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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump self-destructive rambling baffles GOP strategists — How did the controversy begin over Donald Trump's attacks on the judge in the Trump University lawsuit? It began when Donald Trump couldn't stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit. — In the normal course of events …
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Trump Orders Surrogates to Intensify Criticism of Judge and Journalists — During a Monday conference call with supporters, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee overruled a directive sent out by his own campaign. — kevcirilli — michaelcbender
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Joseph Murray / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Is Correct To Hit ‘La Raza’ Judge For Latino Identity Politics — “This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made. I think it's inexcusable.” — Those words were spoken by Newt Gingrich - a man believed to be on Donald Trump's Vice Presidential shortlist - during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
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Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Grassley: Senate Can Be a Check on Trump's Judges — Senate Judiciary chairman says he's not concerned who would be nominated — Reid: McConnell ‘Poster Boy’ for GOP ‘Spinelessness’ Over Trump GOP Senators Criticize Trump's Comments on Judge Sanders' Long-Shot Delegate Hunt
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spox Suggests Trump's Sister Could Be ‘Biased’ As A Female Judge — Donald Trump's national spokeswoman on Monday suggested that Trump's own sister, a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, could be biased as a result of her gender. — “If somebody were to say to her she was biased …
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The RNC Approached Two Hispanic Operatives Who Weren't Interested Because Of Trump
New York Times:
Democrats Jump on Allies of Donald Trump in Judge Dispute
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Bernie Sanders Has Some Strange Ideas About Why He Deserves the Nomination — He was told there would be no math. — The season-finale episode of Saturday Night Live imagines a bar-stool conversation between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in which the two candidates bond …
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Has Clinched Democratic Nomination, Survey Reports
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Clinton will call Sanders Tuesday night
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Cyra Master / The Hill:
Sanders camp: Clinton has not secured nomination yet
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Hillary Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination
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John Judis / Talking Points Memo:
Bernie Sanders should drop out and endorse Hillary Clinton. Period.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sanders plans to ‘assess’ presidential bid at home in Vermont after Tuesday contests
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Clinton Hits ‘Magic Number’ of Delegates to Clinch Nomination
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: Not sexist to stay in race against Clinton
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
NPR Reporter: Women Weep Over History-Making Hillary Clinton
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitch McConnell: This Election Is About Choosing The Lesser Of Two Evils — “This is a choice that many Americans are not happy with.” — w.soundcloud.com — Asked on Monday if the general election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a “lesser of two evils election,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell answered yes.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Calls Donald Trump's Attack on Judge ‘Racist,’ but Backs Him Still — WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday called Donald J. Trump's criticism of a Hispanic-American judge “the textbook definition of a racist comment” and said he “regrets” the remark.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Republicans need to think very hard about whether they can live with Donald Trump for five more months
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CNBC:
Paul Ryan: Trump's judge remarks ‘textbook definition of a racist comment’
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
New House Republican ‘anti-poverty plan’ repackages GOP proposals
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Dick Morris Is in Talks to Join the Trump Campaign — The controversial former Clinton adviser could play a key roll in Trump's anti-Hillary strategy. — Before Donald Trump's campaign was derailed by his racist attacks on a federal judge, the GOP nominee was surprisingly disciplined in his attacks on Hillary Clinton.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: I'm The One Who ‘Really Broke The Glass Ceiling’ In My Industry
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Marina Fang / The Huffington Post:
Trump Campaign: Female Judges Could Be Biased, Too
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI asks to make new secret filing in Clinton email case — The FBI has asked a federal judge for permission to file a second secret declaration detailing its probe into Hillary Clinton — 's private email server. — In the request, which came as part of a Freedom of Information Act …
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
State Dept. would need 75 years to compile Clinton emails
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Associated Press:
Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case — WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida's attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates
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Wlady Pleszczynski / The American Spectator:
Trump Is Right: The Shame of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell — The GOP Establishment is in full flight. — No Abraham Lincolns here. — In a shameful haste to embrace identity politics, the latter the political descendant of slavery and segregation, Speaker Paul Ryan …
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CNN:
Last known surviving 9/11 search and rescue dog laid to rest — (CNN)When it was time to say goodbye, she was given a hero's farewell. — Firefighters and rescue workers lined the sidewalk as her body, draped in an American flag, was carried out. Tears streaked down some faces.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans finally discover that Trump is an actual racist — Donald Trump needed validation. — At a rally Friday, Trump was discussing racial violence at his events and the perception that nonwhite people are against him, when he singled out a black man in the crowd.
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