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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.
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap
Discussion: Liberal Values, Althouse and The Slot
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking
Discussion: The Week
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem
Discussion: New York Magazine
Media Matters for America:   Neil Cavuto Calls Trump's Taco Bowl Tweet “An Olive Branch” To The Mexican People
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump
Discussion: Shakesville
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 …
Discussion: ABC News
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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 …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Says He Cannot Support Donald Trump for Now  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation's highest-ranking elected Republican, said Thursday that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.  —  Mr. Ryan, who is also chairman …
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 …
Discussion: RedState, Complex and The Week
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump
Dan Riehl / Breitbart:
Paul Nehlen: Paul Ryan ‘Sold His Vote! I Absolutely Believe That’
Discussion: The Last Refuge
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
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Reality  —  He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.
Discussion: Guardian
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Paul Ryan says he's not ready to support Trump
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Week
Joe Klein / TIME:
Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's ultimate trump card will not be her gender but her relative humanity  —  On the night that Donald Trump effectively won the Republican nomination for President, Hillary Clinton observed radio silence.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Ben White / Politico:   Hillary forces target Bush donors
Ben Sasse / Facebook:
AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA  —  TO: Those who think …
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Barry Diller: Donald Trump is ‘actually of evil character’  —  Expedia Chairman Barry Diller shares his view on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.  —  Media mogul Barry Diller had some harsh words about Donald Trump on Thursday.  —  “There's nobody that I've ever known, ever …
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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 …
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.
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 ›
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: New York Times and Political Wire
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.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and EconLog
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
What the Kochs think about Trump now  —  Republican donors want nothing to do with Donald Trump.  —  On Wednesday morning, the presumptive GOP nominee, who has largely self-financed his presidential bid so far, announced that he would be soliciting checks from small contributors and would soon …
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.
Camille Paglia / Salon:
It's not about sexism: Camille Paglia on Trump, Hillary's “restless bitterness” and the end of the elites  —  We don't know if Trump can morph into a statesman.  We do know the media/political class fears his threat to Hillary  —  Is it 1968 all over again?
Allen Guelzo / Washington Monthly:
A Springfield Education  —  Sidney Blumenthal's Elegant Chronicle of Abraham Lincoln's Political Apprenticeship  —  Politicians have never been shy about writing about themselves, even when it seemed that all they could expect from the public was a polite nod.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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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Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers More Hillary Clinton Emails Withheld from State Department
Stuart Winer / The Times of Israel:
Man seeks restraining order against God
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Zachary Mider / Bloomberg:
Big-Spending Fracking Family Behind Cruz Won't Back Trump
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog and USA Today
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Trump's Hard Truth for the GOP: Conservatism Doesn't Matter
Discussion: Hot Air
Streiff / RedState:
BREAKING. Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump
 

 
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