Today’s presidential primaries in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio will determine whether front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton can definitively pull ahead of the rivals, with Ohio as the key primary for both. Trump’s former adviser says the GOP establishment secretly wants to stop Trump and elect Hillary, Newsmax reports.

• Independent: Trump Likens Immigrants to a Poisonous Snake That Bites the Person Who Lets It In
• Newsmax: Carson: Trump Offered Me Job In Administration
• Politico: Top Liberal Leaders Call for ‘Massive’ Anti-Trump Campaign
• The Hill: Poll: Most Americans Dissatisfied With ’16 Field
• Weekly Standard: Clinton: ‘We Didn’t Lose a Single Person’ in Libya

As “Super-Duper Tuesday” approaches, Donald Trump holds a lead over rival Marco Rubio in Florida (with 46 percent support) and ties John Kasich in Ohio, reports The Hill.

• WashExaminer: Super-Duper Tuesday: Kasich, Rubio Must Win On Home Turf or Quit The Race
• Politico: Trump Dumps Illinois Campaign Director
• WashTimes: Moveon.Org Raising Funds From Trump Protests, Warns More Disruptions To Come
• Politico: How An Obscure Committee Could Decide The GOP Nomination
• AP: Trump Used Foreign Student Labor He Pledges To Ban

After months of GOP presidential candidates by turns ignoring or attacking Donald Trump, the 12th Republican debate at the University of Miami — perhaps that last chance to stop him prior to the convention — turned out to be a substantive and civil event, reports The Washington Post. Indeed, Trump is now taking a new tack as a less belligerent GOP unifier, according to Politico.

•  AFP: Carson on Supporting Trump ‘We’ve Buried the Hatchet’
  
• The Hill: Trump Blames Rally Violence on ‘Bad Dudes’
• Reuters: House Speaker Ryan Seeks Halt to Presidential ‘Draft Ryan’ Group
• WashTimes: Obamacare’s Failed Co-Ops Haven’t Repaid a Dime of $1.2B In Taxpayer Loans
• WashExaminer: Poll: Voters Want Tom Hanks, Peyton Manning, Not Trump to Pick Scalia Replacement