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1:10 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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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 …
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 …
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.
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
RIP, GOP  —  On Tuesday night the Republican voters of Indiana delivered the final verdict on the Republican primary race, giving Donald Trump a crushing 15-point victory over Ted Cruz.  Two hours after the polls closed, Cruz acknowledged the writing on the wall and dropped out of the race.
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Won't Self-Fund General-Election Campaign  —  Presumptive Republican nominee plans to create ‘world-class finance organization’ to back campaign  —  Donald Trump won't self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a “world-class finance organization,” …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Scarborough: I won't vote for Trump if he doesn't change  —  If Donald Trump maintains his hard-line stance on immigration and his call to bar Muslims from entering the United States in the general election against Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Republican nominee is in for a bruising defeat …
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Ted Cruz's $10 million donor backs Donald Trump
Discussion: CNN and AOL
New York Times:
Donald Trump Reaches Out, Quietly, to Republican Establishment
Discussion: ABC News and Salon
Jordan Rudner / The Texas Tribune:
Bush 41, 43 Have No Plans to Endorse Trump
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Grassley: Trump would nominate ‘right type’ to court
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap
Discussion: Althouse and The Slot
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:   Donald Trump's policy plans are real, detailed — and great
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Spoiler: They can't.  —  Suppose the Republican Party's elites …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Politico and Hot Air
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Please don't mainstream Trump
Discussion: 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 …
Fox News:
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’  —  Marcel Lazar Lehel, 40, is escorted by masked policemen in Bucharest, after being arrested in Arad, 337 miles west of Bucharest.  (Reuters) (REUTERS/Mediafax/Silviu Matei)  —  EXCLUSIVE: The infamous Romanian hacker known as …
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NBC News:
Hacker ‘Guccifer’: I Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Server  —  The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton's private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State's “completely unsecured” server.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Blames Hillary for Birtherism, Wolf Blitzer Summarily Fact-Checks Him
Discussion: Guardian and Raw Story
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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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NBC Relocates ‘Nightly News’ to Trump Tower, for a Night
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
Democrats don't know how to run against Trump
Discussion: Power Line and The Atlantic
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.
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ABC News:
Senate Dems Field Large Roster of Women in the Year of Trump
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump Isn't Going to Be President
Katie Van-Syckle / Variety:
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Caught on Hot Mic Ogling Melania Trump … ‘Hardball’ anchor has long history of sexist comments  —  During the network's coverage of Donald Trump's Indiana primary victory speech, MSNBC's Chris Matthews was caught on a live microphone commenting on the appearance of Melania Trump, the Republican nominee's wife.
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump-loving tow truck driver says God told him to leave disabled Bernie Sanders supporter stranded  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A South Carolina tow truck driver said God told him to leave a disabled Bernie Sanders supporter stranded along the interstate.
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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 chairman, according to a review Federal Election Commission filings.
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: WNEP-TV and The Week
 
 
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LePage to challenge King for Senate seat if not selected to Trump Administration
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Social Security moves to block the mentally ill from purchasing guns
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Carter Disagrees With Obama's Assessment, Says ISIS Fight ‘Far From Over’
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Daily Mail:
Tom and Jerry are blamed for ISIS: Head of Egypt's Information Service blames cartoon characters …
Casey Harper / The Daily Caller:
DOJ Decides It Won't Call People ‘Felons’ Or ‘Convicts’ Because Hurts Their Feelings
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