Subject: TwentySixteen: Sanders Trudges Onward with West Virginia Win
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 05:53:44 -0600

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The Lead
"White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday - a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state's steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination. Meanwhile," Donald Trump "also won there and in Nebraska, a week after he cleared the field of his remaining rivals." (
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AP ) Sanders won West Virginia 51 to 36% over Clinton. Trump carried 
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61% of the vote  in the Nebraska GOP primary, and won West Virginia with 77%. (
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AP ) 

GOING IT ALONE: After his success in the primaries, Trump holds an "unusual conviction: He said he had a 'mandate' from his supporters to run as a fiery populist outsider and to rely on his raucous rallies to build support through 'word of mouth,' rather than to embrace a traditional, mellower and more inclusive approach." (
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New York Times) However, after days of public squabbling, "Trump said he would 'love' for" House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) "to remain as chairman of the Republican National Convention this summer in Cleveland." (
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Politico)  Ryan "said he hoped meetings this week with ... Trump would help the GOP reach authentic unity, rather than have to 'fake' it." (
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Wall Street Journal)

CRUZ REEMERGES: "Ted Cruz floated the possibility of restarting his presidential campaign if he wins Nebraska's GOP primary on Tuesday. ... Cruz, who suspended his White House run last week, said he does not expect to win Nebraska's primary but is leaving the door open. Cruz said, 'The reason we suspended our campaign was that with the Indiana loss, I felt there was no path to victory. ... If that changes, we will certainly respond accordingly.'" (
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The Hill) Cruz won just 18% of the vote in Nebraska on Tuesday. (
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Back in the Senate, "[i]n response to questions about whether he would consider a third-party run, or would consider coming back into this race, Cruz ruled out the former and teased the media with the latter." Cruz said: "I appreciate the eagerness and excitement of all the folks in the media to see me back in the ring, but you may have to wait a little bit longer." (
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GEARING UP, SORT OF: "Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to 'five or six' people and is leaning against accepting public money to finance a fall campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But in a break from recent major party nominees, Trump does not plan to invest heavily in a data-driven effort to target voters in the fall campaign. Despite pressure, the billionaire businessman also does not expect to release his tax returns before the November election." (
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AP ) The RNC, meanwhile, is "beginning to craft voter models in key general election states." (
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DEPT. OF MIXED MESSAGES: "Clinton and down-ticket Democrats are doing everything they can to capitalize off Trump's divisiveness, but taking divergent and potentially contradictory paths to get there. Clinton is playing up the growing GOP split in order to woo moderates turned off by Trump, while the two major committees-the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee-are lumping everyone in the GOP together in order to more easily tie down-ticket Republicans to Trump." (
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National Journal) "If recent history is any indication, it will be very challenging for Republican candidates to distance themselves from their new party leader." (
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TESTING, TESTING: "Focus groups of swing voters have picked up some warning signs for Democrats about Donald Trump's general election candidacy: While those swing voters are willing to see Trump as a risky, divisive figure, they are not yet prepared to believe the Dem argument that Trump's policy proposals would benefit the rich, a senior Democratic strategist who has been directly involved in extensive focus groups tells me. ... The findings in these focus groups present Democrats with both challenges and opportunities as they prepare for a very harsh general election campaign against Trump." (
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NUMBER OF THE DAY: 67. The percent of the vote Clinton won in the West Virginia primary in 2008, making her 36% showing there on Tuesday the 
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biggest drop in her performance  in any state between the two years. 

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Travel Tracker
Clinton is in New Jersey.

Sanders is holding two rallies in Montana, which votes on June 7.

Trail Mix 
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said, "I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee, and I feel confident she'll be the next president." (
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ABC News )

Trump knocked "Clinton's foreign policy judgment in a video ad released on social media that focuses on the attacks in Benghazi, Libya." (
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Washington Post)

The head of a white nationalist party "was briefly slated" to be a Trump delegate in California, which the Trump campaign attributed to a "database error." (
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CNN )

In India, "[a]round a dozen members of a right-wing Hindu group have lit a ritual fire and chanted mantras asking the Hindu gods to help Donald Trump win this year's U.S. presidential election." (
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AP )

KENTUCKY (D), OREGON PRIMARIES: 6 days.
ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 181 days.

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