Bernie Sanders hits 4 million donations, Mike Bloomberg files paperwork on his way to an announcement, the Senate impeachment trial might have a shorter timeline than expected, we now know how few people actually watched Wednesday’s debate, initial debate polling shows very minor changes, the Trump impeachment stuff in five minutes or less, Elizabeth Warren’s two-part plan to implement Medicare for All, and Pete Buttigieg campaign’s plan for preemptively fighting fake video.

Links:

• Chris Higgins on Twitter
• Chris Higgins on Instagram
• Election Ride Home on Twitter
• Election Ride Home on Facebook
• Bernie Sanders reaches 4 million donations, thanks in part to automatic monthly giving (WaPo)
• Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg files papers to join Democratic race for president (WaPo)
• Bloomberg FEC filing (FEC)
• Silver tweet on how official the Bloomberg stuff is (Twitter/Nate Silver)
• White House and Republicans discuss limiting impeachment trial to two weeks (WaPo)
• Senate Republicans Mulling Two-Week Impeachment Trial (NY Mag/Intelligencer)
• Democratic Debate Watched by 6.6 Million Viewers (WSJ)
• Who Won The Fifth Democratic Debate? (FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos)
• Key Moments From Hill and Holmes’s Testimony in the Impeachment Inquiry (NYT)
• Live blog of impeachment inquiry news, Thursday (The Guardian)
• Live blog of impeachment inquiry news, Wednesday (The Guardian)
• Fiona Hill Opening Statement (YouTube/C-SPAN)
• What’s next for impeachment (Axios)
• My First Term Plan for Reducing Health Care Costs in America and Transitioning to Medicare for All (Medium/Team Warren)
• Elizabeth Warren’s new Medicare-for-all plan starts out with a public option (Vox)
• Corse tweet re Buttigieg video (Twitter/Alexa Corse)

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