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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.
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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 …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Exclusive: Transcript of female 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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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Breitbart Rolls Over After Reporter ‘Grabbed’ By Trump Aide — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his outsider juggernaut seem to be doing much more than reinventing the rules of politics and terrifying the Washington establishment. — The reality television billionaire might …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Reporter on ‘jarring’ physical altercation with top Trump aide: ‘I was shaken’
Reporter on ‘jarring’ physical altercation with top Trump aide: ‘I was shaken’
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Inside Edition:
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 …
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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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Man charged with assaulting protester during Trump rally in Fayetteville
Man charged with assaulting protester during Trump rally in Fayetteville
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Nate Rodgers / WNCN:
78-year-old NC man charged with punching protester at Fayetteville Trump rally
78-year-old NC man charged with punching protester at Fayetteville Trump rally
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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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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz
GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz
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The Right Scoop:
WATCH: Carly Fiorina calls out Fox News for their Trump bias
WATCH: Carly Fiorina calls out Fox News for their Trump bias
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Birther Joseph Farah: Canadian-Born Ted Cruz Can Run For President Because He ‘Loves America’
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 …
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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.
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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Four reasons Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic debate
The Daily 202: Four reasons Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic debate
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
FLASHBACK: Reagan Trailed Carter 58% to 33% in March 1980
FLASHBACK: Reagan Trailed Carter 58% to 33% in March 1980
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Allen B. West
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 …
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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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate GOP polling shows upside to SCOTUS blockade
Senate GOP polling shows upside to SCOTUS blockade
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
Chuck Norris No Longer Will Campaign With Ted Cruz — Looks like Keep the Promise PAC can't keep its promise of a Chuck Norris appearance at a rally for Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz this weekend. — According to the pro-Cruz PAC, Norris, 75, was to attend a rally along with the GOP presidential hopeful …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Chuck Norris Bails On Cruz Rally After Rumors Swirl That He's Endorsing
Chuck Norris Bails On Cruz Rally After Rumors Swirl That He's Endorsing
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Wall Street Journal
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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Cale Ahearn / WPMT FOX43:
Man attempts taxi robbery with police car behind him — READING, Pa. — Taxi surveillance cameras recorded a masked man robbing a terrified taxi driver at gunpoint - but the robber forgot to look behind him. — Waiting behind the cab was Berks County Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely …
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KTLA and New York's PIX11
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” …
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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.
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Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Poll: Trump Leading GOP Field in Sunshine State — Heading into next Tuesday's Florida primary, Donald Trump continues to lead his three major opponents in this crucial winner-take-all-delegate contest, according to a Suffolk University poll of likely Republican primary voters.
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders ‘Too Tired’ for This Syrian Refugee — Ismael Basha had waited all night to ask the candidates about their policies on the country he had fled decades ago. But when he approached Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Democrat shut him down and walked away.
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Tom Wheeler / The Huffington Post:
It's Your Data: Empowering Consumers to Protect Online Privacy — Chairman, Federal Communications Commission — It's the age of anywhere, anytime Internet connectivity — do you know where your information is? — Whenever we go online, we share information about ourselves.
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner's refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too) — But his fearlessness and brash energy also seem necessary and rare — I'm dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.”
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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.
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John Surratt / Vicksburg Post:
UPDATED: McCloud shot by family he took hostage — Eight days after he escaped from the Warren County Jail, Rafael McCloud's luck ran out. — McCloud, 34, was found dead about 7 a.m. Thursday in the tub of a bathroom of a home he broke into, shot by the homeowner.
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NBC News:
First Read: Where Have All the Popular Candidates Gone? — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — Where have all the popular candidates gone? — Almost a year since …
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Sanders Campaign Says This Photo Proves Clinton Broke Rules During Univision Debate — A Bernie Sanders aide told Fox News' Ed Henry that a picture of Secretary Hillary Clinton backstage with her campaign aides during a commercial break shows that she broke the rules during Wednesday's Univision debate.
Gallup:
Obama's Job Approval at Highest Level Since May 2013 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama earned a 50% job approval rating for the week ending March 6, his highest weekly average since May 2013. — Obama's current 50% weekly average exceeds the 46% he averaged in his seventh year in office …
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