memeorandum: Carson to endorse Trump for president (Jonathan Easley/The Hill)

9:40 PM ET, March 10, 2016

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Trump Supporter Who Punched Protester: ‘Next Time, We Might Have To Kill Him’ — The Trump supporter who was filmed sucker punching a protester during Wednesday's rally in North Carolina said: “Next time, we might have to kill him.” — Multiple videos show the protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones …

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Justin Wm / Washington Post:

Trump protester sucker-punched at North Carolina rally, videos show — Multiple videos show a protester at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina being sucker-punched by a Trump supporter. — The videos, which appeared on social media early Thursday and are shot from different perspectives …

WRAL-TV:
Man charged with assaulting protester during Trump rally in Fayetteville

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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Man Charged With Assault For Sucker-Punching Black Protester At Trump Rally

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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Punch of Trump Protester in North Carolina Sparks Police Probe

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Exclusive: Audio and transcript of Breitbart reporter allegedly being roughed up by Trump campaign manager — Donald Trump's spokesperson flatly denied on Thursday that campaign manager Corey Lewandowski roughed up a reporter for the conservative website Breitbart, and suggested she was fabricating …

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Ben Terris / Washington Post:

Inside Trump's inner circle, his staffers are willing to fight for him. Literally. — JUPITER, Fla. — The original Trump crew, the four who had been there from the start, stood at the fringe of the news conference, watching as their boss trash-talked his competitors …

Michelle Fields / Breitbart:

In Her Own Words — On Tuesday night, I went to cover Donald Trump's press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. I was looking to cover the event like I have covered many live political events for Breitbart News, including an uneventful Trump press conference in Palm Beach the week before.

Robert Costa / Washington Post:

Ben Carson plans to endorse Trump — Woman asks about reuniting families … MIAMI — Conservative favorite Ben Carson, who recently suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, plans to endorse Donald Trump on Friday morning, according to two people familiar with his thinking.

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Carson to endorse Trump for president — for president on Friday. — Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who ended his own presidential bid earlier this month, will join Trump at a press conference at the businessman's Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., to make the announcement.

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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-Jeb Aide Burns Trump Supporter: 'You're Sitting In A Booster Chair!' (VIDEO)

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David Brody / blogs.cbn.com:

Brody File Exclusive: Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump's Voters Have “relatively low information” And Are “not that engaged” — GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz tells The Brody File that the reason Donald Trump is performing well in the GOP race for president is because his voters are uninformed and not engaged in the process.

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Mike Lee Endorses Ted Cruz

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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
Chuck Norris No Longer Will Campaign With Ted Cruz

Discussion: The Hill, Independent Journal Review and Western Journalism

Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
First on CNN: Cruz super PAC decides attacking Rubio in Florida isn't worth it

Discussion: The Last Refuge

Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo: Chuck Norris Bails On Cruz Rally After Rumors Swirl That He's Endorsing

Sarah Palin / Facebook:
GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Poll: Trump Leading GOP Field in Sunshine State

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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Birther Joseph Farah: Canadian-Born Ted Cruz Can Run For President Because He ‘Loves America’

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Tkurzweil / KTLA:

Video Shows Mid-Air Passenger Brawl Aboard LAX Bound Spirit Airlines Flight — Cellphone video captured a brawl that broke out between passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles Wednesday. — The video showed a group of women throwing punches and pulling each other's hair …

Los Angeles Times:

Complaint over loud ‘boom box’ music leads to 5-woman brawl on Spirit Airlines flight — Five women fought aboard a Spirit Arlines flight that later landed in Los Angeles. — The two intoxicated women blasted music from a “boom box” on board the Spirit Airlines flight Wednesday morning from Baltimore to Los Angeles.

Discussion: CBS Los Angeles

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:

The Obama Doctrine — Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America's reign as the world's sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void …

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Snejana Farberov For / Daily Mail:
Obama compares ISIS to Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight saying they just 'just want to set …

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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:

Clinton Plays the Wrong Outrage Card and Sanders Makes Her Pay — This election cycle keeps demolishing expectations on both sides of the aisle. In Tuesday's contests, Donald Trump defied analysts who predicted a decline in his support after the Republican field narrowed …

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
FLASHBACK: Reagan Trailed Carter 58% to 33% in March 1980

Discussion: Allen B. West

Page Six:
Kanye West supports Donald Trump

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Chip Reid / CBS News:

Wounded Warrior Project execs fired — The two top executives of Wounded Warrior Project were fired Thursday by the board of directors. — Americans donate hundreds of millions of dollars each year to the charity, expecting their money will help some of the 52,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Five things to watch for at Republican debate in Miami — It's debate night in Miami, where the four Republicans standing in the presidential race will square off ahead of the critical March 15 primary in Florida, where one of them will walk off with 99 delegates. — Front-runner Donald Trump

Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Everything you need to know about CNN's GOP debate

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Steve Guest / The Daily Caller:

Obama: ‘I Certainly Have Not Contributed To’ Dividing The Country [VIDEO] — Obama: ‘I Certainly Have Not Contributed To’ Dividing The Country — Mizzou Loses 1,500 Students, Is Flat Broke Following Campus Protests — DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | BLAKE NEFF

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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
President Obama: Trump's Birtherism Led To ‘Republican Crackup’

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Prime Minister of Canada:

U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership — Washington, D.C., United States of America — President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau share a common vision of a prosperous and sustainable North American economy, and the opportunities afforded by advancing clean growth.

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

GOP Senator: Of Course We'd Consider SCOTUS Nom If Obama Were Republican! — During a Thursday morning radio interview, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) candidly explained that Senate Republicans would take a different approach to a Supreme Court nominee if a Republican president were in office and replacing a conservative justice.

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Sabato's Crystal Ball:

Why Donald Trump Is Winning and Why His Nomination Could Shatter the Republican Party — Alan I. Abramowitz, Ronald Rapoport, and Walter Stone, Guest Columnists March 10th, 2016 — There has never been a frontrunner for a major party nomination like Donald Trump.

Discussion: Washington Post

Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:

A Simple Model for Predicting Hillary Clinton's Vote in the March 15 Democratic Primaries — A simple model based on two predictors — the racial composition of the Democratic primary electorate and a dummy variable for region — explain over 90% of the variance in Hillary Clinton's vote share …

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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:

Donald Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us’ — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thinks “Islam hates us,” drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism. — “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” …

Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:

Benghazi Victim's Mother: ‘Special Place In Hell’ For People Like Hillary, “I Hope She Enjoys It There' — Patricia Smith, whose son Sean was killed in the 2012 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, responded to Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary …

Annie Karni / Politico:

Chelsea and Ivanka put their friendship on ice — When Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump were introduced by their husbands a few years ago, they clicked immediately — the two famous daughters swanned around Manhattan together for a time, posing on the red carpet at events like the Glamour Women …

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Andrew R. Lewis / FiveThirtyEight:

Americans May Be Too Religious To Embrace Socialism — For over a century, scholars have wondered why the United States has never had a viable socialist movement. Socialist parties in other Western democracies, such as Britain's Labour Party and Germany's Social Democratic Party …

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Tim Reid / Reuters:

Ohio's ‘dirty little secret’: blue-collar Democrats for Trump — If Donald Trump wins the Republican Party nomination, his path to the White House will run through this working-class city with a knack for picking presidents. — No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio.

Discussion: Infowars