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Fox News Poll: Trump leads in California, Clinton-Sanders in close race — Republican Donald Trump holds a big lead in California, in a new Fox News Poll, while Hillary Clinton has a razor-thin edge over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race. — Trump captures 49 percent of likely Republican primary voters.
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EXCLUSIVE WTHR/HPI Poll: Trump, Clinton have small leads in Indiana, overall tight race — INDIANAPOLIS - — The results of the first statewide poll for Indiana's upcoming primary show a small lead for party front runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, with a tight race on both sides of the aisle.
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Ted Cruz Criticizes Fox News After Sean Hannity Dustup — “Fox News has got to decide what stories they want to air and what stories they want to tell.” — w.soundcloud.com — Ted Cruz criticized Fox News on Friday for the way some of their on air hosts have covered the delegate selection process.


Sanders says Clinton's platform could determine how much he would campaign for her
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Insiders to Bernie: Don't take the fight to Philly
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Mediaite, Politicus USA and Washington Post


Go ahead, Donald, get 1,237; it won't matter: RNC delegate — GOP Delegate: 1,237 number means nothing for Trump — Curly Haugland, RNC Rules Committee Member and unbound delegate, talks about delegate nominations at the Republican National Convention, including Donald Trump's chances of becoming the party's nominee.
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Priebus slams ‘Never Trump’ movement, calls for GOP unity
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Cruz: Trump can't get to 1,237 if he loses Indiana
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Unite or Die: RNC's Reince Priebus Defies ‘Never Trump’ Movement
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Prntly and BizPac Review

Cruz on Trump: ‘This has become the Washington campaign’
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Washington Post and LifeNews.com

Ohio AG: Eighth body found in Pike Co. shooting, assailant ‘probably loose’ — At least 4 crime scenes discovered, AG says — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said eight people were found dead in Pike County on Friday morning. — The office said that the victims were shot “execution-style.”
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8 Members of One Family Found Shot to Death in Rural Ohio — Eight members of one family were found shot to death in rural Ohio on Friday, including a mother killed while sleeping in the same room as her newborn baby, and the killer or killers were thought to be at large, law enforcement officials said.
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Virginia Governor Restoring Voting Rights to Felons — WASHINGTON — Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia will use his executive power on Friday to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 convicted felons, circumventing his Republican-run legislature. The action will overturn a Civil War-era provision …
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The Voting Effect of Virginia's Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive
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Governor McAuliffe Restores Voting and Civil Rights to Over 200,000 Virginians
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Crime and Consequences Blog, Common Dreams, ABC News, CityLab and Courthouse News Service

About 200,000 convicted felons in Virginia will now have the right to vote in November
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Feeds, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Hit & Run


Trump Backtracks on Pro-LGBT View — Less than 24 hours after saying transgender individuals should be able to “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate,” Donald Trump backtracked from that pro-LGBT position. Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday evening, the Republican presidential …
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Prince Once Wrote A Donald Trump Song And It Is Spectacular
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Grassley: FBI could leak Clinton email investigation — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley suggested on Friday that the FBI might leak reports of its investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state. — Grassley, Iowa's senior senator …
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Hillary's primary success is a sham: Bernie Sanders will remain the true Democratic front-runner until the FBI finishes its Investigation — It's not over until the FBI clears Hillary Clinton— which it absolutely shouldn't — Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate for president not linked to an FBI investigation.
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Bernie Sanders Renews Attacks on Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania
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Liberal Values and Salon


Trump's Popularity Among Catholics Soars After Being Dissed by Pope Francis — The Pope's harsh words for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump last February seem not to have hurt the candidate's popularity among Catholics, which actually increased by more than 20% since the pontiff's unfortunate remarks.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News


Why Six Swing-State GOP Senators Are in Trouble - And How They Can Survive — In a complicated political season, nobody has more complications to worry about than the half-dozen Republican senators seeking re-election in tight, swing-state contests. — Those senators-hailing from Illinois …
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Daily Kos


Trump Vets Chair: Charity Money? Not My Problem — Three months ago Donald Trump held a fundraiser for wounded veterans and apparently raised $6 million. But most of that money has yet to be distributed and Trump's chairman for veterans issues couldn't care less.


WATCH: University Official Threatens to Call Police on Reporter at Milo Protest Because Students Need ‘Safe Space’ — A female journalist and her film crew were harassed by a university official while trying to cover a protest over the appearance of Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos at American University.
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Hit & Run and Progressives Today


New Yorkers are left baffled as skywriters paint ‘How happy is the one who says I am a Turk’ in TURKISH in the sky above Manhattan - but Armenians are not amused — New Yorkers gazed into the blue sky with bemusement as a skywriting plane carefully scribbled the phrase 'How happy Is the one who says …
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Bipartisan Policy Center


EXCLUSIVE: De Blasio team skirted campaign donation limits; investigators found ‘willful and flagrant’ violations ‘warranting prosecution’ — ALBANY — The head investigator for the state Board of Elections probed the 2014 fundraising efforts by Mayor de Blasio and his team on behalf …


Ted Cruz has won the nomination *Detailed Analysis* — An Update to New York Never Mattered — I have been called upon to demonstrate how I get that there is a less than 1% chance of Trump winning the nomination. Steve Deace said I was either “Mad Smart or just Mad”.
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Freedom's Lighthouse


Oklahoma lawmakers approve bill to revoke licenses of abortion doctors — An Oklahoma bill that could revoke the license of any doctor who performs an abortion has headed to the governor, with opponents saying the measure in unconstitutional and promising a legal battle against the cash-strapped state if it is approved.
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