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New York Post:
The Post endorses Donald Trump — Donald Trump is a rookie candidate — a potential superstar of vast promise, but making rookie mistakes. The nominee Republicans need for the fall campaign is often hard to make out amid his improvisations and too-harsh replies to his critics. — New Yorkers vote Tuesday.
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Meera Jagannathan / New York Daily News:
Six ex-'Apprentice' stars to disavow Donald Trump for his ‘anti-American’ campaign
Six ex-'Apprentice' stars to disavow Donald Trump for his ‘anti-American’ campaign
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Talking Points Memo and Occupy Democrats
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump widens lead in GOP race, Clinton-Sanders tightens — Donald Trump jumps to an 18-point lead over Ted Cruz this week with record high support for the Republican nomination. — Trump tops Cruz by 45-27 percent among GOP primary voters in a new Fox News national poll on the 2016 election.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Clinton's Image Among Democrats at New Low — Recent activity in the presidential election campaign is clearly taking a toll on the images of the leading presidential candidates, as Hillary Clinton drops to her lowest net favorable rating among Democrats since Gallup began tracking her in July …
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Washington Post and JustOneMinute
Scott Bland / Politico:
Trump poised for New York landslide — Donald Trump is poised to win New York in a landslide on Tuesday but he could leave as many as two-dozen critical delegates on the table by failing to win an outright majority in every corner of the state, according to new congressional district-level polling provided to POLITICO.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton and Sanders brawl in Brooklyn — NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders engaged in their most vicious debate yet, delivering a two-hour shouting match on the Democratic debate stage Thursday night as they brawled over Wall Street, guns, racism, the minimum wage and each other's fitness for the White House.
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Sanders mocks Clinton's claim that she ‘called out’ Wall Street — sparred during Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate over who could be trusted to take on on Wall Street, with Sanders at one point mocking her insistence that she “called out” the big banks.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Brooklyn Debate Takeaways: Sarcasm, Snideness and Smackdowns — The Democratic debate on Thursday night played out as a magnified version of the primary race. The personal clashes between Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont were harsher. Their policy differences gaped wider.
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
Winners and Losers from Tonight's CNN Democrat Debate
Winners and Losers from Tonight's CNN Democrat Debate
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New York Times
Donald J. Trump / Wall Street Journal:
Let Me Ask America a Question — How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change. — On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado …
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Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Political Wire
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Suspends Jewish Outreach Coordinator for Vulgar Remarks About Netanyahu — The Sanders campaign's announcement on Tuesday that Simone Zimmerman would be its national Jewish outreach coordinator delighted her fellow left-wing Jewish political activists and encouraged …
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Josh Nathan-Kazis / The Forward:
Donald Trump Doesn't Know What To Call the West Bank
Donald Trump Doesn't Know What To Call the West Bank
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Lewandowski: Battery case became ‘huge distraction’ for Trump campaign
Lewandowski: Battery case became ‘huge distraction’ for Trump campaign
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Palin: Bill Nye ‘as much a scientist as I am’ — Sarah Palin tore into Bill Nye's scientific qualifications on Thursday, saying he has no authority to say climate skeptics are wrong. — Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Trump Could Lose Delegates in States That Have Yet to Vote
Trump Could Lose Delegates in States That Have Yet to Vote
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Politico, Political Wire, ABC News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review and The Atlantic
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Time Magazine Is Lying To You. Here's Why. — Time Magazine is lying to you. — The cover of the venerated publication's newest issue sports a shocking warning with an all-red klaxon cover that shouts: “DEAR READER: You owe $42,998.12.” The article in question, by gold-standard quack …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Time magazine's new cover trolls economically literate people with absurd scare tactics
Time magazine's new cover trolls economically literate people with absurd scare tactics
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Slate and Mother Jones
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz's Senate Outreach Isn't Going Well — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has decided he may want some help from Washington after all to stop Trump. — But alas, his entreaties to his Senate colleagues aren't going very well. — Cruz is facing varied and dynamic obstacles in his quest to build support on the Hill.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Tim Tebow eyed for open Florida House seat, ‘a shoo-in’ — The surprise retirement of a key Florida congressman has Republican strategists eager to give the ball to former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, according to several sources. — “We do not pick favorites,” said a key party strategist …
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WND, Red Alert Politics and The Daily Caller
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan / Politico:
The Mystery of the Two Hillarys — Hillary Clinton knows her biggest weakness as a candidate is that she's not much of one. She works hard at it, but she's not in her element doing the things that presidential contenders need to do: performing in arenas, charming the media, electrifying the masses.
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve / New York Times:
Chicago's Racist Cops and Racist Courts — AS a report by a panel commissioned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago found on Wednesday, racism in the city's Police Department is rampant: Blacks are disproportionately subjected to traffic stops, Tasers and street stops that do not lead to arrest …
Los Angeles Times:
In a win for unions, appeals court reverses ruling that threw out teacher tenure in California — Student Beatriz Vergara testifies in the Vergara vs. California case in Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 11, 2014. — In a major victory for unions, a California appeals court reversed …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Dem dust up in Maryland is a sign of things to come — Given what's going on in the Republican presidential contest, I'm not going to pass any popcorn when it comes to Democratic infighting. I was amused, though, by this story from the Democrats' Senate primary in Maryland.
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Bloomberg:
Apple Pursues New Search Features for a Crowded App Store — Company explores adding Google-like ‘paid search’ feature — Effort follows last year's App Store leadership change — Apple Inc. has constructed a secret team to explore changes to the App Store, including a new strategy …
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Laura Reiley / Tampa Bay Times:
you're being fed fiction — The restaurant's chalkboard makes claims as you enter from the valet parking lot. At the hostess stand, a cheery board reads, “Welcome to local, farm-fresh Boca.” — Brown butcher paper tops tables and lettuces grow along a wooden wall.
Tennessean.com:
Gov. Bill Haslam vetoes Bible bill — Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed the controversial bill that would have made the Bible the official book of Tennessee. — Haslam cited an opinion issued in 2015 by Attorney General Herbert Slatery that said the bill could violate the state and federal constitutions.
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