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Bernie Sanders says no plans yet to meet the pope

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The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times local): 10:05 a.m. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he would “very much like to” meet Pope Francis when he travels to the Vatican next week but he has not received an official invitation from the Catholic leader. It’s “not yet clear,” Sanders told journalists in New York Friday, saying this pope is someone he has “enormous respect for in terms of the mental consciousness that he’s raising.” Sanders’ campaign released…

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Donald Trump’s abortion flub shows risks of “winging it” on policy

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It was a question sure to come up at some point in the Republican primary campaign. “What should the law be on abortion?” asked MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to Donald Trump at a town hall event in Wisconsin. “Should the woman be punished for having an abortion?” Matthews pressed. “This is not something you can dodge.” Trump’s bungled response — an awkward, extended attempt to evade the question, followed by an answer that, yes, “there has to be some form of…

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Donald Trump says abortion ban should yield “punishment” for woman

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that women who get abortions should receive “some form of punishment” if abortion is banned, once again sparking controversy with days to go before Wisconsin’s primary. In a heated exchange with MSNBC host Chris Matthews at the taping of a town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin that will air on Wednesday night, Trump was asked whether he believes that abortion should be outlawed in the country. After an extended back-and-forth, the billionaire businessman…

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Will Weatherford denounces Republicans for failing to define Donald Trump earlier

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When Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio opted to both compete in the 2016 Republican presidential race last year, Florida Republicans had to make a decision about which Miami area candidate to support, both vocally and with their dollars. In the majority of cases, those Republicans supported Bush. But after the former Florida Governor’s campaign flamed out in South Carolina last month, one might expect many of those same people to support the state’s other native son. It hasn’t exactly worked out like that. A…

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Mitch Perry Report Report for 3.11.16 – So why didn’t Rick Scott condemn Trump’s remark on Islam?

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Rick Scott sought to clarify his earlier refusal to condemn Donald Trump‘s comment that “Islam hates us” yesterday afternoon. “There are people that love this country. There’s people that don’t love this country. What we do know, and it’s no surprise, is that radical Muslims don’t like our country,” Scott told reporters before last night’s GOP debate in Miami. It wasn’t much of a cleanup over his earlier performance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. That’s when his refusal to condemn Trump’s comment…

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Bay News 9 poll shows Donald Trump crushing Marco Rubio by 20 points in Florida

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A new poll conducted by SurveyUSA for Tampa television station Bay News 9 and Orlando station News 13 shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton running away in the Florida presidential primary next week. Trump leads Marco Rubio by a 20-point margin, 42 percent to 22 percent. Ted Cruz gets 17 percent, and John Kasich gets 13 percent. Alex Conant, chief spokesman for the Rubio campaign, is disputing the accuracy of the polling. He told MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki that the campaign has much more faith in a Monmouth University survey released on Monday…

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How Super Tuesday played out on TV, cable networks

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Here’s a look at highlights from television coverage of Super Tuesday voting in the presidential campaign: — TRUMP’S PODIUM The broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC gave the campaign an hour of prime-time coverage, and Donald Trump put pressure on them right away. Trump has dominated coverage almost since his announcement last summer, and was in the midst of a hybrid news conference and victory speech in Florida at 10 p.m. ET when the broadcast networks began their election specials.…

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