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Washington Post:
Republicans like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The general public doesn't. — What is a super PAC? … State of the 2016 race — Strong headwinds of unpopularity continue to hobble leading Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz with the public at-large, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Inside Ted Cruz's novel strategy for winning from behind — What is a super PAC? … State of the 2016 race — IRVINE, Calif. — Eight days before Republican voters in the state of New York would award a massive trove of 95 delegates, Ted Cruz stood three time zones away in a hotel ballroom packed …
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Political Insider blog, Politico, Hot Air and RedState
Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
After His Honeymoon, Ted Cruz Immediately Bought 100 Cans Of Soup — Thanks to CNN's town hall, America just got another glimpse into the waking hell that is Heidi Cruz's daily life. Tonight's entry into the Heidi Cruz catalogue of the macabre: A newlywed Ted Cruz celebrates by buying 100 cans of Campbell's Chunky soup.
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The Week
Editorials / New York Daily News:
Daily News Editorial Board says vote John Kasich: His maturity and pragmatism shine …
Daily News Editorial Board says vote John Kasich: His maturity and pragmatism shine …
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Cruz on Trump campaign: 'They're acting like union boss thugs'
Cruz on Trump campaign: 'They're acting like union boss thugs'
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump campaign manager will not be prosecuted, sources say — A Florida prosecutor has decided not to prosecute Donald Trump's campaign manager for battery after a March run-in with former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, sources with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO.
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Free legal advice to Michelle Fields: don't bring a civil lawsuit — Anyone encouraging Michelle Fields to bring a civil law suit is not doing her a favor. She does not want to take the stand in a civil case, subject to rigorous cross examination, that is likely to be on television to discuss …
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Michelle Fields to Pursue Civil Action Against Trump and His Campaign Manager for Defamation — Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields said Wednesday night that she plans to pursue civil action against Donald Trump and campaign manager Corey Lewandowski over an incident that occurred last month.
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BizPac Review and The Gateway Pundit
Nick Gass / Politico:
Michelle Fields slams Van Susteren as ‘Trump shill’
Michelle Fields slams Van Susteren as ‘Trump shill’
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The Gateway Pundit, The Week and BizPac Review
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Donald Trump shuffles struggling campaign team
Donald Trump shuffles struggling campaign team
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump asks Pittsburgh: How's Joe Paterno? … Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — invoked the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno on Wednesday. — “How's Joe Paterno? We gonna bring that back?” Trump said during a rally in Pittsburgh. “How about that whole deal?”
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW! Anti-Trump RNC Delegate Says She'll Vote for Hillary Over Trump (VIDEO) — Rina Bharara is a delegate to the Republican National Convention. — Rina hates Republican front-runner Donald Trump. … Today on the Real Story with Gretchen Carlson Rina said she may vote for Hillary …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump's feud with the RNC reaches a striking new level
Trump's feud with the RNC reaches a striking new level
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JustOneMinute, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hit & Run and The Moderate Voice
Sam Frizell / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Says Democratic Primary Schedule ‘Distorts Reality’ — “I think that having so many Southern states go first kind of distorts reality” — Bernie Sanders told “Nightly Show” host Larry Wilmore at a taping Wednesday evening that scheduling Southern states early in the Democratic primary “distorts reality.”
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
What to Look For in the Democratic Debate
What to Look For in the Democratic Debate
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly: Meeting with Trump allowed us to ‘clear the air’ — Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly said on her show “The Kelly File” Wednesday night that her meeting with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — allowed the two to “clear the air.” — “The meeting was at my request …
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
How to Fix the U.S. Supreme Court Impasse — Americans, like all humans, are trapped in history; thus we can't know now whether the American republic is on its deathbed or simply spiking one of its periodic fevers. The patient has recovered from near-fatal illness before …
Office of the Governor of Louisiana:
Gov. Edwards Signs Non-discrimination Executive Order; Rescinds Marriage and Conscience Executive Order — BATON ROUGE - Today, Governor John Bel Edwards signed an executive order providing employment protections for state employees and employees of state contractors on the basis of race …
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Sacramento Bee:
UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet — UC Davis sought to eliminate negative search results for school and chancellor — Strategic communications budget soared during Katehi's tenure — Students occupying area outside Katehi's office call for her resignation
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WCMH-TV:
Woman indicted, accused of live streaming friend's rape — COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A woman has been indicted by a Grand Jury on charges she used the social media app Periscope to live stream her own friend's rape. — According to Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien, 18-year-old Marina Alexeevna Lonina …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
What it looks like when Russian attack jets fly ‘dangerously close’ to a Navy ship — Russian attack jets flew “dangerously close” to a U.S. Navy destroyer numerous times in the Baltic Sea this week, according to U.S. officials, continuing a pattern of behavior in the region that the Defense Department has previously decried.
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WTOP:
Former presidential contenders Martin O'Malley and Mike Huckabee might start a band — (WASHINGTON) — An unlikely pair of former presidential candidates paid a joint visit to Washington, D.C., Wednesday: Former Govs. Martin O'Malley and Mike Huckabee. — Standing before a bus draped in red …
CNN:
Nigeria's missing girls: A glimpse of the stolen — Join Nima Elbagir and Stephanie Busari on Facebook Live, Thursday at 2 p.m. ET. — Maiduguri, Nigeria (CNN)They were stolen from their beds in a school dormitory — hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped by gunmen.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
A Hoax Plot, Cloaked in a Ukrainian Interview — The intrigue began last week when The New York Times received a letter on official-looking stationery marked “President of Ukraine.” — The letter was addressed to the paper's executive editor, Dean Baquet (though he was referred to as Mr. Baquet Dean) …
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Fear the Cleveland Convention — The sense of dread is palpable. The nearer the Republican Party gets to a contested - in the most literal sense of the word - convention, the more terrible that prospect appears. For the GOP's elected representatives with careers to lose …
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Karl Rove-backed PAC warms to Trump — Karl Rove has publicly blasted Donald Trump as “a petty man consumed by resentment and bitterness” with little gravitas and almost no chance of beating Hillary Clinton. — But privately, the super PAC conceived by Rove is suggesting to its donors …
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
House 2016: How a Democratic Wave Could Happen — More than a dozen rating changes, almost all favoring Democrats — Pennsylvania's Seventh Congressional District, which forms a misshapen U linking Greater Philadelphia in the east to the outskirts of Lancaster and Reading to its west and north …