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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates — Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight. — The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism …
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Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’
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New York Post, Slate, BostonGlobe.com and Washington Post
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Struggle in Wisconsin Is About Demographics, Not Momentum
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
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Washington Post and Political Wire
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
Fox News town hall with Ted Cruz airs on MSNBC before Fox
Michael Walsh / Yahoo Politics:
Ted Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Donald Trump has a ‘problem with strong women’
Ted Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Donald Trump has a ‘problem with strong women’
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Path to Clinching GOP Nomination Narrows
Donald Trump's Path to Clinching GOP Nomination Narrows
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Guardian
Mike Allen / Politico:
Top Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee — On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic Cleveland convention.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Charles Koch Is Privately Committed To Getting Paul Ryan Nominated In Cleveland: Source — A major investor in the Republican Party sees a chance to snatch back the nomination. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — Charles Koch is confident House Speaker Paul Ryan …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The GOP's (other) convention nightmare — Republicans, already girding for their most tumultuous convention in decades, now have another fight brewing: a divisive battle over gay marriage on the party's official national platform. — It's an issue that drives intense passion …
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Simon Maloy / Salon:
The “Draft Paul Ryan” fantasy: A soothing fiction to make donor-class Republicans feel better — GOP insiders are fooling themselves into believing Paul Ryan is a viable alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz — The enthusiasm bubbling around Ted Cruz's campaign to derail Donald Trump's surge …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz warns GOP of voter ‘revolt’ against alternative nominee
Cruz warns GOP of voter ‘revolt’ against alternative nominee
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt ShowThe Hugh Hewitt Show:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Opens The New Hugh Hewitt Show
House Speaker Paul Ryan Opens The New Hugh Hewitt Show
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New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Principle Of One Person, One Vote — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against challengers seeking to change the long-held interpretation of the principle of one person, one vote. Siding with a lower court, the 8-member high court held that total population …
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking/Analysis: Big Victory for Voting Rights as #SCOTUS Rejects Plaintiffs' Claim in Evenwel One Person, One Vote Case — A unanimous Supreme Court in Evenwel v. Abbott (with two Justices (Thomas and Alito) concurring in the judgment) has rejected the argument that states must draw district lines …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
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The Hill, The Texas Tribune, Yahoo Politics, Politico and Prairie Weather
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
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Reuters, The Atlantic, ncsl.org and SCOTUSblog
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
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Mother Jones, Outside the Beltway and ImmigrationProf Blog
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court rejects voting-district case that would have weakened California's clout
Supreme Court rejects voting-district case that would have weakened California's clout
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Washington Post, Guardian and Political Insider blog
Reuters:
World figures deny wrongdoing as ‘Panama Papers’ turn spotlight on tax evasion — Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly showed how clients avoided tax or laundered money.
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David Pegg / Guardian:
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
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Bloomberg.com:
Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is — At a campaign event in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said he thinks he'll win the state's primary if there is a high voter turnout. While not wanting to “get Hillary Clinton more nervous than she already is …
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WATE-TV:
Pigeon Forge Police Chief: 5 dead in helicopter crash — PIGEON FORGE (WATE) - The Pigeon Forge Chief of Police Jack H. Baldwin confirms to WATE 6 On Your Side that five people were killed in a sightseeing helicopter that crashed. — “Apparently this helicopter came out some time around 3:30 p.m …
Ronald J. Sievert / USA Today:
Hillary's ‘classified’ smokescreen hides real crime: Column — Law makes clear DOJ should prosecute Clinton for mishandling ‘national defense information,’ classified or not. — Since the beginning of the Clinton email scandal, the nation has been subjected to a political and criminal defense generated smokescreen.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. — On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald Trump's campaign advisers gathered by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire's private club in Palm Beach.
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NBC Bay Area:
California Highway Patrol Officer Rescues Wayward Chihuahua After Chasing It Across Bay Bridge — Highway patrol officers noticed the small dog on the bridge's north side catwalk heading toward San Francisco — California Highway Patrol officers gave chase to an unlikely suspect early Sunday — a Chihuahua.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Internal memo reveals Trump campaign's mounting fury with its critics — Woodward on his ‘very unusual’ Trump interview What's at stake in the Wisconsin primary … In a private document that was circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Washington Post, Trump campaign senior adviser …
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Yahoo Politics, The Daily Caller, Moe Lane, Business Insider, Politico and New York Magazine
Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Yes, The Alt-Right Are Just a Bunch of Racists — Hey, lefties, we finally found your racists for you. — For as long as I can remember, people like me—by which I mean advocates of capitalism and free markets and freedom of speech—have been accused by the left of being secret racists …
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic models predict GOP White House, even with Trump — Republicans are expected to win the White House under two economic models that have accurately forecast presidential elections for decades. — A third model run by Moody's Analytics predicts Democrats will win the White House …
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
NBC Connecticut:
2 Arrested After Dispute Over Crab Legs Turns Violent — A 21-year-old man was punched in the face and lost a tooth in the dispute — Police in Manchester, Connecticut arrested a husband and wife after an argument at Royal Buffet got out of hand on Saturday night.
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