memeorandum: Bernie Sanders should drop out and endorse Hillary Clinton. Period. (John Judis/Talking Points Memo)

9:55 AM ET, June 7, 2016

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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:

Nancy Pelosi ‘Proud to Endorse’ Hillary Clinton for President

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Mediaite, Politicus USA, Washington Times, The Week and Washington Free Beacon

New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Has Clinched Democratic Nomination, Survey Reports — Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president, The Associated Press reported Monday night. — Mrs. Clinton had been expected to clinch the nomination on Tuesday after polls closed in New Jersey.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Politico, Outside the Beltway and Althouse

John Judis / Talking Points Memo:

Bernie Sanders should drop out and endorse Hillary Clinton. Period. — Bernie Sanders may win California today, but whether or not he does, he won't have enough delegates to deny the nomination to Hillary Clinton. But Sanders says he is going to carry the fight to the convention …

Cyra Master / The Hill:

Sanders camp: Clinton has not secured nomination yet — Shortly after The Associated Press updated its delegate count and declared Hillary Clinton — the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, a spokesman for Sen. Bernie Sanders — slammed the media's “rush to judgement.”

Discussion: CNN, Daily Kos and Guardian

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Bernie Sanders Has Some Strange Ideas About Why He Deserves the Nomination — He was told there would be no math. — The season-finale episode of Saturday Night Live imagines a bar-stool conversation between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in which the two candidates bond …

Discussion: Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, Salon, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico and BuzzFeed

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Clinton clinches Democratic nomination — LONG BEACH, Calif. — Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee in a surprise development on Monday, making her the first woman ever to win a major party's presidential nomination one day before she was expected to cross the threshold.

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Associated Press:
AP count: Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination

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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: Not sexist to stay in race against Clinton

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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Clinton Hits the Magic Number

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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Hillary Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination

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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Clinton will call Sanders Tuesday night

Discussion: Political Wire

Mark Green / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Don't panic, Democrats, Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump

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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Clinton Hits ‘Magic Number’ of Delegates to Clinch Nomination

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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
NPR Reporter: Women Weep Over History-Making Hillary Clinton

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sanders plans to ‘assess’ presidential bid at home in Vermont after Tuesday contests

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CBS News:
Obama called Bernie Sanders Sunday

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama held weekend call with Sanders

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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
AP: Clinton secures enough delegates to become first woman to top a major-party ticket

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Bloomberg:

Trump Orders Surrogates to Intensify Criticism of Judge and Journalists — During a Monday conference call with supporters, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee overruled a directive sent out by his own campaign. — kevcirilli — michaelcbender

Byron York / Washington Examiner:

Trump self-destructive rambling baffles GOP strategists — How did the controversy begin over Donald Trump's attacks on the judge in the Trump University lawsuit? It began when Donald Trump couldn't stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit. — In the normal course of events …

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

Trump train derails on Capitol Hill — The wheels are already coming off the GOP's Donald Trump unity train. — In the first major test of relations with Capitol Hill Republicans since Trump became the party's nominee, his attacks on federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel are sapping any goodwill …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, The Week, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Business Insider and The Resurgent

Joseph Murray / Breitbart:

Donald Trump Is Correct To Hit ‘La Raza’ Judge For Latino Identity Politics — “This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made. I think it's inexcusable.” — Those words were spoken by Newt Gingrich - a man believed to be on Donald Trump's Vice Presidential shortlist - during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

Discussion: Salon, New York Times and Politicus USA

Media Matters for America:

Fox Vs Fox: Kelly Blasts “Pundits” Demanding Trump U. Judge Step Down, Moments After O'Reilly Did Just That — Megyn Kelly criticized “pundits” calling for the judge in the Trump U. case to step down, stating emphatically “that is not the way our system works.”

Discussion: Betsy's Page, Raw Story, The Week, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed: The RNC Approached Two Hispanic Operatives Who Weren't Interested Because Of Trump

New York Times:
Democrats Jump on Allies of Donald Trump in Judge Dispute

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John DiStaso / WMUR:
Updated: Ayotte blasts Trump on remarks about Muslim judges and judge of Mexican heritage

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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Dick Morris Is in Talks to Join the Trump Campaign — The controversial former Clinton adviser could play a key roll in Trump's anti-Hillary strategy. — Before Donald Trump's campaign was derailed by his racist attacks on a federal judge, the GOP nominee was surprisingly disciplined in his attacks on Hillary Clinton.

Marina Fang / The Huffington Post:
Trump Campaign: Female Judges Could Be Biased, Too

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans finally discover that Trump is an actual racist

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Associated Press:

Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case — WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida's attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates

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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:

Trump Endorses Fanatically Open-Borders RINO, Renee Ellmers — The “Trump revolution” has officially come full circle. — As we've observed throughout this election season, every single House and Senate incumbent has won reelection. Ironically, the extra “Trump turnout” …

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Associated Press:
2 North Carolina US House Members Battle in Tuesday Primary

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Alex Zielinski / ThinkProgress:

The Brock Turner Mug Shot The Police Really Didn't Want You To See — The Santa Clara Sheriff's Department has finally released a mugshot of Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford student found guilty of rape, who was previously represented in the media by a smiling yearbook photo in which he's wearing a suit and tie.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
Stanford rapist's father issues despicable plea for leniency: “A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action”

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse / Forbes:

Why Isn't Anyone Lobbying For Climate Change? — In a recent week in Washington, I took lobbying meetings with TechNet, the lumber industry and the property casualty insurance industry. Let me give you a glimpse inside these meetings, because they help explain why so little progress is being made in Congress on climate change.

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Jason Reed / National Review:

Inside the #NeverTrump Candidacy that Almost Was — Anti-Trump conservatives failed to recruit David French into the presidential campaign. What will they do now? — The latest would-be presidential candidate spent just under a week in the spotlight — long enough to confound official Washington …