memeorandum: After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida? (Allahpundit/Hot Air)

11:00 AM ET, March 7, 2016

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Glenn Thrush / Politico:

Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket' — Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world if they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders. — All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CBS News

Detroit Free Press:

Last Slide — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed their stances on the auto industry bailout during Flint's Democratic presidential debate. Here's the nub of the fight over Clinton's support and Sanders' opposition to the auto bailout. — The $82 billion that helped finance …

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Magazine, Detroit News and Associated Press

Manuela Tobias / Politico:
Sanders wins Maine decisively

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Fracas in Flint: Clinton, Sanders spar over trade, auto bailout

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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo Politics:
Hillary Clinton calls for Snyder to resign over Flint lead crisis

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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Calls For Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder To Resign Or Be Recalled

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Steven Shepard / Politico:

How Donald Trump scrambles the general election map — If Donald Trump's coalition carries him to the GOP nomination, it could produce a crazy-quilt general election that scrambles the conventional wisdom about the battleground state map. — The Electoral College landscape has been fairly stable …

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Lust for Destruction — When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election. They won't.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money

Mike Lillis / The Hill: Dems fret about Trump's appeal

Dr. Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:

Which Media Outlet's Republican Delegate Tracker Do You Believe? — Major media outlets cannot agree on any of the delegate counts for the top three GOP candidates, nor the allotment from 11 states that have voted thus far — With 20 Republican contests in the books …

Discussion: NBC News, CBS New York and Independent Journal Review

Leonard Pitts Jr / Baltimore Sun:
Republicans have destroyed their party; will they take America with them?

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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Mitt Romney won't rule out accepting GOP nomination at contested convention

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Ros Krasny / Bloomberg Business:
Marco Rubio Coasts to Victory in Puerto Rico's Republican Primary

Discussion: ThinkProgressPage Array, Politico, Roll Call and Florida Politics

Steven Shepard / Politico:
Rubio wins Puerto Rico primary

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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Marco Rubio wins Puerto Rico primary, CNN projects

Discussion: Vox, Towleroad and The Last Tradition

New York Times:

Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands — Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, New York Magazine and NBC News

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Showing strength in Michigan, Trump feeds on hostility to GOP, Romney — WARREN, Mich. — Donald Trump holds a solid lead in two new polls of Michigan Republicans on the eve of a primary that has often played a key role in GOP presidential races. In one survey, by CBS News, Trump is at 39 percent …

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Michigan Primary Puts Donald Trump's Rust Belt Strategy to a Test

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Decades Later, ‘Spy’ Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump — Listen to the Story — Soon after its launch in 1986, the satirical magazine Spy picked Donald Trump as the brash embodiment of a crass age. Founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, the magazine chronicled …

Discussion: Politico, more at Mediagazer »

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida? — Seeing a lot of buzz this morning that Trump underperformed last night and therefore it's a whole new ballgame in Florida and Ohio. It may indeed be a whole new ballgame — but not the way you think.

Discussion: RedState, Washington Post and National Review

Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Rubio Sacrificed His Campaign to Save America

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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:

Some supporters of Rubio say bad strategy, poorly run campaign killing his chances … Sensing an opportunity for an upset victory, Marco Rubio spent most of Friday in Kansas, where he picked up a series of high-profile endorsements that he hoped could help thrust him into contention.

Discussion: Politico, FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

When Fallacies Collide — The formal debates among the Republicans who would be president have exceeded all expectations. Even the most hardened cynics couldn't have imagined that the candidates would sink so low, and stay so focused on personal insults. Yet last week, offstage …

Discussion: Politicus USA

Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg Business:

Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas — New Jersey building partly funded via controversial visa plan — Video to sell it to investors is subtitled in Chinese — Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has attacked China and warned about the dangers of deficient immigrant screening.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and RedState

Eric Cortellessa / The Times of Israel:

Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’ — Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing

Discussion: Politico

Ken Blackwell / Townhall.com:

Mr. President, Mr. Secretary: It is Genocide. Say so! — Editor's note: This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison, who served in the Reagan administration. — President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have until March 17th to issue a determination that ISIS' attacks on Christians in the Mideast are genocide.

Discussion: The Resurgent