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Los Angeles Times:
Obama to Republicans: Like it or not, you're stuck with Trump — President Obama speaks Friday in the White House briefing room. — If Republican leaders won't line up behind Donald Trump, President Obama is trying to lash them together himself. — Obama seized on the deepening fracture …
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Bloomberg:
Masters in Politics Podcast: Adviser Says Trump Is ‘Very Much’ Like Bill Clinton — “When they talk to you they just own you. They're staring right into your soul,” says Barry Bennett, a senior adviser to Trump. — haddadmedia — In an interview on Bloomberg's Masters in Politics podcast Friday …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: Hillary Clinton a ‘nasty, mean enabler’ — Eugene, Oregon (CNN)Donald Trump on Friday accused Hillary Clinton of being “an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler” of her husband's alleged affairs and accused her of destroying the lives of his accusers. — The remarks are the first time that Trump …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney met privately with William Kristol, who is leading the effort to draft an independent candidate — In spite of his insistence that he will not run, Mitt Romney is being courted this week by a leading conservative commentator to reconsider and jump into the volatile 2016 presidential race as an independent candidate.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Top House Republicans Speak Out Against Paul Ryan: “I Don't Understand What He's Thinking”
Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders leaves door open to Clinton VP spot … Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders — on Friday left the door open to being Hillary Clinton — 's running mate if she were to offer him the position after the party's convention this summer. — “Right now, we are focused …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton wins Guam caucuses — Hillary Clinton won the Guam Democratic caucuses Saturday, defeating Bernie Sanders four days after his surprise victory in Indiana. — Guam's results don't make a significant difference in terms of the overall delegate chase, but a Sanders win would have allowed …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight — On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive-skinned and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Roy Moore, Alabama Judge, Suspended Over Gay Marriage Stance — An Alabama judicial oversight body on Friday filed a formal complaint against Roy S. Moore, the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court, charging that he had “flagrantly disregarded and abused his authority” …
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Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Roy Moore suspended from office: Alabama chief justice faces removal over gay marriage stance — For the second time in his career, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore faces charges before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary and potential removal from office. — Until that court hears and rules …
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
LYIN' DON: Trump Just Totally Made Up the Story that he Talked to Marco Rubio Recently — In case you missed it, on Thursday, Donald Trump told Bret Baier that he spoke with Marco Rubio and that Rubio was very supportive of him and even open to a VP spot. Late Friday night …
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Sarah Rumpf / Heat Street:
“Absolutely Not” Marco Rubio Won't Be Donald Trump's VP - or Call Him
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Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
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Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Why the Ben Rhodes profile in the New York Times Magazine is just gross — Absurdity, self-regard, hypocrisy, chumminess between writer and subject — it's all there. — I just don't know anymore where David Samuels begins and Ben Rhodes ends. — Samuels's massive New York Times magazine profile …
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Welcome to the Great Republican Squirm of 2016 — These are the strange and tortuous days in Presumptive Trump America. — It's Cinco de Mayo, and the Republican National Committee just put out a statement honoring “the many ways Mexican-Americans have enriched our country's culture.”
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
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Joanna Walters / Guardian:
How to use a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina — In defiance of North Carolina's ‘absurd’ new bathroom law, trans actress Shakina Nayfack is staging a piece of renegade performance art in men's toilets — Apparently it's really quite difficult to use a urinal - if you're a woman.
Sara Ganim / CNN:
Sandusky victim: Joe Paterno told me to drop abuse accusation — Paterno family lawyers: That claim is inconsistent with the facts and how late football coach lived his life — (CNN)After four years of feuding over the legacy of Joe Paterno, with a few vague details about what he may have known …
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New York Post:
Hillary's latest email lie didn't even last a week — Does Hillary Clinton figure she can say whatever she wants as long as it's not exposed as a lie that same day? — On Tuesday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asked her outright: “Have you been contacted — or your representatives contacted …
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