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Ryan says he would step down as convention chair if Trump asks — Related Coverage — By Mary Spicuzza and Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel — Janesville — House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that if Donald Trump wants him to step down as a co-chairman of the GOP convention, he will respect his wishes.
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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 Sen. John McCain's top aides during …
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Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Warning to Paul Ryan Signals Further G.O.P. Discord
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Paul Ryan Offers to Step Down as RNC Convention Chair
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Fox News, New York Times, Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon
Megan Cassella / Reuters:
Speaker Ryan says he would step down as Republican convention chair if Trump asks: report
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Meet the Democratic Liars Club
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FOX News Radio, The Last Tradition and Betsy's Page
Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News — Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.
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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 …
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Outside the Beltway, mrctv.org/videos, Reuters, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Mashable, Towleroad, Joe.My.God., Shakesville and BillMoyers.com
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Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Showdown looms over North Carolina's bathroom bill — (CNN)It's deadline day for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory. — The U.S. Justice Department sent his office a letter Wednesday claiming that the state's controversial bathroom law is in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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New York Times, The Pulse 2016, Mashable, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, mrctv.org/videos, Joe.My.God., Mediaite and Balloon Juice
WRAL-TV:
McCrory, lawmakers want courts to declare HB2 doesn't discriminate
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Towleroad, CityLab, Pirate's Cove, The Daily Caller and Fox News
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump bristles when pressed on Bill Clinton infidelity attacks … Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — on Monday morning bristled when questioned about his attacks on former President Bill Clinton — 's past infidelity. — CNN host Chris Cuomo jumped …
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Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump enlists Christie to head White House transition team — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will serve as the chairman of Donald Trump's transition team should he win the presidency, the presumptive Republican nominee's campaign announced Monday. — “Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama itches for Trump fight
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ABC News, Politico and Heat Street
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.
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The Pulse 2016, New York Times, National Review, Althouse and Washington Times
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
For some Republicans, Trump-Clinton matchup is ‘nightmare’
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Mother Jones and Associated Press
Brianna Gurciullo / Politico:
Jon Stewart goes on rant against ‘man-baby’ Trump — Jon Stewart may no longer be hosting his show known for biting takedowns of political figures, but that didn't stop him Monday from going on an epic rant against Donald Trump. The former “Daily Show” host told David Axelrod at the University …
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Washington Post and Politicus USA
Jason Richwine / Center for Immigration Studies:
The Cost of Welfare Use By Immigrant and Native Households — Jason Richwine, PhD, is an independent public policy analyst in Washington, D.C., and a contributing writer at National Review. — In September 2015, the Center for Immigration Studies published a landmark study of immigration and welfare use …
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National Review, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and mrctv.org/videos
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans Don't Trust Trump on Supreme Court Vacancy; 65% Want Hearings — A new national Public Policy Polling survey finds Americans don't trust Donald Trump to nominate a new Supreme Court justice, and would much rather have that decision in the hands of either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
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Daily Kos and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Pat Toomey Says He Might Not Be Able To Back Trump
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Vox, Philly.com and Business Insider
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Priebus: ‘Donald Trump Is Not Wanting To Rewrite The Platform’
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Talking Points Memo, The Mike Gallagher Show, Raw Story and New York Magazine
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
State Dept.: No emails from Clinton IT aide — The State Department has no emails to or from the man believed to have set up and maintained Hillary Clinton's private email server during the four years she served as secretary, it said on Monday. — The department has found archived emails …
Victoria McGrane GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Alarmed by Trump, could Wall Street turn to Clinton? — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's appeal, for many voters, lies in his supposed business savvy. But America's business community, typically a crucial pillar of support for Republicans, still is not convinced.
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Washington Monthly and Guardian
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts
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Hot Air, BizPac Review and The Stranger …
Tim Carman / Washington Post:
Servers trash customers in private note on check — then forget to delete it — Four diners, three of them wearing plaid, were ready to enjoy a meal Saturday night at Peter Chang in Arlington, the authentic Sichuan outpost opened by the Chinese embassy chef turned serial restaurateur.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Ben Rhodes and the ‘Retailing’ of the Iran Deal — Several days ago, I received an email from Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of a Washington think tank called the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Dubowitz is an expert on sanctions, and has been one of the most ardent …
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Now Trump Is Just Openly Attacking The Religious Right — Businessman and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is now openly attacking leaders of the Religious Right who are critical of him, using Twitter to blast the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's political arm as “a nasty guy with no heart.”
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Red Alert Politics, Religion News Service and The Resurgent
Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:
She Spoke Up About Cooked ISIS Intel. They Booted Her—for Cursing. — An employee at CENTCOM's Joint Intelligence office says she was reassigned, supposedly for cursing at work, after speaking out about cherry-picked ISIS war intel. — TAMPA, Florida — She worked on and off …
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Jihad Watch and Washington Free Beacon
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