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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Donald Trump Is Not Expanding the GOP — Donald Trump likes to say he has created a political movement that has drawn “millions and millions” of new voters into the Republican Party. “It's the biggest thing happening in politics,” Trump has said. “All over the world, they're talking about it,” he's bragged.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Poll: Trump narrows Clinton's lead nationally to 3 points — Donald Trump continues to cut into Hillary Clinton's lead nationally, according to a national NBC News| SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday. — Trump has reduced the 5-point advantage Clinton held last week to just 3 percentage points.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Speaker Ryan: Voters are right to trust Trump more than me — (R-Wis.) on Tuesday said he agrees with a new poll showing that GOP voters trust Donald Trump — rather than himself to lead the Republican Party. — “I hope it's Donald Trump. He's getting the nomination,” Ryan …
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NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Holds Slim National Lead Over Donald Trump: Poll — Race between Clinton, Trump narrows 5:50 — Over the past couple of weeks, Donald Trump has become the presumptive Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton has continued to inch closer to the magic number of delegates she needs to lock up the Democratic contest.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Anti-Trump Playbook
The Note: The Anti-Trump Playbook
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Boston Herald, Washington Times and Politico
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
NV Democrats file complaint against Sanders campaign to DNC — The state Democratic Party has filed a stinging complaint with national Democrats over the “explosive situation” and “paranoid fantasy of fraud and delegate theft” created by Bernie Sanders supporters at Saturday's state convention …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Jeb Bush Has Some Thoughts On Trump's Cinco De Mayo Tweet — He also thinks the Republican Party may no longer be relevant. — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush hasn't been coy about the scars he bears from the Republican primary. He won't be voting for his bete noire, Donald Trump …
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The Hill:
Hillary's unlikely ally: The media — has an unlikely ally in her bid to defeat Donald Trump — this fall: the media. — The Democratic presidential front-runner has had a long, contentious relationship with the press, most notably in her 2008 run for the White House. But 2016 figures to be much different.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
NYT stands by Trump story; attorney says lawsuit a ‘possibility’
NYT stands by Trump story; attorney says lawsuit a ‘possibility’
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Richmond Times-Dispatch:
NOLAND, MARY ANNE — NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68. Born in Danville, Va. …
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Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Federal Judge Strikes Down DC Concealed Carry Law, ‘Good Reason’ Provision Likely Unconstitutional — The fight over Second Amendment rights in the nation's capital has entered a new phase. A federal judge has ruled that the city's concealed carry law is likely unconstitutional …
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Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Second Amendment Protects Right to Buy and Sell Guns, Court Rules — Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sides with business partners who were denied zoning permit to open gun store — The Second Amendment protects the right to buy and sell firearms, as well as the right to keep and bear them, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
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Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Ninth Circuit Rules In Favor Of California Gun Store
Ninth Circuit Rules In Favor Of California Gun Store
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Hot Air
La Croix:
INTERVIEW Pope Francis … Le pape François a accordé à « La Croix » un entretien de plus d'une heure qui s'est tenu au Vatican, à la résidence Sainte-Marthe, le lundi 9 mai. — De nombreux thèmes ont été abordés …
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Gavin Jones / Reuters:
Pope criticises West for trying to export own brand of democracy to Iraq, Libya
Pope criticises West for trying to export own brand of democracy to Iraq, Libya
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New York Times:
The Crippled Supreme Court — Every day that passes without a ninth justice undermines the Supreme Court's ability to function, and leaves millions of Americans waiting for justice or clarity as major legal questions are unresolved. — On Monday, the eight-member court avoided issuing …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Five people who are never going to be Donald Trump's vice president — We don't know all that much about who Donald Trump is going to pick — or even consider — as his vice presidential running mate. In fact, the most insight we have on Trump's VP thinking is who he's not going to pick.
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Sir Elton John / The Hill:
North Carolina governor's ignorance of trans identity — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has doubled down on his support for H.B. 2, the discriminatory bill requiring public school students to use restrooms for the gender they were assigned at birth. Recently, he filed a lawsuit …
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Daily Mail:
Newlywed husband divorces his wife hours after the ceremony because she was too busy texting her friends to have sex on their wedding night — A husband divorced his wife hours after their wedding because she was too busy texting her friends to consummate the marriage.
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Pennsylvania Could Decide The 2016 Election — When most people think of battleground America, they think of Florida and Ohio, two of only three states (along with Nevada) that have voted for the winner of every presidential election since 1996. They tend not to think of Pennsylvania as a classic …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Rift Between Labor and Environmentalists Threatens Democratic Turnout Plan — WASHINGTON — A rift between environmentalists and labor, two pillars of the Democratic coalition, broke open acrimoniously on Monday, when a group of big unions threatened to boycott an ambitious …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / Breitbart:
22 Percent of Resettled Refugees in Minnesota Test Positive for Tuberculosis — One of every five refugees resettled in Minnesota by the federal government tested positive for latent tuberculosis in 2014, according to the state's Department of Health. — Only 4 percent of the general population …
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Infowars, Vox Popoli and Mickey Kaus
Grant Stinchfield / The Federalist:
The Never Trump Movement Is Anti-American And Hypocritical — Far too many of my ultra-conservative colleagues are acting exactly like the party elitists they purport to despise. They didn't get their way, so they throw a temper tantrum. Let the whining and crying begin. I don't have time for it.
Michael P. Buffer / Citizen's Voice:
Teacher issues apology for emails about special-needs student — A Wyoming Area School District teacher issued a written apology Monday for comments about accommodations to help a special-needs student. — In emails from October 2014, Tenth Street Elementary School teacher Amy Kosco compared making …
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Connecticut To Automatically Register 400,000 Voters — On Tuesday, Connecticut became the fifth state in the nation to approve a system where residents are automatically registered to vote every time they visit a Department of Motor Vehicles, following the lead of Oregon, California, West Virginia, and Vermont.
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Hartford Courant