memeorandum: Trump Lays Claim to Nomination Backed by Smashing Victories (Sahil Kapur/Bloomberg)

7:30 AM ET, April 27, 2016

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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:

Bernie Sanders to Reassess Candidacy After Tuesday's Vote, but He'll Stay in Race — Join us for live updates on the five states voting on Tuesday. — Updated, 4:00 p.m. | PHILADELPHIA — Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign advisers plan to reassess where his candidacy stands …

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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:

Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states — These 10 states will decide whether Trump is the GOP nominee … PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton all but secured the Democratic nomination Tuesday after a long and bruising primary fight against rival Sen. Bernie Sanders …

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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:

Hillary supporters take down Bernie FB pages in coordinated porn attack — Multiple Facebook pages supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — were abruptly removed from the social media network late last night following an apparent coordinated cyberattack.

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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

Winners and losers from the I-95 primaries … Voters in five states stretching from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast went to the polls on Tuesday. At the presidential level, Donald Trump crushed his two remaining competitors while Hillary Clinton looked well positioned to extend her delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.

Discussion: Indianapolis Star, Los Angeles Times, National Review and The Moderate Voice

Saul Hubbard / Register-Guard:

Kasich campaign fails to get him included in Oregon's voters' pamphlet — John Kasich, one of only three still-standing GOP presidential candidates, isn't featured in Oregon's voters' pamphlet for the May primary election — an embarrassing blunder for any major campaign.

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New York Times:
Pulling Away From Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Is Turning to the Fall

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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Donald Trump says women don't like Hillary Clinton. They dislike him even more.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Peak town hall: Man confronts Hillary Clinton on crime bill at two separate television events

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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Donald Trump Advises Bernie Sanders to Run as an Independent

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ABC News:
Harry Reid Says Sanders Has No Path to the Nomination

Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo

Ashley Feinberg / Gawker:

Ted Cruz Desecrates Classic Movie Scene By Calling Hoop a “Basketball Ring” — While stumping in Indiana tonight, Ted Cruz attempted to recreate a classic scene from Hoosiers in the very same gym in which part of the movie (thought not this particular scene) was filmed.

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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

IT'S OFFICIAL=> Ted Cruz Is Mathematically ELIMINATED from GOP Race - With Chart — As we predicted on April 2nd.... As of today, April 26, 2016, Ted Cruz is mathematically eliminated from winning the Republican nomination outright. — On April 2nd we predicted that Donald Trump …

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al.com:
How many delegates are up for grabs in the Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island primaries?

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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:

Trump Lays Claim to Nomination Backed by Smashing Victories — Blowout victories in five states put the anti-Trump movement in serious jeopardy, with one card left to play. — If Donald Trump didn't kill the “stop Trump” movement on Tuesday night, he left it battered and bruised.

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump

Discussion: Politico, New York Times and Balloon Juice

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Kasich ‘moving ahead’ after brutal losses

Discussion: Washington Post

ABC News:
Northeastern Primaries: Republican Exit Poll Analysis

Discussion: Prntly, Business Insider and Associated Press

Caleb Howe / RedState:

First Exit Poll Info From Super Duper Tuesday Is In, And On The Delegate Process ... Uh Oh, GOP — Bad news in the exits. Remember there are a lot* delegates up for grabs today. And on that topic ... DELEGATES: — CNN reports that 68% of voters in Connecticut say that if nobody gets 1,237 …

NBC News:

Live Blog: Exit Poll Analysis From Tuesday's Primaries — Voters in five states — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island — head to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests.

Discussion: Politicus USA

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Today Is Clinton's Chance To End The ‘Groundhog Day’ Campaign

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Wall Street Journal:

Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation for More Than $3 Billion — Deal would join DreamWorks Animation with Comcast's Universal Pictures — Comcast Corp. is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. for more than $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …

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Fox News:

NY judge decides Trump University case going to trial — A New York judge decided Tuesday that a fraud case against Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors will go to trial - raising the possibility that the Republican presidential primary front-runner could testify during campaign season.

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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Donald Trump Will Be Called to Testify in Trial About His ‘University’

Discussion: The Week and Associated Press

Baltimore Sun:

Four Baltimore polling sites stay open an hour late … Voting was extended by one hour at four polling locations in Baltimore Tuesday evening after the U.S. Senate campaign of Rep. Donna Edwards sought a court order to keep open sites where voting had been delayed.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CBS Baltimore

Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Judge extends voting hours at 4 Baltimore sites after complaint from Rep. Donna Edwards

Discussion: The Week and Vox

David Barnett / Guardian:

Hugo awards shortlist dominated by rightwing campaign — For the second year running, the biggest prize in science-fiction and fantasy writing has been monopolised by nominations from Sad and Rabid Puppies groups, who campaign against works “overtly to the left”

Discussion: Breitbart and The Week

D. Brian Burghart / Gawker:

What I Learned About the Washington Post From Four Years Collecting Data on Police Violence — Earlier this month, the Washington Post was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its project on police violence, “Fatal Force.” The Pulitzer Prize Board singled out the paper …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

New York Post:

Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge — A 32-year-old man jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning - but miraculously survived the 135-foot plunge, authorities said. — The unidentified emotionally disturbed man walked to the middle of the iconic span's pedestrian pathway …

Peter Sterne / Politico:

Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist resigns — Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith resigned from the paper on Tuesday, after the paper prevented him from writing about casino owners Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, whose family owns the Review-Journal.

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Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Editor: Columnist can't write about Adelson at Adelson News

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WikiGuido / Guido Fawkes:

Labour MP: Israelis Should Face “Transportation” Out of Middle East — A Labour MP has argued Israel should be “relocated” to America and praised the “transportation costs” of deporting Israeli Jews out of the Middle East. Naz Shah, who defeated George Galloway in Bradford West …

Discussion: Pamela Geller, Telegraph and Jewish Telegraphic Agency