Subject: Negative clips
From: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 04:53:30 -0700

Negative—Republicans

Donald Trump’s Win Just Latest Tremor Shaking GOP<http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-win-just-latest-tremor-shaking-gop-1462324965#:c3_1OAT-6bYwdA>

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL // GERALD F. SEIB

At the dawn of the current presidential campaign—when Republican leaders were thrilled to have an A-team of reliably conservative candidates on the field, when they had a game plan for a quick and orderly nomination process, and when they were giddy at the prospect of facing a flawed Democratic candidate carrying years’ worth of baggage—nobody could have seen the primary-season climax that arrived Tuesday.Donald Trump, who was something between a curiosity and an after-thought at the outset, won the Indiana primary, a victory quickly followed by the withdrawal of his last serious opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz, from the race. Mr. Trump now will be the Republican nominee for president—the most unexpected outcome of a primary contest since Jimmy Carter emerged from obscurity to win the Democratic nomination four decades ago. Mr. Trump reached that milestone on a day of striking ugliness, when he essentially accused Mr. Cruz’s father of cavorting with a presidential assassin, and Mr. Cruz in return called Mr. Trump a “pathological liar” a “narcissist” and a “serial philanderer.” The Democrats’ attack ads for the fall are practically writing themselves.

The two words Ted Cruz did not say tonight<http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/05/cruz-does-not-congratulate-trump-222766#ixzz47eL8LFyB>

POLITICO // MATTHEW NUSSBAUM

When Sen. Ted Cruz suspended his campaign Tuesday night, he offered no congratulations to the man who had just vanquished him: Donald Trump. Cruz thanked his family and unofficial running mate Carly Fiorina, but offered nothing for his party’s presumed nominee. He did not even acknowledge that, in dropping out, the nomination is all but sealed by a man Cruz earlier Tuesday described as “utterly amoral” and a “pathological liar.” The Texas senator did, however, offer a veiled jab at the nominee. "America is kind. We are not boastful or mean-spirited," he said. Shortly before Cruz's announcement, Trump sent out a tweet saying Cruz "went wacko."