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Jeb Bush / Facebook:
I congratulate Donald Trump on securing his place as the Republican Party's presumptive nominee. There is no doubt that he successfully tapped into the deep sense of anger and frustration so many Americans around the country rightfully feel today. — The tremendous anger of the current U.S. electorate …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump — Two prominent House allies of Paul Ryan broke with the speaker Friday over his decision to withhold support from Donald Trump, comments that point to a growing split among congressional Republicans over how to deal with the presumptive nominee.
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
First on CNN: Cheney says he will support Trump — Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Dick Cheney will support Donald Trump, he told CNN Friday, an important move as the presumptive Republican nominee is encountering intense resistance from senior members of his own party.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump agrees to meet with Paul Ryan ‘before we go our separate ways’ … Likely Republican nominee Donald Trump disagrees with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus's characterization of a conversation they had on Thursday about House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) not yet being ready to support Trump.
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Alex Pareene / Gawker:
Don't Blow This — It's Trump versus Clinton. It's a well-funded mainstream Democrat against a widely reviled demagogue who will struggle to earn the support of his party's donor base. It's a man whose every public utterance is potential negative ad waiting to be cut, versus the most cautious candidate in modern memory.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Election analyst flips 11 states toward Democrats due to Trump — The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has shifted 11 states on its election scorecard toward Democrats since Donald Trump — became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. — “This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year,” the analyst said.
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Republicans, Apologize to Bill Clinton — Upon arrival in Washington, DC in January of 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton found themselves in a never ending independent counsel investigation. The investigation began over a land deal that was known as Whitewater.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump tells West Virginians not to vote in Tuesday's primary … CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Well, here's something that's probably going to come up at the next meeting between top Republican officials and Donald Trump, their presumptive nominee. — During a joyful, victorious rally speech …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge delays Trump University trial — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears to have escaped the possibility of an awkward federal class-action trial over his Trump University real estate program taking place just as his campaign for the White House shifts into high gear.
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Lindsey Graham won't vote for Trump or Clinton in 2016
Lindsey Graham won't vote for Trump or Clinton in 2016
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Neither Clinton Nor Trump
Neither Clinton Nor Trump
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Paul Ryan's primary opponent: I'll support Trump
Paul Ryan's primary opponent: I'll support Trump
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Lindsey Graham Goes Full On #NeverTrump
Lindsey Graham Goes Full On #NeverTrump
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Michael Barone / Townhall.com:
Can Trump Disrupt the General Election as He Did the Primaries?
Can Trump Disrupt the General Election as He Did the Primaries?
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Donald Trump Seeks Republican Unity but Finds Rejection
Donald Trump Seeks Republican Unity but Finds Rejection
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The ideological earthquake and the aftermath
The ideological earthquake and the aftermath
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Priebus on Trump: 'He's trying'
Priebus on Trump: 'He's trying'
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Yo, Hillary: Hit Donald Where It Hurts
Yo, Hillary: Hit Donald Where It Hurts
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Washington Post:
Man arrested in Maryland killing spree allegedly menaced his wife, stepdaughters — When Gladys Tordil went to court in March to plead for protection against her husband, she portrayed him as a man who had menaced her and her two daughters for at least a decade.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This Is Astounding — So many stories in presidential politics, in all politics, are more sound and fury than substance. This one isn't. It's hard to overstate how big a deal it is. Donald Trump caught a lot of grief during the primaries for putting several of his companies through bankruptcies during his career.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less
Donald Trump's Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump just threatened to cause an unprecedented global financial crisis
Donald Trump just threatened to cause an unprecedented global financial crisis
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Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:
A stunning profile of Ben Rhodes, the a**hole who is the president's foreign policy guru — The profile of one Ben Rhodes running in Sunday's New York Times Magazine is not unsympathetic, which makes it all the more devastating. — Perhaps the key sentence is this: “His lack …
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Of All The Disgraced Reporters In All The Gin Joints, Judith Miller Takes The Cake — Disgraced and former NY Times reporter Judy Miller, who is now a paid Fox News contributor, is very worried about the state of journalism in America after reading a Ben Rhodes interview in the NY Times …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Here's How the White House Shapes Foreign Affairs Coverage
Here's How the White House Shapes Foreign Affairs Coverage
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C. Ramsey Fahs / Harvard News:
Harvard to Sanction Final Clubs, Greek Organizations — Starting with Class of 2021, members of clubs, Greek organizations will be ineligible for multiple leadership positions and fellowships — Starting with Harvard's Class of 2021, undergraduate members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations …
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TU Plus / Albany Times Union:
UAlbany women who claimed bus attack kicked out of school — The University at Albany confirmed that the three women who gained national attention after a January CDTA bus incident have been punished by the Student Conduct Board. — Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell have been dismissed …
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Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
The rise of Donald Trump and the politics of delegitimization — Ilya Shapiro argues at The Federalist that some of the blame for the rise of Donald Trump belongs to Chief Justice Roberts' 2012 opinion in the Obamacare case, NFIB v. Sebelius. To a lot of readers, this probably sounds far-fetched.
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Washington Examiner:
Pelosi, Vicente Fox plot to defeat Trump, Mexican calls Trump voters lazy drunks — Latin America's toughest critic of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spent 30 minutes with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in Mexico this week plotting to help the Democrats defeat the businessman …
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