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Republicans in Bloomberg Poll Not Sold on Plan to Stop Trump — Trump gets crushed by Clinton in hypothetical match-up — Kasich is only Republican left in field who beats Clinton — The most committed Republican voters aren't rallying behind efforts to deny Donald Trump the party's nomination …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg Gadfly, Politico, Fox News, RedState, CBS Boston, Hot Air and Talking Points Memo
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New Poll: Cruz Within Three Points Of Trump Nationally
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Fox News, FOX News Radio, Mediaite and Fox News Insider

Bush, Rubio get off NY presidential primary ballot, but Carson doesn't
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Politico, NY State of Politics and New York Daily News

These guys are utterly terrifying: The GOP primary marches on, but yesterday proved that both …
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US News and Hullabaloo


‘Stop Trump’ forces see an opportunity in Scott Walker's Wisconsin … PEWAUKEE, Wis. — Tonight, when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) kicks off his campaign for Wisconsin's April 5 presidential primary, he will head to conservative Waukesha County and talk with a conservative radio host. There's a reason for that.
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Sabato's Crystal Ball
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John Kasich Rejects a G.O.P. Call to Quit to Block Donald Trump
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Political Wire, CNN and USA Today

Scott Walker hints at Ted Cruz endorsement next week, for ‘maximum impact’
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Yahoo Politics, The Last Tradition and RedState

GOP elites line up behind Ted Cruz
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Last Refuge, CBS Miami, Politico, Business Insider, AOL, The Daily Caller, Trail Blazers Blog and ABC News


Revealed: Newt Gingrich's Secret Campaign for Donald Trump — The former House speaker has not endorsed in 2016. But behind the scenes he has been lobbying GOP insiders hard to Make America Great Again. — In public, Newt Gingrich won't say he's endorsing Donald Trump.
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Moe Lane
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Newt Gingrich Is Bullish on Donald Trump — A spirited debate with the former speaker on the merits of the mogul. — Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and onetime presidential candidate, has always been considered a man of ideas. After leading his party to power …
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American Spectator, Politico, The Resurgent, Mediaite and Political Insider blog

Paul Ryan Apologizes For Calling The Poor ‘Takers’
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The Week, Washington Post, Guardian, US News, Politico, National Review, Shakesville, Speaker.gov, Vox, Raw Story, Mother Jones, ABC News and WND


SCOTUS Bros Clearly Don't Understand How Women Get Contraceptives — The Supreme Court hearing Wednesday on Obamacare's contraceptive mandate presented the fourth challenge to the health care legislation since it was passed 2010, and thus the fourth opportunity for the justices to grapple …
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Argument analysis: On new health care case, a single word may tell it all
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Vox, Off the Kuff, KIMT-TV, New York Times and Althouse


The late grow! TV legend David Letterman shows off new retirement look as he goes for a walk in St Barts — His face is known to everyone in America due to his 33-year run as host of The Late Show. — But TV legend David Letterman was virtually unrecognisable as he showed off …
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WCTX-TV, Althouse and Independent Journal Review
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David Letterman debuts bald and bearded retirement look in St. Barts — Is that really David Letterman or one of his mystery guests? — The “Late Show” host — whose celebrated career on late-night television lasted for more than 33 years — was nearly unrecognizable this week during a trip to St. Barts.
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Slantpoint


The Trump-Cruz Police State Exists. It's Called France. — Imagine if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump proposed a policy to monitor thousands of Muslim citizens even if they had no specific ties to terrorist groups. Then, for good measure, they called for a new law to allow the police to search …
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The Hill
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Obama goes after Cruz for urging patrols of Muslim neighborhoods
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Hot Air, Instapundit, Politico, Front Page Magazine, CNN, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Trump: Muslims Are ‘Protecting Each Other’ And Not Reporting The ‘Bad Ones’
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Reuters, AOL, Associated Press and Mediaite

President Obama Brings Ted Cruz' Father Into Muslim Surveillance Debate
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Salon and New York Magazine

IS TRAINS 400 FIGHTERS TO ATTACK EUROPE IN WAVE OF BLOODSHED — PARIS (AP) — The Islamic State group has trained at least 400 fighters to target Europe in deadly waves of attacks, deploying interlocking terror cells like the ones that struck Brussels and Paris with orders to choose the time …
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Brussels Is the Ultimate Soft Target
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CNBC, Common Dreams and Real Clear Politics


Moulton compares Trump's rise to election of Hitler in 1930s — Congressman Seth Moulton on Wednesday compared the rise of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump to the election of Adolf Hitler and said constituents should warn “that crazy uncle” against voting for the businessman if he wins the GOP nomination.
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CBS Boston and Politico

Shadow campaign to deny Trump his delegates begins — When South Dakota's Republican activists convened in Pierre to pick their delegates to the Republican national convention, they got an unexpected visitor. — Merle Madrid, senior aide to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had flown in from Columbus …


Cross-border drug tunnel linked restaurant to home — CALEXICO, Calif. - For the first time in a decade, federal agents uncovered a completed drug tunnel in Calexico, a border city about 100 miles east of San Diego. — The opening of a drug tunnel was found in a fairly new home in Calexico …

Trumpism After Trump — There is now no possibility that the Republican Party will survive its rendezvous with Donald Trump unbroken. — If Trump is the party's nominee, the best-case scenario — the best case! — for G.O.P. unity probably involves a host of Republican officials withholding …
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Balloon Juice


Why watching comb jellies poop has stunned evolutionary biologists — No buts about it, the butthole is one of the finest innovations in the past 540 million years of animal evolution. The first animals that arose seem to have literally had potty mouths: Their modern-day descendants …


There Were 5-Hour Lines to Vote in Arizona Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act — Reducing the number of polling places in Phoenix had catastrophic consequences in the March 22 primary. — By , — Aracely Calderon, a naturalized citizen from Guatemala …
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Mother Jones, Arizona Republic, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Common Dreams, Politicus USA, Raw Story and Daily Kos


Swipe the Vote — First it was Bernie supporters, then it was Rubio. We've been amazed by the amount of users expressing their political views with matches during this presidential campaign. That's why we decided to build Swipe the Vote. — But don't worry if you haven't decided whether you're …


The GOP — and its big funders — scramble to insulate Congress from Trump … Republican leaders and their big-money allies are rushing to build a multistate defense system to protect Senate and House candidates, fearing the party could lose its hold on Congress if Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket in November.
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