“Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is ending its relationship with a vendor amid reports that the vendor used prison labor for campaign work.  First reported by The Intercept, the campaign, through a third-party vendor, contracted the services of ProCom, a New Jersey-based company that runs call centers out of at least two prisons in the state of Oklahoma,” CBS News reports

“According to the Intercept, incarcerated women in the Oklahoma minimum-security women’s prison, Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center, made calls on behalf of the Bloomberg campaign to California voters.”

“A spokeswoman and outreach staffer on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, A.J. Delgado, is suing Trump and his campaign for pregnancy and sex discrimination,” Politico reports.

“Delgado’s suit, filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, claims she was sidelined by campaign officials about six weeks after the 2016 election — shortly after she told senior officials that she was pregnant.”

Andrew Yang used a question in the last Democratic debate about being the only candidate of color on the stage to tell America that he “missed Cory” and then he made a prediction: “I think Cory will be back,” CNN reports.

“It was a human moment during an otherwise antagonistic debate, and it earned Yang, who has fashioned himself the nice guy in the presidential race, a hearty round of applause and an appreciative text from Booker, who, according to a source, thanked Yang and said he hoped to prove his prediction right.”

“His response also highlighted something deeper: An unexpected but honest friendship between the two presidential candidates, one who has failed to live up to expectations and another who has surpassed his. Yang and Booker have known each other for years, aides say, but their relationship has deepened as they crisscross the country — often times at the same events — to vie for the chance to take on President Trump in 2020.”

Greg Olear: “in the progressive college town where I live, one sees a lot of ‘Bernie’ bumper stickers on a lot of Subarus. Probably these are remnants of 2016, when the Independent from Vermont masqueraded as a Democrat, dividing the party and hobbling Hillary Clinton’s campaign just enough to fuck up the final tally. Although I held with HRC then as now, I don’t begrudge anyone who supported Bernie Sanders in the primaries four years ago, when we first became acquainted with the ugly font and awful shade of blue on his campaign merch. But to support him today, after Trump, after Mueller, is akin to insisting, on Christmas 2019, that despite ample evidence to the contrary, Michael Jackson is innocent, because you really dig Off the Wall.”

Washington Post:”The events were part of a high-dollar fundraising program that Warren had embraced her entire political career, from her first Senate run in 2011 through her reelection last year. Warren was so successful at it that she was able to transfer $10 million of her Senate cash to help launch her presidential bid.”

“But in the past year Warren has undergone a transformation, moving from one of the Democratic Party’s biggest draws at high-dollar fundraisers to a presidential candidate who has sworn them off as sinister attempts to sell access.”

A new Morning Consult poll finds Rep. Tulsi Gabbard surpassed Michael Bloomberg as the most disliked candidate in the Democratic presidential race following her “present” votes on articles of impeachment against President Trump, with 30% of Democratic primary voters viewing her unfavorably (+7% week over week).