Subject: TwentySixteen: Congressional Republicans Warm to Trump
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 06:21:56 -0600

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The Lead
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) "told Donald Trump in a private meeting Thursday morning that she believes his rhetoric towards women and people with disabilities is harmful to the party," but invited him to meet with House Republicans later this year. "Such is the contradiction in the nascent relationship between Trump and House Republican leaders: To propel their party to the White House, GOP leaders have no choice but to embrace a nominee with whom they have glaring and critical disagreements. ... The likely end result is Republican leaders rallying around Trump, as many already have. The question is: Can they get anything in return? House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), "is unsurprisingly trying to find some policy consensus. He
 stopped short of endorsing Trump at a press conference after" their meeting Thursday, "but said he was encouraged by Trump's stated desire to unite the party." (
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SUPER TRUMP: A super PAC backing Trump "[f]ormed by former members of Ben Carson's campaign, former military officers, Republican strategists and businessmen, the super PAC, the Committee for American Sovereignty, is pledging to raise $20 million before the Republican National Convention in July." (
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New York Times) ABC News reported the group hopes to raise $100 million overall. (
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ABC News )

#NEVERTRUMP BLACKLIST: "As Trump moves to work in closer concert with the Republican National Committee apparatus, some campaign aides and allies are pushing him to block lucrative party contracts from consultants who worked to keep him from winning the nomination, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. ... The blacklist talk - which sources say mostly targets operatives who worked for Never Trump groups, but also some who worked for Trump's GOP presidential rivals or their supportive super PACs - strikes against a Republican consulting class that Trump has assailed as a pillar of a corrupt political establishment." (
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Politico)

SANDERS UNDER PRESSURE: "A group of Bernie Sanders staffers and volunteers is circulating a draft proposal calling on the senator to get out of the presidential race after the final burst of Democratic primaries on June 7, and concentrate on building a national progressive organization to stop Donald Trump. Operating under the assumption that Sanders will win the California primary but still fall far short of amassing enough delegates to claim the Democratic nomination, the document calls for the Vermont senator to exit the race and launch an independent political group far larger than any other recent post-campaign political operations, such as those started by Howard Dean or Barack Obama." (
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Politico) "Pressure is mounting on ... Sanders to end his campaign for president, with Democratic Party leaders raising alarms that his continued presence in the race is undermining efforts to beat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump this fall." (
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WARREN BUZZ GROWS: "Multiple sources close to" Hillary Clinton "say that her aides took note of" Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) tweetstorm and "ability to rile" Trump. "And they recognize the value of such dart throwing from, say, someone filling out a presidential ticket." One "senior Clinton adviser, who is advocating internally for Warren as a vice presidential pick, said the senator has 'very influential people in the campaign pushing for her.'" (
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UNIONS FORM PAC FOR CLINTON: "Some of the biggest political supporters of the Democratic Party have agreed to pool their money in a super PAC targeting $50 million in funding to pay for door-to-door campaigning in support of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats running in the fall elections. The AFL-CIO labor federation and unions including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association agreed to join forces to fund the operation along with Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer." (
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Wall Street Journal)

NEW CGI FINANCING QUESTION: "The Clinton Global Initiative ... set up a financial commitment that benefited a for-profit company part-owned by people with ties to the Clintons, including a current and a former Democratic official and a close friend of former President Bill Clinton. The $2 million commitment was placed on the agenda for a September 2010 conference of the Clinton Global Initiative at Mr. Clinton's urging." (
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Wall Street Journal)

NUMBER OF THE DAY: 21. The percent of Americans who think the country is on the right track, according to a new 
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Reuters poll . 

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Travel Tracker
Sanders is campaigning in North Dakota today.

Sanders and Clinton will both make stops in Kentucky over the weekend. 

Trail Mix 
Carson is trying to persuade Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz to back Trump. (
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New York Times)

"Democrats hold a registration advantage over Republicans in four of seven battleground states likely to play a central role in the presidential election." (
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Bloomberg) 

TwentySixteen podcast, 
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episode 65 : New York Times op-ed columnist (and NJ alum) 
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Emma Roller  joins 
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Adam Wollner  and myself to discuss the Trump-Ryan meeting, Hillary Clinton's white-working-class-voter problem, and the reemergence of Rubio and Cruz.

Trump's former butler "repeatedly published posts on his 
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Facebook page  that express profound hatred for President Barack Obama and declare he should be killed." (
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Mother Jones)

KENTUCKY (D), OREGON PRIMARIES: 4 days.
ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 179 days.

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