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Donald Trump this morning repeated the ridiculous claim he made yesterday at a rally in Alabama. ABC News reports: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump defended comments he made Saturday saying he saw thousands of people in Jersey City, New Jersey cheering when the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001. “There were people that were cheering on the …

Marco Rubio issued his first television campaign ad this morning. The Huffington Post recaps: Titled “A Civilizational Struggle,” the 30-second spot features a solemn Rubio speaking into the camera about why the U.S. must eliminate the threat posed by the self-described Islamic State. “What happened in Paris could happen here. There is no middle ground,” the presidential candidate says in …

Mediaite recaps: In this week’s Saturday Night Live cold open, the SNL gang took vicious aim at some familiar targets, namely Fox & Friends and Dr. Ben Carson, with a side order of Kate McKinnon‘s Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Jay Pharoah nailed Carson’s low-key delivery and quirky eye movements, while the usual cast members lampooned the F&F hosts, the Fox Nation’s …

CNN reports: Several attendees at the rally punched and kicked a protester who tried to disrupt Trump’s speech. At least a half-dozen attendees shoved and tackled the protester, a black man, to the ground as he refused to leave the event. At least one man punched the protester and a woman kicked him while he was on the ground. All …

Iowa’s anti-LGBT Family Leader held a GOP presidential forum last night where immigration rights protesters disrupted the event’s opening to the usual chants of “USA! USA!” by the attendees. From the Des Moines Register: Seven Republican presidential candidates attended the forum in Des Moines. A group calling itself Against All Borders opened up protests by shouting “Deportation is anti-family.” The …

Donald Trump continues to try to weasel out of his calls for a database for Muslim-Americans and Rachel Maddow isn’t having it. Raw Story recaps: “Donald Trump is deep now into blaming the media for this whole scandal. Blaming the media for us reporting that he’s campaigning on the idea of watchlists and databases to register American Muslims,” she said. …

Interesting! Via The Hill: Republican operative Liz Mair is planning a “guerrilla campaign” aimed at knocking Donald Trump out of the GOP presidential race, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Mair, a former online communications director at the Republican National Committee who also worked on behalf of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential campaign earlier this year, has formed Trump Card …

The Democratic National Committee has issued a new video which slams GOP candidates for their relentless claims that the nation is engaged in a war against Islam itself – and not terrorism. Bolstering their arguments are post-9/11 statements to that effect by George W. Bush. Watch below.

In an interview with Yahoo News published yesterday, Donald Trump said that as president he’d consider forcing Muslim-Americans to carry special ID cards and would have the federal government spy on them. Later yesterday Trump doubled-down on the plan. NBC News reports: Donald Trump “would certainly implement” a database system tracking Muslims in the United States, the Republican front-runner told …

The Washington Post reacts to the above map released this week by the Federal Elections Commission: Pretty remarkable no? The cliche about Democrats being the coastal party and Republicans being the party of the interior of the country is born out by this map. Outside of a pocket of liberalism in Minnesota (a long time progressive stronghold) and Illinois (a …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: After rallying with Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal at his anti-gay conference in Iowa two weeks ago, far-right pastor Kevin Swanson returned to his “Generations Radio” program to discuss the terrorist attacks in Paris, specifically focusing on the Bataclan theater massacre. According to Swanson, the mass shooting at the theater was …

In a wide-ranging interview published today by Yahoo News, Donald Trump attacked Bernie Sanders as being a “communist” and did the usual bragging about recent polls. But it’s his latest position on Muslim-Americans that is garnering the most attention. From the interview: After Paris, Trump said “security is going to rule” in the United States, in order to take on …

According to a report issued today by the Washington Post, Martin O’Malley’s campaign is just about out of money. They write: With barely 10 weeks before Democrats start picking their presidential nominee, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley’s campaign is perilously close to financial collapse. The Democratic hopeful this week began asking the roughly 30 staffers at his Baltimore headquarters to …

Twitter’s mean girls are having a field day with the anti-immigration map sent out last night by the Carson campaign. Via Mediaite: The color-coded map of the United States, which was published on Facebook and Twitter, championed the chorus of mostly Republican governors who spent much of the weekend, Monday and Tuesday issuing press releases and making televised statements calling …

According to a new poll out of Florida, Donald Trump’s support there has climbed to 36%, twice that of Marco Rubio’s 18%. Next comes Ben Carson with 15% and Ted Cruz with 10%. From the Tampa Bay Times: A newly released poll of likely Florida Republican primary voters by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative shows Donald …

Caitlyn Jenner says she was “unconvinced” by Saturday’s Democratic debate and remains committed to voting Republican. Via the Los Angeles Times: Caitlyn Jenner, who as Bruce Jenner was a Drake Relays champion in 1976, was in Des Moines visiting the university campus with her reality show producers. Although a Republican, she asked for a ticket to the debate. The request …

Speaking today in Manila, President Obama declared that the GOP’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is a “potent recruitment tool” for ISIS. Via the Washington Post: Obama was responding to recent calls from Republicans, including presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), to block Syrian refugees’ entrance into the United States. Bush and Cruz have suggested welcoming Christian refugees, but not …

Via USA Today: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ended his long-shot campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday. Jindal made the announcement on Fox News, saying “it’s not my time.” While Jindal’s campaign showed some progress in Iowa — site of the Feb. 1 caucuses that open the Republican nomination contest — he had trouble gaining traction in other …

Donald Trump was on the air for about twelve minutes last week when he hosted Saturday Night Live. Citing FCC regulations, three other GOP presidential candidates are now demanding equal time from NBC. Talking Points Memo reports: Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) filed for equal time on Friday, and former New York Gov. George Pataki …

“There’s millions of Americans out there, qualified, ready, willing, and able. I really don’t think it’s me being asked, but as I say, if I were asked, I’d do it. My interest has always been in public service, getting out there, doing all that I can to try and help make the world a better place. If that’s a position …