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GOPers Face Wave Of Threats From Trump Fans Incensed By Delegate Counts
The Gist: Death threats — including threats that describe death by hanging. References to where you live. Not-so-subtle allusions to your family. Warnings that your personal information will soon become public — or perhaps it has already. These are just some of the reports coming in from low-level GOP officials around the country about the threats they claim to have received from pro-Trump forces.
Clinton On Racial Joke: ‘It Was Mayor De Blasio’s Skit’
The Gist: Hillary Clinton addressed the the racially charged joke included in a skit she participated in over the weekend, telling Cosmopolitan on Tuesday that she was just a participant in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s skit.
GOP Icon Phyllis Schlafly Says She Faces Coup Over Trump Endorsement
The Gist: Longtime Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly says the group she founded 44 years ago to promote a conservative agenda is trying to oust her because she endorsed Donald Trump.
From The Reporter’s Notebook
Heidi Cruz, wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Fox News in an interview airing Tuesday that Donald Trump’s retweet about her questioning her appearance “didn’t impact” her “in the least,” TPM’s Sara Jerde reported. She also talked with Fox News host Megyn Kelly about her thoughts on Trump and her struggle with depression.
Say What?!
“Chris Christie is a good man. I like Chris Christie. Chris Christie right now is trapped in his own private hell. When Chris was standing behind Donald Trump holding his jacket, the look in his eyes—you could see the screaming.”
– Ted Cruz went on Glenn Beck’s show and talked about how Trump has “humiliated” Christie since Christie endorsed him.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Those intending to vote for Clinton over Sanders , therefore, have to face the reality that they will be getting her foreign policy… that it. It’s true they will be getting the first woman President, but while that has some symbolic value, it’s no more likely to affect women in general than Obama’s being the first black President fundamentally changed black lives. Moreover, like Obama vis a vis blacks, she might have to bend over backwards not to appear to be prioritizing women’s needs to the point of ignoring them. Clinton’s foreign policy is basically Republican-lite…on her best days. She accepts the parameters of the post WWII bi-partisan consensus and is not willing to re-think our support for friendly dictators or reject the AIPAC line on Israel. Her vaunted foreign policy expertise is simply familiarity and embrace of the traditional players and knowing the details involved in supporting the status quo.”
Related: Sanders said Clinton has foreign policy chops – but so did Cheney!
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What We’re Reading
Friendly fire in the American patriot death cult. (Gawker)
First ladies on the campaign trail. (Politico)
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