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Protester gets punched at Trump rally. Trump: “Maybe he deserved to get roughed up.” — Yesterday, at a Donald Trump rally in Birmingham, AL, a local activist named Mercutio Southall Jr. started shouting “Black Lives Matter!” as Donald Trump spoke. What followed was a physical altercation …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’ — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says GOP primary front-runner Donald Trump is doing a “great service” by taking on the media and political correctness in his presidential campaign. — “Donald Trump is, I think, doing a great service,” Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Erin Edgemon / al.com:
Donald Trump says maybe Birmingham protester ‘should have been roughed up’ — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Fox News on Sunday morning that a Black Lives Matter protester thrown out of his Birmingham rally perhaps deserved to be “roughed up” for being “obnoxious.”
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump on rally protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’ — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Donald Trump said Sunday that the protester who interrupted his rally at a convention center here on Saturday morning was “so obnoxious and so loud” that “maybe he should have been roughed up.”
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump: My Fans Were Right To Beat Up Black Protester — After his supporters beat up a Black Lives Matter protester on video, Donald Trump suggested that they may have done the right thing. — The protester, a black man, reportedly started chanting Black Lives Matter at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturay.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Tweets Fake, Racist And Wildly Inaccurate Murder Statistics — Donald Trump, the leading candidate in the Republican presidential primary, tweeted a graphic with fake statistics about murders in the United States. — The statistics are also racist and wildly inaccurate.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt — Donald Trump's rhetoric since the Paris terrorist attacks appears to have helped him with GOP primary voters, according to most polls. But Republican insiders are concerned that his words could come back to haunt the party as it seeks to appeal to a broader audience.
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‘This Week’ Transcript: Donald Trump
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump: Open to Independent Bid if GOP Doesn't Treat Him ‘Fairly’
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Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants
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Donald Trump Says He Would Bring Back Waterboarding
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Carol Robinson / al.com:
Black protester attacked at Donald Trump rally called ‘monkey’ and other racial slurs, he says
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump leads, Carson second as GOP voters favor change over experience
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CBS News:
Poll: Trump retakes lead, Cruz surges in IA; Rubio second in NH — Donald Trump has returned to the lead in Iowa while Ted Cruz has now surged past Ben Carson into second place. Carson has slipped from a first-place tie into third. — While Iowa's Republicans generally feel Trump is ready …
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Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
John Bel Edwards beats David Vitter to become Louisiana's next governor — State Rep. John Bel Edwards, a relatively unknown Democrat from a rural Amite, will be the state's next governor after toppling Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., in one of the biggest political upsets in the state's history.
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
John Bel Edwards, Democrat, Defeats David Vitter in Louisiana Governor's Race
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Valerie Gonzalez / KGNS:
Five Syrians Stopped at Laredo International Bridge One — Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13. — According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security …
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Coming Soon: Eagles of Death Metal Speak Out for the First Time Since the Paris Attacks — While reporting on last week's horrific terror attacks in Paris, we realized with shock that the band playing at the Bataclan, the venue where 89 rock fans had their lives taken, was Eagles of Death Metal.
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Rex Murphy / National Post:
Hillary's hypocrisy — It's an odd world. Glamour magazine recently named the former Bruce Jenner as its Woman of the Year. In all respectable circles, she is of course now recognized as Caitlyn Jenner, after coming out as a woman. In this context, coming out is simply to be understood as an act of self-declaration.
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