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3:30 PM ET, April 19, 2016

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JOHN HODGMAN:
Hillary Clinton for President  —  This is going to disappoint some of my friends, and maybe that's why I've been quiet about this until now.  —  Also, who cares what I think?  —  But here is what I think: Hillary Clinton for President.  —  I think Sen. Bernie Sanders has been an inspiring …
Discussion: Politico and Boing Boing
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New York Post:
Nervous Hillary downplays potential of New York landslide  —  Less than 24 hours before the polls open in New York, Hillary Clinton's campaign tried to downgrade expectations of a huge victory by predicting a less-than-overwhelming margin in Tuesday's presidential primary.
Dante Chinni / Wall Street Journal:
New York Primaries: 5 Things to Watch
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton will have to court my supporters
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Shakesville
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Hillary, the Panama Papers, and the death of American kleptocracy
Discussion: Vox, Democracy Now and Infowars
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Despite Polls, Republicans See Sanders as an Easier Opponent
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rep. Pete King: ‘I hate Ted Cruz’  —  New York Rep. Pete King (R) on Tuesday offered his harshest words yet for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz  —  , slamming the Texas senator on the day of his state's primary.  —  “Well, first of all, in case anybody gets confused …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Peter King: I hate Ted Cruz and I voted for John Kasich  —  Peter King hates Ted Cruz and thinks Donald Trump will win big in New York's Republican primary Tuesday, but he cast his ballot for John Kasich.  —  “I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination,” …
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:   GOP Rep Peter King on Ted Cruz: 'I'll Take Cyanide If He Got the Nomination'
CBS News:
Donald Trump reorganizes campaign just before big state primaries  —  Two senior Trump sources confirmed an extensive reorganization of the Trump campaign to CBS News on Monday.  —  Paul Manafort, hired last week to be the convention manager, will now run the Trump campaign …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Donald Trump hires top GOP lawyer for delegate fight
New York Times:
Top Donald Trump Campaign Aide Quits in Shakeup
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump: I ‘helped a little bit’ with clearing rubble at Ground Zero … Donald Trump has gotten a lot of attention over the past 12 hours for referring to the Sept. 11 terror attacks as “7/11” during a speech in Buffalo.  It's an awkward, amusing slip-up — but it's just a slip-up.
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Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign  —  I was the restaurant critic.  I could have carried on writing about crudités and borscht.  But taking money from a shill for Trump implicated me in his hate  —  or the last three years, I've been the restaurant critic …
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Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Giuliani explains why he won't endorse Trump
Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air and Raw Story
James Oliphant / Reuters:   Trump candidacy: Where some fear to tread others see a path to victory
John Harwood / CNBC:
Biden to critics: We had 8 atom bombs land on our desk  —  Vice President Joe Biden says politicians need to stop questioning each other's motives and question their judgments and decisions instead.  —  ABOARD AMTRAK ACELA #2166 — Joe Biden, 73, has been an influential figure in American politics for more than four decades.
benjerry.com:
Why Ben and Jerry Just Got Arrested  —  Earlier today, our cofounders, Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen, along with hundreds of other activists, were arrested as part of Democracy Awakening's direct action on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building.  —  JUST BEFORE THEY WERE ARRESTED
New York Times:
Debunking Republican Health Care Myths  —  “Disaster.”  “Incredible economic burden.”  “The biggest job-killer in this country.”  —  Central to the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz has been the claim that the Affordable Care Act has been a complete failure …
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Tom Murphy / Associated Press:
UNITEDHEALTH TO TRIM ACA EXCHANGES TO ‘HANDFUL’ OF STATES
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
No, Bernie's Taxes Don't Show That He's a Hypocrite  —  This argument was tiresome a decade ago, and it's still tiresome: … This isn't even close to hypocrisy.  If you don't like the designated hitter rule in baseball, does that mean you should send your pitcher to the plate just to prove how sincere you are?
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Bernie's Tax Hypocrisy
New York Post:
54,000 Brooklyn voters ‘vanish’ ahead of primary day  —  More On:  —  In a pre-primary bombshell, the city's Board of Elections was pummeled with questions Monday about how 54,000 Democratic voters vanished from the rolls in Brooklyn.  —  The voter rolls on April 1 showed the borough …
Discussion: Gothamist and WNYC News
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Protections For Transgender People In Landmark Ruling  —  WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Department of Education's interpretation of existing federal civil rights laws to protect transgender people against discrimination in education.
Discussion: Vox and Joe.My.God.
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Pat Boone Accuses ‘SNL’ of Anti-Christian Bias After 'God's Not Dead 2' Parody  —  EMAIL ME  —  “This skit was outright sacrilege.  They know if they did this to Muslims they'd have to be put into the witness protection program,” the singer-actor said.  —  Pat Boone is calling out NBC …
Discussion: PinkNews, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Anchorage Daily News:
Man fatally shot while photographing people firing guns in Sutton  —  An Anchorage man was shot and killed Saturday while filming or photographing people firing guns in Sutton, according to Alaska State Troopers.  —  Troopers said in a Monday dispatch that they were informed …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
How New York will be won  —  Two New Yorks are voting on Tuesday.  —  In the Democratic presidential primary, about half the vote will come from New York City's five boroughs — a percentage that increases to nearly three-quarters of the vote when the entire New York media market is included.
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
A New Yorker's Guide To The GOP Primary — District By District
Discussion: Vox, The Atlantic and The Resurgent
Susanne Craig / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Jet, a Regular on the Campaign Trail, Is Not Registered to Fly  —  Over the past several months, Donald J. Trump has crisscrossed the country making dozens of campaign stops in places like Sioux City, Iowa, and Jackson, Miss., often in his sleek Cessna jet.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Talking Points Memo
Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic:
Better Call Saul and the Edge of Boredom  —  “We want to make a show that stands on its own,” Better Call Saul's co-creator Peter Gould has said about his and Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad spinoff.  Two seasons in, Saul has achieved many things, but this particular goal isn't one of them.
Discussion: Scripting News and Slate
 
 
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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
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Reuters:
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
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Washington Post:
Mr. Sanders's war on clean energy
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
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