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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Selects a White Nationalist Leader as a Delegate in California — On Monday evening, California's secretary of state published a list of delegates chosen by the Trump campaign for the upcoming Republican presidential primary in the state. Trump's slate includes William Johnson …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Ben Carson Is Off Trump's VP Vetting Team — After selecting a list of names for the team to vet, Ben Carson has stepped away from the vice presidential selection team. — Ben Carson is becoming the jack of all trades for Donald Trump's campaign. — After being tapped to join …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will oversee the vice-presidential search — Political adviser Beth Myers headed up the process for Mitt Romney. Washington lawyer A.B. Culvahouse managed the selection for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Now, Corey Lewandowski will have that responsibility for Donald Trump.
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Michelle Moons / Breitbart:
Trump Surprises with Celebrities on California Delegates List — The Donald Trump campaign named 169 California delegates on Monday, including such high-profile names as billionaire Peter Thiel, conservative leader David Horowitz, and several legislators. — The somewhat reclusive Thiel …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's delegate ineptitude stumbles into white nationalism — Donald Trump's stumbling, tricky effort to claim the Republican Party nomination for the presidency achieved success seven days ago, putting to rest questions about the extent to which the candidate and his team …
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AP Interview: Donald Trump says he's narrowed VP shortlist
AP Interview: Donald Trump says he's narrowed VP shortlist
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Camp: ‘Database Error’ Led To White Nationalist On CA Delegate Slate
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Trump Campaign Corresponded With Its White Nationalist Delegate Long After “Database Error”
Trump Campaign Corresponded With Its White Nationalist Delegate Long After “Database Error”
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ABC News:
West Virginia Democratic Primary Exit Poll Results — Who turned out in Tuesday's West Virginia Primary and what motivated their votes? — The following is reportable as “preliminary” exit poll results from the West Virginia Democratic primary. Please note that exit poll results …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Sanders, Trump easily win West Virginia primary; Trump picks up Nebraska too
Sanders, Trump easily win West Virginia primary; Trump picks up Nebraska too
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Sanders Wins in West Virginia Democratic Primary; Trump Cruises
Sanders Wins in West Virginia Democratic Primary; Trump Cruises
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Bernie Sanders May Win Big In West Virginia
Bernie Sanders May Win Big In West Virginia
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Heidi Cruz Likens Husband's Campaign to Efforts to End Slavery … Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout. — Drawing a parallel between the long-term efforts of her husband's supporters and the fight to end slavery, Heidi Cruz said Tuesday that it took “a lot longer than four years” …
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
'They're Only Using Us For Their Own Power': Glenn Beck Unloads On The GOP
'They're Only Using Us For Their Own Power': Glenn Beck Unloads On The GOP
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Mark Wilson / Co.Design:
Budweiser Renames Its Beer “America” — Until the November election, Budweiser is swapping out everything on its can—including its own name—to be as patriotic as possible. — With the backdrop of the Olympics and a comically botched election, this summer is bound to be what Ricardo Marques …
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Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Senate GOP Launches Inquiry Into Facebook's News Curation — The US Senate Commerce Committee—which has jurisdiction over media issues, consumer protection issues, and internet communication—has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting answers to questions it has on its trending topics section.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
GOP Quickly Unifies Around Trump; Clinton Still Has Modest Lead — PPP's new national poll finds that Republicans have quickly unified around Donald Trump, making the Presidential race more competitive than it has previously been perceived to be. — Hillary Clinton leads Trump 42-38 …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz floats restarting campaign if he wins Nebraska primary — on Tuesday floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins Nebraska's GOP primary, as he avoided saying whether he supports Donald Trump — 's bid for president. — Cruz, who ended his White House run …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
North Carolina GOP Reps To The Feds: Don't You Dare Defund The Tarheels! — In a Monday letter to the Department of Education, all 10 GOP members of North Carolina's congressional delegation sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary John King demanding that he not cut off education funding …
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David French / National Review:
The Obama Administration Provokes a Legal Crisis — the War against North Carolina
The Obama Administration Provokes a Legal Crisis — the War against North Carolina
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Steerpike / Coffee House:
Revealed: Emma Watson named in latest Panama Papers leak — Of late, Emma Watson has been taking a more active role in both UK and American politics. The Harry Potter actress recently attended the White House correspondents' dinner, and just yesterday called on London's new mayor Sadiq Khan …
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Media Matters for America:
NRA's Ted Nugent Promotes Fake Video Of Hillary Clinton Being Shot — National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent, who will deliver a speech at the NRA's annual meeting this month, shared a fake video that depicts Hillary Clinton being graphically murdered by Bernie Sanders with a handgun during a presidential debate.
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Clinton Has a Weakness. That's Trump's Only Hope. — There are two ways that Donald Trump can become president. Either he must become significantly more popular among general-election voters. Or his likely opponent, Hillary Clinton, must become significantly more unpopular.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Trump backs Ryan as convention chairman — Donald Trump said he would “love” for House Speaker Paul Ryan to remain as chairman of the Republican National Convention this summer in Cleveland. — “I'd love frankly for him to stay and be chairman,” Trump said during an interview with Fox's Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday night.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Clinton aide Cheryl Mills leaves FBI interview briefly after being asked about emails — Near the beginning of a recent interview, an FBI investigator broached a topic with longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills that her lawyer and the Justice Department had agreed would be off limits …
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Rush Limbaugh:
This Ad Won't Hurt Trump — RUSH: There's couple sound bites here. One of them is an ad. A Hillary super PAC has released an ad attacking Trump on women using Trump's own words. Now, obviously we only have the audio here. It's a minute long. I want to run this by you …
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Jon Austin / Daily Express:
NASA HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT: More than 1,200 new planets that could hold life found — THE chance of alien life being found one day has been boosted after NASA scientists revealed they have found 1,284 NEW planets that could house alien life. — NASA — A NASA CGI of Kepler 452b, an Earth-like planet discovered last July
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Cathy Young / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter's Anti-Semitism Runs Deeper Than You Know — The Trump cheerleader shares his habit of promoting ethnic nationalists and their ugly ideas. — The white nationalists of the so-called alternative right, an extremist movement that rejects mainstream conservatism as too gutless …
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The White House:
Statement by the Press Secretary on the President's Travel to Vietnam and Japan — The President will travel to Vietnam and Japan May 21-28, on what will be his tenth trip to Asia. This trip will highlight the President's ongoing commitment to the U.S. Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump In 2006: Clinton Should Be Forgiven For Iraq Vote “Based On Lies Given To Her” — “She's very smart and has a major chance to be our next president,” Trump said. — Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images — Donald Trump is already going after Hillary Clinton for her vote to authorize …
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