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Manuela Tobias / Politico:
Sanders wins Kansas — Bernie Sanders has won the Kansas Democratic caucuses, according to the Kansas Democratic Party, handily defeating Hillary Clinton. — The party declared Sanders the winner with 90 percent of districts reporting. Forty thousand Kansas Democrats participated in the caucuses …
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Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
Here's Who's Looking Strong in Today's “Super Saturday” Contests — Voters headed to the polls in five states today as Donald Trump looked to continue his march to the GOP nominating convention and Republican party leaders scrambled for ways to stop him. On the Republican side …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Sanders keeps raising millions — and spending them, a potential problem for Clinton … DETROIT — Sen. Bernie Sanders's path to the Democratic nomination may be narrowing, but his record fundraising shows no sign of slowing down, ensuring that the long-shot rival to Hillary Clinton can remain in the race for months to come.
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Associated Press:
Cruz wins Kansas, battles for KY in GOP fight for delegates — WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Ted Cruz claimed an easy victory in Kansas and battled with Donald Trump for Kentucky in Saturday's four-state round of Republican voting, fresh evidence that there's no quick end in sight to the fractious GOP race for president.
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Cruz gains steam with 2 wins on ‘Super Saturday’; Trump calls on Rubio to drop out … NEW ORLEANS — Sen. Ted Cruz's bid to become the chief alternative to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump gained steam Saturday, as he secured commanding victories in the Kansas and Maine caucuses …
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Backs Rescinding Tax Breaks for Moving Jobs Overseas
Clinton Backs Rescinding Tax Breaks for Moving Jobs Overseas
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FiveThirtyEight:
Republicans: — Kansas — Called for Cruz, who won by 25 percentage points.
Republicans: — Kansas — Called for Cruz, who won by 25 percentage points.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Keeps Up Pressure on Donald Trump; Bernie Sanders Takes 2 on ‘Super Saturday’
Ted Cruz Keeps Up Pressure on Donald Trump; Bernie Sanders Takes 2 on ‘Super Saturday’
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James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
Despite Trump visit, Maine caucuses expected to be low-key
Despite Trump visit, Maine caucuses expected to be low-key
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Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
‘I want Ted one-on-one’: Donald Trump calls on Marco Rubio to drop out of race — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Saturday that rival Marco Rubio should drop out of the race. — “I think it's time for Marco to clean the deck. I really do.
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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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Manuela Tobias / Politico:
Cruz crushes Trump in Kansas
Cruz crushes Trump in Kansas
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Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
MASSIVE, MASSIVE CROWD to See Trump in Orlando - 10,000+ Pack CFE Arena
Sam Levine / The Huffington Post:
Ted Cruz Crushes At Kansas Republican Caucus
Ted Cruz Crushes At Kansas Republican Caucus
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio Slams CNN Reporter For Asking Questions About Trump At CPAC (VIDEO)
Rubio Slams CNN Reporter For Asking Questions About Trump At CPAC (VIDEO)
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Inside Ted Cruz's plan to sink Marco Rubio in Florida
Inside Ted Cruz's plan to sink Marco Rubio in Florida
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Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Rubio on Losses: ‘The Map Only Gets Better for Us’ — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Marco Rubio brushed off his disappointing night Saturday after another round of losses and insisted his fortunes would shift on March 15, when states award their delegates on a winner-take-all basis.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rubio downplays poor Super Saturday showings — is downplaying his perfomance in the four states that held GOP caucuses or primaries on Saturday, saying that he had had long known “this would be the roughest period of the campaign.” — Speaking primarily in Spanish at a press conference in Puerto Rico …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Cruz takes two Super Saturday contests, Trump said to win La.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
American Demagogue — Nearly three decades ago, Howard Kaminsky, of Random House, called on the real-estate developer and self-marketing master Donald Trump at his office on Fifth Avenue. Kaminsky brought along a cover design for “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” its author's literary début.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Clinton, on her private server, wrote 104 emails the government says are classified … Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald the Dangerous — IS there any scarier nightmare than President Donald J. Trump in a tense international crisis, indignant and impatient, with his sweaty finger on the nuclear trigger? — “Trump is a danger to our national security,” John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Drinking coffee while black: Ohio cop stops black man strolling down the street -then slams him into wall — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Saying, “This is what we have to go through in Cincinnati,” a black man strolling down the street drinking a cop of coffee filmed …
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Daniel Boffey / Observer:
Russia ‘stoking refugee unrest in Germany to topple Angela Merkel’ — Analysts at Nato centre claim to have found evidence of ‘information war’ over migration crisis with links to Vladimir Putin — Russia is trying to topple Angela Merkel by waging an information war designed to stir …
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