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From The Reporter’s Notebook
TPM’s Tierney Sneed and Lauren Fox reported on GOP fears that Donald Trump won’t make a pivot towards the general election and that he could hurt the party beyond 2016. Lindsey Graham, who was critical of Trump in the primary, said Trump has gotten even worse with his racially tinged comments about a federal judge: “I’ve run out of adjectives to describe the problems Mr. Trump creates,” Graham told reporters Tuesday. “It was clear then in 2012 that self deportation was viewed by the Hispanic community as a harsh solution to a real problem. Now we are in the land of forced deportation. Mr. Trump has poured gasoline on every problem and everyone as well. I’ve always been worried about that. Now he has taken it to the level that even surprises me.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “At the beginning of May when Trump sewed up the Republican nomination, I thought he could go in three different directions: first, he could continue as the dark prince of political incorrectness, skewering Muslims and Mexican-Americans; second, he could become a conventional Republican, dropping his complaints about bad trade deals, runaway shops, foreign interventions, and K Street lobbyists; third, he could take his original message, which I heard in New Hampshire in August 2015, of Ross-Perot style economic nationalism, foreign policy realism, and opposition to illegal immigration, but pare away the incendiary racist, nativist, psycho-sexual and self-promotional provocations.”
Say What?!
“I’m taking my deal off the table, Donald, until you come back to the table and get on the other side of the table and prove you are not a bigot and and prove you’re not going to take my party down in the ditch, you don’t have my endorsement and you can’t use Hillary Clinton as a gun against my head.”
– MSNBC host Joe Scarborough launched into a lengthy rant, looking into the camera to address Trump directly.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “[Trump] is simply saying quite bluntly exactly what Republicans have been saying since Nixon. It’s nothing new at all. For many years the Republicans have been the white people’s party. It worked because the demographics were favorable to that strategy. Demographic changes mean that strategy can’t work on the national level any longer. This reality is recognized, on some level, by many on the Republican side. They are at the anger stage of acceptance which leads to Trump and his explicit language.”
Related: Trump responds to Republicans’ criticisms by telling them to “get over it.”
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What We’re Reading
The peaks and pitfalls of “long-term television.” (Medium)
Newly born baby warthogs. (AP News)
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