Subject: TwentySixteen: Trump Teams Up with the RNC
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 06:21:43 -0600

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The Lead
Donald Trump's "top advisers spent much of Monday at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington for a series of private meetings with RNC leaders, where they began to coordinate the party's strategy and operations for the general election. Topics addressed during the Capitol Hill talks included finance, communications, opposition research, field organization, and data sharing, according to several Republican officials familiar with the sessions." (
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Washington Post) Trump also picked up his first major fundraiser on Monday: Anthony Scarramucci, who helped raise money for Mitt Romney's 2012 bid. (
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Ben Carson "reached out Monday to" House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-WI) "political advisers to request a private session with the speaker. ... The outreach by Carson is an apparent effort both to soothe tensions between Trump and Ryan ahead of their highly anticipated meeting on Capitol Hill and to establish a framework for that discussion." (
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Washington Post) Ryan "said that he would give up" his role as convention chairman "if that's what Trump prefers." But to actually "force Ryan out, Trump would have to stack the convention's obscure Committee on Permanent Organization, which recommends a chair for the convention, as well as win over a majority of the floor delegates themselves." (
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WEST VIRGINIA PRIMARY: "With West Virginia's economy battered by a coal industry in free fall," Bernie Sanders "is hoping that a strong showing in this state's Democratic primary on Tuesday will keep him a force in the party's politics by showing that his message still resonates, even though" Hillary Clinton, "has an almost insurmountable lead in delegates. As ... Clinton and ... Sanders have campaigned here in recent weeks, they have found frustrated voters who express the kinds of anxieties heard all across the country - only with a far greater degree of urgency and pain, as they see their communities wither before their eyes." (
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New York Times) "Although she retains an overwhelming lead in the Democratic presidential contest, Hillary Clinton is expected to fall short in the West Virginia primary Tuesday and could come out of May with a three-state losing streak." (
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Wall Street Journal)

PRIMARY GUIDE: Make sure to check out our 
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cheat sheet  for poll closing times, delegates at stake, and more in today's primaries in Nebraska (R) and West Virginia.

SURVEY SAYS: A trio of new polls from Quinnipiac University in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania show Clinton and Trump running neck-and-neck in those three swing states. Clinton leads Trump 43 to 42% in Florida and Pennsylvania, while Trump leads Clinton 43 to 39% in Ohio. Sanders narrowly leads Trump in Florida and Ohio, and leads Trump 47 to 41% in Pennsylvania. (
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release )

GETTING PERSONAL: "Trump opened a line of attack on Hillary and Bill Clinton over the former president's conduct toward women," but "Clinton made clear on Monday that she did not intend to argue with ... Trump over the subject. ... Trump ... has invoked Mr. Clinton's sexual past, describing Mrs. Clinton as an 'enabler' and suggesting that she has no credibility to question his own treatment of women." (
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AN ATYPICAL DIVIDE: Trump has said that Sanders "'is 100 percent right: Hillary Clinton is totally controlled by the people that put up her money. She's totally controlled by Wall Street.' That's not the only area where the presumptive Republican nominee sounds like Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination. On a series of issues, including free trade and foreign military intervention, Trump is effectively running to the left not only of his own party but also of Clinton." (
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Washington Post)

DEMOCRAT'S NEW ATTACK DOG: A Friday Twitter exchange between Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), "which played out in public rat-a-tat-tat bursts, 140 characters at a time, also offered a vivid preview of how the six months until Election Day could unfold, with the popular ... Warren emerging as a unifier of the Democratic base and ... Trump - so far, at least - still unable to resist small provocations as he tries to become a more disciplined general election candidate." Warren "is one of the few high-profile leaders in either party to repeatedly challenge ... Trump with clarity and directness, portraying him as both dangerous and a charlatan. She began her assault in a March 21 Facebook post, describing his candidacy as a 'serious threat' and calling him 'a loser' - one of the worst
 insults in the Trump lexicon." (
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NUMBER OF THE DAY: 20. The 
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percent of Republicans  in Miami-Dade County, Florida who said they'd vote for Clinton over Trump in a poll by Bendixen & Amandi International for the Miami Herald. 

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Travel Tracker
Clinton is campaigning in Kentucky.

Sanders is holding rallies in Stockton, California and Salem, Oregon.

Trail Mix 
Marco Rubio indicated on Monday that he's not fully supportive of Trump. Rubio 
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told CNN  he's not interested in being Trump's running mate, because "he will be best served by a running mate and by surrogates who fully embrace his campaign."

Cruz supporters are bracing for a fight over the party platform at the convention this summer. (
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Politico)

The State Department said it can't locate any emails sent by Brian Pagliano, the IT staffer who helped set up Clinton's private email server, during the four years she served as secretary of state. (
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AP )

"The Clinton campaign is returning to the airwaves after a brief absence, buying roughly $175,000 worth of television advertising in Kentucky to air in the next week." (
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) "signed up to serve as a delegate" for Trump. (
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KENTUCKY (D), OREGON PRIMARIES: 7 days.
ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 182 days.

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