WELL, NOW I’M WORRIED: Chinese President Xi Jinping ‘confident’ coronavirus outbreak can be contained.

JEFF DUNETZ: Grasping Trump’s Deal Of The Century: Why Is This Peace Plan Different From All Others?

Perhaps the most significant and most crucial part of the deal is the economic section, which is also different than previous peace plans. During the announcement, Trump spoke of the $50 billion given to the Palestinians. But it’s more than just dumping money. Previous efforts to provide aid has filled the P.A. leadership’s pockets and done little to help the Palestinian people. This particular plan is more than a money dump. Based on Palestinian acceptance, the U.S. and other nations will help the nascent Palestinian State create an economic infrastructure that will guarantee the jobs and businesses that the territories now lack. For example, there are proposals for creating a technology industry in the expanded Gaza area and a joint tourism effort between Israel and the Palestinians. This effort understands that peace can only come if the Palestinian citizens have jobs and can feed their families. or, as Bubba Clinton’s former campaign manager James Carville was famous for saying, “It’s the economy stupid!”

The Trump “Deal of the Century” has its supporters and detractors, each of whom has taken their positions for the same reason. It’s different from the Middle-East peace plans they have seen before. Will it result in peace? That depends on the Palestinians. Do they have the courage to try and make peace?

Read the whole thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Knocks SOTU Out of the Park, Making Dems’ Very Bad Week Worse. “President Trump’s speech on Tuesday was significant however, signaling a sea change in his political abilities. It was like seeing a brilliant fastball pitcher suddenly take several miles per hour off the pitch and throw a devastating changeup.”

IT’S ON: Victory Lap: Drunkblogging the Pre-Post Iowa, Pre-Post Impeachment SOTU.

AT LONG LAST LIVE: Let’s Try This Again: LIVE 2020 Iowa Caucus Results.

Democrats say they have figures for 62% of the precincts. 62% of precincts could be a small percentage of the actual votes casts. Some precincts have 8 voters, some 800.

It at least looks like they’re gaming the narrative.

ANALYSIS: Iowa Caucus Disaster Hurt Bernie Sanders, Might Have ‘Screwed up the Whole Nomination Process.’

THE TRUTH HURTS:

Plus, a little something I made for Facebook earlier today:

Not yet, Joe. Not yet.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID: ‘Sensitive Content’: Twitter Flags Ad Exposing 2020 Dems’ Radical Agendas.

A BILL WHITTLE PODCAST: The Cold War: What We Saw | An Iron Curtain – Episode 1.

This is too long to embed here on Instapundit, but I think you’ll find it’s worth your time.

FINE. YOUR PARTY LACKS THE COMPETENCE TO RUN A PREVIOUSLY WELL-ESTABLISHED SMALL-STATE CAUCUS. HAPPY?

HMM: Sanders and Steyer closing gap on Biden as SC 2020 presidential primary nears.

Joe Biden’s hold atop South Carolina Democratic presidential primary polls has never wavered over nearly a year.

But the former vice president’s lead continues to slide with the South’s first primary just under a month away.

Biden, who once led by as much as 31 percentage points in South Carolina, holds a 5-point edge over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the latest Post and Courier-Change Research poll released Sunday. Biden sits at 25 percent to Sanders’ 20 percent.

Billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who has shown South Carolina is a top priority among early-voting states with his constant advertising, sits third not far behind the political veterans at 18 percent.

(Hat tip to Ron on last night’s drunkblog.)

Between this, that spiked Des Moines Register poll, and the ongoing chaos in Iowa, you don’t have to be paranoid to think there’s something shady going on.

SEE THE HOMOPHOBIA INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Video: Iowa Voter Freaks Out on Buttigieg Precinct Capt. After Finding Out Mayor Pete is Gay.

WHAT A MAROON: Never Trumpers Are Losing It: Steve Schmidt Says Trump Is an ‘Emperor.’

WELL, WHY SHOULD THEY? The Iowa Caucus Just Crashed and Burned and Democrats Will Never Hear the End of It.

Related:

“Claim.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Analysis: True.

Plus:

HEADLINES THAT DIDN’T AGE WELL: How The Iowa Caucuses Work — And Why They’re Important.

Also: Unprecedented cybersecurity measures being taken to safeguard Iowa caucus results.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Iowa Caucuses Winners: Trump. And Chaos.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: GOP the Big Winner After Democrats’ Iowa Caucus Cock-Up. “With the impeachment circus wrapping up in the worst possible fashion for the Democrats, this wasn’t the kind of publicity they needed. The party elders headed into Monday believing that a likely Bernie Sanders win would have been the worst-case scenario for them. Welcome to Democratic luck in the Trump era, ladies and gentlemen.”

I haven’t looked forward to a State of the Union Address so much since never.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK:

They meant well.

CROSSPOSTED FROM TONIGHT’S IOWA DRUNKBLOG:

Forget what I’ve been saying for months now about the primary schedule from now through South Carolina.

It’s all been torn up, blown up, reduced to its component molecules. And then the molecules were put through centrifuges, made into a nuclear warhead, which was then detonated over everyone’s campaign plans.

Before tonight, it was a fight.

Now it’s war.

And if I had to guess, it’s going to be a combination of the Somme in 1917 and the Fulda Gap in 1984 if the Soviets had gotten all frisky.

High-speed, digitally enabled, mass slaughter.

Who brought the Jiffy Pop?

How did I ever get so lucky?

LIVE: Drunkblogging the Iowa Caucuses.

Complete with a running tally courtesy of DDHQ, once the numbers start coming in.

A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU BEFORE THE DRUNKBLOG BEGINS: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Iowa Caucuses (But Were Afraid Someone Would Tell You).

If you think of tonight as a self-inflicted version of Rush’s Operation Chaos, you won’t go far wrong.

UPDATE: PJ Media Will Bring You LIVE Results from the Iowa Caucuses Tonight. Here’s What to Expect.

We’ve partnered with the Decision Desk HQ people, and they’re very, very good.

METAPHOR ALERT: Pork Plant Workers Turn Out for Sanders in First Caucus in Iowa.

(Hat tip, Scott Ott, who has the sharpest eye for irony.)

TRUMP: Pelosi Didn’t Want Impeachment, Acquittal Is ‘Her Worst Nightmare.’

Pelosi can’t twist arms the way she used to, now that the Wacko Wing has a firm grip on her party’s rudder.

MEANWHILE, AT THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Race Relations Have Improved Dramatically Since Trump Took Office.

Matt Margolis has the encouraging numbers for you.

And for PJMedia/Townhall VIP members, my latest on Joe Biden: The Eternal Spite of the Spotless Mind. “Trump’s a fighter unfairly called a bully. Biden’s a bully unjustly called a fighter.”

In case you hadn’t seen, Biden’s been getting nasty on the campaign trail again, this time with the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie.

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I’M NOT ABOUT TO TAKE PAKISTAN AS AN EXAMPLE OF, WELL, ANYTHING GOOD: U.S. whipping up panic over virus, China says, as Pakistan resumes flights.