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3:00 PM ET, June 8, 2016

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution  —  There's no strategist pulling the strings, and no collection of burn-it-all-down aides egging him on.  At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders.
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Wins California, Bolstering Claim to Nomination  —  Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday night after decisive victories in the California, New Jersey and New Mexico primaries, and she quickly appealed to supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders …
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Made History, but Bernie Sanders Stubbornly Ignored It  —  Revolutions rarely give way to gracious expressions of defeat.  —  And so, despite the crushing California results that rolled in for him on Tuesday night, despite the insurmountable delegate math and the growing pleas …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
MoveOn To Sanders: ‘Undemocratic Superdelegates’ Can't Overturn Voters  —  One of the largest advocacy groups to endorse Bernie Sanders on Wednesday gently nudged the Vermont senator toward the exit, arguing that the Democratic nomination can't be won on the backs of “undemocratic superdelegates.”
Discussion: Boing Boing, MoveOn.Org and Politico
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Is Said to Plan Large Layoff From Campaign Staff  —  UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Senator Bernie Sanders plans to lay off at least half his campaign staff Wednesday as his battered presidential bid continues on despite Hillary Clinton's being declared the presumptive Democratic nominee …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Top supporters of Bernie Sanders gently tell him: It's time  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Hillary Clinton decisively defeated Bernie Sanders in the big delegate-rich states of California and New Jersey, and in a rousing, emotional speech last night, she laid claim to a piece of American history …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Primary wins show Hillary Clinton needs the left less than pro-Sanders liberals think  —  THE BIG IDEA: The scope and scale of Hillary Clinton's victories last night ameliorates much of the pressure that she has been under to pander to Bernie Sanders and his supporters.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders's rationale for staying in the race may no longer include winning
Discussion: Politico
Los Angeles Times:
Editorial Bernie Sanders supporters have to face the facts: Hillary Clinton has won
Discussion: Daily Kos and NPR
NBC News:
First Read: Trump Starts the General After Squandering a Head Start
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Hillary Clinton's Remarkable Comeback
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Will Bernie Sanders supporters rally behind Hillary Clinton now? Here's what we know.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BOOM! Hillary Clinton CAUGHT COLLUDING With AP to Announce Delegate Win Before California!
Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING.  Hugh Hewitt Calls For Convention To Reject Trump (FULL AUDIO)  —  Whoa.  —  This morning talk show host Hugh Hewitt called for the GOP convention to change the rules to allow for an alternative candidate to be selected.  (Full disclosure, Hewitt is affiliated with Salem Media Group which owns RedState.)
Discussion: Hot Air, The Week and The Resurgent
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Says GOP Should Change Convention Rules to Dump Trump  —  Conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt argued Wednesday morning that the Republican Party should make an unprecedented effort to change the Republican National Convention rules to allow them to dump Donald Trump as their nominee.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:   RUMORS: Scott Walker Would Accept Nomination if Trump Implodes Before Convention
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Walker: Trump should renounce comments about judge
Discussion: Politico
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party  —  If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, today's Republican Party would be in Chapter 11.  —  This party needs to just shut itself down and start over — now.  Seriously, someone please start a New Republican Party!  —  America needs a healthy two-party system.
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CNN:
Paul Ryan stresses party unity in GOP meeting
Discussion: RedState
Mike Zapler / Politico:
Top House conservative: ‘More vision and less trash talk’ from Trump
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:   The Republican Party Can Get Even Worse
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Fake news release says Ryan hiding from reporters to avoid Trump questions
Discussion: Raw Story
Hadas Gold / Politico:
The taunt Clinton supporters think will haunt Trump gets airtime in new ad  —  The scene of Donald Trump mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital disability garners the presumed Republican nominee some of his highest negative ratings among focus groups, POLITICO has learned.
Discussion: New York Times
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Hatch: ‘Be nice’ to ‘first-time candidate’ Trump  —  (R-Utah) on Tuesday defended Donald Trump  —  as a “first-time candidate” amid swirling criticism from Republicans of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's racially charged rhetoric.  —  “Be nice to him, he's a first-time candidate …
Discussion: Political Wire
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CBS News:
Student who helped stop Stanford sexual assault describes what he saw  —  A northern California judge faces outrage over the sentence he handed down in a sexual assault case at Stanford University.  Brock Turner was given six months in jail for the assault of a woman outside a fraternity party.
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Two guys allegedly tried to rob a French McDonald's, but off-duty special forces unit was eating inside  —  When the two armed men entered the McDonald's in Besancon, a city in eastern France near the Switzerland border, they found about 40 people dining on fried, fast food.
Discussion: Instapundit
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Armed robbers thwarted trying to hold up McDonald's where 11 special forces officers happened to be eating dinner
Discussion: NPR
Justin Quesinberry / WNCN:
Ellmers called ‘mean girl on steroids’ after NC Congresswoman remarks on woman's weight  —  DUNN, N.C. (WNCN) - After Republican Congresswoman Renee Ellmers got out of her car to vote Tuesday, she greeted a woman by name and then told the woman she had “gained some weight.”
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Once a Tea Party Star, Renee Ellmers Goes Down in Primary Defeat
Discussion: RedState and The Atlantic
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jeff Flake: There Is “Fear And Loathing” Of Trump Among My GOP Senate Colleagues  —  “There's some resignation and some mixture of fear and loathing to think about what the next couple months will bring given the statements that he has made.”  —  Drew Angerer / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com
Discussion: Business Insider
Cal Thomas:
Trump Interview - The Transcript  —  CT: My grandparents used to play a parlor game.  It went like this: Tell me who you are without telling me your name or what you do.  We have seen your tough exterior, but who are you at your core and what is your basic philosophy and worldview?
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
An Open Letter to Mitt Romney  —  I write to you not as a fellow conservative, not as a fellow partisan, but as a citizen of our republic.  You have served your nation admirably for many years and by any ordinary standard are entitled to a happy retirement.
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Discussion: Political Wire
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