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1:00 PM ET, May 7, 2016

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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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney met privately with William Kristol, who is leading the effort to draft an independent candidate  —  In spite of his insistence that he will not run, Mitt Romney is being courted this week by a leading conservative commentator to reconsider and jump into the volatile 2016 presidential race as an independent candidate.
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 …
Discussion: Politicus USA and Mediaite
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Top House Republicans Speak Out Against Paul Ryan: “I Don't Understand What He's Thinking”  —  On Thursday Republican Speaker Paul Ryan told Jake Tapper on CNN he was “not ready” to endorse Donald Trump yet.  —  Today top Republicans in the House of Representatives spoke out against Paul Ryan.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
No, a Conservative Third-Party Candidate Can't Steal the Electoral College  —  The <em>Morning Joe</em> panel does not understand how elections work.  —  Some conservative Republicans who hate Donald Trump want to run a third-party presidential candidate, such as Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse, who has lambasted Trump.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:   Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler’
Jeb Bush / Facebook:
I congratulate Donald Trump on securing his place as the Republican …
Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Greg Bluestein / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich could be on short list for Trump running mate
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Atlantic
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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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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Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
How to use a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina  —  In defiance of North Carolina's ‘absurd’ new bathroom law, trans actress Shakina Nayfack is staging a piece of renegade performance art in men's toilets  —  Apparently it's really quite difficult to use a urinal - if you're a woman.
Anis Shivani / Salon:
Our awful elites gutted America.  Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors  —  Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy.  Now the problem's populism?  —  This week, on the night of the Indiana primary …
Discussion: Mashable
Sara Ganim / CNN:
Sandusky victim: Joe Paterno told me to drop abuse accusation  — Paterno family lawyers: That claim is inconsistent with the facts and how late football coach lived his life  —  (CNN)After four years of feuding over the legacy of Joe Paterno, with a few vague details about what he may have known …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Obama official says he pushed a ‘narrative’ to media to sell the Iran nuclear deal
Jeffrey Slonim / People.com:
Melania Trump ‘Would Bring the Glamour Back into the White House,’ Says Former Roommate Victoria Silvstedt
Beth Harris / Associated Press:
NYQUIST TRIES TO FOLLOW AMERICAN PHAROAH AT KENTUCKY DERBY
David A. Kessler / New York Times:
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Priebus: Trump can win swing states, put Michigan in play
Max Boot / Commentary Magazine:
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
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Reuters:
Russia's ‘Obama’ ice cream deepens chilly relations with US
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Michael Bloomberg Doesn't Expect Mark Halperin And John Heilemann To Remain After The Election
David Brooks / New York Times:
Clinton's Imagination Problem
Jonathan Pearlman / Telegraph:
Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: ‘None of it is true’
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Examiner:
Pelosi, Vicente Fox plot to defeat Trump, Mexican calls Trump voters lazy drunks
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge delays Trump University trial
Discussion: National Review
 

 
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