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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
IT'S OFFICIAL=> Ted Cruz Is Mathematically ELIMINATED from GOP Race - With Chart — As we predicted on April 2nd.... As of today, April 26, 2016, Ted Cruz is mathematically eliminated from winning the Republican nomination outright. — On April 2nd we predicted that Donald Trump …
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Politico, DailySurge, Joe Hoft, Walid Shoebat, The Last Tradition and JustOneMinute
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Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:
Ted Cruz Desecrates Classic Movie Scene By Calling Hoop a “Basketball Ring” — While stumping in Indiana tonight, Ted Cruz attempted to recreate a classic scene from Hoosiers in the very same gym in which part of the movie (thought not this particular scene) was filmed.
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Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, Mother Jones and Prntly
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Trump Lays Claim to Nomination Backed by Smashing Victories — Blowout victories in five states put the anti-Trump movement in serious jeopardy, with one card left to play. — If Donald Trump didn't kill the “stop Trump” movement on Tuesday night, he left it battered and bruised.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump
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Politico and Balloon Juice
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory
Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory
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Vox, Raw Story, Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Real Clear Politics
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump starts spending to end Cruz in Indiana
Saul Hubbard / Register-Guard:
Kasich campaign fails to get him included in Oregon's voters' pamphlet
Kasich campaign fails to get him included in Oregon's voters' pamphlet
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CBS New York and Politico
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Indiana looms large for Cruz's slender hopes after Trump sweeps Northeast
Indiana looms large for Cruz's slender hopes after Trump sweeps Northeast
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Politico, Outside the Beltway and Los Angeles Times
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Trump's Nomination To Lose*
It's Trump's Nomination To Lose*
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Power Line, Business Insider and New York Magazine
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders to Reassess Candidacy After Tuesday's Vote, but He'll Stay in Race — Join us for live updates on the five states voting on Tuesday. — Updated, 4:00 p.m. | PHILADELPHIA — Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign advisers plan to reassess where his candidacy stands …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ - poll — More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states — These 10 states will decide whether Trump is the GOP nominee … PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton all but secured the Democratic nomination Tuesday after a long and bruising primary fight against rival Sen. Bernie Sanders …
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Politico, Political Wire and ABC News
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Winners and losers from the I-95 primaries … Voters in five states stretching from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast went to the polls on Tuesday. At the presidential level, Donald Trump crushed his two remaining competitors while Hillary Clinton looked well positioned to extend her delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.
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New York Times, Indianapolis Star, Los Angeles Times, National Review and The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
Pulling Away From Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Is Turning to the Fall
Pulling Away From Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Is Turning to the Fall
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Taylor Marsh, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider and CNBC
Libby Nelson / Vox:
Donald Trump says women don't like Hillary Clinton. They dislike him even more.
Donald Trump says women don't like Hillary Clinton. They dislike him even more.
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ThinkProgress, AOL and Raw Story
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders is no fool. He'll back Clinton when he drops out.
Bernie Sanders is no fool. He'll back Clinton when he drops out.
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The New York Observer, Daily Kos, MSNBC, Guardian and Rewire
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Trump Can't Beat Clinton. Who Says?
Trump Can't Beat Clinton. Who Says?
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Washington Post and Vox
Caleb Howe / RedState:
First Exit Poll Info From Super Duper Tuesday Is In, And On The Delegate Process ... Uh Oh, GOP — Bad news in the exits. Remember there are a lot* delegates up for grabs today. And on that topic ... DELEGATES: — CNN reports that 68% of voters in Connecticut say that if nobody gets 1,237 …
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David Barnett / Guardian:
Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign — For the second year running, the biggest prize in science-fiction and fantasy writing has been monopolised by nominations from Sad and Rabid Puppies groups, who campaign against works “overtly to the left”
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Los Angeles Times, Vox Popoli and The Week
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Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again!
Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again!
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Vox Popoli
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation for More Than $3 Billion — Deal would join DreamWorks Animation with Comcast's Universal Pictures — Comcast Corp. is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. for more than $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Baltimore Sun:
Four Baltimore polling sites stay open an hour late … Voting was extended by one hour at four polling locations in Baltimore Tuesday evening after the U.S. Senate campaign of Rep. Donna Edwards sought a court order to keep open sites where voting had been delayed.
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Talking Points Memo and CBS Baltimore
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D. Brian Burghart / Gawker:
What I Learned About the Washington Post From Four Years Collecting Data on Police Violence — Earlier this month, the Washington Post was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its project on police violence, “Fatal Force.” The Pulitzer Prize Board singled out the paper …
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The Daily Caller
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders should run as an independent — should run for president as an independent. — “Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “He should show them, and run as an Independent!”
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In state after state, strong GOP support for Trump's Muslim proposal — What was once furious Republican opposition to Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. has turned to virtual silence in the face of widespread GOP voter approval.
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement — Last Friday, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights to more than 200,000 people with previous felony convictions. It's a momentous stroke in both scope and effect; with an eye towards the 2016 races …
New York Post:
Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge — A 32-year-old man jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning - but miraculously survived the 135-foot plunge, authorities said. — The unidentified emotionally disturbed man walked to the middle of the iconic span's pedestrian pathway …