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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Trump's Nomination To Lose* — Tuesday night went about as well as possible for Donald Trump. — Two weeks ago, after a rough stretch of states for Trump, we issued a series of delegate projections that included something called a “path-to-1,237” projection, a set of targets …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes — MORE FROM: — For the past few weeks, Republican campaign professionals and conservatives who are seeing the GOP nomination heading into Donald Trump's hands have been counseling anti-Trump voters not to panic and consoling themselves …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory — Donald J. Trump is essentially two key states from the nomination. — By sweeping five states on Tuesday, he pulled only a few hundred Republican delegates short of the 1,237 he needs to win without a contested convention.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Winners and losers from the I-95 primaries
Winners and losers from the I-95 primaries
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Indianapolis Star, Los Angeles Times, National Review, The Moderate Voice and Politico
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump starts spending to end Cruz in Indiana
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Primary Takeaways: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Edge Closer to Nominations
Primary Takeaways: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Edge Closer to Nominations
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RedState, The Week and Shakesville
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
New York Times:
Donald Trump Sweeps 5 States; Hillary Clinton Takes 4
Donald Trump Sweeps 5 States; Hillary Clinton Takes 4
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American Prospect, No More Mister Nice Blog, Slate and NPR
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump
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Politico, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
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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RedState, New York Magazine, CBS New York and Politico
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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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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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Trump Can't Beat Clinton. Who Says? — In the Democratic and Republican presidential races right now, we're hearing a lot of claims about electability in general-election matchups. — Ted Cruz says he's the only Republican who can beat Hillary Clinton in November, while John Kasich …
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Washington Post and Vox
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
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton's refusal to quit in 2008 haunts her in 2016
Clinton's refusal to quit in 2008 haunts her in 2016
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Political Wire
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states
Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states
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Politico, Scared Monkeys and ABC News
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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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
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again! — For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction & fantasy have been swept by the Sad Puppies & Rabid Puppies, two groups of authors and fans who oppose left-wing domination of the community.
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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
Baltimore Sun:
DeRay Mckesson finishes 6th in Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor … Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson finished in sixth place Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor. — With 95 percent of results tallied, Mckesson garnered 3,008 votes — or 2.5 percent of the total.
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and theGrio
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 …
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Daniel Bethencourt / Detroit Free Press:
Saying ‘vagina’ got me fired, Battle Creek middle school teacher says — Vagina. It's a noun describing female anatomy that caused such outrage in the Michigan Legislature in 2012 that a legislator was blocked from speaking after using it. — Now, a substitute teacher says using it got …
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Nicky Zizaza / WWMT-TV:
W. Mich. substitute teacher fired for using anatomical word during lesson
W. Mich. substitute teacher fired for using anatomical word during lesson
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The Daily Caller and EAGnews.org
Los Angeles Times:
Clash over anti-Trump motion boils over in Anaheim: ‘Keep your noses out of the national election’ — Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed at Anaheim City Hall on Tuesday as the City Council considers a resolution denouncing the GOP presidential candidate.
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Talking Points Memo, KTLA and Raw Story
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Cult of Sore Losers — Bernie Sanders isn't losing. Just ask many of his backers or listen to some of his own complaints. He's being robbed, a victim of antiquated rules, voter suppression, shady arithmetic and a corrupt Democratic establishment. The swindle includes …
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.
Fox News:
NY judge decides Trump University case going to trial — A New York judge decided Tuesday that a fraud case against Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors will go to trial - raising the possibility that the Republican presidential primary front-runner could testify during campaign season.