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| Trump and Clinton look set to dominate primaries in five states – campaign live | Trump and Clinton look set to dominate primaries in five states – campaign live |
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| View from the polls / Philadelphia | View from the polls / Philadelphia |
| Ciara McCarthy | Ciara McCarthy |
| The Guardian’s Ciara McCarthy has interviewed more Philadelphia voters about their preferences in the Republican race: | The Guardian’s Ciara McCarthy has interviewed more Philadelphia voters about their preferences in the Republican race: |
| Name: Nancy Huston, 34 | Name: Nancy Huston, 34 |
| Employment: home healthcare aid | Employment: home healthcare aid |
| Voting for: Donald Trump | Voting for: Donald Trump |
| Philadelphia resident Nancy Huston said she voted for Donald Trump on Tuesday, and cited immigration as one of the most important issues for her in this election. | Philadelphia resident Nancy Huston said she voted for Donald Trump on Tuesday, and cited immigration as one of the most important issues for her in this election. |
| “Immigration I think it needs to be a little bit under control of who we let into this country,” Huston, 34, said. “I think there should be a way to help people that are not legal to get them legal, but I think our security needs to be a little more upped.” | “Immigration I think it needs to be a little bit under control of who we let into this country,” Huston, 34, said. “I think there should be a way to help people that are not legal to get them legal, but I think our security needs to be a little more upped.” |
| Huston said she was in support of making it easier for immigrants to become citizens but said better background checks were necessary. | Huston said she was in support of making it easier for immigrants to become citizens but said better background checks were necessary. |
| “I think he really does want America to be safe, I think he does have a good heart,” she said of Trump. | “I think he really does want America to be safe, I think he does have a good heart,” she said of Trump. |
| Name: Patrick Carroll, 31 | Name: Patrick Carroll, 31 |
| Employment: real estate developer | Employment: real estate developer |
| Voting for: John Kasich | Voting for: John Kasich |
| Patrick Carroll said he voted in Pennsylvania’s primary election “to send a message to the Republican party”. | Patrick Carroll said he voted in Pennsylvania’s primary election “to send a message to the Republican party”. |
| “I voted for Kasich cause he’s not insane and I think it’s important to show to the Republican party that some people are voting for the non-insane people out there,” Carroll, a real estate developer, said after voting. “I am happy to have voted for the guy who seems alright.” | “I voted for Kasich cause he’s not insane and I think it’s important to show to the Republican party that some people are voting for the non-insane people out there,” Carroll, a real estate developer, said after voting. “I am happy to have voted for the guy who seems alright.” |
| Carroll said that although he disagreed with some of Kasich’s positions on social issues, he was a “voice of sanity” compared to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. | Carroll said that although he disagreed with some of Kasich’s positions on social issues, he was a “voice of sanity” compared to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. |
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| View from the polls / Baltimore | View from the polls / Baltimore |
| Baynard Woods | Baynard Woods |
| Baynard Woods interviews Baltimore voters on their preferences in the Democratic race: | Baynard Woods interviews Baltimore voters on their preferences in the Democratic race: |
| Name: Darius Taylor, 24 | Name: Darius Taylor, 24 |
| Employment: Applebee’s | Employment: Applebee’s |
| Voting for: Hillary Clinton | Voting for: Hillary Clinton |
| I think they should be doing background checks on people who get guns. It should be more like, it should be harder for certain people to get guns because I have too many people I was really close to who died from gun violence. I had a friend just die last week, his funeral was yesterday. He was at a club and I guess some things happened and a guy shot him. | I think they should be doing background checks on people who get guns. It should be more like, it should be harder for certain people to get guns because I have too many people I was really close to who died from gun violence. I had a friend just die last week, his funeral was yesterday. He was at a club and I guess some things happened and a guy shot him. |
| Name: Todd Mohr, 53 | Name: Todd Mohr, 53 |
| Employment: culinary instructor | Employment: culinary instructor |
| Voting for: Bernie Sanders | Voting for: Bernie Sanders |
| Being a downtown resident [I’m concerned with] safety but [nationally] economic fairness, economic opportunity would be my main issue. I certainly think that economic issues directly correlate with safety issues when those people who don’t have opportunities, aren’t given opportunities, don’t take advantage of opportunities find other ways to express their frustration. | Being a downtown resident [I’m concerned with] safety but [nationally] economic fairness, economic opportunity would be my main issue. I certainly think that economic issues directly correlate with safety issues when those people who don’t have opportunities, aren’t given opportunities, don’t take advantage of opportunities find other ways to express their frustration. |
| Name: Dylan Kinnett, 35 | Name: Dylan Kinnett, 35 |
| Employment: web developer | Employment: web developer |
| Voting for: Bernie Sanders | Voting for: Bernie Sanders |
| My major issue is equality but that’s a lot of things, the way crime is dealt with the way money is dealt with, housing. I think it is most important at the city level, that’s when the most change can happen quickest, but it’s also at the national level. [Sanders] addresses it directly and says it is important and addresses it in global terms. He gave a talk recently and somebody asked him why he was hanging out with the Pope and he said we agree on some things and it’s a global issue the way that civilization seems to be fixed on the acquisition of wealth as opposed to the development of humanity. That resonated with me. I’d be interested to see how that turns into policy. | My major issue is equality but that’s a lot of things, the way crime is dealt with the way money is dealt with, housing. I think it is most important at the city level, that’s when the most change can happen quickest, but it’s also at the national level. [Sanders] addresses it directly and says it is important and addresses it in global terms. He gave a talk recently and somebody asked him why he was hanging out with the Pope and he said we agree on some things and it’s a global issue the way that civilization seems to be fixed on the acquisition of wealth as opposed to the development of humanity. That resonated with me. I’d be interested to see how that turns into policy. |
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| Senate minority leader Harry Reid said today that fellow senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders does not have a path to the Democratic nomination, according to the Associated Press. | Senate minority leader Harry Reid said today that fellow senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders does not have a path to the Democratic nomination, according to the Associated Press. |
| Sanders “has run a campaign that I think we’ve all recognized has been unique and powerful, and I think Bernie should do what he wants to do,” Reid said, but when asked whether Sanders has a path to the nomination, he was less generous. “No, I do not,” he said. | Sanders “has run a campaign that I think we’ve all recognized has been unique and powerful, and I think Bernie should do what he wants to do,” Reid said, but when asked whether Sanders has a path to the nomination, he was less generous. “No, I do not,” he said. |
| “Bernie is going to do what he feels is appropriate and I have every confidence that Bernie, his No. 1 issue is not him, it’s the country,” Reid added. | “Bernie is going to do what he feels is appropriate and I have every confidence that Bernie, his No. 1 issue is not him, it’s the country,” Reid added. |
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| Megan Carpentier | Megan Carpentier |
| While most of the national media’s attention has been focused on the history-making Democratic and Republican presidential primaries playing out in Maryland (and Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania) today, there’s another potentially history-making primary going on as well: the Democratic primary for the Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski. | While most of the national media’s attention has been focused on the history-making Democratic and Republican presidential primaries playing out in Maryland (and Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania) today, there’s another potentially history-making primary going on as well: the Democratic primary for the Senate seat currently held by retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski. |
| The race between two sitting House members, Chris Van Hollen and Donna Edwards, is only potentially history-making because of Edwards: If she wins the Democratic primary in the heavily Democratic state of Maryland, she’ll almost certainly be only the second African American woman to ever serve in the US Senate come 2017. | The race between two sitting House members, Chris Van Hollen and Donna Edwards, is only potentially history-making because of Edwards: If she wins the Democratic primary in the heavily Democratic state of Maryland, she’ll almost certainly be only the second African American woman to ever serve in the US Senate come 2017. |
| The race hasn’t been an easy one for either candidate, though they are, by all accounts, remarkably similar on the issues. Van Hollen, who district starts in the center of the (wealthy) Washington, DC suburbs in Montgomery County, Maryland, and, since the redistricting in 2013, stretches up towards the Pennsylvania border is considered one of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s political proteges; Edwards was elected from the western (and majority African American) DC suburbs in Prince George’s County, Maryland after a long career as a liberal political and then anti-domestic violence activist. | The race hasn’t been an easy one for either candidate, though they are, by all accounts, remarkably similar on the issues. Van Hollen, who district starts in the center of the (wealthy) Washington, DC suburbs in Montgomery County, Maryland, and, since the redistricting in 2013, stretches up towards the Pennsylvania border is considered one of House minority leader Nancy Pelosi’s political proteges; Edwards was elected from the western (and majority African American) DC suburbs in Prince George’s County, Maryland after a long career as a liberal political and then anti-domestic violence activist. |
| Van Hollen, the son of a US ambassador and a CIA officer who holds degrees from Swarthmore, Harvard and Georgetown and spent much of the 90s serving in the state legislature, was described by Maryland senate president Thomas Miller in his endorsement as “a leader who has been born to the job”. Edwards, a single mother for whom non-profit work was a second career and public service a third, took exception to the statement (in a fundraising email, of course): “The fact is, our country’s systems and institutions have largely been led by people who have always looked like that senior elected official, not like me ... I don’t believe anyone in this country was born to anything.” | Van Hollen, the son of a US ambassador and a CIA officer who holds degrees from Swarthmore, Harvard and Georgetown and spent much of the 90s serving in the state legislature, was described by Maryland senate president Thomas Miller in his endorsement as “a leader who has been born to the job”. Edwards, a single mother for whom non-profit work was a second career and public service a third, took exception to the statement (in a fundraising email, of course): “The fact is, our country’s systems and institutions have largely been led by people who have always looked like that senior elected official, not like me ... I don’t believe anyone in this country was born to anything.” |
| The most potent criticism Edwards has faced has been about her Congressional office’s track record with constituent service, which perhaps has more resonance in a state, like Maryland, with so many federal workers. But polls have been variable: A month ago, she was way up; last week, she was very, very far down. | The most potent criticism Edwards has faced has been about her Congressional office’s track record with constituent service, which perhaps has more resonance in a state, like Maryland, with so many federal workers. But polls have been variable: A month ago, she was way up; last week, she was very, very far down. |
| One thing that has remained consistent though: Black women voters tend to back Edwards (most recently, by more than 50 points), while white male voters tend to lean Van Hollen. And EMILY’s List controversially backed Edwards in the primary, despite Van Holen’s strong record on women’s issues: The organization, which is dedicated to electing pro-choice women to office, said that they backed her because of her record and because she would bring “a voice and perspective that are rarely heard on the Senate floor.” | One thing that has remained consistent though: Black women voters tend to back Edwards (most recently, by more than 50 points), while white male voters tend to lean Van Hollen. And EMILY’s List controversially backed Edwards in the primary, despite Van Holen’s strong record on women’s issues: The organization, which is dedicated to electing pro-choice women to office, said that they backed her because of her record and because she would bring “a voice and perspective that are rarely heard on the Senate floor.” |
| In other words, perhaps, because she wasn’t born to the job. | In other words, perhaps, because she wasn’t born to the job. |
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| Bernie Sanders has released a particularly feisty fundraising email to his supporters, telling them that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has “used language reserved for traitors to our country” to describe the Sanders campaign. | Bernie Sanders has released a particularly feisty fundraising email to his supporters, telling them that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has “used language reserved for traitors to our country” to describe the Sanders campaign. |
| “Over the past few days, Hillary Clinton’s campaign and some of its top supporters have launched an odd new line of attack against people like you who stand with Bernie,” the email reads. “They are saying that by continuing to campaign and fight for every vote, for every delegate, that we are helping Donald Trump.” | “Over the past few days, Hillary Clinton’s campaign and some of its top supporters have launched an odd new line of attack against people like you who stand with Bernie,” the email reads. “They are saying that by continuing to campaign and fight for every vote, for every delegate, that we are helping Donald Trump.” |
| Included in the email: A photograph of Clinton with Trump at his wedding. | Included in the email: A photograph of Clinton with Trump at his wedding. |
| “Let me be clear, there is one candidate in this Democratic primary who Donald Trump said would make a ‘great president,’ and it’s not Bernie Sanders,” the email continues. | “Let me be clear, there is one candidate in this Democratic primary who Donald Trump said would make a ‘great president,’ and it’s not Bernie Sanders,” the email continues. |
| “Bernie is going to fight through the narrow path we have to the nomination because there is also only one candidate who believes health care should be a right for everyone in this country, that kids of all backgrounds should be able to go to college without crushing debt, and that we cannot transform a corrupt system by taking its money.” | “Bernie is going to fight through the narrow path we have to the nomination because there is also only one candidate who believes health care should be a right for everyone in this country, that kids of all backgrounds should be able to go to college without crushing debt, and that we cannot transform a corrupt system by taking its money.” |
| Realtalk: This is the kind of email one releases on the eve of a five-state loss. | Realtalk: This is the kind of email one releases on the eve of a five-state loss. |
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| Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will not be running as an independent candidate for president - no matter what Donald Trump suggests. | Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will not be running as an independent candidate for president - no matter what Donald Trump suggests. |
| That’s what Sanders’ wife Jane told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer this afternoon. | That’s what Sanders’ wife Jane told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer this afternoon. |
| “I think we’ve been very clear right from the beginning that we will not play the role of spoiler,” Jane Sanders said. “Bernie will not be running as an independent.” | “I think we’ve been very clear right from the beginning that we will not play the role of spoiler,” Jane Sanders said. “Bernie will not be running as an independent.” |
| .@janeosanders responds to Donald Trump: "Bernie will not be running as an independent" https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/5RLWPlv1zA | .@janeosanders responds to Donald Trump: "Bernie will not be running as an independent" https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/5RLWPlv1zA |
| Trump had said earlier today that Sanders “has been treated terribly by the Democrats” and “should show them, and run as an Independent!” | Trump had said earlier today that Sanders “has been treated terribly by the Democrats” and “should show them, and run as an Independent!” |
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| Texas senator Ted Cruz may have his eyes set on the White House, but a fellow Republican lawmaker has floated another potential job for the least-popular man in the senate: The chance to fill the vacant seat on the supreme court. | Texas senator Ted Cruz may have his eyes set on the White House, but a fellow Republican lawmaker has floated another potential job for the least-popular man in the senate: The chance to fill the vacant seat on the supreme court. |
| When asked about a potential “unity ticket” with Cruz and billionaire Republican frontrunner Donald Trump joining together, House majority whip Steve Scalise told Fox Business Network that the supreme court exit strategy idea might kill two birds with one stone. “I think it’s possible, whether it’s Trump and Cruz or, you know, Cruz could be the Scalia replacement,” Scalise said. “Look, if he’s not our nominee, I think he would be a great replacement for Scalia.” | When asked about a potential “unity ticket” with Cruz and billionaire Republican frontrunner Donald Trump joining together, House majority whip Steve Scalise told Fox Business Network that the supreme court exit strategy idea might kill two birds with one stone. “I think it’s possible, whether it’s Trump and Cruz or, you know, Cruz could be the Scalia replacement,” Scalise said. “Look, if he’s not our nominee, I think he would be a great replacement for Scalia.” |
| Cruz, who served as Texas’ solicitor general before being elected to the senate, might not be too keen on the idea - he told CBS News in March that a justiceship is “not the job I’m interested.” | Cruz, who served as Texas’ solicitor general before being elected to the senate, might not be too keen on the idea - he told CBS News in March that a justiceship is “not the job I’m interested.” |
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| Ben Carson: Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill makes her the face of 'debt slavery' | Ben Carson: Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill makes her the face of 'debt slavery' |
| Retired pediatric neurosurgeon and onetime presidential candidate Ben Carson has written an op-ed in Independent Journal arguing that putting Harriet Tubman’s face on the $20 bill would make the woman “the new face of American debt slavery.” | Retired pediatric neurosurgeon and onetime presidential candidate Ben Carson has written an op-ed in Independent Journal arguing that putting Harriet Tubman’s face on the $20 bill would make the woman “the new face of American debt slavery.” |
| “Harriet Tubman, one of America’s truest and most revered freedom fighters, deserves a far more fitting tribute than to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency by placing her on the twenty dollar bill,” Carson wrote. “The effort to rush this through under the current Obama administration is nothing short of national disgrace – an empty gesture designed to mask a much more fundamental problem: the burgeoning US debt, and the declining significance of the US dollar.” | “Harriet Tubman, one of America’s truest and most revered freedom fighters, deserves a far more fitting tribute than to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency by placing her on the twenty dollar bill,” Carson wrote. “The effort to rush this through under the current Obama administration is nothing short of national disgrace – an empty gesture designed to mask a much more fundamental problem: the burgeoning US debt, and the declining significance of the US dollar.” |
| Like Tubman, Carson wrote, Americans today are “also being enslaved by their own government,” in the form of “a burgeoning national debt.” | Like Tubman, Carson wrote, Americans today are “also being enslaved by their own government,” in the form of “a burgeoning national debt.” |
| “Harriet Tubman would likely be turning over in her grave if she knew she would be the new face of American debt slavery,” Carson wrote. “She would revile the cheap trick being pulled on African Americans in getting them to support this nearly bankrupt symbol of American debt. It is amazing how, just as the currency dwindles down to near worthlessness – all of a sudden the Government wants to invoke Harriet Tubman as a symbol on the twenty dollar bill.” | “Harriet Tubman would likely be turning over in her grave if she knew she would be the new face of American debt slavery,” Carson wrote. “She would revile the cheap trick being pulled on African Americans in getting them to support this nearly bankrupt symbol of American debt. It is amazing how, just as the currency dwindles down to near worthlessness – all of a sudden the Government wants to invoke Harriet Tubman as a symbol on the twenty dollar bill.” |
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| A super-PAC supporting Ohio governor John Kasich has released a campaign advertisement from the not-too-distant future - one where, through the action of 1,237 “brave Americans” at the Republican National Convention saved the Republican party from the clutches of the candidates who have won 37 out of 38 nominating contests. | A super-PAC supporting Ohio governor John Kasich has released a campaign advertisement from the not-too-distant future - one where, through the action of 1,237 “brave Americans” at the Republican National Convention saved the Republican party from the clutches of the candidates who have won 37 out of 38 nominating contests. |
| “And the GOP nomination for president goes to... John Kasich!” a lush voiceover says, as if she were opening an envelope with the winner of an Academy Award printed on the inside. “What a long, fascinating trip it’s been,” the voiceover continues. | “And the GOP nomination for president goes to... John Kasich!” a lush voiceover says, as if she were opening an envelope with the winner of an Academy Award printed on the inside. “What a long, fascinating trip it’s been,” the voiceover continues. |
| “Running for president isn’t about the establishment - it’s about the delegates. And the delegates decided this election was about winning the presidency, and only John Kasich could beat Hillary Clinton.” In this once-and-future political ad, the 1,237 delegates who ended up voting for Kasich “overcame tremendous personal pressure and did the right thing. They nominated the only candidate who could win the only election that mattered.” | “Running for president isn’t about the establishment - it’s about the delegates. And the delegates decided this election was about winning the presidency, and only John Kasich could beat Hillary Clinton.” In this once-and-future political ad, the 1,237 delegates who ended up voting for Kasich “overcame tremendous personal pressure and did the right thing. They nominated the only candidate who could win the only election that mattered.” |
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| Earlier this morning, billionaire Republican candidate Donald Trump fired back at Girls creator and co-star Lena Dunham after she threatened to move to Vancouver, British Columbia, if he were to be elected president. | Earlier this morning, billionaire Republican candidate Donald Trump fired back at Girls creator and co-star Lena Dunham after she threatened to move to Vancouver, British Columbia, if he were to be elected president. |
| “Well she’s a B actor and, you know, has no mojo,” Trump told Fox & Friends during a phone interview. “I heard Whoopi Goldberg said that too. That would be a great, great thing for our country.” | “Well she’s a B actor and, you know, has no mojo,” Trump told Fox & Friends during a phone interview. “I heard Whoopi Goldberg said that too. That would be a great, great thing for our country.” |
| As the hosts egged Trump on, naming Rosie O’Donnell as another critic who has promised to flee the county in the event of his election, Trump said that it made him all the more eager to win. | As the hosts egged Trump on, naming Rosie O’Donnell as another critic who has promised to flee the county in the event of his election, Trump said that it made him all the more eager to win. |
| “We’ll get rid of Rosie, oh, I love it,” Trump said. “Now I have to get elected, because I’ll be doing a great service to our country.” | “We’ll get rid of Rosie, oh, I love it,” Trump said. “Now I have to get elected, because I’ll be doing a great service to our country.” |
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| Donald Trump has declared that Bernie Sanders should run as an independent: | Donald Trump has declared that Bernie Sanders should run as an independent: |
| Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise. He should show them, and run as an Independent! | Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise. He should show them, and run as an Independent! |