Subject: Sanders looks for victory over Clinton in West Virginia
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May 10, 2016
by Tal Kopan
Welcome to the CNN Politics Nightcap and good Tuesday evening from Washington. Bernie Sanders is looking to land a blow on Hillary Clinton, while Donald Trump has no active competitors in tonight's West Virginia and Nebraska primaries. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden gives Clinton a vote of confidence. Your bartender is Tal Kopan (http://www.cnn.com/profiles/tal-kopan?sr=nl_pol_050916_talkopan) , filling in for Eric Bradner (http://www.cnn.com/profiles/eric-bradner?cid=nl_pol_071915_profile?sr=nl_pol_072215_bradner) , who will be back tomorrow. The tip jar: [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]) .

** Will a good night for Sanders even matter?
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The Democratic primary is not over -- and Hillary Clinton will be reminded of that tonight even as she seeks to pivot toward a general election against Donald Trump. West Virginia's primary is ripe for Bernie Sanders, who hopes a win could help inject his campaign with momentum to push the fight for the nomination to the Democratic National Convention in July.

While Sanders said Tuesday in California that he still has a chance of winning a majority of pledged delegates, Sanders cannot win the nomination with pledged delegates alone. Mathematically, he would need more than are still up for grabs in remaining contests. But he could deliver a PR blow to Clinton with a win in West Virginia. Despite winning the state in 2008, Clinton goes in as the underdog, especially after comments she made about putting coal miners out of business that she has been forced to clean up in the heavily coal-reliant state.

In the GOP primary, Trump goes into West Virginia and Nebraska with no active challengers. Big wins would move him a long way toward clinching the nomination outright with 1,237 delegates. Nebraska, though, is the home state of GOP Sen. Ben Sasse, who called for an alternative to Trump for conservatives to rally around, and Ted Cruz had been expected to do well in the primary there. If Trump wins in a landslide, it could mollify concerns he can't unify the party in a general election. But if there is a sizable protest vote, it could give the anti-Trump movement fresh steam. CNN's Stephen Collinson has your stage-setter (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/west-virginia-nebraska-primary-highlights?sr=nl_pol_051016_primarynight) on tonight's votes, and your host Tal Kopan has your guide on what to watch (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/west-virginia-nebraska-primary-what-to-watch?sr=nl_pol_051016_whattowatch) .

** Rubio pops Trump veepstakes trial balloon
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday shot down ideas that he sought to be Donald Trump's running mate, declining to endorse Trump outright but saying he stands by his pledge to support the GOP nominee. Rubio told CNN's Jake Tapper that despite sources saying a longtime Rubio adviser had circulated and discussed the possibility of a Trump-Rubio ticket with the campaign at the Republican National Committee's spring meeting, "that would be impossible," Rubio told Tapper, saying he doesn't have advisers out in the field.

As for his stance on Trump: "I stand by what I said during the campaign," the Florida senator told Tapper, referring to his past criticisms of the presumptive nominee. "But I'm not going to sit here right now and become his chief critic over the next six months, because he deserves the opportunity to go forward and make his argument and try to win." CNN's Gregory Krieg and Jim Acosta have the story (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/marco-rubio-donald-trump-vice-president?sr=nl_pol_051016_rubio) .
Buzzing

From a glimmer in Donald Trump's eye to a massive project on the border, Chris Moody takes a look (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/politics/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall?sr=nl_pol_051016_moodywall) at how a bill becomes a wall.

Last Call

** Biden says he's 'confident' Clinton will be the nominee
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Hillary Clinton got her biggest backing yet from the administration as Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he expected her to be the Democratic nominee. "I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee and I feel confident she'll be the next president," Biden told ABC News in an interview set to be aired in full on Wednesday. It's her biggest vote of confidence from the Obama administration to date. Both Biden and President Barack Obama had thus far diplomatically remained neutral on the primary in public, while subtly suggesting they backed Clinton. Biden himself, of course, publicly flirted with his own run before ruling it out in the fall. CNN's Kevin Liptak has the story (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-nominee-president?sr=nl_pol_051016_bidenclinton) .

** Ryan plays it cool on upcoming meeting with Trump
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As the entire Beltway waits for Thursday's sit-down between House Speaker Paul Ryan and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, the Wisconsin Republican himself is downplaying what might come from it. "I don't go into Thursday with huge expectations other than just to have the kind of conversation that we need to start having so that we are getting ourselves on the same page as a party," Ryan told WBEL radio, which broadcasts from his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. In a second interview on Tuesday, Ryan told The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib in a Facebook-streamed Q&A that there hasn't been enough time for the party to come to terms with Trump's victory. "It's going to take more than a week to repair and unify this party," Ryan said. CNN senior congressional producer Deirdre Walsh has more (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-meeting?sr=nl_pol_051016_trumpryan) .

** Chief justice strives to hold the court together
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As the Supreme Court races to issue opinions in more than 30 cases, Chief Justice John Roberts finds himself having to navigate issues as thorny as abortion, health care, affirmative action and immigration with a four-four split of conservative and liberal justices. Since the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the court has been left short-handed, with no obvious tie-breaker in a host of contentious cases. Roberts has made unanimity and collegiality on the court a priority since early in his tenure, and the loss of Scalia has put that to the test. CNN's Ariane de Vogue has the story (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/john-roberts-supreme-court-tie?sr=nl_pol_051016_robertscourt) .
Straight Up

** "It took 25 years to defeat slavery. That is a lot longer than four years."
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-- Heidi Cruz, speaking to the campaign's National Prayer Team, comparing (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/heidi-ted-cruz-career-slavery-comparison?sr=nl_pol_051016_heidicruz) ending slavery to her husband, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and his career.
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Closing Time

Donald Trump says he's narrowed (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ed853e2f84bd42658868a42f997c93fe/ap-interview-donald-trump-says-hes-narrowed-vp-shortlist) his VP short-list to five or six people who have political expertise. ... President Barack Obama will make a historic visit (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/obama-hiroshima-visit-japan?sr=nl_pol_051016_hiroshima) to Hiroshima. ... Hillary Clinton's IT staffer caused confusion (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/bryan-pagliano-hillary-clinton-server-state-department?sr=nl_pol_051016_clintonITstaffer) at the State Department. ... Ted Cruz doesn't rule out re-entering (http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-path-entry?sr=nl_pol_051016_tedcruzrace) the race.
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