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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 …
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Dareh Gregorian / New York Daily News:
Bad news for The Donald on Super Tuesday as court rules N.Y. attorney general's Trump University fraud lawsuit can proceed — Super Tuesday has gotten off to a not-so-super start for Donald Trump — a New York appeals court has denied his bid to to toss out a lawsuit that charges his Trump University was a fraud.
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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed:
Here's Why This Educated, Liberal Couple Is Considering Voting For Donald Trump — “Yes, we could be like the good citizens who voted for a “tameable” Hitler in 1933 to get things back on track. But the alternatives look worse,” the couple wrote in a letter to the Financial Times. — The letter reads:
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday — Marco Rubio's top campaign adviser huddled with roughly 40 bundlers and K Streeters Tuesday morning to prepare them for a difficult primary election night—as well as to brief them on the campaign's plan for what to do next.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why Donald Trump's support keeps expanding
The Daily 202: Why Donald Trump's support keeps expanding
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NBC News:
Trump Hits New High, Clinton Maintains Big Lead in New National Poll
Trump Hits New High, Clinton Maintains Big Lead in New National Poll
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Matt Stout / Boston Herald:
Amid Trump surge, nearly 20,000 Mass. voters quit Democratic party
Amid Trump surge, nearly 20,000 Mass. voters quit Democratic party
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Associated Press:
Super Tuesday: Clinton, Trump Look to Pull Away From Rivals
Super Tuesday: Clinton, Trump Look to Pull Away From Rivals
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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.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan denounces Trump over KKK dust-up: ‘There can be no evasion’ — (R-Wis.) on Tuesday delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump, warning that the GOP presidential front-runner cannot engage in “evasion” or “games” when it comes to rejecting bigotry. — But as the chairman …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Carlson, Ingraham Label Romney A Liberal For Condemning Trump On KKK
Carlson, Ingraham Label Romney A Liberal For Condemning Trump On KKK
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump swaggers through Super Tuesday rally — took an early victory lap during a Super Tuesday rally in Columbus, Ohio, boasting about his popularity and dismissing GOP presidential primary rivals Marco Rubio — “I'm like 20 points up in Florida over a senator who never shows up,” …
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Dante Chinni / Wall Street Journal:
Mapping Out ‘Trump Country’ on Super Tuesday
Mapping Out ‘Trump Country’ on Super Tuesday
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
How Bernie Sanders Spent the Week Before Super Tuesday
How Bernie Sanders Spent the Week Before Super Tuesday
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How Donald Trump Made Republicans Half-Aware of Racism — How could this happen to the movement founded by segregationist William F. Buckley? — Donald Trump represents a threat to conservatism in two ways. He is extremely likely to lose if nominated, and even if elected …
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Staring at the Conservative Gutter
Staring at the Conservative Gutter
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Jerry Hayes / WHNT-TV:
Deputy's dash cam captures video of drunk passenger falling head first into creek — LINCOLN COUNTY, Tenn. - The next time you're having a bad day, think about the two guys a Lincoln County Deputy encountered while on patrol. — The driver stops the truck in the middle of a road.
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Paul Watson / Infowars:
Report: Trump Supporters in Texas See Votes Switched to Rubio — Callers to KLBJ report ballot irregularities — People voting for Donald Trump in today's Super Tuesday Texas Primary are seeing their ballots changed to show a vote for Marco Rubio. — Numerous callers flooded Austin …
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Ines de la Cuetara / ABC News:
10 Things You Never Thought You'd Hear Marco Rubio Say
10 Things You Never Thought You'd Hear Marco Rubio Say
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Cruz: Rubio has no viable path to beat Trump
Cruz: Rubio has no viable path to beat Trump
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Senator Chuck Grassley / SCOTUSblog:
Coequal Branches of Government — U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Judiciary. — The Constitution grants the authority to nominate and approve Supreme Court Justices to coequal branches of the federal government.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell And Grassley Don't Budge In Meeting With Obama On SCOTUS
McConnell And Grassley Don't Budge In Meeting With Obama On SCOTUS
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama Makes Case to G.O.P. Senators to Fill Supreme Court Seat
Obama Makes Case to G.O.P. Senators to Fill Supreme Court Seat
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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 …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Farrakhan praises Trump for rejecting ‘Jewish’ money
Farrakhan praises Trump for rejecting ‘Jewish’ money
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Joseph Lopez / 12NewsNow.Com:
Man arrested after witnesses say gunman shouted “F*** the ni**ers!” and fired shot at crowded campaign HQ — BEAUMONT - — Beaumont police arrested a white male and were questioning a handful of other individuals at a West End home just hours after an apparent racially-charged shooting …
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Shamar Walters / NBC News:
Texas Candidate Zena Stephens' Office Shot in Apparent Racial Attack
Texas Candidate Zena Stephens' Office Shot in Apparent Racial Attack
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Super User / dni.gov:
Bin Laden's Bookshelf — In the weeks following the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan by United States forces, U.S. Intelligence Community analysts sifted through the recovered digital and hard copy materials in search of clues that would reveal ongoing al-Qa'ida plots …
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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
DNC Chair Joins GOP Attack On Elizabeth Warren's Agency — Payday lenders get a new ally. — Senior Political Economy Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON — Payday lenders have been gunning for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since the day President Barack Obama tapped Elizabeth Warren to set up the new agency.
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Siobhan McFadyen / Mirror.co.uk:
Scientists discover 8000-year-old tiny hand prints in ancient cave were NOT made by humans — Experts probing the discovery of 13 hand prints in the eerie Egyptian Cave of Beasts say the 8000-year-old stencils did not belong to humans — Anthropologists probing the discovery …
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Can Google's Driverless Car Project Survive a Fatal Accident? — Everybody knew this day would come. — After several years and more than 1.4 million miles of test driving, Google's perfect streak came to an end. In all that time, the tech giant's self-driving cars had been in fewer …
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Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Does computer code count as free speech? — Is the FBI violating Apple employees' First Amendment rights in its efforts to extract data from a terrorist's iPhone? — Apple filed a motion late last week to vacate a court order obtained by FBI to create a special computer code to unlock …
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 …
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Mike Huckabee Hearts Donald Trump — Mike Huckabee was one missed flight away from endorsing Donald Trump. — It was the day after February's Iowa caucuses, and Huckabee had just dropped out of the race. He planned to make a quick stop in Little Rock, Arkansas, to drop off his daughter …
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