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Trump poised to step on the GOP accelerator — GOP delegate selection process favors front-runners — Nevada caucus up next; Trump favored He leads in 8 of the next states — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Things sure look good for Donald Trump. — The Republican presidential race expanded across …
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GOP candidates chart different paths as race goes national on Super Tuesday — LAS VEGAS — After coursing through the first three intimate contests, the Republican presidential race is now accelerating to full throttle, becoming a truly national election that appears to favor celebrity front …


Exclusive: Mitt Romney To Endorse Marco Rubio — The establishment wagons are circling. — Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — COLUMBIA, S.C. — In a major development in the Republican presidential race, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney will endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) …

Trump rewrites campaign cash rules — The candidates for president and their big-money allies have spent more than $682 million through the end of January, according to federal disclosures. — But money hasn't bought success. — There's one area where Donald Trump is badly trailing the field …
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Trump Optimists And Trump Skeptics Are About To Go To War
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Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Head Toward Super Tuesday With G.O.P.'s Deepest Pockets
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Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
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Secret anti-Trump donor revealed
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What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party
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ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
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If Trump's foes don't unite soon, it's a Don deal
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Evangelicals Give Big South Carolina Kiss To Donald Trump
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Ralston Reports: ‘Reid-Culinary bond’ won Nevada for Clinton — I'd like to congratulate the winner of the Nevada Democratic caucus: Harry Reid. — What's that, you say? Reid wasn't running? What am I talking about? — Saturday may well be the day that altered the course …
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Sanders has the resources and a plan to go the distance. Will it matter? — Bernie Sanders, his momentum slowed by a loss to Hillary Clinton in Nevada, faces two tests in the weeks ahead: parceling out his formidable resources to the states that offer his best targets …
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Why Nevada was a bad sign for Bernie Sanders's “political revolution”
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Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.
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Glenn Beck Responds to South Carolina Primary Results: ‘Join Me’ in a ‘Fast for Ted Cruz’
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Bernie Sanders says lower turnout contributed to his Nevada loss to Hillary Clinton
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Sanders blames Nevada loss on turnout
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Now Trump ‘Not Sure’ If Rubio's Eligible to Be President (UPDATED) — Donald Trump slyly raised questions this morning about Marco Rubio's eligibility to be president. — Yesterday, Trump retweeted something a supporter sent to him that seemed to gin up questions about Rubio's eligibility to be president in addition to Ted Cruz's:
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Trump questions Rubio's eligibility
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Police: Kzoo shooting suspect was Uber driver — KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The man suspected of shooting eight people in the Kalamazoo area, killing six, was an Uber driver who was apparently taking fares in between opening fire at various locations, police tell 24 Hour News 8.
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Jason Dalton: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Email Follow — Jason Dalton, 45, is accused of killing seven people in a random shooting spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Kalamazoo Sheriff's Department photo) — A 45-year-old man from Kalamazoo is suspected of killing six people …


The New Shape of the Republican Race — After his solid, broadly based victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Donald Trump now holds a commanding position in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. — But Trump still faces two “known unknowns,” to borrow the memorable phrase …

Looking Back — Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed. Belligerent with his colleagues …
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Crowd CHEERS as Germany migrant hostel is burned out - and even try to stop firefighters battling the blaze — The blaze in the town of Bautzen early this morning caused serious damage to the former hotel which was being converted — A crowd is reported to have cheered as a building designated …
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16 Years After Bush v. Gore, Still Wrestling With Ballot-Box Rules — Reflecting on baseball attendance, the philosopher Yogi Berra observed that “if people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?” He could have said much the same thing about the American electorate.


Trump win confounds critics who thought gaffes would do him in — SPARTANBURG, S.C. — For months, Donald Trump's antagonists in rival campaigns, in the GOP establishment and in the punditocracy have believed the time would come, someday, when Trump would say something so outrageous …