memeorandum: Trump's Convention Strategy: “The Fix Is In” (Evan Osnos/New Yorker)

6:00 PM ET, April 9, 2016

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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:

Sanders extends win streak with Wyoming victory — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — is projected to win the Wyoming caucuses, giving him eight wins in the last nine contests. — The state awards just 14 delegates on a proportional basis, but the win is another jolt …

Discussion: Raw Story

Eric Bradner / CNN:

Wyoming Democratic caucuses: Bernie Sanders looks for another win — (CNN)Bernie Sanders is looking to Saturday's Democratic caucuses in Wyoming to provide one more jolt of momentum before his campaign against Hillary Clinton heads east. — The Vermont senator is favored going into the caucuses.

Discussion: Common Dreams

Emily Shapiro / ABC News:

Bernie Sanders Declared Winner of Wyoming Democratic Caucuses: AP

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New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Wins Wyoming Democratic Caucuses

Discussion: Political Wire

Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders was right, Clinton is unqualified

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Amanda Becker / Reuters:
Sanders wins Wyoming's Democratic nominating contest

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Trump's getting trounced in Indiana — Indiana hasn't cast its ballots for president yet, but Donald Trump is already losing. — Republican Party insiders in the state will select 27 delegates to the national convention on Saturday, and Trump is assured to be nearly shut out of support …

Discussion: RedState, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Right Scoop, The Huffington Post, Political Wire and New York Times

Evan Osnos / New Yorker:

Trump's Convention Strategy: “The Fix Is In” — More than three months before any ballots have been cast at the Republican convention, Roger Stone, Donald Trump's on-again, off-again consigliere, has delivered the campaign equivalent of a severed horse head to delegates who might consider denying Trump the nomination.

Discussion: Blue Nation Review and Media Matters for America

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Trump team vows to win delegate majority as rivals prepare for open convention … NEW YORK — Leaders of Donald Trump's new campaign team said they have revised targets that would make the real estate mogul the presumptive Republican presidential nominee by mid-May and that would win …

Discussion: USA Today, The Last Refuge and Hot Air

Associated Press:
Ted Cruz Adds 21 Delegates With Colorado Sweep

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Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Donald Trump brags about a million mysterious postcards that were addressed to a parking lot … This guy Donald Trump just sort of tweets things sometimes. As you are probably aware, those things are not necessarily always true. It just matters that they cast Trump in a good light.

Discussion: The Right Scoop, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, New York Magazine and Moe Lane

Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:

Donald Trump visits Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum for first time despite invoking the tragedy often during debates — and he's never donated to any 9/11 charities — Lifelong New Yorker Donald Trump visited the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan Saturday for the first time.

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and New York Magazine

Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Everything Awful About Donald Trump's Campaign In One Tweet

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and Hot Air

Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:

Bill Maher Defends Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski, Rips Michelle Fields — The host of HBO's ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ supported Lewandowski, and claimed that “nothing happened” in his alleged simple assault of ex-Breitbart reporter Fields. — At a rally in Jupiter, Florida …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and National Review

Eli Stokols / Politico: Political ‘Hunger Games’ roils Trump's inner circle

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

Report: Hillary Clinton Used Static Noise Machine to Prevent Reporters from Hearing Fundraising Speech — On Thursday, Hillary Clinton delivered a fundraising speech at the private residence of Colorado's governor, John Hickenlooper, in Denver's Park Hill neighborhood.

Discussion: Slantpoint and The Daily Caller

Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:

How the feds uncovered Dennis Hastert's sordid past — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert through the years. — Approached by federal agents last year about dozens of large cash bank withdrawals, Dennis Hastert claimed he was being extorted by a former student who said Hastert …

Discussion: Fusion, Independent Journal … and Prairie Weather

New York Times:
Hastert Molested at Least Four Boys, Prosecutors Say

Discussion: New York Magazine, LawNewz, The Week and Althouse

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

North Carolina Congressman: Bruce Springsteen Is a “Bully” for Canceling Concert — EMAIL ME — “We've got other artists coming soon — Def Leppard, Justin Bieber,” says Rep. Mark Walker. — A U.S. congressman who represents portions of Greensboro, N.C., is accusing Bruce Springsteen of being a …

Discussion: CNNMoney, Fox News Insider, BizPac Review, Politico, The Official Bruce …, Raw Story, Advocate, Human Rights Campaign and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Jamie Grierson / Guardian:

David Cameron: blame me for mishandling Panama Papers news — Prime minister tells Tory forum he should have handled offshore fund revelations better as protesters call for resignation — David Cameron has said he must take the blame for the way Downing Street handled revelations …

Discussion: Business Insider, Common Dreams and Campaign for America's Future

Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
David Cameron dramatic tax mea culpa: ‘I should have done better’

Discussion: Guardian

Chris Kahn / Reuters:

Exclusive: Blocking Trump could hurt Republicans in election - Reuters/Ipsos poll — A third of Republican voters who support Donald Trump could turn their backs on their party in November's presidential election if he is denied the nomination in a contested convention, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Discussion: RedState, Scared Monkeys and Guardian

New York Times:

Mr. Trump Reopens the Wounds of a Hate Crime — Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at a Republican Party fund-raiser on Thursday in Patchogue, a village on the south shore of Long Island, about 60 miles from Manhattan. — This is a wretched development, a disgraceful provocation …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News