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Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS — To my friends supporting Donald Trump: — The Trump coalition is broad and complicated, but I believe many Trump fans are well-meaning. I have spoken at length with many of you, both inside and outside Nebraska. You are rightly worried about our national direction.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The Republican Party's implosion over Donald Trump's candidacy has arrived — MADISON, Ala. — The implosion over Donald Trump's candidacy that Republicans had hoped to avoid arrived so virulently this weekend that many party leaders vowed never to back the billionaire and openly questioned whether …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump blames ‘lousy earpiece’ for KKK flap — Donald Trump blamed CNN for providing a “lousy earpiece” in explaining his non-answer to the network on Sunday when asked to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke. — “I'm sitting in a house in Florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Joe Scarborough: Trump's KKK ignorance ‘disqualifying’ — Donald Trump's failure to explicitly disavow the Ku Klux Klan and former Grand Wizard David Duke is “disqualifying,” Joe Scarborough declared on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Monday. — “It's breathtaking. That is disqualifying right there.
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's feigned ignorance about the KKK raises disturbing questions — They weren't hard questions to answer. — “Do you condemn David Duke? And the Ku Klux Klan?” — A simple “yes” would have worked. But on Sunday, Donald Trump swatted away the easy answers and instead feigned ignorance …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Spray tans, pants-wetting and little hands: The GOP race goes in the gutter — There's talk of bad spray tans, sweat and urination. Accusations that a rival has ties to the mob. They've called one another “little” or “a con artist.” And they all agree that the other guys are liars.
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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Donald Trump on KKK non-answer: A ‘very bad earpiece’ made it tough to hear — Donald Trump tells TODAY's Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie he's “disavowed” former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and blamed a “very bad earpiece” for his earlier inability to repeatedly repudiate the group.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Huckabee: ‘Does anybody think Donald Trump is a racist?’ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended Donald Trump on Monday, remarking that the GOP front-runner's apparent failure to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke in an interview the previous day did not reflect any “racist tendencies.”
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump is already impacting Republican candidates, in one ad
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Why Ted Cruz Probably Won't Drop Out, No Matter What — The Texas senator may be playing a long game. — JoshuaGreen — Ted Cruz has had a disappointing few weeks since winning the Iowa GOP caucuses. He was outshone by John Kasich in New Hampshire. Then he lost South Carolina to Donald Trump …
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CNN:
Trump, Clinton dominant as Super Tuesday looms — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are poised to lead the nation's two major parties in this fall's presidential election — (CNN)Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are poised to lead the nation's two major parties in this fall's presidential election …
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump's Ties to Mafia-Linked Twice-Convicted Felon
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Donald Trump Hits 49 Percent Support in New National Poll
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
In major blow to Ted Cruz, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama endorses Donald Trump for GOP nomination
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Oh, come on’: Fox host utterly destroys Ted Cruz for throwing tantrum about tough interview
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Debates are a ‘waste of time’
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
3 in 4 Republican voters now expect Trump to be the nominee
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Stacey Dash:
Who is Stacey Dash and why did she just walk across the #Oscar stage? — You might be watching the Oscars and wondering why someone named Stacey Dash just walked across the stage. (Why was that funny anyway?) — Well, I'm Stacey - with an “e” - and it's nice to meet you.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
With hours to go, Bernie Sanders aiming for $40 million fundraising month in Febraury — FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday that it had already raised $36 million this month and was aiming to top the $40 million mark by the end of February's final day.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie braces for decision day
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Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
The effect race could have on the race
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Guardian:
Airbnb guests shocked by decomposing corpse in garden — The group had hoped to host a party at the house south of Paris but their plans were derailed by the macabre discovery — A group of friends who rented a house on Airbnb for a party weekend in a French town got a nasty surprise …
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Six reasons Trump is still better than Clinton — I spent Friday's radio show explaining to incredulous guests that of course I'd support Donald Trump if he is the GOP nominee. — “But after he just insulted you and your radio show in front of 15 million people?” came the question.
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump Mortgage failed. Here's what that says about the GOP front-runner. — As some economists and Wall Street traders began to sense danger ahead of the crippling housing market collapse of 2008, Donald Trump waved away the worries and offered a concrete expression of confidence in the industry.
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