memeorandum: Donald Trump Says ‘Rigged’ Convention Should Not Be Met With Violence (Maggie Haberman/New York Times)

6:25 PM ET, April 17, 2016

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Katie Glueck / Politico:

Trump massacred in delegate fights once more — It was another delegate bloodbath for Donald Trump. — In Georgia. In Wyoming. In South Carolina. In Kansas. In Florida. Ted Cruz put on a clinic, mobilizing his GOP activist base to capture at least 50 delegates on Saturday …

Discussion: Slate, Newsmax, CNN, Oklahoma Grassroots, Debbie Dooley, RedState, The Charlotte Observer and Fox News

Kevin McCullough / Townhall.com:

Why Trump Loses — When Donald Trump looks back at the wasted time and money he put forward in producing the biggest flame-out in Presidential nominating history, he's going to easily be able to point to exactly where he lost it. — I've long thought of elections as similar to prize fights or NFL football match-ups.

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Donald Trump Is Outperforming Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders AND Hillary Clinton — Donald Trump is not only outperforming Ted Cruz in the election to date, he also outperforms Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as well. — The election results to date (as of Sunday April 17th) show that Trump outshines all the candidates.

Patrick Howley / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE — Trump Campaign: Cruz Staged ‘Attack’ In Georgia To Steal Delegates...'Not Grassroots Activism'

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Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump Supporters Steal American Flag, Walk out of Georgia Convention After Losing Delegate Fight

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Political Insider blog

Jim Galloway / Political Insider blog:
Donald Trump gets outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz forces in Georgia

Discussion: RedState, Washington Monthly, Post and Courier, Politico, Hot Air, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, ABC News, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN and Breitbart

Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Ted Cruz wins Wyoming Republican presidential nominating contest

Discussion: The Resurgent and AOL

Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:

Trump on contested convention: 'I hope it doesn't involve violence' … STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he hopes a contested Republican convention in July “doesn't involve violence” if he is denied the nomination during second-ballot voting.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo and Althouse

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: 62% Say Republican with Most Votes Should Be Nominee — More than six in 10 Republican voters believe that, if no GOP presidential candidate wins a majority of delegates before the convention, the one with the most votes should be the party's nominee, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Discussion: Washington Post, Guardian, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

CBS News:

Poll: Donald Trump keeps large lead in New York; ahead in California — Donald Trump heads into his home-state primary of New York with a large edge over Ted Cruz and John Kasich, 54 percent to 21 percent and 19 percent respectively. The lead, if it holds Tuesday night …

Discussion: Hot Air, Hullabaloo and RedState

Maggie Haberman / New York Times: Donald Trump Says ‘Rigged’ Convention Should Not Be Met With Violence

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
RNC chief: No changes to delegate requirement likely

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Politico

Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics: Priebus to Trump: “Delegates And Voters Choose The Nominee”; People Don't “Give A Darn” About Colorado

Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
Trump threatens a ‘rough time’ at the Republican National Convention if he isn't given the nomination

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump to RNC: Reform nomination system or ‘have a rough July at that convention’

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill: Republican Party delegates feel sudden power as balance shifts

Paul Sperry / New York Post:

How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11 — In its report on the still-censored “28 pages” implicating the Saudi government in 9/11, “60 Minutes” last weekend said the Saudi role in the attacks has been “soft-pedaled” to protect America's delicate alliance with the oil-rich kingdom.

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Daily Mail:

Victims of 9/11 families accuse Obama of ‘siding with Saudi Arabia’ by refusing to declassify 28 pages of report that ‘shows Gulf nation backed atrocity’ as they threaten to pull $750 billion in US assets — Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Juberi told Washington lawmakers the country …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Independent Journal …, Hot Air and American Thinker

Laura Bult / New York Daily News:

Hundreds of New York state voters to file suit calling the closed primary ‘a threat to our democratic system’ after claiming their party affiliation mysteriously changed — More than 200 outraged New York voters have joined a lawsuit claiming the party affiliation on their voter registration changed without their consent.

Discussion: Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

EndPlay / WSB-TV:

Police: Mother leaves infant in hot car for strip club audition, 2 arrested — Two women face charges after an infant was left in a hot car outside of a strip club in Tennessee as the child's mother was onstage for an audition, according to multiple reports.

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Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:

Sanders Lawyers Do Not Like These “Bernie Is My Comrade” T-Shirts One Bit — The Bernie Sanders campaign has asked a company to stop selling merchandise with the tagline “Bernie is my comrade.” — An online merchant has accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of “trademark bullying” …

Discussion: Boing Boing, Althouse and Red Alert Politics

Jerome R. Corsi / WND:

Another taxpayer-funded solar-energy company fails — Collapse of Spain's ‘Solyndra’ poses election-year embarrassment — Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff writer. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers “The Obama Nation” and “Unfit for Command.”

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Liz Kreutz / ABC News:

Hillary Clinton Says ‘I Really Could Care Less’ About Donald Trump Calling Her ‘Crooked Hillary’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, AOL, Business Insider, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, New York Times, New York Magazine, BizPac Review, Fox News Insider and Associated Press

Alison Smale / New York Times:

German Comic Who Lampooned Erdogan to Extend Break From TV Show — BERLIN — The satirist whose crude lampoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey touched off a furor over free speech in Germany announced Saturday that he and his team would take a break from their satirical TV show until May 12.