memeorandum: Ex-ADL director: Trump pledge ‘is a fascist gesture’ (Eliza Collins/Politico)

2:30 PM 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 whether 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 in Flint …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Washington Post, Guardian, CBS News and NBC News

Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:

How The Sanders Campaign Sees “Excuse Me, I'm Talking” — FLINT, Michigan — Bernie Sanders is authentic. He is who he is. And no matter how sharp the elbows got at the sixth Democratic presidential debate here Sunday night, the tone was nothing compared to what debates are like on the Republican side.

Discussion: Hot Air, American Spectator and Talking Points Memo

New York Times:
In Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders Pushes Hillary Clinton on Trade and Jobs

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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Sanders: 'What You're Really Talking About Is Ending Gun Manufacturing in America. I Don't Agree With That'

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Politico and The Daily Caller

Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Democratic Debate Takeaways: Clinton and Sanders Grow Tired of Each Other

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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Sanders Tells Clinton: 'Excuse Me, I'm Talking' in Arguably Sexist Debate Exchange

Discussion: Detroit Free Press, Mediaite, NPR, Mic, Washington Post and BuzzFeed

Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Clinton And Sanders Show Republicans What A Real Debate Looks Like

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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 …

Discussion: The Hill

Nick Gass / Politico:

Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’ — Newt Gingrich on Monday blasted Mitt Romney's speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” calling it a sure indicator that the 2012 Republican nominee would never be accepted as a consensus party choice at a hypothetical contested convention this summer in Cleveland.

Discussion: Political Wire, Shakesville and The Week

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: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Week

Eliza Collins / Politico:
Ex-ADL director: Trump pledge ‘is a fascist gesture’

Discussion: Raw Story

Elaina Plott / National Review:

Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week — Ted Cruz's colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody else they dislike more. With the prospect of Donald Trump's nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from more than four senators this week …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: The Media Is Sitting On Explosive Trump Stories

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Dr. Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Which Media Outlet's Republican Delegate Tracker Do You Believe?

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

Richard Wolf / USA Today:

Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman's adoption — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed an Alabama court's refusal to recognize a same-sex adoption. — The justices upheld a challenge brought by an Alabama woman after her state's highest court refused …

Discussion: Vox, Western Journalism, The Daily Caller and The Week

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Lesbian Adoptive Mother Backed in U.S. Supreme Court Ruling

Discussion: New York Magazine and Shakesville

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Alabama High Court, Upholding Lesbians' Georgia Adoption

Discussion: Independent Journal Review

Julia Preston / New York Times:

More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump — DENVER — Donald J. Trump's harsh campaign rhetoric against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primary, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six of them alone in the family of Hortensia Villegas.

Discussion: The Week and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …

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: Washington Post, Politico, New York Magazine, Business Insider and Daily Kos

Byron York / Washington Examiner: Showing strength in Michigan, Trump feeds on hostility to GOP, Romney

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: Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Nancy Reagan / Yahoo Politics:

Nancy Reagan's children speak out on her death — As the world continues to mourn the death of Nancy Reagan, the former first lady's children spoke publicly about the loss of their mother for the first time on Monday. — In an interview with NBC's “Today” show, Ron Reagan Jr. remembered the inseparable bond his parents had.

Discussion: Politico and TODAY.com

Lou Cannon / Politico:
Why Nancy Reagan Didn't Want Ronald to Run for a Second Term

Discussion: ABC News

Donald Trump / Yahoo Politics:

Trump challenged over ties to mob-linked gambler with ugly past — Robert LiButti, top left, and Donald Trump, right. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos, state of New Jersey, William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, Ron Galella/Getty Images) — The daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure …

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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 …

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Daily Mail:

Father is hospitalised by ‘Sharia patrol’ in Austria after he told them to stop threatening his wife and daughter for not being properly dressed as fears rise of no-go areas in Vienna — Austrians fear parts of Vienna are becoming no-go areas after a father was attacked by a 'Sharia patrol …

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: BuzzFeed, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo, Gothamist, RedState and Raw Story

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: Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, RedState and National Review

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Wisconsin Justice Apologizes For Student Columns Going Off On ‘Queers’ And AIDS — Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote in a column more than 20 years ago that gay people are “degenerates who basically commit suicide through their behavior,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Discussion: JSOnline, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and madison.com