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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee... Cruz-Kasich Backroom Deal is Devastating (Video) — Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the Republican primary race. — Rudy says it's over and Trump is the nominee. … The post Rudy Giuliani: Trump Is the Nominee …
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The Last Tradition
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Doesn't Want Any Transgender People In Any Bathroom Anywhere — Ted Cruz's tour de transphobia, launched last week to capitalize on Donald Trump's criticism of North Carolina's anti-transgender law, has embraced a new extreme position. Speaking to reporters this weekend in Indiana …
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Mediaite, Fox 59, Q13 FOX News, BizPac Review, PinkNews and The Daily Caller
Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg View:
How to Be Presidential, Trump-Style
How to Be Presidential, Trump-Style
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Bloomberg
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Five states expected to help Trump and Clinton widen their leads
Five states expected to help Trump and Clinton widen their leads
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Outside the Beltway, Guardian and Media Matters for America
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump rejects new adviser's push to make him ‘presidential’ — Donald Trump is bristling at efforts to implement a more conventional presidential campaign strategy, and has expressed misgivings about the political guru behind them, Paul Manafort, for overstepping his bounds, multiple sources close to the campaign tell POLITICO.
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RedState, Talking Points Memo, twitchy.com, CNBC, Hot Air, Raw Story, The Week, The Right Scoop, Althouse, Business Insider and Vox
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Americans will thank me when Lena Dunham flees to Canada — Not only would Donald Trump not mind if certain celebrities were to flee the United States if he is elected president, the Republican front-runner said Tuesday that their opposition to his candidacy only increases his will to win.
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The Week
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins
Lena Dunham promises to move to Canada if Trump wins
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Heat Street, Business Insider, Fox News Insider, The Daily Caller and LifeNews.com
Ashley Lee / Hollywood Reporter:
Lena Dunham, Nancy Dubuc, Janice Min Honored at Matrix Awards
Lena Dunham, Nancy Dubuc, Janice Min Honored at Matrix Awards
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The Slot and The Daily Caller
Jim VandeHei / Wall Street Journal:
Bring on a Third-Party Candidate — Establishment America deserves disruption, but not of the Sanders or Trump type. Here's how to do it. — I have spent the past two decades in the Washington, D.C., bubble—the heart of Establishment America—covering politics and building a company, Politico, focused solely on politics.
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Talking Points Memo, Slate, Balloon Juice, Hit & Run, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Post and bradford-delong.com
Hadley Malcolm / USA Today:
More than 500,000 boycott Target over transgender bathroom policy — A conservative Christian activist group has gained more than half a million signatures and counting from people pledging to boycott Target over its transgender bathroom policy. — The petition started by the American Family Association …
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Andy Humbles / USA Today:
Pastor blasts Target for bathroom policy … MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. — A minister here has posted a video on his Facebook page challenging Target's new bathroom policy that allows customers to choose a restroom that corresponds to their gender identity. — It has had more than 12 million views since being shared Friday night.
NBC News:
Poll: Trump Reaches 50 Percent Support Nationally for the First Time — Trump: New Cruz-Kasich Alliance to Stop Him is ‘Pathetic’ and ‘Weak’ 2:47 — Donald Trump has reached 50 percent support from Republicans and Republican-leaners nationally for the first time since the beginning of the NBC News|
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The Daily Caller
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
New York Times:
Federal Judge Upholds North Carolina Voter Rules — RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge on Monday upheld sweeping Republican-backed changes to election rules, including a voter identification provision, that civil rights groups say unfairly targeted African-Americans and other minorities.
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The Atlantic, Raw Story, Slate, Washington Post, electionlawblog.org, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AOL, The Week, Hullabaloo and Associated Press
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Alex Roarty / Roll Call:
The Emotional Life of Sanders Supporters — Movement will go on, they say — with or without Democratic Party — Van Hollen, McGinty Surge Ahead In Kansas, Pompeo Won't Challenge Sen. Moran Major Mystery Donor Reveals Why He Backed Donna Edwards — BALTIMORE - Bailey Myers …
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Emma Roller / New York Times:
Pennsylvania, Where Everyone Is ‘Furious’
Dan Tynan / Guardian:
Revenge porn: the industry profiting from online abuse — Sites charge $100 a year to access private photos and videos of non-porn stars in the nude, usually posted by spurned ex-lovers - but it doesn't end there — ix years ago, Rebekah Wells Googled her name to see what turned up.
Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Colorado County GOP Chair: Errors with Ted Cruz's Delegate Win, Might Need Do-Over — The chairwoman of the Boulder County GOP has admitted that grave errors affected the Colorado Republican caucus, in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) won a clean sweep of 34 delegates without opening up the process to voting by everyday citizens.
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Jessica Hopper / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Has Heated Exchange with Donald Trump Supporter
Ted Cruz Has Heated Exchange with Donald Trump Supporter
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AOL and BizPac Review
Zack Guzman / CNBC:
Meet the company offering a chance at immortality for $200,000 — More and more people are signing up to be frozen for a chance at life after death. So the question is, would you? — This woman is freezing her brain so she can see the future — More and more people are signing …
Shoshana Weissmann / Weekly Standard:
Don't Suggest to Hillary She Could Ever Be Behind in Votes — During MSNBC's town hall with Hillary Clinton, Rachel Maddow made the mistake of suggesting Clinton could ever in the future be behind Bernie Sanders in the delegate count. — “That was June 7, 2008 when you got out of the race and endorsed President Obama.
CNN:
‘Wild animals’: Racist texts sent by San Francisco police officer, documents show — The following story contains offensive language and may not be suitable for all audiences. — (CNN)"I hate that beaner," one text reads, “but I think the nig is worse.” — “Indian ppl are disgusting,” proclaims another.
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Washington Post and CBS San Francisco
Dr. Ben Carson / Independent Journal Review Opinion:
Harriet Tubman Has A Legacy Worth Upholding — Retired Pediatric Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson was a 2016 Republican candidate for President of the United States. — ShareTweetEmail — Independent Journal Opinion is an opinion platform and any opinions or information put forth by contributors …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
The Guy Who Screwed America's Economy Hearts Hillary Clinton — The man behind Goldman Sachs's infamous bets on the housing collapse now buys foreclosed homes and rents them out—but not to anyone convicted of a financial crime. He's also a big Clinton donor. — Wall Street is buying Main Street one foreclosed home at a time.
Melissa Harris-Perry / ELLE:
A Call and Response with Melissa Harris-Perry: The Pain and the Power of ‘Lemonade’ — What happens when we take the hopes, dreams, pain, and joy of black girls and women and put them in the center? — What would happen if we took the hopes, dreams, pain, joy, loss, bodies, voices …
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Taylor Marsh
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