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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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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Dan Turkel / Business Insider:
NATE SILVER: ‘We basically got the Republican race wrong’
NATE SILVER: ‘We basically got the Republican race wrong’
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
Mother Jones:
Clinton Releases a Brutal Anti-Trump Ad
Clinton Releases a Brutal Anti-Trump Ad
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CNN:
Trump begins weighing VP options
Trump begins weighing VP options
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Mitt Romney to Skip July's GOP Convention
Mitt Romney to Skip July's GOP Convention
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BBC:
Rolling Stones tell Trump to stop using their music
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
Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: Cruz Could Prosecute Clinton As Trump's AG Then Move To SCOTUS
Carson: Cruz Could Prosecute Clinton As Trump's AG Then Move To SCOTUS
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Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Donald Trump's policy plans are real, detailed — and great
Media Matters for America:
STUDY: Trump Won The Fox Primary, Doubling Any Other Candidate In Interview Airtime
STUDY: Trump Won The Fox Primary, Doubling Any Other Candidate In Interview Airtime
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Salon
Nick Gass / Politico:
Bush 41 and Bush 43 plan to skip GOP convention
Bush 41 and Bush 43 plan to skip GOP convention
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Please don't mainstream Trump
Please don't mainstream Trump
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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 …
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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 chair, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump's new finance chair has thrown money Clinton's way
Trump's new finance chair has thrown money Clinton's way
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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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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
F.D.A. Tightens Rules for E-Cigarettes in a Landmark Move
F.D.A. Tightens Rules for E-Cigarettes in a Landmark Move
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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
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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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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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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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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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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