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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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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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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.
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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kasich: 'I don't know if my purpose is to be president'
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The Daily Caller
Mike Allen / Politico:
Koch brothers' D.C. guru joins Marco Rubio team
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Ben Domenech / The Daily Beast:
Why Evangelicals Are Born Again for Donald Trump
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall
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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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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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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell Is Already Threatening To Block The Next President's Supreme Court Nominee Too — Just hours after Justice Antonin Scalia's death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that he would confirm no one President Obama nominates to fill Scalia's seat.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Republican Leaders Say They Won't Meet With an Obama Supreme Court Nominee
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Adan / Infowars:
VIDEO: OBAMA CRACKS JOKE ABOUT SCALIA'S DEATH
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP Judiciary: No hearing on Obama court nominee
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Obama asks lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing prison at Guantanamo Bay — President Obama on Tuesday urged lawmakers to lift obstacles to closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as he presented to Congress a long-awaited roadmap for shutter a facility he said symbolized …
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New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday sent Congress …
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Halimah Abdullah / NBC News:
Obama: I'm ‘Absolutely Committed to Closing’ Gitmo
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Issa Compares Obama's ‘Unlawful’ Gitmo Closure Plan To Trail Of Tears (VIDEO)
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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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
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Washington Free Beacon
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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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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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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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
ANOTHER GLITCH... RUBIO ROBOT Short Circuits - Repeats Itself 8 Times on O'Reilly (VIDEO) — Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Oh my... Man or Robot? — Marco ‘Robot’ Rubio suffered a glitch Monday on The O'Reilly Factor. — The computer chip repeated himself 8 times
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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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Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Conservative Writer Ben Shapiro Banned from CSULA — Early Tuesday morning, conservative writer Ben Shapiro revealed on Twitter that his planned speech on February 25 at California State University-Los Angeles had been canceled by the university's president.
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WSB-TV:
Business owner requiring all employees to be armed — GRIFFIN, Ga. — A local business owner with several offices in Georgia is now requiring all of his employees to get a concealed carry license and be armed. — After each employee at Lance Toland Associates gets their license …
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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” …
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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