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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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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.
Discussion: Liberal Values, Althouse and The Slot
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Everyone Is Getting Today's Trump Tweet Totally Wrong
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Reid spoiling for a fight with Trump
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
Discussion: The Week
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: Shakesville
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
Discussion: New York Magazine
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: RedState, Complex and The Week
Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: Rick Perry endorses Donald Trump for president  —  Washington (CNN)Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told CNN Thursday he will support Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and will do everything he can do to help him get elected.  —  Perry, speaking by phone …
Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:   Carson Says He Won't Be Considered For Trump's VP, But A Dem Might Be
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Reality  —  He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.
Discussion: Guardian
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
ABC News:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Refuses to Back Donald Trump
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
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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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.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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.
Ben White / Politico:   Hillary forces target Bush donors
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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Report: Hillary Clinton aides interviewed by FBI in email probe
Discussion: ABC News
Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers More Hillary Clinton Emails Withheld from State Department
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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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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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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 …
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.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and EconLog
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Barry Diller: Donald Trump is ‘actually of evil character’  —  Expedia Chairman Barry Diller shares his view on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.  —  Media mogul Barry Diller had some harsh words about Donald Trump on Thursday.  —  “There's nobody that I've ever known, ever …
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Media Matters for America:
STUDY: Trump Won The Fox Primary, Doubling Any Other Candidate In Interview Airtime
Discussion: Salon
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.
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Third-party push gaining steam
Media Matters for America:
Neil Cavuto Calls Trump's Taco Bowl Tweet “An Olive Branch” To The Mexican People
Stuart Winer / The Times of Israel:
Man seeks restraining order against God
Discussion: Friendly Atheist and Raw Story
Louise Mensch / Heat Street:
Donald Trump vs #NeverTrump -#Gamergate's Vox Day Debates Conservatism
Discussion: Camestros Felapton
Catherine Thorbecke / ABC News:
Oldest US World War II Vet Passes Away at 110
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Hard Truth for the GOP: Conservatism Doesn't Matter
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Chelsea Handler: Impulsive, Provocative and Streaming on Netflix
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Tow truck owner said he refused service to woman because she supports Bernie Sanders
 

 
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Financial Times:
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