memeorandum: Trump ends wild day on campaign trail by calling for protesters' arrests (CNN)

1:50 PM ET, March 13, 2016

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3/13: Trump Ahead in FL, IL... Kasich Up in OH... Clinton Ahead in FL, IL, and OH — In the Republican presidential primary contests in Florida and Illinois, businessman Donald Trump exhibits continued strength in his bid for the GOP nomination. Trump is also a strong second in Ohio behind the state's popular governor, John Kasich.

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CBS News:

Poll: Trump and Kasich neck-and-neck in Ohio; Trump leads in Florida — Donald Trump keeps his lead in winner-take-all Florida, at 44 percent over Ted Cruz's 24 percent and Marco Rubio's 21 percent. In Ohio, Governor John Kasich is tied with Trump 33 percent to 33 percent …

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Mark Murray / NBC News:

Polls: Trump Ahead in Florida, Illinois; Kasich Leads in Ohio — Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential field in the March 15 primary states of Florida and Illinois, while John Kasich holds the edge in his home state of Ohio, according to three new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.

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Caleb Howe / RedState:

TRUMP LOSES: Your Complete Saturday Voting Results and Delegate Count Guide — Another day has passed, and with it more of our primary season voting. Yesterday contests took place in Wyoming and Washington, D.C. And in both, Donald Trump lost. And not by a little.

Discussion: Allen B. West and The Resurgent

Julia Hahn / Breitbart:

Jeff Sessions to GOP: Time to Unite Behind Trump, Beat Hillary — MIAMI, FL- Influential Alabama Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has emerged as the preeminent thought leader of the conservative nation-state movement, told voters that “now is the time for the GOP” …

Associated Press:

The Latest: Trump Outside Chicago Arrives to Calmer Crowd — The Latest on the 2016 presidential race two days before critical contests in Florida, Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina and Illinois (all times Eastern Daylight Time): — Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump is returning …

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Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz split anti-Donald Trump vote in Florida

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Washington Post:
Rubio wins D.C. Republican primary; edges out Kasich

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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal: Ben Carson Says He Would Be Willing to Be Trump's VP

CNN:

Trump ends wild day on campaign trail by calling for protesters' arrests — Watch CNN's Democratic Town Hall, co-hosted by TV One, Sunday at 8 p.m. ET. — (CNN)Donald Trump on Saturday called for protesters who disrupt his rallies to be arrested, one day after altercations and protests forced …

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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:

Trump Uses Doctored Video To Connect Protester To ISIS — Trump cited an ISIS-style video when he claimed a man who rushed a stage at a rally was connected to ISIS. But the video appears to have been made just to troll the man. — Donald Trump repeatedly claimed Saturday that a man …

Discussion: addictinginfo.org, The Right Scoop and Mediaite

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Trump looking into paying legal fees of supporter seen throwing sucker punch — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — said he is looking into paying the legal fees for the man who allegedly sucker-punched a protester last week during a Trump rally. — “I'm going to look at it.

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump has lit a fire. Can it be contained?

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Los Angeles Times: How black, Latino and Muslim college students organized to stop Trump's rally in Chicago

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Accuses Protester of ISIS Ties Based on Dubious Video

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump demands that police arrest rally protesters

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Eli Rosenberg / New York Times:
Trump Supporter Who Made Nazi Salute Explains Why She Made the Gesture

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Michael Joseph Garza / Facebook:
So here's my story about this picture, and I promise you it's the god honest truth :

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Alex Seitz-Wald / MSNBC:
How Bernie Sanders supporters shut down a Donald Trump rally in Chicago

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Donald Trump / Chicago Tribune:
Trump supporter outside UIC

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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:

How Trump Happened — It's not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. — “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.

Kyle Smith / New York Post:

How Democrats abandoned the working class and spurred rise of Donald Trump — Inequality has risen. Jobs are going overseas. The more the stock market rises, the more the working class feels crushed by globalization. — And all of this has occurred exactly as Democrats have engineered it.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:

National Review Writer: Working-Class Communities ‘Deserve To Die’ — National Review's Kevin Williamson believes Donald Trump's appeals to the white working class is “immoral” because that demographic's way of life deserves to die out. — In a featured article for the prestigious …

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Hillary Clinton:

On the fight against HIV and AIDS—and on the people who really started the conversation. — Yesterday, at Nancy Reagan's funeral, I said something inaccurate when speaking about the Reagans' record on HIV and AIDS. Since then, I've heard from countless people who were devastated by the loss …

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Keith BieryGolick / Cincinnati.com:

Boehner endorses Kasich days before primary — WEST CHESTER TWP. - Republicans in Butler County honored former Speaker John Boehner three days before residents across Ohio's 8th District will vote on his replacement in Congress. — But on Saturday, Boehner was more interested in talking about the presidential race.

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