post:
I believe the president, and in the president  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  I believe the president, and in the president.  —  I believe the Senate is right to acquit the president.
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
New Evidence Shows Pressure Campaign Started Earlier With Prior Ukraine Prez  —  As the Senate votes to acquit President Trump over his bid to extort the Ukrainian government into providing him with domestic political help, TPM has new evidence suggesting that the pressure campaign came far closer …
Discussion: Fox News, Spectator USA and Raw Story
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Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Evangelical Christians Also Wanted To Get Rid Of The US Ambassador To Ukraine
Discussion: The Hill
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Beyond the Partisan Fight, a Wealth of Evidence About Trump and Ukraine
Discussion: Politico and The Moderate Voice
Sherrod Brown / New York Times:
In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear  —  One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”  —  Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.  —  Not guilty.  Not guilty.
Rob Portman / New York Times:
Why I'm Voting to Acquit President Trump  —  Impeachment will end in the Senate.  It's time to take up consensus issues.  —  Mr. Portman is a Republican senator from Ohio.  —  On Wednesday I will join a majority of my Senate colleagues in opposing the impeachment of President Trump brought by the House of Representatives.
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Washington Post:
Impeachment vote live updates: Trump remains in office after Senate votes to acquit impeached president …
BuzzFeed News:
She Shunned Islam And Was Embraced By Trump World.  They Took Her Money, Then Turned On Her.  —  Rabia Kazan, a Turkish national who used to be a Trump fanatic, made a big donation to the president's campaign.  But she's not a US citizen.  —  A former rising star in MAGA world recently renounced …
Vivian Salama / CNN:
Pentagon officials stunned by White House decision to block Ukraine aid, new emails show  —  Washington (CNN)Days before the July 2019 call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, US officials were still working to expedite the delivery of Javelin anti-tank missiles to the country …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
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Discussion: National Review and The Hill
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