memeorandum: Super Guide to Super Tuesday — Republican Edition (Harry Enten/FiveThirtyEight)

10:00 AM ET, March 1, 2016

Top Items:

Jennifer Jacobs / USA Today:

Students removed from Trump rally in Georgia — VALDOSTA, Ga. — About 30 black students who were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump's rally here Monday night were escorted out by Secret Service agents who said the presidential candidate had requested their removal before he began speaking.

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Political Insider blog, The Hill, New York Magazine, The Week, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, addictinginfo.org, Business Insider, The Resurgent, Guardian, Jezebel and American Spectator

TIME:

TIME Responds to Confrontation With Secret Service at Trump Event — “We are relieved that Chris is feeling OK” — Updated to include comment from photographer Christopher Morris — The U.S. Secret Service and local law enforcement briefly detained a TIME photographer at a Donald Trump rally …

Discussion: Talk Media News, NBC News, Little Green Footballs, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, KFOR-TV and Independent Journal Review, more at Mediagazer »

Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Report: Donald Trump Requested That a Group of Black Students Be Removed From His Rally Before It Had Even Started

Discussion: Political Insider blog and New Republic

John Nolte / Breitbart:
VIDEO: Time Reporter Grabs Secret Service Agent's Throat at Trump Rally

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Guard choke-slams photographer at Trump rally in Va.

Discussion: KTLA, Jezebel, Raw Story, addictinginfo.org, Mother Jones, Reuters, New York's PIX11, Death and Taxes, Fox News Insider, ABC News and Politico, more at Mediagazer »

Fox News:

Super Tuesday prizes: Candidates in fierce fight for Texas, other delegate goldmines — The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are charging into Super Tuesday in a coast-to-coast battle for delegates across a dozen states — but while they're looking for as many wins as possible …

Katie Glueck / Politico:

Ted Cruz's Judgment Day — HOUSTON — It was July, only four months into the campaign, and Ted Cruz's Iowa chairman was nervous. — Scott Walker and Mike Huckabee were practically living in Iowa, but Cruz was all over the map: On a book tour in Georgia, visiting Oklahoma, rolling out a leadership team in Tennessee.

Discussion: The Atlantic and Bloomberg Business

Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Super Guide to Super Tuesday — Republican Edition

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Deadspin and RedState

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump closes in on Super Tuesday romp

Discussion: Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Correct The Record, Business Insider, Daily Kos and Hit & Run

Bloomberg Business:
Super Tuesday Predictions Point to Trump, Clinton Rout

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Politico, Raw Story, Business Insider and ABC News

CNN:

National poll: Clinton, Sanders both top Trump — Washington (CNN)Both of the remaining Democratic candidates for president easily top Republican front-runner Donald Trump in hypothetical general election match-ups, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. — But Hillary Clinton …

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Times and Hot Air

Jim Acosta / CNN:

After GOP establishment ‘froze’ on Trump, Democrats ready battle plans — Columbus, Ohio (CNN)As Donald Trump seems poised for a huge night Tuesday, Democrats see his stunning ascent and controversial, celebrity-driven business empire as a golden opportunity.

Walter Shapiro / Roll Call:

The Year's Most Important Non-Endorsement — It may have been the most important non-endorsement of 2016. — Nebraska freshman Sen. Ben Sasse put into words on Facebook and Twitter what other Republican officeholders are muttering over late-night drinks — that he could not vote …

Discussion: USA Today, electionlawblog.org, Hot Air, Hit & Run, CNN, WCMH-TV and Mediaite

Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Divide About Trump Grows

Discussion: New York Times, CNN, Guardian, The Week, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog … and Daily Kos

David Weigel / Washington Post:

Trump on NYT interview leak: 'Everything's negotiable' — Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who frequently helps Republicans dig out of controversies with friendly interviews, paid that favor to Donald Trump Monday night. While Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) was telling his final pre-Super Tuesday audience …

Discussion: The Week

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 …

Randy E. Barnett / USA Today:

As Trump rises, consider a 3rd party: Column — A Trump nomination would destroy the GOP unless Republicans can find a replacement. — Is it time for a new third party? Not yet. But if Donald Trump gets the Republican nomination, then a new third party will be an imperative — and the time for organizing it is now.

Discussion: Washington Post and The Resurgent

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The New York Times Refuses to Release Recording of Donald Trump's (Off-the-Record) Comments on Immigration

Discussion: The Week, BuzzFeed, Hullabaloo, New York Times, Politico, Hot Air and Mediaite

Oren / ADL Blogs:

Louis Farrakhan Joins List Of Extremists Praising Donald Trump — Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan's 2016 Saviours' Day sermon on February 28 at the NOI's Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Farrakhan made anti-Semitic accusations of Jewish …

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, The Week, The Times of Israel and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Mike Ramsey / CBS Chicago:

Racial Chants Erupt At Basketball Game Between Two Catholic Schools — (CBS) — School officials at two northwest Indiana schools are investigating what appears to be racially motivated chants at a basketball game. — Video from the game went viral over the weekend.

Gardiner Harris / New York Times:

Obama to Make Case to G.O.P. Senators to Fill Supreme Court Seat — WASHINGTON — President Obama is to confer in the Oval Office on Tuesday with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican majority leader, and Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman …

Manu Raju / CNN:
Leading GOP senator: Trump an ‘albatross’ to party

Discussion: U.S. News and Hot Air

David Shepardson / Reuters:

Google says it bears ‘some responsibility’ after self-driving car hit bus — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Monday it bears “some responsibility” after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month. — The crash may be the first case …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Associated Press, Fusion and New York Magazine

New York Times:

Inside the Clinton Team's Plan to Defeat Donald Trump — In the days after Donald J. Trump vanquished his Republican rivals in South Carolina and Nevada, prominent Democrats supporting Hillary Clinton arranged a series of meetings and conference calls to tackle a question many never thought they would ask …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Donald Trump's Message Resonates With White Supremacists — Until recently, Jared Taylor, long one of the country's most prominent white supremacists, had never supported a presidential candidate. — “There's been no one worth endorsing,” he said in an interview.

Ira Stoll / New York Sun:

Against Ronald Reagan — How panicked should we be about the rise of Donald Trump? A professor at Harvard, Danielle Allen, recently published a widely shared op-ed piece in the Washington Post likening his rise to that of Hitler in Germany. — She's hardly the only one drawing that analogy.

Roger Cohen / New York Times:

Trump's Il Duce Routine — LONDON — Europe, the soil on which Fascism took root, is watching the rise of Donald Trump with dismay. Contempt for the excesses of America is a European reflex, but when the United States seems tempted by a latter-day Mussolini, smugness in London, Paris and Berlin gives way to alarm.

Discussion: Washington Post and Larry Summers

Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:

Jesse Ventura: I'll Run for President If Bernie Loses — The former governor of Minnesota likes Trump and Sanders, but says he will get in the race by June if Hillary wins the Democratic nomination. — MINNEAPOLIS — Jesse Ventura told The Daily Beast he will run for president …

Discussion: Raw Story

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS” — EMAIL ME — “Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates,” the CBS CEO said. — Leslie Moonves can appreciate a Donald Trump candidacy.