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Politico:
Trump's weaknesses with GOP voters go beyond the suburbs — Primary results from more than 1,000 counties show clear warning signs for Trump with Republican voters in exurbs and small towns. — The battle for Trump-skeptical Republican voters isn't just about the suburbs.
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Associated Press, PoliticusUSA, NBC News, The Daily Beast and The Texas Tribune
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Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Former Defense Secretary Tells Bill Maher He Is ‘Definitely Not’ Voting for Ex Boss — ‘DEFINITELY NOT’ — “There's no way I'll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that's where I'm at,” Esper said.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Why there's no big wave of immigrants voting illegally
Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren't two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor — A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed two ways, one with dripping condescension and the other with courtesy: — Why don't our opinion platforms …
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Balloon Juice
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
We Need to Talk About This — Today's widely discussed Trump post on Truth Social isn't just another instance of bad behavior. It's not just a shrug of the shoulders and a resigned sigh of, “What are you going to do?” Far too often, people resignedly accept Trump's behavior because they believe there's no alternative.
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The Hill, New York Magazine, New York Post, Raw Story, New York Daily News, Balloon Juice, PoliticusUSA and The Daily Beast
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Phillip M. Bailey / USA Today:
Donald Trump faces backlash after sharing video featuring a hogtied Joe Biden
Donald Trump faces backlash after sharing video featuring a hogtied Joe Biden
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MeidasTouch, The Hill, The Guardian, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Floridian, Mediaite and Raw Story
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck
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CNN, Politico, Axios, TMZ.com, The Moderate Voice, UPI, Business Insider and Diane Ravitch's blog
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Shares Video Featuring Image of a Hog-Tied Biden
Trump Shares Video Featuring Image of a Hog-Tied Biden
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Rolling Stone, Digby's Hullabaloo, MSNBC and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA's Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse — One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another.
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The Mahablog, MinnPost, Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Fox Business and Fox News
Peter Cordi / Washington Examiner:
Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility, sparking outrage online — President Joe Biden sparked outrage online when he proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday. This year, Easter Sunday falls on that day. — A number of prominent political figures …
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HotAir, Fox News, Raw Story, Politico, Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Twitchy, RedState, WGRZ-TV, Breitbart, New York Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Associated Press and Florida's Voice
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Jim Wallis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Bible Just Might Earn Him Eternal Damnation — NOT-SO-GOOD BOOK — Trump's Holy-Week grift not only makes him a heretic and an idolator but endangers his immortal soul. … I have vivid memories of then-President Donald Trump standing in front of St. John's Episcopal Church …
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Breitbart
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Trump, Blasphemous Bible Thumper
Donald Trump, Blasphemous Bible Thumper
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The Nation, Althouse, Raw Story, WORLD and Ultimate Newswire
Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
Publisher's slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry — A publisher's slip-up revealed that House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) is hawking a book about his effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a new report.
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Axios
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Who wouldn't like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say — Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high. Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago.
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Twitchy and Associated Press
Robert Reich:
Record corporate profits from your thinning wallets — The latest economic data shows two big things: — (1) Corporate profits reached a record high in the fourth quarter of last year. — (2) Inflation is still with us. The government reported Friday that the Fed's preferred inflation …
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
‘No one told me to leave’: Hochul defends decision to attend slain NYPD officer's wake — Hochul defended her decision to attend the wake for NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller after a confrontation with a mourner and increased scrutiny around her policies on crime.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Newsweek, New York Post, Fox News, Gothamist, Washington Times, HotAir, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, One America News Network and PIX11
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Rekindles Relationships With Key 2016 Donors — The former president met with the Mercers and others as he sought to keep pace financially with President Biden. — Donald J. Trump, facing a cash crunch that puts him at a severe disadvantage to President Biden, dined on Thursday night …
George Monbiot / The Guardian:
From the playground to politics, it's the bullies who rule. But it doesn't have to be this way — At every stage of our lives we are forced into destructive competition. It's not natural, and it holds the best people back — A large and impressive study of children's progress …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Bolton claims Trump 'doesn't have the brains' to be a dictator — Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said in an interview that his former boss, former President Trump “doesn't have the brains” to be a dictator, as questions arise about what a second Trump term would look like.
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Washington Examiner, Telegraph, The Guardian, HuffPost and Mediaite
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid — Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel's swift elimination of Hamas.” — “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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HuffPost, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, USA Today and NewsNation