Jonathan Swan: “Mike Bloomberg’s campaign feels corporate. It’s calm, orderly and punctual. His audiences clap politely, and you can’t walk two steps without running into a paid staffer with talking points. Nobody whoops or yells. Nothing is left to chance. No expense is spared. The candidate is self-consciously low-key.”

“After being immersed in Donald Trump’s freewheeling White House and campaign for more than four years, I found the day I spent flying around with Bloomberg’s campaign last week in California to be a foreign experience.”

“The scale of Bloomberg’s staff buildup and national advertising spend is unprecedented in modern American politics. His operation is coming to resemble his own personal political party.”

“He got 44.8% in 2018. He suffered the worst electoral defeat in the House ever… but yet, the media is going, ‘Oh, he’s so strong, he’s so powerful, he’s so this.’ No he’s not!”

— James Carville, in an interview on MSNBC, on President Trump.

Rachel Bitecofer: “Ultimately, it may be Bloomberg, not Biden that subverts Buttigieg’s already historic bid for the Democratic nomination. Bloomberg, like Buttigieg, has a complicated relationship with voters of color. But unlike Buttigieg, he has experience and a campaign war chest the likes of which we’ve never seen. At the end of the day, what voters are looking for the most in their nominee is reassurance that their long national nightmare will end and that is the message Bloomberg is selling. And he has all the money in the world to bankroll the effort.”

David Drucker: “With Biden’s poor showing in Iowa and his New Hampshire support diminishing, Bloomberg is beginning to intrigue Democratic officials.”

Politico: “Inside Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, Joe Biden is a shadow of the past. Once his chief rival in the 2020 Democratic presidential field, and the cause of so much presidential angst that Trump mounted a pressure campaign against Ukraine to damage him, the former vice president’s name is now hardly mentioned in conversations with the president’s aides — that is, unless they’re mocking him.”

“With Biden increasingly struggling … the Trump campaign is now salivating at the thought of what could unfold next.”

Politico: “Bernie Sanders was battered in Iowa with more than $800,000 in TV attack ads that labeled him a socialist and argued he couldn’t beat President Trump. Here in New Hampshire, the opposite has happened: The airwaves are free of anti-Sanders spots in the days before the first-in-the-nation-primary, and he’s watching the moderates shank each other.”

“Tom Steyer is largely training his advertising firepower onto Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden. The former vice president is mocking Buttigieg’s experience and targeting him in a digital spot. Fighting back against Biden, the ex-mayor says he’s tired of being a punchline. The strength of the Vermont senator — who is polling first in the state with Buttigieg closely behind him — and the sudden lack of resistance to him on the airwaves is sparking anxiety among some moderate Democratic leaders.”

A new Boston Globe/WBZ-TV/Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire finds Bernie Sanders leading the Democratic primary with 27%, followed by Pete Buttigieg at 19%, Amy Klobuchar at 14%, Elizabeth Warren at 12% and Joe Biden at 12%

A new 7 News/ Emerson College tracking poll finds Sanders leading with 30%, followed by Buttigieg at 23%, Klobuchar at 14%, Warren at 11% and Biden at 10%.

“Pete Buttigieg has narrowly edged out Bernie Sanders for delegates from last week’s Iowa caucuses,” Politico reports.

“According to the state Democratic Party, Buttigieg is projected to win 14 delegates to the national convention this summer in Milwaukee, while Sanders will get 12 delegates. Warren will receive eight delegates, Joe Biden will get six, and Amy Klobuchar will receive a single delegate.”

“Others have tried this tactic without success — remember Hillary Clinton? — but Mike Bloomberg plans to attack President Trump on his business record,” Axios reports.

“One difference: Trump’s pre-White House career can now be linked with his decisions as president. Another difference: Bloomberg will be making this argument as a multibillionaire who built a multinational company.”

“The crux of Bloomberg’s argument is that Trump has only ever had to think about crushing his next adversary in a deal rather than building a long-term customer relationship — and that this short-term, win-at-all-costs mindset defines how Trump operates as president, and with allies.”

“You know, I’ve lost a lot in my lifetime, like many of you have. Car accident took away my wife and daughter. Lost my son, Beau, like many of you have done. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand by and lose my country, too.”

— Joe Biden, quoted by BuzzFeed.

Los Angeles Times: “The former vice president was cloistered — seen by reporters but not available for questions — until his dire political situation left him no choice but to shed his front-runner’s presumption and show a bit of stagy swagger. Finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses will do that to a candidate whose White House bid is heavily premised on supposed electability.”

“For the loquacious Biden, standing in a campaign field office in a former American Legion Hall, it was like a dam burst open. Or a shaken soda bottle, uncorked. He talked. And talked and talked some more: about his rivals and their extravagant promises — ‘C’mon, man’ — about the absurdity of those crowded debates, where seemingly everyone and their brother has been allowed on stage.”