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7:55 PM ET, May 6, 2016

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Jeb Bush / Facebook:
I congratulate Donald Trump on securing his place as the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.  There is no doubt that he successfully tapped into the deep sense of anger and frustration so many Americans around the country rightfully feel today.  —  The tremendous anger of the current U.S. electorate …
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Alex Pareene / Gawker:
Don't Blow This  —  It's Trump versus Clinton.  It's a well-funded mainstream Democrat against a widely reviled demagogue who will struggle to earn the support of his party's donor base.  It's a man whose every public utterance is potential negative ad waiting to be cut, versus the most cautious candidate in modern memory.
Tom LoBianco / CNN:
First on CNN: Cheney says he will support Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Dick Cheney will support Donald Trump, he told CNN Friday, an important move as the presumptive Republican nominee is encountering intense resistance from senior members of his own party.
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Republicans, Apologize to Bill Clinton  —  Upon arrival in Washington, DC in January of 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton found themselves in a never ending independent counsel investigation.  The investigation began over a land deal that was known as Whitewater.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump agrees to meet with Paul Ryan ‘before we go our separate ways’ … Likely Republican nominee Donald Trump disagrees with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus's characterization of a conversation they had on Thursday about House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) not yet being ready to support Trump.
Discussion: Politico, The Last Refuge and Mediaite
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.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Election analyst flips 11 states toward Democrats due to Trump  —  The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has shifted 11 states on its election scorecard toward Democrats since Donald Trump  —  became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.  —  “This has been an exceedingly unpredictable year,” the analyst said.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Neither Clinton Nor Trump
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Paul Ryan's primary opponent: I'll support Trump
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Graham: I won't vote for Trump
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What does Paul Ryan want from Donald Trump?
Discussion: Hot Air
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
‘Dismayed’ Romney says he doesn't intend to back Trump, worried about ‘demagoguery and populism’
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Lindsey Graham Goes Full On #NeverTrump
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Yo, Hillary: Hit Donald Where It Hurts
Discussion: TIME, CNN and Bloomberg.com
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump camp suggests Ryan unfit to be speaker
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The ideological earthquake and the aftermath
Discussion: Power Line
Michael Barone / Townhall.com:
Can Trump Disrupt the General Election as He Did the Primaries?
Mary Troyan / USA Today:
Sen. Bob Corker says he'll advise Donald Trump on foreign policy
Discussion: RedState
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
This Is Astounding  —  So many stories in presidential politics, in all politics, are more sound and fury than substance.  This one isn't.  It's hard to overstate how big a deal it is.  Donald Trump caught a lot of grief during the primaries for putting several of his companies through bankruptcies during his career.
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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 …
Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:
A stunning profile of Ben Rhodes, the a**hole who is the president's foreign policy guru  —  The profile of one Ben Rhodes running in Sunday's New York Times Magazine is not unsympathetic, which makes it all the more devastating.  —  Perhaps the key sentence is this: “His lack …
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Of All The Disgraced Reporters In All The Gin Joints, Judith Miller Takes The Cake  —  Disgraced and former NY Times reporter Judy Miller, who is now a paid Fox News contributor, is very worried about the state of journalism in America after reading a Ben Rhodes interview in the NY Times …
Washington Post:
One killed, others injured in shootings at Md. mall, grocery store … Three people were shot in the parking lot at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda on Friday morning and authorities are investigating whether the assailant is a man believed to have shot and killed his wife outside a Maryland school Thursday evening.
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Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
The rise of Donald Trump and the politics of delegitimization  —  Ilya Shapiro argues at The Federalist that some of the blame for the rise of Donald Trump belongs to Chief Justice Roberts' 2012 opinion in the Obamacare case, NFIB v. Sebelius.  To a lot of readers, this probably sounds far-fetched.
Discussion: Balkinization and The Federalist
TU Plus / Albany Times Union:
UAlbany women who claimed bus attack kicked out of school  —  The University at Albany confirmed that the three women who gained national attention after a January CDTA bus incident have been punished by the Student Conduct Board.  —  Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell have been dismissed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge delays Trump University trial  —  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump appears to have escaped the possibility of an awkward federal class-action trial over his Trump University real estate program taking place just as his campaign for the White House shifts into high gear.
Discussion: National Review
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The political scientist who saw Trump's rise coming  —  Norm Ornstein on why the Republican Party was ripe for a takeover, what the media missed, and whether Trump could win the presidency.  —  In the summer of 2015, most of the political world still thought Donald Trump's candidacy was a joke.
Discussion: New York Times and Balloon Juice
C. Ramsey Fahs / Harvard News:
Harvard to Sanction Final Clubs, Greek Organizations  —  Starting with Class of 2021, members of clubs, Greek organizations will be ineligible for multiple leadership positions and fellowships  —  Starting with Harvard's Class of 2021, undergraduate members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations …
 
 
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
U.S. forces now on the ground supporting combat operations in Yemen, Pentagon says
Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
Labour Party declares victory in historic London election
Discussion: The Week and PRI
John Gizzi / NewsMax.com:
As Carson Leads Trump's VP Search, Rubio Eliminated
Discussion: Hot Air
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Trump Campaign Manager: ‘Nobody Cares’ About Policy Plans!
Discussion: GraniteGrok, ThinkProgress and Hot Air
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump, Nate Silver, and the Value of Data Journalism
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New York Times
CBS News:
Hillary Clinton to be interviewed in FBI email investigation
Caitlin Doornbos / Orlando Sentinel:
N. Florida mom shot by 4-year-old son avoids prosecution
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
The Nation:
Is the American Party System About to Crack Up?
Discussion: The Mahablog
Emily Calandrelli / TechCrunch:
GoPro hitched a ride on a rocket and the video is incredible
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Top Democrat suspended for mysterious voter purge
Discussion: LawNewz and Washington Free Beacon
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama on Trump: ‘This is not a reality show’
Erik Klemetti / Wired:
Mount St. Helens Is Recharging Its Magma Stores, Setting Off Earthquake Swarms
Discussion: Daily Mail
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Jon Stewart May Be on HBO Before November Election, Says CEO Richard Plepler
Discussion: The Week and Complex
 

 
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