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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Cruz Leads Trump in Texas; Rubio Lags Behind … UT/TT Poll, February 2016 - Methodology UT/TT Poll, February 2016 - Summary — With a week remaining before the Texas Republican primary, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has an 8-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Trump's Lead Grows with Jeb Out of the Race — With Jeb Bush out, Donald Trump has widened his lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Voters finds Trump with 36% support …
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Political Wire, Talking Points Memo, Washington Times and Infowars
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
My very peculiar and speculative theory of why the GOP has not stopped Donald Trump — What if political scientists are to blame for his rise? — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's victory in South Carolina, his expected victory Tuesday in Nevada, his poll dominance in the upcoming states …
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Vox, New York Magazine and Althouse
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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New York Times, Daily Kos and The Hill
Mike Allen / Politico:
Koch brothers' D.C. guru joins Marco Rubio team — Marc Short, the Koch brothers' top political adviser in Washington and a trusted member of their inner circle for five years, is making a surprise move to the Marco Rubio campaign as a senior adviser as the Republican establishment ramps up efforts to stop Donald Trump.
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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.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kasich: 'I don't know if my purpose is to be president' — John Kasich on Tuesday told supporters he's not sure whether his purpose is to win the White House. — “I've gotta tell you, whether I'm president or whether I am not president, OK, I'm carrying out my mission, don't you think?
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The Daily Caller
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall
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Instapundit and Washington Post
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Nightmare builds for Senate GOP — It's a bad time to be a Senate Republican. — Justice Antonin Scalia's death has put Supreme Court politics at the top of the Senate agenda — to the detriment of vulnerable Republican senators running for reelection in blue states.
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Talking Points Memo:
Key GOP Senators Emerge From Meeting: No Hearing For Obama SCOTUS Nom — Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office.
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CNN:
McConnell: Senate won't act on Obama Supreme Court nominee — Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued his most definitive statement on Tuesday: There will be no Supreme Court nominee confirmed in President Barack Obama's final year in office.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP Judiciary: No hearing on Obama court nominee
GOP Judiciary: No hearing on Obama court nominee
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Flatly Rejects Hearing on Any Court Nominee
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Flatly Rejects Hearing on Any Court Nominee
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New York Times and LifeNews.com
Adan / Infowars:
VIDEO: OBAMA CRACKS JOKE ABOUT SCALIA'S DEATH
VIDEO: OBAMA CRACKS JOKE ABOUT SCALIA'S DEATH
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Associated Press:
GOP Senators: No Hearing, No Vote for Obama Court Pick
GOP Senators: No Hearing, No Vote for Obama Court Pick
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ThinkProgress and ABC News
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Here are the Emails Between Rubio Campaign and ACU Regarding Rubio's Attendance at CPAC — A minor firestorm has erupted on the Internet over whether Marco Rubio will be attending CPAC this year. The ACU (which hosts CPAC) released a statement to Breitbart News indicating that Rubio has said that he is …
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National Review
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Marco Rubio Plans to Skip CPAC, Pre-Eminent Conservative Gathering, in 2016
Exclusive — Marco Rubio Plans to Skip CPAC, Pre-Eminent Conservative Gathering, in 2016
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Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
The Ted Cruz Campaign Will Win Or Lose By March 6 — Many things about this campaign have been unfair, but are no less real for being unfair. One is that the primary calendar is not evenly distributed. As I have argued for months now, the front-loading of states favorable to Ted Cruz …
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Nick Visser / The Huffington Post:
Actually, Ted Cruz Does Want To Round Up Every Undocumented Immigrant
Actually, Ted Cruz Does Want To Round Up Every Undocumented Immigrant
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Todd J. Gillman / Trail Blazers Blog:
Ted Cruz tells O'Reilly he would round up and deport all 12 million who are in U.S. illegally
Ted Cruz tells O'Reilly he would round up and deport all 12 million who are in U.S. illegally
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Inside Marco Rubio's suburban strategy
The Daily 202: Inside Marco Rubio's suburban strategy
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Topeka Capital-Journal
Financial Times:
Bill Gates backs FBI iPhone hack request — Bill Gates has broken ranks with Silicon Valley in the stand-off between Apple and the US government, saying technology companies should be forced to co-operate with law enforcement in terrorism investigations. — The Microsoft founder took issue …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid
How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid
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New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday sent Congress a long-awaited plan for closing American prison in Guantánamo Bay, beginning a final push to fulfill one of President Obama's earliest and most troubled national security policy goals in the face of deep skepticism from many Republican lawmakers.
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Obama asks lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing prison at Guantanamo Bay
Obama asks lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing prison at Guantanamo Bay
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Halimah Abdullah / NBC News:
Obama: I'm ‘Absolutely Committed to Closing’ Gitmo
Obama: I'm ‘Absolutely Committed to Closing’ Gitmo
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, MichelleMalkin.com, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, Raw Story and Mediaite
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Issa Compares Obama's ‘Unlawful’ Gitmo Closure Plan To Trail Of Tears (VIDEO)
Issa Compares Obama's ‘Unlawful’ Gitmo Closure Plan To Trail Of Tears (VIDEO)
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Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. judge orders discovery to go forward over Clinton's private email system — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that State Department officials and top aides to Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether they intentionally thwarted federal open records laws by using …
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Political Wire, Guardian, Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge rules Clinton staff can be questioned about emails
Judge rules Clinton staff can be questioned about emails
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The Week
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Kerry: State Dept. staffers can't use private server
Kerry: State Dept. staffers can't use private server
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Washington Free Beacon
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.
Chuck Hickey / FOX31 Denver:
Dynel Lane, accused of cutting baby from womb, found guilty of attempted murder … BOULDER, Colo. — Dynel Lane, the Longmont woman accused of attacking another woman and cutting the unborn baby from her womb, was found guilty of six felony counts, including attempted first-degree murder …
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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” …
New York Times:
Donald Trump in New York: Deep Roots, but Little Influence — It is impossible to miss when you fly into New York City and spot the golf course in the shadow of the Whitestone Bridge. It is hard to avoid when you stroll along Fifth Avenue, or venture past the skating rink or carousel in Central Park.
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