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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race — Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday night, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz drops out of the Republican presidential race — Live updates … INDIANAPOLIS — Ted Cruz, the insurgent Texan whose presidential campaign was fueled by disdain for Washington, dropped out of the 2016 race Tuesday night, removing the last major hurdle in Donald Trump's quest to become the Republican nominee for president.
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Gets What It Deserves — ‘America First’ is the inevitable outcome of the Republican descent into populism. — A joke in Milan Kundera's novel “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” goes like this: “In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up.
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Ted Cruz drops presidential bid — (CNN)Ted Cruz bowed out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday following a crushing loss to Donald Trump in Indiana, clearing the path for the real estate mogul to clinch the GOP nomination. — It was a remarkable turn of events in a presidential primary race …
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Associated Press:
Trump dashes Cruz's hopes in Indiana; Sanders-Clinton close — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana's primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Suspends His Campaign for President
Ted Cruz Suspends His Campaign for President
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Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Ted Cruz Ends Presidential Campaign After Trump Sweep in Indiana
Ted Cruz Ends Presidential Campaign After Trump Sweep in Indiana
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The crisis in the Republican Party is even worse than it looks — Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president, and this alarms ideological conservatives for several reasons: — 1. They think he will lose badly to Hillary Clinton, perhaps so badly that Republicans lose control of both houses of Congress.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump is really going to be the nominee. This is actually happening. — Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee. — The only way he won't is if something unthinkable happens. He could be struck by lightning. He could pull off his Trump mask and reveal that he's actually …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Sanders surprises Clinton in Indiana — Bernie Sanders upset Hillary Clinton in Indiana's Democratic primary Tuesday night, giving his flagging campaign another reason to carry on to Philadelphia even though he has virtually no chance of overtaking Clinton for the nomination.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
McCain's Former Top Aide Will Support Clinton Over Trump
McCain's Former Top Aide Will Support Clinton Over Trump
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Wall Street Journal:
The Third-Party Temptation — A conservative challenge to Trump …
The Third-Party Temptation — A conservative challenge to Trump …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
GOP establishment moves from ‘Never Trump’ to just ‘Trump’
GOP establishment moves from ‘Never Trump’ to just ‘Trump’
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Carlo Allegri / National Review:
Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump accuses Cruz's father of helping JFK's assassin — Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz's father was with John F. Kennedy's assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing …
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Cruz: Trump is an ‘utterly amoral’ bully, narcissist, pathological liar
Cruz: Trump is an ‘utterly amoral’ bully, narcissist, pathological liar
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Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
I don't know about “Lyin' Ted” but I do know about “Doesn't Tell The Whole Story Ted”
I don't know about “Lyin' Ted” but I do know about “Doesn't Tell The Whole Story Ted”
Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Trump bizarrely links Cruz's father to JFK assassin; Cruz goes ballistic
Trump bizarrely links Cruz's father to JFK assassin; Cruz goes ballistic
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New York Times:
Donald Trump All but Clinches Nomination With Indiana Win; Cruz Quits
Donald Trump All but Clinches Nomination With Indiana Win; Cruz Quits
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Ted Cruz-Donald Trump fight boils over in Indiana
Ted Cruz-Donald Trump fight boils over in Indiana
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sanders: Clinton ‘wrong’ to think it's over — Sen. Bernie Sanders, fresh off a surprise victory in the Indiana primary, is confident that he is only helping the Democratic Party by remaining in the race against Hillary Clinton. — “The Clinton campaign thinks this is over.
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Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Sanders wins Indiana, but Clinton looks to November
Sanders wins Indiana, but Clinton looks to November
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump, Sanders lead in West Virginia
Trump, Sanders lead in West Virginia
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The Last Refuge
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Growing Problem With Independents
Hillary Clinton's Growing Problem With Independents
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Shadowproof
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
Bernie Sanders declares war on reality
Bernie Sanders declares war on reality
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump and the Lord's Work — Like many others, I watched the video that President Obama showed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday of him inviting former House Speaker John Boehner over to solicit his advice on what Obama should do post-presidency.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Mythology Of Trump's ‘Working Class’ Support — It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites. There are elements of truth in this perspective: Republican voters, especially Trump supporters, are unhappy about the direction of the economy.
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Frank Fani / FiveThirtyEight:
Question … Answer — Two aspects of this stand out. First, high levels of name recognition from both probable nominees. (I'm not there yet with presumptive nominees. Give me time.) Both Trump and Clinton have been in the public eye for a long time, and the information about them has not always been favorable.
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Hullabaloo
CBS 5 AZ KPHO:
Mesa, AZ student arrested for indecent exposure in yearbook picture — A student at Red Mountain High School in Mesa is facing dozens of criminal charges for indecent exposure after a prank got published in the yearbook, according to the Mesa Police Department.
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Tom Steele / Crime Blog:
Selfie provoked argument that led to fatal Arlington shooting, suspect's wife says — Updated May 3: Revised throughout to include new details. — By JULIETA CHIQUILLO and TOM STEELE — Staff Writers — The wife of the suspect in an Arlington slaying says a revealing selfie set off …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
‘He thought he could help’: Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead
‘He thought he could help’: Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
In N.Y., White House poised to create first monument to gay rights struggle — Live updates … President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood …
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