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Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz tells O'Reilly he would round up and deport all 12 million — updated at 10:30 pm with comment from Cruz spokeswoman. — WASHINGTON -Ted Cruz said tonight that he would use federal immigration officers to round up and deport all 12 million people in the country illegally …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP to Kasich: Get out — FAIRFAX, Va. — The Republican establishment has a message for John Kasich: get out, and get out of Marco Rubio's way. — A string of elected officials, GOP insiders and prominent donors officially threw their support behind Rubio on Monday, calling him their last chance to take down Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Jeb Bush's Campaign Died While Hillary Clinton's Lived — The two dynastic candidates turned out not to be alike. — Throughout 2015, news coverage of Jeb Bush tended to bracket him as his party's dynastic counterpart to Hillary Clinton. He was the boring, preordained candidate of his party's power structure.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Cruz lurches right on immigration — Ted Cruz would use Immigration and Customs Enforcement to search for and ultimately help deport 12 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally if elected president. — In an interview with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Monday night, the Texas senator …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible — Ted Cruz on Monday asked for the resignation of top aide Rick Tyler, who he accused of a “grave error of judgment” for promoting a false story that questioned Marco Rubio's faith.
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Graham floats Rubio-Kasich ticket
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Ted Cruz just fired a top aide for spreading a bogus story about Marco Rubio
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority of Public Wants Senate to Act on Obama's Court Nominee — Most opponents reject hearings no matter whom Obama nominates — In the high-stakes battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, a majority of Americans (56%) say the Senate should hold hearings …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Joe Biden Argued for Delaying Supreme Court Picks in 1992 — WASHINGTON — As a senator more than two decades ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. argued that President George Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, should one arise, until the presidential election was over …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Game over: Joe Biden says in 1992 that the president shouldn't name a SCOTUS nominee …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Attorney Claims Scalia's Votes In Pending Cases Should Still Count
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Benny Johnson / Independent Journal Review:
Actor Adam Baldwin Quits Twitter “For Good” In Protest Of The Platform Censoring Conservatives — Actor Adam Baldwin has quit Twitter and he isn't coming back. — Baldwin, who currently stars in the TNT hit show ‘The Last Ship,’ tells Independent Journal Review that Twitter's new policy …
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Todd Starnes / Reuters:
Chick-fil-A flap rocks another American university — The war on poultry rages on yet another public university campus - this time at the University of Nebraska - Kearney. — The hullabaloo started last January when students were asked to select a new dining option for the student union.
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Reporter's Notebook: Voters Might Not Miss Jeb Bush, but Campaign Reporters Will — Voters Might Not Miss Jeb Bush, but Campaign Reporters Will — Jeb Bush was like a goofy dad, an awkward uncle. He spoke to children like adults and told jokes that made no sense.
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Senator Claire McCaskill:
I very recently learned that I have breast cancer. — I very recently learned that I have breast cancer. It was detected through a regular mammogram. It's a little scary, but my prognosis is good and I expect a full recovery. I will be in St Louis for the next 3 weeks receiving treatment.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
More Support for Justice Department Than for Apple in Dispute Over Unlocking iPhone — Slight partisan differences in views of issue — As the standoff between the Department of Justice and Apple Inc. continues over an iPhone used by one of the suspects in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks …
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David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Pew survey: More Americans say Apple should unlock terrorist's iPhone
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Business Insider, NBC News and The Verge
Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Jon Huntsman: I could get behind Donald Trump — The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. The author works at the institute. — Chicago (CNN)Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman …
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The Daily Caller and Guardian
Andy Cush / Gawker:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Chatting With Morning Joe Hosts: “You Had Me Almost As a Legendary Figure” — The comedian and radio show host Harry Shearer has audio of what sure sounds like a casual off-the-air exchange between Donald Trump and Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Hot Air, Washington Post, Mediaite and Mother Jones
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Hot Mic Captures Trump Asking ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts For No ‘Too Hard’ Questions (AUDIO)
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RedState and Hullabaloo
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson and the missing $100 million — It's one of the biggest mysteries in Republican circles: Why has Sheldon Adelson who spent upward of $100 million during the previous presidential campaign suddenly stopped pouring huge sums of money into politics?
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Guardian
Los Angeles Times:
Republican voter registration tanks in California as more voters than ever don't affiliate with a party — Californians may be more disenchanted with political party labels than at any time in modern history, as new voter registration data show another shift away from party affiliation coming …
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The Week
Ellie Zolfagharifard For / Daily Mail:
Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk falls into the ocean: Nasa reports huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic — A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month - and went almost unseen. — The event took place on February 6 at 14:00 UTC when a meteor exploded …
David McCabe / The Hill:
Clinton-Sanders battle stirs passionate Facebook debate — The Democratic primary fight between Hillary Clinton — is spilling over to Facebook, where supporters of both candidates are engaged in a passionate debate over who should be the party's standard-bearer this fall.
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