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8:42 PM: So the big line tonight is that Trump is going to try to ‘go presidential’, calm down the tone and start pivoting to the general. That makes sense. And it does seem like Trump will try to do that. I’m skeptical he’ll be able to do that. Kasich won’t pull a Rubio 3.0. That’s not his brand. Rubio will have a hard time given all the grief he’s been getting over the Rubio 3.0 debacle. But Cruz has lots of incentive to hit Trump hard – not on silly Rubio stuff but on red meat ideological orthodoxy. I tend to doubt Trump can resist the characterological drive to strike back.

8:47 PM: I guess Reince Priebus is not part of the #NeverTrump movement. (I’m among the half hour hostage of CNN like you are.)

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