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1:00 PM ET, February 28, 2016

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Alex Pareene / Gawker:
How We Fooled Donald Trump Into Retweeting Benito Mussolini  —  Is Donald Trump a fascist?  Experts, historians, and pundits have debated the question for months.  One thing has been certain for a while now: He tweets like one.  That's why, last year, Gawker's Ashley Feinberg created …
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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.”
Associated Press:
The Latest: Kasich: Romney Did Not Ask Me to Quit
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:   ‘You Inspire Us All’  —  'You inspire us all.
Brian Faler / Politico:
Rubio, Cruz release partial tax returns
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Super Tuesday Scorecard: Big night possible for Donald Trump  —  is poised to grow his delegate lead over the Republican field with a strong showing on Super Tuesday.  —  The long-time GOP front-runner leads in the latest polls in eight of the 11 states that will vote on March 1 …
Discussion: Hot Air
ABC News:
Black Voters Boost Clinton in South Carolina
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Wins South Carolina Primary
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders on South Carolina results: ‘Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose’
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Barack Obama's Heir
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton wallops Sanders in South Carolina
Discussion: Power Line
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, and Bernie Sanders  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON February 28, 2016 and it will be updated.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Trump takes command.
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Politico:
CLINTON'S ROMP ‘dramatically narrows’ Sanders path - MARCO'S VOICE MAIL infuriates Christie; Jeb call is brief — 2 DAYS to Turning Point Tuesday: Can Rubio eke out enough delegates to go on?  —  By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com)
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:   Despite Endorsement, Chris Christie Still Disagrees With Some of Donald Trump's Policies
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
As Trump rolls into ‘Super Tuesday,’ Rubio hopes to hang on
Dan McLaughlin / RedState:
Marco Rubio Gives Democratic Strategists The Vapors
Discussion: MSNBC and JustOneMinute
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” …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
From Obama to Trump  —  THE spectacle of the Republican Party's …
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
End the Superdelegates. End the Caucuses. For Democracy's Sake.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump won't disavow support from KKK, David Duke  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump wouldn't disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke's support for his presidential bid, saying Sunday that he knows nothing about the white supremacist leader.  —  “Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK?”
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James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Hit & Run
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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Andrea Vogt / Telegraph:
Italian city to limit ‘ethnic eateries’ after explosion in kebab shops
Discussion: Althouse
Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:
Hillary: 'We Don't Need to America Great,' ‘Instead of Building Walls, We Need To Be Tearing Down Barriers’
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Kasich: I'll drop out if I lose Ohio
Discussion: RedState
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Aaron Carter endorses Trump for president
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Orlando Sentinel:
Seventh graders arrested, accused of putting pepper flakes in teacher's soda
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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