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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Paul Manafort, the Donald Trump campaign aide in charge of the candidate’s delegate strategy, said that the campaign will file challenges to the results in Colorado and Missouri, TPM’s Caitlin MacNeal reported. “We’ll be filing protests. Missouri, we’re going to be filing protests. Colorado, we’re going to be filing protests,” Manafort said on ABC’s “This Week.” Trump has been railing against the convention process in Colorado, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) secured all of the delegates up for grabs at the state’s Republican convention.
Agree or Disagree?
“If Cruz wins the nomination in Cleveland, presumably it will have been by doing precisely that – getting the delegates of other candidates to vote for him. He might need various unpledged delegates too. But you get the idea. We could speculate that Republican primary voters would be okay with Cruz convincing other candidates’ delegates to support him but not by grabbing Trump’s own delegates – something that clearly is part of Cruz’s plan, both at the state convention level and after the first ballot in Cleveland. But I see little reason to interpret the numbers that way.
Say What?!
“Once I’m elected president, I’ll have a nice schvitz in the White House gym. Then I go to the big banks, I’ll sit them down and yadda yadda yadda — they’ll be broken up!”
– Larry David as Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I am both a Bernie and Hillary supporter. I am contributing to his campaign expect her to get the nomination, and will give her whole-hearted support to her during the campaign. Most of the criticism of Clinton is way over-blown. But Josh Marshall had a point today (which I also noted): her refusal to release contents of the addresses she gave Goldman-Sachs is an obvious target, and it does raise concern about why she is taking this stand. I am reminded of Romney’s tax returns, which he never released. My assessment for why he didn’t is that he couldn’t, the truth would have been devastating to his campaign. The artful way he fudged the issue with his limited and selective “summaries” essentially confirmed this conclusion. But OTOH if Clinton did make damning statements to the G-S’ers it was as damned foolish thing to do since it handed them blackmail power over herself. She knew she wanted to be President when she gave those addresses, the consequences of what she said coming back to haunt her must of been in her mind. There is no credible basis for arguing for some sort of “confidentiality” as far as I can see. It is her speech, not theirs. There is no arrangement of trust between them.”
Related: TPM Editor-At-Large John Judis is worried about Hillary.
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What We’re Reading
Alabama is no stranger to sex scandals — they just never expected one from this governor. (The Washington Post)
The centerpiece of Obama’s immigration legacy goes to the Supreme Court on Monday. (Politico)
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