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Release Detail  —  February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Primary As Biden Falls, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Bloomberg Rises In Primary, Runs Strong Against Trump  —  In the wake of the Iowa caucuses and heading into the New Hampshire primary …
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CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third  —  BOSTON (CBS) - This New Hampshire primary has been a rollercoaster ride, with one last hairpin turn in the final night of the exclusive WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University tracking poll.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem  —  They're niche candidates.  —  ROCHESTER, N.H.—Like last week's muddled Iowa caucus, tomorrow's New Hampshire primary may reveal as much about the limits of the leading Democratic candidates as it does their strengths.
Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   The billionaires may be accelerating a Biden collapse
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Associated Press:   Joe Biden downplays New Hampshire amid last-minute scramble
Ezra Klein / Vox:   Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and America's politics of epiphany
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is right.  We might have to impeach him again.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  “So we'll probably have to do it again.”  —  So said the already-once-impeached President Trump on Thursday in the East Room …
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Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Tulsi Gabbard Defends Donald Trump Firing Alexander Vindman: ‘Whether People Like It or Not, There Are Consequences to Elections’  —  In breaking with some of her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Tulsi Gabbard defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC  —  President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.  —  Officials confirmed that Trump …
Washington Post:
Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani's information on Bidens  —  Attorney General William P. Barr acknowledged Monday that the Justice Department would evaluate material that Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lindsey Graham Implicates William Barr in Massive Scandal, on Live Television  —  Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Face the Nation and blurted out an apparent confession of what, if true, would be a scandal of Nixonian proportions.  Graham reported he had spoken with Attorney General William Barr that morning.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Prosecutors recommend Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison  —  Federal prosecutors recommended in a sentencing memo filed Monday that Trump associate Roger Stone serve 87-108 months in prison — or 7-9 years — for crimes that include obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone deserves 7 to 9 years prison for lying to Congress in Russia probe, U.S. says in sentencing recommendation for Trump confidant  —  Federal prosecutors on Monday said longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone deserves a sentence of 7 to 9 years in prison for lying to Congress and tampering …
Discussion: Palmer Report and Joe.My.God.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   Prosecutors ask for 7 to 9 years in prison for Roger Stone
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that  —  President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a White House session with the state governors on February 10, 2020.  Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images  —  The president is either brazenly lying about his 2021 budget or doesn't know what's in it.
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Baltimore Sun:   Trump's proposed budget is a deeply cynical document | COMMENTARY
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
DHS Considered How To Punish States That Deny Access To Driver Records, A Memo Says  —  The Trump administration drafted a slew of plans to consider not only circumventing state laws limiting the Department of Homeland Security's access to driver records, but to retaliate against states …
Discussion: The Hill and Newsy
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two nonprofits were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 100 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack - officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
Discussion: CNN, The Week and Washington Post
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Trump world's latest attack on Romney: Tie him to Burisma  —  The MAGA machine is attempting to turn President Donald Trump's latest nemesis — Sen. Mitt Romney — into the next Hunter Biden.  —  Trump in recent days took a new turn in his attacks on the Utah senator, veering from assailing …
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon budget shows what new Air Force One paint job will look like  —  The Pentagon on Monday revealed the final paint job plans for the revamped Air Force One presidential aircraft — a red, white and blue style reminiscent of the planes in President Trump's former airline.
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Ryan McCrimmon / Politico:
The quirky, the odd and the baffling in the Trump budget shuffle
Discussion: The Hill, The Verge and Bloomberg
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
1 A Slow-Motion Looting  —  OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot.  Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Michael Bloomberg's “be boring” campaign  —  Mike Bloomberg's campaign feels corporate.  It's calm, orderly and punctual.  His audiences clap politely, and you can't walk two steps without running into a paid staffer with talking points.  Nobody whoops or yells.
Discussion: CNN, Politico and The Hill
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Dylan Brogan / Isthmus:
When money is no object  —  Billionaire Mike Bloomberg recruits …
Discussion: The Hill
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
As Louisiana GOP censures Mitt Romney, David Duke laughs  —  The same Louisiana Republican Party that 30 years ago refused to censure former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke decided last Saturday to censure Sen. Mitt Romney.  —  The mind reels.  The stomach sickens.
Lee / The Mind Shield:
Republican leaders in SC, are urging GOP voters to vote for Bernie Sanders in the state's Democratic primary.  —  A group of prominent upstate Republican leaders in South Carolina is planning to disrupt the ‘first in the South’ primary by urging GOP voters in the state to vote for Senator Bernie Sanders …
Discussion: Politico, The Atlantic and Bloomberg
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Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him
W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Exclusive: Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite, General Says  —  A pair of Russian satellites are tailing a multibillion-dollar U.S. spy satellite hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface, a top U.S. military commander tells TIME, underscoring a growing threat …
Discussion: SpaceNews.com and UPI
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Bernie Bros and the Internet of Beefs  —  What if Bernie Sanders' internet mobs are an asset, and not a liability?  —  1. Bernie's Bros  —  I was reading the 417th piece about how Bernie supporters form online mobs that are basically the mirror-image of Twitter MAGA world.  —  It's this one, from CNN:
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Raw Story and Mediaite
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake  —  The scene is one many of us have somewhere in our family history: Dozens of people celebrating Thanksgiving or some other holiday around a makeshift stretch of family tables—siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts.  The grandparents are telling the old family stories for the 37th time.
Douglas London / Just Security:
The CIA in the Age of Trump  —  It was just shy of 6 a.m. when the secure phone rang.  Like many of CIA's senior operations managers, I had arrived early that morning to catch up on overnight events so as to prep my boss for his morning meeting with the director.  At the time, that was Mike Pompeo.
Discussion: Raw Story
KCCI-TV:
Former Gov. Vilsack claims $150,000 Powerball prize  —  He never thought he would win, but it didn't stop him from playing.  —  Iowa Lottery officials said Monday that former Gov. Tom Vilsack has claimed a $150,000 Powerball prize Monday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.
Sophia Tareen / Associated Press:
Voter registration error risks deportation for immigrants  —  CHICAGO (AP) — The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver's license upended her life.  When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal battles and eventually deportation.
 
 
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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
There are Democrats who can win 2020 election, billionaire Trump-ally Tom Barrack says
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HuffPost:
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Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
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South Dakota's trans health bill is effectively dead, opponents say
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Florida Bar investigating Ross Spano for campaign finance violations from irregular loans
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