memeorandum: Paul Ryan Spoils Trump's Victory by Withholding Endorsement (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)

3:20 PM ET, May 6, 2016

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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.

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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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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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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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Matea Gold / Washington Post:

Trump turns to general election — and away from past positions … Just days into his new role as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump is walking away from key positions that have defined his anti-establishment bid — including his pledge to keep wealthy donors at bay.

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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Donald Trump Seeks Republican Unity but Finds Rejection

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Priebus on Trump: 'He's trying'

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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Reince Priebus on Donald Trump's Taco Tweet: 'He's Trying'

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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan Spoils Trump's Victory by Withholding Endorsement

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Eric Bradner / CNN:
The GOP resistance to Donald Trump

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Mary Troyan / USA Today:
Sen. Bob Corker says he'll advise Donald Trump on foreign policy

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump rules out Democrat as running mate

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump tells West Virginians not to vote in Tuesday's primary

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ABC News:
The Note: Not All Aboard the Trump Train

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Hanna Trudo / Politico:
Romney says he won't back Trump — Add Mitt Romney to the list …

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Jake Sherman / Politico:
How Ryan decided to ditch Trump

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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Donald Trump Is The Nominee But Every State Needs To Keep Voting...

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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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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.

Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Graham: I won't vote for Trump

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Bloomberg.com:
Why GOP Strategist Mary Matalin Is Registering as a Libertarian

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Neither Clinton Nor Trump

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Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump

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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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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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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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Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:
A stunning profile of Ben Rhodes, the a**hole who is the president's foreign policy guru

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Lee Smith / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Foreign Policy Guru Boasts of How the Administration Lied to Sell the Iran Deal

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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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Daniel Strauss / Politico:

Sanders accuses DNC of tipping convention toward Clinton — Bernie Sanders is accusing Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of trying to tip the party convention in Hillary Clinton's favor, saying the chairwoman has packed the committees with Clinton supporters.

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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders poised for May win streak

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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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Emily Calandrelli / TechCrunch:

GoPro hitched a ride on a rocket and the video is incredible — Today, GoPro released some pretty incredible footage of a suborbital rocket launch that climbed to 396,405 feet at speeds as high as Mach 5.5. Check out the very real footage below. — The launch in the video took place …

Erik Klemetti / Wired:

Mount St. Helens Is Recharging Its Magma Stores, Setting Off Earthquake Swarms — When it comes down to it, volcanoes spend most of their existence not erupting. If you look at almost any volcano, it might have a bout of eruption for days to months at a time, then go quiet for decades, centuries or more.

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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:

Top Democrat suspended for mysterious voter purge — More On: — The top Democrat at the city Board of Elections' Brooklyn office was suspended without pay Thursday — the second head to roll amid a probe into the mysterious purge of more than 126,000 Democratic voters from the borough rolls.

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