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2:50 PM ET, May 7, 2016

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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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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 …
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 …
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.
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump revives attacks on Bill Clinton affair  —  at a Friday night rally, using President Bill Clinton  —  's affair to counter Clinton's attacks on his standing on women's issues.  —  “Nobody in this country was was worse than Bill Clinton with women.  He was a disaster,” …
Discussion: Hot Air
Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Trump Ramps Up Attacks On Clinton Over Husband's Affairs
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Jeb Bush: I won't vote for Trump or Clinton
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 …
Shauna Johnson / WV MetroNews:   Overwhelming support for Trump, small lead for Sanders in MetroNews West Virginia Poll
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.
New York Times:
Republican Party Unravels Over Donald Trump's Takeover  —  By seizing the Republican presidential nomination for Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night, he and his millions of supporters completed what had seemed unimaginable: a hostile takeover of one of America's two major political parties.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:   Top House Republicans Speak Out Against Paul Ryan: “I Don't Understand What He's Thinking”
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Top allies break with Ryan over Trump
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and New York Times
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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
Discussion: alan.com and BizPac Review
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Rubio Compares Trump to 3rd World Strongman
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.”
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton Is Uniquely Suited To Take On Donald Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Obama Gives Howard University Graduates a Lecture on ‘Change’  —  Delivering the keynote speech at Howard University's commencement ceremony, President Obama found himself lecturing the young African American graduates on the lessons he had learned of how to create change in their communities.
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and The Week
 
 
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Robert Everett-Green / Globe and Mail:
Losing her religion: How musician Laurel Sprengelmeyer, also known as Little Scream, traded one faith for another
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Jeffrey Slonim / People.com:
Melania Trump ‘Would Bring the Glamour Back into the White House,’ Says Former Roommate Victoria Silvstedt
Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Elizabeth Warren going on Trump attack for Dems
Beth Harris / Associated Press:
NYQUIST TRIES TO FOLLOW AMERICAN PHAROAH AT KENTUCKY DERBY
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The Opioid Epidemic We Failed to Foresee
Greg Bluestein / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich could be on short list for Trump running mate
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Priebus: Trump can win swing states, put Michigan in play
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Parents sue feds for forcing school to let transgenders in girls locker room
Reuters:
Russia's ‘Obama’ ice cream deepens chilly relations with US
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Michael Bloomberg Doesn't Expect Mark Halperin And John Heilemann To Remain After The Election
Anis Shivani / Salon:
Our awful elites gutted America.  Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors
Discussion: Mashable
Jonathan Pearlman / Telegraph:
Australian blogger who claimed natural remedies cured her cancer admits: ‘None of it is true’
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
Man arrested in Maryland killing spree allegedly menaced his wife, stepdaughters
 

 
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