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9:10 AM ET, January 21, 2016

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better  —  Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.  But in an interview Wednesday, Mr. Dole said that the party would suffer …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz is ‘nervous’  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says rival Ted Cruz is worried the election is slipping away from him.  —  “He's very concerned because his poll numbers are going down and he looks very, very nervous,” Trump told CNN's Don Lemon on Wednesday evening.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What Palin does for Trump, and to Cruz  —  AMES, Iowa — In September, when Donald Trump appeared before a giant rally in Dallas, a person in the Trump circle described the coming months of the campaign.  Sure, a big event like Dallas got headlines, but Trump knew he couldn't do the same rally …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
CNN/WMUR Poll: Trump leads, Cruz climbs in New Hampshire  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump holds a 20-point lead in the New Hampshire Republican primary, a new CNN/WMUR poll shows.  —  Behind him, there's still a scrum for second place — with support for No. 2, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, on the rise.
Eli Stokols / Politico:
The Bush blame game begins  —  They think he wasted money on everything from an iPad-sized video mailer to direct mail for donors in states that don't yet matter.  They think his attacks on Marco Rubio are doing more harm than good.  And they worry that, at the end, all he will have accomplished …
Discussion: Political Wire and NBC News
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Battle for the Soul of the Right  —  At the moment, the Republican establishment is relevant to the presidential nomination battle only as an epithet.  —  Two weeks from the Iowa caucuses, the fight for the Republican nomination isn't so much a vicious brawl between the grass roots …
Discussion: Daily Wire
ABC News:
Palin's Re-Emergence Underscores GOP Split  —  If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the fuse.  —  Palin's complicated relationship with GOP leaders over the past eight years is a microcosm of the party's broader struggles with its most restive members.
Discussion: Politico and WCDC-TV
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP party elders aren't rallying for Rubio  —  Republican Party elders in Congress have nothing but nice things to say about Marco Rubio, but the Florida senator is encountering a nagging problem — they're not ready to coalesce around him as the man to stop Donald Trump or Ted Cruz from marching to the nomination.
Discussion: Political Wire
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Works to Cut Rubio's Lifeline in New Hampshire
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
‘Top Secret’ Email Revelation Changes ‘Nothing,’ Clinton Says  —  Hillary Clinton dismissed a report that emails she sent on her private email server contained a high level of classified material.  —  Speaking to NPR's Ari Shapiro in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday, the Democratic presidential …
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New York Post:
Hillary Clinton blames the vast right-wing conspiracy for her e-mail woes  —  Now the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has its anti-Clinton tentacles all the way into the Obama administration.  At least, that's the new excuse from Team Hillary on why the e-mail mess keeps getting worse.
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Sarah Palin's Circle of Victimhood  —  In endorsing Donald Trump, Sarah Palin faced a challenge.  How does a woman who has built her brand on hating cultural elites endorse a billionaire, Manhattan TV star?  Her answer: by turning Trump into a victim.  —  She began by reasserting her own victimhood.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
McCain: ‘I respect’ Palin's decision on Trump  —  Sen. John McCain declined on Wednesday to criticize Sarah Palin, his former running mate, for endorsing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.  —  “I respect her view,” McCain (R-Ariz.) told reporters in the Senate on Wednesday …
Moe Lane / RedState:
CNN announces sudden Democratic town hall debate on a Monday during prime time!  —  The debate will be 9 PM on Monday, January 25th - and on CNN, to boot.  It's going to be a town hall type format, which as Vanity Fair notes is something that the DNC would not normally be involved in anyway.
Discussion: New York Times
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Bill Clinton questions Hillary's Super Tuesday plan
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, and Simon and Garfunkel, Put Focus on Voters  —  With the help of the Simon and Garfunkel song “America,” Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has released a powerful 60-second commercial in Iowa that seeks to remind his supporters how far he, and they, have come — and to inspire them anew to caucus for him on Feb. 1.
Discussion: The Week
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Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Large Share Of N.H.'s Undeclared Voters Yet To Settle On A Candidate Or A Party
Discussion: Cincinnati.com and Hot Air
Einer Elhauge / Salon:
Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president: A Harvard Law professor close-reads the Constitution  —  The closer you study the Constitution, the weaker Ted Cruz's case squares with the actual meaning of “natural-born”  —  The argument that Ted Cruz is eligible to run for president initially looked strong …
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Sarah Palin: Arrested son was ‘hardened’ by war  —  Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared to suggest Wednesday that her son's arrest this week on domestic violence charges stemmed from the effects of his experiences as a soldier in Iraq.  —  Track Palin, a 26-year-old Iraq veteran …
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Oregonian:
Oregon standoff: One of protesters has murder conviction  —  Neil Sigurd Wampler (center, green coat), 68, is among the protesters taking part in the armed occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns.  Here is pictured here behind Ammon Bundy, who is speaking at a morning news conference.
Kimm Fesenmaier / The California Institute …:
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet  —  Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.  The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Liberal Senator Says She Wants To Avoid ‘Constitutional Arguments’ During Hearing On Obama's Executive Gun Action
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Alex Pashley / Climate Home:
Walmart CEO in Davos: Ignore climate sceptics
Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir / New York Times:
Can Iran Change?  —  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — THE world …
Discussion: CNN and Algemeiner.com
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Lawmaker: Obama Admin Fueling ‘Campaign to Destroy Israel’
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Chicago Tribune:
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