New @ABC News/WaPo national poll of the Democratic primary: https://t.co/8gYT47XcP6

Sanders: 32%
Biden: 17%
Bloomberg: 14%
Warren: 11%
Buttigieg: 7%
Klobuchar: 6%

—@ABC

9:40 a.m.

Another encouraging turnout data point for Dems

NEWS: Stunning last day of turnout for Nevada caucus: Not
all ballots counted but the number Tuesday was about the same as the first three days COMBINED. Upwards of 33,000. So about 70,000 total.

Perspective:

84K turned out on Caucus Day in ‘16, with no early voting.

Damn.

—@RalstonReports

8:45 a.m.

A strange response

Bernie Sanders National Press Secretary @briebriejoy tells @johnberman requests for Bernie’s heath records are a “smear campaign” and says Bloomberg “has suffered heart attacks in the past.”

—@joshrogin

8:00 a.m.

sports

The Most Famous High School Basketball Team in the World

By Reeves Wiedeman

The children of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade play for the same L.A. prep school — and they’re not the only future first-round picks.

7:00 a.m.

vision 2020

How to Watch the Democratic Debate Tonight in Nevada

By Matt Stieb

Everything you need to know to tune into the ninth primary debate, the first to feature billionaire candidate and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg.

2/18/2020

department of justice

AG Barr Could Resign If Trump Keeps Tweeting About DOJ Investigations: Report

President Trump’s Big Day of Pardons and Commutations

By Matt Stieb

On Tuesday, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 felons convicted of fraud, drug trafficking, selling a Senate seat, and more.

2/18/2020

intelligencer chats

Are Markets Underrating the Coronavirus Threat?

By Josh Barro and Benjamin Hart

The outbreak has all but ground China to a halt, but so far the Western financial world isn’t panicking.

2/18/2020

Little reason for him not to be confident at this point

Sanders today, speaking with increasing confidence about the primary: “If win the caucus here we’re gonna do really well in South Carolina, California, in Super Tuesday. And if we do well on Super Tuesday we’re gonna win the Democratic nomination.”

—@rubycramer

2/18/2020

vision 2020

There Is a Case for Bloomberg. It’s Just Bleak As Hell.

By Eric Levitz

Democrats are mulling a big gamble on the power of extraordinary wealth to bend our democracy to its will.

2/18/2020

nypd

NYC Prosecutors Keep Lists of Police Officers Who Lie Too Much

By Zak Cheney-Rice

There’s no indication that these officers have had their other policing duties restricted.

2/18/2020

Drain the…never mind

Crimes of those granted clemency by @realDonaldTrump today:

-failing to report felony
-criminal financial schemes
-conspiracy to hack a computer
-tax fraud + false statements
-obstructing an investigation
-selling a Senate appointment
-drug trafficking
-Medicare fraud

—@Travis_Tritten

2/18/2020

politics

Trump Commutes Prison Sentence of Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

By Benjamin Hart

Open corruption in office? The president has some sympathy.

2/18/2020

As they say, shots fired

It’s a shame Mike Bloomberg can buy his way into the debate. But at least now primary voters curious about how each candidate will take on Donald Trump can get a live demonstration of how we each take on an egomaniac billionaire. https://t.co/H02radEZcv

—@ewarren

2/18/2020

the alt-right

This Obscure Foundation Helped Fund the Alt-Right

By Sarah Jones

A foundation funded by Seattle-area businessman Robert Rotella has helped keep organizations like Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute afloat.

2/18/2020

The very picture of discretion

Trump is asked if there is a search for anonymous in the White House.

“I know who it is,” Trump says.

Reporters ask who it is.

“I can’t tell you that,” Trump replies.

—@oliverdarcy

2/18/2020

coronavirus

Coronavirus Kills Wuhan Hospital Director As New Infections Fall

By Adam K. Raymond

The 51-year-old is among a handful of health-care workers to die in the outbreak. Thousands more have been infected.

2/18/2020

games

The Astros Cheating Scandal Has Only Gotten Nuttier

By Will Leitch

Everything we’ve learned about the story that is consuming — and revitalizing — Major League Baseball.

2/18/2020

Coming on the heels of a furious campaigned headed by Blagojevich’s wife

BREAKING - @ABC News has learned President Trump expected to commute the sentenced of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich via multiple senior level sources - more to come @KFaulders @vlasto & me

—@Santucci

2/18/2020

A catastrophe that is receiving little attention in the American press

CNN: The United Nations says 900,000 people, mostly women and children, have been displaced in northwest Syria in the last 11 weeks, could become the “biggest humanitarian horror story of the 21st Century.”

—@ryanstruyk

2/18/2020

In the annals of “didn’t see that coming”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump pardons Edward DeBartolo Jr., former San Francisco 49ers owner convicted in gambling fraud scandal.

—@ZekeJMiller

2/18/2020

democratic debate

Mike Bloomberg Will Be on the Debate Stage This Week

By Adam K. Raymond

The billionaire businessman will finally have to face tough questions from moderators and attacks from his Democratic rivals.

2/18/2020

Quite the juxtaposition in Israel