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Inside the Republican Party's Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump — The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak. — Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump's increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November.
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Rubio's verbal assault on Trump continues, joined by seven-figure ad buys — OKLAHOMA CITY — It was the biggest crowd Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had gotten in this state, perhaps a thousand voters filling the floor of a downtown event center to hear him. And for 10 minutes …
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Mother Jones and Politico


Will Conservatives Abandon Donald Trump in the General Election? — The New York Times has a big story this morning about the trials and tribulations of the Republican Party establishment in their efforts to stop Donald Trump. I would like to draw your attention to two things. First this:
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New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air and Gothamist

Jan Brewer endorses Donald Trump — Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Saturday endorsed Donald Trump for president. — Trump has made immigration a central issue in his campaign for president, vowing to build a wall along the southern border of the United States and promising to have Mexico pay for it.
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Outside the Beltway and CNN


Ex-Mexican President Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday kept up his withering criticism of Donald Trump, saying the GOP front-runner reminds him of Adolf Hitler — “He has offended Mexico, Mexicans, [and] immigrants. He has offended the Pope.
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Slantpoint, Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, Infowars and The Gateway Pundit


Donald Trump and Chris Christie Start a Bully Bromance
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Da Tech Guy Blog, Boston Globe, Associated Press, Politico, Taylor Marsh and Hit & Run

Trump faces wave of big-money attacks
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The Hill, NBC News, New York Times, Trail Blazers Blog and Wall Street Journal

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorses Donald Trump for president
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Joe.My.God., The Week, CNN and Mediaite

Chris Christie Delivers Major Blow to Party Elites Resisting Trump
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Politico, Red Alert Politics and WMTW-TV

Yes, Trump University Was a Massive Scam
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The ‘Stump for Trump’ Girls Just Said on CNN That Marco Rubio Had ‘A Gay Lifestyle’

Rubio and Trump now at war for the GOP's future
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Los Angeles Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Political Wire, Politico and New York Times

Donald Trump Might Not Keep Paying for His Campaign Himself, Chris Christie Suggests
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CNN

Sanders puts South Carolina in rear-view mirror — AUSTIN — South Carolina is holding its Democratic primary today, but you wouldn't know it just by listening to Bernie Sanders. — Jetting off to Austin from Columbia, S.C. this morning — before stops in Dallas and Rochester, Minnesota …
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Washington Post and Political Wire
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63,756 Reasons Racism Is Still Alive in South Carolina
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ThinkProgressPage Array, Daily Kos and New York Times

S.C. Democrats head to the polls; Clinton, Sanders head out of state
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Politico, New Jersey News …, Outside the Beltway and Common Dreams

What happens when Hillary Clinton crashes a bachelor party? She's in the photos.
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Taylor Marsh, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, Politico, BizPac Review, PAPERMAG and Tennessean.com

VIDEO: Bill Clinton snaps at veteran during speech: ‘Shut up and listen to my answer’ — The long hours and grueling pace of the presidential campaign may be finally catching up with a rapidly aging Bill Clinton. — During an appearance in Bluffton, South Carolina on Friday …
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Rubio mocks Trump for spelling, ‘spray tan,’ ‘Hair Force One’ plane — is running for president, but it sounds like he would settle for a Comedy Central special. — Rubio on Saturday continued his mockery of rival Donald Trump — , going after the businessman's spelling errors and “spray tan” at a campaign event in Kennesaw, Ga.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Red Alert Politics


Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper — Since 1995, durable goods (cars, televisions, computers and the like) have been getting cheaper in the U.S. That's even as the prices of services and nondurables have mostly kept rising. — In the chart above, prices are viewed using 2009 as the base year.
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Equitable Growth


Founder Of French Far Right Party Endorses Trump — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the larger-than-life founder of France's far-right Front National party, endorsed Donald Trump on his Twitter feed on Saturday. — “If I was American I would vote for Donald Trump,” Le Pen tweeted. “May God protect him!”


Seventh graders arrested, accused of putting pepper flakes in teacher's soda … Three seventh-graders at Deltona Middle School are facing criminal charges after allegedly putting crushed red pepper flakes in their teacher's can of Mountain Dew, a Volusia County sheriff's spokesman said.
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California Highway Patrol needed nearly four hours to catch a runaway ‘unicorn’ — A California Highway Patrol helicopter tracked down an escaped unicorn on Wednesday in Madera Ranchos. — When a caller reported a “unicorn-like” animal galloping down an open Central Valley road …
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The Cases for Public Investment — One of the annoying aspects of the Sanders/Friedman flap was the assumption of many Sanders supporters that anyone who doesn't accept extravagant economic projections is against a big program of public investment. Actually, it was destructive as well as annoying …
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Equitable Growth