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Welcome to Breitbart News’s daily live updates of the 2016 horse race. Republicans are now gearing up for the Nevada caucuses, then Super Tuesday a week later. The race is re-aligning after Donald Trump’s win in South Carolina and Jeb Bush’s exit.

Welcome to Breitbart News’s daily live updates of the 2016 horse race. It’s moving day today, especially for Republicans, as the South Carolina primary will reshuffle the GOP field. Polls have closed in South Carolina as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio battle for the top three slots. Hilary Clinton beat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Nevada earlier in the afternoon.

Breitbart News’s daily live updates of the 2016 horse race for Friday, February 19th–one day before the crucial Republican South Carolina presidential primary.

Bill Clinton was supposed to be Hillary’s secret weapon on the campaign trail, but he’s shaping up to be more of a liability.

“I take classified information seriously,” Hillary Clinton declared on CNN Monday morning. “People are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in anything I’m aware of.”

Moderator Megyn Kelly kicked off the last GOP debate before Iowa by describing Donald Trump as “the elephant not in the room,” and then inviting criticism of the absent front-runner.

There are few Democrats willing to openly state that Hillary’s email scandal makes them nervous that she’ll get indicted in the heat of the general election campaign, but some observers believe it’s an undercurrent of anxiety that explains some of Bernie Sanders’ rise, and perhaps Donald Trump’s crossover appeal.

Bernie Sanders told an Iowa crowd he has a better chance of beating Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton does, at a Tuesday stop in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) continued his rhetorical onslaught against Donald Trump on Saturday, casting him as a false conservative and questioning the real estate mogul’s temperament and judgment.

During the sixth GOP presidential debate on Thursday night, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked Senator Ted Cruz about a story that popped up the previous day in the New York Times, concerning loans Cruz took out during his 2012 Senate race.

According to the New York Times, contrary to his campaign narrative about funding his successful 2012 Senate run by liquidating personal assets, Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi took out a loan for up to $500,000 from Goldman Sachs, where Mrs. Cruz worked.

Even as Clinton was dismissing the Fox News report out of hand, former U.S. attorney Joseph DiGenova was confirming the key revelations, saying he has been told 150 FBI agents are working the Clinton corruption case, and the investigation has been in progress for months.

Debt is a fantastic way to control people, because politicians can offer to relieve portions of that debt in exchange for votes. The political battlespace has been well-prepared by teaching citizens to hate the banks that loan them money to fulfill their ambitions and satisfy their desires.

A few hours after Hillary Clinton’s campaign team was boasting that snow wouldn’t slow them down, four Secret Service agents were seriously injured in a head-on collision that proved fatal for the driver of the other vehicle.

Hillary Clinton’s clumsy pandering to racial groups, and her campaign theme of portraying herself as America’s Grandma-in-Chief, collided in a website post inviting Hispanic voters to think of her as their abuela, or grandmother.

At this point, the Washington Post has transitioned from insulting the Cruz family to insulting their own readers, because they clearly think their audience is stupid. There is no way Telnaes’ disgusting cartoon went live without editors signing off on it.

During the most recent Democrat debate – the one they held on the last Saturday before Christmas, so voters wouldn’t see it – Hillary Clinton falsely claimed the Islamic State is prominently featuring Donald Trump in its recruiting videos.

Trump said nice things about Putin, after Putin said nice things about Trump, and all the people who thought it was ridiculous to portray Russia as America’s geopolitical adversary during Obama’s re-election campaign are beside themselves. Several of Trump’s Republican rivals thought his comments about Putin went far beyond diplomatic efforts to constructively build a positive relationship with the Russian strongman, especially since Trump not only failed to mention Putin’s repressive ways, but actively disputed the allegations against him.

Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal took a look at Donald Trump’s finances over the weekend, and suggested the outspoken billionaire might not be able to afford to keep a serious national campaign going past the first few states:

It can be taken as a sign of both ideological exhaustion and propaganda success that liberals still paint Republicans as the party of the Evil Rich, when it’s patently obvious there are plenty of big-money interests backing the Democrat Party.

The interesting discussion is all on the Republican side, and there were some strong exchanges in Las Vegas. Contrary to Chris Christie’s dismissal of the debate over surveillance between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio as so much senatorial jibber-jabber, there are serious questions of liberty, security, and privacy to discuss. (Having said that, Governor Christie’s tone will probably appeal to voters who want strong leadership and decisive action on national security, as will Donald Trump’s.)

True, the Bush name could be a liability, but probably less so against an equally dynastic opponent like Hillary Clinton. (Or, for Bush critics, running him would foolishly hamper the Republicans’ ability to make hay over the ascension of a hereditary Clinton monarch.) Jeb Bush had vast financial resources, a political organization second to none, gubernatorial experience, and all the Establishment support anyone could ask for.

It’s remarkable how much effort left-wingers put into avoiding the high taxes they advocate for everyone else.

Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone hails the Republican frontrunner’s proposal for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration as “one of the most extraordinary” and “brilliant” moves by Donald Trump.

Authors Michelle Malkin and John Miano – the latter a displaced tech-sector employee turned lawyer and advocate for American workers – dare to challenge conventional wisdom on immigration with their new book Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America’s Best & Brightest Workers. With a subtitle like that, no reader can claim to be ambushed by the authors’ view of their subject.

Climate alarmists are particularly fond of the report-card strategy because it fits into their egotistical delusions about SCIENCE! as a religion, of which they are the high priests. Treating dissent as heresy is a tremendous emotional rush, which is why heresy remains a popular charge among extremists after thousands of years. The terms of enlightened discourse require a certain degree of polite consideration for dissenters, but you can let your hair down and go nuts against heretics, who must be destroyed for the good of the faithful.

At the dizzying height of Food Stamp Nation, with some $80 billion a year spent just on food assistance, and a government of unprecedented size and power aggressively recruiting new dependents, how do we still have so many people living in such deep poverty?

Republican Louisiana Governor and presidential candidate Bobby Jindal, whose recent statement, “immigration without assimilation is invasion” is making headlines, spoke with Breitbart News Daily today about his campaign.

NewsCorp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch used Twitter to weigh in on last night’s Republican debate on the Fox Business Network, giving the nod to Sen Marco Rubio, while praising other candidates, including N.J. Gov. Chris Christie in the undercard debate.

Heritage Action for America CEO Michael A. Needham joined host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 today to discuss the launch of the candidate review, designed to “focus on issues,” not personalities and “let people come to their own conclusions” for the 2016 Republican primary, according to Needham during today’s interview.

Senator Rand Paul is talking about America’s debt crisis, telling Breitbart News Daily that if he’s elected President, he will do everything in his power to prevent the debt ceiling from being raised again.

Subsequent events may have loomed larger in Friday’s campaign diary for Dr. Ben Carson, but it’s worth taking a look at the exchange where he supposedly became “angry and combative” on CNN, as Mediate put it. Reporters are hitting Carson with something every Republican candidate should be ready for, as the 2016 campaign unfolds: the latest version of the classic False Choice of liberalism.

On Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti found himself in a snafu after an endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president was released on a government email account.

To gain more traction with conservative Republican voters, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to “a one-on-one debate next week in Milwaukee,” according to a Washington Post report.

A top Florida fundraiser is bolting from Jeb Bush to Marco Rubio, after what turned out to be Jeb’s disastrous attack on Rubio’s Senate attendance during the last GOP debate.

Sen. Marco Rubio is trying to reverse the cuts from President Barack Obama’s sequestration plan, which the president fled from in a panic after it failed to intimidate Republicans, and once automatic cuts to domestic spending went into effect as well.