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2:00 PM ET, April 30, 2016

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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia KKK Leader Endorses Trump: ‘What He Believes In, We Believe In’ (VIDEO)  —  In a sit-down interview with a Richmond news station, the Imperial Wizard of the Rebel Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan said Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is his candidate for President.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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New York Times:
Mocking Critics, Donald Trump Says He Can Win Without Republican Unity  —  BURLINGAME, Calif. — Donald J. Trump got a taste on Friday of what his next month of campaigning in California could be like.  He was forced to exit his motorcade and walk through a field, climbing an embankment …
Discussion: RedState and Althouse
Cassie Spodak / CNN:
Kasich: People are ‘probably’ born gay  —  San Francisco (CNN)John Kasich told an audience here Friday that some people are “probably” born gay after being pressed on the issue by an audience member who said he was gay.  —  San Francisco resident Kelly Bryan, 62, asked Kasich the question …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Will Rioters Hand the Election to Trump?
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Complex
Chris Thomas / WWBT-TV:
KKK leader disavows violent past, declares Trump ‘best’ for president
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Protesters storm Iraqi parliament in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — Protesters stormed Iraq's parliament on Saturday, bursting into the capital's fortified Green Zone, where other key buildings, including the U.S. Embassy, are located.  —  Live footage on Iraqi television showed swarms of protesters …
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Associated Press:
ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS BREACH BAGHDAD'S GREEN ZONE
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
George F. Will / Washington Post:
If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House  —  Donald Trump's damage to the Republican Party, although already extensive, has barely begun.  Republican quislings will multiply, slinking into support of the most anti-conservative presidential aspirant in their party's history.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Gains On Clinton, But Both Have Sky-High Negatives: IBD/TIPP Poll  —  Riding on a string of big victories in the presidential primaries, Donald Trump has not only extended his lead against his GOP rivals, but also he has gained ground against Hillary Clinton, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll.
Discussion: Prntly
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Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Clinton shifting staff to general election swing states
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton to take hard line with Sanders, say allies
Tom Schaller / American Prospect:
I�M THE A—HOLE?  —  IM THE A—HOLE?  At the lobby at the Washington Hilton at the DNC winter meetings, I headed over to a conversation between political columnist Roger Simon and former DNC Chairman Don Fowler of South Carolina.  (Not to be confused with Donnie Fowler, his son, who ran for DNC chair in 2004.)
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow.  Glenn Beck Admits He Blew Half a Million Stumping for Ted Cruz (Video)  —  Glenn Beck admitted today he lost almost half a million dollars traveling around giving sermons with Ted Cruz.  —  Beck posted the video today on The Blaze website: … That was a bust.
Discussion: Joe Hoft and The Daily Beast
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Matt Forney:
Indiana Campaign Dispatch Part 2: Ted and Carly Sittin' in a Tree...  My next stop on the Hoosier State campaign trail was South Bend, where Ted Cruz and his fellow pervert Carly Fiorina were holding a rally at the Century Center.  If I had any doubt about the Cruz campaign being in panic mode, the rally would have crushed it.
Discussion: The Last Refuge and WANE-TV
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Trump supporter attacks Muslim woman with ‘unknown liquid’ after cops fail to act: activists  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  The Council on American-Islamic relations (CAIR) is calling for police in Washington D.C. to preserve video of what was described as an attack …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CAIR
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Clinton: I can handle men who go ‘off the reservation’ … Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton  —  says she has experience dealing with men who “get off the reservation” like GOP front-runner Donald Trump  —  “I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off …
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Discussion: Mediaite, Slate and Associated Press
John Sides / Washington Post:
The most underappreciated fact of the election: Americans feel good about the economy … In an election season about voter anger, one important thing is underappreciated: voter optimism.  And in particular, optimism about the economy.  —  “Wait, what?” you may be thinking.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Booman Tribune
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
GOP Elites Reaching ‘Acceptance’ Phase for Donald Trump  —  Protests at Donald Trump rally turn violent; John Boehner bashes Ted Cruz 3:13  —  With Donald Trump's path to the nomination looking wider by the day, a number of top Republicans are signaling their willingness to support his candidacy …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
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George Bennett / Post On Politics:
Marco Rubio on U.S. Sugar land buy, Donald Trump, Zika, Laremy Tunsil
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
African-American Leader: Trump's Message “Resonates” With Black Voters (VIDEO)  —  African-American Attorney Nikki Johnson-Huston defended Donald J. Trump and his supporters this week in an article at The Huffington Post titled “Trump 2016: In Defense of the White Working Class Voter.”
Lynn Vavreck / New York Times:
Insults and Ads: How Gender Hurts Trump but Doesn't Lift Clinton  —  Donald Trump thinks Hillary Clinton is playing “the women's card.”  But evidence suggests that if anything is making gender a potent issue in this campaign, it's Mr. Trump's words, not Mrs. Clinton's.  —  How do we know?
Liam Ford / Chicago Tribune:
Prosecutors: Chicago cop was shot when fleeing suspect tossed gun  —  Rafael Martir-Ubiles, 25, is charged in the shooting of a Chicago police officer April 25, 2016.  —  A suspect fleeing police tried to throw his gun onto a roof, but it hit a wall instead and went off, hitting an officer in the shoulder, prosecutors said Thursday.
Discussion: Guns.com
 
 
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Daily Mail:
Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam is BOOED by radicalised inmates at his prison …
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Racist Trump Fan Arrested With Stockpile Of Pipe Bombs After Threatening Obama
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune:
Thousands flock to ‘miracle’ icon at south suburban church
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
The Hill:
Republicans who vow to never back Trump
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
When We Forget  —  Donald Trump will rise, and keep rising …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jamie Satterfield / USA Today:
Ex-nuke manager admits Chinese paid him for secrets
CBS Miami:
Tunsil Tries To Tamp Down Furor Regarding His Draft Freefall
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Nudd / Adweek:
Temptations Made a Collar That Finally Gives Your Cat a Human Voice, So It Can Talk to You
Bethania Palma Markus / Raw Story:
Pastor says he took pictures of Heaven — but lost them when his phone was stolen
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman sent to solitary confinement
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
VIDEO=> LEFTISTS AND OPEN BORDER THUGS Bust Through Security and Storm California GOP Convention
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
New poll finds Cruz with double-digit lead in Indiana
Discussion: Hot Air
Media Matters for America:
Wayne Simmons, Right Wing Media's Benghazi Expert, Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Discussion: Politicus USA and Hullabaloo
Los Angeles Times:
Live updates from California Republican Party convention: Trump arrives for lunch speech as protests get more intense
Discussion: New York Magazine
 

 
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