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9:15 AM ET, November 23, 2015

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Christie on Trump's claims about New Jersey after 9/11: 'I don't recall'  —  Chris Christie does not remember the 9/11 attacks the way Donald Trump remembers them.  —  At a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, on Saturday, the Manhattan business mogul recounted how he saw “thousands of thousands of people …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Washington Post's Fact Checker Doesn't Read the Washington Post  —  I wrote earlier today about the liberal media attacking Donald Trump's statement that on 9/11, “thousands and thousands” of American Muslims in Jersey City celebrated the successful terrorist attacks.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's outrageous claim that ‘thousands’ of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks
Discussion: Power Line and JustOneMinute
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:   Trump doubles down: Thousands in NJ cheered on 9/11
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government  —  Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas  —  Overview  —  A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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CBS News:
Do Americans think President Obama has a clear plan for ISIS?  —  Just over a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, only 23 percent of Americans think President Barack Obama has a clear plan for dealing with the militant group ISIS, the lowest number yet recorded in the CBS News Poll.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Post:
ObamaCare's imploding even without repeal  —  It's looking like ObamaCare won't survive even if Congress can't manage to repeal it.  —  The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, said last week that it's losing too much — $425 million — from policies sold on the health exchanges, and may have to pull out by 2017.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Reform Lives!  —  To the right's dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage.  Still, Obamacare's opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral” of low enrollment and rising costs.
Erin Edgemon / al.com:
Donald Trump says maybe Birmingham protester ‘should have been roughed up’  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Fox News on Sunday morning that a Black Lives Matter protester thrown out of his Birmingham rally perhaps deserved to be “roughed up” for being “obnoxious.”
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Protester gets punched at Trump rally. Trump: “Maybe he deserved to get roughed up.”
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump: My Fans Were Right To Beat Up Black Protester
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Trump doing a ‘great service’  —  Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says GOP primary front-runner Donald Trump is doing a “great service” by taking on the media and political correctness in his presidential campaign.  —  “Donald Trump is, I think, doing a great service,” Limbaugh said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP fears Trump's Muslim comments could hurt
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Anti-Muslim Is Anti-American  —  There seems to be no bottom to the cesspool of Islamophobic rhetoric coming from Republican candidates.  —  The tone of anti-Muslim musings post-Paris attack has become so poisonous that it cannot portend anything positive.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa  —  On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks.  When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile.  They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
In U.S., 51% Say Government Should Ensure Healthcare Coverage  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. adults are slightly more likely to say it is the responsibility of the federal government to ensure all Americans have health insurance coverage (51%) than to say it is not the government's responsibility (47%).
Discussion: Politico and Wonk Wire
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist  —  On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, mounted a small stage at the Elks Lodge in Boulder City, Nevada, a popular retirement spot near Las Vegas.  In his twenties, as an obscure Republican state legislator, Rubio exhibited such innate political skill …
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew O'Hehir / Salon:
The GOP-ISIS nightmare coalition: Islamic extremists and the anti-immigrant right have the same goal — the death of democracy  —  Terrorists and the far right both see democracy as a decadent failure; at least ISIS admits they want to destroy it  —  Amid all the terror and panic …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Obama to Hollande: Stay the course against Russia  —  When President Obama hosts French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, he'll have more on his agenda than demonstrating solidarity against terrorism.  He'll also be working to make sure Hollande sticks with the international effort …
 
 
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