Top Items:

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 …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mother Jones, CBS News, Slantpoint, The Week, BuzzFeed, alan.com, CBS Miami, Guardian, The Atlantic, Washington Post and USA Today
RELATED:


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.
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog and The Stranger …


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.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Breitbart, myfox8.com, ThinkProgress, Fox News Insider, Mediaite, Western Journalism, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Atlantic, Public Religion Research …, Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, Independent Journal …, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, Downstream Politics, Vox, Complex, NY State of Politics, The Week, WHNT-TV, Media Matters for America and Wall Street Journal


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.
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite


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.


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.
Discussion:
Politico


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.
Discussion:
Hot Air, NBC News, Balloon Juice and The Cook Political Report


Graham: I won't vote for Trump … (R-S.C.) on Friday said he would not vote for Donald Trump — Graham, who was slated to appear on CNN at 2 p.m. to discuss his decision, is the highest GOP office holder so far to rule out voting for Trump. — Other Republicans, such as Sen. Ben Sasse …
Discussion:
RedState

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.
Discussion:
RedState, Washington Post, Althouse and The Hill


‘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 …

Paul Ryan's primary opponent: I'll support Trump
Discussion:
The Last Refuge


Lindsey Graham won't vote for Trump or Clinton in 2016
Discussion:
Townhall.com, Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon, Reuters, The Last Refuge, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, NBC News and Guardian

Reince Priebus on Donald Trump's Taco Tweet: 'He's Trying'
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Willamette Week, The Atlantic, Guardian, Politico, NY1 News, Washington Post, LAist, Business Insider and Scott Adams Blog

Trump camp suggests Ryan unfit to be speaker
Discussion:
Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, Forbes and Sky Dancing

Donald Trump Seeks Republican Unity but Finds Rejection
Discussion:
Washington Post, Red Alert Politics, Chicagoist, Chicago Tribune, Western Journalism, Mashable and National Review

Sen. Bob Corker says he'll advise Donald Trump on foreign policy
Discussion:
RedState

Trump turns to general election — and away from past positions
Discussion:
Politico, Mother Jones, The Week, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Raw Story, zerohedge.com/fullrss2 …, CANNONFIRE and Bloomberg

Trump tells West Virginians not to vote in Tuesday's primary
Discussion:
New York Magazine, RedState, Western Journalism and BuzzFeed

Why GOP Strategist Mary Matalin Is Registering as a Libertarian
Discussion:
Hit & Run, New York Times, Western Journalism, FOX News Radio, AOL, Liberty Unyielding, BizPac Review, Politico and Political Wire

The ideological earthquake and the aftermath
Discussion:
Power Line and Orange County Register


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 …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, RedState, Business Insider, Hot Air, The Week, Zero Hedge, Vox, The Hayride, Western Journalism, rubber hose and Balloon Juice
RELATED:


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.
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Washington Times and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times


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 …
Discussion:
Business Insider, Heat Street, Israel Matzav, Unfogged, Liberty Unyielding, Washington Free Beacon, Clayton Cramer and EconLog
RELATED:


Of All The Disgraced Reporters In All The Gin Joints, Judith Miller Takes The Cake
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo

Here's How the White House Shapes Foreign Affairs Coverage
Discussion:
New York Post, the daily howler, The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine


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.
Discussion:
New York Times and Balloon Juice


One killed, others injured in shootings at Md. mall, grocery store … Three people were shot in the parking lot at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda on Friday morning and authorities are investigating whether the assailant is a man believed to have shot and killed his wife outside a Maryland school Thursday evening.
Discussion:
Shakesville and Washingtonian

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.
Discussion:
ABC News, Talking Points Memo, U.S. Uncut, The Week and Mediaite


Obama on Trump: ‘This is not a reality show’ … President Obama on Friday urged the news media to closely scrutinize Donald Trump — 's record and past comments, and avoid coverage that highlights “the spectacle and the circus” of the campaign trail. — Obama previewed his role …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller and Political Wire