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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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A Racist, Sexist Demagogue Just Won The New Hampshire Primary — Donald Trump seriously did it. — Washington Bureau Chief, The Huffington Post Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post — New Hampshire Republican primary voters on Tuesday made official their choice for president …
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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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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.


Donald Trump's Enormous New Hampshire Victory Is a Crippling Blow to the GOP — His critics thought he would fade away after his loss in Iowa. Instead he came roaring back. — About halfway through the five stages of Republican despair over the state of the presidential primary …
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5 takeaways from New Hampshire — BEDFORD, N.H. — If there was any doubt that voters in both parties are in an ornery, establishment-flaying frame of mind (oh, and there wasn't) Tuesday's First in the Nation primary demolished the last illusion that 2016 would revert to anything approaching a normal election cycle.
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Face the facts: Trump is winning — For months now, the leaders of the Republican Party have been ambling through a fugue of denial about the fact that Donald Trump is winning the race for their party's presidential nomination. — They know that nominating him would be disastrous …
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Establishment Wrong Again: Trump Wins College Educated Voters In NH
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Bush Camp: Kasich ‘Does Not Have A Viable Path To The Nomination’
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Jeb Bush Spent $1200 Per Vote In New Hampshire
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Christie heading home to evaluate campaign's future
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Donald Trump wins 2016 GOP New Hampshire primary; ‘We are going to make America great again’
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Jeb: New Hampshire has reset the race
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Fox News accidentally reports Donald Trump as the winner in New Hampshire
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Viewer's Guide: What to Watch on the Day After New Hampshire
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Will Marco Rubio's Fragile Appeal Be Shattered in New Hampshire?
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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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Of course Hillary Clinton is a victim of sexism: Bernie Sanders' supporters and others should scrutinize the ways they judge a female candidate differently — Does sexism have anything to do with the intense animosity some Americans, including some Democrats, feel for Hillary Clinton? Yes.
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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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It's Clinton Déjà Vu — New Hampshire Brings Snow and Rumors of Campaign Implosion — So, I was driving along somewhere in New Hampshire on Monday, the day before the storied primary. It was snowing, just as the clichés of the New Hampshire Primary dictate: It is always snowing in New Hampshire.


The Clinton Team's New Hampshire Pressure Test
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Bernie Sanders Wins Every Demographic Group
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Why Harry Reid hasn't endorsed Hillary Clinton
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Bernie Sanders's huge New Hampshire win exposes a fractured Democratic Party
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Hillary Clinton Backer Urges Pulling Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright From Campaigning
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Sanders defeats Clinton in decisive New Hampshire primary victory
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Bernie Sanders is the future of the Democratic Party
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Iowa Democrats stonewalling on vote totals, but past numbers were available
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The Kids Are for Bernie
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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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Obama's Clean-Power Plan Put on Hold by U.S. Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Deals Setback to Obama's Power Plant Regulations
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The ABC News Analysis Desk will be updating this page all night with live analysis of the New Hampshire primary exit polls. — Stay tuned! — Get real-time updates as this story unfolds. To start, just “star” this story in ABC News' phone app. Download ABC News for iPhone here or ABC News for Android here.
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About 10 show up to Jim Gilmore's N.H. primary party
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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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FBI can't figure out how to unlock encrypted phone in San Bernardino investigation
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Fiorina to continue on after poor showing — She didn't even crack 5 percent with more than half the votes in, but Carly Fiorina's team insisted Tuesday night that she would press on after the New Hampshire primary. — “We sent link to public calendar earlier today.
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This Is How Hillary Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants — Hillary Clinton's supporters often argue that mainstream political reporters are incapable of covering her positively—or even fairly. While it may be true that the political press doesn't always write exactly what Clinton would like …
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