Earlier this cycle, as pundits were celebrating the Great Super PAC flameout of 2016, I half-wrote but didn’t finish a blog post titled, “Just Wait.”  My thesis was that the real power of Super PACs would become evident in March and April, when the political playing field would expand beyond the initial run from Iowa to New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida, and paid advertising could begin to move the needle in large, winner-take-all states.  Now it’s clear–despite what $30M in negative Super PAC ads might have done to Marco Rubio–that Donald Trump is Super PAC kryptonite.  (At least until the General Election, when the national media will withdraw its unprecedented in-kind support from his campaign and subject him to the same rules it applies to all other candidates.)

+ Super PACs built a wall around Florida, and Trump destroyed it | The Center for Public Integrity – John Dunbar & Caty Zuvich

+ Trump, Sanders deflate Super PACs in unpredictable 2016 race | AP – Julie Bykowicz