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Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Clinton trounces Trump in Miami-Dade, new poll shows — Part of Clinton's support comes from an unlikely source — She's drawing about one-fifth of Republican voters — Trump leads among Cuban Americans, but not by a lot — More Videos — Why a wonky delegate rule will help Donald Trump, explained by Monty Python
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: West Virginia, Nebraska Primary Primer — NOTABLES —WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN WEST VIRGINIA: Almost 8 years ago to the date, Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama by a 2-1 margin in West Virginia. Fast-forward to today, and the dynamics in the state have almost entirely flipped.
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Fox News, American Spectator and The Daily Caller
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump is running to the left of Hillary Clinton
How Donald Trump is running to the left of Hillary Clinton
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Politico, Political Wire and Prairie Weather
Michael Sainato / The New York Observer:
Wealthy Cruz Donor Pours Millions Into Clinton Campaign
Wealthy Cruz Donor Pours Millions Into Clinton Campaign
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Washington Post, The Last Refuge and BizPac Review
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wealthy Cruz and Bush Donors Dump Millions Into Hillary Clinton's Campaign
Wealthy Cruz and Bush Donors Dump Millions Into Hillary Clinton's Campaign
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in Thrall — When Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton in a late-night TV interview about U.F.O.s, she quickly corrected his terminology. — “You know, there's a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance.
Ben Rhodes / Medium:
The First Sitting U.S. President to Visit Hiroshima — President Obama will visit Hiroshima, Japan after the conclusion of the G-7 Summit later this month. — There has been intense interest on both sides of the Pacific in the possibility of a presidential visit to Hiroshima …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says Sadiq Khan, New London Mayor, Could Be Exception to His Muslim Ban — Mr. Trump said he was “happy” that London had elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, and suggested that he would be among the exceptions to his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States.
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Mark Leftly / TIME:
Exclusive: London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Religious Extremism, Brexit, and Donald Trump
Exclusive: London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Religious Extremism, Brexit, and Donald Trump
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
From playboy to president? Trump's past crude sex talk collides with his White House bid. — Over 15 years, radio shock jock Howard Stern and his buddy Donald Trump periodically carried on like towel-snapping “bros” in a locker room, rating women's tops and bottoms, debating whether oral sex is …
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Jon Stewart on Donald Trump: ‘He is a man-baby’ — What Jon Stewart did on his visit to the White House — To find more of “The Axe Files with David Axelrod,” check out podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-david- axelrod/. — (CNN)Jon Stewart launched a stinging new round of criticism …
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Brianna Gurciullo / Politico:
Jon Stewart goes on rant against ‘man-baby’ Trump
Jon Stewart goes on rant against ‘man-baby’ Trump
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Talking Points Memo, Vox, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and Politicus USA
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House seeks to contain fallout from aide's comments — Ben Rhodes might have a “mind meld” with President Obama, but he is causing headaches for the White House. — Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser, managed in a recent New York Times Magazine profile to undercut …
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MilitaryTimes:
Military Times survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by a huge margin — In a new survey of American military personnel, Donald Trump emerged as active-duty service members' preference to become the next U.S. president, topping Hillary Clinton by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan On Palin: “I Don't Really Worry Too Much About Outside Agitators” — “Look, people in Wisconsin know me well, I really don't have anything to say only that my focus is on the people of this district and unifying the Republican Party on a core set of principles.” — Win Mcnamee / Getty Images
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Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Doesn't Make It Easy for Paul Ryan
Donald Trump Doesn't Make It Easy for Paul Ryan
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, a Trump emissary, requests a pre-meeting with Speaker Ryan — A top emissary for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has asked to meet privately with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) this week in advance of Trump's visit to Washington on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump faces icy GOP reception in Congress
Telegraph:
Aftermath of Munich knife attack shows bloodied footprints — Play! — Auto update — Off — ‘No indication’ of Islamic extremist motive — Bavaria's top security official says investigators have no indications that the suspect in a stabbing at a train station had an Islamic extremist motive.
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Katherine Long / The Seattle Times:
‘Trump wall’ draws crowd and controversy at UW — A group of University of Washington students showed their support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by building a “Trump wall” on the school's Red Square. — Two days after Donald Trump made his first campaign visit to Washington state …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Democrats see Clinton and Warren as dream team — Democrats are openly hoping that Hillary Clinton — as her running mate. — Amid concerns that supporters of Bernie Sanders — will choose to stay home on Election Day, a number of Democrats see a Clinton-Warren alliance …
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Hot Air
James Barron / New York Times:
A Secret Section of Central Park Reopens — Since the days when Fiorello H. La Guardia was mayor and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, it has been a well-kept secret of New York City — to people, if not to migrating birds, the occasional wandering coyote and annoying, invasive plants like wisteria …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Bashes Trump In Expletive-Filled Rant — “He is the hated gringo because he's attacking all of us. He's offending all of us,” Fox said. — Kick Ass Politics — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox had harsh words for Donald Trump in a podcast set to be posted on Tuesday.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump, in Switch, Turns to Republican Party for Fund-Raising Help — Donald J. Trump took steps to appropriate much of the Republican National Committee's financial and political infrastructure for his presidential campaign on Monday, amid signs that he and the party would lag dangerously behind …
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The Hill, Political Wire and Israpundit
Ben White / Politico:
Trump's empty administration — Top Republican political leaders aren't the only ones shunning their party's presidential nominee — a vast number of highly skilled managers and policy experts, veterans of recent GOP administrations who would normally be expected to fill key positions for a new White House …
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Hullabaloo, Mother Jones and National Review
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Laura Ingraham / LifeZette:
Trump v. Clinton ... and Bush
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Emails From Hillary Clinton's IT Director at State Department Appear to Be Missing — The State Department said today it can't find any of Bryan Pagliano's emails from the time he served as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's senior information technology staffer during her tenure there.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama White House showed ‘bad faith’ in global warming case, judge rules — Third rebuke of administration's transparency this year — The White House showed “bad faith” in how it handled an open-records request for global warming data, a federal court ruled Monday, issuing yet another stinging rebuke …
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Cliven Bundy suing Obama, Nevada officials — Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who led an armed standoff over grazing fees on federal lands, is suing President Obama and Nevada officials in hopes of getting charges against him dismissed. — Bundy's lawyer will file the complaint Tuesday against Obama …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Our National Dumpster Fire — It was almost as if Donald Trump wanted to give Republican voters one last look at what they would be getting if they chose to nominate him as the head of their party—as if he wanted to show officeholders who would endorse him exactly what they'd have to explain …
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American Thinker
Jason Wilson / Guardian:
The rise of militias: Patriot candidates are now getting elected in Oregon — Like Trump, the Patriot Movement's surge is due partly to fear and the perceived indifference of political leaders to places that didn't recover from the 2008 crash — oseph Rice's manner is a long way from militia stereotypes.
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