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5:25 PM ET, February 9, 2020

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CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Tracking Poll: Sanders And Buttigieg Lead Amid Signs Of Momentum For Klobuchar  —  BOSTON (CBS) — This wild, fluid New Hampshire primary just got a little wilder.  —  All week long, the story has been the rise of Pete Buttigieg to co-frontrunner status with Bernie Sanders.
Discussion: Twitchy and The Hill
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Trumpists Boosting Bernie Sanders Might Get What They Wish for—and Regret It  —  Republicans are engaging in a very dangerous, high-stakes game that could easily backfire.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  The favorite in New Hampshire after battling to an effective draw in Iowa, Bernie Sanders has a real shot at the Democratic nomination.
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Sanders: There's a difference between “my socialism and Trump's socialism”
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:   ‘This guy has some guts’: Democratic establishment eyes Bloomberg as Biden falters
CBS News:   CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: In New Hampshire, Sanders' support v. Buttigieg bounce
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Buttigieg launches digital ad buy in Super Tuesday states
Discussion: YouTube and The Hill
Washington Post:   No, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not ‘centrists’
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Propose $4.8 Trillion Budget With Big Safety-Net Cuts  —  White House seeks savings through curbs on Medicare, Medicaid while boosting funds for military, veterans  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to release a $4.8 trillion budget Monday that charts a path for the start …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Politico and Fox News
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Washington Post:
Trump budget plan would fail to eliminate deficit over 10 years, briefing document shows  —  After initially seeking to eliminate the fiscal gap over a decade, the White House has found that target too elusive  —  The White House is preparing to propose a budget that would fail to eliminate …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Pete Buttigieg calls for deficit reduction, swiping Bernie Sanders  —  The Democratic presidential candidate vowed to focus on the debt even though he says it's “not fashionable in progressive circles.”  —  NASHUA, N.H. — Pete Buttigieg called on Democrats to get more serious about lowering …
Discussion: Axios
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump budget would cut $4.4T in spending, boosting defense while slashing safety nets, foreign aid  —  The White House on Sunday unveiled a $4.8 trillion budget proposal that would slash spending dramatically on foreign aid and social safety nets, while including $2 billion for a southern border wall …
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Republican Senators Tried to Stop Trump From Firing Impeachment Witness  —  A handful of senators reached out to the White House to warn the president not to dismiss Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union who testified in the House hearings.  But Mr. Trump went ahead anyway.
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CNN:   Unlike Trump, Vindman's conduct was unimpeachable
Sean Colarossi / POLITICUSUSA:   Lt. Col. Vindman Fights Back And Calls Trump A Petty Liar
Richard Galant / CNN:
Trump gets an unwelcome surprise  —  Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter.  We're looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets.  —  (CNN)It seemed perfect.  Everything was going Donald Trump's way.
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Man arrested after allegedly driving van into GOP registration tent  —  “Be careful tough guys who you play with!,” President Donald Trump tweeted.  —  A man has been arrested after allegedly deliberately driving a van into a tent full of Trump supporters who were working to register new voters at a shopping center parking lot.
Discussion: NB Blog
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NBC News:
Full Sanders: ‘I am in good health’ won't release additional medical records  —  In an interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks about his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post:   Bernie Sanders says he won't release post-heart attack medical records
Michael Graham / InsideSources:
EXCLUSIVE: NeverTrump-Funded Phone Calls Push GOP-Leaning Independents to Vote in NH Dems Primary  —  GOP-leaning independent voters in New Hampshire are receiving phone calls and texts from anti-Trump Republicans urging them to cross the aisle and vote in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, NHJournal has learned.
Discussion: Redstate and Outside the Beltway
Laura Belin / Bleeding Heartland:
Fred Hubbell caucused for Mike Bloomberg  —  Iowa's 2018 Democratic nominee for governor Fred Hubbell and his wife Charlotte Hubbell initially stood for Mike Bloomberg at their precinct caucus in Des Moines, the couple confirmed to Bleeding Heartland on February 8.
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:   Iowa caucus 2020: Inside the Iowa Democratic Party's ‘boiler room,’ where ‘hell’ preceded the results catastrophe
Jake Lahut / Business Insider:
Libertarian Gary Johnson offers ‘whatever I can do’ to help Tulsi Gabbard in New Hampshire amid third party talk around the candidate  — Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico and the 2016 Libertarian Party nominee, offered “whatever I can do” to support Tulsi Gabbard ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire Primary.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham says DOJ is handling information from Giuliani on Bidens  —  Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that the Justice Department is vetting information that President Trump's personal attorney has delivered regarding Hunter Biden's work on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
In the Long Run, Romney Wins  —  It is a useful exercise to think about our current moment not from where we are, or even where we will be in five years, but where we will be in 50.  Viewed from that perspective, the most important thing about the impeachment of Donald Trump will probably …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Biden faces competition for black vote in his SC ‘firewall’  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden is facing increasingly formidable competition in South Carolina, a state his campaign has long assumed was safely in his column and one he's repeatedly described as a “firewall” in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: Vox, Politico, NBC News and Associated Press
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Maya King / Politico:   With an avalanche of cash, Steyer surges in South Carolina
Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats' new fatalism after a week from hell  —  This was the worst week for Democrats since Donald Trump's election-night shocker of 2016.  —  Why it matters: In less than 200 hours, Democrats botched Iowa, watched Trump hit an all-time popularity high, debated ousting the DNC chair …
New York Times:
What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World  —  A city council member in California took the dais and quoted from QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about “deep state” traitors plotting against the president, concluding her remarks, “God bless Q.”
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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Anna Gronewold / Politico:
Pompeo to governors: China is watching you
Discussion: Reuters and Axios
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Political idolatry is the enemy of religious faith
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Voting Process Under Spotlight After Iowa Confusion
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Post Impeachment, a Key Republican Suburban Area Rallies Around Trump
Tom Towers / Dailystar.co.uk:
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Lev Parnas says he's got plenty of dirt that goes ‘well beyond’ Trump impeachment
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Discussion: The Hill
YouTube:
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Joe Biden has a few (actually many) things on his mind
Wall Street Journal:
The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
AIPAC apologizes for ads that called some Democrats ‘radicals’ pushing ‘anti-Semitic’ policies
Joseph Brean / National Post:
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