memeorandum: This Is The First Big Test Of Donald Trump's Endorsement Power In 2024 (Liz Skalka/HuffPost)

8:45 PM ET, March 16, 2024

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Liz Skalka / HuffPost:

This Is The First Big Test Of Donald Trump's Endorsement Power In 2024 — Trump's in Ohio just days ahead of a key U.S. Senate primary after his endorsement of businessman Bernie Moreno failed to clear the field. — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Donald Trump was in the Buckeye State on Saturday …

Discussion: Associated Press, The Daily Beast, NBC News, CNN, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner, Fox News and The Hill

Marisa Iati / Washington Post:

Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people’ — The former president also warned of “a bloodbath” if he does not defeat Joe Biden in November — VANDALIA, Ohio — Former president Donald Trump ratcheted up his dehumanizing rhetoric against immigrants Saturday by saying …

Discussion: Breitbart, DNyuz, New York Times, Mediaite and Semafor

Lauren Irwin / The Hill:

Johnson: Second Trump term would be like first ‘on turbo’ — In a recent interview with New Yorker Magazine, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued that if former President Trump were reelected, his second term would be much like his first, except it'd be “on turbo.”

Discussion: Axios, Washington Times, Fox News and New Yorker

Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:

‘Democracy is teetering’: at ground zero for Trump's big lie in Arizona — The state Republican party is undaunted by electoral defeats for those claiming voting is rigged - and election officials are bearing the brunt of their fury — On a glorious spring day in Phoenix …

Discussion: Associated Press and Digby's Hullabaloo

April Rubin / Axios:
Trump and Biden's key campaign stances in sequel election

Discussion: CNN and HuffPost

New York Times:
How Trump Is Scrambling to Raise Cash

Discussion: Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, UPROXX and Jacobin

New York Times:
Republican Senate Slugfest in Ohio Fuels Jitters About Trump's Candidate

Discussion: Washington Examiner, HuffPost, DNyuz, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, NBC News, HotAir, Washington Times and Associated Press

KFTC-TV:

Andre Gordon: Suspect in 3 Falls Township murders captured after Trenton barricade — FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A man accused of killing three people during a violent rampage in Falls Township, Pennsylvania Saturday morning before barricading himself inside a Trenton home has finally been captured, officials say.

Associated Press:

Police: Suspect is barricaded in New Jersey home after killing 3 people in Philadelphia suburb — A suspect has barricaded himself in a home in New Jersey after allegedly killing three people in a shooting in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday, authorities said.

Discussion: Daily Caller News Foundation, abc7NY, One America News Network, KFTC-TV and New Jersey Online

NBC News:
Residents in suburban Philadelphia township told to shelter in place after ‘confirmed shootings’

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Metro.co.uk, New York Times, DNyuz, IJR, Mediaite and Raw Story

Kate Plummer / Newsweek:

GOP Base Has Shriveled Compared to Last Presidential Election — The number of people who describe themselves as Republican has slightly declined since the last presidential election. — The polling firm Gallup, which tracks party affiliation monthly, says that those identifying as Republicans …

Discussion: Raw Story, Bloomberg, DNyuz and Reuters

Reuters:

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say — SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening …

Discussion: Forbes, Interesting Engineering, New York Post, RedState, Washington Examiner, The Verge, Bloomberg, NEWS.am and Space, more at Techmeme »

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Share of Democratic Registrations Is Declining, but What Does It Mean? — Virtually every group of voters under 70 has become less likely to register as Democrats compared with Republicans since 2019. — Newly registered voters, who are disproportionately young and nonwhite, have tended to lean Democratic.

Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:

‘A Very Good Day for Donald Trump’: Toobin Says Fani Willis' Case ‘Is Going Nowhere’ — Jeffrey Toobin offered a bleak assessment for those hoping to see former President Donald Trump face trial in Georgia sooner rather than later. — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump …

Discussion: Fox News, BizPac Review, The Hill, DNyuz, Breitbart, WGN Radio 720, WSB-TV and Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
We Have to Beat Donald Trump. Clearly, the Broken Legal System Won't.

William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham Apologizes for Graphic of Wrong Black Lawyer

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, DNyuz and Raw Story

Karen Dolan / The Hill:

Biden's populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics — A president's budget proposal is seldom passed into law. Instead, it's an expression of the priorities the president promises to fight for, often coming on the heels of an agenda laid out in the State of the Union address.

Discussion: DNyuz

Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:

Creditors demand Rudy Giuliani sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to pay debts — Creditors want to force Rudy Giuliani to sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to help pay off his nearly $152 million in debt. — Giuliani has argued that he does not have the funds to pay his debts …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, DNyuz, Raw Story, Forbes and Political Wire

Michael Dorgan / Fox News:

AOC district neighborhood labeled ‘Third World’ as migrants clog streets and prostitutes overrun every block — The neighborhood has become so renowned for its prostitution that it has garnered the nickname ‘the market of sweethearts’ — FIRST ON FOX: An area in Squad member Alexandria …

Discussion: BizPac Review and RedState

Reuters:

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says — Niger's ruling military junta has revoked with immediate effect a military accord that allows military personnel and civilian staff from the U.S. Department of Defense on its soil, junta spokesperson Colonel Amadou Abdramane said on Saturday.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Jon Levine / New York Post:

President Biden promoted top staffers involved in classified docs bungling within 24 hours of special counsel's damning report — Top aides to President Biden involved in his mishandling of classified documents were given plum promotions within 24 hours of the release of special counsel …

Discussion: RedState and Twitchy