memeorandum: Stop Trump Movement Gets Boost From Mexico's Efforts in U.S. (Eric Martin/Bloomberg Business)

11:35 AM ET, March 21, 2016

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Donald Trump Is Finally Uniting Top Republican Donors — Against Him — The prospect of a Donald J. Trump nomination is accomplishing what a diverse and talented field of Republican presidential contenders could not: uniting the party's big-money donor establishment.

John Kasich / Plain Dealer:
John Kasich's presidential campaign began March with $1.25 million, new filing shows

Discussion: RedState and The Resurgent

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump headed for a whipping in Utah

Discussion: Hot Air, Breitbart and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's personal investment in campaign climbs to nearly $25 million

Discussion: New York Magazine

Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Poll: Utah would vote for a Democrat for president over Trump

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, Washington Times, AOL, Raw Story, Newsmax, The Resurgent, Politicus USA, New York Magazine, Salt Lake Tribune, Washington Post, RedState, Hot Air and No More Mister Nice Blog

Matea Gold / Washington Post: Jeb Bush pumped $400,000 into his campaign in final weeks to keep it afloat

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Democrats to Sanders: Time to wind it down — Democratic senators of all stripes are as impressed as they are surprised by Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign. — But the time has come, they say, for Sanders to start winding things down. — After holding their fire on Sanders …

Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air

Associated Press: Gaffe Proof? Trump Vs. Clinton Tests Political Pitfalls

Arthur Delaney / The Huffington Post:
McConnell: GOP Senators Can Go Rogue If Trump Wins Nomination

Discussion: AOL and Slantpoint

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

John Roberts Criticized Supreme Court Confirmation Process, Before There Was a Vacancy — WASHINGTON — Last month, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. delivered some blunt remarks about the Supreme Court confirmation process. The Senate should ensure that nominees are qualified, he said, and leave politics out of it.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Slantpoint, Raw Story and The Week

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Supreme Court nominee Garland bows out of more cases — Supreme Court nominee and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick Garland begged off at least nine more court cases in recent days, signaling that he is suspending his work as chief judge on that court through at least mid-April.

Ed Whelan / National Review:
George Will's Misguided Attack on Senate Republicans

Discussion: Judicial Crisis Network

Sen. Ted Cruz / Politico:

In Cuba, Obama Will Legitimize the Corrupt and Ignore the Oppressed — Communist Havana has always been a magnet for the radical chic of the left, drawn like moths to the flame of this western outpost of totalitarian Communism. Back in the 1960s, the visitors included Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael …

Discussion: ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Yahoo Politics, Trail Blazers Blog, USA Today, Al Jazeera English, New York Post, BizPac Review, CNN, Hot Air, abc13.com and The Right Scoop

New York Times:
Cuba's Message to Its People: Be on Your Best Behavior for Obama

Discussion: Betsy's Page, Guardian and Los Angeles Times

Frank Rich / New York Magazine:

Can we please retire the notion that Donald Trump is hijacking someone else's party? — In mid-July of 2015, a month after Donald Trump announced his presidential run, I joined a gaggle of political junkies in a clubby bar four blocks from the White House to hear a legendary campaign strategist expound on the race ahead.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Eric Martin / Bloomberg Business:

Stop Trump Movement Gets Boost From Mexico's Efforts in U.S. — Consulates in U.S. Promote Citizenship For Immigrants — Charm Offensive Seeks to bolster Image of Mexico in U.S. — Mexico is mounting an unprecedented effort to turn its permanent residents in the U.S. into citizens …

Discussion: Infowars

Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:

Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Assaulting Trump Protester Is Active Duty Air Force — Officials confirmed late Sunday night that the 32-year-old man arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor assault at a Donald Trump rally in Tucson is an airman assigned to a nearby base.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:

Priebus: ‘You let the process play out’ … Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in an interview Sunday dismissed the notion that presidential candidates who fall just short of the necessary number of delegates should receive the Republican nomination.

Discussion: Politico and Political Wire

Charles Gasparino / New York Post:

Will Hillary get charged, or what? — FBI chief James Comey and his investigators are increasingly certain presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated laws in handling classified government information through her private e-mail server, career agents say.

León Krauze / New Yorker:

Me Gusta Trump: Portrait of a Hispanic Trump Voter — John Castillo grew up in Lincoln Heights, the heart of Hispanic Los Angeles, in a tight-knit Mexican-American family. His father's name was Juan, but his mother decided to name their son John. He attended Cathedral High School …

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

The Mutual Dependence of Donald Trump and the News Media — Did you catch the Trump-Kelly bout Friday night? What a show. — It had Donald J. Trump, The Likely Republican Presidential Nominee, throwing the first punch (of that day) at the star Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly by composing …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, TVNewser and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple's encryption — Apple's growing arsenal of encryption techniques — shielding data on devices as well as real-time video calls and instant messages — has spurred the U.S. government to sound the alarm that such tools are putting the communications …

Discussion: The Verge and Engadget

Jessie Hellman / The Hill:

Former UN ambassador: Putin is ‘up to something’ — Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled his military out of Syria for economic reasons, former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson said during an interview with John Catsimatidis Sunday. — “I think he's up to something again,” Richardson said.

CBS News:

CBS/NYT Poll: Majority of Americans support restoring U.S.-Cuba ties — As President Obama travels Cuba for his historic trip, a majority of Americans support restoring U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. — Fifty-two percent approve of the president's handling …

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Week, New York Times, Politico and Hot Air

Elena Schneider / Politico:

Trump puts GOP House majority in jeopardy — Donald Trump is on the verge of two things once thought to be impossible: winning the Republican presidential nomination, and putting Republicans' historically large House majority in danger. — Democrats have for the past year discussed …

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement and Joe.My.God.