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9:50 AM ET, April 5, 2016

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New York Times:
Ted Cruz Is Fuming Because John Kasich Won't Bow Out  —  MADISON, Wis. — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, eyeing a victory here that could reshape the race for the Republican presidential nomination, has appeared most vexed by a rival he views as more of a long-term nuisance than a short-term threat: Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Behind in Wisconsin, Loses Some of the Self-Confidence in Appeal to Voters  —  Donald Trump, making his closing arguments in Wisconsin the day before the state's primary, asked voters to give him a surprise victory that could put him on a glide path to winning the party's nomination.
Discussion: Political Wire
Patrick Reis / Politico:
Trump is in trouble in Wisconsin  —  Winning has been Donald Trump's cure for all of his failings this campaign.  But while his failings have been on full display this week, a Wisconsin win on Tuesday looks unlikely.  —  Trump trails Ted Cruz in each of the last six major polls …
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Struggle in Wisconsin Is About Demographics, Not Momentum
Discussion: New York Magazine
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Trump reveals how he would force Mexico to pay for border wall  —  Will Paul Ryan be the Republican nominee? … State of the 2016 race … Donald Trump says he will force Mexico to pay for a border wall as president by threatening to cut off the flow of billions of dollars in payments …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Report: Trump eyeing money transfers from immigrants in plan to build wall  —  would force Mexico to pay for a wall along its border with the U.S. by threatening to block money transfers from immigrants in the U.S., The Washington Post reports.  —  The Post on Tuesday said that Trump plans …
Robby Mook:
To Hillary Clinton supporters: The facts on where the race stands  —  Thanks to nearly 9 million voters across the country and the support of people like you, Hillary Clinton has built a nearly insurmountable lead among both delegates and actual voters.  Contrary to the claims of the Sanders campaign …
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MSNBC:
What does a tight Dem race in WI mean for NY?
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and NBC News
Bloomberg.com:
Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is
Connor Lynch / Salon:
Hillary is sick of the left: Why Bernie's persistence is a powerful reminder of Clinton's troubling centrism
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
7 lingering questions in the Clinton email investigation  —  The FBI appears to be entering the home stretch of its investigation into Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  's private email server.  —  Yet even as arrangements are reportedly being made to interview Clinton and her top aides, much remains unclear.
Bernie Sanders / New York Daily News:
TRANSCRIPT: Bernie Sanders meets with the Daily News Editorial Board  —  Daily News: We are very well aware of the broad themes of your campaign by now.  So we'd like to hone in on some of the more particular issues to get a sense of how your presidency might evolve.
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 …
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New York Times:
Republicans and Voter Suppression  —  It's become an accepted truth of modern politics that Republican electoral prospects go up as the number of voters goes down.  Conservatives have known this for a long time, which helps explain their intensifying efforts to make it harder to vote …
Discussion: Rewire and ThinkProgress
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking/Analysis: Big Victory for Voting Rights as #SCOTUS Rejects Plaintiffs' Claim in Evenwel …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
The Week:
Republicans are plotting economic disaster for 2016  —  Our free email newsletters … Since George W. Bush's presidency, Republican economic ideas have become drastically more conservative.  Instead of massive tax cuts for the rich coupled with a general tolerance of the rest of government …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Sanders reshapes Obama's 2016 plans  —  Bernie Sanders is keeping Barack Obama locked in limbo.  —  Despite his steadily rising popularity, the president's expected role in 2016 as the Democratic Party unifier is on hold for another three-and-a-half months, if Sanders keeps his campaign going through the July convention.
Discussion: The Hill
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic models predict GOP White House, even with Trump
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Panama Papers Leaker: ‘I Want to Make These Crimes Public’  —  An anonymous source began to expose the finances of the world's most feared and powerful men like Vladimir Putin with a single question: ‘Interested in data?’  —  LONDON — When an encrypted message first flashed …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
You probably missed Sarah Palin's speech in Wisconsin.  It was totally bizarre. … Sarah Palin went to Wisconsin over the weekend to tout her preferred candidate — Donald Trump — at a GOP fundraising dinner in advance of the Badger State's presidential primary today.  What happened next will stun you.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Chalk and Awe  —  The new Free Speech Movement.  —  If you find Donald Trump's presidential campaign a source of pure despair, allow us to offer some mitigation.  The campaign is having at least one salutary effect, as reported by the New York Times:
Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Twitter Said to Win NFL Deal for Thursday Night Streaming Rights  —  Twitter Inc., making a strategic push into online programming, won a deal to show Thursday night National Football League games online, a person familiar with the matter said.  —  The social-media company was said to be bidding …
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Exclusive: Police Investigate Death Threats Made Against Michelle Fields — Listen to the Chilling Audio  —  Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields contacted authorities Friday after an individual made multiple death threats against her.  —  In audio obtained by TheBlaze …
Kevin Burke:
The TSA Randomizer iPad App Cost $1.4 Million  —  You may have seen the TSA Randomizer on your last flight.  A TSA agent holds an iPad.  The agent taps the iPad, a large arrow points right or left, and you follow it into a given lane.  —  How much does the TSA pay for an app that a beginner could build in a day?
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
After Petition, Greg Louganis Gets His Wheaties Box  —  Eight months after a documentary about the diver Greg Louganis inspired an online petition asking that he be belatedly featured on the cover of a Wheaties box, the cereal's maker is announcing that it will do just that.
 
 
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