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Dan Turkel / Business Insider:
NATE SILVER: ‘We basically got the Republican race wrong’ — In September 2015, writer and statistician Nate Silver urged people to “calm down” about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination. — Two months later, he wrote that the media should …
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Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
RIP, GOP — On Tuesday night the Republican voters of Indiana delivered the final verdict on the Republican primary race, giving Donald Trump a crushing 15-point victory over Ted Cruz. Two hours after the polls closed, Cruz acknowledged the writing on the wall and dropped out of the race.
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Won't Self-Fund General-Election Campaign — Presumptive Republican nominee plans to create ‘world-class finance organization’ to back campaign — Donald Trump won't self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a “world-class finance organization,” …
Jordan Rudner / The Texas Tribune:
Bush 41, 43 Have No Plans to Endorse Trump … For the first time since his own presidency, George H.W. Bush is planning to stay silent in the race for the Oval Office — and the younger former president Bush plans to stay silent as well. — Bush 41, who enthusiastically endorsed every Republican nominee …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change — If Donald Trump maintains his hard-line stance on immigration and his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States in the general election against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Republican nominee is in for a bruising defeat …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Spoiler: They can't. — Suppose the Republican Party's elites could go a year back in time and act with perfect foresight and perfect coordination. (At the risk of making this hypothetical even more outlandish, let's also grant them functioning strategic brains.) What would they do to avoid their current predicament?
Seth Masket / Vox:
We are witnessing the most massive failure of a political party in generations
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Politico and Outside the Beltway
BBC:
Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using their music
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Talking Points Memo, The New Civil Rights Movement and Politico
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'm open to Cruz as VP
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Politico, Little Green Footballs, New York Times and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
New York Times:
Donald Trump Reaches Out, Quietly, to Republican Establishment
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Salon and Political Wire
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump Isn't Going to Be President
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Mother Jones, Washington Post, The San Diego Union … and CNBC
New York Times:
With Donald Trump in Charge, Republicans Have a Day of Reckoning
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Washington Post, Townhall.com, New York Post, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and Refinery29
Fox News:
Trump says he would consider Kasich, Rubio for VP choice, as Priebus stresses time for GOP ‘to heal’
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Associated Press:
Trump's open path to nomination causes agony for some in GOP
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Schuyler Kropf / Post and Courier:
Haley won't be Trump's running mate
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Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Fox News:
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’ — Marcel Lazar Lehel, 40, is escorted by masked policemen in Bucharest, after being arrested in Arad, 337 miles west of Bucharest. (Reuters) (REUTERS/Mediafax/Silviu Matei) — EXCLUSIVE: The infamous Romanian hacker known as …
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NBC News:
Hacker ‘Guccifer’: I Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Server — The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton's private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State's “completely unsecured” server.
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New York Magazine, Politico, Power Line and Washington Times
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Blames Hillary for Birtherism, Wolf Blitzer Summarily Fact-Checks Him — Original birther Donald Trump today tried to push birtherism on Hillary Clinton, but Wolf Blitzer didn't go to commercial break without fact-checking that little claim. — Blitzer brought up a clip of Clinton bringing …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Federal judge opens the door to Clinton deposition in email case
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and ABC News
Katie Van-Syckle / Variety:
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Caught on Hot Mic Ogling Melania Trump … ‘Hardball’ anchor has long history of sexist comments — During the network's coverage of Donald Trump's Indiana primary victory speech, MSNBC's Chris Matthews was caught on a live microphone commenting on the appearance of Melania Trump, the Republican nominee's wife.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Chris Matthews' Melania Trump remarks caught on hot mic
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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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Rush Limbaugh:
My Gut: Trump Beats Hillary in Landslide — RUSH: Hold your horses, Trump supporters. Hold your horses. When I say, “We'll examine what went wrong,” come on. You know exactly what I'm talking about, from the standpoint of Cruz supporters. They're the ones trying to figure out what went wrong today.
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David Roberts / Vox:
Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down
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Washington Monthly, NPR, The Week and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
Democrats don't know how to run against Trump
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Power Line and The Atlantic
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump-loving tow truck driver says God told him to leave disabled Bernie Sanders supporter stranded — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A South Carolina tow truck driver said God told him to leave a disabled Bernie Sanders supporter stranded along the interstate.
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Jim Morrill / The Charlotte Observer:
US Justice Department: HB2 violates federal Civil Rights Act — Ruling could ultimately lead to the loss of millions in federal education money — RALEIGH — U.S. Justice Department officials Wednesday notified Gov. Pat McCrory that House Bill 2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain on tape: Trump damages my reelection hopes — Publicly, John McCain insists Donald Trump will have a negligible effect on his campaign for reelection. But behind closed doors at a fundraiser in Arizona last month, the Republican senator and two-time presidential hopeful offered a far more dire assessment to his supporters.
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Talking Points Memo, The Week and Salon
Los Angeles Times:
San Andreas fault ‘locked, loaded and ready to roll’ with big earthquake, expert says — This simulation by the Southern California Earthquake Center shows the shaking that could be felt by Los Angeles during a possible magnitude 8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault.
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Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
KFC, With New Nail Polish, Redefines Chicken Fingers — HONG KONG — Assume, for the sake of argument, that KFC's fried chicken is, as advertised, “finger lickin' good.” — Would you really want it to remain on your fingers? Indefinitely? — These are just two of the salient questions raised …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost — Wrong, wrong, wrong — to the very end, we got it wrong. — Just a couple of weeks ago, political prognosticators in television and print media were describing Indiana as the “most important test” for Donald J. Trump and a “firewall” where Ted Cruz “should do well.”
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