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2:00 PM ET, March 17, 2024

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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Why Pence's Refusal to Endorse Trump Matters (Seriously!)  —  A Vice President not endorsing his former boss should be a bigger deal  —  On Friday afternoon, Mike Pence announced during an interview with Fox News' Martha MacCallum that he would not endorse Donald Trump for President.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Two GOP senators won't commit to explicit Trump endorsement  —  Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), in Sunday interviews, would not say whether they would endorse former President Trump's bid for the White House.  —  Rounds, in an interview on CNN's “State of the Union,” …
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Escalates His Dehumanization of Migrants: Some Are ‘Not People ... These Are Animals’  —  The former president continued his campaign to denigrate people coming to the U.S. in search of a better life  —  Former president Donald Trump, who opened his 2016 campaign declaring undocumented immigrants …
Chris Boccia / ABC News:
Rep. Turner disagrees with Trump's anti-migrant rhetoric but argues he can ‘fix’ border ‘crisis’  —  The top House Republican also said Jan. 6 convicts aren't “hostages.”  —  Chairman Michael Turner speaks at a hearing with the House Select Intelligence Committee in the Cannon Office Building, on March 12, 2024, in Washington, D.C.
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
Trump predicts ‘bloodbath’ if he loses 2024 election, ramps up anti-migrant rhetoric  —  The Biden campaign responded, saying, Trump “wants another January 6.”  —  What was scheduled to be a guest appearance by former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno …
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Trump says some undocumented immigrants are ‘not people’
Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Trump Says There Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ and Elections Will End if He Isn't Reelected
NBC News:
Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort  —  Biden locked up the Democratic nomination last week, but looking ahead to the general, anxiety has seemed to increase.  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was seething.  —  In a private meeting at the White House …
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The Strongman Fantasy  —  And Dictatorship in Real Life  —  Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule.  Why not a dictator who will get things done?  —  I lived in eastern Europe when memories of communism were fresh.  I have visited regions in Ukraine where Russia imposed its occupation regime.
New York Times:
How Trump's Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation  —  Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.  —  In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies …
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Supreme Court to decide if White House went too far fighting social media misinformation
Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
Promo video for Texas dental practice poses new ethics issue for Noem  —  Sitting in front of a camera for a highly produced, well-lit vertical video with the kind of caption made to watch on mute while you're scrolling through social media, a patient for SmileTexas near Houston tells viewers …
Discussion: Wonkette and Raw Story
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Ro Khanna says TikTok bill is not ‘actually addressing the issue’  —  Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said the TikTok bill passed by the House last week is not “actually addressing the issue.”  —  Khanna, who voted against the bill, argued on ABC's “This Week” that while the two national security issues cited …
Discussion: RedState, ABC News and The Daily Caller
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Sen. Cassidy says he is not running on No Labels ticket  —  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said in a Sunday interview that he is not running on a third-party presidential ticket with the political organization No Labels.  —  In an interview on NBC News's “Meet the Press,” Cassidy …
Savannah Kuchar / USA Today:
‘Anti-Trump’ Republicans in North Carolina feel alienated by Mark Robinson  —  RALEIGH, N.C. - Ex-Republican Phebe Roberson, 75, said she “can't stand” former President Donald Trump and voted against him in North Carolina's GOP primary earlier this month.  —  She also cast a ballot …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Claim That We Were Better Off in 2020 Is So Weird  —  The answer will obviously vary, but it's a good bet the year 2020 will rank pretty high in any list of wretched years.  After all, it's when COVID-19 arrived.  The pandemic eventually took over a million lives just in America.
 
 
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Pro-Ukraine PAC launched with eye on congressional races
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