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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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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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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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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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AP Interview: Donald Trump says he's narrowed VP shortlist
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Ben Carson Is Off Trump's VP Vetting Team
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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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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Vice President Joe Biden ‘Confident’ Hillary Clinton Will Be Democratic Nominee
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in Thrall
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton tests general-election messages in final stretch of primary contests
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NBC News:
Clinton Sounds Off on ‘Loose Cannon’ Trump 0:49
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Bernie Sanders May Win Big In West Virginia
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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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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 Stocky / Facebook:
My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address today's reports alleging that Facebook contractors manipulated Trending Topics to suppress stories of interest to conservatives. We take these reports extremely seriously, and have found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true.
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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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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch Phil Robertson says he'll back Donald Trump despite endorsing Ted Cruz in January: 'I'll be enthusiastically behind him' — The long-bearded eccentric told DailyMail.com that 'I'll definitely be there for him' since Trump will likely face Hillary Clinton in November
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Elianayjohnson / National Review:
GOP Megadonor Paul Singer Rips Trump at NYC Dinner
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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 …
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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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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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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
State Department Appears to Edit Briefing Video to Remove Admission of Falsehood — Fox News's James Rosen called out the State Department Monday, accusing them of deleting a damaging exchange from their archive video of a December 2013 press briefing. — In 2012, Rosen had the following exchange …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House seeks to contain fallout from aide's comments
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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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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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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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Mediaite
WCBD News 2:
American Muslim Citadel student requests to wear hijab; President, Commandant, Board deny request — Lt. Gen. John Rosa, Citadel President, has released a statement regarding an American Muslim Citadel student's religious request to wear a hijab at the South Carolina military college.
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
The Citadel will not allow an exception to the uniform to let a Muslim student wear her hijab
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NPR, Independent Journal … and Talking Points Memo
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Top GOP senators urge unity on Trump — Several influential Senate Republicans are urging their colleagues to rethink their opposition to Donald Trump, arguing that the presumptive nominee's malleable ideology is a superior alternative to Hillary Clinton. — In a series of media gaggles …
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CNN:
Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says — (CNN)The former city administrator of Flint, Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit against the current mayor's office, claiming she was fired after raising concerns about donors being directed away from a charity for victims …
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Dennis Prager / Townhall.com:
The Scariest Reason Trump Won — There are many reasons why Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The four most-often cited reasons are the frustrations of white working-class Americans, a widespread revulsion against political correctness, disenchantment …
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: Trump Hasn't Thought Through Every Issue And Won't Have To As President — “I think a lot of people are expecting him to be this professional at politics where he has thought through the details of every issue. He hasn't.” — Christopher Furlong / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com
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