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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 …
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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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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 …
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Matt Katz / WNYC News:
Christie Allies' Shock and Shame as Christie Runs With Trump — and Trips
Christie Allies' Shock and Shame as Christie Runs With Trump — and Trips
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Huckabee: ‘Does anybody think Donald Trump is a racist?’
Huckabee: ‘Does anybody think Donald Trump is a racist?’
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Joe Scarborough: Trump's KKK ignorance ‘disqualifying’
Joe Scarborough: Trump's KKK ignorance ‘disqualifying’
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Six reasons Trump is still better than Clinton
Six reasons Trump is still better than Clinton
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump Mortgage failed. Here's what that says about the GOP front-runner.
Trump Mortgage failed. Here's what that says about the GOP front-runner.
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Associated Press:
Emanuel says Trump ‘playing with dark forces’
Emanuel says Trump ‘playing with dark forces’
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump is already impacting Republican candidates, in one ad
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Blames Earpiece for Declining to Disavow David Duke
Donald Trump Blames Earpiece for Declining to Disavow David Duke
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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 on KKK non-answer: A ‘very bad earpiece’ made it tough to hear
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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 …
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The Huffington Post:
Terms and Conditions — Welcome to The Huffington Post. Please read these Terms and Conditions before using, or submitting content in any form or medium for publication on, The Huffington Post. By continuing to use us, or by submitting content for publication on The Huffington Post …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Why Liberals Should Vote for Marco Rubio
Why Liberals Should Vote for Marco Rubio
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Hillary could lose to Trump in Democratic New York
Hillary could lose to Trump in Democratic New York
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Clarence Thomas Breaks 10 Years of Silence at Supreme Court — WASHINGTON — Breaking a decade-long silence, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked several questions from the Supreme Court bench. He spoke just weeks after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose empty seat next to Justice Thomas's remains draped in black.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
For first time in 10 years, Justice Clarence Thomas asks questions during an argument
For first time in 10 years, Justice Clarence Thomas asks questions during an argument
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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.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Time photographer roughed up by security at Trump event — Longtime Time contract photographer Chris Morris was roughed up by a security agent at a Donald Trump rally in Virginia on Monday. — According to videos taken of the incident by other reporters, Morris appeared to be trying …
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Guard choke-slams photographer at Trump rally in Va.
Guard choke-slams photographer at Trump rally in Va.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Secretly Told The New York Times What He Really Thinks About Immigration — The New York Times is sitting on an audio recording that some of its staff believes could deal a serious blow to Donald Trump who, in an off-the-record meeting with the newspaper, called into question whether …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Don't Assume Conservatives Will Rally Behind Trump — If Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination, he'll have undermined a lot of assumptions we once held about the GOP. He'll have become the nominee despite neither being reliably conservative nor being very electable …
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WCPO:
WATCH LIVE: 4 injured in Madison High School shooting — MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Four students were injured and tensions among parents and community members were high after a shooting incident at Madison High School. — Butler County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Anthony Dwyer told reporters …
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Sheriff: 4 Injured, 14-Year-Old Suspect In Custody After High School Shooting
Sheriff: 4 Injured, 14-Year-Old Suspect In Custody After High School Shooting
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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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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.
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Plouffe to Clinton: Stop micromanaging — A couple of days before Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary by nearly 50 points, David Plouffe eased back in his chair at an anonymous Capitol Hill hotel and declared that the woman he helped defeat in 2008 had, oh, a 98 percent chance of beating Bernie Sanders.
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The Hill:
Poll: Trump commands 33-point lead nationally — increased his lead atop the GOP presidential field in a new national poll, attracting 49 percent support among Republican voters. — Trump holds a 33-point lead over his closest competitor, Marco Rubio — , in a CNN/ORC International …
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