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3:45 PM ET, February 23, 2016

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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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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 …
Discussion: Vox, New York Magazine and Althouse
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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos and The Hill
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?
Discussion: 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.
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.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Four Problems With the ‘Winnowing’ Theory of Trump's Downfall
Discussion: Instapundit and Washington Post
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
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.
Adan / Infowars:
VIDEO: OBAMA CRACKS JOKE ABOUT SCALIA'S DEATH  —  President grins after making 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.”
CNN:
McConnell: Senate won't act on Obama Supreme Court nominee
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP Judiciary: No hearing on Obama court nominee
Discussion: Infowars
Associated Press:
GOP Senators: No Hearing, No Vote for Obama Court Pick
Discussion: ThinkProgress and ABC News
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:   Biden walks back 1992 blockade of Supreme Court nominees
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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Fox News:
Obama presents plan to close Guantanamo, move detainees to US
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on Submission of Guantanamo Closure Plan
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
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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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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Politico:
Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Ben Carson
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Marco Rubio Plans to Skip CPAC, Pre-Eminent Conservative Gathering, in 2016  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) plans to snub the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year, and won't show up at all, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Here are the Emails Between Rubio Campaign and ACU Regarding Rubio's Attendance at CPAC
Discussion: National Review
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:   EXCLUSIVE: ICE Officer to Rubio: ‘You Lied to American Public on FOX News,’ Challenges Him to Meet
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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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Clinton Still Leads in Texas, But Margin Has Narrowed
Discussion: KXAN-TV and Washington Post
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Spike Lee endorses Sanders, tells voters to ‘wake up’  — “And you know that I know that you know that the system is rigged!  For too long we've given our votes to corporate puppets,” Lee said  —  Washington (CNN)Director Spike Lee endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders …
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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.
Tatiana Schlossberg / New York Times:
Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful ‘Superbloom’  —  Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is currently a riot of color: More than 20 different kinds of desert wildflowers are in bloom there after record-breaking rains last October.  —  It's the best bloom there since 2005 …
Discussion: Mashable
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 …
Discussion: Jezebel, LifeNews.com and KTLA
 
 
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