memeorandum: Kasich: It's ‘hard to say’ if I'll support Trump (Nolan D. McCaskill/Politico)

1:50 PM ET, June 9, 2016

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Today in 'Donald Trump's Campaign Is a Garbage Fire' — I love the smell of garbage in the morning. Smells like <s>victory</s> massive defeat. — If Donald Trump were an otherwise normal candidate — with a reasonable knowledge of public policy and no pronounced affection for authoritarian rulers …

CNN:

Donald Trump's ground game — (CNN)Donald Trump — who made a fortune in part by lending his name to business ventures on which he left a light touch — appears poised to take a similar approach to building his ground game. — The presumptive GOP nominee has argued he can put as many as 15 states …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Donald Trump's Advice to Panicked Republicans: Man Up — Donald J. Trump has some advice for panicked Republicans in Washington who are melting down over his most incendiary statements: Man up. — “Politicians are so politically correct anymore, they can't breathe,"Mr. Trump …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Salon, Hullabaloo, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Atlantic, The Last Refuge, The Last Tradition, Althouse and Occidental Dissent

Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:

Elizabeth Warren to Call Donald Trump A “Loud, Nasty, Thin-Skinned Fraud” in Upcoming Speech — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is preparing to launch her latest attack on Donald Trump over his comments about the judge overseeing the fraud case against Trump University, calling the presumptive GOP presidential nominee …

Discussion: Politico, Truth Revolt, National Review, Associated Press, NBC News, Politicus USA, The Week, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and Guardian

Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times:

Why Republicans Won't Renounce Trump — When Donald Trump attacked a federal judge whose parents were born in Mexico, Hispanic Americans were outraged. Other minority groups saw a pattern of bigotry. Democrats had a hard time concealing their glee. Republican leaders pretended they disapproved.

Discussion: US News, Fox News, Pirate's Cove, Heat Street, DownWithTyranny!, Independent Journal …, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Business Insider and Advocate

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
PAUL RYAN To Campaign for Hillary Clinton on “Face the Nation” - Trash Trump as Racist

Discussion: CNN, CBS News and No More Mister Nice Blog

Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:
There's a GOP delegate challenge brewing over a Trump nomination

Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story

Matt Bai / Yahoo:
The black hole within Donald Trump

Discussion: Slate, Political Wire, New York Times and Daily Kos

Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Ryan unveils national security plan, a gentle rebuke of Trump's

Discussion: The Week, Hot Air and Bloomberg

Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Kasich: It's ‘hard to say’ if I'll support Trump

Discussion: Daily Mail, Bloomberg and The Hill

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Warren: Trump is a ‘loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud’

Discussion: ABC News and NBC News

CNN:
Inside Donald Trump's crisis response

Discussion: RedState and WTVR-TV

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Wow She's Right

Discussion: CANNONFIRE and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Hires Pollster for New York

Discussion: The Atlantic and Washington Post

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That's Good News for Trump. — One of the biggest reasons Donald Trump is considered to be a long shot to win the presidency is the diversity of the country. — As Joe Scarborough of MSNBC put it, “There are not enough white voters in America …

Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and Althouse

Ron Fournier / The Atlantic:

Hillary Clinton's Truth Problem — The day after she sealed the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton took a victory lap of the nation's top newsrooms and delivered the most predictable and practiced comments. She honored her mother. She trashed Donald Trump. She wooed Bernie Sanders' supporters.

Discussion: Washington Post, CBS News, Fox News Insider, CNN, Politico, New York Times, Daily Mail, AOL and Business Insider

Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:

Trump continues to Violate Campaign Rule No. 1 — Unless you are Ronald Reagan running for re-election ("It's morning again in America"), most competitive presidential campaigns are about a single objective: making the race a referendum on the opponent, particularly if he or she is a long-time politician who has high negatives.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Scott Wong / The Hill: Gingrich: Trump ‘totally virtuous’ compared with Clintons

Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump support shrinking on Capitol Hill

Discussion: ABC News and Algemeiner.com

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Sanders supporters warn Obama: Don't try to stop Bernie — Bernie Sanders' supporters have some advice for President Barack Obama: Back off. — Thursday morning in the Oval Office, Obama will take his not-so-subtle campaign to ease Sanders out of an active campaign directly to the senator himself.

Discussion: Sky Dancing, Associated Press and The Week

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Warren has concerns about being Clinton's VP: report

Discussion: Hot Air

ABC News:
The Note: Bernie Returns to Washington

Discussion: Politico

Reuters:
Exclusive: Clinton ally Warren weighs potential VP role, sees hurdles - sources

Discussion: Mother Jones, Political Wire, AOL, CNN, Washington Times, The Hill, The Atlantic, Daily Kos, The Week and The Huffington Post

Maya Rhodan / TIME:
President Obama: ‘I Am Worried About the Republican Party’

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and Fredonia Leader

Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Ed Rendell: Warren Is Not Ready To Be Commander-In-Chief, Shouldn't Be VP

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hot Air

Christian Gollayan / New York Post:

Turns out dating is really hard if you support Trump — Lifelong Republican David Goss, 35, was hanging out with his conservative friends in February when he came up with the idea of TrumpSingles.com, a dating website for supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Discussion: The Hill, Independent Journal …, Heat Street and New Republic

Glenn Thrush / Politico:

Morning Joe dishes on Trump, Zucker — Joe Scarborough is mastering the art of dealing Donald Trump the derision Trump loves to rain on others. — The “Morning Joe” co-host, former Florida congressman and longtime Friend of Donald found himself under fire during the early months …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Politicus USA, Hot Air, Mediaite and The Week

Bloomberg:

Welcome to Larry Page's Secret Flying-Car Factories — With Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk, the Google co-founder looks to the skies. — Three years ago, Silicon Valley developed a fleeting infatuation with a startup called Zee.Aero. The company had set up shop right next to Google's headquarters …

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, The Verge, Engadget and Mashable

Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:

Deepak Chopra: Trump Is ‘Emotionally Retarded, Maybe Mentally Retarded’ — The guru lamented how The Donald brings out the ‘worst’ in America—and then proceeded to lob insults. — The political rise of Donald Trump is so disturbing, even New Age guru Deepak Chopra has lost his good vibes.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Daily Wire, Mediaite, alan.com and FOX News Radio

Marc Caputo / Politico:

David Jolly considering withdrawing from Senate race — Under intense local, state and national pressure, U.S. Rep. David Jolly is considering whether to drop his bid for U.S. Senate and run for reelection against former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. — Jolly's campaign would neither confirm nor deny …

Discussion: National Review

John Harwood / CNBC:

Trump nom - Archaeologists will be studying the ruins for a while: GOP strategist — 'Jeb wasn't built for the stupidest campaign in the world': GOP strategist — CNBC's John Harwood interviews Mike Murphy, the former head of Jeb Bush's “Right to Rise” super PAC.

Discussion: Politico and The Week

Aaron Kliegman / Washington Free Beacon:

Pelosi Claims Government Created the iPhone, Not Steve Jobs or Apple — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claimed Thursday that the federal government created the iPhone rather than the technology company Apple or its former chief executive officer, Steve Jobs. — “Anybody here have a smartphone?”

Mike Deak / Asbury Park Press:

Student may be punished for insulting vegetarian — School allowed to give detention to student who told another sixth-grader that “vegetarians are idiots.” — MONTGOMERY - A school district is allowed to discipline a sixth-grader for bullying because he made disparaging remarks about a classmate's vegetarianism.

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and The Daily Caller