memeorandum: Most Americans agree Trump is a ‘fraud’ and a ‘phony’ (Peter Moore/YouGov US Opinion Center News)

7:45 PM ET, March 8, 2016

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Trump Hits a Wall Within the GOP; His Critics Back a Convention Fight (POLL)

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Peter Moore / YouGov US Opinion Center News:

Most Americans agree Trump is a ‘fraud’ and a ‘phony’ — Just over half of Americans agree with Mitt Romney that Trump is a ‘fraud’ and a ‘phony’, but Republicans disagree … As the Trump campaign maintained its strong momentum Republican heavyhitters Mitt Romney and John McCain blasted the frontrunner in unusually blunt language.

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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:

Donald Trump Holds Three-Point Lead Over Ted Cruz in GOP Race, WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds — Primary voters say they would prefer any of businessman's rivals in a one-on-one contest — Donald Trump holds a narrow, three-point lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination …

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Fallon Silcox / mynews13.com:

Exclusive Florida Decides Poll: Trump, Clinton lead Florida's presidential primaries — If Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were the candidates in November, Clinton would lose a close contest to Trump, according to our exclusive poll. — What will the outcome of the presidential primary elections be?

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Poll: Trump leads GOP race nationally but with weaker hold on the party … The state of the 2016 race — Donald Trump continues to lead his rivals nationally in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, but his hold on the GOP electorate has weakened since the primary season began …

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Mark Murray / NBC News:

Trump and Cruz Locked in Tight Race Nationally in New Poll — Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are locked in a tight Republican race - separated by just three points - according to results from a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Trump is the first choice of 30 percent of Republican primary voters …

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Rubio On CNN Story: “They Just Made It Up”

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Patrick Reis / Politico:
Is Trump peaking? We'll find out today

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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Dem Senate Takeover Probable, If Cruz or Trump Nominee

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David Brooks / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late! — It's 2 a.m. The bar is closing.

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Alex Swoyer / Breitbart:
Poll: Mitt Romney Helped Donald Trump, More Voters Now More Likely to Support the Billionaire

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Chicago Tribune:
Trump leads splintered Republican primary field in Illinois

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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz's Prospects Ascendant, Though Perhaps Not With Senate Peers

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Plain Dealer:
Mitt Romney tapes Michigan robocall for John Kasich

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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Rubio campaign accuses Cruz of ‘dirty tricks’ in Hawaii

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Fox News:
Romney sends out anti-Trump robo-calls for Rubio, Kasich

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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:

Fox News Forum May Signal Thaw Between Democrats and Network — DETROIT — Rebuffed yet again in coaxing Hillary Clinton onto Fox News, executives at the network had an outside-the-box idea last month that would have made primary debate history: a face-off between Senator Bernie Sanders …

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

Why Donald Trump scrapped this morning's live TV hits — Donald Trump was scheduled to go on a satellite TV tour Tuesday morning, but it was scrapped at the last minute. He called into several morning TV shows by phone instead. — So what happened? He says there were technical glitches.

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Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Has Made Some Bad TV Ad Buy Deals In Ohio

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Associated Press:

Voices From Voters as They Cast Primary Ballots in 4 States — Voters in four states are making their choices Tuesday in party primaries. Michigan is the big prize sought by Republican front-runner Donald Trump, as he aims to prevent his rivals from narrowing the delegate gap.

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Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:
Why Michigan Voters Are Hungry for Change

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Raoul Wootliff / The Times of Israel:

Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills terrorist — Israeli man hospitalized in moderate condition after Petah Tikva attack — An Israeli man who was stabbed multiple times Tuesday afternoon in a terror attack in Petah Tikva managed to remove the knife fromn his neck and use …

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KTVU-TV:

Video: Car nearly crashes into KTVU reporter, everyone ok — ALAMEDA COUNTY (KTVU) - As KTVU reporter Alex Savidge was covering the train derailment in Alameda County on Tuesday morning, a car crashed and careened toward him and his photographer. — Alex was live on Mornings on 2 at that moment.

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Aaron Elstein / Crain's New York Business:

How did Trump qualify for a middle-class tax break? — The GOP front-runner received a tax break available only to couples deemed by the state to have made $500,000 or less — One of the enduring mysteries of Donald Trump is just how much wealth he has. Forbes pegs his net worth at $4.5 billion …

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Elena Schneider / Politico:

NRSC deletes tweet attacking Tammy Duckworth for ‘not standing up for our veterans’ — The National Republican Senatorial Committee tweeted Tuesday that Illinois Senate Democratic candidate Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs while serving in the Iraq War, “has a sad record of not standing up for our veterans.”

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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo: NRSC Deletes Tweet Saying Double Amputee Dem Doesn't ‘Stand’ For Vets

Thomas Frank / Guardian:

Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here's why — When he isn't spewing insults, the Republican frontrunner is hammering home a powerful message about free trade and its victims — et us now address the greatest American mystery at the moment: what motivates the supporters …

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Tom Wheeler / fcc.gov:

Federal Communications Commission — Welcome to the new FCC.gov. Help us improve by providing feedback & reporting bugs. — Consumer - Enforcement - International - Media - Public Safety - Wireless - Wireline - Offices — Broadband: A Lifeline for the 21st Century — Commissioner

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Keith Olbermann / Washington Post:

I can't stand to live in a Trump building anymore — Keith Olbermann is a news and sports commentator and reporter. — Okay, Donnie, you win. — I'm moving out. — Not moving out of the country — not yet anyway. I'm merely moving out of one of New York's many buildings slathered …

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

Conservative lawyer says Scalia might never be replaced: 'There's nothing magical' about nine justices — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A conservative legal activist is promoting the idea that the U.S. Senate can hold off indefinitely in naming a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Supreme Court nominee would be a ‘piñata,’ Cornyn says

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Ian Tuttle / National Review:

Add Another Yuuge Failure to Trump's Pile: The Trump Network — In 2009, lots of people were feeling vulnerable. The housing bubble had burst, taking with it millions of jobs. Pensions had vanished. Stocks were slumping. For a shrewd businessman, it was the perfect time for a get-rich-quick scheme.

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Joan E. Solsman / The Wrap:

GOP and Tech Leaders Hold Secret Meeting to Stop Trump — Gathering took place at a private island resort over the weekend — Silicon Valley may be a bastion of liberals, but the threat of a Donald Trump presidency had some of technology's biggest names meeting behind closed doors with members of the Republican elite.