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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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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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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Trump has a stranglehold on the GOP nomination. So why isn't he getting credit?
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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New York Times:
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Head Toward Super Tuesday With G.O.P.'s Deepest Pockets
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Head Toward Super Tuesday With G.O.P.'s Deepest Pockets
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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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Elaina Plott / National Review:
Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
Following Jeb's Exit, Senator Heller Endorses Rubio
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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 …
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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 …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
GOP candidates chart different paths as race goes national on Super Tuesday
GOP candidates chart different paths as race goes national on Super Tuesday
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.
Barring a catastrophe, her nomination is inevitable.
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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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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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Maeve Reston / CNN:
Jeb's 2016 departure draws out Mike Murphy critics — Las Vegas (CNN)In the unsparing judgment of the Twittersphere, there was one clear loser after Jeb's Bush's graceful exit from the Republican presidential race Saturday night: political strategist Mike Murphy and the Bush-allied super PAC Right to Rise USA, which he directed.
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump rewrites campaign cash rules
Trump rewrites campaign cash rules
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Walter Smith-Randolph / WWMT-TV:
Alleged gunman worked as Uber driver during deadly shooting spree; passenger shares story — KALAMAZOO COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - In an exclusive interview with Newschannel 3, a passenger of Jason Dalton's details his Uber experience before Dalton allegedly shot eight people across Kalamazoo County.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Black divisions matter in Dem race — In all of Congress, only two Democrats have endorsed Bernie Sanders — , the independent senator and democratic socialist from Vermont. — How can that be? — Already, close to half of Iowa Democrats and nearly two-thirds of Democrats in New Hampshire …
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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 …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The New Shape of the Republican Race
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 …
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
U.S. Scrambles to Contain Growing ISIS Threat in Libya — THIES, Senegal — The Islamic State's branch in Libya is deepening its reach across a wide area of Africa, attracting new recruits from countries like Senegal that had been largely immune to the jihadist propaganda …
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
Demeaning The Office — When President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky was exposed, it was a new low for the office of president. It wasn't the first affair by a president (or Clinton), not by a long shot. But the fact it was with an intern and he committed perjury behind …
Anabel Hernandez / Los Angeles Times:
Murder, torture, drugs: Cartel kingpin's wife says that's not the ‘El Chapo’ she knows — She sweeps into the restaurant dressed elegantly in black slacks and a sleeveless, pale pink blouse, a white ribbon tied demurely at the neck. Her bag is Prada. If there are bodyguards, they have waited discreetly outside.