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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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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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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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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.
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Suspends His Campaign for President — INDIANAPOLIS — Join us for live updates. — Less than a month ago, Senator Ted Cruz seemed to have done it. — He had won Wisconsin. Former rivals were holding their noses to support him. He was dominating delegate elections …
New York Times:
Donald Trump All but Clinches G.O.P. Race With Indiana Win; Ted Cruz Quits — Donald J. Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday with a landslide win in Indiana that drove his principal opponent, Senator Ted Cruz, from the race and cleared the way for the polarizing …
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Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
Ted Cruz Ends Presidential Campaign After Trump Sweep in Indiana — After a projected Donald Trump sweep in Indiana was announced by the major TV networks on Tuesday night, reports began to surface that Ted Cruz would be ending his campaign. … Cruz confirmed as much in a speech on Tuesday night …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
McCain's Former Top Aide Will Support Clinton Over Trump
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Associated Press:
Trump dashes Cruz's hopes in Indiana; Sanders-Clinton close
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Carlo Allegri / National Review:
Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
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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”
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump is really going to be the nominee. This is actually happening.
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Live updates: Republican primary in Indiana
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Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Trump bizarrely links Cruz's father to JFK assassin; Cruz goes ballistic
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Wall Street Journal:
The Third-Party Temptation — A conservative challenge to Trump …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Indiana GOP Primary: Donald Trump Projected to Win
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Ted Cruz-Donald Trump fight boils over in Indiana
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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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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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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Projected Winner of Indiana Democratic Primary — Based on analysis of the vote, ABC News projects that Sen. Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic primary in Indiana. — There are a total of 92 delegates up for grabs for the Democrats tonight, 83 of which are pledged delegates …
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Sanders wins Indiana, but Clinton looks to November
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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.
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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.
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
GOP establishment moves from ‘Never Trump’ to just ‘Trump’
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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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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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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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Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
Is the Tech Bubble Popping? Ping Pong Offers an Answer — Falling table-tennis sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley, where the right to play on the job is sacrosanct — SAN FRANCISCO— Twitter 's gloomy quarterly report last week unsettled investors.
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