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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 …
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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 …
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 …
New York Times:
Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump — The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said on Thursday night that he would support Donald J. Trump now that he has become the Republican Party's presumptive nominee. — “Yes, I'm a Republican, he's a Republican,” Mr. Adelson said in a brief interview.
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USA Today, The Week, Politico, Guardian and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
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Politico and Talking Points Memo
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Says He Cannot Support Donald Trump for Now
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Western Journalism and National Review
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Carson Says He Won't Be Considered For Trump's VP, But A Dem Might Be
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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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Everyone Is Getting Today's Trump Tweet Totally Wrong — I think everyone is badly misinterpreting this tweet from Donald Trump: … This is not an awkward and embarrassing outreach to Hispanics. It's not aimed at Hispanics at all. It's aimed at white people.
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Mashable, Western Journalism, Guardian, The Daily Caller, U.S. Uncut, NBC News and USA Today
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
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The Week
Media Matters for America:
Neil Cavuto Calls Trump's Taco Bowl Tweet “An Olive Branch” To The Mexican People
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap
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Liberal Values, Althouse and The Slot
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.
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Washington Monthly
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Ben White / Politico:
Hillary forces target Bush donors — NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton's supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump, multiple sources in both parties told POLITICO.
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Bernie Sanders Is Staying in the Race
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP
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Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA, The Resurgent and Ben Sasse
Charles Thompson / PennLive.com:
Child told Paterno of sex abuse in 1976, court papers allege — Court documents state that “in 1976, a child allegedly reported to PSU's Head Coach Joseph Paterno that he (the child) was sexually molested by Sandusky.” … A new bombshell dropped in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal Thursday.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Confronted On Past Support For Invading Iraq: “Blah, Blah, Blah, Yes, I Guess” — Challenged by Bret Baier on his claims that he opposed the Iraq war, Trump cited a “2003, 2004” Reuters article that came out 17 months after the war began. — View Video ›
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Media Matters for America
Bloomberg.com:
Why GOP Strategist Mary Matalin Is Registering as a Libertarian — Republican strategist Mary Matalin discusses Donald Trump and her decision to change her party affiliation on “With All Due Respect.”
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New York Times
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 …
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.
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New York Post, Weekly Standard, Washington Free Beacon and EconLog
Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’ — House Speaker Paul Ryan's Wisconsin primary opponent Paul Nehlen tells Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon today that he absolutely believes Paul Ryan “sold his vote” to support so called trade deals that Nehlen says are damaging to America.
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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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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice and RedState
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
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New York Magazine
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Third-party push gaining steam — Momentum is building in the conservative movement for a third-party alternative to Donald Trump — The effort got a big boost from Speaker Paul Ryan — (R-Wis.) on Thursday when he said he wasn't yet ready to back Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee.
Milo / Breitbart:
Here's Why The Left Is So Desperate To Defend The New Feminist Ghostbusters — Man, am I tired of being right! Sure as night follows day, the trailer for the new, feminist-friendly, chick-laden Ghostbusters is tanking on YouTube. With nearly 750,000 dislikes, it is the most hated trailer in the site's history.
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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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New York Post and Liberty Unyielding
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
What the Kochs think about Trump now — Republican donors want nothing to do with Donald Trump. — On Wednesday morning, the presumptive GOP nominee, who has largely self-financed his presidential bid so far, announced that he would be soliciting checks from small contributors and would soon …
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Salon, New York Magazine, Daily Kos and Reuters
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Huckabee Rips #NeverTrump: If You're Not Going to Support Voters' Choice, Leave the GOP — Former GOP candidate Mike Huckabee has come out in loud support of Donald Trump this week and is now blasting any Republicans threatening not to back him. — Shortly after Trump all but clinched …
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