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10:10 AM ET, March 2, 2016

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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:

Establishment Republicans Are Furious With John Kasich — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday night as return after return came in and Marco Rubio failed to break through, many establishment Republicans grew angrier that John Kasich was still in the race. — One of them was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …

Discussion: The Week

Associated Press:

Viewer's Guide: After Super Tuesday, Cold Hard Delegate Math — Presidential candidates will wake up Wednesday morning to the cold, hard truth of delegate math. It might give the front-runners some breathing room, but for the rest of the field the truth may hurt.

Discussion: ABC News, Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air and Yahoo Politics

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

The GOP has two weeks to take down Donald Trump — The window for stopping Donald Trump closed almost completely Tuesday night, leaving the demoralized anti-Trump forces with two weeks and no agreed-upon strategy for denying the New York billionaire the Republican presidential nomination.

Discussion: The Cook Political Report, Politico, New York Times, CNN, Hullabaloo and Associated Press

New York Times:

Super Tuesday Results — Live election results from the 12 states voting in tonight's presidential primary races. — Who Will Win Super Tuesday? Live Estimates of Tonight's Final Republican Delegate Count — By AMANDA COX, JOSH KATZ and KEVIN QUEALY

Discussion: Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist, Guardian, Yahoo Politics, FiveThirtyEight and The Week

Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:

Five Reasons Trump Is Weaker Than He Looks — Why Super Tuesday wasn't as good to Trump as you think. — There's a classic scene in First Blood where John Rambo declares, “Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off!” — So let's go with that for a moment.

Discussion: Vox, USA Today and New York Magazine

Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:

Re: Who Stays? — Kevin — once again we find ourselves facing the same question: Who, if anyone, should now drop out? — It is fashionable tonight to propose that Marco Rubio is “done.” I disagree. In fact, I'd argue that Rubio did not have anything like as bad a night as people are suggesting.

New York Times:
Donald Trump Overwhelms G.O.P. Rivals From Alabama to Massachusetts

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, Fusion, The Week, Vox, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, TalkLeft, Scared Monkeys and Jezebel

New York Times:
Who Will Win Super Tuesday? Live Estimates of Tonight's Final Republican Delegate Count

Discussion: Townhall.com, Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, ThinkProgressPage Array, Guardian, Political Insider blog and Power Line

Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Results Show Why Trump Can Lose, and Why He Probably Won't

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Washington Post

Anna Palmer / Politico:
Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday

Discussion: ABC News, Vox, Western Journalism, National Review, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Week, Florida Politics, Associated Press and Balloon Juice

Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
‘Donald Drumpf’ Is Beating Rubio and Cruz for Second in Google Searches

Discussion: Mashable, The Atlantic, Independent Journal Review, SFist, Mediaite and Shakesville

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Adviser: Carson staying in even if he gets shut out on Super Tuesday

Discussion: Politico, The Week, Washington Examiner, Townhall.com, The Gateway Pundit, Talk Media News and No More Mister Nice Blog

David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
After Trump's Super Tuesday romp, GOP establishment seeks unity to slow surge

Discussion: Fox News, Western Journalism, USA Today, CNBC, ABC News, Associated Press, Common Dreams, The Atlantic, Scared Monkeys and naked capitalism

Paul Singer / USA Today:

Seven N.J. newspapers call on Christie to resign — 48 Shares — Seven New Jersey newspapers issued a joint editorial Tuesday calling on Gov. Chris Christie to resign in the wake of his failed presidential campaign and his subsequent endorsement of rival Donald Trump.

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, The Moderate Voice, UPI and National Review

Asbury Park Press:

Step down, Gov. Christie — What an embarrassment. What an utter disgrace. — We're fed up with Gov. Chris Christie's arrogance. — We're fed up with his opportunism. — We're fed up with his hypocrisy. — We're fed up with his sarcasm. — We're fed up with his long neglect …

Discussion: New Jersey News …, CBS New York, Mediaite, CBS Philly, Truth Revolt, NBC News, New York Magazine and Talking Points Memo

Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
New poll shows Christie approval in New Jersey at lowest point

Discussion: The Week and Florida Politics

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Trump: Ryan can get along with me or ‘pay a big price’ — (R-Wis.) that he'll have to pay the price if he doesn't get along with Trump as president after Ryan repudiated him for failing to disavow an endorsement from David Duke. — “I'm going to get along great with Congress.

Discussion: Political Wire, Washington Post, ABC News and Politico

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Republican Group to Intensify Campaign Against Trump

Discussion: Slantpoint, Talking Points Memo and Florida Politics

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Republican Business Leaders Look to Raise Money to Stop Trump

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Business Insider, CNN and addictinginfo.org

Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
GOP Senator: Even If Trump Meant It On The KKK, He's Still A Better Choice Than A Democrat

Discussion: Slantpoint, Hit & Run, Washington Post, NPR, Daily Kos, addictinginfo.org and Campaign for America's Future

Jordan Rudner / The Texas Tribune:

Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman … The newly elected chair of the Republican Party in the county that includes the Texas Capitol spent most of election night tweeting about former Gov. Rick Perry's sexual orientation and former President Bill Clinton's penis …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and RedState

Edward Rollins / Fox News:

Trump is now unstoppable. It's game over for Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson — Game over! This was a rout, America. Winning seven states and the vast majority of delegates is a landslide. Donald Trump and the millions of his supporters have changed American politics and the Republican Party for the foreseeable future.

Discussion: The Other McCain and Washington Post

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Sanders Campaign Will Travel On, but Path to Victory Is All but Blocked — Bernie Sanders has vowed to fight for the presidential nomination until the Democratic convention, but the results this evening suggest that he is not anywhere close to being on track to amass a majority of pledged delegates.

Discussion: NBC News, Prairie Weather, The Week and Hit & Run

New York Times:
Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories

Discussion: Associated Press and Outside the Beltway

Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Super Tuesday Democratic primaries: Clinton projected to win in 7 states, Sanders in 4

Discussion: Politico, Scared Monkeys and Yahoo Politics

Tara Golshan / Vox:
Bernie Sanders's victory speech: Super Tuesday is not “winner take all”

Discussion: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Salon, New York Magazine, US News and The Moderate Voice

USA Today:

Tavis Smiley: Black America could get on Trump train — Hillary might look like a shoo-in with African-American voters, but don't be too sure. — With Hillary Clinton racking up more overwhelming victories in Super Tuesday primaries thanks to the overwhelming support of African-American voters …

Eric Levenson / Boston Globe:

Did Bill Clinton violate election rules by going into a polling location? — Hillary Clinton's campaign has been “reminded” not to solicit votes near polling sites after President Bill Clinton ventured into a polling location in Boston on Tuesday, the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office said.

Discussion: Mediaite, WAVY-TV, CBS Boston and WBUR

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Did Bill Clinton Break Voting Laws in Massachusetts?

Discussion: BostonGlobe.com

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Donald Trump drives GOP's record turnout; Democrats lack enthusiasm — Republicans continued to shatter turnout records in their presidential primaries and caucuses Tuesday, while Democrats lagged behind in what analysts said was a clear indication of an enthusiasm gap heading into the general election.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Week

New York Times:

U.S. Captures ISIS Operative, Ushering in Tricky Phase — WASHINGTON — An elite American Special Operations force has captured a significant Islamic State operative in Iraq and is expected to apprehend and interrogate a number of others in coming months, ushering in a new and potentially fraught phase …

Discussion: CNN, NBC News, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller

Devin Kelly / Anchorage Daily News:

Cruz wins Alaska Republican vote, with Trump a close second — Volunteer Dawn Linton-Warren cheerfully greeted voters at the Church of the Nazarene while handing out State of Alaska voter registration applications during the Presidential Preference Poll on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016. — Bill Roth / ADN

Discussion: The Atlantic

NBC News:

Possible MH370 Jet Part Found Off Mozambique: Sources — EXCLUSIVE — Congress — White House — Justice Department — National Security — Elections — First Read — Health Care — Diet & Fitness — Mental Health — Men's Health — Women's Health

Discussion: CNN, Gizmodo, Mediaite and The Week

Hadas Gold / Politico:

The media's Trump reckoning: ‘Everyone was wrong’ — David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, told his readers last summer that Donald Trump was running for president to promote his own brand and that the “whole con might end well before the first snows in Sioux City and Manchester.”

Discussion: The Atlantic

Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:

Clinton to voter: 'Why don't you go run for something?' — was involved in brief confrontation with a young woman during a campaign stop in Minnesota Tuesday afternoon as voters headed to the polls to cast their ballot in the state's primary. — The Democratic presidential front-runner …

Discussion: Politico, Truth Revolt, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Mediaite