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3:55 PM ET, February 19, 2016

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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Donald Trump's Lead Slashed in South Carolina: Poll  —  Donald Trump is now leading Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary by 5 points — down from his 16-point lead in the state a month ago, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Great Republican Stalemate  —  SPARTANBURG, S.C.—You could see why Ted Cruz might be getting a little frustrated.  So many of the voters that rightfully belonged to him were, lately, stubbornly choosing to back other candidates instead.  —  Donald Trump.  Marco Rubio.  Even—would you believe it?
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush machine running on fumes  —  SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Some of Jeb Bush's most steadfast allies think Saturday might be the end.  —  Donors, who poured millions into his campaign and super PAC, have stopped giving — one refusing a direct request to raise $1 million this week.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump on brink of key win  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — The author of “The Art of the Deal” is on the brink of closing his biggest one yet.  —  Victory for Donald Trump in the GOP primary here on Saturday would copper-fasten his status as the dominant front-runner, catapult him into a significant delegate lead …
Ted Cruz / Yahoo Politics:
At Cruz rally in S.C., ‘Duck Dynasty’ star condemns ‘perversion’  —  MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, held a presidential campaign event here on Friday that was equal parts church sermon and political rally.  The event included calls to prayer, fiery declarations about the country's morals …
Discussion: CNN and Right Wing Watch
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Mark Sanford endorses Ted Cruz
Discussion: Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: Pope Francis ‘a terrific person’
Discussion: Hot Air
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   The Roots of Donald Trump's Candidacy Lie in a South Carolina Cemetery
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
In 2002, Donald Trump Said He Supported Invading Iraq  —  “Are you for invading Iraq?”  Howard Stern asked him, and Trump answered, “Yeah, I guess so.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  For months, Donald Trump has claimed that he opposed the Iraq War before the invasion began — as an example of his great judgment on foreign policy issues.
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Streiff / RedState:
Donald Trump Says He Supports the ObamaCare Mandate  —  Anderson Cooper interviews Donald Trump on a CNN candidate town hall.  —  Last night Donald Trump was on CNN with Anderson Cooper.  The subject of health care came up.  Naturally it resulted in a dumpster fire of nitwit-ish blather …
Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
Trump: I ‘Like’ Obamacare's Individual Mandate
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Daily Wire
Connor Sheets / al.com:
Harper Lee dead at age of 89: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author passes away  —  Nelle Harper Lee, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for her book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has died at the age of 89, multiple sources in her hometown of Monroeville, including the mayor's office, confirmed Friday morning.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
A Deck of Cards Could Determine Some Nevada Caucus Results  —  When in Las Vegas ... what better way to break a tie in a political caucus than a deck of cards?  —  On Friday, the Nevada Democratic Party released answers to frequently asked questions ahead of the caucuses on Saturday.
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CBS News:
Hillary Clinton: “I've always tried” to tell the truth  —  LAS VEGAS — For Hillary Clinton, these are high roller stakes in Nevada after losing New Hampshire in a landslide and essentially tying in Iowa.  —  She has decided to stay in Nevada through the caucus on Saturday.
Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton gets BOOED at MSNBC town hall when she says Bernie Sanders 'wasn't really a …
Discussion: TPNN and ABC News
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Biden hints at centrist Supreme Court pick  —  Echoing some recent Republican arguments about judicial nominations, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday suggested that President Barack Obama will not nominate a staunch liberal to replace Justice Antonin Scalia at a time when the ideological balance of the Supreme Court is up in the air.
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Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Says Clinton, Sanders Campaigns Too Gloomy for His Taste  —  President Barack Obama has criticized what he described as Republican presidential candidates' “doom and despair tour,” but Vice President Joe Biden argued this week that the gloomy message about the state of the country is coming from Democrats, too.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Bernie's brother: Media can't decide if Clinton is ‘terrible rapist’ or ‘nice rapist’  —  Bernie Sanders's elder brother rips Bill Clinton in a new interview, suggesting the media is too focused debating whether the former president is a “terrible rapist” or “nice rapist.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders's Brother: He Backs ‘Class Warfare,’ Bill Clinton Was Worse Than Bush
Discussion: Politico
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Sanders: Clinton's Embrace Of Obama Is A Ploy For Black Votes
Discussion: Shadow and Act and The Week
Silvio Canto, Jr / American Thinker:
‘El Papa’ embraces Raul Castro but calls Donald Trump anti-Christian!  —  Last Sunday, Pope Francis was in Mexico visiting sick children in hospitals.  It was amazing to watch him holding the little kids and praying with their mothers.  As a Catholic, I was so proud of “El Papa.”
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Justice Department Calls Apple's Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’
Discussion: The Week
Billy Penn:
Caitlyn Jenner draws laughs, tears up during Penn speech: 'I'm not a role model' … - BILLY PENN ORIGINALS  — How Jim Kenney wants to make Philly roads safer: Vision Zero and ‘Complete Streets’  — Did the state Supreme Court mortally wound Philly's controversial School Reform Commission?
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Sen. Murkowski Backtracks On Giving Obama's SCOTUS Nom A Hearing  —  Moderate GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK), one of the few Republicans initially willing to break ranks on whether President Obama's nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia should be considered, reversed course Thursday evening.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Daily Kos
Paul Campos / Salon:
Scalia was an intellectual phony: Can we please stop calling him a brilliant jurist?  —  No one wants to disrespect the dead.  But we disrespect the truth to hail his legal mind and phony, grand principles  —  George Orwell once noted that when an English politician dies …
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Democratic party fundraising effort helps Clinton find new donors, too  —  Behind the scenes at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in Minneapolis last August, campaign officials for Hillary Clinton were making a hard sell to the state parties.
Janelle Lilley / KATV-TV:
Concern over African-American only student assembly  —  Shortly after arriving at school Wednesday morning, an announcement over the public announcement system instructed black freshmen to go to the auditorium for an assembly.  Arron Perkins says his sister was in math class.
Stephen Kinzer / BostonGlobe.com:
The media is misleading the public on Syria  —  COVERAGE OF the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press.  Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why.  —  For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo.
 
 
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Donald Trump / Yahoo Politics:
Trump is accused of financially threatening woman during secret deposition
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Katy Perry Cashes in on Clinton Support
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CNN:
In apparent shift, Rubio says he would end Obama immigration order on day one
Discussion: Hot Air and The Right Scoop
Daily Mail:
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Tim Flach / The State:
Record turnout expected in Saturday's GOP primary
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Why aren't young Latinos ready for Hillary? Because they're still wounded by Obama.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Rutgers Students Hold Group Therapy Session After Milo Yiannopoulos Visit
Discussion: Daily Wire and Campus Reform
Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Voters increasingly see Sanders as electable
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New York Times:
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