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Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We’re Sticking With Donald Trump

 NEW YORK TIMES
By MICHAEL BARBARO, ASHLEY PARKER and JONATHAN MARTIN   MARCH 4, 2016

From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt regarding the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.

Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear.

Trump show too juvenile for Jerry Springer 

 FINANCIAL TIMES 

Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington  March 4 , 2016

When one of the bickering men on stage stated that there was nothing diminutive about parts of his anatomy, viewers could have been forgiven for thinking they were watching the latest episode of The Jerry Springer Show.
Even the host of the raucous talk show — which has seen episodes on themes such as “I married a horse” — is stunned by the Republican race.

 “They ought to run a crawl along the bottom of the screen, [saying] ‘This is NOT a debate for junior high school class president’, Mr Springer told the Financial Times.