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4:10 PM ET, May 5, 2016

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Predictably enough, the hand-wringing has already begun among some Democrats over the prospect of Donald Trump waging “unpredictable” attacks on Hillary Clinton and the possibility that the Clinton camp will be …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland … Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will be officially nominated — an unusual move that underscores the deep unease …
David Roberts / Vox:
Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton down  —  It now seems all but certain that the presidential election will see Donald Trump face off against Hillary Clinton.  —  We find ourselves at the tail end of a brief period of clarity.  For the past few months …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump  —  Throngs of GOP foreign policy officials remain unwilling to support Donald Trump  —  as the party's presidential nominee, with many of them preparing for a self-imposed exile from presidential politics.  —  Many veterans of the Mitt Romney's failed 2012 campaign …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain on tape: Trump damages my reelection hopes  —  Publicly, John McCain insists Donald Trump will have a negligible effect on his campaign for reelection.  But behind closed doors at a fundraiser in Arizona last month, the Republican senator and two-time presidential hopeful offered a far more dire assessment to his supporters.
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap  —  The writer is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post.  —  Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it.  He turned his attacks against women against her.
Discussion: Althouse and The Slot
Dan Turkel / Business Insider:
NATE SILVER: ‘We basically got the Republican race wrong’  —  In September 2015, writer and statistician Nate Silver urged people to “calm down” about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination.  —  Two months later, he wrote that the media should …
Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: Shakesville
Mother Jones:
Clinton Releases a Brutal Anti-Trump Ad
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Mitt Romney to Skip July's GOP Convention
Discussion: The Last Refuge and Yahoo
Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change
ABC News:
Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Ted Cruz's $10 million donor backs Donald Trump
Discussion: CNN and AOL
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:   Donald Trump's policy plans are real, detailed — and great
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Grassley: Trump would nominate ‘right type’ to court
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Please don't mainstream Trump
Discussion: Vox and Washington Monthly
Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA  —  TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward:  —  (...or, stated more simply)  —  TO: The majority of America:  —  Note: If you are one of those rare souls …
The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral Scorecard Ratings in 13 States  —  This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year.  Although we remain convinced that Hillary Clinton is very vulnerable and would probably lose to most other Republicans, Donald Trump's historic unpopularity with wide swaths of the electorate …
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP  —  Donald Trump has hired a Wall Street tycoon who has donated more than twice as much to Democrats as to Republicans to be his campaign's finance chair, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.
fda.gov:
FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation  —  Rule extending oversight to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, allows agency to address public health concerns such as youth access to tobacco products … For Immediate Release
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Jayne O'Donnell / USA Today:
Feds announce final e-cigarette rule that nearly bans them
Discussion: Vox, NPR and LawNewz
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Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
Tow Truck Driver Leaves Woman With Disabilities On Side Of Highway Because She Supports Bernie Sanders
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Rule on Arbitration Would Restore Right to Sue Banks  —  The nation's consumer watchdog is unveiling a proposed rule on Thursday that would restore customers' rights to bring class-action lawsuits against financial firms, giving Americans major new protections and delivering a serious blow …
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Eric Goldberg / Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
CFPB proposes prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses that deny groups of consumers their day in court
Discussion: ThinkProgress, 89.3 KPCC and Forbes
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The Best of New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat's Incorrect Predictions That Trump Would Lose the GOP Nomination  —  The demises of Ted Cruz and John Kasich's primary campaigns almost certainly assure, in the absence of some intervening event or act of God, that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President.
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC won't meet Obama administration's Monday deadline on House Bill 2, House speaker says  —  Department of Justice says HB2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX  —  Tim Moore: ‘We will take no action by Monday’  —  House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday that legislators won't meet …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump super PAC strategist found guilty of 2012 campaign-finance violations … Jesse Benton, a political strategist for former congressman Ron Paul who went on to run the pro-Trump Great America PAC, has been found guilty on four charges relating to the 2012 Paul presidential campaign.
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Grant Rodgers / Des Moines Register:
Ron Paul ex-aides guilty in payment scandal
Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
KFC, With New Nail Polish, Redefines Chicken Fingers  —  HONG KONG — Assume, for the sake of argument, that KFC's fried chicken is, as advertised, “finger lickin' good.”  —  Would you really want it to remain on your fingers?  Indefinitely?  —  These are just two of the salient questions raised …
Discussion: NPR, The Week, CBS Los Angeles and WNEP-TV
 
 
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Chelsea Handler: Impulsive, Provocative and Streaming on Netflix
Discussion: Slantpoint and Mashable
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and alan.com
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump plans Capitol Hill visit
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
AAF:
The Labor And Output Declines From Removing All Undocumented Immigrants
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WMTW-TV:
LePage to challenge King for Senate seat if not selected to Trump Administration
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns
Daily Mail:
Tom and Jerry are blamed for ISIS: Head of Egypt's Information Service blames cartoon characters …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
The Republican Horse Race Is Over, and Journalism Lost
Katie Van-Syckle / Variety:
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Caught on Hot Mic Ogling Melania Trump
 

 
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