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JANUARY 21, 2020: _The New York Times_ issued a dual endorsement of Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. The Democratic National Committee announced a new delegate threshold for the Feb. 7 debate.

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“On average in markets around the country, prices for political TV ads have risen by 20 percent since Bloomberg began his campaign. Meanwhile, some local politicians have already found difficulty trying to reach their own constituencies.

‘I think we might have been one of the first campaigns to experience the “Bloomberg Effect” on prices, but we certainly won't be the last,’ said Eric Jaye, a California-based media buyer who purchased ads for Sylvester Turner, the just-reelected Democratic mayor of Houston.

The last few weeks of Turner’s campaign overlapped with Bloomberg’s massive November ad buy that covered all of the lower 48 states. His spending in Houston, priced at $1.2 million, spiked ad prices there by 45 percent as the mayoral campaign was finishing up.”

 – Maya King, _Politico_

 
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_The New York Times_ issued a dual endorsement ([link removed]) of AMY KLOBUCHAR ([link removed]) and ELIZABETH WARREN ([link removed]) on Sunday. “Both the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration. If there were ever a time to be open to new ideas, it is now. If there were ever a time to seek stability, now is it,” the editorial board wrote.

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MICHAEL BENNET ([link removed]) , JOE BIDEN ([link removed]) , PETE BUTTIGIEG ([link removed]) , JOHN DELANEY ([link removed]) , KLOBUCHAR, BERNIE SANDERS ([link removed]) , WARREN, and ANDREW YANG ([link removed]) spoke at the 2020 Iowa Brown & Black Forum ([link removed]) on Monday. _VICE News_ described the event as “the nation’s oldest and only nonpartisan presidential forum dedicated exclusively to addressing issues facing communities of color.”

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The Democratic National Committee released the criteria ([link removed]) to qualify for the EIGHTH PRIMARY DEBATE ([link removed])) on Feb. 7 in New Hampshire. Candidates need to receive at least one pledged delegate in the Iowa caucuses or meet certain polling and fundraising thresholds similar to the January debate’s requirements. Candidates have until Feb. 6 to qualify. BIDEN, BUTTIGIEG, KLOBUCHAR, SANDERS, STEYER, and WARREN—all of whom participated in the Jan. 14 debate—have already qualified.

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BENNET said his campaign had reached its goal of raising $700,000 ([link removed]) in a month by Jan. 16. The funds will be used to launch a TV and digital ad campaign in New Hampshire.

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Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz endorsed ([link removed]) BIDEN.

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MICHAEL BLOOMBERG ([link removed]) spoke about racial inequities ([link removed]) during a speech at the Vernon AME Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday.

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BUTTIGIEG campaigned in South Carolina ([link removed]) on Monday morning, including marching in the King Day at the Dome.  

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TULSI GABBARD ([link removed]) marched in the King Day at the Dome in South Carolina ([link removed]) on Monday.

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DEVAL PATRICK ([link removed]) appeared at the NAACP King Day Rally in South Carolina ([link removed]) on Monday.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) endorsed ([link removed]) SANDERS on Sunday.

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TOM STEYER ([link removed]) marched in King Day at the Dome in South Carolina ([link removed]) on Monday. He also spoke at a criminal justice ([link removed]) forum.

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Iowa Senate Minority Leader Janet Petersen endorsed ([link removed]) WARREN on Saturday. Joe Moody, Texas House speaker pro tem, also endorsed ([link removed]) Warren on Tuesday.

 
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DONALD TRUMP ([link removed]) spoke at the American Farm Bureau Federation ([link removed]) conference in Austin on Sunday.

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BILL WELD ([link removed]) will speak at The Press Club in San Francisco ([link removed]) on Tuesday.

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Associated Press: 2020′s first big test? Not Iowa, but a tiny Texas House race ([link removed])

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FiveThirtyEight: Election Update: The First Post-Debate Polls Are In! And They’re … Pretty Weird. ([link removed])

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Politico: Bloomberg’s massive ad campaign hikes TV prices for other candidates ([link removed])

FLASHBACK: JANUARY 21, 2016

Fergus Cullen, the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, endorsed ([link removed]) John Kasich.
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