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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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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 and The Hill
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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Washington Post, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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.
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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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 part 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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New York Times
Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Jon Huntsman: I could get behind Donald Trump
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RedState, TheStreet.com, The Daily Caller and The Daily Beast
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
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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The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
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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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Politico and Hot Air
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Joe Biden Argued for Delaying Supreme Court Picks in 1992
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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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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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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Clinton Still Leads in Texas, But Margin Has Narrowed
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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: ICE Officer to Rubio: ‘You Lied to American Public on FOX News,’ Challenges Him to Meet — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane is issuing a challenge to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) following Rubio's attack on the officer.
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Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Law Enforcement Sides with Chris Crane After Rubio's Anti-ICE Tirade
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Scared Monkeys
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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Politico, Common Dreams, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, Associated Press and Washington Free Beacon
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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The Week
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Exclusive: Watch Bernie Sanders call Pope Francis a socialist
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New York Magazine
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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Politico, Re/code, Taylor Marsh and The Verge
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid
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Althouse and Slantpoint
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.
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.
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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No More Mister Nice Blog
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Seeks to Force Apple to Extract Data From About 12 Other iPhones — The Justice Department is pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle …
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The Verge, MacRumors, Business Insider and Engadget
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