Subject: TwentySixteen: 200 Days Out from November Election, Trump Aide Says It’s All an Act
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:07:39 -0600

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The Lead
Donald Trump's "newly installed campaign chief sought to assure members of the Republican National Committee on Thursday night that ... Trump recognized the need to reshape his persona and that his campaign would begin working with the political establishment that he has scorned to great effect. Addressing about 100 committee members at the spring meeting here, many of them deeply skeptical about...Trump's candidacy, the campaign chief, Paul Manafort, bluntly suggested the candidate's incendiary style amounted to an act." (
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New York Times)

GOP VEEPSTAKES: "[T]he three remaining candidates have begun considering vice-presidential picks - with a much different set of calculations from a normal political year. Separate but simultaneous vetting processes are underway. Advisers to" Ted Cruz and John Kasich "said they are developing a list of prospects and researching their backgrounds. ... Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe said Cruz instructed his top aides to begin a vetting process this spring" and "Kasich instructed his top aides to begin a vetting process about two weeks ago." Ben Carson "said he does not want to be considered and would not submit to vetting." (
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MONEY WOES FOR ALL: "The Republican National Committee is scaling back its financial commitments to some of the most hotly contested states because of flagging fund-raising, the most concrete evidence yet of how the party's divisive and protracted presidential race is threatening the party's entire ticket in November. ... [T]he party is also taking steps to create a separate fund-raising entity dedicated to Senate races," an acknowledgement that the White House may be lost. (
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"Hillary Clinton has burned through tens of millions of dollars to counter" Bernie Sanders "in states that are unlikely to be general election battlegrounds, delaying any pivot to the general election and shrinking her potential financial advantage over the eventual Republican nominee. ... Clinton has spent at least $20 million on advertising in states like New York, Illinois and Massachusetts, money that could otherwise have been saved for the general election. ... Clinton lags well behind the pace set by President Obama during his 2012 campaign." (
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New York Times)

FIGHT FOR INDIANA: "No state in the coming weeks of the Republican presidential contest is viewed by the campaigns as more consequential than Indiana - and none has been a bigger black hole for polling, where not a single public survey of the state's electorate has been released." Three polls released anonymously to Politico show Trump and Cruz in a close contest in the state. (
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Politico) The Club for Growth is running an anti-Trump 
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TV ad  in Indiana, backed by a $1.5 million ad buy, reminding voters that only Cruz can beat Trump. (release) "Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, spent the better part of two weeks campaigning in the state." (
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PENNSYLVANIA'S PRECIOUS DELEGATES: Pennsylvania's "pool of unbound delegates is larger than the number of pledged delegates at stake in the other four states holding primaries on Tuesday," ensuring GOP "White House hopefuls...need to spend as much time with the more than 160 delegate candidates across 18 congressional districts as they do with state's voters. ...Part of the challenge for the campaigns is that most of the delegate candidates, who had to file for the ballot by mid-February, aren't publicly supporting Trump, Kasich, or Ted Cruz." But even for those who are, the "average voter likely won't know this when they see a list of names on the ballot without any indication of which presidential candidate they support." (
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NUMBER OF THE DAY: 17. The percentage-point margin by which Clinton leads Sanders in Pennsylvania, according to a new 
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Franklin & Marshall poll . Trump leads Cruz in the state 40 to 26%. 

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Travel Tracker
Trump is holding a rally in Harrington, Delaware.

Kasich is holding a town hall in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

Cruz is in Pennsylvania, where he'll hold a town hall in Williamsport and a rally in Scranton.

Clinton and Sanders are also both in Pennsylvania. Clinton will make stops in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Scranton. Sanders has events planned in Philadelphia, Gettysburg, and Millersville.

Trail Mix 
"The Republican National Committee on Thursday voted down a controversial proposal that would have recommended dramatic rule changes for this summer's convention." (
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Politico) 

Trump is spending $2 million on a new TV ad in Pennsylvania, which is "more polished" and offers "a quick laundry list of his campaign promises." (
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New York Times)

Trump is also airing a TV ad in Indiana, featuring "Donald Trump Jr., and appears aimed at softening the brash billionaire's image while also bolstering his credentials as a tough negotiator." (
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Cruz is also airing three new TV ads in the Keystone State: "
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Right ," "
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Solutions ," and "
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Not Easy ," the latter of which takes aim at Clinton and Trump. (release)

Trump said he "would 'absolutely' change the Republican Party's platform on abortion to include exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother." (
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Politico)

CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND PRIMARIES: 4 days.

ELECTION DAY COUNTDOWN: 200 days.

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