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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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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.


Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down — It now seems all but certain that the presidential election will see Donald Trump face off against Hillary Clinton. — We find ourselves at the tail end of a brief period of clarity. For the past few months …
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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,” …


Ted Cruz's $10 million donor backs Donald Trump — 4.7k Shares — WASHINGTON - Toby Neugebauer, a wealthy energy investor, likes Ted Cruz so much that he deposited $10 million into a super PAC designed to boost the Texas Republican's presidential ambitions.


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 …

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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Grassley: Trump would nominate ‘right type’ to court — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday he thinks Donald Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president, would nominate the “right type of people” to the U.S. Supreme Court. — Grassley noted that Trump …


This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump
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The Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat's Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination
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Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using their music
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Democrats don't know how to run against Trump
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Trump's deportation plan could slice 2 percent off U.S. GDP: study
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Donald Trump Isn't Going to Be President
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With Donald Trump in Charge, Republicans Have a Day of Reckoning
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We are witnessing the most massive failure of a political party in generations
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Public Uncertain, Divided Over America's Place in the World
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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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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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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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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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Chris Matthews' Melania Trump remarks caught on hot mic
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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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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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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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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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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.”


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 …