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1:00 PM ET, February 29, 2016

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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:   Why Ted Cruz Probably Won't Drop Out, No Matter What
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:   Six reasons Trump is still better than Clinton
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Blames Earpiece for Declining to Disavow David Duke
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Magazine
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:   How Donald Trump is already impacting Republican candidates, in one ad
Nick Gass / Politico:
Huckabee: ‘Does anybody think Donald Trump is a racist?’
Nick Gass / Politico:
Former Sen. Tom Coburn endorses Rubio, trashes Trump
Discussion: National Review
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Hillary could lose to Trump in Democratic New York
New York Times:
On the Campaign Trail: G.O.P. Race Grows Cruder and More Aggressive
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:   Donald Trump Hits 49 Percent Support in New National Poll
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Oh, come on’: Fox host utterly destroys Ted Cruz for throwing tantrum about tough interview
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:   Ted Cruz Questions Donald Trump's Ties to Mafia-Linked Twice-Convicted Felon
Daily Mail:
Horror in Moscow as burka-clad babysitter ‘decapitates four-year-old girl in her care’ - then walks through streets carrying her severed head and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’  —  A burka-clad babysitter decapitated the little girl in her care before walking through Moscow carrying the child's severed head, police say.
Discussion: Walid Shoebat and Vox Popoli
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James Rothwell / Telegraph:
‘Nanny’ detained in Moscow carrying ‘severed head of 4-year-old girl’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
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.
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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Reuters:
Congresswoman quits Democratic National Committee, endorses Bernie Sanders
Discussion: BuzzFeed and American Spectator
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie braces for decision day
Discussion: Yahoo and Yahoo News Photo
Shaun King / New York Daily News:
KING: Chris Rock Oscars opener dropped the ball and lynching jokes went over the line no matter how tough a spot it was  —  My family and I decided we weren't watching the Oscars this year.  Instead we opted to support the Justice for Flint online fundraising event.  Many of our favorite stars were actually there anyway.
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Chris Rock crushed it
Discussion: Hit & Run, New York Times and Hot Air
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 …
Discussion: Jezebel and Althouse
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
More than half a million registered Texans don't have the right ID to vote on Super Tuesday  —  As voters go to the polls on Super Tuesday, many will be casting ballots in states that have passed strict election laws that didn't exist during the last presidential race.
Discussion: The Week and CBS News
Ben Carson, M.D. / Fox News:
Ben Carson: Why I intend to stay in the GOP presidential race  —  It seems like the only thing that's guaranteed in this year's election is the litany of punditry after every primary.  This undiscussed industry has helped make politics more blood sport than democratic exercise.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Even as He Rises, Donald Trump Entertains Conspiracy Theories  —  It was a question that most major presidential candidates would have quickly dismissed as absurd, even offensive: What do you make of these theories that Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered?  —  For Donald J. Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg Business:
Heroin Crisis Puts Vulnerable U.S. Senate Republicans in a Bind  —  Democrats' push for $600 million to fight epidemic splits GOP  —  Plan seeks to curb addiction to heroin, prescription drugs  —  Efforts in Congress to combat heroin and prescription-drug addiction are creating …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
See That Billboard? It May See You, Too
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Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Clinton's Swiss Ally Gave Big Bucks To U.S. Campaigns
Discussion: Instapundit
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Jeb Bush's ambitions paid dividends for GOP admaker over the years
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Plouffe to Clinton: Stop micromanaging
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Puerto Rican crisis roils 2016 race
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump Mortgage failed. Here's what that says about the GOP front-runner.
Discussion: RedState and The Resurgent
Juan Williams / The Hill:
GOP hits new low on court
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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