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From The Reporter’s Notebook
As Donald Trump continues to rack up delegates, Republicans are realizing that he could win the Republican nomination. TPM writer Caitlin MacNeal said GOP Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona is making a last-ditch effort to get Republicans to unite behind another candidate. On Wednesday he asked colleges to sign onto a letter urging Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio to form a unity ticket.
Agree or Disagree?
“I don’t need to be convinced that Republicans will do anything to block President Obama from choosing Scalia’s successor. But I think they protest way, way too much about the brittleness of their position and the potential electoral fallout. I think the fallout for Republican senators up for reelection in swing states this year is potentially far greater than people realize.” – Josh Marshall
Say What?!
“It’s okay that few schools anymore have beautiful white children as the majority, but don’t call me racist. Gradual genocide against the white race is okay, but don’t call me racist. I am afraid to be called racist. Donald Trump is not a racist, but Donald Trump is not afraid.”
– Excerpt from a white supremacist super PAC’s latest pro-Trump robocall message. Yikes.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Current head-to-head polls are almost meaningless. Everything changes after the conventions and endorsements and the nominations. Sanders will be dis-emboweled (gutted, eviscerated, drawn) in the General Election. Sanders is largely unknown to the general public. The first few weeks after he becomes the Democratic nominee will define him– The young Sanders was a Marxist Socialist and an Atheist. He did and said the normal things that Radical Leftists did in the ’60s–praised Fidel Castro, called for abolition of the CIA, dined with the Sandinistas, called for nationalization of various industries, honeymooned in the Soviet Union. All part of a radical politics that few Americans will understand or tolerate. The legions of Young Republican Opposition Researchers that descend upon Vermont will find an endless supply of quotations and anecdotes that the American public will find unacceptable, or just weird. In the end, President Trump will have to decide whether to send Sanders to Gitmo, or pardon him.”
Related: With Trump looming, should Dems take a huge electability gamble by nominating Clinton?
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What We’re Reading
To grasp the difference between Clinton and Sanders you have to truly understand the 1994 crime bill. (Washington Monthly)
After the Trump-Hitler controversy, Fresno State is distancing itself from the student paper. (Fresno Bee)
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