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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Top House Republicans Speak Out Against Paul Ryan: “I Don't Understand What He's Thinking”
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump
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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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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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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
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.
New York Post:
Hillary's latest email lie didn't even last a week — Does Hillary Clinton figure she can say whatever she wants as long as it's not exposed as a lie that same day? — On Tuesday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asked her outright: “Have you been contacted — or your representatives contacted …
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The Moderate Voice
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Obama Gives Howard University Graduates a Lecture on ‘Change’ — Delivering the keynote speech at Howard University's commencement ceremony, President Obama found himself lecturing the young African American graduates on the lessons he had learned of how to create change in their communities.
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