memeorandum: Hillary Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

9:35 AM ET, June 7, 2016

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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:

Nancy Pelosi ‘Proud to Endorse’ Hillary Clinton for President

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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.

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Associated Press:

AP count: Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination — WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president, and will be first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party.

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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.”

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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 …

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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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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Sanders: Not sexist to stay in race against Clinton … Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — pushed back at a Monday press conference after a journalist asked whether his continuing campaign against front-runner Hillary Clinton — is sexist, given Clinton will likely secure the Democratic nomination.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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 …

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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.”

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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.”

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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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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
FL Guv Pressed On Trump Judge Attack: ‘I Want To Talk About The Tropical Storm’

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carson warns Trump of ‘moral descent’ on judge attacks

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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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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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Guardian:
Stanford sexual assault: judge facing recall campaign over light sentence

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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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 …

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Justin Fox / Bloomberg:

This Job Market Slump Started a While Ago — The sharp May hiring slowdown revealed in Friday's employment report took a lot of people — including me — by surprise. It shouldn't have. Things have actually been on the downswing for the U.S. labor market for months, according to the Federal Reserve's Labor Market Conditions Index.

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