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11:00 AM ET, February 28, 2016

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With All Eyes On Trump, Clinton Is Winning The Democratic Nomination — UPDATE (Feb. 27, 9:12 p.m.): We've updated the numbers below to reflect the latest exit poll data and precinct returns. — In South Carolina today, Hillary Clinton scored her biggest victory yet in the Democratic presidential primary.

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ABC News:

Black Voters Boost Clinton in South Carolina

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton's Winning Numbers in South Carolina Suggest Sweep in South — After winning South Carolina's Democratic primary eight years ago, Senator Barack Obama declared that “after four great contests, we have the most votes, the most delegates, and have the broadest coalition for change.”

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Associated Press:

Clinton cruises to big win over Sanders in South Carolina — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton sailed to a commanding victory over Bernie Sanders in Saturday's South Carolina primary, drawing overwhelming support from the state's black Democrats and putting her in strong position …

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
South Carolina Democratic primary results 2016: An overwhelming win for Clinton

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders on South Carolina results: ‘Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose’

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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Wins South Carolina Primary

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton wallops Sanders in South Carolina

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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Barack Obama's Heir

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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Hillary Clinton wins big in South Carolina, CNN projects

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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics: How Hillary Clinton won the battle for the black vote in South Carolina

Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
South Carolina Democratic Primary — Latest Updates

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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:

Trump Criticizes The Republican Party: It's ‘Not Being Run Properly’ — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized the Republican party on Sunday, and said that it was not “being run properly.” — Trump told CNN host Jake Tapper that he was representing “a lot of anger out there” …

Associated Press:

The Latest: Kasich: Romney Did Not Ask Me to Quit — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign as candidates in both parties look ahead to Super Tuesday, the biggest single-day haul of delegates on the election calendar (all times local): — John Kasich says Mitt Romney has not asked …

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John Cassidy / New Yorker:

Donald Trump's Business Record Demands More Scrutiny — On July 10th of last year, six days before Donald Trump confirmed rumors that he was entering the 2016 Presidential race, David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, published a piece at The National Memo that was headlined “21 Questions For Donald Trump.”

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Brian Faler / Politico:
Rubio, Cruz release partial tax returns

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard: ‘You Inspire Us All’ — 'You inspire us all.

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

As Trump rolls into ‘Super Tuesday,’ Rubio hopes to hang on … KENNESAW, Ga. — In the sprint to Super Tuesday, Marco Rubio is scrambling to parlay his newfound aggression against Donald Trump into enough support at the polls not to be overwhelmed by the suffocating effects of the celebrity mogul's insurgent campaign.

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Super Tuesday Scorecard: Big night possible for Donald Trump

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Kasich: I'll drop out if I lose Ohio

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Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
Marco Rubio Gives Democratic Strategists The Vapors

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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rubio's verbal assault on Trump continues, joined by seven-figure ad buys

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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:

Ex-CIA chief: Armed forces would have to disobey Trump — The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency said Friday that if the military would have to disobey Donald Trump — if he followed through on certain campaign promises as president.

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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:

Marco Rubio Pushed for Immigration Reform With Conservative Media — A few weeks after Senator Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of News Corporation's Manhattan headquarters for dinner.

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New York Times:

Hillary Clinton, ‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator's Fall … By the time Mahmoud Jibril cleared customs at Le Bourget airport and sped into Paris, the American secretary of state had been waiting for hours. But this was not a meeting Hillary Clinton could cancel. Their encounter could decide whether America was again going to war.

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NBC News:

Christie Campaign's Finance Co-Chair Calls on Donors to Reject Trump — Meg Whitman, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard who had an official role with Gov. Chris Christie's now-suspended presidential campaign, called his endorsement of Trump, “an astonishing display of political opportunism.”

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James Queally / Los Angeles Times:

Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed — A protester was stabbed at the site of a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim on Saturday. — Three people were stabbed and several arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

MSNBC to sever ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host's critical email — MSNBC intends to part ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network's treatment, insiders at MSNBC said.