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4:55 PM ET, May 7, 2016

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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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EndPlay / WSB-TV:
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 …
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and The Daily Caller
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 …
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 …
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,” …
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 …
Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
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.
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.
Discussion: Washington Post and American Power
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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.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   Top House Republicans Speak Out Against Paul Ryan: “I Don't Understand What He's Thinking”
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 …
Shauna Johnson / WV MetroNews:   Overwhelming support for Trump, small lead for Sanders in MetroNews West Virginia Poll
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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney met privately with William Kristol, who is leading the effort to draft an independent candidate
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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
Discussion: RedState and NewsMax.com
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
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.”
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: RedState and Western Journalism
 
 
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Guardian:
US military admits troops are operating inside Yemen to combat al-Qaida
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
In Arkansas, a Preview of Democratic Attacks to Come
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Robert Everett-Green / Globe and Mail:
Losing her religion: How musician Laurel Sprengelmeyer, also known as Little Scream, traded one faith for another
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Obama Gives Howard University Graduates a Lecture on ‘Change’
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and The Week
New York Post:
Hillary's latest email lie didn't even last a week
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jeffrey Slonim / People.com:
Melania Trump ‘Would Bring the Glamour Back into the White House,’ Says Former Roommate Victoria Silvstedt
Beth Harris / Associated Press:
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Priebus: Trump can win swing states, put Michigan in play
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
No, a Conservative Third-Party Candidate Can't Steal the Electoral College
Discussion: USA Today, AOL and The Hayride
Reuters:
Russia's ‘Obama’ ice cream deepens chilly relations with US
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
How to use a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina
Anis Shivani / Salon:
Our awful elites gutted America.  Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors
Discussion: Mashable
Jonathan Pearlman / Telegraph:
Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: ‘None of it is true’
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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