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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Let Us Dispel With the Idea that the Rubiobot Knows What He's Doing. He Has No Idea What He's Doing. — This article about how Marco Rubio's floundering Florida campaign is about to GET SERIOUS (actual quote from Rubio backer: “It's time to open the can of whoop-ass.") is comedy gold from which you'll learn something.
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Patricia Mazzei / Naked Politics:
Poll for anti-Donald Trump group finds narrowing Republican presidential race in Florida — A new poll by an anti-Donald Trump group has found a narrowing Republican presidential race in Florida, suggesting the barrage of TV ads by the group and its allies might be taking effect.
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RedState, Hot Air, Western Journalism, Political Wire, The Right Scoop and New York Times
New York Times:
Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We're Sticking With Donald Trump — From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt for the instructions that their party's most high-profile leaders are urgently handing down to them …
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Inside Ted Cruz's plan to sink Marco Rubio in Florida — Ted Cruz calls for unity to beat Donald Trump — Ted Cruz's aides and allies are preparing an aggressive effort to keep Marco Rubio from winning his home state of Florida on March 15 — (CNN)Ted Cruz is going for the kill shot.
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Orlando Sentinel, Western Journalism and The Resurgent
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rubio trails by 5 in Florida poll conducted for anti-Trump group — MIAMI — Marco Rubio appears to be closing the gap with Donald Trump in Florida and trails the Republican frontrunner by just 5 percentage points, according to a new poll commissioned by a group that opposes the New York billionaire.
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RedState, Washington Post and Hot Air
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump throws the GOP into an identity crisis
Trump throws the GOP into an identity crisis
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Wall Street Journal, Politico and The Moderate Voice
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
How Donald Trump broke Fox News' debate rules — Donald Trump consulted with his campaign manager during the first commercial break at Thursday night's Republican debate, violating ground rules from Fox News stating that candidates would not be allowed to have contact with their campaigns, rival campaign sources told CNNMoney.
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Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Lindsey Graham Warms Up to Ted Cruz — It's a terrible cliché: Politics makes strange bedfellows. But it was just a few weeks ago that South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham likened the choice between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz as his party's nominee to that between being shot or poisoned.
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Frances Langum / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
WATCH: CPAC Attendees Boo And Walk Out On Ted Cruz — CPAC is a mess. — The conservative movement loves to call themselves insurgents but they can't spoon it up when it comes to half their audience supporting Donald Trump. — A sizable number of attendees at a Ted Cruz speech booed …
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liberalamerica.org and addictinginfo.org
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Will Liberal Media EVER Report on VIOLENT LEFTIST THUGS at EVERY SINGLE TRUMP EVENT? — This morning in Cadillac, Michigan far left protesters repeatedly interrupted, screamed profanities and were forced out of the Donald Trump rally. — With thousands of people in attendance at his rallies …
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The Hill and addictinginfo.org
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Mtschnyder / CBS Dallas:
Glenn Beck Under Investigation For Alleged Threat Against Trump — DALLAS (CBS11) - Conservative radio host Glenn Beck is under investigation after a comment he made on his radio show when talking about GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Beck says his comment was not directed towards the presidential candidate.
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Washington Times, Walid Shoebat, addictinginfo.org, The Daily Caller and alan.com
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Bernie's bounce-back weekend — After a Super Tuesday that proved to be something less than super for Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator is now poised to rattle off a handful of wins this weekend - an outcome that would inject a dose of desperately needed adrenaline into his campaign.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Sanders blames Clinton for Michigan's declining middle class
Sanders blames Clinton for Michigan's declining middle class
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Politico
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio Slams CNN Reporter For Asking Questions About Trump At CPAC (VIDEO) — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) found a friendly audience to air his grievances about Republican frontrunner Donald Trump Saturday, as the Conservative Political Action Conference crowd repeated booed CNN correspondent Dana Bash during a question and answer session.
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The Week, NBC News and Donald J Trump for President
Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Republican ‘Dump Trump’ effort struggles to gain traction — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - A plan to block Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump struggled to gain traction on Friday as rival candidates rejected it, while Democrats reveled in the chaos they hoped would boost their chances of keeping the White House.
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The Gateway Pundit and Slantpoint
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John Kluge / Ricochet:
An Open Letter to the Conservative Media Explaining Why I Have Left the Movement — Let me say up front that I am a life-long Republican and conservative. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life and have voted in every presidential and midterm election since 1988.
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Vox Popoli
Katie McHugh / Breitbart:
CPAC Boos John Kasich as Michelle Malkin Slams His Support for Common Core, Attacks on Detractors — Best-selling conservative author and senior editor for the Conservative Review Michelle Malkin slammed Ohio Gov. John Kasich's support for Common Core standards, drawing loud boos from attendees …
Marianne Zumberge / Variety:
Louis C.K. Compares Donald Trump to Hitler: 'He's an Insane Bigot' — Louis C.K. is the latest public figure to criticize Donald Trump, calling him an “insane bigot” and comparing him to Adolf Hitler. — In a Saturday morning email blast announcing the sixth episode of his web series …
New York Times:
The Right to Sue the Gun Industry — The world recoiled in horror in 2012 when 20 Connecticut schoolchildren and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School by a deranged teenager using a military-style assault rifle to fire 154 rounds in less than five minutes.
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Bearing Arms
Daily Mail:
The Pope says ‘it is a social fact’ that Europe is seeing an ‘Arab invasion’ - and it's a GOOD thing — Pope Francis described the influx of migrants into Europe as an ‘Arab invasion’ before explaining that the new arrivals will enhance Europe for the better.
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Daily Wire, Vanguard14 and Bloomberg Business
Associated Press:
CANADIAN LEADER TRUDEAU BRINGING STAR POWER TO WHITE HOUSE — TORONTO (AP) — Justin Trudeau, the new, young prime minister of Canada with movie-star looks, is bringing his star power to the White House. — The tall, dark-haired, 44-year-old scion of one of Canada's most famous politicians was sworn into office in November.
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Weasel Zippers
Justin Fox / BloombergView.com:
Why Aren't More Americans Working? — According to today's employment report, 59.8 percent of Americans ages 16 and older had jobs in February. That's the highest employment-to-population ratio in years, and the rate of increase is clearly on the rise. — Look back some more years, though, and the story is different.
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Maggie's Farm, New York Times and The Daily Caller
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
How the GOP could stop Trump at the convention — Republicans might have one hope for defeating Donald Trump — : denying him the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination at the Republican National Convention in July. — Party insiders who are deeply opposed to the businessman's candidacy …