memeorandum: Why Can't the G.O.P. Stop Trump? (Hans Noel/New York Times)

10:40 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

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, CNN, New York Times, Hullabaloo, Associated Press, Western Journalism, Common Dreams and Scared Monkeys

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

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, FiveThirtyEight, Bloomberg Business, Common Dreams, The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist, Politico, Guardian, Yahoo Politics, Vox 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 — Donald J. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in New England in Tuesday's Republican primaries, a show of strength that underscored the breadth of his appeal and helped him begin to amass …

Discussion: American Prospect, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, Fusion, The Week, Raw Story, Vox, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and TalkLeft

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, Western Journalism, The Hill, Vox, National Review, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Week, Florida Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog 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

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

Dara Doyle / Bloomberg Business: Bookmaker Pays Out Early on Trump Winning Republican Nomination

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, Slantpoint, 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 York Times, New Jersey News …, CBS New York, Mediaite, Truth Revolt, CBS Philly, 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

Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Score Big Super Tuesday Primary Wins

Discussion: whorunsGov, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, Politicus USA and Real Clear Politics

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: Booman Tribune, Slantpoint, Hit & Run, Washington Post, NPR, Daily Kos and addictinginfo.org

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 …

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: Prairie Weather, The Week and Hit & Run

New York Times:
Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories

Discussion: Associated Press, Outside the Beltway and The Moderate Voice

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

Discussion: Politico, Yahoo Politics, Scared Monkeys and Associated Press

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: Slantpoint, 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 Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and The Week

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

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

Carrie Marchese / WHNT-TV:

Athens pizzeria puts a political spin on pie — ATHENS, Ala. - No matter what side of the political aisle we stand, we all love pizza! — Joe's World Famous Pizzeria decided a Donald Trump pie was the way to go. From the hair to the laugh lines, this cheesy rendering is masterfully done.

Discussion: WGN-TV

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

Luke Russert / NBC News:

Nine Republicans Reject Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou — Conversations around racial issues have grown super charged during this presidential election season and part of that seems to have rubbed off on Capitol Hill in a debate over naming a post office after award winning poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, ABC News and Mediaite

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

WYFF-TV:

Teacher resigns after student exposes private pictures — Sheriff's office is investigating student after private pictures exposed — A teacher at Union County High School has resigned after a student spread a nude picture of her through text messages and social media …

Discussion: Hit & Run, NBC News, Independent Journal Review and WISH-TV