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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Ben Carson: Obama was ‘raised white’ — GREENVILLE, S.C. - Ben Carson is the only person in the 2016 presidential field who is vying to become the country's second African-American president. — If truth be told, however, he's not entirely sure he wouldn't actually be the first.
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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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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall — For months, establishment Republicans have envisioned the billionaire losing support as the presidential field narrows. — Jeb Bush's decision to drop out of the presidential race after a dismal fourth-place finish …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP wakes up to Trump nightmare — Establishment Republicans are reckoning with something they thought would never happen: That it might soon be too late to stop Donald Trump. — With the controversial businessman the clear front-runner heading into Nevada and next week's Super Tuesday contests …
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James Nash / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Eyes Nevada for Third Consecutive Victory — The Republican front-runner is ahead in the polls in the Silver State, but rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are not ceding the contest. — jmnash — Donald Trump is poised to win his third consecutive Republican presidential nominating contest Tuesday …
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Ben Domenech / The Daily Beast:
Why Evangelicals Are Born Again for Donald Trump — Why are conservative Christians embracing a vulgar New York secularist? Because the battlefield of the culture war has suddenly and irrevocably changed. — Southern evangelicals are the types of voters that Donald Trump was supposed to find problematic.
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Cruz Leads Trump in Texas; Rubio Lags Behind
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
GOP to Kasich: Get out — FAIRFAX, Va. — The Republican establishment …
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
At Nevada Caucuses, Donald Trump's Rivals Hope to Break His Streak
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz fires top staffer for promoting false story about Rubio and the Bible
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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Adan / Infowars:
Video: Obama Cracks Joke About Scalia's Death — President grins after cracking joke at late Supreme Court justice's expense — During his National Governors Association speech Monday, President Obama joked there was a lot to get done during his final days in office, including “appointing judges.”
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Joe Biden in 1992: No nominations to the Supreme Court in an election year
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins backs hearing for Obama SCOTUS nominee
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Joe Biden Argued for Delaying Supreme Court Picks in 1992
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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Jeb Bush's Campaign Died While Hillary Clinton's Lived
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Meet the woman funding the effort to stop Trump
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Bernie Sanders Thinks Pope Francis Is A Socialist, Too — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained why he thinks Pope Francis is a socialist and why he's quite fond of the pontiff's politics in a Washington Post interview published Monday night. — “Well, what it means to be a socialist …
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Exclusive: Watch Bernie Sanders call Pope Francis a socialist
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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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Gallup:
“Dishonest” and “Socialist” Lead U.S. Reactions to Dems — PRINCETON, N.J. — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have multifaceted images among the American public. But the most common responses Americans give when asked to say what comes to mind when they think of each are “dishonest” …
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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries — The oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries, and human emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible, scientists reported Monday. — They added that the flooding that is starting to make life miserable …
Maajid Nawaz / The Daily Beast:
How Obama Lost the Mideast to Putin — Vision, strategy, and courage might have prevented the disaster we see today in Syria. But those elements were nowhere to be found. — LONDON — The Middle East is in flames. Just as Iraq was President George W. Bush's catastrophic legacy, Syria will be Obama's.
Detroit Free Press:
Ex-Snyder aide: Financial focus led to crisis in Flint … Schornack predicts successful recall vote — LANSING — The drinking water catastrophe in Flint is the result of a failed model of trying to run state government like a business, says a former adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder …
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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.
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Sarah El Sirgany / CNN:
READ: Egypt toddler sentenced — Officials offered different explanations. — An aide to the Interior Minister phoned Ebrashy's show to say it was a case of mistaken identity. — The aide, General Abu Bakr Abdel-Karim, promised that Ahmed and his father would not be jailed.
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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 Limbaugh / Townhall.com:
Suggested Cruz Campaign Reboot: Show, Don't Tell — I don't believe I've ever presumed to offer unsolicited advice on campaign strategy to a presidential candidate, especially in a public forum, but I've decided to make an exception today. — I am an unabashed Ted Cruz supporter and believe …
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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