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Articles by Joel B. Pollak

How Trump Won the GOP Debate by Losing It

The GOP debate in Houston on Thursday night was arguably Donald J. Trump’s worst of the entire 2016 campaign. He allowed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to mock him, and hurled insults while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) took the high road. Rubio’s supporters are justifiably gleeful, and Cruz’s supporters were reassured to see him win on home turf.

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South Africa’s Race and Class Implosion

It is not clear how South Africa will rescue itself this time. The only solutions–free market reforms–are demonized except by the country’s largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance–which is marginalized, falsely, as “racist.”

Race riot South Africa (Screenshot / YouTube / OFM Videos)

Ted Cruz Needs to Build a Broader Coalition

The conventional wisdom remains that the only way for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to beat Donald Trump is to attack him relentlessly over the next week until Super Tuesday, especially in Thursday night’s GOP debate. That is the same bad

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Nevada Caucuses: Friends, Neighbors Debate

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Friends and neighbors debated the Republican candidates’ pros and cons at the Nevada caucuses at Durango High School on Tuesday evening, with hundreds standing patiently in line to cast their votes and hear from representatives of the different campaigns.

Nevada caucus discussion (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

Massive Turnout Expected at Nevada Caucuses

The Nevada Republican Party says that 41,000 people had pre-registered to attend Tuesday evening’s caucuses, meaning that turnout could approach 80,000, according to local political insider Jon Ralston of Ralston Reports.

Elvis at Trump rally (Erik Kabik Photography / MediaPunch / IPX / AP)

Nevada Caucuses: Ben Carson Still Fighting

SUMMERLIN, Nevada — Dr. Ben Carson addressed a packed town hall meeting in suburban Las Vegas on Tuesday morning, just hours before Republican voters headed to the caucuses.

Ben Carson town hall (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

CSU Fresno College Paper: Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler

The Collegian, the student newspaper of California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), equated Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump with Nazi dictator and genocidal murderer Adolf Hitler in a front-page editorial Monday.

Trump as Hitler - Cropped (The Collegian)

Joe Biden, 1992: No Supreme Court Pick Until After Election

Vice President Joe Biden spoke out forcefully against appointing a new Supreme Court justice in an election year–in 1992, when he was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and George H.W. Bush was running for re-election.

Joe Biden 1992 (C-SPAN)

John Kasich Folds in Nevada

Ohio Gov. John Kasich will not be campaigning in Nevada prior to the Republican caucuses on Tuesday. His campaign lists a series of events in Virginia and Georgia, but none in Nevada, in the last 72 hours before Republicans vote there.

COLUMBIA, SC - FEBRUARY 18: Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich answers a

Cruz, Rubio in Desperate Race for Second in Nevada

After Donald Trump’s emphatic 10-point win in the South Carolina primary, the Republican race heads west for the first time, to the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday. Trump leads the field by more than twenty points in poll averages.

Trump tower Las Vegas (Ethan Miller / Getty)

Donald Trump: On Israel, Obama Is a ‘Disgrace’

Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump said Thursday night that President Barack Obama’s treatment of Israel was a “disgrace” and that he could not understand how some Jewish voters could still support him.

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Grayson: Elizabeth Warren Should Replace Scalia

Rep. Alan Grayson (R-FL), the left-wing firebrand now under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, has declared that President Barack Obama should nominate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away suddenly on Saturday.

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Why Trump May Force Republicans to Block Scalia Replacement

As debate over the nomination to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia heats up, Republicans in D.C. are looking over their shoulder at businessman Donald J. Trump, who has said they should “delay, delay, delay.”

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Donald Trump in 2000: WMDs in Iraq

in Trump’s 2000 book, The America We Deserve, he said that Iraq had continued to develop WMDs and that it might be necessary to ““carry the mission to its conclusion” to stop Saddam Hussein.

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What Was Justice Scalia’s ‘Shoulder Injury’?

News reports of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death have mentioned that he experienced a “shoulder injury” last week, for which he visited his doctor and had an MRI.

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This One Question Determines If a Voter Backs Donald Trump

A recent poll released by the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California has identified a key question that determines whether a voter is likely to support Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump. That question is whether the voter agrees with the statement: “People like me don’t have any say about what the government does.”

Nancy and Dennis Williams at Trump rally (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

Conspiracy Theories Surround Justice Scalia’s Death

Conspiracy theories are beginning to swirl in the aftermath of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead at 79 in his room on Saturday morning at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas.

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Rubio Blasts Cruz: ‘He Doesn’t Speak Spanish’

During a heated exchange on immigration policy at the GOP Debate on Saturday night in South Carolina, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for not speaking Spanish. Both men are of Cuban descent.

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Trump: Senate Must ‘Delay, Delay, Delay’ Scalia Replacement

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump said during the GOP Debate in South Carolina on Saturday night that in the wake of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the Senate should “delay, delay, delay” and prevent President Barack Obama from appointing someone to fill the vacancy.

Trump South Carolina debate (John Bazemore / Associated Press)

Blue State Blues: David Brooks, You’re No Ted Cruz

David Brooks, one of two “resident conservatives” at the New York Times, has drawn all kinds of liberal attention to himself with a column this week headlined, “I Miss Barack Obama.”

Blue State Blues (Breitbart)

Moderator at Democrat Debate on Live Mic: ‘Oh God’

A PBS moderator at Thursday night’s Democratic debate in Milwaukee was apparently caught on a live mic sighing, “Oh, God,” as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) began an answer on foreign policy by referring to the Vietnam War.

Hillary Clinton Dem Debate PBS (Morry Gash / Associated Press)