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12:40 PM ET, May 22, 2016

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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Poll: Election 2016 shapes up as a contest of negatives  —  The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom …
Discussion: Politico, RedState and Hot Air
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
A Post-Primary Rally Boosts Trump, Albeit with Challenges Aplenty (POLL)  —  A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party's presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Begrudging WaPo poll: Trump 46%, Clinton 44%  —  It's not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new Washington Post poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.
Discussion: Prntly and Althouse
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton's Lead Over Trump Shrinks to 3 Points: New NBC News/WSJ Poll  —  Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Clash over Gun Control 2:10  —  Hillary Clinton's advantage over Donald Trump has narrowed to just three points — resulting in a dead-heat general-election contest with more than five months …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton can beat Trump in November  —  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders  —  said he believes front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  could beat presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  in November, but that his campaign brings more excitement that could help …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton: Trump is in the pocket of the gun lobby  —  Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Saturday slammed Republican rival Donald Trump as a politician beholden to the gun lobby and said a Trump presidency would mean “more kids at risk of violence and bigotry.”
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sanders: Voters see Clinton as ‘the lesser of two evils’  —  American voters should not be forced to pick between “the lesser of two evils” this November, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says.  —  Asked in an interview airing Sunday on ABC's “This Week” if that's how he'd describe a possible match …
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA facing member backlash over Trump endorsement
Discussion: The Hill, miamiherald, AOL, Infowars and RedState
New York Daily News:
KING: Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party after this presidential election and you should too  —  Many of you aren't religious, so please forgive me for recalling my roots as a preacher and starting us off with a simple verse of scripture.  —  “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders's Feud With the Democratic Leadership Heats Up
CNN:
Sanders says he's backing DNC chair's primary opponent, wouldn't reappoint her to DNC
Jennifer Crockett / WDSU-TV:
St. John sheriff: 5-year-old kills self with father's gun  —  Haley Moore died at the hospital Saturday  —  Five-year-old Haley Moore was spending the weekend at her dad's house with her older sister and brother.  The family was supposed to go see a movie Saturday.
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Meg Gatto / WVUE-TV:
Five-year-old shoots, kills self while playing with gun  —  A five-year-old in Laplace gets her hands on a gun, and accidentally shoots and kills herself.  The accident happened Saturday at 9:45 a.m. at the girl's home on Country Club Drive.  —  Many residents on Country Club Drive …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Cay Johnston / Politico:
Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob?  —  In his signature book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump boasted that when he wanted to build a casino in Atlantic City, he persuaded the state attorney general to limit the investigation of his background to six months.
Salon:
We beat Donald Trump by mocking Donald Trump: What Bill Maher and Barack Obama understand about whipping a bully  —  Trump's weakness is ridicule.  Even if Jon Stewart is sitting this one out, Democrats need to embrace serious satire  —  Donald Trump's absurd yet frighteningly real campaign …
Erik Brady / USA Today:
Exaggerator wins the 141st Preakness Stakes  —  BALTIMORE — Exaggerator won the Preakness Stakes on a sloppy track Saturday, ending a Triple Crown bid by Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, who lost for the first time in nine career starts.  —  Cherry Wine finished second, with Nyquist third.
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Mike Stewart / Baltimore Sun:
Preakness 2016: Horses Pramedya and Homeboykris die at early Preakness Day races
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Preakness Day: 2 Horses Die, Jockey Injured in First Few Races
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Primed to fight the government  —  A fast-growing U.S. movement armed with guns and the Constitution sees a dire threat to liberty  —  B.J. Soper took aim with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and fired a dozen shots at a human silhouette target.  Soper's wife and their 16-year-old daughter practiced drawing pistols.
Sabrina Siddiqui / Guardian:
Trump and Clinton on guns: two visions of race, justice and policing in the US  —  Amid a national discussion of police violence and a series of high-profile shootings, the 2016 election has seen a rare focus on the fight for gun control  —  For years seen as a losing battle …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Mark Cuban: I'd listen if Clinton wanted to talk about VP — but she needs ‘to go more to center’
Jonathan Franklin / Guardian:
Zookeepers shoot man with tranquiliser while trying to save him from lions
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Donald J. Trump: Hillary Clinton's Plans for More Illegal Immigration Into America …
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Mark Plotkin / The Hill:
Mark Kirk is your most vulnerable senator of 2016
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Biden at West Point: Diversity on battlefield an ‘incredible asset’
Mike Miller / Independent Journal Review:
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Mike Carlson / National Review:
Sorry, I Still Won't Ever Vote for Trump
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