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Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Charleston, W.Va., on Thursday.

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Trump and Ryan Face Off Across a Splitting Seam

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Good Friday morning.

The Republican Party banner was yanked at the seams on Thursday. Whether it unravels remains unclear.

The highest-ranking elected Republican, Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker, told CNN that he could not yet support the party’s standard-bearer, Donald J. Trump. The reason, he said, was that Mr. Trump did not yet bear the party’s standards, a sentiment emphasizing the effect of Mr. Trump’s statements about women, his aggressive comments and his positions that are at odds with the Republican platform in some cases.

Yet Mr. Trump did not yield. In an uncharacteristically circumspect statement, Mr. Trump responded that he was not yet ready to support Mr. Ryan’s positions. The speaker is not only a favorite of Republican elites, he’s a powerful elected official who has been seen as a savior of the conservative movement from which he emerged. Mr. Trump said he hoped that the two could come to terms at some point, another rarity from the presumptive presidential nominee.

Mr. Ryan’s comments are not only about trying to leverage Mr. Trump to sand down his rougher edges, but they could position Mr. Ryan neatly for a presidential run in 2020, should Mr. Trump lose. He was the party’s vice-presidential candidate in 2012, and some of his supporters hoped he would run this time.

But the split indicates that it is unclear to whom precisely the Republican Party belongs. Right now, the party is a coalition of aligned interests stitching together a dwindling base of national support. The problem existed before Mr. Trump, but he shined a big spotlight on it.

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What We’re Watching Today

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Hillary Clinton will hold organizing events in California, which votes on June 7. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has no public events listed.

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Mr. Trump will hold rallies in Nebraska, which has its Republican primary on Tuesday, and in Oregon, which votes on May 17.

Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

Bernie Sanders’s Online Foot Soldiers Weigh Their Next Campaign

By JONATHAN MAHLER AND NICK CORASANITI

If Mr. Sanders ends his presidential bid, he will leave behind an army unmatched in size, influence and abilities. The question is whether, and how hard, they would work for Hillary Clinton.

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

In Donald Trump’s Rise, Allies See New American Approach

By DAVID E. SANGER AND JIM YARDLEY

Confidence that Mr. Trump would fade has given way to a shocked recognition that he could upend decades of assumptions about American foreign policy.

Drew Angerer for The New York Times

Paul Ryan Says He Is ‘Not Ready’ to Endorse Donald Trump

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER AND ALEXANDER BURNS

After the House speaker said he could not endorse Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee fired back that he was “not ready to support Speaker Ryan’s agenda.”

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With Nomination in Hand, Donald J. Trump Now Seeking a Hand

By MAGGIE HABERMAN AND ASHLEY PARKER

The presumptive Republican nominee hired a finance chairman to coordinate fund-raising efforts toward a donor class the candidate had largely shunned.

Harry Reid Assails Donald Trump With Adjectives

By CARL HULSE

Mr. Reid, the Democratic leader who is not running for re-election, made clear on Thursday that he intended to spend much of the rest of the year savaging Mr. Trump.

On Washington

From Paul Ryan, a Reminder to Trump of the Stakes for the G.O.P.

By CARL HULSE

The House speaker’s remarks showed how deeply top congressional Republicans fear Donald J. Trump could damage the party.

Stay tuned throughout the day: Follow us on Twitter @NYTPolitics and on Facebook for First Draft updates.

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Donald Trump’s ‘Taco Bowl’ Message: ‘I Love Hispanics’

By ASHLEY PARKER

Less than 48 hours after becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, Mr. Trump, who has high unfavorable ratings among Hispanics, posted a photo of himself on his social media accounts eating a taco bowl and with the message: “I love Hispanics!”

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By CHARLIE SAVAGE

The White House press secretary said the president would leave it to intelligence professionals to decide what to share with Mr. Trump.

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What We’re Reading Elsewhere

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NBC News writes that one of the five living previous Republican nominees has said he would support Mr. Trump, while BloombergPolitics compiles a video of how Mr. Trump spoke of his rivals before they dropped out of the race, and after.

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Mrs. Clinton spoke to the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times, covering “war, women and her ability to navigate partisan obstructionism.”

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The New Yorker covers Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio’s “goodbye.”

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