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First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC — Washington (CNN)Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney's inner circle says.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
GOP freakout goes from bad to worse — DETROIT — The high-speed unraveling of the Republican Party somehow accelerated further on Thursday, as the party's last two presidential nominees joined the chorus of establishment voices warning voters not to allow Donald Trump to become the GOP's standard-bearer.
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mccain.senate.gov:
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CAMPAIGN — Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on the state of the Republican presidential primary campaign:
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Rivals pile on Trump in Republican candidates' debate — The GOP debate, in less than 3 minutes — DETROIT — The calamity brought upon the Republican Party by Donald Trump was laid bare Thursday by its two most recent presidential nominees, who delivered unprecedented denunciations …
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Graham: A brokered convention wouldn't be fair to Trump — Lindsey Graham has had some harsh words for Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean he thinks a brokered convention would be fair to the Republican frontrunner. — In an interview with former Obama adviser David Axelrod on his podcast …
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Hits Back At Romney: He Would've Dropped To His Knees For Me In '12 — UPDATE: 2:40 p.m. Donald Trump responded Thursday to former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney ripping his campaign in a news conference by saying that Romney had been “begging” for his endorsement in the 2012 election.
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Politico:
Full transcript: Mitt Romney's remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
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Danny Vinik / Politico:
The Trump platform that Mitt Romney just attacked looks a lot like Mitt Romney's
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Priebus: There will be no ‘shell games’ with GOP nomination
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Romney speech shows why Trump is winning
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Mitt Romney:
My remarks on the state of the 2016 presidential race
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Republican governors mostly steer clear of presidential race
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Olivier Knox / Yahoo Politics:
Mitt Romney tells Donald Trump voters they're ‘suckers’
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Gus Burns / MLive.com:
Activists plan Flint water crisis protest at Republican debate
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Rubio's path to an outright win has vanished — Marco Rubio's path to the Republican nomination short of a contested convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot their strategy to prepare for months of guerrilla warfare to deny Donald Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.
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Randy Barnett / National Review:
How Ted and Marco Can Save the GOP and the Country
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Dan Tuohy / UnionLeader.com:
DeLemus supporters sing ‘God Bless America’ at court appearance — New Hampshire Union Leader — Federal agents have arrested Jerry DeLemus, a local Tea Party leader who stood with Cliven Bundy's armed resistance at his ranch in Nevada in 2014, in connection with the standoff and alleged assault.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Fourteen Additional Defendants Charged For Felony Crimes Related To 2014 Standoff In Nevada
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Tony Schinella / Portsmouth, NH Patch:
Tea Party Activist, Trump Supporter Jerry DeLemus Arrested
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Skagit Valley Herald / Goskagit.com:
Man accidentally kills himself while taking photos with gun — A 43-year-old Concrete man died Sunday after accidentally shooting himself in the face with what he thought was an unloaded gun. — The man and his girlfriend were at a residence in the 46000 block of Baker Loop Road taking photos …
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Gets AIDS In A New Movie, And That Has Studio Execs In A Panic — Afraid of Trump's reaction, they're “subtly trying to make it disappear,” says an industry source. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Audiences at screenings around the world …
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Dawn Ennis / Advocate:
She Is Cait, and I Am Not: Face to Face with Jenner — Winding my way 'round deadman's curves at unsafe speeds all the way up a Malibu mountaintop to meet Caitlyn Jenner, I asked myself: who would live here except a recluse? Cut off from the rest of the world, high above it all …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Brags About His Penis Size: ‘I Guarantee You There Is No Problem’ — Donald Trump responded to a jab Marcio Rubio has made about the size of Trump's hands — a line widely interpreted to be a reference to Trump's manhood — by promising that when it comes to the size of “something else,” he guarantees “there is no problem.”
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Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Politics:
In sign of apocalypse, Donald Trump defends the size of his ... hands
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Lisa Belkin / Yahoo Politics:
John Kasich argues he's the grown-up on the GOP debate stage — Ohio Gov. John Kasich took a moment from the insults and theater at the Fox News GOP debate in Detroit to argue that his experience and age make him a better candidate than his competitors. — “I knew Ronald Reagan,” …
Fox News:
FBI investigating if Clinton aides shared passwords to access classified info — EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is investigating whether computer passwords were shared among Hillary Clinton's close aides to determine how sensitive intelligence “jumped the gap” between the classified systems …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Violence to Come — What will happen to American politics if, as now appears likely, the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump? Here's one bet: It will get more violent. — The United States is headed toward a confrontation, the likes of which it has not seen since 1968 …
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