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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Carly Fiorina won the ‘Happy Hour’ debate. By a lot. — Carly Fiorina was the only woman on stage at the so-called “Happy Hour” debate on Thursday night. She was also the only one of the seven candidates who made clear that she deserves more attention — and a more prime spot in the debates — as the campaign continues.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Fiorina stands out in Republican ‘happy hour’ debate — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina stood out Thursday in the first GOP primary debate, taking shots at Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton while showing off her foreign policy acumen. — Fiorina, the only woman among …
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Jessica Valenti / Guardian:
Republican debate: Donald Trump still focus of campaign after sprawling fight - live updates — Google has released its search data from during the debate, and the winner is ... the same man who's been winning search traffic for weeks, Donald Trump. — The most searched for candidates between 9-11pm ET:
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Donald Trump: Megyn Kelly ‘behaved very nasty to me’ — CLEVELAND — Donald Trump says he didn't get a fair shake. — Speaking in the spin room behind the debate stage, Trump said the questions he received from the moderators Thursday night “were far tougher” than those asked of the other candidates.
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John Althouse Cohen / Jaltcoh:
Live-blogging the first major Republican debate of the 2016 presidential race — I'll be live-blogging the debate here. Keep reloading for more updates. — Any quotes in this post will be written down on the fly, so they might not be verbatim, but I'll try to make them reasonably accurate.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump makes it clear that he plays by his own rules — CLEVELAND — From the first moment of Thursday night's Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump showed that he won't be playing by anybody's rules but his own. — He refused to say he would support the eventual Republican nominee …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Trump: Fox News Questions “Not Nice,” “Inappropriate”
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump wins the Internet
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New York Times:
Before Main Republican Debate, Bottom 7 Contenders Put On Brave Faces
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Ends With 'We Can't Do Anything Right'
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Ed Kilgore / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Had Its Own GOP Debate Agenda: Narrow Down The Field
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham gets America to Google him
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Race to 2016: Second-tier GOP candidates face tough questions in debate
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John Fund / National Review:
Clinton and Trump: Perfect Together
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Chuck Schumer / Medium:
My Position on the Iran Deal — Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views. — Over the years, I have learned that the best way to treat such decisions is to study …
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New York Times:
Chuck Schumer Opposes Iran Nuclear Deal, Shaking Democratic Firewall — WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Schumer, the most influential Jewish voice in Congress, said Thursday night that he would oppose President Obama's deal to limit Iran's nuclear program. — “Advocates on both sides …
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Chuck Schumer Breaks With Obama, Will Oppose Iran Deal — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post — Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post — New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the chamber's third-ranking Democrat …
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CNN:
Chuck Schumer to vote against Iran nuclear deal — Sen.: Pres. Obama treating Iran deal like a campaign 02:19 — Washington (CNN)New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, an influential Jewish Democrat who's poised to assume leadership of his party in the Senate, will oppose President Barack Obama's nuclear deal …
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Kirsten Gillibrand / Medium:
Why I'm Supporting an Imperfect Iran Deal — Beginning in 2010, I helped champion in Congress an aggressive and punitive series of sanctions against Iran because we faced an Iranian nuclear program that was spinning unchecked and out of control. The Iranian regime with a nuclear weapon posed …
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James Miklaszewski / CNBC:
Russia hacks Pentagon computers: NBC, citing sources — NBC News is reporting Russia has hacked computers at the Pentagon, with CNBC's Sue Herera. — U.S. officials tell NBC News that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon's Joint Staff unclassified email system …
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Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Hack ‘Most Sophisticated’ Ever
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Carly Fiorina Attacks Jeb Bush For ‘Foolish’ Comment on Women's Health — Carly Fiorina took aim at Jeb Bush on Thursday over the former Florida governor's comments earlier in the week in which he said he was “not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.”
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Judge asked to seize USB flash drive containing Hillary Clinton's email — A federal judge is being asked to seize the USB flash drive that holds copies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private emails. — Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman on Wednesday filed a motion …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Mystery solved: Fiorina's closing statement found in printer — A staffer for Sen. Rand Paul's (Ky.) presidential campaign says he found the closing statement from a fellow Republican candidate left in a hotel printer ahead of Thursday night's highly-anticipated GOP debate.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Donald Trump's Six Stages Of Doom — The recent polling surge by Donald Trump has launched a thousand stories about Trump's “unprecedented campaign.” But it's nothing all that unusual: Similar surges occurred for almost every Republican candidate four years ago, including Herman Cain …
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