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10:45 AM ET, May 9, 2016

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Bobby Jindal / Wall Street Journal:
I'm Voting Trump, Warts and All  —  I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton.  —  Some of my fellow Republicans have declared they will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald Trump.
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts  —  Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton  —  's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Walsh / New York Post:   Donald Trump is going to troll his way to victory
CNN:
Poll: 6-in-10 oppose bills like the North Carolina transgender bathroom law  —  Washington (CNN)Americans broadly oppose laws that would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with their gender at birth rather than their gender identity, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll …
Discussion: Towleroad and Joe.My.God.
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:   Dozens of Parents Sue DOE Over Illinois Transgender Bathroom Law
Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Showdown looms over North Carolina's bathroom bill
Discussion: Hot Air
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
‘I think he could come apart’  —  Mark Salter, the most prominent and most defiant Republican to announce his support of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, thinks the 2016 campaign could literally — no joke — drive the billionaire developer insane.  —  Salter, one of McCain's top aides during …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states  —  CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try …
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Los Angeles Times:
Column What's Bernie Sanders' next move?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
Discussion: New York Times
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama itches for Trump fight  —  President Obama can't wait to take on Donald Trump  —  Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
Discussion: Heat Street
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
George Packer / New Yorker:
Head of the Class  —  Last week, Donald Trump became the leader of the Republican Party.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Los Angeles Times:
High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips’  —  A high school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab.
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Associated Press:   Muslim Student Says Yearbook ID'd Her As ‘Isis Phillips’
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: U.S. can never default because it prints money  —  Donald Trump assailed the media on Monday for what he said was a misrepresentation of his comments on debt, rejecting the notion that he would have the United States default on his debt.  —  “I said if we can buy back government debt as a discount.
Discussion: RedState, Vox and New York Times
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:   Trump's Dangerous National Debt Plan Is Also Unconstitutional
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service  —  Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest  —  Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output …
Ben Rhodes:
How We Advocated for the Iran Deal  —  In recent years, few things have been as exhaustively debated or written about than the Iran deal.  —  That debate reignited this week after a long article about me included a section about the Iran deal.  There are many issues raised in an article of this length …
Breitbart:
London's Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’  —  Britain's largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.
WSAZ-TV:
Man charged in attack on W.Va. State Senate candidate attack  —  LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va (WSAZ) — A man is behind bars tonight after allegedly beating a man running for the West Virginia Senate.  Jonathan Porter, 41, of Logan County is charged with felony destruction of property, malicious assault and attempt to commit a felony.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
I Am Going To Vote For Trump Though It Makes Me Want To Projectile Vomit  —  I intend to vote for Donald Trump, and just typing those words makes me throw up a little.  Make that a lot, and for distance.  Yeah, I know Trump is a clown, but so is Hillary Clinton, and while he's sort …
Discussion: Hot Air
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ABC:
Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton an ‘enabler’ of Bill's infidelity
Discussion: whorunsGov
New York Daily News:
New York nail salons must pay $2M for cheating workers out of fair wages  —  Gov. Cuomo has ordered nail salons to hand over $2 million to hundreds of ripped off workers.  —  Cuomo created the Nail Salon Industry Enforcement Task Force a year ago to crack down on widespread abuses at nail shops …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Cashing in: Illegal immigrants get $1,261 more welfare than American families, $5,692 vs. $4,431  —  Illegal immigrant households receive an average of $5,692 in federal welfare benefits every year, far more than the average “native” American household, at $4,431, according to a new report on the cost of immigration released Monday.
Dara Lind / Vox:
Why liberals love to fantasize about moving to Canada (and how to do it for real)  —  Maybe, at first, you were joking.  Maybe you've caught yourself since then wondering if it would truly be such a bad idea.  —  After all, America may well elect Donald J. Trump president in November.
Discussion: alan.com
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump, who once opposed minimum-wage hike, says he would ‘like to see an increase’  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in television interviews broadcast Sunday that he would like an increase in the minimum wage and that it is best that such a change happen at the state level.
Discussion: Hot Air, Raw Story and Guardian
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Tom Brune / Newsday:
Lee Zeldin promotes Donald Trump and their shared history
Discussion: NY State of Politics
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Brian Faler / Politico:
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Associated Press:
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Ben Glaze / Mirror.co.uk:
‘Brexit’ could trigger World War Three, warns David Cameron
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Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen Tours Border with Breitbart Texas' Brandon Darby: ‘Agents Need a Fighter’
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Veterans call on Trump to show respect
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Sex and the Singular Pol
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William Yardley / Los Angeles Times:
Wildfire at Fort McMurray quickly overtakes Canada's environmental debate
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Op-Ed The Republican Party is dead
 

 
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