Subject: TwentySixteen: Sanders Staff Cuts Signal the Beginning of the End
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 05:56:43 -0600

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The Lead
"Battered by four defeats in Tuesday night's primaries, Bernie Sanders is planning to lay off hundreds of campaign staffers across the country and focus much of his remaining effort on winning the June 7 California primary. The Vermont senator revealed the changes a day after Hillary Clinton's victories widened her delegate lead and left her all but certain to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Despite the changes ... Sanders said he would remain in the race through the party's summer convention and stressed that he hoped to bring staff members back on board if his political fortunes improved." (
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New York Times) NBC News reported 225 staffers will lose their jobs. (
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CRUZ PICKS FIORINA: Ted Cruz on Wednesday announced "his selection of Carly Fiorina as his running mate for the presidency." The move set "off speculation that he would name his vice-presidential choice in order to shift the news narrative away from Donald Trump's sweep of five northeastern primary contests Tuesday night. ... Fiorina has been on Cruz's short-list ever since they hit it off during a one-on-one meeting at the Conservative Political Action Conference in early March." (
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National Review) "The pick of a woman who's never held elected office and has a good record of fiery debates gives him a high-value surrogate who is eager to fight a two-front war against" Clinton and Trump. "And Fiorina is the kind of candidate who's gotten under Trump's skin before and could conceivably provoke a damaging reaction from the GOP frontrunner. But plenty of critics are deriding the move as desperate, presumptuous and calculating-themes that ... Trump is sure to repeat for the rest of the week." (
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THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: "Trump delivered his most comprehensive foreign policy speech to date Wednesday in Washington, outlining a general vision for international relations that would reconfigure American responsibilities abroad to put 'America first.' ... Trump delivered few specific proposals, instead focusing on outlining a broad framework the rests on demanding respect for the United States abroad." (
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Washington Post) Trump "pledged a major buildup of the military, the swift destruction of the Islamic State and the rejection of trade deals that he said tied the nation's hands. But he also pointedly rejected the nation-building of the George W. Bush administration, reminding his audience that he had opposed the Iraq war." The "speech drew negative reaction across the political spectrum." (
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New York Times)

RISKY BUSINESS IN INDY: Despite "John Kasich's promise to give ... Cruz 'a clear path in Indiana' ... Kasich still met privately Tuesday in Indianapolis with about two dozen convention delegates and other prominent Republicans. He also attended two fundraisers." (
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GENDER POLITICS: "Trump's accusation that Hillary Clinton is playing the 'woman's card' and would be a failed candidate if she were a man touched off a contentious debate about gender politics and sexism that seems likely to define the presidential election as much as any issue. ... It also crystallized the question of how the nation will reckon with its first presidential election between a man and a woman. What was once subtext - latent sexism in American life and the question of what is and is not off-limits when contemplating a woman as commander in chief - is now a full part of the political conversation. ... Clinton allies and the campaign itself have been startled by what some call Trump's unsubtle line of attack, which stands in dramatic contrast with the more subtle presence of
 race in President Obama's historic election eight years ago." (
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NUMBER OF THE DAY: 5. The percent of the vote Trump thinks Clinton would win if she were a man, a claim he defended again 
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Thursday morning  on NBC's "Today" show. 

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Travel Tracker
Kasich and Sanders are in Oregon. Kasich will hold town halls in Portland and Medford.

Sanders is holding a rally in Springfield, Oregon. 

Cruz is campaigning in Indiana today.

Trump is holding a rally in Evansville, Indiana before making his first stop in California, at a rally in Costa Mesa in Orange County.

Trail Mix 
The Kasich campaign is airing two 
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TV ads  in Oregon, reminding voters that "Ted Cruz pulled out of Oregon, and John Kasich is the only one that can stop Trump and defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall." (release)

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R) endorsed Cruz on Wednesday. Gardner previously endorsed Marco Rubio. (release)

Fiorina sang a song to Cruz's two daughters on stage at her VP announcement event yesterday. (
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CNN )

Headline of the day: "Ninjas, candidates close Downtown streets." (
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Indianapolis Star)

INDIANA PRIMARY: 5 days.

ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 194 days.

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