memeorandum: Trump threatens a ‘rough time’ at the Republican National Convention if he isn't given the nomination (Bethania Palma Markus/Raw Story)

1:15 PM ET, April 17, 2016

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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:

RNC chief: No changes to delegate requirement likely — Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said Sunday the GOP likely won't change a rule that requires candidates to have 1,237 delegates to clinch the GOP presidential nomination. — “Having a plurality of the delegates means the field has the majority.

Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: 62% Say Republican with Most Votes Should Be Nominee — More than six in 10 Republican voters believe that, if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, the one with the most votes should be the party's nominee, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

CBS News:

Poll: Donald Trump keeps large lead in New York; ahead in California — Donald Trump heads into his home-state primary of New York with a large edge over Ted Cruz and John Kasich, 54 percent to 21 percent and 19 percent respectively. The lead, if it holds Tuesday night …

Discussion: RedState

Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:

Priebus to Trump: “Delegates And Voters Choose The Nominee”; People Don't “Give A Darn” About Colorado — Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says Donald Trump complaining about the way Colorado's delegates were chosen is “distracting.”

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Republican Party delegates feel sudden power as balance shifts — The balance of power in the Republican Party has suddenly shifted to delegates, many of whom are entering the national spotlight for the first time. — Delegates say their lives have been turned upside down by the possibility …

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump to RNC: Reform nomination system or ‘have a rough July at that convention’

Discussion: RedState and Politico

Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story: Trump threatens a ‘rough time’ at the Republican National Convention if he isn't given the nomination

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Donald Trump Is Outperforming Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders AND Hillary Clinton — Donald Trump is not only outperforming Ted Cruz in the election to date, he also outperforms Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as well. — The election results to date (as of Sunday April 17th) show that Trump outshines all the candidates.

Kevin McCullough / Townhall.com:

Why Trump Loses — When Donald Trump looks back at the wasted time and money he put forward in producing the biggest flame-out in Presidential nominating history, he's going to easily be able to point to exactly where he lost it. — I've long thought of elections as similar to prize fights or NFL football match-ups.

Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest

Discussion: AOL

Patrick Howley / Breitbart:

Trump Supporters Walk Out of Georgia Delegate Fight After Party Picks Cruz Supporter...'Uproar in the Hall' — Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.

Discussion: Political Insider blog, No More Mister Nice Blog, BizPac Review and The Resurgent

Katie Glueck / Politico:
Trump massacred in delegate fights once more

Discussion: RedState, Newsmax, The Charlotte Observer, Oklahoma Grassroots, Debbie Dooley and Fox News

Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Donald Trump gets outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz forces in Georgia

Discussion: RedState and ABC News

Laura Bult / New York Daily News:

Hundreds of New York state voters to file suit calling the closed primary ‘a threat to our democratic system’ after claiming their party affiliation mysteriously changed — More than 200 outraged New York voters have joined a lawsuit claiming the party affiliation on their voter registration changed without their consent.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Denver Post:

Obama should visit Ground Zero — but without apologies — Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry did something that no predecessor had ventured to do. He attended a memorial service in Hiroshima and toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum, which commemorates the devastation wrought by the bomb Little Boy in 1945.

Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:

Thousands of troops on Paris streets but are they France's new Maginot line? — Many welcome them, but others fear it is a ‘political anti-anxiety measure’ — n the cobbled alleyways of Montmartre, as a busker warbled La Vie en Rose and street artists painted watercolours of the view over Paris …

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:

Sanders: ‘Of course’ Sandy Hook victims should be able to sue gun manufacturers — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders — on Sunday said Sandy Hook victims should be able to sue gun manufacturers for the 2012 elementary school shooting that killed 20 students and six adults, backtracking on previous comments.

Discussion: Hot Air

Terry Macalister / Observer:

Clouds gather over solar power after golden years of success — iven that the government is determined to avoid playing a financial role in the planned new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, it is perhaps surprising that it is involved in the UK's largest solar array.

Alison Smale / New York Times:

German Comic Who Lampooned Erdogan to Extend Break From TV Show — BERLIN — The satirist whose crude lampoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey touched off a furor over free speech in Germany announced Saturday that he and his team would take a break from their satirical TV show until May 12.

Frank Jordans / Associated Press:
MERKEL CRITICIZED, LAUDED FOR ALLOWING COMIC'S PROSECUTION

Discussion: Associated Press

CNN:

Saudis warn of economic reprisals if Congress passes 9/11 bill — (CNN)Saudi Arabia is warning it will sell off billions in American assets if the U.S. Congress passes a bipartisan bill that would allow victims of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks to sue foreign governments.