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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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The Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat's Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination — The demises of Ted Cruz and John Kasich's primary campaigns almost certainly assure, in the absence of some intervening event or act of God, that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President.
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Booman Tribune, Political Wire, Washington Post and The Intercept


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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Mother Jones, CNN, Politico, Slate, Shakesville and New York Times


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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JustOneMinute, New York Times, Slate, Liberty Unyielding and Balloon Juice


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.

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 …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week and Politico

Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
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Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
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Politico, Political Wire, Associated Press and Washington Times

Donald Trump Won't Self-Fund General-Election Campaign
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Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using their music
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Talking Points Memo, The New Civil Rights Movement and Politico

With ‘No Doubt’ on Nomination, Clinton Expands Staff
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NBC Relocates ‘Nightly News’ to Trump Tower, for a Night
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With Donald Trump in Charge, Republicans Have a Day of Reckoning
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Talking Points Memo, Townhall.com, Associated Press, Daily Kos, Washington Post, New York Post and The Daily Caller

Democrats don't know how to run against Trump
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Power Line and The Atlantic

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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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, Washington Post, Power Line and Washington Times
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Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
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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.
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Tow truck driver refuses to tow motorist over Bernie bumper sticker
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The American Mirror and Friendly Atheist


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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The Federalist, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Mediaite

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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Western Journalism, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo, Salon, The Week and Independent Journal …


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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F.D.A. Tightens Rules for E-Cigarettes in a Landmark Move — WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration made final sweeping new rules that for the first time extend federal regulatory authority to e-cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a multibillion-dollar business …
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Mother Jones, Washington Post, New York Magazine and The Week
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Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them
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Washington Post, Hit & Run, NPR and LawNewz


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 chairman, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon and The Resurgent


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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CBS Los Angeles, The Week and WNEP-TV


Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns — The Social Security Administration (SSA) is proposing to report people who receive disability benefits and have a mental health condition to the FBI's background check system. — The proposal, which stems from a memorandum …
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Mediaite and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

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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Talking Points Memo, RedState, Balloon Juice and Wall Street Journal