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Gary Langer / ABC News:
A Post-Primary Rally Boosts Trump, Albeit with Challenges Aplenty (POLL) — A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party's presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as a contest of negatives — The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Begrudging WaPo poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44% — It's not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton's Lead Over Trump Shrinks to 3 Points: New NBC News/WSJ Poll — Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Clash over Gun Control 2:10 — Hillary Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump has narrowed to just three points — resulting in a dead-heat general-election contest with more than five months …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sanders: Voters see Clinton as ‘the lesser of two evils’ — American voters should not be forced to pick between “the lesser of two evils” this November, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says. — Asked in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's “This Week” if that's how he'd describe a possible match …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: Trump is in the pocket of the gun lobby
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON May 22, 2016 and it will be updated. — STEPHANOPOULOS: And Senator Sanders joins us now. Senator, thank you for joining us again today. — SANDERS: My pleasure.
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New York Daily News:
KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too — Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture. — “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Weakend at Bernie's — WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is the Democratic nominee.
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Feud With the Democratic Leadership Heats Up
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Salon:
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully — Trump's weakness is ridicule. Even if Jon Stewart is sitting this one out, Democrats need to embrace serious satire — Donald Trump's absurd yet frighteningly real campaign …
David Cay Johnston / Politico:
Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? — In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months.
Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races — Homeboykris, ridden by Horacio Karamanos, wins the first race of the day on a muddy track ahead of the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA facing member backlash over Trump endorsement — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With its last-minute decision to formally endorse Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association put itself out in front of the fight for Republican party unity. — Just a day later, it's already taking flak.
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Jennifer Crockett / WDSU-TV:
St. John sheriff: 5-year-old kills self with father's gun — Haley Moore died at the hospital Saturday — Five-year-old Haley Moore was spending the weekend at her dad's house with her older sister and brother. The family was supposed to go see a movie Saturday.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Bruenighazi: How a feisty Bernie blogger's firing explains Democratic politics in 2016 — Late in the afternoon on Friday, a press statement appeared on the website of the think tank Demos that set significant segments of policy twitter and left-wing political twitter ablaze.
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Donald J. Trump: Hillary Clinton's Plans for More Illegal Immigration Into America a ‘Disaster for Our Country’ — NEW YORK CITY, New York — Donald J. Trump, the billionaire real estate magnate and presumptive 2016 GOP presidential nominee, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview …
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Washington Post:
Primed to fight the government — A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty — B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target. Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP Hispanic leaders open to reconciling with Trump — Prominent Hispanic conservatives say they could back Donald Trump — if the presumptive GOP nominee changes his tone and walks back some of his policy positions. — Republican Latino leaders have chaffed at Trump's call for a wall …
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The Full Text Of Trump's First Address To A Major Hispanic Group Is Really Something
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