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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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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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David Roberts / Vox:
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 …
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 …
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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.
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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump's new finance chair has thrown money Clinton's way — Donald Trump's new national finance chairman Steve Mnuchin brings with him extensive connections to Wall Street and Hollywood, assets that could prove fruitful in the real estate mogul's battle against Hillary Clinton.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump — Throngs of GOP foreign policy officials remain unwilling to support Donald Trump — as the party's presidential nominee, with many of them preparing for a self-imposed exile from presidential politics. — Many veterans of the Mitt Romney's failed 2012 campaign …
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Mitt Romney to Skip July's GOP Convention
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
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BBC:
Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using their music
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ABC News:
Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
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Kristen Welker / NBC News:
With ‘No Doubt’ on Nomination, Clinton Expands Staff
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Please don't mainstream Trump
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: Cruz Could Prosecute Clinton As Trump's AG Then Move To SCOTUS
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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 …
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.
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Ashlea Surles / WLOS-TV:
Tow truck driver refuses to tow motorist over Bernie bumper sticker
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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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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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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
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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Washington Monthly, Political Wire, The Intercept and Washington Post
Grant Rodgers / Des Moines Register:
Ron Paul ex-aides guilty in payment scandal — Federal jurors have returned guilty verdicts in a host of public corruption charges brought against three former Ron Paul presidential campaign aides accused of a secret plot to pay an Iowa state senator $73,000 for his endorsement.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump super PAC strategist found guilty of 2012 campaign-finance violations
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
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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Jayne O'Donnell / USA Today:
Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them
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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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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 chairman, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
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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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