memeorandum: Polls: Trump Ahead in Florida, Illinois; Kasich Leads in Ohio (Mark Murray/NBC News)

4:50 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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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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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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Trump cancels Florida rally to hold event in Ohio — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — has postponed his Monday night rally scheduled in Florida and will instead hold an event in Ohio. — Trump was planning to hold an event Monday night at Trump National Doral.

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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.

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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

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Keith BieryGolick / Cincinnati.com:
Boehner endorses Kasich days before primary

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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

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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Boehner endorses Kasich: reports

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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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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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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
Trump Uses Doctored Video To Connect Protester To ISIS

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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Wants To Pay Legal Fees Of Man Who Sucker Punched Protester

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

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

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Caleb Howe / RedState: Trump: 'I'm Going To Start Pressing Charges' Against Protesters [VIDEO]

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.

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Thomas Frank / Salon:

Bill Clinton's odious presidency: Thomas Frank on the real history of the '90s — NAFTA. The crime bill. Prisons. Aides wondered if Bill knew who he was. His legacy is sadly clear — Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton gives the thumbs up sign as he speaks to a gathering at the University of Toledo in 1992.

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:

Former GOP senator: Brokered convention will bring ‘revolution’ — Former Sen. Al D'Amato (R-N.Y.) said on Sunday that Republicans should not try to intervene at the party's convention in order to stop Donald Trump — from securing the nomination, warning that doing so would cause a “revolution” in the party.

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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.

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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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Michael Joseph Garza / Facebook:

So here's my story about this picture, and I promise you it's the god honest truth : — my friend Sean Kavanagh and I are walking out of the UIC Pavilion filled with some of the most palpable joy I've ever experienced. We did it. We fought for the truth and for a moment, a brief day, WON.

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