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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
‘Dismayed’ Romney says he doesn't intend to back Trump, worried about ‘demagoguery and populism’ — Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, said at a dinner in Washington on Thursday night that he had no intention of supporting presumtive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump …
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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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump camp suggests Ryan unfit to be speaker — Donald Trump and his allies are lashing out at House Speaker Paul Ryan for his refusal to back — for now — the presumptive Republican nominee, with Trump's spokeswoman even declaring Ryan unfit for his job. — During a phone interview …
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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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Washington Monthly, TIME and CNN
Nick Gass / Politico:
Priebus on Trump: 'He's trying' — Reince Priebus is a man under siege. He has a presumptive nominee who has scorched the earth. He has a House speaker so far refusing to accept the GOP's new standard-bearer. And he has knee-knocking candidates across the country worried their party is being driven off a cliff.
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RedState, Washington Post, The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Donald Trump Seeks Republican Unity but Finds Rejection — Donald J. Trump's moment of triumph this week quickly gave way to a trying and even humiliating test of his standing as a Republican leader, as a phalanx of the party's most respected figures shunned the man anointed as their presumptive presidential nominee.
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump turns to general election — and away from past positions
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Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, New York Times, The Week, zerohedge.com/fullrss2 …, CANNONFIRE and Vox
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Reince Priebus on Donald Trump's Taco Tweet: 'He's Trying'
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Politico, Associated Press and Talking Points Memo
ABC News:
The Note: Not All Aboard the Trump Train
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Politico, Red Alert Politics, Washington Free Beacon and The Last Refuge
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Donald Trump's relentless media tour calls attention to him —and his general-election strategy
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AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Politicus USA, Guardian and Western Journalism
Peter Overby / NPR.org:
Will Donald Trump Get Back The $38 Million He Lent His Campaign?
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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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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Yo, Hillary: Hit Donald Where It Hurts — The things Trump likes to brag about are exactly where he's most vulnerable. — Karl Rove, in his calamitous career, got one thing right: attack the other guy's strength. That's what Hillary Clinton should do to Donald Trump, starting yesterday.
Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump
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Liberty Unyielding and Washington Monthly
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal — MORE FROM: — Congratulations, liberals of the Washington press corps and elite organizations: You're a bunch of suckers. We all know this because the Obama White House just told us so. — In an astounding New York Times piece …
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Front Page Magazine, Israel Matzav and Instapundit
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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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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 …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump rules out Democrat as running mate
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Western Journalism, Talking Points Memo, Independent Journal … and The Week
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The political scientist who saw Trump's rise coming — Norm Ornstein on why the Republican Party was ripe for a takeover, what the media missed, and whether Trump could win the presidency. — In the summer of 2015, most of the political world still thought Donald Trump's candidacy was a joke.
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Balloon Juice
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less — One day after assuring Americans he is not running for president “to make things unstable for the country,” the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, said in a television interview Thursday that he might seek …
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Vox, Business Insider and rubber hose
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders poised for May win streak — Here's one reason Bernie Sanders is reluctant to give up the fight: May is shaping up to be a pretty good month for him. — On the heels of his Indiana victory Tuesday, Sanders is well-positioned for wins in the upcoming West Virginia and Oregon primaries.
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Common Dreams and Althouse
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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, AOL, Politico, BizPac Review and Political Wire
Chris Enloe / TheBlaze.com:
Tow Truck Driver Shows Up to Help Stranded Motorist When He Sees Sticker on Her Car That Makes Him Drive Away: ‘Call the Government’ — A North Carolina tow truck driver recently took a controversial stand after he was dispatched to pick up a woman stranded on the side of I-26 in Asheville …
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JustOneMinute, Western Journalism, Mediaite and The American Mirror
Philip Galanes / New York Times:
Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime — “Nice place!” the actor Bryan Cranston said to President Obama as he glanced around at the White House. “When are you putting it on the market?” — The Oval Office looks eerily familiar, even to a couple of first-time visitors …
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