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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall on Thursday’s Fox Business debate: “Cruz has taken and continues to hold the ‘alternative to Trump’ position that Rubio should have claimed. I saw nothing in this debate that will change that trajectory. I think we come out of this debate with it still being a Trump/Cruz race, with Trump in a somewhat stronger position than he went in, Cruz slightly weaker and the clock running out on Marco Rubio.”
Say What?!
“President Donald Trump knows how to make America great, deal from strength or get crushed every time.”
– Three girls from the musical group USA Freedom Kids sang a song praising Trump at his rally in Florida. It’s as weird as it sounds.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Not a Rubio fan — but he was born on US soil so he is without question, a native born citizen — and it does not matter legally that his parents weren’t citizens. The only people who give a shit are far right deluded racists. As for Cruz — I am in favor of any effective action that makes him just go away — he is that dangerous a threat to this country and the world. However, if he is legally deemed to be not native born, then we’ll see the downgrading of citizenship status of every child born abroad to an american parent. I don’t think that a positive development. It would be infinitely better if Cruz was dispensed with by other means. A well targeted lightening bolt would be just perfect.”
Related: Rubio asked a court to dismiss a complaint that he is not a “natural-born citizen.”
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What We’re Reading
With Roger Ailes absent, Fox News is drifting. (New York Magazine)
Can Silicon Valley build terrorist-spotting algorithms? (Fusion)
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