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3:40 PM ET, March 10, 2016

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Michelle Fields / Breitbart:
In Her Own Words  —  On Tuesday night, I went to cover Donald Trump's press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida.  I was looking to cover the event like I have covered many live political events for Breitbart News, including an uneventful Trump press conference in Palm Beach the week before.
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Breitbart Rolls Over After Reporter ‘Grabbed’ By Trump Aide  —  Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his outsider juggernaut seem to be doing much more than reinventing the rules of politics and terrifying the Washington establishment.  —  The reality television billionaire might …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's inner circle, his staffers are willing to fight for him.  Literally.  —  JUPITER, Fla. — The original Trump crew, the four who had been there from the start, stood at the fringe of the news conference, watching as their boss trash-talked his competitors …
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Trump protester sucker-punched at North Carolina rally, videos show  —  Multiple videos show a protester at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina being sucker-punched by a Trump supporter.  —  The videos, which appeared on social media early Thursday and are shot from different perspectives …
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Man Charged With Assault For Sucker-Punching Black Protester At Trump Rally  —  John McGraw, 78, was arrested and charged Thursday with assault and battery and disorderly conduct after he allegedly punched a black protester at Donald Trump's rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, according to local TV station WNCN.
Nate Rodgers / WNCN:
78-year-old NC man charged with punching protester at Fayetteville Trump rally
Discussion: WSPA-TV
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:   Punch of Trump Protester in North Carolina Sparks Police Probe
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Video Appears To Show White Trump Supporter Sucker-Punch Black Protester (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Guardian
Tkurzweil / KTLA:
Video Shows Mid-Air Passenger Brawl Aboard LAX Bound Spirit Airlines Flight  —  Cellphone video captured a brawl that broke out between passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Baltimore to Los Angeles Wednesday.  —  The video showed a group of women throwing punches and pulling each other's hair …
Discussion: Washington Post, WTVR-TV and Fox 59
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Los Angeles Times:
Complaint over loud ‘boom box’ music leads to 5-woman brawl on Spirit Airlines flight  —  Five women fought aboard a Spirit Arlines flight that later landed in Los Angeles.  —  The two intoxicated women blasted music from a “boom box” on board the Spirit Airlines flight Wednesday morning from Baltimore to Los Angeles.
Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
A Simple Model for Predicting Hillary Clinton's Vote in the March 15 Democratic Primaries  —  A simple model based on two predictors — the racial composition of the Democratic primary electorate and a dummy variable for region — explain over 90% of the variance in Hillary Clinton's vote share …
Discussion: Political Wire and New York Times
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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders ‘Too Tired’ for This Syrian Refugee
Discussion: Mediaite
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
How Bernie Sanders convinced me about free college
Discussion: Mother Jones
Suffolk University:
Suffolk University Poll: Trump Leading GOP Field in Sunshine State  —  Heading into next Tuesday's Florida primary, Donald Trump continues to lead his three major opponents in this crucial winner-take-all-delegate contest, according to a Suffolk University poll of likely Republican primary voters.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Rubio's collapse: A fateful decision that helped unravel his campaign
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump, Rubio close in Fla. primary, Washington Post-Univision News poll shows
Discussion: Hot Air and Naked Politics
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: Of Course We'd Consider SCOTUS Nom If Obama Were Republican!  —  During a Thursday morning radio interview, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) candidly explained that Senate Republicans would take a different approach to a Supreme Court nominee if a Republican president were in office and replacing a conservative justice.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama zeroes in on court pick
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Grist and Hot Air
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
The Obama Doctrine  —  Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America's reign as the world's sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back from the consuming void …
Gallup:
Obama's Job Approval at Highest Level Since May 2013  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama earned a 50% job approval rating for the week ending March 6, his highest weekly average since May 2013.  —  Obama's current 50% weekly average exceeds the 46% he averaged in his seventh year in office …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama approval rating hits three-year high
Discussion: Political Wire
Cale Ahearn / WPMT FOX43:
Man attempts taxi robbery with police car behind him  —  READING, Pa. — Taxi surveillance cameras recorded a masked man robbing a terrified taxi driver at gunpoint - but the robber forgot to look behind him.  —  Waiting behind the cab was Berks County Deputy Sheriff Terry Ely …
Discussion: New York's PIX11 and KTLA
David Brody / blogs.cbn.com:
Brody File Exclusive: Ted Cruz Says Donald Trump's Voters Have “relatively low information” And Are “not that engaged”  —  GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz tells The Brody File that the reason Donald Trump is performing well in the GOP race for president is because his voters are uninformed and not engaged in the process.
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Donald Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us’  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thinks “Islam hates us,” drawing little distinction between the religion and radical Islamic terrorism.  —  “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” …
Camille Paglia / Salon:
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner's refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too)  —  But his fearlessness and brash energy also seem necessary and rare  —  I'm dying for an update from you on Donald Trump.  Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.”
Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
‘Hot Felon’ Jeremy Meeks released from federal prison and gets job offers  —  Jeremy Meeks, right, known as the “hot felon,” was released from prison Tuesday.  —  A convicted felon whose handsome booking photo went viral was released from federal prison this week, and he is now entertaining job offers.
Prime Minister of Canada:
U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership  —  Washington, D.C., United States of America  —  President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau share a common vision of a prosperous and sustainable North American economy, and the opportunities afforded by advancing clean growth.
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Sources: Mike Lee To Endorse Ted Cruz  —  MIAMI — Utah Sen. Mike Lee will endorse Ted Cruz for president on Thursday afternoon, two sources with knowledge of Lee's plans told BuzzFeed News.  —  Lee was one of five senators — three of whom are running for president …
Julia Carrie Wong / Guardian:
San Francisco mulls state of emergency over homelessness.  But will it help?  —  California city weighs following similar moves by Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle as west coast copes with crisis much worse than the national average  —  When Jacob Riis published his photographs …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Ohio's ‘dirty little secret’: blue-collar Democrats for Trump  —  If Donald Trump wins the Republican Party nomination, his path to the White House will run through this working-class city with a knack for picking presidents.  —  No Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio.
Discussion: Infowars
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
How Darrell Hammond Channels His Inner Donald Trump on ‘SNL’  —  EMAIL ME  —  “You don't want to editorialize,” the comedian explained.  “The problem is this: The closer you get to distasteful or what a person would consider below the belt, the funnier you are.”
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
CNN: ‘Dog Reluctantly Takes Trump Pledge’
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
On Trade, Donald Trump Breaks With 200 Years of Economic Orthodoxy
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The Miami debate was Clinton's personal nightmare
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New York Times:
Soros and Other Liberal Donors to Fund Bid to Spur Latino Voters
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
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