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What We’re Reading Today: ‘Moderate’ Dems, Broken China, Shrinkage … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Election 2020

Steve Bullock, Montana governor, joins 2020 Democratic field for president — USA Today

Report: Obama Loyalists Not Sold on Biden — Powerline

Green New Dealers Say Biden Isn’t Extreme Enough — Justin Haskins, FOX News

Trump’s Average Approval Rating Reaches Highest Point Since February 2017 — Hot Air

Corporations Already Provide What Liz Warren Decrees by Force — John Tamny, Real Clear Markets

Buttigieg receives 0 percent support from likely black voters in South Carolina: poll — New York Post

Where are the Democratic moderates? — American Thinker

China

Escalating Tariffs Test Investors’ Faith in U.S. Growth — Wall Street Journal

Republicans surrender to Trump’s China tariffs  — Politico

Finally a President is Addressing China’s Trade War on U.S. — Rush Limbaugh, RLS

Steve Moore Is No Free Trader Don Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek

Space

The Moon Is Quaking as It Shrinks — University of Maryland

Trump targets Pell Grant money for NASA’s budget boost — AP

Misc

Too confident? Trump faces a slew of foreign policy challenges all at once — Andrew Malcolm, McClatchy Newspapers

California descending to Third World status with planned electricity blackouts for up to a week — American Thinker

Yes, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, The VA Is Badly Broken — Sally Pipes, Forbes

Fake history: Rashida Tlaib’s grotesque distortion of the making of Israel — New York Post


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