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2:30 PM ET, March 7, 2016

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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Bernie's top strategist: 'Maybe they're going to put him on the ticket'  —  Ask people in Hillary Clinton's world whether they have a secret weapon to help win over voters under the age of old, and many will offer this answer: Bernie Sanders.  —  All you had to do was watch Sunday night's debate in Flint …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
How The Sanders Campaign Sees “Excuse Me, I'm Talking”  —  FLINT, Michigan — Bernie Sanders is authentic.  He is who he is.  And no matter how sharp the elbows got at the sixth Democratic presidential debate here Sunday night, the tone was nothing compared to what debates are like on the Republican side.
New York Times:
In Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders Pushes Hillary Clinton on Trade and Jobs
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Sanders: 'What You're Really Talking About Is Ending Gun Manufacturing in America.  I Don't Agree With That'
Steven Shepard / Politico:
How Donald Trump scrambles the general election map  —  If Donald Trump's coalition carries him to the GOP nomination, it could produce a crazy-quilt general election that scrambles the conventional wisdom about the battleground state map.  —  The Electoral College landscape has been fairly stable …
Discussion: The Hill
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Newt: Romney speech ‘vitriolic and nasty’  —  Newt Gingrich on Monday blasted Mitt Romney's speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” calling it a sure indicator that the 2012 Republican nominee would never be accepted as a consensus party choice at a hypothetical contested convention this summer in Cleveland.
Eric Cortellessa / The Times of Israel:
Ex-ADL chief: Trump's ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’  —  Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Ex-ADL director: Trump pledge ‘is a fascist gesture’
Discussion: Raw Story
Elaina Plott / National Review:
Cruz to Unveil Senate Endorsements This Week  —  Ted Cruz's colleagues may loathe him, but they seem to have found somebody else they dislike more.  With the prospect of Donald Trump's nomination looming over the GOP, Cruz is set to unveil endorsements from more than four senators this week …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz: The Media Is Sitting On Explosive Trump Stories
Discussion: Daily Kos
Dr. Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Which Media Outlet's Republican Delegate Tracker Do You Believe?
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman's adoption  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed an Alabama court's refusal to recognize a same-sex adoption.  —  The justices upheld a challenge brought by an Alabama woman after her state's highest court refused …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Lesbian Adoptive Mother Backed in U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
Discussion: New York Magazine and Shakesville
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Alabama High Court, Upholding Lesbians' Georgia Adoption
Julia Preston / New York Times:
More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump  —  DENVER — Donald J. Trump's harsh campaign rhetoric against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primary, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six of them alone in the family of Hortensia Villegas.
New York Times:
Money Pours In as Move to Stop Donald Trump Expands  —  Republicans hoping to halt Donald J. Trump's march to their party's presidential nomination emerged from the weekend's voting contests newly emboldened by Mr. Trump's uneven electoral performance and by some nascent signs that he may be peaking with voters.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Showing strength in Michigan, Trump feeds on hostility to GOP, Romney
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Lust for Destruction  —  When people try to make sense of this topsy-turvy, norm-busting election year, one of the key mistake they make is to assume that the dynamics that operate for Donald Trump in the Republican primary will operate in a general election.  They won't.
Nancy Reagan / Yahoo Politics:
Nancy Reagan's children speak out on her death  —  As the world continues to mourn the death of Nancy Reagan, the former first lady's children spoke publicly about the loss of their mother for the first time on Monday.  —  In an interview with NBC's “Today” show, Ron Reagan Jr. remembered the inseparable bond his parents had.
Discussion: Politico and TODAY.com
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Lou Cannon / Politico:
Why Nancy Reagan Didn't Want Ronald to Run for a Second Term
Discussion: ABC News
Donald Trump / Yahoo Politics:
Trump challenged over ties to mob-linked gambler with ugly past  —  Robert LiButti, top left, and Donald Trump, right.  (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos, state of New Jersey, William Thomas Cain/Getty Images, Ron Galella/Getty Images)  —  The daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Decades Later, ‘Spy’ Magazine Founders Continue To Torment Trump  —  Listen to the Story  —  Soon after its launch in 1986, the satirical magazine Spy picked Donald Trump as the brash embodiment of a crass age.  Founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, the magazine chronicled …
Daily Mail:
Father is hospitalised by ‘Sharia patrol’ in Austria after he told them to stop threatening his wife and daughter for not being properly dressed as fears rise of no-go areas in Vienna  —  Austrians fear parts of Vienna are becoming no-go areas after a father was attacked by a 'Sharia patrol …
Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas  —  New Jersey building partly funded via controversial visa plan  —  Video to sell it to investors is subtitled in Chinese  —  Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has attacked China and warned about the dangers of deficient immigrant screening.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
After last night, is there any way realistically that Trump doesn't win Florida?  —  Seeing a lot of buzz this morning that Trump underperformed last night and therefore it's a whole new ballgame in Florida and Ohio.  It may indeed be a whole new ballgame — but not the way you think.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Wisconsin Justice Apologizes For Student Columns Going Off On ‘Queers’ And AIDS  —  Wisconsin state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote in a column more than 20 years ago that gay people are “degenerates who basically commit suicide through their behavior,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
 
 
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Kaitlan Collins / The Daily Caller:
Caitlyn Jenner: 'Hillary Clinton Couldn't Care Less About Women'
Elizabeth Olson / New York Times:
Law Graduate Gets Her Day in Court, Suing Law School
Christy Smith-Sloman / New York Post:
NYC's ‘sex spa’ is grossing people out
Discussion: Gothamist
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich: I wouldn't need a delegate lead to win at a brokered convention
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Dana DiFilippo / Philly.com:
Police: Angry patron opens fire in restaurant, wounds worker
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Sympathy for the Donaldites
Peter Coy / Bloomberg Business:
Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds
Scott Maben / Spokesman.com:
Police identify suspect in shooting of Coeur d'Alene pastor
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Debate, In Case You Missed It
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Atlantic
Ken Blackwell / Townhall.com:
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary: It is Genocide. Say so!
Discussion: The Resurgent
Lauren Villagran / Albuquerque Journal:
NM ranchers outraged by lack of security at border
Discussion: Associated Press
NBC News:
Jimmy Carter Tells Church He's Ending Cancer Treatments
Robby Soave / The Daily Beast:
The College That Wants to Ban ‘History’
Matthew Jaffe / CNN:
Trent Lott would consider Obama's Supreme Court nomination
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
When Fallacies Collide  —  The formal debates among the Republicans …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The End of American Idealism
Discussion: Daily Kos
 

 
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