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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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After Victory in California, Hillary Clinton Turns Toward Donald Trump — 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 …
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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.”
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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 …
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Pennsylvania Close; Sanders Supporter Unity Would Make It Not Close
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The Daily 202: Primary wins show Hillary Clinton needs the left less than pro-Sanders liberals think
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Top supporters of Bernie Sanders gently tell him: It's time
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Sanders's rationale for staying in the race may no longer include winning
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AP reminds employees to be vigilant after backlash from Sanders supporters
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Bernie Sanders Is Said to Plan Large Layoff From Campaign Staff
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Will Bernie Sanders supporters rally behind Hillary Clinton now? Here's what we know.
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First Read: Trump Starts the General After Squandering a Head Start
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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.)
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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.
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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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Trump Says ‘No Reason’ to Raise $1 Billion for Campaign — In his first interview after the final day of Republican nomination contests, he also said his running-mate search was focused on four or five politicians. — michaelcbender — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald …
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Exclusive: Koch's team to meet Trump's camp, but industrialist remains skeptical — WICHITA, Kan. — Top officials within Charles Koch's powerful policy network plan to meet with aides to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the industrialist told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
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Hatch: ‘Be nice’ to ‘first-time candidate’ Trump
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Hillary Clinton's Remarkable Comeback — Hillary Clinton has now secured the Democratic nomination for president. Because she was the front-runner, because she represents the establishment, because she has been around forever, we forget how remarkable a story that is. — I'm not talking about her gender.
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Dilbert has gone fascist: The strange unrequited love Scott Adams seems to have for Donald Trump
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Donald Trump's Most Politically Correct Speech (Aided by a TelePrompter)
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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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RUMORS: Scott Walker Would Accept Nomination if Trump Implodes Before Convention — Rumors are starting to float around that Scott Walker is open to accepting the nomination at the convention, if the wheels continue to come off the Trump train and the rules are changed to unbind the delegate.
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Gov. Walker calls choice between Trump and Clinton a “sad” one
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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.
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Jeffrey Lord Makes A Mockery Out Of CNN's Election Night Coverage UPDATED — There comes a time when a network has to take action against one of their panel members, because they routinely stray from the topic at hand, invent historical analogies and fabricate events that never took place, and refuse to answer simple questions.
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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?
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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.
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REPORT: Migrants Burn Down Asylum Centre After Not Receiving Ramadan Wake Up Call — A massive fire at Düsseldorf's major international trade fair grounds yesterday has been followed by reports that the blaze was set deliberately by migrants who were angry because of Ramadan.
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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
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Grassley equates Trump's judge comments with Sotomoyor's ‘wise Latina’ logic — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley on Wednesday likened presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's controversial remarks on a federal judge to a statement frequently made by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor …
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