Subject: The 5-Minute Fix: Is this Donald Trump's biggest problem?
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By Amber Phillips

Is Donald Trump a Republican? That simple question about Republicans' 2016 presidential nominee is causing a lot of heartache for party leaders. (The 10.6 million people who voted for Trump this primary season clearly disagree.)
Anyway, we've chronicled how those very Republicans are now tormented by whether to support Trump. But Trump has his own problems. Since clinching the nomination, it's seems like he's battling the GOP more, not less:
 
But Trump might want to be careful who he criticizes. He could be pushing away the very people he needs to win.
To wit: On Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) said he'd stand down as head of Republicans' nominating convention this July if Trump asked him to. Scrambling for a new convention chair isn't going to cause the Republican Party's election game plan to implode or anything, but it does highlight just how not-invested Republican leaders are in trying to elect Trump.
Trump doesn't seem to care. He'll just get his votes elsewhere. "I'm going to get millions of people from the Democrats," he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on  Sunday.
Except, not really. Look at just how little crossover there's been in past presidential elections between parties. As The Fix's Philip Bump calculates, more than 75 percent of presidential election voters have voted with their party for the past decade.
(Philip Bump / The Washington Post)
History and simple math says those Democrats that Trump is counting on probably aren't going to materialize. Which means he needs to win over all these skeptical Republicans who don't like him. And there are a lot.
(Philip Bump / The Washington Post)
So how does Trump win back skeptical Republicans?
Simple. Change his policies and his tone, right?
Except not so simple. Republicans have three big problems with Trump.
1) He's not a conservative: He has supported universal health care, he's donated to the Clintons, and he's said he wouldn't mind upping taxes on the wealthy. None of those things will allay fears that the GOP would be going to bat for a wildcard in the White House.
2) He's not predictable: As of Sunday, his views on issues like the minimum wage and taxing the wealthy are in question, if not outright flip-flops. And remember that time he changed his position on abortion five different times in three days? To win back Republicans, Trump needs to pick a position (preferably theirs) and stick with it.
3) He's alienating: Hispanics. Millennials. Women. A vast majority of them view Trump negatively. To win back conservatives, Trump is not only going to have to stop saying things that upset these groups, but start trying to win them over (and no, tweeting a picture of a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo does not count or help).
In short, Trump needs to be an entirely different candidate to assuage Republicans' concerns about him and get their support in November. Could it happen? Sure. Will it? Put me down as doubtful.
Contender for quote of the week:

This comes from the Rev. Gary Fuller, who is a pastor at Gentle Shepherd Baptist Church in Lincoln, Neb. Fuller told The Washington Post's Katie Zezima that he's frustrated that Trump does not seem to hold social conservative values.
Given everything we've just talked about above, sentiments like Fuller's are the exact opposite of what Trump needs Republican voters to think about him right now. And yet we're hearing more and more of it.
What's up with Facebook filtering conservative stories?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Eric Risberg/AP)
A quick explainer below (and a longer one here):
Basically, tech blog Gizmodo talked to ex-Facebook staffers whose jobs it was to curate what news you see trending on Facebook — that box in the upper-right-hand corner of your page when you log in. They had two big accusations that, if true, could have serious political implications?
1. Conservative news stories, if they came from conservative sites like Breitbart or Newsmax, would be booted, and the curator told to find a similar story from a mainstream site.
2. If a curator didn't think a certain story was important, he or she could also boot it. "I believe it had a chilling effect on conservative news," a former curator, who is conservative, told Gizmodo.
Facebook says their rigorous guidelines "do not permit the suppression of political perspectives" and that some of the accusations might be true for liberal blogs or so-called unimportant liberal stories.
But it is true that Facebook has an incredible amount of power to shape what nearly three-quarters of American adults see on a daily basis, so this story is worth keeping an eye on.

Whatever the news is, I'm super happy to be back from vacation talking politics with all of you. See you Wednesday!
Mondays #amirite?

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