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Jake Sherman / Politico:
How Ryan decided to ditch Trump  —  On Wednesday morning, not even 24 hours after Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, Paul Ryan convened his top advisers for a call.  With Congress out of session, Ryan was bouncing between multiple states, raising the piles of money needed …
Wall Street Journal:
Ben Carson Says Donald Trump Could Consider Democrat for Running Mate  —  Former GOP candidate, now a Trump ally, also takes his name out of the running as possible pick  —  Ben Carson, the former rival now helping presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump choose a running mate …
Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: Rick Perry endorses Donald Trump for president  —  Washington (CNN)Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told CNN Thursday he will support Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and will do everything he can do to help him get elected.  —  Perry, speaking by phone …
New York Times:
Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump  —  The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said on Thursday night that he would support Donald J. Trump now that he has become the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.  —  “Yes, I'm a Republican, he's a Republican,” Mr. Adelson said in a brief interview.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
‘Dismayed’ Romney says he doesn't intend to back Trump, worried about ‘demagoguery and populism’  —  Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, said at a dinner in Washington on Thursday night that he had no intention of supporting presumtive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump …
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Everyone Is Getting Today's Trump Tweet Totally Wrong  —  I think everyone is badly misinterpreting this tweet from Donald Trump: … This is not an awkward and embarrassing outreach to Hispanics.  It's not aimed at Hispanics at all.  It's aimed at white people.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Donald Trump's relentless media tour calls attention to him —and his general-election strategy
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump rules out Democrat as running mate
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:   Carson Says He Won't Be Considered For Trump's VP, But A Dem Might Be
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
Discussion: The Week
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Third-party push gaining steam  —  Momentum is building in the conservative movement for a third-party alternative to Donald Trump  —  The effort got a big boost from Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.) on Thursday when he said he wasn't yet ready to back Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee.
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Ben White / Politico:
Hillary forces target Bush donors
Discussion: ABC News
Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders poised for May win streak
Discussion: Althouse
Devin Henry / The Hill:
West Virginia is no longer Clinton country
Discussion: Forbes and The Week
David Samuels / New York Times:
The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru  —  How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age.  —  Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal  —  MORE FROM:  —  Congratulations, liberals of the Washington press corps and elite organizations: You're a bunch of suckers.  We all know this because the Obama White House just told us so.  —  In an astounding New York Times piece …
Discussion: Instapundit
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Foreign Policy Guru Boasts of How the Administration Lied to Sell the Iran Deal
CNN:
First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe  —  (CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email …
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Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers More Hillary Clinton Emails Withheld from State Department
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors in Virginia assisting in Clinton email probe
Bloomberg.com:
Why GOP Strategist Mary Matalin Is Registering as a Libertarian  —  Republican strategist Mary Matalin discusses Donald Trump and her decision to change her party affiliation on “With All Due Respect.”
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Charles Thompson / PennLive.com:
Child told Paterno of sex abuse in 1976, court papers allege  —  Court documents state that “in 1976, a child allegedly reported to PSU's Head Coach Joseph Paterno that he (the child) was sexually molested by Sandusky.” … A new bombshell dropped in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal Thursday.
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Idea to Cut National Debt: Get Creditors to Accept Less  —  One day after assuring Americans he is not running for president “to make things unstable for the country,” the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, said in a television interview Thursday that he might seek …
Discussion: rubber hose
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Confronted On Past Support For Invading Iraq: “Blah, Blah, Blah, Yes, I Guess”  —  Challenged by Bret Baier on his claims that he opposed the Iraq war, Trump cited a “2003, 2004” Reuters article that came out 17 months after the war began.  —  View Video ›
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Huckabee Rips #NeverTrump: If You're Not Going to Support Voters' Choice, Leave the GOP  —  Former GOP candidate Mike Huckabee has come out in loud support of Donald Trump this week and is now blasting any Republicans threatening not to back him.  —  Shortly after Trump all but clinched …
Milo / Breitbart:
Here's Why The Left Is So Desperate To Defend The New Feminist Ghostbusters  —  Man, am I tired of being right!  Sure as night follows day, the trailer for the new, feminist-friendly, chick-laden Ghostbusters is tanking on YouTube.  With nearly 750,000 dislikes, it is the most hated trailer in the site's history.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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John Perazzo / Front Page Magazine:
How The Liberal Welfare State Destroyed Black America
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Former Ron Paul aide, Trump super PAC chief convicted in campaign finance trial
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Politico
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Feds Put Credit Card Felon In Charge of Major VA Purchasing Program
Discussion: Hot Air and Instapundit
Camille Paglia / Salon:
It's not about sexism: Camille Paglia on Trump, Hillary's “restless bitterness” and the end of the elites
Allen Guelzo / Washington Monthly:
A Springfield Education  —  Sidney Blumenthal's Elegant Chronicle …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
 Earlier Items: 
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Barry Diller: Donald Trump is ‘actually of evil character’
Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING. Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan
Discussion: MSNBC, The Week and neo-neocon
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