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| Cruz denies alliance with Kasich ahead of Indiana primary – campaign live | Cruz denies alliance with Kasich ahead of Indiana primary – campaign live |
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| Bernie Sanders is scheduled to hold a campaign event in Springfield, Oregon, this afternoon - here’s the livestream: | |
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| With a poll showing nearly half of Republican female voters don’t plan to support Donald Trump, his nomination looks disastrous for a party trying to reinvent itself, writes the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino: | With a poll showing nearly half of Republican female voters don’t plan to support Donald Trump, his nomination looks disastrous for a party trying to reinvent itself, writes the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino: |
| For the Republican women who have spent the past few years working to broaden the appeal of the Grand Old Party, Donald Trump arrived on the scene like a wrecking ball, tearing down the foundations they had laid over the past few years to try to create a more diverse and open party. | For the Republican women who have spent the past few years working to broaden the appeal of the Grand Old Party, Donald Trump arrived on the scene like a wrecking ball, tearing down the foundations they had laid over the past few years to try to create a more diverse and open party. |
| With his penchant for bluster and disdain for political correctness, there are few slices of the American electorate the billionaire businessman has yet to offend. But one group in particular poses a real problem for Trump, should he become the nominee, and for the party, should it win the presidency and keep control of Congress in November – and that group happens to make up 51% of the population. | With his penchant for bluster and disdain for political correctness, there are few slices of the American electorate the billionaire businessman has yet to offend. But one group in particular poses a real problem for Trump, should he become the nominee, and for the party, should it win the presidency and keep control of Congress in November – and that group happens to make up 51% of the population. |
| “General election women voters think he’s abhorrent,” said Katie Packer, the chairwoman of Our Principles PAC, which opposes Trump. “They think he’s a sexist. They think he doesn’t respect women, and doesn’t really view women in any real way beyond their physical appearance. | “General election women voters think he’s abhorrent,” said Katie Packer, the chairwoman of Our Principles PAC, which opposes Trump. “They think he’s a sexist. They think he doesn’t respect women, and doesn’t really view women in any real way beyond their physical appearance. |
| “If the party leadership embraces Donald Trump as the general election nominee than I think it will damage our party for a generation.” | “If the party leadership embraces Donald Trump as the general election nominee than I think it will damage our party for a generation.” |
| Related: Donald Trump's lack of female support may ruin his campaign – and the GOP | Related: Donald Trump's lack of female support may ruin his campaign – and the GOP |
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| Donald Trump may have just coined a new word: “Effectuate.” | Donald Trump may have just coined a new word: “Effectuate.” |
| The importance of defeating Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, is paramount, Trump tells the audience in Indiana, “so we can really effectuate all of the things and get our country really going again.” | The importance of defeating Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, is paramount, Trump tells the audience in Indiana, “so we can really effectuate all of the things and get our country really going again.” |
| UPDATE: We stand humbled. | |
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| “I would never use the word ‘bribe.’ Some people would say bribes the delegates - I would never say a thing like that,” Trump says of opponent Ted Cruz’s relationship with potential convention delegates. Still, there’s a risk that in the second and third ballots, delegates who have been “bribed” into supporting Cruz. “Why? Because they like to have good meals - which I’m not doing.” | “I would never use the word ‘bribe.’ Some people would say bribes the delegates - I would never say a thing like that,” Trump says of opponent Ted Cruz’s relationship with potential convention delegates. Still, there’s a risk that in the second and third ballots, delegates who have been “bribed” into supporting Cruz. “Why? Because they like to have good meals - which I’m not doing.” |
| But, he cautions the audience, “It doesn’t mean anything if we win on the first.” | But, he cautions the audience, “It doesn’t mean anything if we win on the first.” |
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| Trump: 'I will be so much better to women than Hillary Clinton' | Trump: 'I will be so much better to women than Hillary Clinton' |
| “Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump,” says Trump, who two nights ago said that Hillary Clinton’s only asset as a candidate is her “woman’s card.” | “Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump,” says Trump, who two nights ago said that Hillary Clinton’s only asset as a candidate is her “woman’s card.” |
| I will be so much better to women than Hillary Clinton. So much better. On health care issues. And on the protection of our country... we are in an evil world right now... and I’m going to protect our country. | I will be so much better to women than Hillary Clinton. So much better. On health care issues. And on the protection of our country... we are in an evil world right now... and I’m going to protect our country. |
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| Trump: if I'm president, Apple will make product in US | Trump: if I'm president, Apple will make product in US |
| Trump has been boasting about how as president he would return manufacturing to the United States: | Trump has been boasting about how as president he would return manufacturing to the United States: |
| We’re gonna have a time, if I win, where Apple is going to make its product in the United States. | We’re gonna have a time, if I win, where Apple is going to make its product in the United States. |
| Is that a threat, or a promise? Trump has repeatedly called for taxes on companies, such as once-Indiana-local Carrier, that move their manufacturing centers overseas. | Is that a threat, or a promise? Trump has repeatedly called for taxes on companies, such as once-Indiana-local Carrier, that move their manufacturing centers overseas. |
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| Trump says he did not want to take too much time off after his quintuple victories of this Tuesday because he knew “Lyin’ Ted” was at work in Indiana: | Trump says he did not want to take too much time off after his quintuple victories of this Tuesday because he knew “Lyin’ Ted” was at work in Indiana: |
| I didn’t want to take too much time because I know you’ve got him back here lyin’ like hell, so I said better get back here. | I didn’t want to take too much time because I know you’ve got him back here lyin’ like hell, so I said better get back here. |
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| Gosh they hate him, don’t they? Representative Peter King says the Cruz-Lucifer comparison drawn Wednesday by former House speaker John Boehner is an insult – to Lucifer: | Gosh they hate him, don’t they? Representative Peter King says the Cruz-Lucifer comparison drawn Wednesday by former House speaker John Boehner is an insult – to Lucifer: |
| .@RepPeterKing : @tedcruz gives Lucifer a bad name: https://t.co/qc50OgRZn6 pic.twitter.com/C4L7ceQC1B | .@RepPeterKing : @tedcruz gives Lucifer a bad name: https://t.co/qc50OgRZn6 pic.twitter.com/C4L7ceQC1B |
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| The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is conducting an informal online poll about whether the Labour Party or the Grand Old Party is nearer to absolute collapse. | The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is conducting an informal online poll about whether the Labour Party or the Grand Old Party is nearer to absolute collapse. |
| You have to vote to find out what the crowd thinks. We will remark only that it’s not even close: | You have to vote to find out what the crowd thinks. We will remark only that it’s not even close: |
| Which political party is closer to the point of absolute collapse today? | Which political party is closer to the point of absolute collapse today? |
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| Trump fills world leaders with fear: 'It's gone from funny to really scary' | Trump fills world leaders with fear: 'It's gone from funny to really scary' |
| Dangerous, foolish, irrational, scary, terrifying, irresponsible, a clown, a disaster. These are just some of the words used to describe the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency by politicians, diplomats and analysts around the world, write the Guardian’s David Smith and Julian Borger: | Dangerous, foolish, irrational, scary, terrifying, irresponsible, a clown, a disaster. These are just some of the words used to describe the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency by politicians, diplomats and analysts around the world, write the Guardian’s David Smith and Julian Borger: |
| As the businessman gave his first major policy address since becoming frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, Guardian correspondents in Washington and around the globe asked the international community whether it was prepared for the swaggering billionaire to occupy the White House. | As the businessman gave his first major policy address since becoming frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday, Guardian correspondents in Washington and around the globe asked the international community whether it was prepared for the swaggering billionaire to occupy the White House. |
| Many said they still cannot believe the nation that elected its first black president just eight years ago will now rush to embrace a man who has offended Mexicans, Muslims and others. The possibility that Trump might actually win fills great swaths of the planet with dread – with the apparent and notable exception of Vladimir Putin’s Russia – with concerns over everything from trade to the nuclear trigger. | Many said they still cannot believe the nation that elected its first black president just eight years ago will now rush to embrace a man who has offended Mexicans, Muslims and others. The possibility that Trump might actually win fills great swaths of the planet with dread – with the apparent and notable exception of Vladimir Putin’s Russia – with concerns over everything from trade to the nuclear trigger. |
| While Trump was delivering his speech in Washington, outlining a doctrine of naked self-interest that would “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”, the heads of all the major UN agencies gathered in Vienna, Austria, for a strategy session with secretary general Ban Ki-moon, now in his last eight months in office. | While Trump was delivering his speech in Washington, outlining a doctrine of naked self-interest that would “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”, the heads of all the major UN agencies gathered in Vienna, Austria, for a strategy session with secretary general Ban Ki-moon, now in his last eight months in office. |
| Read the full piece here. | Read the full piece here. |
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| Revealed: inside the tug-of-war to run Donald Trump's California campaign | Revealed: inside the tug-of-war to run Donald Trump's California campaign |
| The story behind the Republican frontrunner’s California operation sheds new light on the internal power struggle that has rocked the campaign in recent weeks, writes Guardian west coast bureau chief Paul Lewis: | The story behind the Republican frontrunner’s California operation sheds new light on the internal power struggle that has rocked the campaign in recent weeks, writes Guardian west coast bureau chief Paul Lewis: |
| Tim Clark was asked if he was interested in running Donald Trump’s campaign in California earlier this month. “Interested?” he recalls telling an emissary for the Republican frontrunner. “You bet I’m interested. I’m about to fall out of my chair.” | Tim Clark was asked if he was interested in running Donald Trump’s campaign in California earlier this month. “Interested?” he recalls telling an emissary for the Republican frontrunner. “You bet I’m interested. I’m about to fall out of my chair.” |
| Clark could have been forgiven for assuming the job of Trump’s state director in California – the most delegate-rich primary contest, and the one likely to determine the outcome of the 2016 Republican race – would involve being thrust into the billionaire’s inner circle. | Clark could have been forgiven for assuming the job of Trump’s state director in California – the most delegate-rich primary contest, and the one likely to determine the outcome of the 2016 Republican race – would involve being thrust into the billionaire’s inner circle. |
| Yet more than two weeks into the role, Clark has still not met with Trump or even spoken with him on the phone. “I haven’t talked to him,” he conceded, when pressed over the extent of his communications with Trump. “There’s been, you know, email traffic and things like that.” | Yet more than two weeks into the role, Clark has still not met with Trump or even spoken with him on the phone. “I haven’t talked to him,” he conceded, when pressed over the extent of his communications with Trump. “There’s been, you know, email traffic and things like that.” |
| The fact Trump has yet to talk to the strategist in command of the all-important California primary contest may say more about the frontrunner’s centralized presidential campaign than it does about Clark. | The fact Trump has yet to talk to the strategist in command of the all-important California primary contest may say more about the frontrunner’s centralized presidential campaign than it does about Clark. |
| On the other hand, it turns out Clark was not an uncontroversial pick. | On the other hand, it turns out Clark was not an uncontroversial pick. |
| Stuart Jolly, who until recently was Trump’s national field director, said he considered Clark for the role but decided he was not qualified enough. | Stuart Jolly, who until recently was Trump’s national field director, said he considered Clark for the role but decided he was not qualified enough. |
| “I had already ruled him out,” he said. | “I had already ruled him out,” he said. |
| Read the full piece here: | Read the full piece here: |
| Related: Revealed: inside the tug-of-war to run Donald Trump's California campaign | Related: Revealed: inside the tug-of-war to run Donald Trump's California campaign |
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| Here’s “the next president of the United States, Mr Donald J Trump,” somebody says over the PA. Indeed he materializes. Live video feed is in the previous block. | Here’s “the next president of the United States, Mr Donald J Trump,” somebody says over the PA. Indeed he materializes. Live video feed is in the previous block. |
| Trump is talking about Bobby Knight who has yet to appear. Trump says Knight, a “tough” “winner”, called him out of the blue and told him if he ever ran for president he had Knight’s support. | Trump is talking about Bobby Knight who has yet to appear. Trump says Knight, a “tough” “winner”, called him out of the blue and told him if he ever ran for president he had Knight’s support. |
| Here’s Knight in a legendary moment from 1985: | Here’s Knight in a legendary moment from 1985: |
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| A live stream of Donald Trump’s imminent Bobby Knight-inflected rally in Evansville is here: | A live stream of Donald Trump’s imminent Bobby Knight-inflected rally in Evansville is here: |
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| Trump mocks Cruz-Fiorina partnership – video | Trump mocks Cruz-Fiorina partnership – video |
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| Cindy Casares | Cindy Casares |
| “Picking a running mate when he has almost no chance of becoming the Republican party nominee is just the sort of desperate move I’ve come to expect from Ted Cruz,” says Guardian comment writer Cindy Casares – “but that’s another column. Today I want to focus on Carly Fiorina and that creepy song she sang to Cruz’s daughters on live television. | “Picking a running mate when he has almost no chance of becoming the Republican party nominee is just the sort of desperate move I’ve come to expect from Ted Cruz,” says Guardian comment writer Cindy Casares – “but that’s another column. Today I want to focus on Carly Fiorina and that creepy song she sang to Cruz’s daughters on live television. |
| You want to talk about playing the woman card? If Fiorina were a man, we’d all be calling for To Catch a Predator’s Chris Hansen just about now, because that song was the stuff of little girls’ nightmares. | You want to talk about playing the woman card? If Fiorina were a man, we’d all be calling for To Catch a Predator’s Chris Hansen just about now, because that song was the stuff of little girls’ nightmares. |
| Read the full piece by clicking through, and judge for yourself below: | Read the full piece by clicking through, and judge for yourself below: |
| Related: Carly Fiorina's singing scored on late-night. But at a rally, it was just creepy | Cindy Casares | Related: Carly Fiorina's singing scored on late-night. But at a rally, it was just creepy | Cindy Casares |
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| The Cruz-Fiorina – ticket? experiment? – is already out with merch. Get ’em while they last! (While supplies last, we mean, of course.) | The Cruz-Fiorina – ticket? experiment? – is already out with merch. Get ’em while they last! (While supplies last, we mean, of course.) |
| Get your Cruz-Fiorina gear today! https://t.co/boEvqMy9YO pic.twitter.com/64j4KVRUq6 | Get your Cruz-Fiorina gear today! https://t.co/boEvqMy9YO pic.twitter.com/64j4KVRUq6 |