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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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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 …
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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)
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As Trump rolls into ‘Super Tuesday,’ Rubio hopes to hang on
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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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Clinton cruises to big win over Sanders in South Carolina
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Black Voters Boost Clinton in South Carolina
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Sanders on South Carolina results: ‘Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose’
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South Carolina Democratic primary results 2016: An overwhelming win for Clinton
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Hillary Clinton wins big in South Carolina, CNN projects
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South Carolina Democratic Primary — Latest Updates
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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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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 …


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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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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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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Rubio, Cruz release partial tax returns
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Marco Rubio Gives Democratic Strategists The Vapors
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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.


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.

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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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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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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From Obama to Trump — THE spectacle of the Republican Party's Trumpian meltdown has inspired a mix of glee and fear among liberals — glee over their rivals' self-immolation, and fear that what arises from the destruction will be worse. — What it hasn't inspired is much in the way of self-examination …
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End the Superdelegates. End the Caucuses. For Democracy's Sake.
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‘You Inspire Us All’ — 'You inspire us all. " With that fulsome greeting, Pat Robertson welcomed Donald Trump this week to the stage of Regent University. According to the school's catalogue, the university's name invokes the fact that “a regent is one who represents Christ, our Sovereign …
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Jan Brewer endorses Donald Trump
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