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10:25 AM ET, April 27, 2016

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Trump's Nomination To Lose*  —  Tuesday night went about as well as possible for Donald Trump.  —  Two weeks ago, after a rough stretch of states for Trump, we issued a series of delegate projections that included something called a “path-to-1,237” projection, a set of targets …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory  —  Donald J. Trump is essentially two key states from the nomination.  —  By sweeping five states on Tuesday, he pulled only a few hundred Republican delegates short of the 1,237 he needs to win without a contested convention.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Ted Cruz is crumbling before our very eyes  —  MORE FROM:  —  For the past few weeks, Republican campaign professionals and conservatives who are seeing the GOP nomination heading into Donald Trump's hands have been counseling anti-Trump voters not to panic and consoling themselves …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:   Trump starts spending to end Cruz in Indiana
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:   Trump Lays Claim to Nomination Backed by Smashing Victories
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Primary Takeaways: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Edge Closer to Nominations
Discussion: RedState, The Week and Raw Story
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Indiana looms large for Cruz's slender hopes after Trump sweeps Northeast
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Kasich ‘moving ahead’ after brutal losses
Discussion: Washington Post
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system ‘rigged’ - poll  —  More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is “rigged” and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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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 …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Trump Can't Beat Clinton.  Who Says?  —  In the Democratic and Republican presidential races right now, we're hearing a lot of claims about electability in general-election matchups.  —  Ted Cruz says he's the only Republican who can beat Hillary Clinton in November, while John Kasich …
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton decisively wins Democratic primaries in 4 states
Discussion: Politico, Scared Monkeys and ABC News
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton's refusal to quit in 2008 haunts her in 2016
Discussion: Political Wire
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Peak town hall: Man confronts Hillary Clinton on crime bill at two separate television events
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 …
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Sci-Fi's Hugo Awards Swept by Anti-SJW Authors — Again!  —  For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction & fantasy have been swept by the Sad Puppies & Rabid Puppies, two groups of authors and fans who oppose left-wing domination of the community.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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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”
Baltimore Sun:
DeRay Mckesson finishes 6th in Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor … Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson finished in sixth place Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Baltimore mayor.  —  With 95 percent of results tallied, Mckesson garnered 3,008 votes — or 2.5 percent of the total.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Cult of Sore Losers  —  Bernie Sanders isn't losing.  Just ask many of his backers or listen to some of his own complaints.  He's being robbed, a victim of antiquated rules, voter suppression, shady arithmetic and a corrupt Democratic establishment.  The swindle includes …
Los Angeles Times:
Clash over anti-Trump motion boils over in Anaheim: ‘Keep your noses out of the national election’  —  Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed at Anaheim City Hall on Tuesday as the City Council considers a resolution denouncing the GOP presidential candidate.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, KTLA and Raw Story
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 …
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.
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement  —  Last Friday, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights to more than 200,000 people with previous felony convictions.  It's a momentous stroke in both scope and effect; with an eye towards the 2016 races …
 
 
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's sweep is another humiliating defeat for media and political elites
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In state after state, strong GOP support for Trump's Muslim proposal
KSTP-TV:
Another Defendant in Terror-Recruiting Case Pleads Guilty
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Sanders should run as an independent
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Cannes Faces Backlash Over Chilling Terrorist Simulation Video
Discussion: Guardian
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
How the state of the economy is literally killing people
Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times:
Exclusive Carly Rae Jepsen, Charli XCX to headline expanded L.A. Pride Music Festival
Discussion: Gay Star News and Towleroad
 Earlier Items: 
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
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Discussion: Boing Boing, The Verge and Mashable
Baltimore Sun:
Four Baltimore polling sites stay open an hour late
D. Brian Burghart / Gawker:
What I Learned About the Washington Post From Four Years Collecting Data on Police Violence
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Post:
Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium
Caleb Howe / RedState:
First Exit Poll Info From Super Duper Tuesday Is In, And On The Delegate Process ... Uh Oh, GOP