Subject: TwentySixteen: Trump Digs in for Fight with GOP Leaders
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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 06:12:45 -0600

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The Lead
"By seizing the Republican presidential nomination" Donald Trump has "completed what had seemed unimaginable: a hostile takeover of one of America's two major political parties. Just as stunning was how quickly the host tried to reject them. ... Rarely if ever has a party seemed to come apart so visibly. Rarely, too, has the nation been so on edge about its politics." (
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New York Times) On Sunday, Trump refused to rule out blocking" House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) "from serving as the convention's chairman. ... Trump's warning was his latest affront to Republicans who have urged him to adopt a more cooperative and unifying tone. And it amounted to an extraordinary escalation in tensions between the party's presumptive nominee and its highest-ranking officeholder. In a series of television interviews that aired Sunday ... Trump demonstrated little interest in making peace with party leaders like ... Ryan." (
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New York Times) Trump is scheduled to meet with Ryan and Republican House leadership in D.C. on Thursday. (
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GOP DISCORD, CONT.:  "The Club for Growth officially bowed out of the fight for the White House Friday, saying it would focus solely on races further down the ballot. And former Trump rivals Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham both said they'd be staying home in November." (
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Washington Post) "William Kristol, the longtime editor of the Weekly Standard magazine and a leading voice on the right, met privately with" Mitt Romney"on Thursday afternoon to discuss the possibility of launching an independent bid, potentially with Romney as its standard-bearer." At the very least, Kristol sought Romney's "support for an independent candidate, should Kristol and other right-leaning figures enlist a willing contender." (
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CONSERVATIVES ADRIFT: "[C]onservatives whose voting decisions are guided by their Christian faith find themselves dismayed and adrift now that Trump has wrested control of the Republican Party. It is a sentiment that reaches from ... the Nebraska plains to the highest levels of American religious life. Even progressive Christians - evangelicals and Catholics, among others - who don't necessarily vote Republican are alarmed that Trump is attracting many voters who call themselves religious." (
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DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY UPDATE: Bernie Sanders picked up 49 additional delegates in Washington State over the weekend. Hillary Clinton won the Democratic caucuses in Guam on Saturday. "Clinton now has more than 93 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination." (
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AP ) "Sanders said Friday he will lead a floor fight at this summer's Democratic National Convention if the party does not put his supporters on key committees." (
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Wall Street Journal) According to a West Virginia MetroNews poll, Sanders leads Clinton 47 to 43% in the West Virginia Democratic primary. (
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release )

WOMEN AS SWING VOTERS: "In the fight for the votes of suburban women, there is no more representative place than Loudoun County, the ticket-splitting bedroom community in swing state Virginia that ... Clinton will visit Monday - and no better foil for her argument, perhaps, than ... Trump. Affluent suburban women are a key audience for Clinton ... as she seeks to use Trump's polarizing statements about women, immigrants and others against him." (
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Washington Post) The numbers are also on Clinton's side here: "[T]he electorate's changing composition makes it virtually impossible for Trump to prevail in November unless he not only wins most white women but also carries that group by a convincing margin." (
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NUMBER OF THE DAY: 1. The percentage-point margin separating Trump and Clinton in an early poll of Georgia, a potential battleground state in a Clinton-Trump race. Trump leads Clinton 42 to 41% in the 
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WSB-TV/Landmark poll . 

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Travel Tracker
Clinton is holding a women and families themed event in northern Virginia.

Sanders has rallies scheduled in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Sacramento, California.

Trail Mix 
"[F]or the first time" Trump came out on top in the "weekend's delegate elections, punching tickets for dozens of allies from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Minnesota." (
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Trump said he's open to state's increasing their minimum wage. (
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Washington Post) Trump also said he's not opposed to higher taxes on the wealthy. (
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Clinton leads Trump 55 to 31% in a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll in Massachusetts. (
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Boston Globe)

"Nevada is likely to lose its place as the first Western state to vote in the Republican presidential nomination contest." (
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Politico)

NEBRASKA (R), WEST VIRGINIA PRIMARIES: 1 day.
KENTUCKY (D), OREGON PRIMARIES: 8 days.
ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 183 days.

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