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A young supporter of Donald J. Trump waited to enter the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds before a campaign rally in Lynden, Wash., on Saturday.

David Ryder for The New York Times

Trump Calls In Reinforcements

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Good Tuesday morning.

For months, Donald J. Trump denounced the Republican Party as a “rigged” system of party insiders trying to control the levers of power.

But with the nomination fight behind him, Mr. Trump’s campaign has moved to take advantage of the party’s full array of assets, whether communications aides, a trove of data, a field operations staff or the ability to fund-raise jointly.

That last piece is particularly important, as Mr. Trump turns to the task of raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the general election, probably against a well-funded Hillary Clinton and the outside groups supporting her.

In a three-and-a-half-hour meeting on Monday, Mr. Trump’s advisers Paul J. Manafort, Rick Wiley, Corey Lewandowski and Michael Glassner met with the Republican National Committee finance chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg and the committee chairman, Reince Priebus.

Mr. Priebus has made clear that there is “no mechanism” for Mr. Trump to insert his own hand-picked chairman over the current structure. While that is technically true, Mr. Trump could certainly place a trusted ally on the committee to enforce his agenda.

But even that is difficult for Mr. Trump, whose lean campaign is light on spare staff members, and who has to avail himself of the existing team at the party committee to be even remotely functional in a general-election fight.

So while Mr. Trump has railed against the party as being unfair to him at various points, it is the Republican brand that got him a nomination. And he is forced to stick with it.

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What We’re Watching Today

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Mrs. Clinton will be in Kentucky, which has its Democratic primary on May 17, where she will hold a rally and a discussion with young parents. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will hold rallies in California, which votes June 7, and in Oregon, which also votes on May 17.

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Nebraska will hold its Republican primary, even if there is only one candidate remaining.

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Mr. Trump has no public events on his schedule.

David Ryder for The New York Times

Donald Trump, in Shift, Turns to Republican Party for Fund-Raising Help

By MAGGIE HABERMAN, ASHLEY PARKER AND NICK CORASANITI

Mr. Trump’s campaign took steps to expand its resources amid concerns that the Democrats would have a big advantage in the general election.

Drew Angerer for The New York Times

Elizabeth Warren Emerges to Attack Donald Trump on Twitter

By ASHLEY PARKER

An online spat offered a preview of how the general election could go, with Ms. Warren unifying Democrats and Mr. Trump unable to resist small provocations.

Eric Thayer for The New York Times

Hillary Clinton, the First ‘E.T. Candidate,’ Has U.F.O. Fans in Thrall

By AMY CHOZICK

Space enthusiasts are captivated by Mrs. Clinton’s interest in discussing extraterrestrials and her pledge to declassify government files on Area 51.

Ty Wright for The New York Times

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Court West Virginians Hit Hard by Coal’s Decline

By THOMAS KAPLAN

Mr. Sanders hopes a strong showing in the state will prove that his message still resonates, even though Mrs. Clinton has an almost insurmountable delegate lead.

On Washington

Paul Ryan Revives a Lost Washington Art

By CARL HULSE

By refusing to endorse Donald J. Trump as his party’s presumed nominee, Mr. Ryan may restore some credibility to the political process.

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Ted Cruz Backers Seek to Control Convention Platform

By JONATHAN MARTIN

Mr. Cruz’s supporters are mounting an effort to seize control of the Republican platform and the rules governing the party’s July convention, a hint that Mr. Cruz will not simply give his delegates over to Donald J. Trump.

Hillary Clinton Criticizes Group Advocating Boycott Against Israel

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

As a large Methodist conference is set to convene on Tuesday with plans to consider the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign, Mrs. Clinton has written a letter denouncing the movement.

Republicans Return to Congress Facing Unavoidable Issue: Donald Trump

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

Now that Mr. Trump’s rivals are out of the race, Republican lawmakers will be hard pressed to avoid taking a position on their party’s presumptive nominee.

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Hillary Clinton Says She Won’t Respond to Donald Trump’s Attacks About Her Husband

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After Mr. Trump attacked the Clintons over the former president’s conduct toward women, Mrs. Clinton said, “I’m answering him on what I think voters care about.”

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Donald Trump Says New London Mayor Could Be Exception to His Ban on Muslims

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Mr. Trump said he was “happy” that London had elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, and suggested that he would be among the exceptions to his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

Crime Scene

Trump Headstone in Central Park: Mystery Solved

By MICHAEL WILSON

A granite block with Donald J. Trump’s name, birth year and a blunt epitaph appeared in March, and the police had to make sure it was not a threat.

Countersuits Over North Carolina’s Bias Law

By ALAN BLINDER, RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA AND ERIC LICHTBLAU

Gov. Pat McCrory and the Justice Department are clashing over transgender rights after the department said that the state had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with its law on bathroom access.

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Paul Singer Calls Both Trump and Clinton Unacceptable

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Mr. Singer, the billionaire financier who backed Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, urged conservatives at a gala in New York to “stand up for what we believe,” saying that neither of the likely general election candidates shared their views.

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What We’re Reading Elsewhere

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The Washington Post says that voter registration is up among Hispanics in at least three states, but that the Trump effect is only partly the cause.

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NBC News compares the Never Trump wing of the Republican Party to the Mugwumps in 1884, who rejected the party nomination of James G. Blaine and supported the Democrat Grover Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland won in a close election.

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Politico reports on a study by the Tax Policy Center that says that Mr. Sanders’s tax plan would increase spending by $33 trillion over 10 years.

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