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Karl de Vries / CNN:
Palin will work to defeat Ryan in primary for Trump stance — Watch CNN: Sarah Palin joins Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” at 9 a.m. and noon ET today. — Washington (CNN)Sarah Palin will work to defeat House Speaker Paul Ryan by backing his primary opponent in Wisconsin, the former Alaska governor told CNN's Jake Tapper.
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Donald Trump Won't Rule Out Effort to Remove Paul Ryan as Convention Chairman — Donald J. Trump said he would not rule out an effort to remove Representative Paul D. Ryan as chairman of the Republican National Convention if he did not endorse Mr. Trump's candidacy.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Donald Trump breaks the GOP — It was as shocking as it was predictable after a year of slow-motion build-up—the dramatic splitting apart of the Grand Old Party in the 72 hours after Donald Trump became its presumptive nominee. — When asked Friday if the organization he now leads …
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Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The Republican Party is dead — I have been a Republican as long as I can remember. Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy and came to Los Angeles with his mother and grandmother in 1976.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Trump or Paul Ryan: Who's King of the Hill?
Donald Trump or Paul Ryan: Who's King of the Hill?
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: 'If I Was Jeb Bush, I Wouldn't Vote For Me Either' — Donald Trump, the GOP's presumptive nominee, said Sunday that he can see why former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) wouldn't vote for him after the way he treated the failed White House contender on the trail.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
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Adrienne Salazar / ABC News:
Gary Johnson Says 2016 Race ‘Real Opportunity’ for Libertarian Party
Gary Johnson Says 2016 Race ‘Real Opportunity’ for Libertarian Party
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Lindsay Dunsmuir / Reuters:
Trump says taxes for the wealthy should go up — Donald Trump said on Sunday that taxes for the wealthy should go up but that his tax plans would likely be renegotiated with Congress should he win the U.S. presidency. — “For the wealthy I think frankly it is going to go up and …
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Donald Trump Walks Back Tax Plan, Saying 'It's Going to Be Negotiated' — As Donald Trump pivots to the general election battle, he's already walking back his tax plan, the most specific policy proposal he has released during the campaign. — “By the time it gets negotiated …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Cruz campaign: We could have stopped Trump if Rubio became running mate — Washington (CNN)Republican officials who oppose Donald Trump as their party nominee have spent the last few days — ever since the withdrawal from the race of Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich …
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Breitbart:
Saudi Prince Begs America to Reject Trump — From the Daily Mail: … You can read the rest of the story here. — Read More Stories About: — 2016 Presidential Race, Donald Trump, Turki al-Faisal — Comment count on this article reflects comments made on Breitbart.com and Facebook.
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Clemence Michallon For / Daily Mail:
Saudi prince begs American voters not to vote for Trump and says he ‘cannot believe’ …
Saudi prince begs American voters not to vote for Trump and says he ‘cannot believe’ …
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The Unz Review:
It's the Current Year, Ross — Ross Douthat writes in “The Conservative Case Against Trump:” — It would be a particularly stark mistake for conservatives who feel that the basic Reaganite vision that's dominated their party for decades — a fusion of social conservatism, free-market economics …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Conservative Case Against Trump
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump tells crowd Clinton wants to ‘abolish’ Second Amendment — 's way at a Saturday rally, telling the crowd that she wants to do away with the Second Amendment. — “Hillary Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment. She wants to abolish it,” Trump said at a Saturday rally in Lynden …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump says Clinton wants to abolish the 2nd Amendment
Trump says Clinton wants to abolish the 2nd Amendment
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Dem convention host: Sanders supporters better ‘behave themselves’ when he loses — The chairman of the Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee for this summer's Democratic National Convention said supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — have to “behave themselves” when the Vermont senator loses the nomination.
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Obama's last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy — More On: — Hillary's rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.
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Madlin Mekelburg / The Texas Tribune:
Austin's Proposition 1 Defeated … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. — Austin's Proposition 1, a ride-hailing ordinance supported by Uber and Lyft was defeated Saturday. With all precincts reporting late Saturday night, 48,673 (about 56 percent) voted against the ordinance and 38,539 voted for it.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Decision time for FBI on Clinton — The FBI investigation swirling around Hillary Clinton — 's presidential run appears to have entered the final stages. — Many of the former secretary of State's key aides have been interviewed over the course of the last month …
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Hot Air
Rick Wilson / New York Daily News:
On Donald Trump, never means never: Why many conservatives who oppose Trump cannot and will not buckle — The hordes taunting the Never Trump brigades of the Republican Party to understand they've lost and need to get out of the way of presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump ought to learn a lesson from a revered American ally.