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Bloomberg:
Masters in Politics Podcast: Adviser Says Trump Is ‘Very Much’ Like Bill Clinton — “When they talk to you they just own you. They're staring right into your soul,” says Barry Bennett, a senior adviser to Trump. — haddadmedia — In an interview on Bloomberg's Masters in Politics podcast Friday …
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Poll: Georgians largely undecided about presidential race — A large portion of likely Georgia voters are undecided about who they would vote for in an election between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. — Nearly 1 in 5 voters said they have not made up their minds …
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Los Angeles Times:
Obama to Republicans: Like it or not, you're stuck with Trump — President Obama speaks Friday in the White House briefing room. — If Republican leaders won't line up behind Donald Trump, President Obama is trying to lash them together himself. — Obama seized on the deepening fracture …
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Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Trump Ramps Up Attacks On Clinton Over Husband's Affairs — EUGENE, Ore. — An unrestrained Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton an “unbelievably nasty, mean enabler” who “destroyed” the lives of her husband's mistresses during a rally in Oregon on Friday night. — Trump: Hillary Clinton was a nasty enabler 4:54
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler’ — Eugene, Oregon (CNN)Donald Trump on Friday accused Hillary Clinton of being “an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler” of her husband's alleged affairs and accused her of destroying the lives of his accusers. — The remarks are the first time that Trump …
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New York Magazine, New York Times and The Week
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump revives attacks on Bill Clinton affair — at a Friday night rally, using President Bill Clinton — 's affair to counter Clinton's attacks on his standing on women's issues. — “Nobody in this country was was worse than Bill Clinton with women. He was a disaster,” …
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Nicknames Donald Trump the ‘Presumptuous Nominee’ — Donald Trump has been known to assign nicknames to his rival presidential candidates. But now it appears he's getting a taste of his own medicine — from Hillary Clinton. — During a campaign event in Oakland, California …
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Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight — On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive-skinned and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.
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New York Times:
Republican Party Unravels Over Donald Trump's Takeover — By seizing the Republican presidential nomination for Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night, he and his millions of supporters completed what had seemed unimaginable: a hostile takeover of one of America's two major political parties.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump spurs some conservative leaders to step back from the GOP — Donald Trump's looming nomination has spurred some leaders of the conservative movement — for generations, the backbone of the GOP — to break free from a Republican Party now being rapidly reshaped by the New York billionaire's incendiary tone and unorthodox populism.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders leaves door open to Clinton VP spot … Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders — on Friday left the door open to being Hillary Clinton — 's running mate if she were to offer him the position after the party's convention this summer. — “Right now, we are focused …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton wins Guam caucuses — Hillary Clinton won the Guam Democratic caucuses Saturday, defeating Bernie Sanders four days after his surprise victory in Indiana. — Guam's results don't make a significant difference in terms of the overall delegate chase, but a Sanders win would have allowed …
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Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Why the Ben Rhodes profile in the New York Times Magazine is just gross — Absurdity, self-regard, hypocrisy, chumminess between writer and subject — it's all there. — I just don't know anymore where David Samuels begins and Ben Rhodes ends. — Samuels's massive New York Times magazine profile …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal
Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Roy Moore, Alabama Judge, Suspended Over Gay Marriage Stance — An Alabama judicial oversight body on Friday filed a formal complaint against Roy S. Moore, the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court, charging that he had “flagrantly disregarded and abused his authority” …
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
LYIN' DON: Trump Just Totally Made Up the Story that he Talked to Marco Rubio Recently — In case you missed it, on Thursday, Donald Trump told Bret Baier that he spoke with Marco Rubio and that Rubio was very supportive of him and even open to a VP spot. Late Friday night …
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Sarah Rumpf / Heat Street:
“Absolutely Not” Marco Rubio Won't Be Donald Trump's VP - or Call Him
“Absolutely Not” Marco Rubio Won't Be Donald Trump's VP - or Call Him
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Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Welcome to the Great Republican Squirm of 2016 — These are the strange and tortuous days in Presumptive Trump America. — It's Cinco de Mayo, and the Republican National Committee just put out a statement honoring “the many ways Mexican-Americans have enriched our country's culture.”
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
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Daily Kos
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Benghazi Committee Chairman Gowdy Sends Scathing Letter in Response to Pentagon Critique — WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — The chairman of the House Benghazi panel fired back Friday at the Defense Department for criticizing the Republican-led investigation into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
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