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Good morning from Concord, New Hampshire. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post, and this is the

Daily 202 for Wednesday, February 12. In today's news, the Justice Department careens into perhaps its biggest crisis since Watergate.

Republican senators shrug as President Trump continues to escalate his campaign of retribution against impeachment witnesses.

And a scare in San Diego, as the CDC allows someone with the coronavirus to leave the hospital. But first, the big idea.

Democrats are bracing themselves for a long and divisive slog for the presidential nomination after New Hampshire

added new uncertainty to a race that was already scrambled by last week's

chaotic caucuses in Iowa. Bernie Sanders won here last night.

He has staked his claim as the favored candidate of the party's liberal win,

and he's now a credible threat to secure the nomination.

But his performance in New Hampshire was hardly overwhelming

and far short of what he accomplished here four years ago.

Yet if Sanders is the candidate of the liberal win,

those who are more moderate are still

divided in their choice.

The existence of that competition and questions about each of the candidates seeking to become

the alternative to Sanders heightened the discontent

about where this race might be heading. The likely prospect now is that Sanders

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