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Donald J. Trump / Facebook:
Happy Cinco de Mayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland … Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will be officially nominated — an unusual move that underscores the deep unease …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Says He Cannot Support Donald Trump for Now — WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation's highest-ranking elected Republican, said Thursday that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. — Mr. Ryan, who is also chairman …
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Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING. Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan — We've said over and over... and to no avail... that Donald Trump believes in absolutely nothing more than Donald Trump. During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has proposed any number of half-baked, nonsensical ideas and now he's in the process of reneging on them.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump — (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he cannot yet support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign. — “I'm just not ready to do that at this point. I'm not there right now,” the Wisconsin Republican told CNN's …
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Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap — The writer is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post. — Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it. He turned his attacks against women against her.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
How Ryan decided to ditch Trump — On Wednesday morning, not even 24 hours after Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, Paul Ryan convened his top advisers for a call. With Congress out of session, Ryan was bouncing between multiple states, raising the piles of money needed …
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ABC News:
Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
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Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat's Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination
The Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat's Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination
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Booman Tribune and The Intercept
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reid spoiling for a fight with Trump
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Reality — He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.
The Trump Reality — He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.
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Guardian
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
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New York Magazine
Dan Turkel / Business Insider:
NATE SILVER: ‘We basically got the Republican race wrong’
NATE SILVER: ‘We basically got the Republican race wrong’
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
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Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump — Hillary Clinton's ultimate trump card will not be her gender but her relative humanity — On the night that Donald Trump effectively won the Republican nomination for President, Hillary Clinton observed radio silence.
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Bernie Sanders Is Staying in the Race
Why Bernie Sanders Is Staying in the Race
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CNN:
First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe — (CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email …
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Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA — TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward: — (...or, stated more simply) — TO: The majority of America: — Note: If you are one of those rare souls …
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The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral Scorecard Ratings in 13 States — This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year. Although we remain convinced that Hillary Clinton is very vulnerable and would probably lose to most other Republicans, Donald Trump's historic unpopularity with wide swaths of the electorate …
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP — Donald Trump has hired a Wall Street tycoon who has donated more than twice as much to Democrats as to Republicans to be his campaign's finance chair, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Names Hedge Fund Manager as National Finance Chairman
Trump Names Hedge Fund Manager as National Finance Chairman
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump — THE MORNING PLUM: — Predictably enough, the hand-wringing has already begun among some Democrats over the prospect of Donald Trump waging “unpredictable” attacks on Hillary Clinton and the possibility that the Clinton camp will be …
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Barack Obama:
A Nation of Second Chances — Earlier this spring, I met with a group of individuals whose sentences were commuted either by President Bush, President Clinton, or myself. They were all at different stages of a new chapter in their lives, but each of their stories was extraordinary.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama commutes sentences of 58 prisoners
Obama commutes sentences of 58 prisoners
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Wall Street Journal:
Ben Carson Says Donald Trump Could Consider Democrat for Running Mate — Former GOP candidate, now a Trump ally, also takes his name out of the running as possible pick — Ben Carson, the former rival now helping presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump choose a running mate …
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FOX Carolina 21:
Tow truck owner said he refused service to woman because she supports Bernie Sanders — A local tow truck driver said he refused to tow a woman's car after he saw Bernie Sanders stickers on the vehicle. — Kenneth Shupe said he was called to pick up a woman stranded on I-26 in Asheville on Monday.
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC won't meet Obama administration's Monday deadline on House Bill 2, House speaker says — Department of Justice says HB2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX — Tim Moore: ‘We will take no action by Monday’ — House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday that legislators won't meet …
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fda.gov:
FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation — Rule extending oversight to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, allows agency to address public health concerns such as youth access to tobacco products … For Immediate Release
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David Samuels / New York Times:
The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru — How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. — Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City.
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