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Sanders Campaign To Challenge Iowa Caucus Results

The Washington Post reports: The Iowa Democratic Party announced Sunday that Pete Buttigieg would probably receive 14 delegates to the national presidential nominating convention from last week’s chaotic caucuses, while Bernie Sanders would receive 12. The announcement came from state party officials nearly a week after the Iowa caucuses ended in controversy amid vote-counting problems and questions about the technology …

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Sanders Backtracks On Releasing Medical Records

The New York Post reports: Meet The Press host Chuck Todd today noted that in a Sept. 14 interview — prior to the heart attack in October — Sen. Bernie Sanders promised to release his medical records “before the first votes are cast.” “The American people have a right to know whether the person they’re going to be voting for …

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Sanders To Hammer Buttigieg On Billionaire Donors

Politico reports: “We are running all over this state, we’re talking to as many people as we can, we’re talking about what our agenda is,” Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “We’re going to contrast our view with Mayor Buttigieg’s,” he said, adding that “one of the areas of contrast is at last count” Buttigieg had about 40 …

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Latest New Hampshire Poll: Sanders +7 Over Buttigieg

CNN reports: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ lead in New Hampshire continues to hold, according to the second release from a tracking poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire for CNN. The poll, conducted from Wednesday through Saturday, finds Sanders with 28% support to former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s 21%, both holding even with their performance in the …

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CNN: Pro-Sanders Bullies Are “Swarming” His Critics

CNN reports: More than a dozen social media users spoke to CNN about their experiences with bullying by Sanders supporters. They described threats against family members, the creation of imposter accounts that resembled their own and what some described as being “swarmed,” where barrages of vitriol filled their Twitter feeds and inboxes for days after they posted something critical of …

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Buttigieg And Sanders Effectively Tied In Latest NH Poll

NBC News reports: Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg remain atop the Democratic field in New Hampshire just four days before the state’s primary and after the messy results that have marred the Iowa caucuses, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds. Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, gets support from 25 percent of likely Democratic primary voters in the Granite State, …

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Sanders: Pete Buttigieg Is In The Pocket Of Billionaires

The Washington Examiner reports: Bernie Sanders debuted a new offensive against Pete Buttigieg as the pair vie for front-runner status in New Hampshire. “I like Pete Buttigieg, nice guy, but we are in a moment where billionaires control not only our economy but our political life,” he said after reading news headlines about the mayor’s acceptance of high-dollar donations. His …

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Sanders Claims “Very Strong Victory” In Iowa [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: Three days after the Iowa caucuses, with 97 percent of precincts reporting, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declared a victory in the first-in-the-nation nominating state, though no winner has been officially named. Speaking at his campaign’s New Hampshire headquarters in Manchester, Sanders noted that his campaign was winning the popular initial vote “by some 6,000 votes.” “What …

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Sanders Raised Eye-Popping $25 Million Just In January

CNBC reports: Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign raked in a whopping $25 million in January alone and will use the haul to bankroll ads and staff across the critical Super Tuesday slate. The Vermont senator raised more in January than in any other month in the 2020 Democratic presidential race, his campaign said in announcing the haul Thursday. It added that …

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South Carolina GOP To Boost Sanders In Primary

The Charleston Post & Courier reports: A group of prominent Upstate Republicans is preparing to launch a wide-scale effort this week to encourage GOP voters across South Carolina to vote for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Feb. 29 Democratic primary, The Post and Courier has learned. The Republican plan to impact the Democratic race, emerging just weeks before the …

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Buttigieg Holds Slim Delegate Lead With 62% Reported

CNN reports: Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, held a narrow lead in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday night, according to a partial release of a majority of the results by the state Democratic party a day after an embarrassing organizational breakdown that marred the biggest night of the election year so far. Buttigieg was trailed closely …

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Bloomberg: Sanders Is Too Far Left To Be Practical

Jonathan Swan reports at Axios: 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.” Why this matters: While Bloomberg’s also seeking the …

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Biden Lead Shrinks To +4 Over Sanders In National Poll

Morning Consult reports: Heading into the Iowa caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden fell to 28 percent support among Democratic primary voters nationwide — the lowest share measured since Morning Consult began tracking in early 2019. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) trails Biden by 4 percentage points, the smallest margin recorded since early March. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg …

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Rashida Tlaib Sorry For Booing Hillary At Sanders Event

“I am so incredibly in love with the movement that our campaign of #NotMeUs has created. This makes me protective over it and frustrated by attempts to dismiss the strength and diversity of our movement. However, I know what is at stake if we don’t unify over one candidate to beat Trump and I intend to do everything possible to …

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Tlaib Boos Hillary At Sanders Campaign Event [VIDEO]

The Washington Examiner reports: Campaign surrogate Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Friday night booed Hillary Clinton from the stage of a Sen. Bernie Sanders event. With Sanders stuck in Washington due to the Senate impeachment trial, the campaign has had to lean more heavily on surrogates to energize voters in the days leading up to the caucus. Tlaib participated in a …

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POLL: Sanders +15 Over Warren Among LGBTQ Voters

Morning Consult reports: The Democratic Party is viewed as a coalition of different groups — African Americans and Jewish Americans, laborers and teachers — all organized around a series of particular policy concerns. Among them are LGBTQ Americans, who account for more than a tenth of the party’s primary electorate, Morning Consult polling shows, and are backing Sen. Bernie Sanders …

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Sanders Campaign: New Debate Rules Are “Rigged”

The Hill reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) presidential campaign ripped the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over its new debate qualifications, saying it is supporting “a rigged system.” The Sanders campaign criticized the DNC after it dropped the donor threshold for the Feb. 19 primary debate in Nevada. The move could open the door for former New York City Mayor Michael …

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Joe Biden +5 Over Bernie Sanders In New National Poll

The Hill reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 5-point advantage over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential race, according to an exhaustive national survey from the Pew Research Center. The Pew survey of 5,861 registered Democrats finds Biden in the lead at 26 percent support, followed by Sanders at 21 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …

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Sanders Raises $1.3M Off Anti-Sanders Attack Ad

The New York Times reports: A Democratic super PAC wanted to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential candidacy just days before the Iowa caucuses. It may have handed him a gift instead. Mr. Sanders’s campaign said on Wednesday that it had raised more than $1.3 million since it began fund-raising the day before off a negative ad produced by the super …

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Super PAC Raises Bernie’s Heart Attack In New Iowa Ad

Politico reports: A group of pro-Israel Democrats will begin airing an attack ad in Iowa on Wednesday that raises concerns about Bernie Sanders’ 2019 heart attack and calls him too liberal to beat President Donald Trump. The ad from Democratic Majority for Israel is backed up by at least $681,000 in spending in the days leading up to the Iowa …

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