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Jeb Bush Orders Across-the-Board Pay Cuts for Struggling Campaign — Bush's advisers, under pressure from their donors and from falling and stagnant poll numbers, came to the conclusion that a course correction was essential. — michaelcbender — MarkHalperin
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Carson surges to 9-point lead; Trump slides — Donald Trump is the biggest loser in the new Iowa Poll. — The pious Ben Carson has plowed past the braggadocious New York businessman to take the front-runner crown, unseating Trump as the most popular choice for president among …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush slashes pay, spending as campaign struggles — <p>Jeb Bush on Friday ordered a wholesale restructuring of his struggling campaign after suffering miserably in the polls despite massive spending and a deep donor network.</p><p>The campaign will cut payroll costs by 40 percent …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Surges Past Trump in Latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved into a dominant position in Iowa, surpassing former front-runner Donald Trump as evangelical Christians begin to coalesce around him in the state that will cast the first 2016 nomination ballots.
Bloomberg.com news:
Ben Carson Reacts to His Lead in Iowa Polls — Bloomberg's Mark Halperin and John Heilemann sit down with Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to get his take on being the new frontrunner in Iowa and how he might handle Donald Trump. The full interview will air Friday on “With All Due Respect” at 5 p.m. ET.
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb's Campaign Downsizes Staff At HQ And Cuts Payroll By 40 Percent
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Jason Millman / Politico:
Dr. Ben Carson's prescription: Abolish Medicare
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Democrats' Iowa Dinner Will Have the Sizzle of a Convention
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Trump nomination looking more likely
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Conservative pundits were not impressed with the GOP's disastrous Benghazi hearing — Hillary Clinton is a top-tier politician who's been the subject of nearly constant national media scrutiny for more than 20 years. She also happens to have worked at the House Judiciary Committee during …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
She Knew All Along — The House hearing on Benghazi reveals that Hillary Clinton's spin about the attack was a politically expedient fiction. — Thanks to Hillary Clinton's Benghazi testimony on Thursday, we now understand why the former secretary of state never wanted anyone to see her emails …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Trey Gowdy Says His 11-Hour Benghazi Hearing Didn't Reveal Anything New — Hillary Clinton had nothing better to do anyway.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Benghazi bust — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — There's a reason Benghazi Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy offered Hillary Clinton the chance to testify in a private, closed hearing. And there's a reason Clinton wanted to appear in an open setting, with the whole world watching.
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi Gang
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Erick Erickson / Erick on the Radio:
The Benghazi Hearing Should Not Be, But Is, A Waste of Time
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Washington Post:
The GOP's unfortunate Benghazi hearing
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton emerges stronger for next phase of campaign
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton triumphed at the Benghazi hearing by not losing her cool
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
5 takeaways from Clinton's marathon Benghazi testimony
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Washington Examiner's Byron York Says Benghazi Hearing Was A ‘Bust’
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Hillary's Best Week Yet
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Lincoln Chafee ends quixotic presidential bid — <p>Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee, always a long shot, dropped out of the race for his party's nomination on Friday morning. </p><p>"As you know I have been campaigning on a platform of Prosperity Through Peace," …
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Lincoln Chafee drops out of Democratic primary race
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Lincoln Chafee for President 2016:
CHAFEE WITHDRAWS FROM 2016 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL RACE
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Lincoln Chafee ends Democratic bid for president
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The Weather Channel:
Catastrophic Landfall Expected in Mexico Friday; Patricia Becomes Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded — {{wxnodeVideo.video.current.description + " “}} — A potentially catastrophic landfall is expected Friday evening as a very powerful and dangerous Hurricane Patricia moves towards Mexico's Pacific coast.
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NBC News:
Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Storm Ever Measured to Hit Mexico — Hurricane Patricia became the strongest storm ever measured on the planet early Friday with experts warning it could trigger 39-foot waves along Mexico's coast and “life-threatening” flash flooding.
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Taryn Luna / BostonGlobe.com:
Staples founder Thomas Stemberg dies at 66 — Thomas G. Stemberg, who cofounded Staples Inc. and invented the office superstore, died Friday at his home in Chestnut Hill, two years after he was diagnosed with gastric cancer. He was 66. — His death was confirmed by his son, Will Stemberg.
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New York Times:
Conservative PACs Attack Republicans, and It Pays — WASHINGTON — The petitions that started surfacing online over a year ago were as incendiary as they were urgent, begging recipients to sign up to “Boot Boehner,” “Dump McConnell,” “Drop a Truth-Bomb on Kevin McCarthy” and “Fire Paul Ryan.”
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Boehner appoints woman to lead Planned Parenthood investigation — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) will chair the new select committee investigating Planned Parenthood, Speaker John Boehner announced Friday. — Blackburn will be the second House GOP committee chairwoman …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
McConnell presses Paul to focus on Senate bid — <p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies are quietly ratcheting up pressure on Rand Paul to pay more attention to his Senate reelection next year — and less to his flagging 2016 presidential candidacy.</p><p> So far …
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Lauren French / Politico:
The fragile marriage of Ryan and the Freedom Caucus
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