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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 …
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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.
Eli Stokols / Politico:
The day the Republican Party ruptured  —  Donald Trump's Super Tuesday sweep propelled him ever closer to the GOP presidential nomination — and pushed the party he seeks to lead to the breaking point.  —  The Manhattan billionaire, boosted by support from disaffected blue-collar voters …
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
Mike Allen / Politico:
Romney to give speech on state of presidential race
Discussion: Hot Air, RealClearPolitics and Guardian
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
What Went Wrong for Marco Rubio
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Results Show Why Trump Can Lose, and Why He Probably Won't
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Here's how Rubio and Cruz can still take down Trump
New York Times:
As Donald Trump Rolls Up Victories, the G.O.P. Split Widens to a Chasm
Discussion: Deadspin and Hit & Run
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:   Re: Who Stays?  —  Kevin — once again we find ourselves facing …
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 …
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Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
Charlie Baker won't vote for Donald Trump in November  —  NORTH ANDOVER — Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker, under pressure from Democrats and the news media to take a position on whether he would publicly support Donald J. Trump, should he be the GOP presidential nominee …
Edward Rollins / Fox News:
Trump is now unstoppable. It's game over for Cruz, Rubio, Kasich and Carson
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:   Harry Reid Savages Republicans For Making Trump
Dara Doyle / Bloomberg Business:   Bookmaker Pays Out Early on Trump Winning Republican Nomination
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Jr. Just Recorded an Interview With a Pro-Slavery Radio Host  —  An “unapologetically pro-white” radio host was given press credentials by the Trump campaign.  —  “Political Cesspool” host James Edwards thinks that slavery was the greatest thing that ever happened to black people.
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JAMES EDWARDS:
Political Cesspool Host James Edwards Reports From Inside Donald Trump's Press Pen  —  I attended a Donald Trump rally in Memphis on Saturday night as a fully credentialed member of the media and enjoyed the unique experience of being able to air a live broadcast of The Political Cesspool Radio Program …
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 …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Democrats to Clinton: Don't laugh off Trump threat  —  It's time to stop pointing and laughing at the Republican primary.  For all the GOP front-runner's flaws, many veteran Democrats are beginning to conclude, Donald Trump is a canny operator who just might end up in the White House if they're not careful.
Discussion: Althouse and Washington Monthly
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Chris Christie's wordless screaming  —  Is Chris Christie okay?  —  I believe that Donald Trump was talking, tonight, and that he, in fact, held an entire press conference.  But it was impossible to hear him over Chris Christie's eyes.  —  Chris Christie spent the entire speech screaming wordlessly.
Discussion: Gawker and Yahoo Politics
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Dems: Trump may get us a SCOTUS win  —  Donald Trump may be President Barack Obama's best hope of getting a justice on the Supreme Court.  —  With the billionaire developer steaming towards the GOP presidential nomination, Democrats are planning a new offensive linking Trump to the Senate GOP's refusal to move on a court nominee.
Discussion: ABC News
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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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
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Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
GOP nears its breaking point as Donald Trump rolls toward nomination
Discussion: Fox News, NBC News, Salon and Guardian
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ben Carson adviser: ‘There is no pathway’ to GOP nomination  —  Ben Carson's “been offered many deals” to leave the presidential race, a key confidant and adviser said Wednesday morning, but the retired neurosurgeon has no interest in quitting yet, despite lacking a pathway to the Republican nomination.
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NBC News:
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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 …
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Paul Singer / USA Today:
Seven N.J. newspapers call on Christie to resign
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.
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Hillary Clinton's Got This  —  To borrow a phrase from Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton swept through the South like a big wheel through a Delta cotton field on Super Tuesday.  She won seven states total, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in the South.
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.
 
 
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