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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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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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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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The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral Scorecard Ratings in 13 States
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
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The Week
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
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New York Magazine
Media Matters for America:
Neil Cavuto Calls Trump's Taco Bowl Tweet “An Olive Branch” To The Mexican People
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
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Shakesville
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
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The Last Refuge
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.
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Guardian
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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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Bernie Sanders Is Staying in the Race
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Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA — TO: Those who think …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reid spoiling for a fight with Trump — Harry Reid is set to reprise his role as the top Democratic attack dog in a presidential election, focusing on what he calls the nomination of “anti-woman, anti-Hispanic” Donald Trump. — The Senate minority leader launched a series of rhetorical broadsides …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
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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 …
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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Political Wire and 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 and Political Wire
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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Weekly Standard and EconLog
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
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
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.
Allen Guelzo / Washington Monthly:
A Springfield Education — Sidney Blumenthal's Elegant Chronicle of Abraham Lincoln's Political Apprenticeship — Politicians have never been shy about writing about themselves, even when it seemed that all they could expect from the public was a polite nod.
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Booman Tribune
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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