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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The party decided in South Carolina. Nobody cared.
The party decided in South Carolina. Nobody cared.
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump rewrites campaign cash rules
Trump rewrites campaign cash rules
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Optimists And Trump Skeptics Are About To Go To War
Trump Optimists And Trump Skeptics Are About To Go To War
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Secret anti-Trump donor revealed
Secret anti-Trump donor revealed
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Elaina Plott / National Review:
Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
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ABC News:
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
ANALYSIS: Donald Trump Takes Ownership of Republican Party
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Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party
What Donald Trump's Win In South Carolina Says About The Republican Party
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
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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Jon Ralston / Reno Gazette-Journal:
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 …
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.
Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Why Nevada was a bad sign for Bernie Sanders's “political revolution”
Why Nevada was a bad sign for Bernie Sanders's “political revolution”
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders says lower turnout contributed to his Nevada loss to Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders says lower turnout contributed to his Nevada loss to Hillary Clinton
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
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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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump questions Rubio's eligibility
Trump questions Rubio's eligibility
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb — For Jeb Bush's campaign, August was a cruel month. Donald Trump's attacks on the former Florida governor as a "low-energy" politician were beginning to stick, and the two were bickering over immigration.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Inside Jeb Bush's $150 Million Failure
Inside Jeb Bush's $150 Million Failure
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Taylor Millard / Hot Air:
Why Charles Koch's awesome Bernie Sanders op-ed matters in future elections — Charles Koch has written an awesome op-ed in The Washington Post where he explains how he and Bernie Sanders actually agree on an issue. It's one of the very few issues where the Tea party and Occupy Wall Street seemed …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Zika has been linked to birth defects. Now it may be causing paralysis. — TURBO, Colombia - The Zika epidemic flaring across the Americas has produced several hot spots with large numbers of cases. But there is no place quite like Turbo. — The mosquito-borne virus has spread rapidly …
WOOD-TV:
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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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
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 …
Sam Adams / Mirror.co.uk:
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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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
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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NBC News:
Meet the Press - February 21, 2016 — CHUCK TODD: — This Sunday morning, another big win for Donald Trump. Now the undisputed Republican frontrunner. — DONALD TRUMP: — It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. — CHUCK TODD:
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Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
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.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
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 …