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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bush plans scorched-earth attack on Kasich, Rubio — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Jeb Bush is already laying the groundwork for a brutal South Carolina campaign against establishment rivals John Kasich and Marco Rubio. — In an internal memo circulated late Tuesday evening, the campaign distributed talking points …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP establishment stares into the abyss — MANCHESTER N.H. - For the establishment wing of the Republican Party, the picture just keeps getting bleaker. — Far from winnowing the crowded field of mainstream GOP contenders and allowing it to unify around a standard-bearer, New Hampshire thrust it further into chaos.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie expected to suspend presidential campaign — Chris Christie is expected to formally suspend his campaign later on Wednesday, according to a source close to the campaign, after finishing a disappointing sixth in the New Hampshire primary. — The New Jersey governor was expected …
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ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, Business Insider, WMUR and ABC News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and the Republican Establishment's Tragedy of the Commons — The richly deserved collapse of a rotten party elite. — “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the old saying. In the case of Donald Trump's candidacy, step one, ignoring, never happened.
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Hot Air, Lawyers, Guns & Money, American Bridge PAC and National Review
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Bush and Rubio race to the bottom — New Hampshire was supposed to be the nail Marco Rubio would drive into Jeb Bush's coffin. — Now, it might be the beginning of Rubio digging his own political grave. — The two warring Floridians spent much of the New Hampshire campaign eyeing each other …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Donald Trump's Enormous New Hampshire Victory Is a Crippling Blow to the GOP
Donald Trump's Enormous New Hampshire Victory Is a Crippling Blow to the GOP
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
Establishment Wrong Again: Trump Wins College Educated Voters In NH
Establishment Wrong Again: Trump Wins College Educated Voters In NH
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Jeb: I'm Not Dead Yet!
Trisha Thadani / USA Today:
About 10 show up to Jim Gilmore's N.H. primary party
About 10 show up to Jim Gilmore's N.H. primary party
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The Week
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
A Racist, Sexist Demagogue Just Won The New Hampshire Primary
A Racist, Sexist Demagogue Just Won The New Hampshire Primary
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Cate Martel / The Hill:
Jeb: New Hampshire has reset the race
Jeb: New Hampshire has reset the race
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Adam Edelman / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump wins 2016 GOP New Hampshire primary; ‘We are going to make America great again’
Donald Trump wins 2016 GOP New Hampshire primary; ‘We are going to make America great again’
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Bush Camp: Kasich ‘Does Not Have A Viable Path To The Nomination’
Bush Camp: Kasich ‘Does Not Have A Viable Path To The Nomination’
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Washington Post, BuzzFeed and The Week
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton allies grapple with crushing loss — MANCHESTER, N.H. - Both Hillary and Bill Clinton knew she would lose here — but not by this much. — Now, after a drubbing so serious as to call into question every aspect of her campaign from her data operation to her message …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Feminism, Hell and Hillary Clinton — I'm 51. My health is decent. And while my mother died young, there's longevity elsewhere in the family tree. — I could live to see an openly gay presidential candidate with a real chance of victory. — Will there be a “special place in hell” …
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Lisa Desjardins / PBS NewsHour:
PBS NewsHour obtains Clinton memo conceding New Hampshire, focusing on March — Hours before official New Hampshire results appeared Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook conceded to staffers, supporters and some reporters that the Granite State race was lost …
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David R. Jones / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Wins Every Demographic Group — Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among nearly every demographic group in the Democratic New Hampshire primary, according to exit polls. — He carried majorities of both men and women. He won among those with and without college degrees.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
It's Clinton Déjà Vu — New Hampshire Brings Snow and Rumors of Campaign Implosion
It's Clinton Déjà Vu — New Hampshire Brings Snow and Rumors of Campaign Implosion
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Bryce Covert / New York Daily News:
Of course Hillary Clinton is a victim of sexism: Bernie Sanders' supporters and others …
Of course Hillary Clinton is a victim of sexism: Bernie Sanders' supporters and others …
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Instapundit
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why Harry Reid hasn't endorsed Hillary Clinton
Why Harry Reid hasn't endorsed Hillary Clinton
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Reno Gazette-Journal and The Week
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
Hillary Says ‘People Are Angry’ in Bitter Concession Speech in New Hampshire
Hillary Says ‘People Are Angry’ in Bitter Concession Speech in New Hampshire
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Truth Revolt
New York Times:
The Clinton Team's New Hampshire Pressure Test
The Clinton Team's New Hampshire Pressure Test
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Iowa Democrats stonewalling on vote totals, but past numbers were available
Iowa Democrats stonewalling on vote totals, but past numbers were available
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Bleeding Heartland
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Funny or Die Made a Trump Biopic, Starring Johnny Depp — LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp has played a loopy pirate, a mad hatter and a demon barber. But will he be a convincing Donald J. Trump? — The humor website Funny or Die on Wednesday began streaming a 50-minute comedy that finds …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics — On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Democracy Won in New Hampshire — The tight grip of oligarchy upon the American political system slipped a little last night in New Hampshire. — On the Democratic side, voters cast their ballots for one of the most implausible candidates in modern presidential history …
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Political Wire
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Decisive Trump victory sends GOP establishment reeling
Decisive Trump victory sends GOP establishment reeling
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The Week
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Christie heading home to evaluate campaign's future
Christie heading home to evaluate campaign's future
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Hot Air, American Power and Politico
Fox News:
Supreme Court puts Obama's power plant regs on hold — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday abruptly halted President Obama's controversial new power plant regulations, dealing a blow to the administration's sweeping plan to address global warming. — In a 5-4 decision, the court halted enforcement …
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Explaining Bernie's ‘Socialism’ — He perfects the strategy of denying the funding dilemma of the welfare state. — In the 1940s, many Western societies began adopting single-payer health systems as a way to expand access to the relatively few things medical care at the time could do for patients.
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CBS News:
FBI unable to crack San Bernardino killers' cell phone — WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday one of the phones used by the killers in the San Bernardino, California, attacks remains inaccessible to investigators more than two months after 14 people were fatally shot.
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Brian Bennett / Associated Press:
FBI can't figure out how to unlock encrypted phone in San Bernardino investigation
FBI can't figure out how to unlock encrypted phone in San Bernardino investigation
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The Week
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: China should make Kim Jong Un ‘disappear’ — Donald Trump on Wednesday said as president he would have China make North Korea's leader “disappear.” — Trump, who went on the morning talk-show circuit Wednesday after winning the New Hampshire primary, was asked how he would respond to North Korea's nuclear threat.
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