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| Trump and Clinton move closer to nominations after New York – campaign live | Trump and Clinton move closer to nominations after New York – campaign live |
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| Following news that three Michigan government officials are facing charges in connection with the Flint water crisis, former secretary of state and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton issued a statement. “Senate Republicans have pushed through today’s energy bill at the expense of the people of Flint, who are still waiting for clean water and critical aid for rebuilding their infrastructure,” Clinton said. “It is unconscionable for this bill to move forward without this desperately-needed aid. It’s important that people be held responsible for the water poisoning in Flint - but it’s not enough. I will not stop fighting for the families of Flint until they receive the help all Americans should expect, and the justice all people deserve.” | |
| Clinton is referring to the Senate’s passage of an energy bill that does not contain $250 million in aid for Flint, the result of a Republican hold on the aid package. | |
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| Ted Cruz echoed Mark Antony on Wednesday: “John Kasich is a decent and honorable man.” Of course, in Cruz’s opinion, Kasich was trying to kill the Republican Party in November by serving as a lackey of Donald Trump, suggesting that the Ohio governor was only staying in the presidential race because “it may be John is auditioning to be Donald’s vice president.” | |
| Cruz, who once again openly admitted that “we are on a path to a contested convention,” shrugged off both disappointing election results in New York Tuesday night and all but conceded the Acela primary states on April 26. Instead he assured reporters “I am not gong to reach 1237 delegates but Donald isn’t going to reach 1,237 delegates either.” | |
| The drama for Cruz is that while he is in good shape in upcoming races in May, John Kasich is far better positioned than him in most of the delegate contest next week. | |
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| Lauren Gambino | Lauren Gambino |
| The mothers and family members of children who were killed by gun violence greeted each other like old friends outside St Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia. | The mothers and family members of children who were killed by gun violence greeted each other like old friends outside St Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia. |
| They’d come to see Hillary Clinton hold a roundtable on gun violence with former US Attorney General Eric Holder ahead of the state’s primary next week. The women wore buttons with the faces of their loved ones. Aleida Garcia wore a sash filled with pins of mostly young people from Philadelphia who’d been killed by gun violence. On the largest button was a photo of her son, Alex Rojas-Garcia, who was shot to death by a gunman with a semiautomatic weapon in January 2015. | They’d come to see Hillary Clinton hold a roundtable on gun violence with former US Attorney General Eric Holder ahead of the state’s primary next week. The women wore buttons with the faces of their loved ones. Aleida Garcia wore a sash filled with pins of mostly young people from Philadelphia who’d been killed by gun violence. On the largest button was a photo of her son, Alex Rojas-Garcia, who was shot to death by a gunman with a semiautomatic weapon in January 2015. |
| “This is a public health epidemic. These are people,” said Garcia as she tugged at her sash. “It’s a disease. People are dying every single day.” | “This is a public health epidemic. These are people,” said Garcia as she tugged at her sash. “It’s a disease. People are dying every single day.” |
| Mothers and families of victims of gun violence outside the church where Clinton will hold a convo with Eric Holder pic.twitter.com/zaZvwiqfQj | Mothers and families of victims of gun violence outside the church where Clinton will hold a convo with Eric Holder pic.twitter.com/zaZvwiqfQj |
| She was joined in the queue by Rosalind Pichardo, whose brother Alex Martinez, was killed while trying to protect his nephew during a robbery in January 2012. Though Clinton already has her voted, Pichardo said she is eager to hear what the former secretary of state has to say about strengthening gun laws. | She was joined in the queue by Rosalind Pichardo, whose brother Alex Martinez, was killed while trying to protect his nephew during a robbery in January 2012. Though Clinton already has her voted, Pichardo said she is eager to hear what the former secretary of state has to say about strengthening gun laws. |
| Of priority for Pichardo are laws that would decrease the number of out-of-state guns that flow across the border into states with stricter laws. She’d also like to see the assault weapons ban re-instated. | Of priority for Pichardo are laws that would decrease the number of out-of-state guns that flow across the border into states with stricter laws. She’d also like to see the assault weapons ban re-instated. |
| “TEC-9 does not keep people safe. A machine gun does not keep people safe. This is not a war zone. This is a community.” She added: “I can understand the right to bear arms but I just don’t understand semi-automatic weapons.” | “TEC-9 does not keep people safe. A machine gun does not keep people safe. This is not a war zone. This is a community.” She added: “I can understand the right to bear arms but I just don’t understand semi-automatic weapons.” |
| Farther back in the line, Stacie Wilkins stood with a group of women wearing shirts that said “Mothers in Charge” in graffiti paint. Wilkins lost her son Byron Wilkins in August 2010. | Farther back in the line, Stacie Wilkins stood with a group of women wearing shirts that said “Mothers in Charge” in graffiti paint. Wilkins lost her son Byron Wilkins in August 2010. |
| “After it happens to do you, get out here because you don’t want it to happen to someone else,” she said. “The pain is so great that either you’re going to die or you’re going to get up and do something about it. And so I made the choice to get up and do something about it because I know my son would want me to live.” | “After it happens to do you, get out here because you don’t want it to happen to someone else,” she said. “The pain is so great that either you’re going to die or you’re going to get up and do something about it. And so I made the choice to get up and do something about it because I know my son would want me to live.” |
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| Want to work for a potential president? You’ll need to pony up. | Want to work for a potential president? You’ll need to pony up. |
| The Trump Organization, holding company and real estate empire of billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, is auctioning off a ten-week internship at the company. The opening bid: $40,000. | The Trump Organization, holding company and real estate empire of billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, is auctioning off a ten-week internship at the company. The opening bid: $40,000. |
| “There is no more highly recognized surname or company in the world right now than Trump,” the listing on Charitybuzz says. “You will gain real-world, first-hand exposure to the various disciplines housed within The Trump Organization and have a series of power group lunches with each department head.” | “There is no more highly recognized surname or company in the world right now than Trump,” the listing on Charitybuzz says. “You will gain real-world, first-hand exposure to the various disciplines housed within The Trump Organization and have a series of power group lunches with each department head.” |
| Interns, who must have at least a 3.0 grade-point average and pass a criminal background check, will also have the “exclusive opportunity to sit down for 15 minutes each with Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump to pick their brains about how to be successful in the real estate and business world.” | Interns, who must have at least a 3.0 grade-point average and pass a criminal background check, will also have the “exclusive opportunity to sit down for 15 minutes each with Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump to pick their brains about how to be successful in the real estate and business world.” |
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| The Associated Press is backing up Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s assertion that Texas senator Ted Cruz has no concrete path to the party’s nomination, describing Trump’s primary opponent as “mathematically eliminated” from winning the nomination before the party’s national convention in Cleveland this summer. | The Associated Press is backing up Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s assertion that Texas senator Ted Cruz has no concrete path to the party’s nomination, describing Trump’s primary opponent as “mathematically eliminated” from winning the nomination before the party’s national convention in Cleveland this summer. |
| “Donald Trump is now the only Republican candidate with any chance of clinching the nomination before the convention,” the newswire declared this morning. “Ted Cruz was mathematically eliminated Tuesday after Trump’s big win in the New York primary.” | “Donald Trump is now the only Republican candidate with any chance of clinching the nomination before the convention,” the newswire declared this morning. “Ted Cruz was mathematically eliminated Tuesday after Trump’s big win in the New York primary.” |
| With the delegate math being what it is, the Associated Press declared, “there aren’t enough delegates left in future contests for either Cruz or Kasich to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination.” | With the delegate math being what it is, the Associated Press declared, “there aren’t enough delegates left in future contests for either Cruz or Kasich to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination.” |
| Their only hope? A contested convention - and all of the insanity that entails. | Their only hope? A contested convention - and all of the insanity that entails. |
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| Silver linings! | Silver linings! |
| Bernie Sanders has so far won every county named Clinton County pic.twitter.com/CdNVdd9fwU | Bernie Sanders has so far won every county named Clinton County pic.twitter.com/CdNVdd9fwU |
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| Michelle Dean | Michelle Dean |
| Michelle Dean has a fascinating look back at Roy Cohn, Donald Trump’s “mentor in shamelessness”: | Michelle Dean has a fascinating look back at Roy Cohn, Donald Trump’s “mentor in shamelessness”: |
| Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals. But once upon a time, he had a mentor: Roy Cohn, a notoriously harsh lawyer who rose to prominence in the mid-1950s alongside the communist-baiting senator Joseph McCarthy. His tactics would often land him in the papers, but Cohn was unafraid of being slimed by the press – he used it to his advantage. A devil-may-care-as-long-as-it-gets-a-headline attitude was Cohn’s trademark in life. Trump, in our time, has made it his. | Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals. But once upon a time, he had a mentor: Roy Cohn, a notoriously harsh lawyer who rose to prominence in the mid-1950s alongside the communist-baiting senator Joseph McCarthy. His tactics would often land him in the papers, but Cohn was unafraid of being slimed by the press – he used it to his advantage. A devil-may-care-as-long-as-it-gets-a-headline attitude was Cohn’s trademark in life. Trump, in our time, has made it his. |
| His careful manipulation of negative attention is something that Trump noticed immediately when the two met in 1973. Trump and his father had just been sued for allegedly discriminating against black people in Trump’s built-and-managed houses in Brooklyn, and sought out Cohn’s counsel. Among other things, Cohn advised that Trump should “tell them to go to hell”. Cohn was hired, and one of his first acts as Trump’s new lawyer was to file a $100m countersuit that was quickly dismissed by the court. But it made the papers. | His careful manipulation of negative attention is something that Trump noticed immediately when the two met in 1973. Trump and his father had just been sued for allegedly discriminating against black people in Trump’s built-and-managed houses in Brooklyn, and sought out Cohn’s counsel. Among other things, Cohn advised that Trump should “tell them to go to hell”. Cohn was hired, and one of his first acts as Trump’s new lawyer was to file a $100m countersuit that was quickly dismissed by the court. But it made the papers. |
| This was the beginning of a long and close relationship. Trump relied on Cohn for most of the legal matters during a particularly tricky decade. Cohn drew up the pre-nuptial contract between Donald and Ivana when they married in 1977 – a famously stingy contract that only gave Ivana $20,000 a year. Cohn also filed a suit brought by the United States Football League in 1984 against the NFL, seeking to break up the monopoly held over American football. Trump owned a USFL team and was widely seen as the force behind the suit; the initial press conference about it was a tag-team show performed by Cohn and Trump. | This was the beginning of a long and close relationship. Trump relied on Cohn for most of the legal matters during a particularly tricky decade. Cohn drew up the pre-nuptial contract between Donald and Ivana when they married in 1977 – a famously stingy contract that only gave Ivana $20,000 a year. Cohn also filed a suit brought by the United States Football League in 1984 against the NFL, seeking to break up the monopoly held over American football. Trump owned a USFL team and was widely seen as the force behind the suit; the initial press conference about it was a tag-team show performed by Cohn and Trump. |
| “I don’t kid myself about Roy. He was no Boy Scout. He once told me that he’d spent more than two-thirds of his adult life under indictment on one charge or another. That amazed me,” Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal. The unabashed pursuit of power, quick resort to threats, a love of being in the tabloid spotlight – all of these are things Trump took from his mentor. | “I don’t kid myself about Roy. He was no Boy Scout. He once told me that he’d spent more than two-thirds of his adult life under indictment on one charge or another. That amazed me,” Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal. The unabashed pursuit of power, quick resort to threats, a love of being in the tabloid spotlight – all of these are things Trump took from his mentor. |
| In fact, if you’re familiar with Cohn’s history at all, their friendship starts to seem an even greater influence on Trump than any other. | In fact, if you’re familiar with Cohn’s history at all, their friendship starts to seem an even greater influence on Trump than any other. |
| Related: A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity | Related: A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity |
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| The New York Times has published excerpts of a revealing interview with Donald Trump conducted after he voted for himself for president Tuesday. He talks about the feeling of voting for himself, a recent campaign transition that pushed campaign manager Corey Lewandowski aside, and his penchant for winning. | The New York Times has published excerpts of a revealing interview with Donald Trump conducted after he voted for himself for president Tuesday. He talks about the feeling of voting for himself, a recent campaign transition that pushed campaign manager Corey Lewandowski aside, and his penchant for winning. |
| Here’s a snippet of the interview: | Here’s a snippet of the interview: |
| On the race for delegates: It’s a rigged system. It’s a disgraceful, disgusting rigged system in the Republican Party. Worse than the Democratic Party, because in the Democratic case it’s obvious with superdelegates. Look at Bernie. He wins every week, and everyone says he can’t win. In the Democrat Party, it’s obvious because they have a superdelegate, that’s like throwing it in your face. The Republican Party is worse, the Republican Party has a system where you can buy the delegates if you want. And you can do anything you want with a delegate, except give them cash. I can play the game better — I can fly them on a 757 to Mar-a-Lago, I can fly them to California where I own a place that’s unbelievable, on the Pacific Ocean. But it’s a bad system. You’re buying the election. It’s really wrong, and I’m looking into it, legally. | On the race for delegates: It’s a rigged system. It’s a disgraceful, disgusting rigged system in the Republican Party. Worse than the Democratic Party, because in the Democratic case it’s obvious with superdelegates. Look at Bernie. He wins every week, and everyone says he can’t win. In the Democrat Party, it’s obvious because they have a superdelegate, that’s like throwing it in your face. The Republican Party is worse, the Republican Party has a system where you can buy the delegates if you want. And you can do anything you want with a delegate, except give them cash. I can play the game better — I can fly them on a 757 to Mar-a-Lago, I can fly them to California where I own a place that’s unbelievable, on the Pacific Ocean. But it’s a bad system. You’re buying the election. It’s really wrong, and I’m looking into it, legally. |
| Read the whole thing here. | Read the whole thing here. |
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| Trump is meeting with the Indiana governor ahead of a rally in Indianapolis, Fox News reports: | Trump is meeting with the Indiana governor ahead of a rally in Indianapolis, Fox News reports: |
| Indianapolis- @realDonaldTrump set to meet with @GovPenceIN at his residence at 1pm. Pence will not be attending Trump 3pm rally. | Indianapolis- @realDonaldTrump set to meet with @GovPenceIN at his residence at 1pm. Pence will not be attending Trump 3pm rally. |
| Trump tweeted earlier today that he was headed for the Hoosier state. | Trump tweeted earlier today that he was headed for the Hoosier state. |
| Off to Indiana! #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/zqUdaaSaXD | Off to Indiana! #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/zqUdaaSaXD |
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| Bernie Sanders’ Twitter account praises the announcement earlier today by the Treasury that emancipation hero Harriet Tubman will replace president Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. | Bernie Sanders’ Twitter account praises the announcement earlier today by the Treasury that emancipation hero Harriet Tubman will replace president Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. |
| I cannot think of an American hero more deserving of this honor than Harriet Tubman. https://t.co/GL64NPrOL1 | I cannot think of an American hero more deserving of this honor than Harriet Tubman. https://t.co/GL64NPrOL1 |
| But Hillary Clinton got there first: | But Hillary Clinton got there first: |
| A woman, a leader, and a freedom fighter. I can't think of a better choice for the $20 bill than Harriet Tubman: https://t.co/YcsZC4ZrKg -H | A woman, a leader, and a freedom fighter. I can't think of a better choice for the $20 bill than Harriet Tubman: https://t.co/YcsZC4ZrKg -H |
| Read more about the news here: | Read more about the news here: |
| Related: Harriet Tubman will appear on $20 bill, leaving Alexander Hamilton on $10 | Related: Harriet Tubman will appear on $20 bill, leaving Alexander Hamilton on $10 |
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| Here’s video of Ted Cruz at his Hershey, Pennsylvania, rally earlier today minimizing Trump’s New York win. See our transcription here. | Here’s video of Ted Cruz at his Hershey, Pennsylvania, rally earlier today minimizing Trump’s New York win. See our transcription here. |
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| Trump memo predicts 1,400 delegates | Trump memo predicts 1,400 delegates |
| An internal Trump campaign memo projects that Trump will capture the nomination with 1,400 delegates voting in his favor in the first round of voting at the national convention in Cleveland in July. | An internal Trump campaign memo projects that Trump will capture the nomination with 1,400 delegates voting in his favor in the first round of voting at the national convention in Cleveland in July. |
| “Our projections call for us to accumulate over 1400 delegates and thus a first ballot nomination win in Cleveland,” the memo reads, according to the Washington Post, which first obtained it. | “Our projections call for us to accumulate over 1400 delegates and thus a first ballot nomination win in Cleveland,” the memo reads, according to the Washington Post, which first obtained it. |
| It’s a highly optimistic projection, given significant challenges facing Trump in the upcoming winner-take-all states Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska – and the fact that he currently sits on 845 pledged delegates, with only 674 left to go. To get to 1,400 pledged delegates he would have to capture 82% of the remaining delegates on offer. He might also hit the number by capturing unbound delegates, but that’s a tricky projection indeed. | It’s a highly optimistic projection, given significant challenges facing Trump in the upcoming winner-take-all states Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska – and the fact that he currently sits on 845 pledged delegates, with only 674 left to go. To get to 1,400 pledged delegates he would have to capture 82% of the remaining delegates on offer. He might also hit the number by capturing unbound delegates, but that’s a tricky projection indeed. |
| The memo also predicts trouble ahead for Hillary Clinton, saying, | The memo also predicts trouble ahead for Hillary Clinton, saying, |
| Hillary email scandal is going to loom large over the next several months. If anyone else had done what she had done, they would already be in prison. | Hillary email scandal is going to loom large over the next several months. If anyone else had done what she had done, they would already be in prison. |
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