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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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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.


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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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 …

Donald Trump All but Clinches Nomination With Indiana Win; 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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Ted Cruz Ends Presidential Campaign After Trump Sweep in Indiana
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Trump dashes Cruz's hopes in Indiana; Sanders-Clinton close
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I don't know about “Lyin' Ted” but I do know about “Doesn't Tell The Whole Story Ted”
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Trump bizarrely links Cruz's father to JFK assassin; Cruz goes ballistic
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Live updates: Republican primary in Indiana
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Cruz: Trump is an ‘utterly amoral’ bully, narcissist, pathological liar
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Indiana GOP Primary: Donald Trump Projected to Win
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Ted Cruz-Donald Trump fight boils over in Indiana
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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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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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GOP establishment moves from ‘Never Trump’ to just ‘Trump’
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McCain's Former Top Aide Will Support Clinton Over Trump
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The Third-Party Temptation — A conservative challenge to Trump …
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Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
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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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Sanders wins Indiana, but Clinton looks to November
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Hillary Clinton's Growing Problem With Independents
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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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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.


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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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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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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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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