In CNN’s Early Debate, a Good Performance From Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham had a very good night. The foreign-policy subject matter of Wednesday night’s early debate played to the senator’s strengths. Whether he was using humor or talking tough about terrorism, Mr. Graham made the most of his opportunity to snag a lot of air time as one of only four on stage for CNN’s early debate.
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Want to Understand Donald Trump’s Strategy? Read His Book.

Republican rivals seeking to take on Donald Trump and wanting to know what to expect from him in Wednesday night’s debate might check out his book “Time to Get Tough” (which, conveniently, has been reissued in paperback with a new subtitle to match his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again”).
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Carly Fiorina’s Discipline and Other Takeaways From the CNN Debate

Probably the biggest winner in the Republican debates Wednesday night was Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, whose name was barely mentioned. She did come up when Gov. John Kasich said, “I’m from Ohio, she will not beat me there.” Mrs. Clinton appeared on “The Tonight Show” after the CNN debates and participated in a skit in which host Jimmy Fallon, dressed as Donald Trump, mock-interviewed her. (There were, not surprisingly, jokes about Mr. Trump’s hair.)
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What Bernie Sanders’s Speech at Liberty University Says About His Rise

It’s not clear how many minds Sen. Bernie Sanders changed on Monday or if he picked up a single vote speaking at Liberty University. But garnering voters wasn’t the point of his visit, and the senator’s willingness to take his message to a bastion of conservatism underscores why his long-shot campaign has gained “Bernmentum” and is now leading former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire among Democrats.
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Hillary Clinton’s Authenticity Problem

After saying for months that she had nothing to be sorry about in the handling of her emails as secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton apologized Tuesday. “That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” she said. Sorry, responsibility, mistake–the idea was contrition, but like much of the Clinton campaign, this sounded scripted and poll-tested.
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Donald Trump on Taxes: Keeping It Flexible

It’s not known whether Donald Trump is a fan of Ralph Waldo Emerson, but there seems little doubt he would be in total agreement with one of Mr. Emerson’s most famous essays “Self-Reliance.” — “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen…Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.”
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