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9:55 PM ET, May 3, 2016

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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race  —  Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday night, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz drops out of the Republican presidential race  —  Live updates … INDIANAPOLIS — Ted Cruz, the insurgent Texan whose presidential campaign was fueled by disdain for Washington, dropped out of the 2016 race Tuesday night, removing the last major hurdle in Donald Trump's quest to become the Republican nominee for president.
Associated Press:
Trump dashes Cruz's hopes in Indiana; Sanders-Clinton close  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana's primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear …
Maeve Reston / CNN:
Ted Cruz drops presidential bid  —  (CNN)Ted Cruz bowed out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday following a crushing loss to Donald Trump in Indiana, clearing the path for the real estate mogul to clinch the GOP nomination.  —  It was a remarkable turn of events in a presidential primary race …
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Gets What It Deserves  —  ‘America First’ is the inevitable outcome of the Republican descent into populism.  —  A joke in Milan Kundera's novel “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” goes like this: “In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump, Sanders lead in West Virginia
Discussion: The Last Refuge
CBS News:
Live updates: Republican primary in Indiana
Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Cruz's slip of the tongue will doom him in Indiana
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The crisis in the Republican Party is even worse than it looks  —  Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president, and this alarms ideological conservatives for several reasons:  —  1. They think he will lose badly to Hillary Clinton, perhaps so badly that Republicans lose control of both houses of Congress.
Discussion: Vox
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump is really going to be the nominee.  This is actually happening.  —  Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee.  —  The only way he won't is if something unthinkable happens.  He could be struck by lightning.  He could pull off his Trump mask and reveal that he's actually …
Discussion: Hit & Run and New York Magazine
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
McCain's Former Top Aide Will Support Clinton Over Trump  —  A former aide to John McCain, who served both as the Arizona senator's chief of staff and a senior advisor on his 2008 presidential campaign, made clear Tuesday that he would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the general election.
Discussion: New York Daily News and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
The Third-Party Temptation  —  A conservative challenge to Trump could cost the GOP the House.  —  As Donald Trump gets closer to securing the Republican nomination for President, luminaries of varying illumination are floating the idea of a conservative third-party challenge in November.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Former Reagan campaign manager joins pro-Trump super PAC
Discussion: CNN
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
GOP establishment moves from ‘Never Trump’ to just ‘Trump’
Discussion: Washington Post
Carlo Allegri / National Review:
Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
Discussion: Althouse and Maggie's Farm
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
What's the Best Way to Talk About Racism?
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump accuses Cruz's father of helping JFK's assassin  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz's father was with John F. Kennedy's assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing …
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The Hill:
Cruz: Trump is an ‘utterly amoral’ bully, narcissist, pathological liar … with his most personal and toughest criticism since the GOP presidential campaign began, calling him a “pathological liar” on Tuesday who doesn't understand the difference between the truth and lies.
Gretawire:
I don't know about “Lyin' Ted” but I do know about “Doesn't Tell The Whole Story Ted”
Discussion: Mediaite, Politico and TVNewser
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
Bernie Sanders declares war on reality  —  Instead of coming to grips with the overwhelming evidence that Democratic primary voters prefer Hillary Clinton be the party's 2016 presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders continues to create his own political reality — devising new and creative excuses …
Discussion: MSNBC, USA Today and Sky Dancing
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton's Growing Problem With Independents
Discussion: Shadowproof
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
There Is A Hole In Bernie Sanders' Strategy For Winning The Nomination
CBS 5 AZ KPHO:
Mesa, AZ student arrested for indecent exposure in yearbook picture  —  A student at Red Mountain High School in Mesa is facing dozens of criminal charges for indecent exposure after a prank got published in the yearbook, according to the Mesa Police Department.
Discussion: Vox, Complex, LawNewz, NBC News and Mashable
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Mythology Of Trump's ‘Working Class’ Support  —  It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites.  There are elements of truth in this perspective: Republican voters, especially Trump supporters, are unhappy about the direction of the economy.
Discussion: CBS Philly and Washington Post
Tom Steele / Crime Blog:
Selfie provoked argument that led to fatal Arlington shooting, suspect's wife says  —  Updated May 3: Revised throughout to include new details.  —  By JULIETA CHIQUILLO and TOM STEELE  —  Staff Writers  —  The wife of the suspect in an Arlington slaying says a revealing selfie set off …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
‘He thought he could help’: Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead
Discussion: Guns.com and Fox News Insider
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
In N.Y., White House poised to create first monument to gay rights struggle  —  Live updates … President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood …
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Nice Try: Transgender Woman's Story About Harassment At North Carolina Bathroom Seems To Be A Lie  —  Oh, here we go again.  It's another story of harassment against the LGBT community that appears to be a tall tale.  Transwoman Alexis Adams said she was “humiliated beyond belief” …
The Huffington Post:
Terms and Conditions  —  Welcome to The Huffington Post.  Please read these Terms and Conditions before using, or submitting content in any form or medium for publication on, The Huffington Post.  By continuing to use us, or by submitting content for publication on The Huffington Post …
Ben Howe / RedState:
I lied to myself for years about who my allies were.  No more.  —  Donald Trump is my fault as much as anyone else's.  —  It started way back in 2009-2010 when the Tea Party erupted on the scene.  At the core of the tea party was a principle that I agreed with so much that I became a conservative activist during that time period.
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
After Navy SEAL Killed on Front Lines, White House Still Refusing to Call U.S. Troop Role in Iraq Combat  —  Tuesday morning Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced a Navy SEAL operating as an advisor to Peshmerga forces was killed on the front lines against ISIS.
Discussion: gopthedailydose.com
 
 
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