Biden takes a break from New Hampshire Welcome to the Maclean's Politics Insider: America 2020, launched for readers who crave U.S. political news during primary season. If you want to receive this new newsletter, take no action, it will arrive in your inbox every weekday at noon. If you'd rather not receive it, please unsubscribe here. Being Biden: While media debated the question of who won Iowa, one thing was clear: Joe Biden was the big loser. And it gets worse — in New Hampshire, he'll be running against two Senators from New England and a former New England governor. Biden is so certain of defeat there that on Thursday he went home to Delaware to discuss his future campaign strategy. He also cancelled some of his ad spending in South Carolina and moved the money to Nevada, the next state after New Hampshire: the Washington Post took this as a sign that he "cannot sustain a run of bad news" if he loses badly in New Hampshire. Warren loses volunteers in Nevada: Speaking of Nevada, the Elizabeth Warren campaign has lost six campaign staffers since November, all women of colour who felt that some of the people they worked for had dismissed their concerns and made them feel "tokenized," though they added that they did not see this problem as specific to the Warren campaign. Staffers told Politico that these issues translated into organizational problems, particularly in trying to get the message out to Latino voters: Spanish-language literature didn’t arrive until late in the fall despite repeated requests from many staffers. There were too few Spanish-speaking organizers, the former staffers said, despite asking the campaign to hire more. They felt it was a constant battle to set up events in Spanish. Iowa 2020 = Florida 2000: We thought that after the candidates gave up and turned their attention to the next states, at least we'd eventually find out who won the Iowa caucuses. Maybe not. After four days of malfunctioning apps, errors and irregularities, the Associated Press declared that it would not declare a winner at all. With Bernie Sanders trailing Pete Buttigieg by less than 1/10th of a percent in the votes reported so far, and evidence that some of those votes weren't reported correctly, there isn't any meaningful difference between them. Both men have declared victory. DNC Chairman wants a do-over: So what do you do when your first primary contest went so wrong? If you're Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, you call for Iowa Democrats to "immediately begin a recanvass." This is not the same thing as a recount: a recanvass would only involve checking the results against the worksheets kept at each individual precinct. The New York Times later reported that Perez clarified his comments to say that he "only wanted specific precincts re-examined." No, the other Richard Spencer: The good news for Michael Bloomberg is that his presidential campaign got the endorsement of Donald Trump's former Navy Secretary, who was fired because he disagreed with the president over his decision to pardon a Navy SEAL convicted of war crimes. Being endorsed by a high-ranking anti-Trump Republican is perfect for Bloomberg's message that he's a Democrat whose appeal crosses party lines. The only downside is that the Navy Secretary's name is Richard Spencer, which will require Bloomberg to constantly remind everyone that he didn't get endorsed by the white nationalist of the same name. —Jaime Weinman | 
